June 1998
URI GELLER'S MIND BENDERS
THE PSYCHIC CUTLERY CURLER JOINS TW FOR A REGULAR PEEK AT THE PARANORMAL
Psychic science is finally regarded as a field for serious study. Back in 1972, I demonstrated all types of ESP under laboratory conditions and I'm proud to have been there at the beginning. In Tomorrow's World, I shall explore the future I promise to tell you nothing but the truth. All you must promise is to keep an open mind.
Clinical trials are being conducted in the USA to determine whether patients heal more quickly when prayers are said for them. In a CNN report on 11 September 1997, Dr Herbert Benson of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA voiced his opinion that belief itself could heal. And in the October 1997 issue of The International Journal Of Psychiatry In Medicine, Dr Harold Koenig revealed a Link between church-going and good health. Of more than 1700 people monitored in North Carolina, the 60 per cent who went to church weekly were twice as likely to have strong immune systems as their less godly neighbours.
Meanwhile, psychokinesis tests on random number generators at Princeton University, New Jersey by Professor Robert Jahn in 1997, proved conclusively that ordinary people could cause certain numbers to recur - simply by concentrating their thoughts on the computer. The chances against achieving Jahn's results by fluke are one in 1000 billion.
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July 1998
URI GELLER'S MIND BENDERS
THE PSYCHIC CUTLERY CURLER PRESENTS HIS UNIQUE VIEW OF THE WACKY WORLD
Texas researchers believe they are close to the Holy Grail of physics - a generator which creates energy from nothing. Hal Puthoff, director of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Austin, is optimistic about 'zero point energy'. This is unharnessed power seething in a vacuum even at absolute zero, -2730C, where conventional science says all activity ceases. Puthoff, whose calculations show this force keeps electrons in orbit around their nuclei, insists: "The 21st century could be the zero-point energy age."
On the same theme, 'overunity' devices are being developed by scientists who want to take the perpetual motion machine one step further, by generating excess energy. After examining German inventor Dieter Batter's ideas, I'm still unsure how Methernitha Testatikas, VTA Fanbulbs or Vacuum Triode Amplifiers work, but I'd like to own them.
University of Edinburgh psychology PhD student Simon Sherwood is conducting research into sleep paralysis which some blame for alien abduction experiences. If you shiver with fear at the words: "I tried to scream but no sound came," then you know all about sleep paralysis.
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July 1998
August 1998
URI GELLER'S MIND BENDERS
THE PSYCHIC CUTLERY CURLER PRESENTS HIS UNIQUE VIEW OF THE WACKY WORLD
Everything is possible, says physicist Max Tegmark at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Tegmark believes infinity means infinity, so that this Universe is just one in an endless series of universes - a multiverse. The theory was first published on the Internet, where a newsgroup was created to discuss its incredible possibilities. You can read it at www.sns.ias.edu/~max/toe.html.
Luckily, many of us will live 40 or 50 years longer than expected, so we'll have more time to explore infinity. John Phillips, professor of molecular biology at Guelph University, Canada, has discovered a genetic technique to protect human cells. Oxygen is one of the biggest killers of mankind as it forms 'free radicals' which attack healthy cells. As we age, a warrior gene called superoxide dismutase becomes less active, leaving the free radicals to do their deadly work. Thanks to artificial superoxide, Phillips says: "Not only are people going to live longer, but they are going to remain healthier."
I want to live long enough to take a trip on a UFO. The dream came closer this month when I acquired a levitron which uses electromagnetic energy to float a metal rocket several inches above a table. Perhaps UFOs use the Earth's electromagnetic field.
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September 1998
If you live in London, you could have trouble sleeping on November 9. Russian cosmonauts will be pointing a 25-metre mirror at the capital to reflect sunlight. The aluminised Mylar reflector, dubbed Znamya 2.5 and orbiting Earth every 90 minutes, will be up to ten times brighter than the moon, and the consortium of companies which built it, led by Energia of Korolev near Moscow, aims to attract backers for a galaxy of 200 space mirrors to light up the Arctic winter.
