Do You Believe In GOD? | Faith and Fear | Derren Brown 

I know it used to be on TV but it's insane how derren brown doesn't get way more attention for his work.. his understanding of psychology is just amazing

Another important factor is that Natalie was likely not used to expressing such deep personal information about herself. When you do this it can produce unexpectedly strong emotional reactions, like crying, vomiting or even blacking out. So a deep personal therapy session with Derren is likely to add to her response to his manipulations, or stimulations if you like.

Impressive. But for a more realistic simulation of a religious experience, Derren should try adding a crushing sense of guilt into the mix.

I'm fascinated by Derren's work, he does something absolutely amazing and unexpected, and they he proceeds to explain exactly how he manages to trick the human brain. He's an inteeligent man, and I feel like I've learned to understand humans a lot better as a result of watching his shows. Not only does his content help you understand why humans function the way they do, but it also helps you spot possible manipulation tac tics in certain settings where you may be the target. I just find it baffling that he so easily convinced an athiest that there was a higher power, just by tapping into her emotions

Didn't smell anything...had the volume turned up on my headphones...and nearly had a heart attack when Derren spoke again....

I think that people need to feel like we are not alone and that there is more to our existence. This video was interesting. It demonstrates how charismatic people can influence our behaviors and how some will follow, believing these people to be more enlightened than us. I also believe that we want to be a part of something, regardless of it being religious - a sense of belonging. Trust can be a real avenue to manipulation. That manipulation doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing, it may simply be guidance into a perceived better direction. Perception. It's how we choose to see our world and those within it.

It was fun watching this one again. I'm glad Derren never mocks people for their faith, something many non-believers unfortunately do. He's such a delight to watch. :)

Natalie was amazing and her response at the end was amazing.

I came here after reading a comment in Reddit. I'm so glad that I found this. Whoever posted that comment, a thousand thank you for that answer.

loving this! No matter what im doing, I always ask myself "What would Derren and Sir David (Brown and Attenborough) do? " im a non believer in religion, im a believer in science and mother nature. cant wait to see you live Derren

Natalie's pure love for her Dad filled me with joy. Derren tapped her depths of love for all her friends and family and she related it to the love of her father. I'm sure one day her own children will have the same depth of love for her.

I've loved watching, listening and reading Derren Brown for years! Thank you for doing what you do :)

Very nicely done -- acknowledging her genuine emotions, and helping her connect to them in a way she hadn't done beforehand.

I literally got this in my recommended and it has only been out for 3 MINUTES!!

My dear people, Derren Brown has officially converted me into an atheist. Thank you Derren.

They should make you watch this in religious studies

I absolutely love all this Derren Brown mind shit

If our minds can so easily be manipulated, how could anyone have the ability to freely choose the God or gods they believe in or not believe in?

I very recently saw a Derren Brown stage show and was completely blown away,i believe he has special powers and uses them well,i have started to watch other things he has done like the Acropolis. A amazing person.

One moment of pure happiness... That would be enough for me.!!!

Watching this brought on goosebumps and a couple of tears. What a powerful experience! Your talent for suggestion never ceases my amazement!

As long as human beings have a fear of death there will be "God's".

Hello derren, lot of love and respect from India, a lot of admiration inspiration and all

It's such a shame that there are so many religious charlatans out there that prey on the weak and vulnerable. Believe what you want to believe, but don't prey and abuse other people's weaknesses. Personally I think religion is total mumbo-jumbo, and if you believe in it you're nuts, but like Derren says, "If it makes you happy..." Just don't hurt others by your psychosis!

You are amazing, marvellous, astonishing. I hope I could watch you live someday. Cheers from Spain

(A recommendation in a video by TheraminTrees led me here.) I'm a middle-aged US Southerner and former clergy with all the typical things that come with that (minus the racism stuff you might expect, though). I just woke up a couple of years ago. As sudden and world-shattering as it was for me, seeing religion for what it is was the easy part. It's my personal experiences that have been the hardest to rationalize. The most obvious conclusion, in my mind, was that it all had to have been delusion. A difficult admission, one that I've struggled to come to terms with. I knew that suggestibility and priming had to be at the root of it, but I couldn't quite connect the dots to fathom how it works. Seeing this demonstration was exactly what I needed to fill in the blanks. It's also quite a relief to see that everyone is not only susceptible, but in fact, physiologically inclined, toward such experiences.

