I attended a talk given by Dr Joe Gallenberger last month on psychokinesis and winning in Las Vegas where he had briefly described spoon bending that seems to defy the laws of physics. When I was growing up, a self-proclaimed psychic known as Uri Geller would go on talk shows bending spoons at the neck between the bowl and the handle. Two rather famous people, Dean Radin and Michael Crichton, claimed success at gatherings known as “PK parties”. Mr Radin had folded the bowl of the spoon over without effort in front of several witnesses. He later attempted to bend the bowl of a similar spoon with conscious force but was unsuccessful without the aid of pliers. I asked Dr Gallenberger if there was a study done on spoons bent by mechanical force versus those bent by supposed psychic means. Apparently, there was a physicist, Dr Wilbur Franklin, who had placed spoons bent by Uri Geller and those bent by the usual method in an electron microscope and the findings are described in a book called “The Spoon Benders”. I could not find the book Dr Gallenberger recommended but did come across this award-winning work of fiction.
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