The Men With X-Ray Eyes | Derren Brown Investigates FULL EPISODE

[Music] ball on a saturday as well but you didn't know that did you no i didn't aries you're an aries yes i am and you dreamt you were married to alan titchmarsh i did i've made a living out of giving the impression that i have paranormal abilities but i don't in my work i use a mixture of magic suggestion psychology misdirection and showmanship but there are people who do claim to have paranormal abilities as a magician i love this promise of a mystery i can't explain i'm also aware of how easily we can fool ourselves so while i'm approaching this series ready to be convinced i am aware that big claims need big evidence and few claims come as large as those of the bronicoff method a psychic program that has its eyes set on world domination this is footage of students of the method it purports to show people who are seemingly able to see even though blindfolded some critics say it's fakery but practitioners say they've developed extraordinary psychic powers including the ability to see without using their eyes level 3 is extremely valuable for people who have no eyesight the founder of the method is a charismatic ukrainian vyashaslav bronikov who believes that his method will create a new superman and everyone can benefit [Music] amongst their most intriguing claims is that they can teach the blind to see even those without eyes there is a boy and he was born without his eyeballs nobody told him he was blind and he can see better than you so think about it we can make blind people see who haven't got any eyes i'm in holland where the bronichof method is making its first foray into western europe for me to test the system i need the help of a blind person so with me is british woman judy dunk she's chair of st john's guild a charity for the blind elderly and has been blind herself since 1995 as she told me when we met in london shortly before our trip to holland it did take nearly six months to discover what it was um because it is quite rare um and then she sort of said right you'll go blind by the time you're 40. and that horrified me but blind doesn't mean black which is what i thought it did at that time you can be registered blind but it doesn't mean that you can't see anything very only three percent of blind people can't see anything at all judy has limited sight and from time to time she uses a wheelchair for a back condition she demonstrates the level of her sight for me by writing what she can see of a word that i've written held up for her by her carer margaret it's not rude [Music] there now i don't know what you've written what's the word envelope oh envelope there you go that's assembled so that's now if you actually transfer that to everything that i look at yes then you've got some idea of of how i see things this is the baseline from which any improvement in judy's site must be measured although she shares my skepticism judy is intrigued by the claims made for the bronichof method well there is one phrase on the website on their website that actually states we can make blind people see who haven't got any eyes we'll give it a go and we'll see [Music] so darren what do we know about this man mr bronikov not a huge amount he's a very elusive character he uh he has a real legend around slightly kind of rasputin-esque i think our first stop is this former church near amsterdam it is to be the first bronichoff school for the blind where partially sighted people will be taught to see the school will be run by a blind couple jan and tina visser tina claims to have already benefited from the method what is your aim for having the bronichof centre here oh for the center of course the awareness i think is very important and it's a big adventure to see how far you can go well let's go for uh try and see some things i already saw colors what's your experience with it yeah the same latina with the colors with colored paper i told you i saw it just in front of me and also with some shapes you're talking about actual physical vision when you're saying you're seeing colors yeah there were colors around me i was in it it was completely around me fantastic it was very emotional i can imagine this oh that's absolutely amazing it sounded wonderful i was aware of charles bonnet syndrome where blind people can convincingly hallucinate but was this something else i was intrigued what would you a very personal level hope to gain from using the bronicoff method well everybody's expecting me to say i guess i want to see but this longing is not so strong in me because i'm so used to to who i am and how i live and but of course it's so interesting and that's a weak word exciting to to explore right so yes i hope to make progresses of course tina and jan are keen to show me what it is to be blind they've designed a kind of everyday obstacle course in which sighted people are plunged into darkness and taught how the other senses come into play sort of smells and seems very nice it was extraordinary i could tell for example the shape and size of my environment just through sound yeah and i was guided through different soundscapes from parks to busy roads [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] to notice how much you are noticing without noticing that you're noticing you know is it just just to be aware of what you can what you can pick up that you just simply don't bother paying attention to but also just an insight into into your world i know that's sort of obvious but um there's a big difference between sitting down with somebody who's blind yes and then suddenly feeling very close to you in there and kind of feeling like we're both we're both sort of sharing this and it's a very different it's a very different thing now i wanted to know if the bronichof methods claim of training the blind to see will be fulfilled for judy when we attend their four-day course we will take part in the beginners course level one although we're here to test the bronichof methods claim to create a world without blindness this psychic system actually sells itself as a method of human development offering uses in wider medicine finance even architecture in fact on the courses i'll be attending only a tiny percentage of people are actually blind according to the bronicos proponents over 300 thousand people worldwide have taken the course and it's not cheap starting at nearly 700 euros for level one the course is being taught by vladimir the son of the founder and the man featured in the publicity material but these could just be simple tricks and there have been accusations that they're achieved just by looking down the side of the blindfold or even through small holes at it certainly many conjurers perform far more impressive blindfold stunts vladimir has been shown having difficulty replicating these feats when the possibility of cheating is removed [Music] one of the leading figures in the movement is peter camp a dutch technology expert who had tried to explain to us how the system