 QUANTUM JUMPS - Chapter on Uri
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PARANORMAL DEFORMATION OF NITINOL WIRE: A CONFIRMATORY EXPERIMENT
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 watchhim 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 hisfinger above the spoon and stood back. Nothing happened. Weexpressed 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, andwithin four minutes the tail of the spoon had risen up likea scorpions sting. I then took the spoon, the first timeI 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 infirmaryin Oxford, and Honorary consultant in Neurophysiology to BroadmoorSpecial Hospital. He has published numerous scientific paperson brain function and also several papers on meditation andaltered states of consciousness. His most recent book is "TheTruth of Light". Dr. Fenwick is also chairman of ths scientificand Medical network, a group of doctors and scientists seekingto deepen understanding in science and medicine by fosteringintuitive as well as rational insights.
"I was in Scientific laboratories at Stanford Research Instituteinvestigating a rather amazing individual Uri Geller. Uri'sability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is knownthe world over. We in Science are just now catching up andunderstanding what you can do with exercise and proper practise.Uri is Not a magician. He is using capabilities thatwe all have and can develop with exercise and practise."
"After the Geller work, I was asked to brief the directorof the CIA, Ambassador George Bush (Later to become Presidentof the United States), on our activities and the results.In later years during the Brezhnev period, I met with severalRussian scientists who not only had documented results similarto ours, but were actively using "psychic" techniquesagainst 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 theirstaff were there. Uri wanted to talk about how the Sovietswere exploiting Jews with psychic ability. This was based on his interviews with many people who had left the SovietUnion 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 havethe 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 touchingit. 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 MassachusettsInstitute of Technology (M.I.T) in two fields, the planetarysciences and nuclear physics and served as advisor to theAtomic 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.
Followingthat he was seven years on the staff of the M.I.T. physicsdepartment, continuing his research at the Weizmann Instituteof Science in Israel and the Volcani Research Institute withlabs at the Hebrew University. Heis the Author of Genesis And The Big Bang (Bantam Doubleday)The Science of God (Free Press of Simon & Schuster; and BroadwayBooks of Bantam Doubleday) "Uri appears to have concentrated energy. What makes meaccept 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 evenafter he placed it on the ground and stepped away. TheTalmud 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 thelatter, 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 explanationas to how he did this." (This is the first research relatedto parapsychology conducted at a US Government facility tohave been released for publication by the US Department ofDefence).
Eldon Byrd (US Naval Surface Weapons Centre, Maryland - U.S.A.)
"Wefeel 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 involvedhere, which cannot be accounted for or explained in termsof the present known laws of physics. Indeed, we already feelthat 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 owndoor key that was bent by Geller. Furthermore, he indicatedthat he does not rule out the possibility of all sorts ofremarkable mental powers. He went on to say that there are even things like telekinesis etc, summing up by proclaimingthat 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 HistoryNewYork, February 18, 1974"...Then there is another problem, that I think is very important torealise, 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 havea tendency to find trickery also. Now this does not mean thatthe sensitive is only a trickster, but it does mean that sensitives are very doubtful of their own powers, of the reliabilityof their own powers.
For instance, Geller will not perform if he feels hostilityfrom the audience. If he were a performer who was being paid,he might feel that he needed a few appurtenances (props) tomake it work so this curious association between various formsof magicianship with sensitive behaviour occurs in many partsof the world. It doesn't mean that the sensitive does not believe in his powers. It does mean he doesn't trust themvery thoroughly, and he feels that certain conditions coulddisrupt them."
"Theevidence based on metallurgical analysis of fractured surfaces (produced by Geller) indicates that a paranormal influencemust have been operative in the formation of the fractures."
Dr Wilbur Franklin(Physics Department, Kent State University - U.S.A.)
"Wehave observed certain phenomena with the subjects [including Geller] for which we have no scientific explanation. "
"As a result of Geller's success in this experimentalperiod, 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 respectedBritish 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 underdoubly strict laboratory conditions."
"Under these conditions, they said, no magician has beenable to duplicate through trickery the psychic feat performedby Geller and others. Some won't even try."
Los Angeles Times, Monday July 28, 1975
"Basedon preliminary investigations of Uri, I cannot establishfraud. The powers of this man are a phenomenon which theoreticalphysics 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 couldallsee the spoon clearly. Geller then put his own hand overmine and began concentrating. It was just ashe 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 beenmade by ordinary manual means."
Dr Albert Ducrocq(Telemetry Laboratory, Foch Hospital Suren, France)
"The Geller method of breaking is unlike anything described inthe (metallurgical) literature, from fatigue fractures at-195 degrees to brittle fractures at +600 degrees C. Why ismetal bending important? Simply because we do not understandit."
Prof. John Hasted (Professorof Physics Birkbeck College, University of London, England)
"Ihave 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.)
"Metalobjects were bent or divided (by Geller) in circumstancessuch as to prove conclusively ... that the phenomena weregenuine and paranormal."