Darren is brilliant, he fearlessly unmasks con artists and this includes all religious cults and shows them up for the bullshit they are.

Derren: you're not in the show = you are in the show. Derren: you are in the show = you're not in the show.

A very Special talented Person. His Artwork is incredible too

I liked the part where it was shown how he manipulated her. Fascinating to see the techniques he uses!

This is amazing. You are incredible Derren. Illusions, but real emotions and effects.

What's interesting is when he asked us to smell the peppermint. I have anosmia (meaning I've never been able to smell) but when he asked me to smell it I felt it in my eyes. Weird thing to explain but theres this weird thing when I eat or am really close to some smells in that I can't smell it with my nose but rarely i can sense it with my eyes or something

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I can't get enough of watching Brown's videos ♥♥ Love him.

Utterly ridiculous. The biggest trick is that so many people believe these scenarios involve authentic participants as opposed to planted and coached actors. How is it that they all talk out loud when totally alone? Were they told to? Why aren’t we shown that instruction? There is no verifiable evidence that these people are not part of the trick. As such you have been tricked into evidence for unbelief. LOL. One of the biggest tools of an illusionist on TV is this line. “No camera tricks or editing was used to do this.” Which is a lie. But if you integrate that as true the illusion is amazing.

Did anyone else smell the peppermint? Holy shit that shocked me

I felt God when I was thinking about killing myself, one of the lowest points of my life. I was totally alone, no one around. Then I met Him. He's real. Nothing can convince me otherwise.

I find that mainly religious folk, but can apply to anybody, that they think that they can just pick their beliefs as they wish to believe, for good reasons or bad, in whatever it might be, and I'm here to tell you that you in fact cannot just simply choose to believe in anything, and if you think that I am wrong, well then I challenge you to choose to believe that you can fly, and climb up on the roof of your house and take that leap of faith off of it, much like people do for their God's, and then come back and we can continue our chat from that point in time. The truth is, one is either convinced by the amount of supporting evidence/reason in support of it's claims, or one isn't, period. I wish more people, especially religious folks, would try and understand that our beliefs actually Do matter, because they inform our actions, and if one holds irrational beliefs, it can and will result in irrational behavior, such as jumping off of the roof of your house, believing that you could fly.

11:57 Savage move Derren Hahaha throws some viewer the black cover which he used "Here you go, E-Bay"

One of my favourite episodes

The 1st guy is a maniac lol

I watched once this show in tv and forgot the show name or the person name. Searched for years with relevant keywords, finally found it. Wont miss that again.

Derren is the best subliminal hypnotist ever

The bit with Natalie looks fake to me

Very interesting show. I been an atheist since about 15. I am not sure if this method will work on me? I am an elder man and I do cry. But it is about someone else that touched me, such as a blind man accomplished so much in his life. I can not recall I ever cry for myself. Will I cry like Natalie? You must impress me a story and I truly, truly believe it was true. I am very critical of the claims of the God, I have very strong doubt that it will bring tear out of me. I am also curios, did the Natalie really cried in 15-20 seconds after Derren left, or 1-3 minutes?

Belief (in anything) is the only way to realization and therefore self-actualization. Forget religion and other dogmatic practices.

Natalie reaction was priceless . I love to have one like this !

Why aren't people haunted by their great great grand parents, or any other relations who we have never known?

