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Uri Geller ( ; he, אורי גלר; born 20 December 1946) is an Israeli-British
illusionist
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It ...
, magician, television personality, and self-proclaimed
psychic
A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses, particularly involving telepathy or clairvoyance, or who performs acts that are apparently inexplicable by natural laws ...
. He is known for his trademark television performances of
spoon bending
Spoon bending is the deformation of objects, especially metal cutlery, purportedly by paranormal means. It is a common theme for magic tricks, which use a variety of methods to produce the effect. Performers commonly use misdirection to draw t ...
and other illusions. Geller uses
conjuring tricks to simulate the effects of
psychokinesis
Psychokinesis (from grc, ψυχή, , soul and grc, κίνησις, , movement, label=ㅤ), or telekinesis (from grc, τηλε, , far off and grc, κίνησις, , movement, label=ㅤ), is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing a person ...
and
telepathy. Geller's career as an entertainer has spanned more than four decades, with television shows and appearances in many countries. Magicians have called Geller a fraud due to his claims of possessing psychic powers.
Early life
Geller was born on 20 December 1946 in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
, which was then part of
British Mandate of Palestine British Mandate of Palestine or Palestine Mandate most often refers to:
* Mandate for Palestine: a League of Nations mandate under which the British controlled an area which included Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan.
* Mandatory P ...
(now
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
). His mother and father were of
Austrian-Jewish and
Hungarian-Jewish
The history of the Jews in Hungary dates back to at least the Kingdom of Hungary, with some records even predating the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin in 895 CE by over 600 years. Written sources prove that Jewish communities lived i ...
background respectively. Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller (Gellér Izsák), a retired army sergeant major, and Margaret "Manzy" Freud (Freud Manci). Geller claims that he is a distant relative of
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...
on his mother's side.
At the age of 11, Geller's family moved to
Nicosia, Cyprus, where he attended high school, the
Terra Santa College, and learned English. At the age of 18,
he joined the
Israeli Army's
Paratroopers Brigade,
with which he served in the 1967
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...
and was wounded in action.
[ (also in MSNB]
and possibly other sites) He worked as a photographic model in 1968 and 1969; during that time, he began to perform for small audiences as a nightclub entertainer, becoming well known in Israel.
Geller first started to perform in theatres, public halls, auditoriums, military bases and universities in Israel. The parapsychologist
Andrija Puharich
Andrija Puharich (February 19, 1918 – January 3, 1995) — born Henry Karel Puharić — was a medical and parapsychological researcher, medical inventor, physician and author, known as the person who brought Israeli Uri Geller (born 1946) and ...
met Geller in 1971 and assisted him in traveling to the United States.
Television and film career
Geller became famous demonstrating on television what he claimed to be
psychokinesis
Psychokinesis (from grc, ψυχή, , soul and grc, κίνησις, , movement, label=ㅤ), or telekinesis (from grc, τηλε, , far off and grc, κίνησις, , movement, label=ㅤ), is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing a person ...
,
dowsing
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations ( radiesthesia),As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers in ...
, and
telepathy.
His performance included
spoon bending
Spoon bending is the deformation of objects, especially metal cutlery, purportedly by paranormal means. It is a common theme for magic tricks, which use a variety of methods to produce the effect. Performers commonly use misdirection to draw t ...
, describing hidden drawings, and making watches stop or run faster. Geller said he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind. His apparent ability to bend metal objects during his television appearances came to be known as the "Geller effect" and made Geller a celebrity.
The work of magician and investigator
James Randi
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author and scientific skepticism, scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific cla ...
was the main factor in revealing that Geller's actual methods were
stage magic
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It ...
tricks.
In 1973, Geller appeared on ''
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' was an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC, the third iteration of the ''Tonight Show'' franchise. The show debuted on October 1, 1962, and aired its final episode on May 22, ...
'', an appearance recounted in the ''Nova'' documentary episode "
Secrets of the Psychics
"Secrets of the Psychics" is a 1993 episode of the PBS series ''NOVA'', presented by retired illusionist and paranormal investigator James Randi. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, and many others. It contains historic ...
" hosted by Randi on PBS.
In the documentary, Randi says that "Johnny had been a magician himself and was skeptical" of Geller's claimed
paranormal
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Not ...
powers, so prior to the date of taping, Randi was asked "to help prevent any trickery"; accordingly, the show prepared their own props without informing Geller, and did not let Geller or his staff "anywhere near them". When Geller joined Carson on stage, he appeared surprised that he was not going to be interviewed, but instead was expected to display his abilities using the provided articles. Geller said, "This scares me", and, "As you know, I told your people what to bring", and "I'm surprised because before this program your producer came and he read me at least 40 questions you were going to ask me". Geller was unable to display any paranormal abilities, saying, "I don't feel strong", and expressed his displeasure at feeling he was being "pressed" to perform by Carson. According to Adam Higginbotham:
This appearance on ''The Tonight Show'', which Carson and Randi had orchestrated to debunk Geller's claimed abilities, backfired. According to Higginbotham,
By the mid-1980s, Geller was described as "a millionaire several times over", and claimed to be performing mineral dowsing services for mining groups at a standard fee of £1 million.
