Derren Brown – Faith Healing and the Psychic backlash!

Derren Brown appears to have touched some raw nerves in his latest production titled “Miracles for Sale“ where he bravely tackles a tough and very lucrative world of blind belief in faith healing where desperate people are willing to pay any price tag to be healed or have a loved one healed. Derren pointed out some very valid and heart breaking points in that individuals have given up their medication when they believe, parents have stopped their children from receiving vital treatment because they believed and in the end a love one is lost because as humans they chose to put our faith in some Pastor, some divine entity whom will save our lives.

Losing a loved one is heart breaking, but then to add insult to injury when those suffering question the Pastor as to why the healing didn’t work despite paying thousands of pounds or dollars and believing 100% they are told it must be their fault or the suffering persons fault for not believing enough or for having sinned. If you lost a child to faith healing where medical science could have helped and possibly saved lives, how would you react?

Throughout the internet I’ve come across comments calling the believers idiots, I have even seen some stating they deserve the consequences.  I personally find such comments disgusting we have to keep in mind that to some people in desperate times will take desperate and drastic measures, we might not always agree, we might even think the notion of placing our faith in some money hungry con artists is ridiculous but the simple fact is that we are not all the same and when all else seems to be failing, faith can be blinding. We should not blame the believers, we should blame the brain washers

In this production Derren took a scuba diver and trained him up within 6 months to be able to convince the world he was a faith healer, they jetted off to Texas in America where they attempted convince believers and other Pastors that he was the real deal. During the production they exposed con artists and what can only be named as legalised theft.

So Why Were Some Of The Psychics In Uproar, they were not the target of this show?

Did they feel threatened? Did they notice some of the confidence tricks are similar to that use within their own industry? How different is Faith Healing to Spiritual Faith Healing, are they not one in the same?

What some of the Psychics said (quotes may contain spelling mistakes), Angie Kruger was amongst the most vocal in their dislike of Derrens show:

Sigh – didn’t think much of the Derren Brown Fiasco.

He & his team spent more time deceiving innocent people than the *Douches* they were targeting.

Derren needs to move on give his ego a rest the show waz pittiful

Sad, bitter, twisted little man who’s ashamed of his own sexuality.

Its the believers faults there idiots.

He delights in ridiculing medium and psychic ability.

I cant watch him after seeing him produce a coin for a lady with inscription relating to a deceased loved one . He really overstepped the mark on that one Poor,poor lady . If she believed his trickery … it may have been enough for her never to consider a true communication via a true and compassionate medium . Shameful… just unbelieveable.

Derrens a little man trying to belitle people to make him look big.

He always comes across as extremely pompous and condescending because he thinks he ‘knows it all’ – which he clearly doesn’t.

To me it was yet again, another chance for Derren to wank his ego.

Most of the quotes above did in fact emanate from one medium and her followers in particular but that same feeling does come from a good few in the spiritual community. As a result, one of the consultants for Derren’s show and co-owner of Leaving Bethel, Woody Woods has come forward in voicing his defence to some of the statements above.

“We at Leaving Bethel are very driven to investigate and expose all who attempt to use “spirituality” to mislead and take money from others. The response made by these “psychics” only lead us to believe that they felt threatened by the show as maybe they too have something to hide as this programme was exposing the techniques used by the faith healing movement, a movement that is totally opposed to psychics. We would like to inform Angie and her fellow “psychics” that they have now been added to our list of belief systems to investingate and if relevant, expose in the future. We also want to acknowledge that real psychics do exist, people who do have the ability too see and hear beyond the veil. You know who you are and you have nothing to fear from us, but for those who are using false psychic, medium, clairevoyant abilites to make a fast buck…be afraid, be very afraid.

Is this war on all charlatans?

Leaving Bethel went on to state they were in the process of assigning specialist researchers who would look into cases of fakery where the aim is to deceive and defraud others. Later in the week though I believe conversations opened up through the power of Facebook between Leaving Bethel and Angie where Woody stated his article was not a direct attack on Angie Kruger despite it naming her personally.

I have it on good authority that Woody Woods will also be a guest speaker on this weeks show of Haunted Cornwall where co-host and psychic Angie Kruger will also be present, this could make for an explosive debate. I was also informed that Derren Brown is not yet aware of this movement by Leaving Bethel, I’m sure these things won’t take long to get back through the grape vine.

If you wish to know more about Angie Kruger and her work, you can check out her website http://www.angandrich.co.uk/

To read the full article from Leaving Bethel http://leavingbethel.webs.com/apps/blog/show/6915377-psychics-kick-out-at-derren-brown-s-miracles-for-sale

Haunted Cornwall airs 8pm – 10pm BST (For our international readers – The British Summer Time period begins on the last Sunday of March and ends on the last Sunday of October. The rest of the years is GMT)

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This article was written for Supernatural World