Gordon Smith, medium or psychotic barber?

Oscar Turner has a chance encounter with alleged medium Gordon Smith in a bar and gets a free psychic reading without actually asking for it, and shows us all how he does it. Smith's technique, commonly known as 'cold reading' is a well established trick that has been used for years and has had many uses including advertising. Smith is good at it and one could question whether he realizes he is 'cold reading.' You can learn how to do it but it does take a certain skill that some are born with. Being a deeply religious man who openly uses the bible and christian language as props for his 'demonstrations' it seems he has misread his skill in cold reading for a genuine ability to talk to the dead. Grieving people who have lost loved ones and who have spiritual beliefs often see death as some sort of punishment and are particularly vulnerable to Gordon Smiths tactics. He is now running expensive courses to supposedly teach people how to become a medium. He uses meditation to hone the senses of his students into believing they are able to establish contacts with dead spirits. Using meditation in this way is potential quite dangerous as it is actually a crude form of hypnosis that can trick the mind into believing virtually anything. Derren Brown has demonstrated many times how Smith does it (you can see these on YOUTUBE)
As Colin Lama says. "He is lying but he possibly believes the lies himself. But because you believe the lie it does not make it the truth.

Category:

Comedy

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• barber
• spiritualism
• spiritualist
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• church
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• paranormal
• spirits
• deren
• brown
• browne
• derren

[jonathan30005]

this video sucks. gordon smith is a genuine good medium

[OscarTurner]

@jonathan30005 Oh....thanks for watching anyway...... don't take yourself so seriously.....nobody else does x

[ruudi1973]

Thats not how spirit work you idiot!!!

bad video load of rubbish

[OscarTurner]

@ruudi1973 Woh! What an angry little 'medium' Take a look at Derren Brown on on TV and on YouTube and if get the chance go and see him, you might learn something... Don't take yourself so seriously....nobody else does. X Oscar

[twosacrowd]

Just daft and a waste of time.

[carriemaizey]

@jonathan30005 Agreed. God these people are stupid ....

[koilakanthos]

nice video gratz:)

[dazpanzan]

This is really crap.

[ohblimey21]

Come on guys. Take it for what it is: pretty amusing. BUT Gordon Smith is real without a doubt. Funny sketch though.