In June 1986, the ''Australian Skeptic'' reported that Geller had been paid AU$350,000 and granted an option of 1,250,000 Zanec shares at AU$0.20 each until 5 June 1987.
Television presenter
Noel Edmonds
Noel Ernest Edmonds (born 22 December 1948) is an English television presenter, radio DJ, writer, producer, and businessman. Edmonds first became known as a disc jockey on Radio Luxembourg before moving to BBC Radio 1 in the UK. He has presente ...
often used hidden cameras to record celebrities in ''
Candid Camera''-like situations for his television programme, ''
Noel's House Party
''Noel's House Party'' is a BBC light entertainment series that was hosted by Noel Edmonds. Set in a large house in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom, leading to much innuendo, it ran from 23 November 1991 to 26 March 2000 on BBC One, a ...
''. In 1996, Edmonds planned a stunt in which shelves would fall from the walls of a room while Geller was in it. The cameras recorded footage of Geller from angles he was not expecting, and they showed Geller grasping a spoon firmly with both hands as he stood up to display a bend in it.
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Geller starred in the horror film ''Sanitarium'' (2001), directed by
Johannes Roberts
Johannes Roberts (born 24 May 1976) is a British film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed the film '' 47 Meters Down'' and its sequel, as well as ''The Other Side of the Door'', '' The Strangers: Prey at Night'' and '' Resident Evi ...
and James Eaves. In May 2002, he appeared as a contestant on the first series of the reality TV show ''
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'', where he was the first to be eliminated and finished in last place. In 2005, Geller starred in ''Uri's Haunted Cities: Venice'', a XI Pictures/Lion TV production for
Sky One, which led to a behind-the-scenes release in early 2008 called ''Cursed''; both productions were directed by Jason Figgis. In early 2007, Geller hosted a reality show in Israel called ''
The Successor'' (), where the contestants supposedly displayed supernatural powers; Israeli magicians criticised the program, saying that it was all magic tricks. Geller said he welcomed the "mystical aura" that the publicity gave him.
In July 2007,
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...
signed Geller and
Criss Angel
Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos ( el, Χριστόφορος Νικόλαος Σαραντάκος; born December 19, 1967), known professionally as Criss Angel, is an American magician, illusionist and musician. Angel began his career in New ...
for ''
Phenomenon
A phenomenon ( : phenomena) is an observable event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be directly observed. Kant was heavily influenced by Gottfried ...
'', to search for the next great
mentalist
Mentalism is a performing art in which its practitioners, known as mentalists, appear to demonstrate highly developed mental or intuitive abilities. Performances may appear to include hypnosis, telepathy, clairvoyance, divination, precogniti ...
; contestant Mike Super won the position. In January 2008, Geller began hosting the TV show ''
The Next Uri Geller
''The Successor'' (also known as ''The Next Uri Geller'') is an Israeli television competition program in which contestants perform acts of mentalism, illusion, escapism and other feats before a live studio audience. The acts are judged by a pane ...
'', broadcast by
Pro7 in Germany.
In February 2008, Geller stated in the TV show ''The Next Uri Geller'' (a German version of ''
The Successor'') that he did not have any supernatural powers, before winking to the camera.
He also appeared on the Dutch television program ''De Nieuwe Uri Geller'', which shares a similar
TV format A TV format is the overall concept and branding of a copyrighted television show. The most common type of formats are those in the television genres of game shows and reality shows, many of which are remade in multiple markets with local contestants ...
to its German counterpart. The goal of the programme was to find the best mentalist in the Netherlands. In March 2008, he started the same show in Hungary (''A kiválasztott'' in Hungarian). During the show, Geller speaks in both Hungarian and English. Geller also performs his standard routines of making stopped watches start, spoons jump from televisions, and tables move. Geller co-produced the TV show ''Book of Knowledge'', released in April 2008.
In October 2009, a similar show, called ''The Successor of Uri Geller'',
aired on Greek television.
In 2013, a
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documentary, ''The Secret Life of Uri Geller – Psychic Spy?'', featured Uri Geller,
Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (; ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is currently serving as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of ...
, Christopher 'Kit' Green, Paul H. Smith,
Harold Puthoff
Harold E. Puthoff (born June 20, 1936) is an American parapsychologist and electrical engineer. In the 2010s, he co-founded the company To the Stars with Tom DeLonge.
Biography
Puthoff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He receive his BA and MSc i ...
and
Russell Targ
Russell Targ (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing.
