The Spoonbender Uri Geller

I have to admit I was a bit surprised a few months ago when I found out that the infamous Uri Geller is still around. For those of you who don't know, Uri Geller was a magician/paranormalist that became famous back in the 1960s and 70s.

Gellers claim to fame was supposed ability to do telekenesis. What could Geller do? Well he could bend spoons.

Spoon bending might not seem like much of a talent, but Geller supposedly did this with his mind (although he had hold the spoon in his hand to do it, go figure). And back then for some reason this seemed "spooky" and really entertaining to a lot of people. Why this amazing talent wasn't applied to anything more substantial than bending a spoon-that was never explained.

Geller came crashing down one day in the 1970s when he went on the Johnny Carson show. You see, Geller normally brought his own set of silverware and salt and pepper shakers to demonstrate his talents. But Johnny Carson kind of suspected that Geller was faking it. So when Geller came out on the stage, Carson had his own set of eating utensils already there for Geller to work with.

Geller had already been all over television and performing on stage bending spoons over and over again, so the crowd was amazed when on Johnny Carson, Geller wasn't up for it. Its been a long time (30 years?) but as I recall Geller announced he "wans't feeling it tonight" or something like that.

The episode may have been done in conjunction with skeptic-magician James Randi, who was pretty good at bending spoons on his own and revealed the method used to the public-and it didn't require any mysterious psychic energies. This basically discredited Geller and he more or less faded away, or so I thought.

Not too long ago there were some blurbs in the news that revealed that Uri Geller had become close friends with mega-looney Michael Jackson. As CBS News Reported:

CBS) There are two things you need to know about psychic Uri Geller. One is that he can still do the spoon trick that made him famous all over the world.

The other thing you need to know is that it was Geller’s signature spoon trick that made him and Michael Jackson fast friends.

“When Michael was a teenager, he read about me in American text books and school books, and I think he always wanted to meet me to see how I bend a spoon or read a mind,” says Geller.

This was in about 2005. So 25 years later, Geller is still sticking to his spoon bending stories. How lame is that? You have this talent for bending spoons, but after an entire lifetime you never get better at it?

The other day I was feeling curious about Geller and searched for him in google, and found his blog which you can visit below. I guess its too hard to get famous worldwide for doing something as stupid as bending a spoon, so it would be really hard to admit you were faking it.

Visit the blog and decide for yourself. Is Geller a fraud, a loser or misunderstood?

Uri Geller Blog