Dr A. R. G. Owen (New Horizons Research Foundation,Toronto, Ontario - Canada)
"Thereis no logical explanation for what Geller did here. But Idon'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 whichchanged the world of physics. What the most outstanding physicistsof 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'slaboratory. The results substantiated and proved my convictionand 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 conditionsand saw with my own eyes the bending of a key which was nottouched by Geller at any time. There was a group of peoplepresent during the experiment who all witnessed the key bendingin eleven seconds to an angle of thirty degrees. Afterwards we tested the key in a scientific laboratory using devicessuch as electron microscopes and X-rays and found that there was no chemical, manual or mechanical forces involved in thebending 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 rolledsteel bar under controlled conditions, as he rubbed the topof it with his forefinger. I was sitting very close to himduring 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. (SaybrookInstitute 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 andafter hundreds of trials, he produced three extraordinaryphotographs 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 demonstratedthese to me under controlled scientific conditions, in a mostconvincing manner".
Dr. Thelma Moss (Professorof psychology at UCLA and one of the first U.S. researchersto experiment with Kirlian photography - U.S.A.)
"Uribent a strong heat-treated alloy bar held by myself and myassistant at each end. There was absolutely no pressure exertedby 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 ScientificDirector of Pecheney, France)
"Iput the spoon that Uri bent into my pocket and kept checkingit every 3-4 minutes. It gradually bent to about 90 degreesin 15 minutes while in my own possession with no-one aroundme. 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 cannotbe explained with our present knowledge."
Professor George Egeyly(Physicist, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Central ResearchInstitute for Physics, Budapest - Hungary)
"Your coming to the University of California, Berkeley and conductingyour demonstrations was instrumental in setting up the conditionsfor me to bring together the group of forty physicists to start and conduct the Fundamental 'Fysiks' Laboratory thatmet weekly from 1974 to 1979. The purpose of the FFL was toexplore the nature of reality and the use of physical modelsto explain the space-time attributes of consciousness andremote connection models of Bell's Theorem. The key is thatpsychokinesis and psi in general, related powers of the mind,can be studied with the scientific method and you have hada key influence on scientists in their research and knowledgeof PK and you have been instrumental in getting people toexplore the power of the mind. The purpose of life, and scientificexploration is to learn what is."
Dr Elizabeth A. Rauscher (Theoretical physicist, LawrenceBerkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley -U.S.A.)
"Scienceis at last recognising that quantum mechanics and relativitydo predict some form of information laws, which may go a longway 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 workedon the A bomb and over saw the development of European atomsmashers.
"I was shocked and amazed how Mr Geller bent my officekey at MIT while I was holding it. The sturdy key keptbending in my hand; I can not explain this phenomenonI can only assume that it could relate could relate to quantumchromo 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 (suchas telekinesis, clairvoyance and telepathy)."
Professor P. Plum, MD (Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics,University of Copenhagen, former chairman of the Danish MedicalResearch 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 minutesafter his influence had been exerted on them. Before the eyesof those present he germinated a radish seed to a small sproutin 8 minutes. He reproduced target pictures exactly to thenearest 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 formerlystood in the Moscow river basin, the destruction of whichwas 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 thefactory that makes thermography (they are both graduates ofTokyo 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 avolunteered latchkey under excellent conditions, and fromhaving 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 wasremoved from the key ring and placed on the typewriter frame to the time when the splined end had bent upwards. Our attentionwas 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 occurredexactly as I have described. As a result of this personallywitnessed experiment in clear unequivocal conditions I amable to state with confidence my view that Mr Geller has genuinepsychic capability. "
Prof. Arthur Ellison(Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering, City UniversityLondon - England)
"Ihave personally witnessed and experienced on two occasionsthe metal bending abilities of Uri Geller. These experimentswere conducted under rigorous laboratory conditions. In thesetwo experiments the thick steel rod I was holding and observingcarefully bent, and continued to bend, in my own hand. Onerod bent to 90 degrees during a period of approximately sixminutes while I was holding it. The other steel rod bent after Uri stroked it and continued bending on a glass tablewithout anyone touching it. The steel rods were provided bymyself. I consider the Geller effect to be a phenomenon whichshould be studied seriously by science. "
"A scientist would have to be either massively ignorantor a confirmed bigot to deny the evidence that the human mindcan make connection with space, time and matter in ways which have nothing to do with the ordinary senses. Further, he cannotdeny that these connections are compatible with current thinkingin 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:)
"Everythingworked, I don't understand it. However, I can not say I accepthis powers in toto. It would be accepting his theories againstall the proven theories of science."
Professor J. Juritz, (Head of the department of physics,University of Cape Town:)
"Uriis genuine. I have been prepared to accept mental telepathybut his metal bending has me foxed. "
Mr Michael Hamerton, (Engineer, department of physics,University of Cape Town:)
"Ido not understand. What has happened today has left me completelymystified. "
Dr Wynchank, (department of physics, University ofCape Town:)
"It is not easy to explain how Uri has changed my life. As anauthor, psychologist and scientist, I am keenly aware of hisappearance 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 abundancewe have inside. If there is more to life than the visible world, then it is through Uri and others like him that theworld opens up to the greater dimension of untapped possibilities.He is a living symbol of the potential future evolution ofthe human race. "
Marc Seifer PhD. (Psychology Lecturer, New York, Authorof over 70 publications - U.S.A.)
