Dean Radin
A Scientific Explanation of Uri's Abilities
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This feature is just one ludicrous example showing to what extent some scientists, magicans and writers indulged in, to explain how Uri Geller demonstrates his telepathic abilities.
Incidentally, "New Scientist" is known to be a very serious scientific magazine.
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These consciousness results of the Greek TV viewers on October 2nd 2004, are quite amazing:
Panos Axiomakaros
Professor Victor Weisskopf physicist who studied under Niels Bohrr worked on the A bomb and over saw the development of European atom smashers.
"I was shocked and amazed how Mr Geller bent my office key at MIT while I was holding it. The sturdy key kept bending in my hand; I can not explain this phenomenon I can only assume that it could relate could relate to quantum chromo dynamics".
From George Edward Pake, appointed to the President of the United States Science Advisory Committee and the inspirational creator and Sounding Research Director of the Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Centre Parc and member of the American Physical Society "I met Mr Geller while he was being studied at SRI during our conversation he demonstrated his mind reading techniques and plucked out of my mind
an image I was thinking of, it was very impressive"
Jack Sarfatti - PhD, Physicist "My personal judgement as a PhD physicist is that Geller demonstrated genuine psychoenergetic ability at Birkbeck which is beyond the doubt of any reasonable man, under relatively well-controlled and repeated experimental conditions. ".
"I
have spent my life in neuropsychiatry and have been
interestedin strange mental states and odd phenomena
for a number ofyears. I first met Uri three years
ago and was able to watch him bend a spoon on a colleagues's
outstretched hand. I tooka spoon from the table. Uri
did not touch it, I put it on my colleagues's hand
and asked Uri to bend it. Uri ran his finger above
the spoon and stood back. Nothing happened. We expressed
some dissapointment, still watching the spoon. He
said, Wait and Watch. Slowly, as we watched, with
Uri standing well away, the spoon started to curl
in front of us, and within four minutes the tail of
the spoon had risen up like a scorpions sting.
I then took the spoon, the first time I had handled
it since I put it there, and sure enough, it remained
a normal spoon with a marked bend. "Dr.Peter
Fenwick. MB, BChir, DPM, FIRCPsych
Dr.Fenwick
is a senior lecturer at the institute of psychiatry,London,
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at John Radcliffe infirmary
in Oxford, and Honorary consultant in Neurophysiology
to Broadmoor Special Hospital. He has published numerous
scientific papers on brain function and also several
papers on meditation and altered states of consciousness.
His most recent book is "TheTruth of Light". Dr. Fenwick
is also chairman of ths scientific and Medical network,
a group of doctors and scientists seeking to deepen
understanding in science and medicine by fostering
intuitive as well as rational insights.
"I
was in Scientific laboratories at Stanford Research
Institute investigating a rather amazing individual
Uri Geller. Uri's ability to perform amazing feats
of mental wizardry is known the world over. We in
Science are just now catching up and understanding
what you can do with exercise and proper practise.Uri
is Not a magician. He is using capabilities
that we all have and can develop with exercise and
practise."
"After the Geller work, I was asked to brief
the director of the CIA, Ambassador George Bush (Later
to become President of the United States), on our
activities and the results. In later years during
the Brezhnev period, I met with several Russian scientists
who not only had documented results similar to ours,
but were actively using "psychic" techniques
against the U.S. and its allies."
Dr Edgar D. Mitchell
S.C.D. (Apollo 14 Astronaut and 6th man to
walk on the moon)
I can attest to the same type of incident, but in
a different venue. I was with Uri when he held a session
in the US Capitol. With few exceptions, only Congressional
members and their staff were there. Uri wanted to
talk about how the Soviets were exploiting Jews with
psychic ability. This was based on his interviews
with many people who had left the Soviet Union and
gone to Israel. The group asked him to bend something.
While he wanted to address the problem, he did agree
and ask for a spoon. One was finally found in a guard's
coffee cup. Uri bent the spoon with minimal contact.
