Uri Geller

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Uri Geller
Uri Geller in 2009
Born 20 December 1946
Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine
Residence Berkshire, England, Cyprus, Tel Aviv
Occupation Performer, illusionist, self-proclaimed
psychic
Spouse(s) Hannah Geller
Uri Geller
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uri Geller (Hebrew: ; /ri lr/;
[1]
born 20
December 1946) is an illusionist, well known
internationally as a magician, television personality, and
self-proclaimed psychic. He is known for his trademark
television performances of spoon bending and other
supposed psychic effects. Throughout the years, Geller
has used simple conjuring tricks to simulate the effects of
psychokinesis and telepathy.
[2][3]
Geller's career as an
entertainer has spanned almost four decades, with
television shows and appearances in many countries.
Geller used to call his abilities "psychic" but now prefers
to refer to himself as a "mystifier" and entertainer.
[4]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Paranormal claims
4.1 Parallels to stage magic
4.2 Scientific testing
5 The Tonight Show
6 Controversial performances
7 Litigation
8 Copyright claims
9 Lamb Island, Scotland
10 Bibliography
11 References
12 External links
Early life
Born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine (now located in Israel), to Jewish parents from Hungary and
Austria,
[5]
Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller (Gellr Izsk), a retired army sergeant major, and Manzy Freud
(Freud Manci). It is claimed that Geller is a distant relative of Sigmund Freud on his mother's side.
[6]
At the age of 11, Geller's family moved to Nicosia, Cyprus, where he attended a high school, the Terra Santa
College, and learned English. At the age of 18
[7]
he served in the Israeli Army's Paratroopers Brigade,
[8]
and
was wounded in action during the 1967 Six-Day War.
[9][10]
He worked as a photographic model in 1968 and
1969; during that time, he began to perform for small audiences as a nightclub entertainer,
[11]
becoming well
known in Israel.
[12]
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Geller bending a spoon in a mall in Switzerland,
2005
Geller first started to perform in theatres, public halls, auditoriums, military bases and universities in Israel.
[13]
By
the 1970s, Geller had become known in the United States and Europe. He also received attention from the
scientific community, whose members were interested in examining his reported psychic abilities. At the peak of
his career in the 1970s, he worked full-time, performing for television audiences worldwide.
Career
Geller gained notice for demonstrating on television what he claimed to be psychokinesis, dowsing, and
telepathy.
[14]
His performance included bending spoons, describing hidden drawings, and making watches stop
or run faster. Geller said he performs these feats through will power and the strength of his mind.
[15]
Magicians
have said that his performances can be duplicated using stage magic tricks.
[16]
In 1975, Geller published his first autobiography, My Story, and acknowledged that, in his early career, his
manager talked him into adding a magic trick to make his performances last longer.
[17]
This trick involved Geller
appearing to guess audience members' license plate numbers, when in fact his manager had given them to him
ahead of time. One of Geller's most prominent critics is the skeptic James Randi, who has accused Geller
repeatedly of trying to pass off magic tricks as paranormal displays. Randi often duplicated Geller's
performances using stage magic techniques.
Geller starred in the 2001 horror film Sanitarium,
directed by Johannes Roberts and James Eaves. In May
2002, he appeared as a contestant on the first series of
the British 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
criticized the program saying that it was all magic
tricks.
[18]
In July 2007 NBC signed Geller and Criss
Angel for Phenomenon, to search for the next great
mentalist; contestant Mike Super won the position.
[19]
In January 2008, Geller began hosting the TV show The
Next Uri Geller, broadcast by Pro7 in Germany.
[20]
In February 2008, Geller began a show on Dutch television called De Nieuwe Uri Geller, which shares a
similar format to its German counterpart. The goal of the programme is to find the best mentalist in the
Netherlands. In March 2008, he started the same show in Hungary (A kivlasztott in Hungarian). During the
show, Geller speaks in both Hungarian and English. Geller also performs his standard routines of allegedly
making stopped watches start, spoons jump from televisions, and tables move. Geller co-produced the TV
show Book of Knowledge, released in April 2008.
[21]
In October 2009, a similar show, called The Successor
of Uri Geller.
[22]
began on Greek television.
Personal life
Geller lives in the village of Sonning-on-Thames, Berkshire, in the United Kingdom.
