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Uri Geller, Bigfoot, and a Virgin Birth
Believing in what isn’t proved
Every day I enjoy looking up which famous people have a birthday, and on December 20 I saw it was Uri Geller’s 75th.
Geller’s fame comes from numerous television appearances where he demonstrated his alleged psychic abilities. Although the late magician James (“The Amazing”) Randi seemed to expose Geller as just another magician, Geller still has credibility as the subject of government-funded experiments by the Stanford Research Institute.
I came across a quote by Geller, originally published in Colin Wilson’s 1976 book The Geller Phenomenon:
“The things that always seem to work are the things that any magician can duplicate. Randi’s quite right to point that out. But that’s not because I’m doing a conjuring trick. You’d think that whatever causes these things to happen doesn’t want them to be proved.” [Emphases mine.]
Whether Geller’s been a con artist all along, or actually has (or once had) unusual psychic abilities, this is an astute remark. My thoughts went to the Where the Footprints End books about bigfoot by Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner. We all know that a bigfoot specimen has never been captured and no corpse has been found, but in Volume II Renner discusses something weird: disappearing evidence. For example…