He then laid it down on a chair about three feet in
front of me and went back to talking. As he talked,
the spoon continued to bend and fell on the floor.
I still have the spoon.
Col.John Alexander
Former Staff Officer
National Security Agency
and Part of the Army's Intelligence
and Security Command (INSCOM)
"Geller
has bent my ring in the palm of my hand without ever
touching it. Personally, I have no scientific explanation
for the phenomena."
Dr. Wernher von Braun (NASA scientist & father of the Rocket - U.S.A.)
Professor
Gerald Schroeder, who earned his doctorate at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T) in two
fields, the planetary sciences and nuclear physics
and served as advisor to the Atomic Energy Commission
and to countries such as the People's Republic of
China. He earned his BSc, MSc and PhD all at theMassachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Following
that he was seven years on the staff of the M.I.T.
physics department, continuing his research at the
Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and the Volcani
Research Institute with labs at the Hebrew University.
He is the Author of Genesis And The Big Bang (Bantam
Doubleday) The Science of God (Free Press of Simon
& Schuster; and Broadway Books of Bantam Doubleday)
"Uri appears to have concentrated energy. What makes
me accept Geller at face value is that unlike a magician,
he does not have a bag of tricks. He bends spoons.
The one he bent with me peering over his shoulder
continued to bend even after he placed it on the ground
and stepped away. The Talmud claims there are two
types of "magic." One is the "catching of the eye,"
an optical illusion. The other is the real thing,
a mustering of the forces of nature. With Uri, I opt
for the latter, though he claims he has no idea how
these are mustered".
"Geller
altered the lattice structure of a metal alloy in
a way that cannot be duplicated. There is no present
scientific explanation as to how he did this."
(This is the first research related to parapsychology
conducted at a US Government facility to have been
released for publication by the US Department of Defence).
Eldon Byrd (US Naval Surface Weapons Centre, Maryland - U.S.A.)
"We
feel that if similar tests are made later, enough
instances of this kind will probably accumulate, so
that there willbe no room for reasonable doubt that
some new process is involved here, which cannot be
accounted for or explained in terms of the present
known laws of physics. Indeed, we already feel that
we have gone some distance toward this point."
Prof. David Bohm and
Prof. John Hasted (Professors of Physics,
Birkbeck College, University of London, England)
David Bohm is the author of Wholeness and the Implicate Order and worked with Albert Einstein.
"In
an interesting interview for Free Inquiry magazine,
April 2000, Arthur
C. Clarke surprisingly stated that he has
his own door key that was bent by Geller. Furthermore,
he indicated that he does not rule out the possibility
of all sorts of remarkable mental powers. He went
on to say that there are even things like telekinesis
etc, summing up by proclaiming that there are many
things we do not know about."
The most famous Anthropologist in the world Margaret Mead suggests Geller may bereal "psychic"
From a filmed interview at the Museum of Natural
History NewYork, February 18, 1974"...Then
there is another problem, that I think is very important
to realise, and that is that everywhere in the world
almost,where one has sensitives that are put in a
public position, that is, they may be diviners, they
may be seers, they maybe theatrical performers - but
whenever an individual with particular powers is put
into a conspicuous position, we have a tendency to
find trickery also. Now this does not mean that the
sensitive is only a trickster, but it does mean that
sensitives are very doubtful of their own powers,
of the reliability of their own powers.
For
instance, Geller will not perform if he feels hostility
from the audience. If he were a performer who was
being paid, he might feel that he needed a few appurtenances
(props) to make it work so this curious association
between various forms of magicianship with sensitive
behaviour occurs in many parts of the world. It doesn't
mean that the sensitive does not believe in his powers.
It does mean he doesn't trust them very thoroughly,
and he feels that certain conditions could disrupt
them."
"The
evidence based on metallurgical analysis of fractured
surfaces (produced by Geller) indicates that a paranormal
influence must have been operative in the formation
of the fractures."
