Brief
Uri Geller
The claims the writer was given for Uri Geller, in the order they were given.
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Jim Hurtak was a friend of Andrija Puharich, was involved in the Uri Geller affair, and claimed to be psychic and to have had UFO encounters.
“He was a friend of Andrija Puharich, was deeply involved in the Uri Geller affair, and claimed to be psychic himself. Not only was he psychic, but he had had a number of UFO encounters”
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Uri Geller has stated that his powers come from a form of consciousness emanating from "Hoova."
“Uri Geller has stated that his powers come from a form of consciousness emanating from “Hoova,””
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Jacques Vallée classifies Joan of Arc, Joseph Smith, Edgar Cayce, and Uri Geller as historical direct contactees.
“Under this definition, such historical figures as Joan of Arc or Joseph Smith are direct contactees. So are Edgar Cayce and Uri Geller.”
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One physicist present at the Mendocino, California gathering to hear the Timothy Leary tapes had conducted research on Uri Geller.
“There was one physicist from Berkeley who had done research on Uri Geller”
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Jacques Vallee considers Uri Geller a case in which self-negating factors of the UFO phenomenon are all gathered around a single person, making research into it truly fantastic in complexity.
“In some cases all three factors are gathered around a single person, and then the complexity of the research becomes truly fantastic. Uri Geller, of course, is a case in point.”
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Dr. Armstrong was one of the leaders of the sect that formed around Mrs. Keech, and he later became involved in the Uri Geller affair.
“One of the leaders of the sect was a “Dr. Armstrong,” a man we will again find involved in the Uri Geller affair.”
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The network of Uri Geller devotees has succeeded in arousing the interest of several leading physicists.
“One of the most publicized of these groups in recent years is the network of Uri Geller devotees, which has succeeded in arousing the interest of several leading physicists.”
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Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich have forecast massive flying saucer landings.
“Geller and Puharich have forecast massive flying saucer landings.”
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On 1949-12-25 in Tel Aviv, Uri Geller, then aged three and playing in a garden, saw a large shining bowl-shaped light in the sky above him.
“At the age of three, as he was playing in a garden in Tel Aviv, he saw a large shining bowl-shaped light in the sky above him, on December 25, 1949.”
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Uri Geller recalled a huge, very bright shining figure with no visible face appearing in the garden in Tel Aviv, holding the sun between its raised arms, whose brightness caused him to pass out.
“The shining figure had no face that could be seen, only a radiant countenance...Uri passed out from the power of its rays, with the pain of blindness.”
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11
During the hypnosis session, a voice identifying itself as the source that had found Uri Geller in the garden and 'programmed' him stated it was revealing itself because plans for war had been made by Egypt, referencing the period around the Six-Day War.
“It identified itself as the source that had found Uri in the garden and had “programmed” him. The message was impressive but also absurd: “We reveal ourselves because … plans for war have been made by Egypt.””
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Jacques Vallee considers most of the exchanges between Andrija Puharich and SPECTRA (the alleged cosmic intelligence) to consist of elements borrowed from Puharich's and Uri Geller's own brains and reflected back on them.
“Its elements may be borrowed entirely from our own brains and reflected upon us (as seems the case in most of the exchanges between Puharich and SPECTRA) or it may present genuinely new data.”
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Uri Geller told scientists from Stanford Research Institute during his first interview with them that SPECTRA's computers guiding his powers 'were fed millions of light-years in the future', using light-years as a unit of time.
“During his first interview with scientists from the Stanford Research Institute, Uri explained the concept of SPECTRA’s computers guiding his “powers” and said: “You see, they are computers, which were fed millions of light-years in the future.””
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Andrija Puharich sometimes receives messages from SPECTRA when Uri Geller is not present.
“Puharich sometimes receives the messages when Uri is away, and it is difficult to believe that even a clever magician would be able to plant loudspeakers in the walls wherever Dr. Puharich goes.”
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Jacques Vallee considers it true that Uri Geller and other 'silent contactees' can produce phenomena inadequately explained in conventional terms.
“It is true, in my opinion, that Geller and other “silent contactees” can produce phenomena that are inadequately explained in conventional terms.”
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Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich took literally the messages recorded on tape from the alleged cosmic intelligence SPECTRA, including a claim that there is a dematerialized aspect to atoms that could be used, and a claim about a 'mass landing' compared to refuelling and charging via the earth's barometric and cosmic layer.
““There is a dematerialized aspect to your atoms that we can use” (p. 166), and “We need that mass landing like you people on earth call refueling, and charging up, like a huge plane of yours charges up with electricity. We do that through your barometric and cosmic layer around earth” (p. 179).”
