The mentalist manipulating your thoughts:Derren Brown has become famous for an astonishing ability to seemingly read people’s thoughts and to control their actions. He has successfully reinvented mentalism for a new generation, framing his feats as a cutting-edge knowledge of the mind and how to manipulate it. In his shows, he demonstrates the power of subliminal persuasion, lie detection, instant trance induction, and mass hypnosis. This one is fascinating.(The New Yorker) “We all yearn for something that will kind of magically relieve our sense of isolation.”