Dr Wilbur Franklin
(Physics Department, Kent State University
- U.S.A.)
"We
have observed certain phenomena with the subjects
[including Geller] for which we have no scientific
explanation. "
"As a result of Geller's success in this experimental
period, we consider that he has demonstrated his paranormal,
perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous
manner."(The results of these experiments were
published in the respected British journal Nature,Vol.
251, No. 5).
Dr Harold Puthoff and Russell
Targ (Stanford Research Institute - California,
U.S.A.)
"Laser
physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff of Menlo
Park's Stanford Research Institute admit their kind
of research invites chicanery and trickery. They have
taken special precautions, they said, to conduct the
Stanford Research experiments under doubly strict
laboratory conditions."
"Under these conditions, they said, no magician
has beenable to duplicate through trickery the psychic
feat performed by Geller and others. Some won't even
try."
Los Angeles Times, Monday July 28, 1975
"Based
on preliminary investigations of Uri, I cannot establish
fraud. The powers of this man are a phenomenon which
theoretical physics cannot yet explain."
Dr Friedbert Karger
(Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics,
Munich, Germany)
"Geller
asked me to put my hand over a spoon supplied by me,
we could all see the spoon clearly. Geller then put
his own hand over mine and began concentrating. It
was just as he stopped that we all saw the handle
of the spoon begin to distort."
Dr Edward W Bastin
(Holds doctorate degrees in both physics and
mathematics. He won an Isaac Newton studentship to
Cambridge University, and for a time was visiting
fellow at Stanford University, California)
"The
bends in metal objects (made by Geller) could not
have been made by ordinary manual means."
Dr Albert Ducrocq
(Telemetry Laboratory, Foch Hospital Suren,
France)
"The
Geller method of breaking is unlike anything described
in the (metallurgical) literature, from fatigue fractures
at-195 degrees to brittle fractures at +600 degrees
C. Why is metal bending important? Simply because
we do not understand it."
Prof. John Hasted (Professorof Physics Birkbeck College, University of London, England)
"I
have failed to conceive of any means of deception
in the static PK tests with Geller, nor have magicians
I have consulted."
William E. Cox (Institute of Parapsychology, Durham,North Carolina - U.S.A.)
"Metal
objects were bent or divided (by Geller) in circumstances
such as to prove conclusively ... that the phenomena
were genuine and paranormal."
Dr A. R. G. Owen (New Horizons Research Foundation,Toronto, Ontario - Canada)
"Thereis
no logical explanation for what Geller did here. But
I don't think logic is what necessarily makes new
inroads inscience."
Dr Thomas Coohill (Western Kentucky University, PhysicsDept., Bowling Green, Kentucky - U.S.A.)
"The
Geller Effect is one of those "para" phenomena
which changed the world of physics. What the most
outstanding physicists of the last decades of this
century could grasp only as theoretical implication,
Uri brought as fact into everyday life.."
Dr. Walter A. Frank (Bonn University - Germany)
"I
have conducted research on Mr. Geller at Freiburg
University's laboratory. The results substantiated
and proved my conviction and belief in his powers
of metal bending. I have written extensively about
his psychokinetic powers in my book Our Sixth Sense
1982 "
Prof. Dr. Hans
Bender (Freiburg University - Germany)
"
I tested Uri myself under laboratory-controlled conditions
and saw with my own eyes the bending of a key which
was not touched by Geller at any time. There was a
group of people present during the experiment who
all witnessed the key bending in eleven seconds to
an angle of thirty degrees. Afterwards we tested the
key in a scientific laboratory using devices such
as electron microscopes and X-rays and found that
there was no chemical, manual or mechanical forces
involved in the bending of the key."
Professor Helmut Hoffmann (Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
"Through
intense concentration, Uri was able to bend a 3/8"
cold rolled steel bar under controlled conditions,
as he rubbed the topof it with his forefinger. I was
sitting very close to him during this experiment.