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Jacques Vallee considers that the phenomena involving the table at the 1899 Victor Hugo séance can be explained by unconscious mental processes among the attending spiritualists, and that the same explanation applies to Andrija Puharich and Uri Geller.
“I think the phenomena involving the table can be explained by unconscious and mental process among the attending “spiritualists.” The same explanation holds true for Puharich and Geller.”
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Jacques Vallee thinks highly of Uri Geller's talents.
“I think highly of Geller’s talents.”
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A series of contacts between Andrija Puharich and an 'Intelligence in the Sky' called SPECTRA or Hoova began on 1971-11-30, when Puharich hypnotized Uri Geller for the first time.
“The series of contacts between a physician, Andrija Puharich, a graduate of Northwestern University, and the “Intelligence in the Sky” called SPECTRA or Hoova, began on November 30, 1971, when Puharich hypnotized Uri Geller for the first time.”
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Jacques Vallee considers the cult building up around Andrija Puharich and Uri Geller very similar to a number of other belief structures that had developed in the United States and other countries in recent years.
“we find that the cult that is building up around Puharich and Geller is very similar to a number of other belief structures that have developed in the U.S. and other countries in recent years.”
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Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich received messages from SPECTRA predicting mass landings that would perhaps be visible only to themselves.
“Uri and Puharich receive messages from SPECTRA, predicting mass landings (perhaps visible only to themselves).”
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Under hypnosis, Uri Geller said he found himself in a cave in Cyprus and 'came there for learning'.
“Uri said under hypnosis that he found himself in a cave in Cyprus and “came there for learning.””
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Andrija Puharich wrote in his book (page 127) that a Prophet, such as Uri Geller, is specifically created to serve as an intermediary between a 'divine' intelligence and man.
““I believe,” states Dr. Puharich (p. 127), “that a Prophet, a Uri Geller … is specifically created to serve as an intermediary between a ‘divine’ intelligence and man.””
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Andrija Puharich stated flatly that the relationship between the superior beings and Uri Geller and himself continues to grow deeper and mutually more meaningful.
“Dr. Puharich states flatly that “The relationship … between these superior beings and Uri and me continues to grow deeper and mutually more meaningful.””
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Uri Geller began to receive information through automatic writing, in the form of tensor equations, a kind of higher mathematics of which he has no concept.
“Although most of the messages from SPECTRA are said to have come on a tape recorder, Uri Geller himself has begun to get information through automatic writing. It comes in the form of tensor equations, a kind of higher mathematics of which Uri has no concept.”
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The magnetic tape recording of the 1972 SPECTRA communications to Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich disappeared after transcription.
“Received on magnetic tape. The tape disappeared after transcription.”
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SPECTRA communicated to Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich in 1972 that it is a spacecraft used as humans use a planet and had been stationed for the past eight hundred years over the earth.
“SPECTRA is the name of a spacecraft which we use as you use a planet. It has been stationed for the past eight hundred years over the earth…. The Israeli territory is where we first landed on earth”
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British researcher Peter Rogerson noted that stories similar to the childhood experiences of Edgar Cayce and Uri Geller were common in accounts of mediums of various kinds.
“Commenting on the childhood experiences of Cayce and Geller, a British researcher named Peter Rogerson has reminded me that similar stories were common in accounts of mediums of various kinds”
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In a colour experiment, Jacques Vallee first thought of blue, then deliberately switched his target to yellow, and Uri Geller reported receiving yellow with one out of three signals as blue.
“For this reason, I deliberately changed my choice, reviewed a dozen colors, and picked yellow as the target. Three times Uri gave me the signal to send him the color. Then he calmly announced: "The color I receive is yellow, but once out of three times I got the color blue."”
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Jacques Vallee attended an experiment where Uri Geller asked a subject to select a three-digit number and write it on a board.
“Uri Geller asked the subject to select a three-digit number and to write it down on the board.”
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Uri Geller told Jacques Vallee that his specialty was producing phenomena with physical objects, citing a spoon as an example.
“"You know," said Uri, "everything you’ve seen … Those are little things. This is not what I really do. My specialty is to produce phenomena with physical objects. For example, take a spoon."”
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Uri Geller touched a spoon in his cup and it became bent three times, folded back against the handle.
“With these words he touched, barely touched the spoon in his cup, and he jumped back as if he had touched a snake. He reached for the spoon again and showed it to us. It was bent three times, literally folded back against the handle.”