[23]
He is trilingual, speaking
Geller lives in the village of Sonning-on-Thames, Berkshire, in the United Kingdom.
[23]
He is trilingual, speaking
English, Hebrew, and Hungarian.
[24]
In an appearance on Esther Rantzen's 1996 television talk show Esther,
Geller claimed to have suffered from anorexia nervosa for several years.
[25][26]
He has written 16 fiction and
non fiction books.
Geller owns a 1976 Cadillac adorned with thousands of pieces of bent tableware given to him by celebrities or
otherwise having significance to him. This includes spoons from such people as John Lennon and the Spice Girls,
as well as those with which Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy supposedly ate. His friend Michael Jackson
was best man when Geller renewed his wedding vows in 2001.
[27]
Geller also negotiated the famous TV
interview between Jackson with the journalist Martin Bashir: Living with Michael Jackson.
[28]
Geller is president of International Friends of Magen David Adom, a group that lobbied the International
Committee of the Red Cross to recognise Magen David Adom ("Red Star of David") as a humanitarian relief
organisation.
[citation needed]
In 1997 he tried to help the Second Division football club Exeter City win a crucial
end of season game by placing "energy-infused" crystals behind the goals at Exeter's ground (Exeter lost the
game 51); he was appointed co-chairman of the club in 2002. The club was relegated to the Football
Conference in May 2003, where it remained for five years. He has since severed formal ties with the club.
Following the death of Michael Jackson, the British television station ITV announced plans to screen an
interview with Geller regarding his relationship with Jackson, entitled My Friend Michael Jackson: Uri's
Story.
[29]
Paranormal claims
Geller has claimed his feats are the result of paranormal powers
[14]
given to him by extraterrestrials,
[30]
but
critics such as James Randi have shown that Geller's tricks can be replicated with stage magic techniques.
[16]
In the early 1970s, an article in The Jerusalem Post 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.
[12]
In addition, a 1974 article also hints at Geller's abilities being trickery.
[31]
The article alleged
that his manager Shipi Shtrang (whom he called his brother at the time) and Shipi's sister Hannah Shtrang
secretly helped in Geller's performances.
[31]
Eventually, Geller married Hannah and they had children.
[32]
In 1975, two scientists (Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff from the Stanford Research Institute) said they were
convinced that Geller's demonstrations were genuine.
[33]
Since that time, however, notable scientists, various
magicians, and skeptics have suggested possible ways in which Geller could have tricked the scientists using
misdirection techniques.
[16][34]
These critics, who include Richard Feynman, James Randi and Martin Gardner,
have accused him of using his demonstrations fraudulently outside of the entertainment business.
[35][36]
Nobel
Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, who was an amateur magician, wrote in Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman! (1985) that Geller was unable to bend a key for him and his son.
[37]
Some of his claims have been
described by watchmakers as restarting stopped mechanical clocks by moving them around.
[38]
Geller is well known for making predictions regarding sporting events. Skeptic James Randi and British tabloid
newspaper The Sun have demonstrated the teams and players he chooses to win most often lose.
[39]
John
Atkinson explored "predictions" Geller made over 30 years and concluded "Uri more often than not scuppered
[i.e., destroyed] the chances of sportsmen and teams he was trying to help."
[39]
This was pointed out by one of
Randi's readers, who called it "The Curse of Uri Geller."
[40]
During the Euro 96 football game between Scotland and England at Wembley, Geller, who was hovering
overhead in a helicopter, claimed that he managed to move the ball from the penalty spot when Scotland's Gary
McAllister was about to take a penalty kick,
[41]
something that, if true, would be against the rules of Association
football, as the ball would then have been "Out of Play". The player ended up missing the chance to equalise for
Scotland.
In another notable instance, in 1992, Geller was asked to investigate the kidnapping of Hungarian model Helga
Farkas; after he predicted she would be found alive and in good health, she was found to have been murdered
by her kidnappers.
[42][43]
Geller was a friend of Bruce Bursford and helped him "train his mind" during some
cycling speed record-breaking bids in the 1990s.
[44]
In 2007, skeptics observed that Geller appeared to have dropped his claims that he does not perform magic
tricks. Randi highlighted a quotation from the November 2007 issue of the magazine Magische Welt (Magic
World) in which Geller said: "I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do
a good show. My entire character has changed."
