How do you feel about Psychic Surgery & Uri Geller?

[Namaste]

I was in the room, operating a video camera, when Pachita did Carla's "kidney transplant" That said, the conditions made possible any manner of foolery. Nevertheless, she felt extreme pain during the procedure and afterward had symptomatic relieve that lasted for years.

Prior to the surgery, the group gathered at Pachita's house to meet her and discuss how the process would work. Don said, "I hope that Pachita will work on Carla to give her relief from arthritis." Pachita asked Carla to stand in front of her and said (translated), "The problem is with her kidneys, and I will be able to fix them," or something like that. Maybe she actually said "and I will do a transplant."

After that first visit, Carla said that she knew her kidneys were a little messed up, but didn't connect them with the arthritis. At this point, everybody was acting and feeling very open and non-judgmental. Recall that Don said investigation into these things requires complete gullibility until after the fact and only then to analyze the data.

Dr. Puharich had seen Pachita work before, but none of the rest of us had. He provided the video equipment that I operated. The camera was monochromatic and extremely light sensitive because Andrija knew that she worked in very low light. Before knowing about her, he had spent considerable effort studying Arigo, a healer in Brazil. There's a book about that called, Arigo, Surgeon of the Rusty Knife by John G. Fuller. It's a very good read.

Puharich himself wrote a book called Uri, another good read. Don and Carla contacted him after reading it, and they became friends. Don also spent some time with Uri. He recounted the time that he, Don, was piloting a small plane and the instrument called the artificial horizon failed. One pilot would tell another, "that's when the horizon went out." This isn't a serious problem for most pilots most of the time, but it is very useful. He was surprised when the instrument began working again because it's expensive and very mechanical with gyroscopes and, when it fails, it stays failed. Don mentioned the incident and Uri excitedly jumped up and looked for a piece of paper. On it he had written, "Horizon is out." He didn't know what that meant, but he felt the same sensation that he gets when he psychically fixes something, so he wrote it down.

Edited to add hyperlink to Arigo title.

Fantastic, thanks.