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As Uri Geller gave instructions to the subject, Jacques Vallee independently wrote the number 726 on his own notepad and showed it to Janine Vallee.
“As he gave these instructions a number came into my consciousness and I noted it on the pad I was using to keep a record of the experiments, showing it to Janine as I did so. The number I wrote was 726.”
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The subject in the experiment wrote the digits 7, 2, and 5 on the board.
“The subject wrote a number on the board: the digits were 7, 2, and 5.”
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During the number experiment, Uri Geller sat in a corner of the room with his head turned toward the wall and hidden by a screen, and spelled out the digits 7, 2, and 5 as the digits he said he was mentally picking up.
“Geller was sitting in a corner at the other end of the room, his head turned toward the wall and hidden by a screen. He spelled out the digits he said he was mentally picking up: 7, 2, and 5.”
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Jacques Vallee considers people with experiences similar to those of Uri Geller to not be uncommon.
“This letter is another indication that people with experiences similar to those of Uri Geller are not uncommon.”
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Professor Miklos is a Romanian researcher who offered Jacques Vallee a theory intended to help understand Uri Geller.
“Additional comments have come to me from scientists in several countries. Professor Miklos, a Romanian researcher, offered a theory that may be helpful in our attempts to understand Uri Geller”
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Uri Geller appears capable of forcing subjects to pick certain numbers or certain words.
“Uri Geller appears capable of forcing subjects to pick certain numbers or certain words.”
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Jacques Vallee's own observation of Uri Geller was only one factor motivating his research; the other was the convergence of Geller's experiences with those of a sizable sample of individuals in contact with Vallee.
“My own observation of Geller was only one of the factors here; the other was the convergence of his experience with those of a sizable sample of individuals with whom I am in contact.”
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Jacques Vallee proposes that the Uri Geller phenomenon is not spontaneous manifestations explainable by a psychiatrist or a student of ordinary spiritualist phenomena such as automatic writing, and is not necessarily space visitors, but is a control system.
“I propose the view that we are not dealing with spontaneous manifestations that can be explained simply by the psychiatrist or by the student of ordinary spiritualist phenomena, such as automatic writing. Nor are we necessarily dealing with space visitors. We are dealing with a control system.”
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Jacques Vallee asked Uri Geller privately whether he had played a word-forcing game with the subject on the night of the number experiment, and Geller assured him that he had not.
“Knowing about this ability, I asked Uri privately if he had played a similar game with his subject on the night of the experiment, and he assured me that he had not.”
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Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich have described events around Geller as including contact with UFO entities.
“the events around Geller include contact with what he and Puharich have described as UFO entities.”
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Uri Geller came to the United States around 1970 at the request of Andrija Puharich.
“Uri Geller came to the U.S. about 1970 at the request of Dr. Andrija Puharich, who was well-known among psychic phenomena research circles and could therefore expose him quickly to a significant audience.”
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Uri Geller is claimed to have the ability of psychokinesis, defined as moving objects at a distance without touching them.
“Of special interest was Uri’s psychokinetic ability. (The word psychokinesis has been given to the ability to move objects at a distance without touching them, a feat that traditionally has been regarded as one of the tests of the miraculous.)”
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Uri Geller is claimed to have the ability to distort metal objects and partly or completely dematerialize them.
“In the case of Geller, not only is this ability claimed, but it apparently includes the faculty of distorting metal objects and even partly or completely dematerializing them.”
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As of the time of writing, no demonstration of Uri Geller's metal-bending or dematerializing ability had been provided under strict laboratory control conditions, although anecdotal evidence was available.
“but at the time of this writing no demonstration of this ability has been provided in strict laboratory control environments, although a wealth of anecdotal evidence is available.”
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Uri Geller's paranormal effects reportedly happen spontaneously in his vicinity and are not under his own conscious control.
“One further interesting aspect of Geller’s gift is that he does not control it. Instead, the effects happen more or less spontaneously in his vicinity.”
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In the communications channelled through Uri Geller, the source of his power has identified itself as emanating from UFOs.
“In the communications channeled through Geller the source of this power has identified itself as emanating from UFOs.”
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Jacques Vallee considers that although Uri Geller uses trickery at times like every medium, some of the phenomena around him are genuine.
“I am inclined to believe that although Geller, like every medium, uses trickery at times, some of the phenomena that happen around him are genuine.”
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At a meeting of the Parapsychology Research Group of Palo Alto, Uri Geller did not demonstrate metal bending to anyone's satisfaction, and many members left with grave doubts.