works using a hollywood style analogy let's make a short step to the film the matrix cinematics i like the my tricks yeah it's a nice movie it's really a cool movie and we like it a lot because it explains what we do okay it explains what it is only they do it a little bit slightly different than we do so we've got a material world so when we look outside i see your body i see yours i see a cameraman i see this board this is in the material world when we dream we are in a non-material world and there's a world in between which is reality we call it when nano was a computer nerd in the matrix he was in this world then he took a pill and he moved to this world and there he is he's trained in all kinds of things like martial arts and he used it when he came back in this world we don't shift bodies but we only shift consciousness so when we put on our blindfolds our masks we move to this space we trained here and we turn it off again and we are back here that's what the matrix is you stay in wonderland the movie's dystopian vision of a future world in which the protagonists shuffle painfully between different levels of reality reflects much of what the followers of the method believe they are able to achieve using only their minds remember all i'm offering is the truth nothing more from this rather eccentric start things got stranger as peter went on to explain that the method has 18 levels only three of which have been worked out level one teaches students how to generate the energy necessary to apply the bronichof method if i'm looking now my brain get the energy because light is coming through my eyes but as soon as i close my eyes where is the energy coming from your tentacle system the urogenital system so by doing the level 1 exercise we improve this part and as soon as i close my eyes this generator starts to work it gives energy to my brain if i don't develop that it will destroy you the brain would be drawing energy from the urogenital system that isn't there and would physically damage the body as well that's great so that's why the main thing within our method is safety rules [Music] so much for level one [Music] level two teaches students how to use their psychic powers and magnetic energy fields to bypass their eyes and generate a blank screen in their mind this they call the psychobiocomputer and in level three students learn how to see the real world on that blank screen even if they're blind and level three is is extremely valuable for people who have no eyesight because then your brain will see the outside world directly but back on the course things didn't seem to be working out so well any sensation there no nothing changes level one is designed to teach us how to generate the energy needed to use the method we learn how to create balls of energy with our hands a familiar exercise i've come across before we rub our hands together and are told to feel the resultant odd sensation in the hands as an energy ball and one that can then be transferred to and held by another person i almost have really dead hands [Music] why don't you try it with you yes because at least we know that half of it will be sorry it really doesn't feel anything it doesn't matter what we do we will move up so we will i will go up your hands i will take the ball so i will tell you if i feel it okay of course it's one thing to imagine you have an energy another for it to be real enough to pass on to someone else so i'm not surprised that we didn't have much success now we learned how to use our urogenital areas to generate the energy that would eventually make it possible for us to create a blank screen in our mind which the bronicops call a psychobiocomputer [Music] oh while judy and margaret are only taking the level one course i was allowed to observe the advanced level three where we hope to see x-ray vision being developed as the students learn to control the objective outer vision that will help them to see through their blindfolds blind or cited the course offers this extraordinary possibility to all knowing what the mind can achieve i want to look at the evidence and see if this course lives up to its amazing claims vladimir communicates with his multilingual audience through translators now i watched the level 3 students performing a key technique known as a splash releasing the eurogenital energy in a seemingly powerful instant the splash is raising the energy from your ui genital system you bring it up so you fish you close your eyes and you make claws over here you bring it up and when you have enough pressure in your hands so without fear front of people's eyes if there really was a hit oh that's what he was doing he was testing it let's see and as soon as you have done a level two or level three exercise put on your mask you have started your your cycle by computer and you turn it off then you end with this price to come back in this reality in a normal way and your brain are in a normal state again [Music] on this first day i saw no signs of alternative vision instead they worked on remembering large quantities of information in a flash it was intriguing but even with this no one seemed to have any clear success [Music] [Applause] [Music] so our first day of the bronichoff method had felt endless to me so i wondered what judy and margaret had made of it i don't quite understand what we're supposed to be feeling or what these sort of fields of energy is supposed to be about he talks about imagining a ball of energy feeling a ball of energy and you can sort of do that to an extent in your head but then it it only goes so far then you sort of feel you have to kind of play along a little bit after that there's a pressure if somebody's saying say yes when you feel this energy reach your elbow yeah and they're standing there waving their arms around you just feel after a while you've got to say yes just well that's right it's meant to please them what i would call a bit off the wall definitely a bit off the wall but let's see what today brings maybe there will be things that begin to make sense of yesterday [Music] and what the day held in store was something quite special vladimir had agreed to give judy a diagnosis using his skills of alternative vision he would look inside judy's body and diagnose her condition he claims to be able to see right insider and describe exactly where the problems lie this i was looking forward to it could provide actual tangible evidence of those x-ray skills we were joined by a translator yest foreign can i ask what he means by the thoracic spine okay can i ask if we can direct attention to the around the eyes [Music] m um [Music] uh so you just had your diagnostics i did what did you make of it very interesting okay um some of it was um self-explanatory you see me in a wheelchair i wear dark glasses he didn't as far as the eyes went he didn't actually give us any firm indication that he knew exactly what was wrong with him at all yeah this specific diagnosis gave us a chance to form a verdict on vladimir's