[45]
In a later interview, Geller told Telepolis, "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."
[46]
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!"
[46]
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.
[47]
Parallels to stage magic
Geller admits, "Sure, there are magicians who can duplicate [my performances] through trickery."
[48]
He has
claimed that even though his spoon bending can be repeated using trickery, he uses psychic powers to achieve
his results.
[48]
Skeptic James Randi has stated that if Geller is truly using his mind to perform these feats, "He is
doing it the hard way."
[49]
Stage magicians note several methods of creating the illusion of a spoon spontaneously bending. Most common
is the practice of misdirection, an underlying principle of many stage magic tricks.
[50]
There are many ways in
which a bent spoon can be presented to an audience 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 unseen by the audience,
[49]
before gradually revealing the bend to create the illusion that the spoon is
bending before the viewers' eyes.
[49]
Another way is to pre-bend the spoon, perhaps by heating it, reducing the
amount of force that needed to be applied to bend it manually.
[49]
During telepathic drawing demonstrations, Geller claimed the ability to read the minds of subjects as they draw 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.
[50]
Watchmakers have noted 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."
[38]
In 1978, Yasha Katz, who had been Geller's manager in Britain, said that all performances by Geller were
simply stage tricks, and he explained how they were really done.
[2]
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 hadn't had psychic
powers then he "must be the greatest" to have been able to fool journalists, scientists and Berglas himself.
[51]
In
October 2012, Geller gave a lecture for magicians in the United States at the Genii Magazine 75th Birthday
Bash.
[52]
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. A study
by Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International) conducted by researchers Harold E. Puthoff
and Russell Targ concluded
[33]
that he had performed successfully enough to warrant further serious study, and
the "Geller-effect" was coined to refer to the particular type of abilities they felt had been demonstrated.
[53]
In An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural, 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."
[54]
Moreover, Randi explained, "Their
protocols for this 'serious' investigation of the powers claimed by Geller were described by Dr. Ray Hyman,
who investigated the project on behalf of the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, as
'sloppy and inadequate.'"
[54]
Puthoff and Targ complained in a book about Hyman's procedures. They had
suggested that Hyman and colleagues visit SRI and conduct their own experiments on Geller. This they did, and
Hyman and his two colleagues spent a couple of hours performing their own experiments on Geller. Hyman
would not have observed any testing by Puthoff and Targ. Hyman's experiments were observed and video
taped by Puthoff and Targ, who said that they were conducted in an informal manner and largely
uncontrolled.
[55]
Critics of this testing include psychologists Dr. David Marks and Dr. Richard Kammann, who published a
description of how Geller could have cheated in an informal test of his so-called psychic powers in 1977.
[56]
Their 1978 article in Nature
[57]
and 1980 book The Psychology of the Psychic (2nd ed. 2000) described
how a normal explanation was possible for Geller's alleged powers of telepathy. Marks and Kammann found
evidence that while at SRI, Geller was allowed to peek through a hole in the laboratory wall separating Geller
from the drawings he was being invited to reproduce. The drawings he was asked to reproduce were placed on
a wall opposite the peep hole 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 Geller to listen to
the investigators' conversation during the time when they were choosing and/or displaying the target drawings.
These basic errors indicate the high 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.
In 1974, William E. Cox organized a committee within the Society of American Magicians to 'investigate false
claims of ESP'. Geller was tested by Cox, who was impressed by some positive test results which his scrutiny
could find no fraud. For example, William E. Cox held a robust key with one finger on a table and watched as it
bent with Geller in view, and noticed no trickery.
[58][59]
Geller was to be tested by other two magicians from the
Society.
The Tonight Show
Geller was unable to bend any tableware during a 1973 appearance on The Tonight Show in which the spoons
he was to bend had been pre-selected by Johnny Carson. When pressed by Carson, he claimed that he did not
feel "strong" that night. A former magician, Carson was skeptical of Geller's abilities and consulted James Randi
for advice on how to thwart potential trickery.
[30]
In 1993 Randi explained in "Secrets of the Psychics" for the
NOVA television series: "I was asked to prevent any trickery. I told them to provide their own props and not to
let Geller or his people anywhere near them." A clip of this incident was televised on the NBC show
Phenomenon. This two-minute clip has been widely circulated on the Internet since James Randi acquired
permission to use it from NBC and Carson paid for the videotape transfer.
