The natural world is mysterious enough for me

I recently had a conversation with a friend who is less skeptically inclined than I am. She, we will call her H, has recently become a fan of Darren Brown, which I think is great, because he has a habit of encouraging his audience to think, and exposes/debunks the paranormal. However she brought up something that I am skeptical of (NLP), and it sparked the following little conversation: