The Dark Truth Behind Uri Geller’s ‘Magic’
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- Опубликовано: 27 июн 2024
- Uri Geller is perhaps the most famous psychic of all time. By bending spoons and stopping watches with his mind, he was able to convince onlookers all across the world of his incredible supernatural gifts. But what’s the true story behind this man? And why was James Randi so intent on bringing him down. This video answers these questions and more. Let’s dive deep into the true story of Uri Geller’s rise to fame.
This is a new kind of video - please let me know what you think in the comments :)
Disclaimer:
This video is for informational purposes only. It does not give an opinion on whether or not Uri Geller is a genuine psychic. It simply presents the facts about his life and career, including the arguments for and against his claims of psychic ability.
The viewer should draw their own conclusions about Uri Geller's claims.
The resources I have used for this video are attached below. They include articles, videos, and websites that discuss both sides of the debate over Uri Geller's psychic abilities.
I have made every effort to present the information in this video accurately and fairly. However, I acknowledge that there is no definitive proof that Uri Geller is or is not psychic. As such, the viewer should use their own judgment when evaluating his claims.
If you have any questions or concerns about this video, please contact me.
Thank you for watching.
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• • Unforgettable Uri Gell...
• www.theguardian.com/culture/2...
• • James Randi Speaks: Co...
• www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/ma...
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tru...
• • URI GELLER | Seeing is...
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrija...
• www.theguardian.com/theguardi...
• www.theage.com.au/entertainme...
• www.washingtonpost.com/news/p...
• www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/...
• www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_...
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R...
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Geller
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I hope you enjoyed this video. I've attempted to be as neutral as possible and show both sides of the debate surrounding Uri Geller. I'm going to turn this into a mini series on this channel where I deep dive into certain magicians and tell their stories.
I think you should do a video on Paul Vu who scammed $100,000 on kickstarter and faked going live.
Can you also Go through Houdini
Why not taking position ? He is a fraud who wanted to make money about lies.
This is AMAZING
Magician need this for storytelling ❤❤
Dude, no offense, but Uri is literally the reincarnation of Judas Iscariot. Debunking him is like saying Jesus could never have attained any mastery over white magic.
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I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever that Geller found any oil or that he was even hired to do so. The only thing I could find was from Geller himself. He labeled himself a "psychic geologist" and claimed that the identity of the corporations who hired him to find the oil must remain a secret.
He should've really addressed that in the video if it's true
'Extraordinary powers', Oscar?? Seriously..??? He could detect Oil hunderds of miles deep into the earth and could not detect a cup of water just under his nose..??? Simply ridiculous...
Could never understand that he told us he bent spoons with his mind but insisted on holding them in his hands.
Perhaps more problematic is that he claimed great abilities yet the most famous thing he did with them was, um, to break cutlery. It's not as though you need someone with psychic abilities to break cutlery: any of us can do that. Move a pencil on a table? Any of us can do that.
His involvement in oil drills is easy to imagine: He was used as a cover-up, a frontman, for israeli agents and companies, when they needed to remain obscure. He would be the excuse for connections and money transfers. Next...
Randi really was 'amazing'.
Thanks for keeping his memory in the public conscious.
Yes he is a legend :)
Randi was the King of the Tunnelviewers. I bet his first thoughts after passing was: My God, was I wrong!
Well I mean he didn't really honor his memory with his goofy conclusion by any means.
I just saw an conversation between James Randi ( 88-years old in 2017 ) and Matt Dillahunty that was uploaded yesterday and where they talked ,among other things, about Randi's documentary An Honest Liar, that I'm now going to watch. There he said that in 2017 that Uri had just moved to Israel where he's ridiculed as an fraud.
My grandmother believed in the whole Geller story. I don't think he is a psychic. But there are business interests behind his image. I have met people who know him personally in Israel. They don't believe he is anything but a good actor.
He literally did research with the CIA showing MANY examples of his abilities.
Unfortunately, Geller's flim-flammery isn't just some victimless stage act. To this day he profits from people's almost pathological need to believe in his "specialness" because Geller suggests to them that because his "powers" are allegedly "real", he is their guide to a larger world exclusive to those who believe in it. As I see it, this is blatant and near criminal exploitation and cultivation of a fundamental flaw in the human psyche.
Randi was a legend, truly a fan of him.
Same here :)
So he was sent by Aliens while also having Freud as an ancestor lol?
Such is the power of Uri's psychic ability, he fades into obscurity when spoon bending was shown to be a parlor trick. Enuff said.
Randi is a legend and will never die...
I agree
Except for being dead...
Uri Geller really fascinates me. The thing is: he had (of course) no genuine psychic "powers". But being able to convice so many people that he had - wow, that's stunning.
I think the problem with the CIA was a lack of magicians on staff. A good prestidigitator can fool most non-magicians.
They had one
Yeah... that was the problem... not that they were, and are, staffed by a bunch of know-nothings.
I've met uri and regarding him finding oil sites, he just gets advice froml people in the oil industry as to where it may be and then just repeats that information back to them
Yes . Banacheck in podcast has told that he was also declared having Supernatural powers by scientists after 4 years of research on him.
Do you have names of those big companies that have hired Uri Geller? The rest of the video provides more info and proof about what was said.
Where is the evidence that Geller had any success in locating oil? I have not been able to find any that doesn't come out of Geller's own mouth.
as shown here Uri was fully exposed on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Carson was a magician himself so he knew.
to keep his hands clean he had James Randi prepare the test for Uri on The Tonight Show. he failed miserably.
somehow it didn't derail him.
Yep. I talk about that in the video, and I think that this did 'prove' that he didn't possess the powers he claims he did. But what do you think about the other aspects of his life - with the CIA, Oil etc
@@oscar people think because he failed to perform on that show under a great deal of pressure that it must be false, and I do not claim to know one way or the other, but I can tell you that in the use of any mental ability pressure is a big factor. I personally think it speaks volumes that this did not derail him, peoples intuition was not prepared to write him off, they felt such a simple answer did not cover all the possibilities.
@@Bhenderson0001 funny how we was able to did it on so many other shows where he DID have access to his props. Give me a break dude. Use those couple of last brains cells you have and think about it. He never did anything that couldn't be duplicated through trickery. He bent SPOONS! Did you ever stop and think why spoons? Well, because they are easy to accomplish the trick with! The man has been exposed as a fraud a million times over.. even he peddles a lot of the horsesh** back nowadays... but yet people like you are still there "Duh, yeah, psychic powers just might be real."
How do you explain him knowing what the other guy drew on that talkshow and apparently successfully helping to discover oil fields for several companies?
@@spaceowl5957 I totally agree with your position. With simple water dowsing which is supposed to be some kind of psychic ability, I know from personal experience that doing water dowsing on your own for your own purposes is much more successful than doing it for someone else. People of a nervious disposition tend to be good at these things but are also easily influenced by pressure. Most people who use dowsing skills do not do it to "entertain" others.
finally you started a live! love it and expect it
Oscar! This is great! Please do more of these. There are not enough great docs on magic history out there. Top-notch!
I don't think he was born in Israel in 1946 since there was no state of Israel until 1948.
I watched this video.
But I do not understand.
What was the " Dark Truth" ?
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Oscar, great new format, documentary/investigative productions. You have the perfect style and voice for the format, great job!
As far as my opinion on Geller, fake actor as all psychics are. The Johnny Carson bit was brilliant, putting him on the spot with none of his props at hand. Concerning the CIA and the oil industry giving him cred, there are plenty of foolable CEO's and 'expert crime investigators' out there. Last word, what I bring up for all psychics and particularly to Geller since he claimed this was a God given gift... do something useful, save 300 lives by preventing a plane from crashing due to malfunction, don't bend spoons and start old watches ticking, total fakery.
Exactly. There was a reason he bent only spoons.
I like this concept so much. This video already become one of my favorites. I hope in the future will see more concept like this. Thanks for the amazing video again Oscar. ❤
Hello, I have came to say how much I appreciate your work and time put into making entertaining yet educational videos! Thank you!
Thank you :)
What a content Oscar.we need more.keep it up.q🔥💯❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you - I hope you enjoyed it.
Been practicing some of your tutorials. Really gets you hooked when you get better at it and seeing other's reactions:P
Nice edit and video. i will like if you can continue with thing like that
If Uri can give me the winning Lottery numbers for this week, I might just be convinced. 😄
its against the psychic code to predict lotto numbers or outcome of gambling. rule 17
I am an 80 year old NOVICE psychic. Psychic stuff pops into my head when I least expect, but I am making slow progress with practice. Two weeks ago, in a public place, I took one look at a pretty Hispanic lady about 35 years old. I saw the word "Peru" and hear the word "Peru" in my head. I asked her if she is from Peru, and she looked surprised and said yes, she's from Lima, Peru. She asked me how I knew that? I told her that I have no idea, and that "Peru" just popped into my head.