On another occasion, a radish seedsprouted and grew
1/2" as he held it in his hand. I watched this very
closely as well. "
Jean Millay PhD.
(Saybrook Institute U.S.A.)
"Uri is extraordinarily gifted in telepathy."
Professor Erich Mittennecker (Professor of Psychology,University of Graz, Austria)
"Uri
was tested in my laboratory at UCLA. During the experimentsin
Kirlian photography
and after hundreds of trials, he produced three extraordinary
photographs in which flashes of energy were clearly
visible.What wonderfully welcome sights they were!
I have also tested Uri's watch-fixing and metal-bending
abilities. He has demonstrated these to me under controlled
scientific conditions, in a most convincing manner".
Dr. Thelma Moss
(Professor of psychology at UCLA and one of the first
U.S. researchers to experiment with Kirlian photography
- U.S.A.)
"Uribent
a strong heat-treated alloy bar held by myself and
my assistant at each end. There was absolutely no
pressure exerted by Uri while the bar was bending.
All the controlled experiments I conducted with Uri
have been described in Scienceset Avenir, No.
345, pp. 1108-1113."
Professor Charles
Crussard (Professor of Metallurgy, School
of Mines, Paris, and Scientific Director of Pecheney,
France)
"I
put the spoon that Uri bent into my pocket and kept
checking it every 3-4 minutes. It gradually bent to
about 90 degrees in 15 minutes while in my own possession
with no-one around me. The spoon was later examined
by electron beam scattering. In my opinion, shared
by my physicist colleagues, the phenomenon cannot
be induced by our present laboratory means. It cannot
be explained with our present knowledge."
Professor George
Egeyly (Physicist, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Central Research Institute for Physics, Budapest -
Hungary)
"Your
coming to the University of California, Berkeley and
conducting your demonstrations was instrumental in
setting up the conditions for me to bring together
the group of forty physicists to start and conduct
the Fundamental 'Fysiks' Laboratory that met weekly
from 1974 to 1979. The purpose of the FFL was to explore
the nature of reality and the use of physical models
to explain the space-time attributes of consciousness
and remote connection models of Bell's Theorem. The
key is that psychokinesis and psi in general, related
powers of the mind, can be studied with the scientific
method and you have had a key influence on scientists
in their research and knowledge of PK and you have
been instrumental in getting people to explore the
power of the mind. The purpose of life, and scientific
exploration is to learn what is."
Dr Elizabeth A. Rauscher (Theoretical physicist,
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California,
Berkeley -U.S.A.)
"Science
is at last recognising that quantum mechanics and
relativity do predict some form of information laws,
which may go a long way towards explaining the effects
surrounding Uri , one of the most powerful men alive
today."
D. Robertson BSc. (Physicist and metal bending researcher-England)
Professor
Victor Weisskopf physicist who studied under Niels
Bohrr worked on the A bomb and over saw the development
of European atom smashers.
"I was shocked and amazed how Mr Geller bent
my office key at MIT while I was holding it. The sturdy
key kept bending in my hand; I can not explain
this phenomenon I can only assume that it could relate
to quantum chromo dynamics".
"Uri,
as a psychic genius, has been able to demonstratethe
repeatability of controlled scientific psychic experiments.Thereby
he has proved the reality of psychic phenomena (such
as telekinesis, clairvoyance and telepathy)."
Professor P. Plum, MD (Emeritus Professor of
Pediatrics, University of Copenhagen, former chairman
of the Danish Medical Research Council - Denmark)
"In
our presence and in the presence of numerous eye-witnesses,
Uri demonstrated the following telekinetic effects:
he bent at our request metal keys and teaspoons, the
spoonsbending to an angle of 90 degrees over a period
of five minutes after his influence had been exerted
on them. Before the eyes of those present he germinated
a radish seed to a small sprout in 8 minutes. He reproduced
target pictures exactly to the nearest millimetre
(square, triangle with a dot in the centre, etc.)
and also wiped the information from an IBM cassette.
