Uri Geller

“the Israeli psychic who began an entertainment career as a stage magician but later puzzled the scientists who tested his abilities in the laboratory.”

“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.”

“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.””

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“Uri Geller has stated that his powers come from a form of consciousness emanating from “Hoova,””

“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.”

“Uri said under hypnosis that he found himself in a cave in Cyprus and “came there for learning.””

“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.””

“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.”

“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”

““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).”

“Uri and Puharich receive messages from SPECTRA, predicting mass landings (perhaps visible only to themselves).”

“Geller and Puharich have forecast massive flying saucer landings.”

“Received on magnetic tape. The tape disappeared after transcription.”

““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.””

“Dr. Puharich states flatly that “The relationship … between these superior beings and Uri and me continues to grow deeper and mutually more meaningful.””

“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”

“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.”

“I would argue that they are all wrong, even Puharich with his disappearing tapes, and Uri voicing from Rhombus 4-D.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“One of the leaders of the sect was a “Dr. Armstrong,” a man we will again find involved in the Uri Geller affair.”

“Puharich describes his latest experiences with Geller.”

“Ira gives the floor to Charles Muses who comments on 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”

“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.”

“Uri studied these photographs with much interest and proceeded to tell me confidentially the details of his own close encounters with UFOs.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He replied that in all his meetings with "them" the initiative for the contact has been with the "other side."”

“Later during our lunch Uri proposed to do telepathic experiments with me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“Uri Geller asked the subject to select a three-digit number and to write it down on the board.”

“The subject wrote a number on the board: the digits were 7, 2, and 5.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“"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."”

“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.”

“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."”

“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.”

“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.”

“Uri Geller appears capable of forcing subjects to pick certain numbers or certain words.”

“It is this short series of tests that convinced me that his abilities were 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.”

“Under this definition, such historical figures as Joan of Arc or Joseph Smith are direct contactees. So are Edgar Cayce and Uri Geller.”

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I do not believe Uri Geller is a new Messiah.”

“As I was discussing Uri Geller’s abilities with British scholar Gordon Creighton, driving through the midst of London in the winter of 1973”