“At the meeting of the Parapsychology Research Group mentioned earlier Geller did not demonstrate metal bending to anyone’s satisfaction, and many members went away with grave doubts.”
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In December 1972, Jacques Vallee had lunch with Uri Geller and showed him a series of Phoenician seals depicting a religious ritual performed by priests and a flying disk from which God-like creatures are emerging.
“In December, 1972, I had lunch with Geller and showed him the series of Phoenician seals described in Chapter Six. They depict a religious ritual performed by priests, and a flying disk from which God-like creatures are emerging.”
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During their December 1972 lunch, Uri Geller told Jacques Vallee confidentially the details of his own close encounters with UFOs.
“Uri studied these photographs with much interest and proceeded to tell me confidentially the details of his own close encounters with UFOs.”
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Uri Geller believed himself to be a secret contactee in contact with an alien entity that he did not want to mention in public.
“He was in fact, I learned, a "secret contactee," a man who believed himself to be in contact with an alien entity which he did not want to mention in public.”
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Jacques Vallee asked Uri Geller during their December 1972 discussion whether he thought he could contact the UFO entity again to obtain a close observation of a flying saucer as a real test case.
“During our discussion I asked Uri Geller if he thought he could contact the UFO entity again to obtain for us a real test case: a close observation of a flying saucer.”
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Uri Geller replied that in all his meetings with the entity, the initiative for the contact had come from the other side, not from him.
“He replied that in all his meetings with "them" the initiative for the contact has been with the "other side."”
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During the December 1972 lunch, Uri Geller proposed to Jacques Vallee that they conduct telepathic experiments together.
“Later during our lunch Uri proposed to do telepathic experiments with me.”
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Jacques Vallee considers that a short series of telepathic tests with Uri Geller convinced him that Geller's abilities were genuine.
“It is this short series of tests that convinced me that his abilities were genuine.”
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In the first telepathy test, one of Uri Geller's physicist colleagues handed Jacques Vallee a sealed envelope containing a card with a target drawing of a whale blowing water vapor into the air.
“One of the physicists with whom Geller had been working handed me a sealed envelope containing a card on which a target had been drawn. It was the outline of a whale blowing water vapor into the air.”
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In the first attempt, Uri Geller received no clear image when Jacques Vallee mentally sent him the whale drawing.
“Uri was to imagine a similar screen in his own mind and fill out the picture, but he received no clear image at the first trial.”
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In a second attempt, Jacques Vallee mentally sent Uri Geller the images of a fountain and then a fish, and Geller drew both a fish and a fountain on a card, saying he was getting two things.
“Now Uri took a blank card and said, as he rapidly drew on it, "It’s strange, I’m getting two things." On the card he passed around, he had drawn a fish. Next to the fish was a fountain.”
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Jacques Vallee considers the two-target telepathy test convincing because he was the only person who knew that two different targets, rather than one, had been sent.
“This was a convincing test because it excluded the "collusion" hypothesis... I was the only person who knew that two different targets, rather than one, had been sent!”
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In a second experiment, Jacques Vallee wrote the digits 8, 9, and 2, and after being asked to send only the last digit, Uri Geller wrote a 2 on a card.
“Now I began to take Uri Geller more seriously. In the second experiment he asked me to write a digit (I wrote down 8) and a second one (9) and then a third, larger. I wrote 2. "Send me the last digit only," he said. And a moment later he had written a 2 on a card.”
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Jacques Vallee's hastily drawn digit 2 had a flat, elongated horizontal base unlike the usual American way of drawing it, and Uri Geller's drawing of the digit was identical when the two tracings were superimposed.
“The interesting fact here was that my 2 was hastily drawn and that the horizontal base of the digit was very flat and elongated. It was completely different from the usual American way of drawing it. Now the drawing by Uri was not only similar to mine: it was identical, as was soon demonstrated by superimposing the two tracings.”
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Andrija Puharich described his latest experiences with Uri Geller on the panel.
“Puharich describes his latest experiences with Geller.”
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Andrija Puharich is committed to the idea that he and Uri Geller are guided by a very high source of wisdom and that mankind's only course is to place its destiny in that source's hands.
“he is totally committed to the idea that he and Uri are now guided by a very high source of wisdom, and that the only course for mankind is to place its destiny in “their” hands”
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Ira Einhorn gave the floor to Charles Muses to comment on Uri Geller during the panel.
“Ira gives the floor to Charles Muses who comments on Geller.”
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Jacques Vallee argues that both believers and sceptics in the UFO debate are wrong, including Andrija Puharich with his disappearing tapes and Uri Geller voicing messages from the Rhombus 4-D computer.