Targ joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972 where he and Harold E. Puthoff coined the term "rem ...
. The documentary claimed Geller became a "psychic spy" for the
CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
, was recruited by
Mossad, and worked as an "official secret agent" in
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
, being a frequent guest of President
José López Portillo
José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...
. In the film, Geller claims to have erased
floppy disc
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, or a diskette) is an obsolescent type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined ...
s carried by KGB agents by repeatedly chanting the word "erase".
Paranormal claims
Geller has claimed his feats are the result of
paranormal
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Not ...
powers
given to him by
extraterrestrials.
The
(CSICOP) was a prominent early critic of Geller. Skeptics such as
James Randi
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author and scientific skepticism, scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific cla ...
have shown that Geller's tricks can be replicated with
stage magic
Magic, which encompasses the subgenres of illusion, stage magic, and close up magic, among others, is a performing art in which audiences are entertained by tricks, effects, or illusions of seemingly impossible feats, using natural means. It ...
techniques.
Andrija Puharich
Andrija Puharich (February 19, 1918 – January 3, 1995) — born Henry Karel Puharić — was a medical and parapsychological researcher, medical inventor, physician and author, known as the person who brought Israeli Uri Geller (born 1946) and ...
met Geller in 1971 and endorsed him as a genuine psychic. Under
hypnosis
Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.In 2015, the American Psychologica ...
, Geller claimed he was sent to Earth by
extraterrestrials from a spaceship 53,000 light years away.
Geller later denied the space fantasy claims, but affirmed there "is a slight possibility that some of my energies do have extraterrestrial connection."
Puharich also stated that Geller
teleported
Teleportation is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. It is a common subject in science fiction literature and in other popular culture. Teleportation is oft ...
a dog through the walls of his house. Science writer
Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literatureespecially the writings of Lew ...
wrote that since "no expert on fraud was there as an observer," nobody should take the claim seriously.
In his biography of Geller, ''Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller'' (1974) Puharich claimed that with Geller he had communicated with super-intelligent computers from outer space. According to Puharich, the computers sent messages to warn humanity that a disaster is likely to occur if humans do not change their ways.
The psychologist
Christopher Evans, who reviewed the book in ''
New Scientist
''New Scientist'' is a magazine covering all aspects of science and technology. Based in London, it publishes weekly English-language editions in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. An editorially separate organisation publish ...
'', wrote that although Puharich believed every word he had written, the book was credulous and "those fans of Geller's who might have hoped to have used the book as ammunition to impress the sceptics
..will be the most disappointed of all."
James Randi has written that the biography contained "silly theories," but was "both a boost and a millstone to Geller."
In 1992, Geller was asked to investigate the kidnapping of Hungarian model
Helga Farkas. He predicted she would be found in good health, but she was never found and is widely believed to have been murdered. Geller was a friend of
Bruce Bursford and helped him "train his mind" during some cycling speed record-breaking bids in the 1990s.
In 1997, Geller was involved with Second Division football club
Exeter City
Exeter City Football Club is a professional association football club based in Exeter, Devon, England. The team play in , the third tier of the English football league system. Known as "the Grecians", the origin of their nickname is subject to ...
by placing "energy-infused" crystals behind the goals at Exeter's ground to help the club win a crucial end-of-season game (Exeter lost the game 5–1); he was appointed co-chairman of the club in 2002. The club was relegated to the
Football Conference
The National League (named Vanarama National League for sponsorship reasons) is an association football league in England consisting of three divisions, the National League, National League North, and National League South. It was called the ...
in May 2003, where it remained for five years. He has since severed ties with the club. He had also been involved with
Reading F.C.
Reading Football Club ( ) is a professional football club based in Reading, Berkshire, England. The team play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. The club is managed by Paul Ince.
Reading are nicknamed ...
and claimed in 2002 that he had helped them to avoid relegation by getting the club's supporters to look into his eyes and say "win, Reading, win". Reading manager
Alan Pardew dismissed Geller's role in the club's survival – which was achieved thanks to a draw in the critical match – stating "as soon as we get a bit of joy, thanks to all the hard work and efforts of my staff and players, he suddenly comes out of the blue and tries to claim the limelight."
In a 2008 interview, Geller told ''
Telepolis
''Telepolis'' is a German Internet magazine, published by the Heinz Heise Verlag since the beginning of 1996.
It was founded by journalists Armin Medosch and Florian Rötzer and deals with privacy, science, culture, internet-related and ge ...
'', "I said to this German magazine, so what I did say, that I changed my character, to the best of my recollection, and I no longer say that I do supernatural things. It doesn't mean that I don't have powers. It means that I don't say 'it's supernatural,' I say 'I'm a mystifier!' That's what I said. And the sceptics turned it around and said, 'Uri Geller said he's a magician!' I never said that."
