themagicwand wrote:I personally tire of the constant "exposure" & "debunking" that Derren's work has centred around over the past few years. Mediums don't really talk to the dead? No s***. Did we need an hour long programme to figure that gem out? What would be interesting would be to talk to the people who attend mediumship shows and gleam from them what the experience means to them and how it enriches their lives. But what do we get instead? Derren chasing some third rate medium around a Liverpool housing estate and harping on about something called "cold reading".
The boy clearly has some kind of obsession with matters spiritual (and Spiritualist) as it is a theme that he returns to again and again (Seance, Messiah, Man Who Contacts The Dead etc etc). But the programmes are conducted in such a manner as to imply that nobody else can play around with this subject matter because I, the great Derren, have played around with it and have debunked it. Please everyone, move along. Return to your grey lives, flipping burgers in MacDonalds or stacking shelves in the supermarket. There is no truth in religion. No-one is truly psychic. We live. We work. We die. That is all. See how I have liberated you? But tune in next week when Derren will be investigating the ouija board and exposing something called ideo-motor function . He does it so you don't have to.
Screw that I say. My name is Paul Voodini and I am an old school mentalist. I happily accept the mantle of "psychic". I say it's time to put the mental back into mentalism and stop reducing our art to that of parlour tricks for the amusement of the rationalists. We're entertainers. We're mystifiers. We're weird. The only thing I want to expose is a number that you wrote down on a piece of paper and that I can't possibly have seen. Psychic you say? Well, some have called me that...
I can't believe I'm going to click "submit". Whoops. Too late. I did.
And that Ladies and Gentlemen, shall, come Novemberish time be recieving my nomination for post of the year!
Seriously though, I had begun to think that I was the only mentalist in the world (well, on TM perhaps) that was getting severely hacked off with Mr Brown and his righteous attitude.
I knew I wasn't the only 'psychic' mentalist, so I couldn't have been, right? Yes, thank you magicwand, I feel so much better