An estimated 20 per cent of Westerners have had out-of-body experiences, where the soul seems to look at its material form from outside. Near-death syndrome, often reported from operating tables and car crashes, is a common version. The Exceptional Human Experience Network at www.ehe.org is compiling OOB reports - Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe and DH Lawrence all claimed personal knowledge of astral travel, so contribute and you'll be in good company.
The National Institute for Discovery Science in Las Vegas has announced a series of essay competitions with $5,000 prizes for three winners in each category. All the contests will focus on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and are open to scientists of all disciplines.
An international conference over the internet is being convened by self-proclaimed Mad Scientists in Seattle. Their aims? Encouraging researchers to dabble with things best left alone, unleashing entities beyond human control and comprehension, and creating life to satisfy egocentric motives. I nominate Bela Lugosi as their patron saint.
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October 1998
First the good news: asteroid 1998 DK36, orbiting the sun within the Earth's orbit, is not on a collision course with us. Now the bad news - it's hard to see, since the sun is always behind it from our perspective. And it could have big brothers. And we might not see them till they are suddenly blotting out the sky.
"1998 DK36 is nothing to lose sleep over," said Professor David Tholen, head of astronomy at the University of Hawaii and discoverer of the asteroid. "It's the ones we haven't found yet that are of concern."
The Hollywood blockbuster Deep Impact has obviously hit scientists hard around the globe. Dr Bill Napier, astronomer at Armagh University, believes fiery debris from a comet may have wiped out 40 cities around 2,200 BC - including Sodom and Gomorrah.
The Bulgarians, inventors of the poison-tipped umbrella, have created a key-ring called the Osa, or Wasp. And it does a lot more than unlock your car by remote. Marily Marinov, manger of Milex, explained his firm's invention is a palm-sized Geiger counter which also fires .32 calibre bullets and distress flares. And it comes in 99 different shades
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November 1998
Stephen Koschal of Koschal Autographs, Florida, is offering $1 million for ET's signature.
"There have been tens of thousands of alien sightings reported over the years," he says. "Someone out there must have asked one of these creatures for an autograph."
Maybe Whitley Streiber can help. First he wrote a book about his alien abduction, now he's launched a web site (www.streiber.com). Streiber claims the visitors inserted something into his nasal passage during one of the latest examinations, which surgeons later removed. The metal hasn't been identified yet - if it's a pen nib, he could have hit the jackpot.
Scots who've heard mysterious knockings or seen furniture fly across the room are being urged to contact parapsychologist Miriam Moss. The scientist at the Koestler Institute in Edinburgh is on the hunt for poltergeist victims.
Is there life on Mars? Tim Beech thinks so. His web site (www.netside.net/~tbeech) reproduces images from NASA's Pathfinder probe and enlarges sections to 'reveal' animals and human-type shapes. Some visual imagination is required…
Uri Geller's Little Book Of Mindpower is published by Robson Books at £2.50, and his novel Ella by Headline Feature at £5.99 Visit his website at http://www.urigeller.com and e-Mail him at urigeller@compuserve.com
December 1998
Israeli technology seems at times so far ahead of other nations that I seriously believe my home country can be an international superpower in the next millennium. Carbon nanotubes engineered at the Weizmann Institute in Rehevot, Israel, are an incredible 200 times more durable than any other fibre. Capable of withstanding extreme pressures, the molecules could be used for lightweight armour-plating, creating bomb-proof soldiers.
Meanwhile, the Rafael Arms Development Authority has made a breakthrough which could save thousands of lives. Researcher Gavriel Iddan has invented a capsule, the size of a vitamin pill, containing a chip-sized camera, a light source, transmitters and a battery. During its seven-hour trip through a patient's intestinal tract, the 'pill' reports on every aspect of the digestive system.
Israel's top UFO researcher, journalist Barry Chamish, claims he's discovered a new material - a lichen-like silicon as elastic as rubber. The material was found in Tel Yitzhak in September 1997, after witnesses claimed that a spacecraft had landed there. An iron-based oil was also found, believed to be a residue from one of around 20 UFO sightings in the area.
UFOs leak, it seems!
Uri Geller's Little Book Of Mindpower is published by Robson Books at £2.50, and his novel Ella by Headline Feature at £5.99 Visit his website at http://www.urigeller.com and e-Mail him at urigeller@compuserve.com
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