In that interview, Geller further explained that when he is asked how he does his stunts, he tells children to "forget the paranormal. Forget spoon bending! Instead of that, focus on school! Become a positive thinker! Believe in yourself and create a target! Go to university! Never smoke! And never touch drugs! And think of success!"
In March 2019, ''
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...
'' reported that Geller wrote an open letter to British Prime Minister
Theresa May
Theresa Mary May, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cabi ...
, stating that he would
telepathically
Telepathy () is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was first coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W ...
prevent her from leading Britain out of the
European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
. In Geller's words, "As much as I admire you, I will stop you telepathically from doing this – and believe me I am capable of executing it." Despite this, the United Kingdom left the European Union on 23 January 2021 under the leadership of May's successor
Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
.
Stage magic parallels
Many scientists, magicians, and
skeptics
Skepticism, also spelled scepticism, is a questioning attitude or doubt toward knowledge claims that are seen as mere belief or dogma. For example, if a person is skeptical about claims made by their government about an ongoing war then the pe ...
have suggested possible ways in which Geller could have tricked his audience by using
misdirection while bending objects such as keys and spoons manually.
There are many ways in which a bent spoon can be presented to an audience so as to give the appearance it was manipulated using supernatural powers. One way is through brief moments of distraction in which a magician can physically bend a spoon or other object unseen by the audience, before gradually revealing the bend to create the illusion that the spoon is bending before the viewers' eyes. Another way is to pre-bend the spoon, reducing the amount of force that needs to be applied to bend it.
Critics have accused Geller of using his demonstrations
fraudulently outside the entertainment business.
Randi, one of Geller's most prominent critics, wrote ''
The Truth About Uri Geller
''The Truth About Uri Geller'', originally published as ''The Magic of Uri Geller'' in 1975, is a 1982 book by magician and skeptic James Randi about alleged psychic Uri Geller. In the book, Randi challenges Geller's assertions that he performs ...
'' explaining how Geller's spoon bending can be easily reproduced by any magician using
sleight of hand.
In the early 1970s, an article in ''
The Jerusalem Post
''The Jerusalem Post'' is a broadsheet newspaper based in Jerusalem, founded in 1932 during the British Mandate of Palestine by Gershon Agron as ''The Palestine Post''. In 1950, it changed its name to ''The Jerusalem Post''. In 2004, the paper ...
'' reported that a court had ordered Geller to refund a customer's ticket price and pay court costs after finding that he had committed fraud by claiming that his feats were telepathic.
A 1974 article in ''
Haolam Hazeh'' alleged that Geller's manager Shipi Shtrang and Shipi's sister Hannah Shtrang secretly helped in Geller's performances.
["Uri Geller Twirls the Entire World on His Little Finger; Only His Closest Acquaintances Know His Methods," ''Haolam Hazeh,'' 20 February 1974.]
In Geller's first autobiography, ''My Story'', he acknowledged that, in his early career, his manager talked him into adding a magic trick to make his performances last longer. This trick involved Geller appearing to guess audience members' car registration numbers, when his manager had given them to him ahead of time.
Yasha Katz, who had been Geller's manager in Britain, said in 1978 that all performances by Geller were simply stage tricks and he explained how they were really done.
Geller's spoon-bending feats are discussed in ''The Geller Papers'' (1976), edited by
Charles Panati. There was controversy when it was published. Several prominent magicians came forward to demonstrate that Geller's psychic feats could be duplicated by stage magic.
Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literatureespecially the writings of Lew ...
wrote that Panati had been fooled by Geller's trickery and ''The Geller Papers'' were an "embarrassing anthology".
During telepathic drawing demonstrations, Geller claimed the ability to read the minds of subjects as they drew a picture. Although in these demonstrations he cannot see the picture being drawn, he is sometimes present in the room, and on these occasions can see the subjects as they draw. Critics argue this may allow Geller to infer common shapes from pencil movement and sound, with the power of suggestion doing the rest.
Geller admits, "Sure, there are magicians who can duplicate
y performancesthrough trickery."
He has claimed that even though his spoon bending can be repeated using trickery, he uses psychic powers to achieve his results.
Physicist
Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfl ...
, who was an amateur magician, wrote in ''
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
''"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character'' is an edited collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard Feynman. The book, released in 1985, covers a variety of instances in Feynman's l ...
'' (1985) that Geller was unable to bend a key for him and his son.
James Randi has stated that if Geller is truly using his mind to perform these feats, "He is doing it the hard way."
In November 2008, Geller accepted an award during a convention of magicians, the ''Services to Promotion of Magic Award'' from the Berglas Foundation. In his acceptance speech, Geller said that if he had not had psychic powers then he "must be the greatest" to have been able to fool journalists, scientists and
Berglas himself.
In October 2012, Geller gave a lecture for magicians in the United States at the Genii Magazine 75th Birthday Bash.