[60]
In his television special Secrets
of the Psychics, Geller is shown failing at psychic "hand dowsing" (i.e. locating sealed vessels containing water
without touching them), not metal bending.
Controversial performances
As part of a mass demonstration, Gellers photograph appeared on the cover of the magazine ESP with the
caption "On Sept. 1, 1976 at 11pm E.D.T. THIS COVER CAN BEND YOUR KEYS." According to editor
Howard Smukler, over 300 positive responses were received, many including bent objects and detailed
descriptions of the surrounding circumstances including the bending of the key to the city of Providence, Rhode
Island.
[61]
Television presenter Noel Edmonds often used hidden cameras to record celebrities in Candid Camera-like
situations for his television programme, Noel's House Party. 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.
[62]
In late 2006 and early 2007, Geller starred in The Successor, an Israeli television show to find his "successor."
During one segment, a compass was made to move, purportedly as a result of Geller's paranormal abilities.
However, critics say slow motion footage of the episode showed Geller attaching a magnet to his thumb
immediately prior to the compass's movement.
[63][64]
Geller denied that this was sleight of hand, and said he
welcomed the "mystical aura" that the publicity gave him.
[65]
Geller performed the same compass trick in 2000 on ABC TV's The View, which was later duplicated by
Randi on the same show the following week.
[66]
Litigation
Geller has litigated or threatened legal action against some of his critics with mixed success.
[67]
These included
libel allegations against Randi and illusionist Grard Majax.
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.
[68]
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 27.5 lira (around $5) for
breach of contract. Later, Goldstein admitted that he went to the show specifically with the intent of suing to get
his money back, and he had already found a lawyer to represent him prior to attending the performance.
[69]
In a 1989 interview with a Japanese newspaper, 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.
[70]
However, in a previous interview with a Canadian newspaper, Randi was
quoted 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."
However, this was not a direct quotation from Randi, but a repeat of the Japanese newspaper account.
[71]
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 Randi, only "one-third
of one-percent of what he'd demanded"
[72]
). Since the charge of "insult" is only recognized in Chinese and
Japanese law, Randi was not required to pay.
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Later in 1995 Geller agreed not to pursue payment of
the Japanese fine.
[67]
Randi maintains that he has "never paid even one dollar or even one cent to anyone who
ever sued" him.
[74]
In 1992, Geller filed a $15 million suit against Randi and CSICOP for statements made in an International
Herald Tribune interview in April 9, 1991,
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but he was unsuccessful because the statute of limitations had
expired.
[67]
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 can't
pursue the same suit in any other jurisdiction.
[67][75]
In 1995 Geller and Randi announced that this settled "the
last remaining suits" between him and the CSICOP.
[73]
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 Geller.
[73]
According to
Marcello Truzzi, Randi had spent all the money from his McArthur award, and his current attorney was working
pro bono.
[67]
In 1991, Geller sued Timex Corporation and the advertising firm Fallon McElligott for millions in Geller v.
Fallon McElligott
[76]
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.
[77]
In 1998, the Broadcasting Standards Commission (BSC) in the United Kingdom rejected a complaint made by
Geller, saying that it "wasn't unfair to have magicians showing how they duplicate those 'psychic feats'" on the
UK Equinox episode "Secrets of the Super Psychics" (this film, made by Open Media, was known on first
transmission as Secrets of the Psychics but should not be confused with the earlier NOVA film of the same
name).
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The full text of the BSC adjudication is available online here [3]
(http://www.openmedia.co.uk/urigeller.htm).
[79]
He also considered a suit against IKEA over a furniture line featuring bent legs that was called the "Uri" line.
[80]
Copyright claims
In November 2000, Geller sued video game company Nintendo for 60 million over the Pokmon character
"Yungerer," localized in English as "Kadabra", which he claimed was an unauthorized appropriation of his
identity.
[81][82]
The Pokmon in question has psychic abilities and carries a bent 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 of Nazi Germany.
[82]
The katakana for the character's name, , is visually similar to the
transliteration of Geller's own name into Japanese (). He is quoted as saying: "Nintendo turned me
into an evil, occult Pokmon character. Nintendo stole my identity by using my name and my signature image."
