The Geller Effect
The Geller Effect
by Guy Lyon Playfair and Uri Geller
Contents
PART ONE by Guy Lyon Playfair
- In All Directions
PART TWO by Uri Geller - This is Mexico
- A Shopping List
- New Directions
- Getting the Message
- Successes and Failures
- Small Business
- Computers and Scientists
- Big Business
- Gellermania and After
- Straightening the Record
- Waging Peace
PART THREE by Guy Lyon Playfair - The Bolivar Syndrome
- The Witch-Hunters
- The State of the Art
- Close-up Magic
- Whatever It Is
- What Scientists say about Uri Geller
- Books About Uri Geller
- Acknowledgments
- Picture Credits
- Epilogue: Mind Over Missile?
- Index
- Pictures
‘The scientific community has been put on notice “that there is something worthy of their attention and scrutiny” in the possibilities of extra-sensory perception. With those words the respected British journal Nature called on scientists to join – or refute – millions of non-scientists who believe human consciousness has more capabilities for real perception than the five senses.’
New York Times editorial
The nearest I have come to influencing living things is making seeds germinate, which I have done twice on television recently . . . As with so many things I have done, the original idea was not mine. It came from the astronaut Edgar Mitchell, shortly after we first met in 1972. We were sitting and chatting with Dr Wilbur Franklin, when Mitchell suddenly produced a seed and asked me if I could make it germinate while he held it in his own hand. I just stared at his hand and concentrated on making the seed sprout. When it did, Mitchell and Franklin were delighted, but I was not. In fact, the experience scared me stiff . . .
I dedicate this book to my very close family Hanna, Natalie, Daniel, Muti and Shipi
U.G.
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