He also correctly described a dome-shaped building
that formerly stood in the Moscow river basin, the
destruction of which was linked to the name of Stalin."
Professor V. G.
Lukes (Director of the Ministry of Health
Protection of the Russian Federation, Institute of
Traditional Medicine, Moscow - Russia)
A. A. Karpeyev (Deputy Director)
R. Yu. Volkov (Department Head)
A. P. Dubrov (Chief Scientific Collaborator)
"The
telepathy experiment was conducted under the following
conditions; there were 6 people in the laboratory;
2 engineers from the factory that makes thermography
(they are both graduates of Tokyo Denki University),
2 student assistants, myself and Mr. Geller. Under
no circumstances could Mr. Geller have seen my drawing
before the experiment was all over. Only after Mr.Geller
drew the image that he received was my drawing revealed".
Professor Yoshio Machi (Dept.of Electronics, Tokyo Denki University - Japan)
"Ihave
had more than fifty years experience with psychics
and would-be psychics. From having observed Geller
bend a volunteered latchkey under excellent conditions,
and from having studied Mr. Geller's record of tests
under various auspices, I have not the slightest doubt
that his psychicabilities are genuine."
Jule Eisenbud M.D. (Associate Clinical Professor
of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center- U.S.A.)
"TheYale
key at no time left our sight from the moment it was
removed from the key ring and placed on the typewriter
frame to the time when the splined end had bent upwards.
Our attention was not distracted and the key was not
altered in position, accidentally or otherwise. We
were all looking carefully for magician's tricks and
there were none. Everything occurred exactly as I
have described. As a result of this personally witnessed
experiment in clear unequivocal conditions I am able
to state with confidence my view that Mr Geller has
genuine psychic capability. "
Prof. Arthur Ellison
(Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, City
University London - England)
"I
have personally witnessed and experienced on two occasions
the metal bending abilities of Uri Geller. These experiments
were conducted under rigorous laboratory conditions.
In these two experiments the thick steel rod I was
holding and observing carefully bent, and continued
to bend, in my own hand. One rod bent to 90 degrees
during a period of approximately six minutes while
I was holding it. The other steel rod bent after Uri
stroked it and continued bending on a glass table
without anyone touching it. The steel rods were provided
by myself. I consider the Geller effect to be a phenomenon
which should be studied seriously by science. "
"A scientist would have to be either massively
ignorant or a confirmed bigot to deny the evidence
that the human mind can make connection with space,
time and matter in ways which have nothing to do with
the ordinary senses. Further, he cannot deny that
these connections are compatible with current thinking
in physics, and may in the future become accepted
as a part of an extended science in which the description
'paranormal' no longer applies, and can be replaced
by 'normal'."
Dr. Kit Pedler, (Head of the Electron Microscopy department,University of London:)
"Everything
worked, I don't understand it. However, I can not
say I accept his powers in toto. It would be accepting
his theories against all the proven theories of science."
Professor J. Juritz, (Head of the department
of physics, University of Cape Town:)
"Uri
is genuine. I have been prepared to accept mental
telepathy but his metal bending has me foxed. "
Mr Michael Hamerton, (Engineer, department of physics,University of Cape Town:)
"I
do not understand. What has happened today has left
me completely mystified. "
Dr Wynchank, (department of physics, University
of Cape Town:)
"It
is not easy to explain how Uri has changed my life.
As an author, psychologist and scientist, I am keenly
aware of his appearance on the world scene caused
a revolution in the fields of quantum physics and
consciousness. Uri as a light giver, is telling us
to wake up our minds to the great abundance we have
inside. If there is more to life than the visible
world, then it is through Uri and others like him
that the world opens up to the greater dimension of
untapped possibilities. He is a living symbol of the
potential future evolution of the human race. "
Marc Seifer PhD. (Psychology Lecturer, New York, Authorof over 70 publications - U.S.A.)