abilities we could get hold of a chart of judi's spine and compare it with vladimir's description was he really seeing her spine or not we arranged to have an x-ray sent to us the bronichovs had agreed that we could film the whole course but later in the day they'd suddenly change their minds so it's all been going quite well but the chronicles have now said that we can't film the course um for a couple of days which is because they want to keep their techniques themselves they're worried that somebody might copy them so which is fair enough so um i'll be attending with judy that we won't be filming but we can film at the end and catch up then so although taken aback by the bronichoff's refusal to let us film i continue to attend the classes and when my crew is finally allowed back in we get to see the founder of the method at work the superhuman figure revered by so many who has reached the exalted heights of level six and even mentioned that he could levitate and that we could too i began by asking him how he came up with the method actually my story i had 12 teachers i was absolutely loaded with knowledge overloaded maybe even but in a very potent way and you were how old at this time started from three years old but if taking it even more seriously i came consciously into this body that was my choice i actually was aware about coming into this life before i actually was and born i was born i had a lot of capacities already i want to talk about the ball of energy for a moment um when you do this you feel a tingle in your hands and you can your muscles kind of create a sentient a sensation of pulling away so i can understand how you can imagine that might feel like a ball i don't understand how you make the leap from an imaginary ball a sensation in your fingers to then placing that somewhere where other people can feel it and touch it and move it around i guess you didn't understand anything when we wrap our hands between two parts of the brain we create a connection and this connection actually works and transforms and everything else is secondary individual everything works inside of the brain i would love to see the evidence i really would love to start with you let your scientists organize in england they will let them organize the scientific commission will come and it will work and you will study from the very beginning till the very end maybe my problem is is that i haven't seen somebody who can really look at a box and see something that's inside it is it possible i don't want to i mean i don't want to embarrass you but is it possible for somebody at level six and somebody with your skill to be able to do the test they were doing a test they were looking at a box and seeing what was in it is it possible unfortunately you form a negative show documentary you create problems for yourselves you don't have scientific approach and you don't have basic knowledge of this technology do you understand what are you talking about what do you want i'm trying to understand i'm i suppose maybe i'm being naive and if i am i apologize because i want in the first place you create advertisements for your own you show yourself as a not serious organization will i be playing circus here studying boxes and things this is not serious how do you generally you teach people to do this you want you want science let's do science you teach this at level three i am not playing anything with you and i won't prove anything to you okay so there is something called charles bonnet syndrome which is where blind people hallucinate can hallucinate and uh think they are seeing things on the outside world and it is very convincing for them now would be do you think it would be unfair if if blind people were being persuaded that that was actual real vision when if it was just a hallucination if we think about self-improvement then to me um becoming better people is about becoming kinder i think is important do you think it's kind to tell a 16 year old boy with cerebral palsy that he will walk and maybe develop superpowers we are not talking about healing because we don't heal maybe you fix information in the wrong way i speak of a system of development and the system of development means that if you create a correct development of certain functions of the brain you can you can improve things we normally want to work with normal healthy people who use their auto training techniques for self-development so i state again ill people we don't deal with ill people we are not designed for ill people this is for doctors only so the slogan world without blindness is that is that misleading to blind people should it be something else it is working and the results are there is it clear and i see that you try to find weak spots and guess the weak spots and i guess it's fine because you're from england it's a city in russia there is a boy and he was born without his eyeballs nobody told him he was blind and he can see better than you think about it there's a boy in russia who has no eyes and he can see perfectly you're saying that that is true just just definitely i'm saying what i say do you know his name i'd love to i want to find out about this man do you know his name well i don't have this information only just ask it's in rust of nadano is the city and this is not the first case so i've spoken to a scientist who says that science doesn't take the bronichof results seriously doesn't take the bronichof system seriously why is that if the results are real from one point of view i am pleased that you in england still have no understanding of new technology software scientific psychological human development and it's very nice that russia ukraine and soviet union are on the first place of the telepathy studying i just want to ask one more thing just just going back to this box for a moment because i want people at home to understand that if it is not appropriate for you to do this which is fine i want them to know why so they understand we you are not the scientists why do you do this you are not scientists okay you don't deal with proofs and usually create anti-commercials and this is your prevail and you know where you belong you do what you do let's do the anti-commercials this will not work and actually it will not work for us anti-promotion is even better than real promotion make your documentary and thank you very much for your time thank you very much for having us here and allowing us to film with you steven thank you for talking to us next time we will participate in your circus don't worry to me it's important whether the bronicos promises are backed up by real abilities to others the hope of extraordinary development may be enough and of course even false hope can be invaluable the balance lies in ensuring that the key figures spreading and profiting from the hope are held accountable so that people searching can make the best informed life decisions for themselves [Music] you

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Published: Fri Oct 06 2017