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Subject: The Uri Geller FAQ.

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This FAQ ( Frequently Asked Question )
is compiled by a proponent of truth.

It is modelled on guidelines published by:

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( Revised 18.01.2001 updates existing FAQ posted 15.11.99 )

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Q: When did Uri first get his remarkable ability?

A: Uri thinks it was when he was a young child.
He was with his mother ( a member of the Freud
family ) when some cutlery he was eating with
bent. He also remembers being hit by light from
the sky.

Q: Was this from a higher intelligence?

A: Andrija Puharich suggested that Uri's subsequent
'powers' came from an extraterrestrial
source.

http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/126/nine.html (Who's computer is this?)

Q: Does Uri believe this?

A: Uri is quoted as stating " 90% probably not.",
but retains an open mind.

Q: Who brought Uri to the attention of 'The West'?

A: Andrija Puhariach introduced Uri to astronaut
Edgar Mitchell, Hal Puthof and Russel Targ at
the Stanford Research Institute. Uri was tested
and validated by the SRI and the results were
written up in 'Nature' magazine.

www.tcom.co.uk/hpnet/sria.htm

Q: Then what?

A: Uri became a media celebrity, and toured the
world giving demonstrations of his abilities.

Q: Why did Uri drop out of the 'lime-light'?

A: Uri claims to be misrepresented by a group of sceptics
which lead him to defend himself in Court. In one case,
a Tokyo Court ruled that Geller had been insulted
and awarded a judgement against one sceptic for
500,000 Yen. In another case, a Hungarian Court
ruled against another newspaper over a different
matter in favour of Uri, making the newspaper
print a retraction. Yet another case resulted
in Geller obtaining a written apology and
acknowledgement of error from Prometheus Books.

http://www.tcom.co.uk/hpnet/courts.htm (Who's computer is this?)

Q: Then what?

A: Uri decided to work for oil companies, using his
ability to prospect for minerals. He says he gained
his wealth and independence from this work. He also
went to 'spiritually recharge' himself at a location
under Mount Fuji, Japan and decided to "take a break."

Q: So, did Uri 'give it up'?

A: Not at all. He met with Nobel prize-winner, Brian
Josephson and decided to undertake " confidential,
but positive, work for scientists."

"IN AN OFFICE at King's College I had set up
several experiments designed to measure the
pressure applied by Geller during metal bending.
The two main ones were very simple. The essential
apparatus for one of them was a balance of the type
used to weigh letters and parcels; it was sensitive
enough to measure weights to a quarter of an ounce.
A brass strip about 20 cm long was taped horizontally
to the platform of the balance.

The major portion of the strip extended out from the
platform, and Geller stroked the top surface of it
while I measured, directly, by reading the scale,
and by using an automatic recording device, the
pressure he was applying.

At the end of the test the strip had acquired a
bend of ten degrees although Geller had at no time
applied more than half an ounce (20 gm) of pressure.
It was out of the question that such a small pressure
could have produced that deflection.

What is more, the actual bending occurred upward-
against the pressure of the finger. Earlier, another
subject gave a similar result, producing, with
less than an ounce of downward pressure, a smaller
upward deflection (two degrees) on a strip of
copper. "

http://www.tcom.co.uk/hpnet/g19.htm (Who's computer is this?)

"A BRIEF PSYCHOKINETIC INVESTIGATION OF MR. URI GELLER

J.B. Hasted, D.J. Bohm, E.W. Bastin, and D.O'Regan

Birkbeck College (University of London)

We possess four numbered and weighed brass Yale keys which were
bent through angles of between 10 and 40 degrees under light
stroking action by Mr. Geller. If, under symmetrical four point
loading, force pulses of the order of 500 N (Say 50 kg weight)
had been applied to the keys, similar bends would have been
produced. No loss of surface brightness or change of weight,
within the experimental error of 1 mg was observed. Mr. Geller
applied a light stroking action between forefinger and thumb, or
by forefinger with key placed on the table. In all cases several
witnesses watched the entire operation intently from within 1m.
In one case the key was not stroked but was simply, held under a
cold water tap. In all cases the bending took a time of the order
of minutes to complete, and it usually appeared to continue
slowly for a short while after the stroking had, been terminated.
No physical or chemical explanation of these Phenomena is readily
apparent. The mean grain size at the bent surfaces has been
compared with that in unbent and mechanically bent specimens by
X-ray reflection and electron micrograph. No significant change
in grain orientation or size was noted. "

Hasted was elected Chair of Experimental Physics, London
University.

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"Based on preliminary investigations of Uri Geller,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 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)

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"The apparatus for the other test was a small cylinder imbedded
in a strip of aluminum in such a way that one end of the
cylinder, covered by a pressure-sensitive diaphragm, was flush
with the surface of the strip. When pressure was applied to the
diaphragm by a person's rubbing the strip gently with a finger,
an electric current proportional to this pressure was generated
by a device installed inside the cylinder. This
pressure-measuring device had been used with various subjects,
but no bending was achieved. In Geller's case the consequences
were drastic.

Holding the strip in one hand, he made it bend in the appropriate
region so that the pressure could be measured. But as the bending
occurred the mechanism in the cylinder suddenly stopped
functioning. I took the apparatus from Geller and observed, to my
horror, the pressure sensitive diaphragm begin to crumble. A
small hole appeared in its center and spread across its whole
surface till the diaphragm had completely disintegrated, the
entire process taking about ten seconds. After another three
minutes the strip in which the cylinder was imbedded had bent a
further thirty degrees.

Attempts to influence objects without contact yielded more
information. Geller held his hands over a plastic container in
which had been placed a small crystal of lithium fluoride; within
ten seconds the crystal broke into a number of pieces.

There was absolutely no chance of Geller's having touched the
crystal. Throughout the experiment I could see a gap between his
hands and the container holding the crystal. He also buckled a
small disc of aluminum, which again was inside a plastic
container. I held my hands between Geller's and the container in
order to prevent any possibility of his directly manipulating the
disc. - Taylor

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Q: OK, but what about the magicians who have seen Uri?

"Uri bent a spoon for me, the first time he did it, I thought
there must be a trick. The second time I was stunned, completely,
completely stunned and amazed. It just bent in my hand.

I've never seen anything like it. It takes a lot to impress me.

Uri Geller is for real and anyone who doesn't recognise that is
either deluding himself, or is a very sad person." David Blain,
(American Magician. Star of ABC's Television Specials.)


Q: So, what's the secret to Uri's success?

A: Positive thinking. Uri thinks that a collective energy of
certain 'beliefs has the ability to make positive
transformations.


Q: But is it true?

A: Attorney at Law, Ruth M.Liebesman states:

"We are happy to let people believe or disbelieve as their
conscience dictates. Unfortunately, a few people are very
threatened by what Uri can do, and do not want people to believe
what we know; that what Uri does is real. As a result, some of
the lies have been beyond reprehensible, many of them have
been without any factual basis. But that's where I come in. I
protect Uri from the lies."

Sources and links:

Uri Geller Magician or Mystic by J Margolis : UK - Orion / USA -
Welcome Rain (2000).

Clarification of Legal Issues.

Scientists and Uri Geller.

Professor Hasted, Chair of Experimental
Physiscs, Birbeck, London.

Article on Uri and Meta Analysis.

Taylor Experiments.

Magicians and Uri Geller.

Fortean Times 'The Nine' (article).

www.peekatyou.org

SPECTRA

'The X Factor' - Marshall Cavendish, London. 101 - 103.

'Saucer Smear.

www.uri.geller.com

'Nature' magazine on Geller.

Stanford Research Institute results.

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