US District Judge Vaughn Walker dismissed Geller's complaint for want of jurisdiction.
In 2007, Geller issued a DMCA notice to YouTube to remove a video uploaded by Brian Sapient of the
"Rational Response Squad" which was excerpted from an episode of the Nova television program titled
"Secrets of the Psychics". 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 by and to whom) and the eight seconds of footage owned by
Explorologist were licensed under a noncommercial Creative Commons license.
[83]
Lamb Island, Scotland
On 11 February 2009, Geller purchased the uninhabited 100-yard-by-50-yard Lamb Island off the eastern
coast of Scotland, previously known for its witch trials, and beaches that Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have
described in his novel Treasure Island. Geller claims that buried on the island is Egyptian treasure, brought
there by Scota, the half-sister of Tutankhamen 3,500 years ago and that he will find the treasure through
dowsing. Geller also claimed to have strengthened the mystical powers of the island by burying there a crystal
orb once belonging to Albert Einstein.
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Bibliography
Books by Geller, sold as fiction
Ella. Martinez Roca, March 1999. ISBN 0-7472-5920-8
Shawn. Goodyer Associates Ltd. ISBN 1-871406-09-9
Pampini. World Authors, 1980. ISBN 0-89975-000-1
Dead Cold. ISBN 0-7472-5921-6
Books by Geller, sold as nonfiction
My Story. Henry Holt & Company, Inc. (April 1975) ISBN 0-03-030196-3
Uri Geller and Guy Lyon Playfair. The Geller Effect. Grafton, Jonathan Cape, Hunter Publishing, (1988)
ISBN 0-586-07430-9 ISBN 978-0-586-07430-5
Uri Geller and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Confessions of a Psychic and a Rabbi. (Foreword by Deepak
Chopra) Element Books Ltd (March 2000) ISBN 1-86204-724-3
Uri Geller and Lulu Appleton. Mind Medicine. Element Books Ltd (October 1999) ISBN 1-86204-
477-5
Uri Geller's Little Book of Mind Power. Robson Books (August 1999) ISBN 1-86105-193-X
Uri Geller's Mind Power Kit. Penguin USA (1996) ISBN 0-670-87138-9
Uri Geller's Fortune Secrets. (Edited with Simon Turnbull) Psychic Hotline Pty Limited (21 May 1987)
ISBN 0-7221-3812-1
Unorthodox Encounters. Chrysalis Books (2001) ISBN 1-86105-366-5
Books about Geller
Colin, Jim. The Strange Story of Uri Geller. Raintree, 1975 ISBN 0-8172-1037-7 (48 pages)
Ebon, Martin. The Amazing Uri Geller. Signet 1975. ISBN 0-451-06475-5
Ben Harris Gellerism Revealed. Micky Hades International 1985 ISBN 0-919230-92-X
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.
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. Prometheus Books, 1982. ISBN 0-87975-199-1
Taylor, John G.. Superminds. Macmillian/Picador
Wilhelm, John. In Search of Superman. Pocket Books, 1976. ISBN 0-671-80590-8
Wilson, Colin. The Geller Phenomenon. Aldus Books, 1976. ISBN 0-7172-8105-1
Comics
Guest appearance as a character in Daredevil #133, May 1976
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Uri Geller (http://www.uri-geller.com) official site
Geller, Uri (http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/Geller,%20Uri.html) in An Encyclopedia of Claims,
Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural
Uri Geller biography (http://site.uri-geller.com/en/uri_geller_s_short_biography)
Uri Geller (http://skepdic.com/geller.html) listed in The Skeptic's Dictionary
Uri Geller (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312414/) at the Internet Movie Database
Media
Alleged "Psychic" Uri Geller loses libel suit against Prometheus Books
(http://www.csicop.org/articles/uri_dis.html) from Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Broadcasting Standards Commission adjudication on Geller's complaint against
(http://www.openmedia.co.uk/urigeller.htm) TV programme "Secrets of the Psychics"
Uri Geller Knows You (http://urigellerknowsyou.com)
Archival Materials
Colin Wilson Papers (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6x0nf578/) (2 document boxes)
housed at the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy (http://eaton.ucr.edu/) of the University of
California, Riverside Libraries. This collection Includes original manuscripts and other materials written
and collected by Wilson regarding Uri Geller.
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