"I
am a Psychiatrist with 30 years clinical experience,
a conjurer with a wide knowledge of "magic" and someone
who has investigated paranormal phenomena and found
them wanting in the past.
Uri gave me demonstration of spoon bending. I could
find no evidence of trickery nor the use of gimmicks.
The fact that the spoon continued bending after
he had handed it to me, for my mind, puts the event
beyond rational explanation be it scientific or a
feat of conjuring. He also demonstrated two examples
of thought transference first accurately reproducing
a geometric figure I had drawn and second and perhaps
more significantly transmitting to me a figure and
a colour.
As a life long sceptic I must record my total astonishment
at these feats and testify my witness to a truly inexplicable
and unique phenomenon. "
Dr. Lawrence Ratna (Consultant Psychiatrist - England)
"I
held a heavy key between my thumb and forefinger.
The key began to bend - too slightly to be perceptible
- after Geller rubbed it lightly with one finger.
The key was then placed on the desk and it continued
to bend slowly for several minutes until it reached
about a 20-degree angle. There was no obvious way
the key I supplied could have been switched. Geller
had no chance (by slight of hand or other trickery)
to bend the key by force. And he didn't have a laser
up his sleeve, assome have suggested. "
Dr. Robert J. Trotter (Science News vol 104 USA)
"What
I saw Geller do in the laboratory was a truly mind-blowing
experience. . . He manifests an extreme case of some
unusual power, capacity or energy, which I believe
is genuine"
"Personally, I can tell you that I consider what
I saw with you as truly mind-blowing experiences which
cannot be overlooked and should certainly be made
common knowledge once we have established it."
Zvi Bentwich MD
(Background in the fields of medicine & immunology
- KAPLAN HOSPITAL; Affiliated to the Medical School
of the Hebrew Universityand Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel.
These tests were
conducted at the Weizmann institute in Rehovot.)
"Uri
Geller knows the power of thought and has been
both courageous and generous in demonstrating and
sharing the fruits of that knowledge with millions
around the world. His persistent light has brightened
a dark era (thankfully now coming to a close) in which
"scientific" orthodoxy became so immersed
in matter as to lose sight of mind."
Neville Hodgkinson, former social policy correspondent,
The Times, and medical and science correspondent,
The Sunday Times, London. Author, Will To
Be Well - the Real Alternative Medicine (Hutchinson,
1984), and AIDS:The Failure of Contemporary Science
(Fourth Estate, 1994).
"I
have always felt that you are able to perform the
phenomena ascribed to you,
at least under favourable conditions, and was happy
with your success at the November conference inSeattle."
WILLIAM A. TILLER Ph.D., Professor. Stanford
University, Department of materials science and engineering.
"Attempts
made to replicate this type of fracture in conventional
ways were unsuccessful.
ANTON WEST, Ph.D., Expert in fracture of materials,
Department of Materials science and engineering Stanford
University California:
Uri with Brian Josephson
Brian Josephson, Welsh born physicist shared the Nobel Prizefor Physics in 1973 for his discovery of the Josephson effect.
"I
think Uri is a magician, but I don't particularly
believe that he is using trickery. I believe there
are psychic abilities.They don't accord with any science
we have at the moment, but maybe some future science
will back them up with theories."
Brian Josephson, Professor of Physics, University
of Cambridge, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics,
1973.
General remarks on PK by scientists
"This
phenomenon is merely a reflection of how fast evolution
- including molecular-genetic effects - is going.
. ."
MARSHALL GILULA, MD., Coconut Grove, Florida, Psychiatrist
and Neurologist:
"Validation
techniques in the PK area are complicated with curious
paranormal phenomena and psychological elements of
human beings."
PROF. J. B. HASTED, Physicist, Birkbeck College, University
of London:
"PK
may have practical application for healing. Because
of its unpredictability it will need to be an adjunct
to orthodox treatment."
