Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00398)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@a... wrote:
> Of course he is the reason for my 
> skepticism of Geller because if I could do the things Uri Geller 
claims to be 
> able to do and James Randi said about me the things he has said 
about Geller, he 
> would not say them twice.

You can say that again, Chuck.

I do not recall where it is, but I found a site on the internet some 
time ago for some fellow who has his clients bend spoons (he teahes 
them but does not do it himself.) The client supposedly strokes the 
spoon gently and it turns into a corkscrew shape. In order to make 
this convincing he uses heavy grade spoons, not flimsy things that 
bend themselves whenever you pick them up. This is worth mentioning 
because the client gets to keep the spoon, which he is unable to bend 
by normal means.

According to my notes, the fwllow who does this is named Gary 
Sinclair. He has clients begin by "melting" clouds by will powet (a 
feat first mentioned by Jess Stearn in his book on yoga), then 
concentrating on a beverage to change its taste, then finally bending 
a spoon. These are supposed to be three progressive grades of 
difficulty. In all three cases he says the idea is to project energy 
into an external object and thereby establish that it can be done. 
Why this would be of anything more than curious interest is not 
clear. He said on his site that he got the instructions for spoon 
bending from Margolis' book on Geller. So if you wanted to try it 
yourself without paying Sinclair you could get the book.

Bending spoons does not interest me in the slightest so I have 
neither read Margolis' book nor attempted this, but it does seem to 
call into question Randi's insistence that the whole thing is a 
simple fraud. It may be that, but it is a matter which could be 
tested and evaluated if one were inclined to do so.

As for Sinclair, if he is for real, all he has done is test the 
claims of others, since all three of his experimente originated with 
others, rather than dismiss their claims a priori as nonsense. That 
is the scientific method. If you replicaste his experiments let e 
know how it turned out.

It may be worth noting that in the mahatma letters there is an as 
usual unexplained reference to "making a hole in the rain cloud" 
which would seem to suggest the "cloud melting" thing-ee was known to 
Blavatsky.