"Iam a Psychiatrist with 30 years clinical experience, a conjurerwith 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 couldfind no evidence of trickery nor the use of gimmicks . Thefact that the spoon continued bending after he hadhanded it to me, for my mind, puts the event beyond rationalexplanation be it scientific or a feat of conjuring. He alsodemonstrated two examples of thought transference first accuratelyreproducing a geometric figure I had drawn and second andperhaps more significantly transmitting to me a figure anda colour.
As a life long sceptic I must record my total astonishmentat these feats and testify my witness to a truly inexplicableand unique phenomenon. "
Dr. Lawrence Ratna (Consultant Psychiatrist - England)
"Iheld a heavy key between my thumb and forefinger. The keybegan to bend - too slightly to be perceptible - after Gellerrubbed it lightly with one finger. The key was then placedon the desk and it continud to bend slowly for several minutesuntil it reached about a 20-degree angle. There was no obviousway the key I supplied could have been switched. Geller hadno chance (by slight of hand or other trickery) to bend thekey by force. And he didn't have a laser up his sleeve, assome have suggested. "
Dr. Robert J. Trotter (Science News vol 104 USA)
"WhatI saw Geller do in the laboratory was a truly mind-blowingexperience. . . He manifests an extreme case of some unusualpower, capacity or energy, which I believe is genuine"
"Personally, I can tell you that I consider what I sawwith you as truly mind-blowing experiences which cannot beoverlooked and should certainly be made common knowledge oncewe have established it."
Zvi Bentwich MD (Backgroundin the fields of medicine & immunology - KAPLAN HOSPITAL;Affiliated to the Medical School of the Hebrew Universityand Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel. These testswere conducted at the Weizmann institute in Rehovot.)
"UriGeller knows the power of thought and has been bothcourageous and generous in demonstrating and sharing the fruitsof that knowledge with millions around the world. His persistentlight has brightened a dark era (thankfully now coming toa 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 - theReal Alternative Medicine (Hutchinson, 1984), and AIDS:The Failure of Contemporary Science (Fourth Estate, 1994).
"Ihave always felt that you are able to perform the phenomenaascribed to you, at least under favourable conditions, andwas 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 fracturein conventional wayswere unsuccessful.
ANTON WEST, Ph.D., Expert in fracture of materials,Department of Materials science and engineering Stanford UniversityCalifornia:
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 believethat 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 ofCambridge, winnerof 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, Psychiatristand Neurologist:
"Validationtechniques in the PK area are complicated with curious paranormalphenomena and psychological elements of human beings."
PROF. J. B. HASTED, Physicist, Birkbeck College, Universityof London:
"PKmay have practical application for healing. Because of itsunpredictability it will need to be an adjunct to orthodoxtreatment."
STANLEY KRIPPNER, Ph.D., Humanistic Psychology Institute, San Francisco, California:
"Muchis to be learned, and perhaps a better understanding of psychokinesiswould be one more piece of the jig-saw puzzle in the understandingof the complexities of the mind.
M. J. MARTIN, M.D., Rochester, Minnesota, Psychiatrist:
"Whena young child shows musical or athletic promise, we have anextensive and integrated system of family support, peer support,role models and institutional encouragement. It is my hopethat we will develop extensive cultural programs for the cultivationof psychic abilities and their practical application in areasof 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 beleive in your powers"
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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 specialgifts is in the imaginative reconstruction of past minds viathe medium of the historical record and through modern parallels.Examples in this book include an attempt to understand themiracles and psychology of Jesus via a comparison with UriGeller; a claim that Palaeolithic man was autistic (by comparingcave paintings with the work of autistic savant Nadia); andan attempt to understand the minds of medieval jurists viathe records of animal trials and executions. All fascinatingstuff, and Humphrey's reconstructions are often very persuasive."
Describingthe powers of Uri Geller Dayan Gavriel Krausz said:"Godgave us powers we do not understands. Healers have powersin their hands which can miraculously heal people with invisibleenergies; it is one of the mysteries of the world." RT.REV. HUGH MONTEFIORE Wehave heard some very interesting things. I particularly wantto thank Uri Geller for being so honest. Who would have thoughtthat he started his career when drinking soup at the age offour? Who would have thought that he was once a male model?And to send a woman Prime Minister to the loo and to be commendedby her. We had a woman Prime Minister who referred to me as"That perfectly dreadful man in Birmingham." How differentfrom Israel! What moved me most about this very interestingbook was that when Uri Geller used his psi ability for self-aggrandisement,it nearly sent him around the bend. He spoke about his fearof committing suicide. This is a gift of God. Now he usesit to help others, including at a children's hospital. Thatis surely the best use. I am very grateful to him for makingthat point and for explaining how the extraordinary powersthat some people have, but most do not, can be used. We haveall 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 early1970's - I have been fascinated by his astonishing powersand the way they have excited the imagination of people theworld over. Recently we worked together on television againand I was thrilled by the way a whole new generation of viewersresponded to Uri's extraordinary psychic talents."
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