“I would argue that they are all wrong, even Puharich with his disappearing tapes, and Uri voicing from Rhombus 4-D.”
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Jacques Vallee discussed Uri Geller's abilities with Gordon Creighton while driving through London in the winter of 1973.
“As I was discussing Uri Geller’s abilities with British scholar Gordon Creighton, driving through the midst of London in the winter of 1973”
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At the time of meeting the anonymous engineer, Jacques Vallee had for over a year been in touch with Uri Geller, an Israeli psychic whose similar story he had reserved judgment on.
“At the time of this encounter I had been for over a year in touch with another man whose story was similar but on the veracity of which I had reserved judgment. This other man was Uri Geller, the Israeli psychic”
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Uri Geller began his career as a stage magician performing entertainment before later puzzling scientists who tested his abilities in the laboratory.
“the Israeli psychic who began an entertainment career as a stage magician but later puzzled the scientists who tested his abilities in the laboratory.”
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Like the anonymous engineer, Uri Geller had been inside what he described as a UFO, had experienced a major life change and left his country, and felt he had been given a 'mission' and was the centre of peculiar physical effects.
“Like the engineer, Geller had been inside what he described as a UFO. Like him, he had experienced a major life change and left his country. Like him, he felt that he had been given a "mission" and that he was the center of peculiar physical effects.”
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Andrija Puharich, an American parapsychologist, brought Uri Geller to the United States in 1971 and arranged for him to be studied under laboratory conditions at several scientific institutions.
“An American parapsychologist, Dr. Andrija Puharich, brought Geller to the United States in 1971 and arranged for the young man to be studied under laboratory conditions at several scientific institutions.”
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Uri Geller's abilities include the apparent triggering of a force affecting material objects, which sometimes seems to lead to dematerialisations, with phenomena affecting mass and inertia appearing reproducible in the laboratory.
“Geller's abilities include what can best be described as the triggering of a force which affects material objects, and which sometimes even seems to lead to dematerializations. ... The puzzling fact here is that some phenomena affecting mass and inertia appear to be reproducible in the laboratory.”
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race 2014-09-27 ch8:14918-15198 observation first hand
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Many manifestations around Uri Geller are similar to classical 'poltergeist' phenomena described in folklore, including mysterious breakage and disappearance of objects.
“Many of the manifestations around him are similar to classical "poltergeist" phenomena as described in the folklore of many countries: mysterious breakage and disappearance of objects, usually ascribed to the imagination of the witnesses.”
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Uri Geller believes himself invested with a mission given to him by a mysterious space source, and some of his followers even suggest that he might be a Messiah.
“Most remarkable for our purpose, however, is the fact that Geller believes himself invested with a mission, given to him by a mysterious space source. Some of his followers even suggest that he might be a Messiah.”
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The anonymous engineer is withdrawn and secretive with a greatest wish to remain unknown, unlike Uri Geller who is a showman.
“He is withdrawn and secretive, while Geller is a showman. The engineer is a very quiet and well-organized man whose greatest wish is to remain unknown.”
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The anonymous engineer feels he received information from the 'teaching machine', has acquired the ability to 'leave his body', can transfer his consciousness at will into other objects or into space, and can trigger a psychokinetic power similar to Uri Geller's, who claims he bends or breaks objects by pure thought.
“He feels that he has received certain information from the "teaching machine," that he has acquired the ability to "leave his body," that he is now able to transfer his consciousness at will into other objects or into space, and that he can trigger a psychokinetic power similar to that of Geller, who claims that he bends or breaks objects by pure thought.”
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Uri Geller is an individual with apparently abnormal abilities who seeks and receives much publicity.
“The appearance on the scene of a few individuals with apparently abnormal abilities, like Uri Geller, who seeks and receives much publicity”
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Jacques Vallee does not believe Uri Geller is a new Messiah.
“I do not believe Uri Geller is a new Messiah.”
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An awareness of the paranormal has been inspired by UFO sightings in figures such as Uri Geller and Edgar Cayce.
“An awareness of the paranormal has been inspired by such sightings in men like Uri Geller and Edgar Cayce.”
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Uri Geller traces his paranormal abilities to his exposure to a beam of light that he says came from the sky.
“In the case of Uri Geller, who, like the French doctor, traces his paranormal abilities to his exposure to a peculiar beam of light that came from the sky”
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Stanford Research Institute (SRI) studied Uri Geller extensively.
“and they studied people like Uri Geller extensively. and phenomenal performers.”
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