STANLEY KRIPPNER, Ph.D., Humanistic Psychology Institute, San Francisco, California:
"Muchis
to be learned, and perhaps a better understanding
of psychokinesis would be one more piece of the jig-saw
puzzle in the understanding of the complexities of
the mind.
M. J. MARTIN, M.D., Rochester, Minnesota, Psychiatrist:
"When
a young child shows musical or athletic promise, we
have an extensive and integrated system of family
support, peer support, role models and institutional
encouragement. It is my hope that we will develop
extensive cultural programs for the cultivation of
psychic abilities and their practical application
in areas of benefit to humanity. . .if humanity survives,
such a development is inevitable."
JEFFREY MISHLOVE, Ph.D., John F. Kennedy University:
"The average human being uses only 10 percent of his mental capacity..."
DR WILLIAM JAMES (considered the father of modern psychology)
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Journalist Bernard Levin CBE,
"I believe in your powers"
Quotes from other significant sources
ON 19/9/01 I tuned into the Spanish television programme "Tiempoal Tiempo" and had the marvellous experience of placing a teaspoon on the television set. Following your instructions the spoon jumped from the set and remained in the direction of the screen. I was surprised and after this experience no doubts about your mental powers remained to me. Famous Spanish Painter Anthoni Marsal
Joyce Jillson - Astrologer who was linked with the White House, "Uri's powers are awesome, I have experienced them myself.
Describing Uri , the late Jack Paar, host of the 'Tonight' Show:
Uri was one of the most amazing interviewees I ever had.
Read excerpts from Thomas Bearden's book 'Excalibur Briefing' for a physicist's perspective of The Geller Effect
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas E. Bearden (US Army, Retired) Ph.D., was formerly senior scientist and department manager of a major aerospace company where he directed the design and production of expert systems (artificial intelligence) applications for the US Army command and control systems.
From the Times, Higher Education 2002, Book Review of 'The MindMade Flesh: Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution', by Nicholas Humphrey of the London School of Economics, as reviewed by Keith Sutherland:
"One
of his special gifts is in the imaginative reconstruction
of past minds via the medium of the historical record
and through modern parallels. Examples in this book
include an attempt to understand the miracles and
psychology of Jesus via a comparison with Uri Geller;
a claim that Palaeolithic man was autistic (by comparing
cave paintings with the work of autistic savant Nadia);
and an attempt to understand the minds of medieval
jurists via the records of animal trials and executions.
All fascinating stuff, and Humphrey's reconstructions
are often very persuasive."
Describing
the powers of Uri Geller Dayan Gavriel Krausz said:"God
gave us powers we do not understands. Healers have
powers in their hands which can miraculously heal
people with invisible energies; it is one of the mysteries
of the world." RT.REV. HUGH MONTEFIORE We have heard
some very interesting things. I particularly want
to thank Uri Geller for being so honest. Who would
have thought that he started his career when drinking
soup at the age of four? Who would have thought that
he was once a male model? And to send a woman Prime
Minister to the loo and to be commended by her. We
had a woman Prime Minister who referred to me as "That
perfectly dreadful man in Birmingham." How different
from Israel! What moved me most about this very interesting
book was that when Uri Geller used his psi ability
for self-aggrandisement, it nearly sent him around
the bend. He spoke about his fear of committing suicide.
This is a gift of God. Now he uses it to help others,
including at a children's hospital. That is surely
the best use. I am very grateful to him for making
that point and for explaining how the extraordinary
powers that some people have, but most do not, can
be used. We have all heard Uri Geller. No doubt we
have all seen him on television. But to see him in
the flesh and to hear him speak so honestly about
his life has been an experience for all of us.
Sir David Frost OBE
"In
all the years I have known Uri - and we first met
in the early 1970's - I have been fascinated by his
astonishing powers and the way they have excited the
imagination of people the world over. Recently we
worked together on television again and I was thrilled
by the way a whole new generation of viewers responded
to Uri's extraordinary psychic talents."
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