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Uri Geller got his 'powers' from aliens?
I wonder if Uri is a little embarrassed about this one:
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I have a short video clip of Geller saying that. If I can find it and someone wants to host it let me know. Uri issued a DMCA on youtube the last time it was put up. |
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Oh, it gets better. Try Googling for Geller and the "Council of Nine"...
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Nope, nothing embarasses that man.
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Man, that really bums me out about it possibly of it being alien in origin. I always hoped it was a manifestation of latent psychic abilities in man. Now I realize I've wasted many years trying to manifest and affirm these abilities in myself. So far the only thing I've managed to bend is the truth, from time to time.
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Observer of Phenomena
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"the world's most paranormal magazine"
What the heck does that mean? |
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Uri's autobiography is filled with references to aliens and some sort of giant bird(?), if I recall... It's been quite a while, but it is a strange story. Whatever, it has the same validity as his claims of working for the CIA.
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Uri has powers? News to me.
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Nap, interrupted.
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Originally Posted by arthwollipot
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Wasn't it Geller who said that his aliens come from the planet "Hoova"
and have a surveillance ship (super-stealthy and invisible to radar, of course) permanently in Earth orbit? I'm totally convinced! ![]() |
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I spent quite a bit of time reading up on Uri in the JREF. That man is the reason I'm here at all! I clicked on a link in points of news on my homepage. I wouldnt normally have clicked the name Uri Gellar, but it mentioned sueing youtube so caught my interest. That lead to Randi, jref and lots of reading over there...and all the linkage from there too.
I believe he's distancing himself from the paranormal these days..or showing signs of it in the last updates. I think he's realising the power of the interweb, and his statements are coming back to bite his bum! Though in a roundabout way, it may have been a while before I got here and the world I'm reading and learning in now if it hadnt been for a little Uri Gellar on my homepage. I refuse to thank him though! |
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Because I'm adventurous like James Bond, it was fun being a spy for a while.
Yeah but did he get the girl? |
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Claus, of http://www.skepticreport.com , is hosting the video as well.
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Alta Viro
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I found some more information. The book was a biography, not an autobiography, written by Andrija Puharich. Dr. Puharich was the one who first brought Uri to the US. I read the book many years ago and no longer have a copy. My memory is fuzzy, but I do recall talk about UFOs. I think sometime later Uri denounced the book, but am not sure.
Randi talks a bit about it in his book The Magic of Uri Geller: Enter another character, Dr. Andrija Puharich, whose book Uri was to be both a boost and a millstone to Geller. Though Geller-watchers felt he would probably have the good sense to repudiate the book, along with its silly theories (I still haven't recovered from their meeting with the giant hawk-god, Horus, in the desert), Uri decided to go along with Puharich and declare that "every word in the book is true." |
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From Geller:
Originally Posted by Uri Geller
From the same book on the picture page before 187 with UFO/flying saucer type things, Geller wrote:
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Maybe it is just a ploy to keep from us finding out that Uri is a Skrull.
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Trust noone!
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Video of Uri Geller on aliens:
As promised from above, Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller by Andrija Puharich in chapter four Spectra:
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Geller even got a super ellipsoid from John Lennon, allegedly given to Lennon by aliens. I happened to own a similar 'alien artifact', but mine was obtained in a much more mundane fashion. I had Claus give it to James Randi as a present at TAM1.
More about Lennon, Geller and ’alien eggs’. |
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Uri geller is a zionist and he uses zionist mind tricks! it's sort of like being a jedi knight and using jedi mind tricks, but geller doesn;t have a light sabre or an X-wing fighter
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Trolling?
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/dann "Stupidity renders itself invisible by assuming very large proportions. Completely unreasonable claims are irrefutable. Ni-en-leh pointed out that a philosopher might get into trouble by claiming that two times two makes five, but he does not risk much by claiming that two times two makes shoe polish." B. Brecht "The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions." K. Marx |
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Is he getting a cut of the proceeds? If so, he's not embarassed.
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Is it just me, or is Geller getting even loonier as he ages?
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