08-01-2013, 11:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-01-2013, 11:05 AM by Bring4th_Austin.)
There's a great documentary about Uri Geller called "A Life Stranger than Fiction." It is free on Hulu for anyone in the US, and can likely be found on google for anyone else interested.
Uri was studied by Don Elkin and mentioned briefly in the Ra material (as a reference to Andrija Puharich's studies on him). He was a friend of L/L Research and enemy of paranormal debunkers everywhere. If you ever see James Randi talking about Uri, you can see the steam coming from his ears.
I was very skeptical of the claims of Uri Geller, even from Don and Puharich. I couldn't bring myself to believe any of his claims, but this documentary helped to ease my mind a bit. It's not necessarily unbiased, but it is filled with tons of useful biographical and anecdotal information. The part that influenced me the most was the description of the laboratory controlled published studies done by Stanford Research Institute on Uri. Looking a bit more into why these studies aren't popular and accepted, the debunkers' explanations of how these controlled studies may have been fabricated are almost as fantastical as the feats themselves.
Even if you aren't skeptical like I was, it's a great documentary with some incredible footage and raw interviews from Uri and his researchers, supporters, and detractors.
Edit:
There's even a bit in the documentary where they almost delve into an aspect of Uri channeling ET's, but I think they thought it was kind of wacky even for a documentary on a spoon-bending "super psychic."
Uri was studied by Don Elkin and mentioned briefly in the Ra material (as a reference to Andrija Puharich's studies on him). He was a friend of L/L Research and enemy of paranormal debunkers everywhere. If you ever see James Randi talking about Uri, you can see the steam coming from his ears.
I was very skeptical of the claims of Uri Geller, even from Don and Puharich. I couldn't bring myself to believe any of his claims, but this documentary helped to ease my mind a bit. It's not necessarily unbiased, but it is filled with tons of useful biographical and anecdotal information. The part that influenced me the most was the description of the laboratory controlled published studies done by Stanford Research Institute on Uri. Looking a bit more into why these studies aren't popular and accepted, the debunkers' explanations of how these controlled studies may have been fabricated are almost as fantastical as the feats themselves.
Even if you aren't skeptical like I was, it's a great documentary with some incredible footage and raw interviews from Uri and his researchers, supporters, and detractors.
Edit:
There's even a bit in the documentary where they almost delve into an aspect of Uri channeling ET's, but I think they thought it was kind of wacky even for a documentary on a spoon-bending "super psychic."