Scientific testing
Geller's performances of drawing duplication and cutlery bending usually take place under informal conditions such as television interviews. During his early career, he allowed some scientists to investigate his claims.
When Geller's supposed abilities were tested by the US
Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
in 1973, the experimenters concluded that Geller had "demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner".
A study was commissioned by the United States
Defense Intelligence Agency
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is an intelligence agency and combat support agency of the United States Department of Defense, specializing in defense and military intelligence.
A component of the Department of Defense (DoD) and the ...
as part of the
Stargate Project
Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and ...
and conducted during August 1973 at
Stanford Research Institute
SRI International (SRI) is an American nonprofit scientific research institute and organization headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The trustees of Stanford University established SRI in 1946 as a center of innovation to support economic ...
(now known as SRI International) by parapsychologists
Harold E. Puthoff and
Russell Targ
Russell Targ (born April 11, 1934) is an American physicist, parapsychologist and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing.
Targ joined Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in 1972 where he and Harold E. Puthoff coined the term "rem ...
. Geller was isolated and asked to reproduce simple drawings prepared in another room. Writing about the same study in a 1974 article published in the journal ''
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is the physical world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large, if not the only, part of science. Although humans are ...
'', they concluded that he had performed successfully enough to warrant further serious study.
In ''
'', Randi wrote, "Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, who studied Mr. Geller at the Stanford Research Institute, were aware, in one instance at least, that they were being shown a magician's trick by Geller
..Their protocols for this 'serious' investigation of the powers claimed by Geller were described by
Ray Hyman
Ray Hyman (born June 23, 1928) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and a noted critic of parapsychology. Hyman, along with James Randi, Martin Gardner and Paul Kurtz, is one of the founders of the ...
, who investigated the project on behalf of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, as 'sloppy and inadequate.
Critics have pointed out that both Puthoff and Targ were already believers in
paranormal
Paranormal events are purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as being beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding. Not ...
powers and Geller was not adequately searched before the experiments. The psychologist
C. E. M. Hansel and sceptic
Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz (December 21, 1925 – October 20, 2012) was an American scientific skeptic and secular humanist. He has been called "the father of secular humanism". He was Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at B ...
have noted that the experiments were poorly designed and open to trickery.
Critics of the experiments include psychologists
David Marks
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and Richard Kammann, who published a description of how Geller could have cheated in an informal test of his so-called psychic powers in 1977. Their 1978 article in ''
Nature
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'' and 1980 book ''
The Psychology of the Psychic'' (2nd ed. 2000) described how a normal explanation was possible for Geller's alleged psychic powers.
[ Marks, David; Kammann, Richard. (2000). '' The Psychology of the Psychic''. Prometheus Books. pp. 137–187. .] Marks and Kammann found evidence that while at SRI, Geller was allowed to peek through a hole in the laboratory wall separating him from the drawings he was being invited to reproduce. These drawings were placed on a wall opposite the peephole which the investigators Targ and Puthoff had stuffed with cotton gauze. In addition to this error, the investigators had also allowed Geller access to a two-way intercom, enabling him to listen to the investigators' conversation during the times when they were choosing and/or displaying the target drawings. These basic errors indicate the great importance of ensuring that psychologists, magicians, or other people with an in-depth knowledge of perception, who are trained in methods for blocking sensory cues, be present during the testing of psychics.
Marks, after evaluating the experiments, wrote that none of Geller's paranormal claims had been demonstrated in scientifically controlled conditions, concluding that "Geller has no psychic ability whatsoever. However, I believe him to be a very clever, well-practiced magician."
Marks and Kammann tested Geller's ability to mentally repair watches and found that "many supposedly broken watches had merely been stopped by gummy oil and simply holding them in the hand would warm the oil enough to soften it and allow watches to resume ticking."
Litigation
Geller has litigated or threatened legal action against some of his critics with mixed results.
These included libel allegations against
James Randi
James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928 – October 20, 2020) was a Canadian-American stage magician, author and scientific skepticism, scientific skeptic who extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific cla ...
and illusionist
Gérard Majax
Gérard Faier, known as Gérard Majax (April 28, 1943) is a French illusionist.
He has appeared in many television programs, magic demonstrations, and movies.
From 1987 until 2002 he, along with Jacques Théodor and Henri Broch of the Lab ...
.
In 1971, a mechanical engineering student called Uri Goldstein attended one of Geller's shows, and subsequently sued the show's promoters for breach of contract. He complained that Geller had promised a demonstration of several psychic powers but had delivered only sleight-of-hand and stage tricks. The case came before the civil court in Beersheba. Geller was not present as the summons had been sent to the office of the promoter Miki Peled, who had ignored it as being trivial. Goldstein was awarded
IL27.5 (around $5) for breach of contract. Later, Goldstein admitted that he went to the show specifically with the intention of suing to get his money back, and he had already found a lawyer to represent him prior to attending the performance.
In a 1989 interview with a Japanese newspaper, James Randi was quoted as saying that Geller had driven a scientist to "shoot himself in the head" after finding out that Geller had fooled him. Randi afterwards claimed it was a metaphor lost in translation.
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Skeptical Eye – Vol. 8, No. 3, 1995, a newsletter published by the National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS) The story was also repeated in a Canadian newspaper, which quoted Randi as saying essentially the same thing: "One scientist, a metallurgist, wrote a paper backing Geller's claims that he could bend metal. The scientist shot himself after I showed him how the key bending trick was done." In 1990, Geller sued Randi in a Japanese court over the statements published in the Japanese newspaper. Randi claims that he could not afford to defend himself, therefore he lost the case by default. The court declared Randi's statement an "insult" as opposed to libel, and awarded a token judgement against him, paying Geller only "one-third of one-percent of what he'd demanded".
Since the charge of "insult" is only recognized in Chinese and Japanese law, Randi was not required to pay.
Later in 1995, Geller agreed not to pursue payment of the Japanese fine.
Randi maintained that he had never paid anything to Geller.
In 1992, Geller filed a $15 million suit against Randi and CSICOP for statements made in an ''
International Herald Tribune'' interview on 9 April 1991,
but he was unsuccessful because the
statute of limitations
A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated. ("Time for commencing proceedings") In ...
had expired.
In 1994, Geller asked to dismiss without prejudice, and he was ordered to pay $50,000 for the publisher's attorney fees. After not paying in time, Geller was sanctioned with an additional $20,000. Due to the sanction, the suit was dismissed with prejudice, which, according to Randi's attorneys, means that Geller cannot pursue the same suit in any other jurisdiction.
In 1995, Geller and Randi announced that this settled "the last remaining suits" between him and the CSICOP.
As part of the settlement, Geller agreed not to pursue the payment of the 1990 Japanese ruling, in exchange for
Prometheus Books inserting an errata on all future editions of ''Physics and Psychics'', correcting erroneous statements made about him.
In 1991, Geller sued
Timex Corporation and the advertising firm
Fallon McElligott
Fallon is a full-service advertising agency headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with affiliate offices in London, Detroit, and Tokyo. It is a subsidiary of Publicis.
History
Fallon was founded in 1981 as Fallon McElligott Rice in 1981 by Patr ...
for millions in ''Geller v. Fallon McElligott'' over an ad showing a person bending forks and other items, but failing to stop a Timex watch. Geller was sanctioned $149,000 for filing a
frivolous lawsuit
Frivolous litigation is the use of legal processes with apparent disregard for the merit of one's own arguments. It includes presenting an argument with reason to know that it would certainly fail, or acting without a basic level of diligence i ...
.
In 1998, the
Broadcasting Standards Commission
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Ofcom has wide-ranging powers acros ...
(BSC) in the United Kingdom rejected a complaint made by Geller, (the BSC) saying that it "wasn't unfair to have magicians showing how they duplicate those 'psychic feats'" on the UK ''
Equinox
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'' episode ''"
Secrets of the Super Psychics
''Secrets of the Super Psychics'' was a Channel 4 documentary special in the UK, first shown in the ''Equinox'' strand in 1997, later reformatted as a shorter The Learning Channel episode in 1998: "Viewers eager to know more about the differen ...
"''.
In 1999, Geller considered a suit against
IKEA over a furniture line featuring bent legs that was called the "Uri" line.
Copyright claims
In November 2000, Geller sued video game company
Nintendo for £60 million over the
Pokémon species "", localized in English as "
Kadabra", which he claimed was an unauthorized appropriation of his identity.
The Pokémon in question has psychic abilities and carries a spoon. Geller also claimed that the star on Kadabra's forehead and the lightning patterns on its abdomen are symbolisms popular with the
Waffen SS
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The grew from th ...
of
Nazi Germany
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.
The
katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived f ...
for the character's name, ユンゲラー, is visually similar to the transliteration of Geller's own name into Japanese (ユリゲラー). He is quoted as saying: "Nintendo turned me into an evil,
occult Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image."
Pokémon anime
(an abbreviation for in Japan) is a Japanese media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, founded by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, the owners of the trademark and copyright of the franchise.
In terms of what each of thos ...
director and storyboard artist Masamitsu Hidaka confirmed in an interview that Kadabra would not be used on a
Pokémon Trading Card until an agreement was reached on the case. In November 2020, Geller issued an apology and agreed to allow cards depicting Kadabra to be printed, though the last Kadabra card released was in the
Skyridge e-Reader
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Any device that can display text on a screen may act as an e-read ...
set (2002/2003).
In 2007, Geller issued a
DMCA
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notice to
YouTube
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to remove a video uploaded by Brian Sapient of the "Rational Response Squad" which was excerpted from an episode of the ''Nova'' television series titled "
Secrets of the Psychics
"Secrets of the Psychics" is a 1993 episode of the PBS series ''NOVA'', presented by retired illusionist and paranormal investigator James Randi. Also appearing in stock footage are Peter Popoff, Uri Geller, and many others. It contains historic ...
". The video included footage of Geller failing to perform. In response, Sapient contacted the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, issued a DMCA counter-notice, and sued Geller for misuse of the DMCA. Geller's company, Explorologist, filed a counter-suit. Both cases were settled out of court; a monetary settlement was paid (but it is not clear whether Sapient paid Geller or vice versa) and the eight seconds of footage owned by Explorologist were licensed under a noncommercial
Creative Commons license
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.
Personal life
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Over a ...
was
best man
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when Geller renewed his wedding vows in 2001. Geller also negotiated the TV interview between Jackson with the journalist
Martin Bashir
Martin Henry Bashir (born 19 January 1963) is a British journalist. He was a presenter on British and American television and for the BBC's ''Panorama'' programme, for which he interviewed Diana, Princess of Wales in 1995. Although the intervie ...
, ''
Living with Michael Jackson''. Later, however, Jackson, who an advisor said could be a bit paranoid, reportedly kept an “enemy list” on which Geller appeared, along with Rabbi
Shmuley Boteach
Jacob Shmuel Boteach ( ; born November 19, 1966) is an American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, and television host. Boteach is the author of 31 books, including the best seller ''Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy'', and '' Kosher Jes ...
, attorney
Gloria Allred
Gloria Rachel Allred ( Bloom; born July 3, 1941) is an American attorney known for taking high-profile and often controversial cases, particularly those involving the protection of women's rights. She has been inducted into the National Women's ...
, music executive
Tommy Mottola
Thomas Daniel Mottola (born July 14, 1948) is an American music executive, producer and author. Mottola is currently the Chairman of Mottola Media Group and was previously the Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, parent of the Columb ...
, DA
Tom Sneddon, and
Janet Arvizo, mother of a Jackson accuser.
Following Jackson's death,
ITV broadcast an interview with Geller about his association with Jackson, titled ''My Friend Michael Jackson: Uri's Story'', in July 2009.
On 11 February 2009, Geller purchased the uninhabited 100-metre-by-50-metre
Lamb Island off the eastern coast of Scotland, previously known for its
witch trials
A witch-hunt, or a witch purge, is a search for people who have been labeled witches or a search for evidence of witchcraft. The Witch trials in the early modern period, classical period of witch-hunts in Early Modern Europe and European Colon ...
, and beaches that
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll a ...
is said to have described in his novel ''
Treasure Island
''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure no ...
''. Geller claims that buried on the island is Egyptian treasure, brought there by
Scota
In medieval Irish and Scottish legend, Scota or Scotia is the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and ancestor of the Gaels. She is said to be the origin of their Latin name ''Scoti''. Scholars believe she could be a fictional character who wa ...
, the mythological half-sister of
Tutankhamen
Tutankhamun (, egy, twt-ꜥnḫ-jmn), Egyptological pronunciation Tutankhamen () (), sometimes referred to as King Tut, was an Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty (ruled ...
in Irish mythology, 3,500 years ago. He claimed that he will find the treasure through
dowsing
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations ( radiesthesia),As translated from one preface of the Kassel experiments, "roughly 10,000 active dowsers in ...
. Geller also claimed to have strengthened the mystical powers of the island by burying there a crystal orb once belonging to
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...
. In 2022, Geller sought to declare Lamb as
Republic of Lamb, a
micronation
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.
In 2014, a 12-foot-tall statue of a gorilla made from approximately 40,000 metal spoons was unveiled in Geller's Berkshire garden by the
Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent is a title that has been created several times in the peerages of Great Britain and the United Kingdom, most recently as a royal dukedom for the fourth son of King George V. Since 1942, the title has been held by Prince Edwar ...
, with the intention of possibly relocating it to
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospit ...
. The statue was welded by sculptor Alfie Bradley, and funded by the
British Ironworks Centre of
Oswestry. According to Bradley, many of the spoons were donated by schoolchildren from around the world. Speaking at the unveiling, Geller said "This will not raise money for charity. It will do something better. It will amaze sick children."
Geller has lived in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
in Israel since 2015. He previously lived in the village of
Sonning-on-Thames,
Berkshire, in
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. He is
trilingual
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, speaking fluent
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
,
Hungarian and
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
. In an appearance on
Esther Rantzen
Dame Esther Louise Rantzen (born 22 June 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series ''That's Life!'' for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes, and fou ...
