24th August 1974
Psychic News
URI NOW USES HIS POWER FOR
HEALING
He cures reporter's wife by
telephone
URI GELLER, who makes
headlines wherever he goes, is
now acclaimed in Italy after
triumphant demonstrations in
Genoa.
His latest achievement is a
dramatic, instantaneous absent
healing over the telephone.
It happened to the wife of a
journalist. He testifies to the results
in a nine-page, illustrated leading
feature in the August issue of a glossy
monthly psychic magazine, "Il
Giornale dei Misteri" (Journal of
Mysteries).
"Uri Geller passed through my life
like a meteor," says Piero Cassoli. "I
feared I would die without witnessing
physical phenomena. Uri gave me the
opportunity."
He found these "as natural as
daylight, repeatable, controllable,"
and more important than
materialization seances.
Cassoli has "waited 25 years to see
such phenomena." His equally eager
wife could not join him when he went
to report the Israeli's visit.
She was in bed with agonising
migraine, which usually lasted
several days.
He told Uri, who said he wanted to
speak to her on the telephone. "When
she is as ill as this she can hardly
speak Italian," replied Cassoli, "let
alone English."
"Call her," insisted Uri. "But are you
also a healer?" asked the reporter.
Uri said, "No," but finally persuaded
Cassoli to do as he asked. When he
spoke to his wife her voice was faint
and slurred. Reluctantly, with
scepticism, she agreed to talk to Uri.
He told her to do certain exercises
and apply pressure to her upper
arms.
The migraine vanished within ten
minutes. She got up, "like an
automaton. I felt like Lazarus rising
and walking."
She took a taxi and joined her
husband at the home of the Marchesa
Lola Doria, Uri's hostess during his
Italian visit.
Earlier, soon after Uri's arrival
there, spontaneous key-bending and
similar phenomena took place.
The most amazing involved an
alabaster egg standing on an antique
silver plate on the mantelpiece.
Suddenly the egg fell to the floor. No
one in the room was near it. In a few
minutes, as the witnesses, sitting
four yards away at the other side of
the fireplace, were discussing the
incident, the egg vanished.
Uri picked up the silver plate and
held it. "I feel the egg is above this,"
he said. "Where and how I don't
know."
As he spoke the plate's rim began
bending. The marchesa quickly
wrenched her precious antique from
Uri's hands.
While waiting for Cassoli's wife's
arrival the journalist was discomfited
when Uri gazed at him with a strange
expression.
Then he heard a noise - and
watched the alabaster egg fall,
apparently from the ceiling, behind
Uri's back.
"It hit me here," said the Israeli,
tapping his left shoulder.
The astonished journalist found
himself thinking a good conjurer
could have simulated this.
"But where could Uri have possibly
concealed the egg? He was wearing a
short-sleeved, close fitting shirt and
trousers that would need contortions
to put on."
Uri obviously picked up his
thoughts. Raising his arms and
turning round he asked, "Where
could I have put the egg?"
Later, as the party left for the
dining room, a gold jewel case, the
size of a tangerine, fell out of the air,
says Cassoli.
The marchesa confirmed it always
stood on a piece of furniture which
Uri had not been near.
Supernormal is fact
Cassoli testifies that white he was
with Uri, at about half-hour intervals,
parts of broken cutlery and pieces of
metal "arrived, from who knows
where, usually behind our backs. We
all saw them fall."
He now accepts the reality of
physical phenomena. "Man's action
on material without application of a
known mechanical force is a fact."
Uri's Genoa visit was the result of
an invitation from Alberto Zucconi,
Florentine parapsychologist and
founder of the Bioenergetic Research
Centre.
He had heard of Uri's "strange" gift
from leading US psychic research
colleagues. Uri agreed to demonstrate
at their sixth international
convention in Genoa.
Cassoli reports what happened
before 25 people, including leading
biologists, doctors, lawyers, physicists
and psychologists.
The demonstration was arranged by
the Parapsychological Centre of
Bologna's research and experimental
group.
Uri succeeded in making a broken
watch go and bending metal objects.
He seemed irritated when handed
forks, knives and keys, says Cassoli,
but cooperated.
Then came a new experiment. The
reporter watched carefully as a
quartz crystal was wrapped in cotton
wool and put in a securely-sealed
plastic box.
The researchers wondered if Uri
could influence or modify the crystal's
molecular structure.
The Israeli sprinkled water on his
hands, which he held over the box,
letting some drops fall on it.
He did not touch the box. And he
stood well away from it as the
scientists opened the box.
To everyone's astonishment,
including Uri's, they found the
crystal split in half.
Cassoli asked Uri to autograph his
copy of Dr Andrija Puharich's
biography of him.
Uri wrote on the fly leaf, "Thank you
for this fantastic trip and especially
for having met you."
Cassoli says he does not care if some
sneer at these words. "It is truly a
fantastic story, a fantastic trip. For
me it was a unique experience, so
extraordinary I think it should be
told."
From mind-bending feats which brought him world fame Uri Geller now
starts to heal. (Picture by "Psychic Observer")
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