I believe in God completely. For me, there is just no doubt. I have felt God, even when I was a wee boy. Well before I even knew what religion was. I see what Mr. Brown is doing and it is admittedly very clever. But. No one taught me my belief. I just remember thinking from a very young age, how small I am. How insignificant I am. But "little old me" could make a difference in this small, wee world we all live in. I am just like all of you. Just a voice in the crowd. I'm nearly 50 years old now,. I am not a World leader. In the whole scale of things I know am nothing. I just hope that I have made a difference in someone's life. I became a nurse. during this small life I lived, I watched people die when there was nothing I could do. I have watched people live,, when it felt hopeless All I can hope for is at least I made a small difference for the better. I am a nice man. I am polite. I'll hold a door open for you and, yes, sometimes I will get annoyed when you don't say thank you. But Hey! It's really no big deal.. I speak my mind knowing I am not perfect. I get angry at stupid things. (like, I'm sure all people do) but the God I believe in is here with me. I know My God will be with me when I whisper or scream my last breath on this tiny, wee planet we all share.

When Darren was tapping, I was hearing Poe's "The Raven" in my head 😂

I think the view that religious belief is not foolish or stupid but unnecessary is one of the most original opinions of faith I have heard. But the fact we ARE prone to psychological manipulation to believe in things irrational shows how nefarious religion truly is. Not to mention, that atheist's behaved better under this idea of something there but religious people actually seem to act worse.

The satanic ritual part would be super controversial if done in the USA

Man created god in his own image

Darren's a national treasure and is an intelligent atheist just like Stephen Fry...

Just because somebody is dropped in somewhere from the roof, without consent or not, it doesn't mean that the place isn't real. That is actually what somebody's talking with his/her emotions would say.

"Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom"

i’m 14 and pretty recently started a psychology course for my gcse’s. my psychology teacher let us watch derrens show ‘the assassin’ one lesson and that completely caused an obsession. after watching i fed into the obsession watching a LOT of his shows and eventually found out my parents love him a lot and went to one of his shows while they were together when i was a baby. it’s crazy that the obsession has kind of passed down to me haha. i’m planning on buying one or two of his books and hopefully in the future i get to go to one of his shows 🤍

DB is the shit 💯 Since I found out about him in 2012 through RU-vid

Natalie has a shadow in the pitch black room, cool.

Lol love the deprogramming at the end 😆

Derren is very talented and genuine I like watching him

That end really caught me by surprise! Human mind is so powerful but we seem to not really know how to operate it..

It’s fascinating. I’m a sceptic. However, I’m also sceptical of my scepticism. Just because he very cleverly manipulated her thoughts and feelings doesn’t disprove the possibility of a loving God. In face I found her very positive epiphany incredibly beautiful. The very fact that she was capable of such an experience leaves me asking the question, are we capable of faith because God exists, or do we need faith and so invent God?

I am considered an atheist. Whether you believe in god or not, be a good person. I think that’s what’s most important whilst on this planet!!! Anyways when ice cube said if you’re scared go to church. He really meant it. If you’re scared to die or scared of no after life or anything like that. Go to church. So they can fill your head with BS so you aren’t scared anymore.

Why does the description sound like it was written using google translate?

Me and my friend love your channel. You bring such cool concepts to the table and your videos are so interesting. Just wanted to say thank you for all the cool ideas and interesting conversations. Keep up the amazing content.

I am not agree sometimes with Derren but agree in critical thinking. It's worth to watch His shows to open Our eyes that how easily We are fooled by others or even Our mind...to question and try to understand how our minds is working...and the social experiments was ...shocking sometimes

I even felt something during that conversation, wow

First thing I saw was Ted Bundy fixing his car in the background when he showed the picture of the white car at 31:17... I even shouted it out when the picture was shown haha my partner just looked at me and said "you're just sick" and left the room 😝

Doesn't being in the dark trigger hallucinations ?

oh look, it has sound

I smelled the peppermint but girl in the the church had no tears

Creating a God, brilliant!

So... what happened to the guy who swore allegiance to Satan and essentially 'sacrificed' his twin sister? 😂Loving Derren's Mind!

Somehow as a 70 year atheist l feel lucky to be out of any cults.

This is a very similar process, used in combination with LSD in a psychiatric setting, that was used to give heroin addicts a "God experience", which resulted in cessation with only a 20% recidivism rate. That's a quarter of the recidivism rate of a standard rehab program. The addicts were given the God experience, and felt that God didn't want them using heroin anymore, and for most it took, allowing them to go through the physical withdrawal with less desire, if any, for what was hours before the centre of their universe. LSD acts on the brain somewhat like shaking a snowglobe, when the snow settles the previous patterns can be different, so guided therapy can create more productive pathways in the brain, and render old ones ineffective.

Derren made a mini poppers, relax, meet me after joke at 25:45!! 😳 Good lad! Undercuff joke for the masses but the majority don't see it!!!! The art of deception is strong in this one

Love the show. Could have hired a better actress for Natalie though. 🙄

6:30 why are there shadows in a pitch black room?

My best friend is a wealthy sales man,he never used to be so I asked him what his secret was,,,he told me to check this guy out,and here I am lol and this is the first video he told me to watch! 👀😎

Take your Bible back to the library and check it back into the fiction section - where it belongs. Take out some books on Science. Medicine. History. Engineering. Computers. Philosophy. Vegetable gardening. And spend your days acquiring knowledge that will be helpful to you in the real world. Enslaving yourself with religious dogma is debilitating.

Derren... comon man, do a world tour! I see you've been busy working on your new stage show _Showman,_ and I think you're well known enough by now to stop spoiling _just_ the UK 😀

The pareidolia is really scary. Not because it shows people found patterns that don't exist, but because of the fact that this person seemed totally OK with it when you said she would be stalked by a bunch of actors and cameramen

"We all live an improbable and extraordinary life". Beautiful. Who needs religion ?

Clever way to get you're soul back derren very clever

Derren is probably saving for a Ferrari with all them ads.

Regards from Poland ;) I was watching on Discovery in my country and thank you :)

Great again, Derren

@Derren Brown.Try RICHARD DAWKINS and let's see if it works on him. LOL!

GOOD ACTING BY NATALIE. CRYING WITHOUT TEARS.

I'm creative, open, and intelligent thank you very much!!

Perhaps the fact that we are wired for a spiritual divine presence which people tend to pecieve as God and/or Goddeses is merely us anthropomorphizing a divine spark which actually exists but emerged as a product of human consciousness? A great mystery contemplated throughout history by many with a superior intellect!

The fact that his subscription number is currently at 666 is worrying me 🤔

There's some sloppiness in the presentation here. Does Derren intend to give Natalie a religious _experience_ or have her undergo a religious _conversion_ ? These are two very different things.

This plays to the psychological concept of magical thinking

God moves in suspicuous ways 🙏

Or it could be we are all hard wired to seek God and some higher purpose because it is instilled in us at our birth or even that it may be something we are recalling while here in this avatar with amnesia which we remember slightly as we attempt to make ourselves seek it out as avatars in this horrific low frequency prison dimension of the 5 sense material world and to rise above it and prove ourselves worthy of something incomprehensible. God says, almost as if joking as to just how close we are to him in our true form, "for I knew you looooong before I put you in the womb," kind of like saying, "oh you dont remember while you're down there in that form, but you wouldn't believe just how far we go way back, you and i..." There is no proof that God exists, but there is also no proof he doesnt...of course for the latter that would be a ridiculous statement for anyone to expect to hold any weight really...but there are countless phenomena and experiences which suggest there is something connecting us all in some higher dimension or unseen string trying us together or synchronized thought or relationship and that this is temporary and death not at all the end of consciousness but just one phase of it. And I guess it doesnt hurt that I had an honest to god paranormal experience, a kind which for certain was not just some psychological trick of pareidolia or power of suggestion...at least one as old as time which still has yet to be explained by science even in the least bit or one that has any tentative or beginning explanation for it anyone has come up with just yet. I am glad she took it in stride however, she truly could have had some unintended devastation come from his big reveal at the end and it was something I feel was quite chancey he gambled on....the potential was there to make for a truly cruel experience...

He is deceiving you people do not trust him

Well, Darren, thank you ..I know what to tell my young daughter so she does not cause mayhem when I am not looking ! hahaha

I think the fact that so few people are willing to perform the Satanic rite shows that these people know Derren well enough not to trust him. Can't control for that once he's famous.