's 1996 television talk show ''Esther'', Geller declared that he had suffered from
anorexia nervosa
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and
bulimia
Bulimia nervosa, also known as simply bulimia, is an eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging or fasting, and excessive concern with body shape and weight. The aim of this activity is to expel the body of calories eaten ...
for several years.
He has written 16
fiction and
non-fiction
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books.
Geller is president of International Friends of Magen David Adom, a group that lobbied the
International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; french: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is also a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signato ...
to recognise
Magen David Adom
The Magen David Adom ( he, מגן דוד אדום, abbr. MDA, pronounced ''MAH-dah'' per its Hebrew acronym, ) is Israel's national emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service. The name means "Red Shield" or "Red Star of Dav ...
("Red Star of David") as a humanitarian relief organisation.
In 2021 Geller opened the Uri Geller Museum located at 7 Mazal Arieh Street in Old
Jaffa in
Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...
. The museum exhibits the personal collection of art and objects that Geller has collected throughout his career. It also features an archaeological display of the ancient soap factory that was discovered during the museum's renovation.
Publications
Fiction
* ''
Ella''. Martinez Roca, 1999.
* ''Shawn''. Goodyer Associates Ltd.
* ''Pampini''. World Authors, 1980.
* ''Dead Cold''.
Nonfiction
* ''My Story''. Henry Holt & Company, Inc. (1975)
* Uri Geller and
Guy Lyon Playfair. ''The Geller Effect''. Grafton, Jonathan Cape, Hunter Publishing, (1988)
* Uri Geller and Rabbi
Shmuley Boteach
Jacob Shmuel Boteach ( ; born November 19, 1966) is an American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, author, and television host. Boteach is the author of 31 books, including the best seller ''Kosher Sex: A Recipe for Passion and Intimacy'', and '' Kosher Jes ...
. ''Confessions of a Psychic and a Rabbi''. (Foreword by
Deepak Chopra) Element Books Ltd (2000)
* Uri Geller and Lulu Appleton. ''Mind Medicine''. Element Books Ltd (1999)
* ''Uri Geller's Little Book of Mind Power''. Robson Books (1999)
* ''Uri Geller's Mind Power Kit''. Penguin US (1996)
* ''Uri Geller's Fortune Secrets''. (Edited with
Simon Turnbull) Psychic Hotline Pty Limited (1987)
* ''Unorthodox Encounters''. Chrysalis Books (2001)
References
Further reading
* Jonathan Margolis "Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?" (Apostrophe Books 2013)
* Bob Couttie, ''Forbidden Knowledge: The Paranormal Paradox'', Chapter 1, "A Meeting with Uri Geller" (Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1988)
* Jim Collins ''The Strange Story of Uri Geller''. Raintree, 1975 (48 pages)
*
Ebon, Martin. ''The Amazing Uri Geller''. Signet 1975.
* Ben Harris ''Gellerism Revealed''. Micky Hades International 1985
* Gardner, Martin. ''Confessions of a Psychic''. (under the pseudonym "
Uriah Fuller" (an allusion to Geller) that purport to explain "how fake psychics perform seemingly incredible paranormal feats.") Karl Fulves, 1975.
* Gardner, Martin. ''Further Confessions of a Psychic''. (under the pseudonym "
Uriah Fuller") 1980.
* Reply to Randi's article of 6 April 1978.
*
Panati, Charles. ''The Geller Papers''. Houghton Mifflin.
*
Puharich, Andrija, ''Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller''. Anchor Press / Doubleday
*
Randi, James, ''
The Truth About Uri Geller
''The Truth About Uri Geller'', originally published as ''The Magic of Uri Geller'' in 1975, is a 1982 book by magician and skeptic James Randi about alleged psychic Uri Geller. In the book, Randi challenges Geller's assertions that he performs ...
''. Prometheus Books, 1982.
*
Taylor, John G. ''Superminds''. Macmillan/Picador
* Wilhelm, John. ''In Search of Superman''. Pocket Books, 1976.
*
Wilson, Colin. ''The Geller Phenomenon''. Aldus Books, 1976.
;Comics
* Guest appearance as a character in ''
Daredevil'' #133 (May 1976)
Let’s Level With Daredevil Uri-geller.com. Retrieved on 10 June 2016.
External links
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Media
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Archival materials
Colin Wilson Papers(2 document boxes) housed at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy of the
University of California, Riverside
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Libraries. This collection Includes original manuscripts and other materials written and collected by Wilson regarding Uri Geller.
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1946 births
Living people
Dowsing
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (British TV series) participants
Israeli bloggers
Israeli expatriates in Cyprus
Israeli Jews
Israeli magicians
Israeli male film actors
Israeli pacifists
Israeli people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent
Israeli psychics
Israeli television personalities
Jewish Israeli male actors
Jewish pacifists
Male bloggers
New Age writers
Parapsychology
People from Jaffa
People from Sonning
People from Tel Aviv
Psychokineticists
Telepaths