I'm not advertising that I'm even a NOVICE psychic because people will run away!!!
Psychics (more powerful than me) can most likely reveal past and present events, but future events are unpredictable because of The Butterfly Effect. IMO, when psychics become celebrities, the pressure to perform at will is the main cause of their failures.
Remember that Jean Dixon sent JFK a letter advising him not to go to Dallas because something bad was going to happen. She didn't specifically say what, but after he got that latter, JFK, Jackie, the Secret Service, and Lee Harvey Oswald (STRONG INTENT to SHOOT) are all thinking that something bad will happen. Law of Attraction! Lots of people thinking worrying about something bad may have ensured that it DID happen.
You should tell all kinds of interesting stories…you have a great voice.
It might be surprising to younger people, but when I was a kid belief in supernatural abilities was shockingly high compared to today. Often when you read a fiction book, for example, one of the standard plot elements was people with ESP or similar abilities, and it was frequently presented as the kind of thing where "in the future" science had eventually refined the process of identifying and training the ability. Because that's how a lot of people perceived it, as a thing that was only mysterious because we hadn't applied the scientific method to it properly yet lol.
The 70s through the late 80s were a much more innocent time. Martial arts instructors taught the Dim Mak and harnessing Chi - and people believed it. The "New Age" movement was promoting the Harmonic Convergence and celebrities gave fortunes to Ramtha.
What are you smoking? It is still as high as ever. And on top of it has been piled the idea that men can become women simply by cutting their dicks off and the idea that gov't can solve ANY problems.
But a simple search on the web will show you just how many lunatics think supernatural powers, ghosts, angels, aliens, and whatever other horseshit they can dream up are real.
ciao sei italiano? vorrei fare un documentario sui mini geller italiani. saresti interessato a condividere un tuo ragionamento su quel periodo in forma di intervista? ciao!
@@ephemere82 Grazie, è un'offerta davvero lusinghiera. Sfortunatamente non sono italiano, sono americano di nazionalità e norvegese, tedesco e serbo per origini. Tre romanzi a cui stavo pensando specificamente nel mio post e che trattano tutti il soprannaturale in questo modo sono la trilogia della Fondazione di Isaac Asimov, Starship Troopers di Robert A. Heinlein e The Forever War di Joe Haldeman. Mi scuso per eventuali errori linguistici, anche se è una lingua adorabile, non parlo italiano e ho dovuto usare un software di traduzione.
@@ephemere82 Per spiegare brevemente come ogni romanzo si collega al concetto di cui stavo scrivendo, i romanzi della Fondazione, famosi per aver creato le tre leggi della robotica di Asimov, hanno come antagonista principale della serie un uomo nato con la capacità di manipolare le emozioni delle persone con La sua mente. Ciò è sorprendente perché Asimov, che aveva un dottorato in chimica ed era professore, era noto per aver scritto scientificamente e matematicamente nei suoi romanzi, ma includeva questo elemento soprannaturale. Starship Troopers parla di un gruppo di amici delle scuole superiori che si uniscono a un ramo dell'esercito per combattere una guerra contro una specie aliena. Il più intelligente e studioso del gruppo viene addestrato dai militari per diventare un telepate. Questa capacità di "imparare" l'ESP viene presentata come un campo di studio come la matematica, dove acquisire abilità soprannaturali è semplicemente una questione di studio e duro lavoro. The Forever War è anche un libro sull'umanità che combatte una guerra contro una specie aliena. È stato scritto da un veterano della guerra del Vietnam che si è laureato in fisica dopo il servizio militare e, come Asimov, è degno di nota perché usa pesantemente la sua conoscenza della fisica nel romanzo per scrivere fantascienza "dura", ma include comunque personaggi che possedere competenze ESP che, nel suo libro, il governo in futuro imparerà a testare e ad addestrare le persone ad utilizzare. E ci sono altri romanzi come Il gioco di Ender che hanno trame simili. Più e più volte gli autori del periodo, anche quelli che intendevano scrivere storie su un futuro plausibile, facevano continuamente riferimento alle abilità soprannaturali anche quando non erano un elemento richiesto per la storia, suggerendo che credevano che le abilità soprannaturali fossero reali e che un giorno sarebbero essere meglio definito come qualsiasi altro campo di studio.
I love your video’s Oscar Owen keep it up
Thank you so much :)
Why does he have his hand over his eyes in the "duplicate drawing " trick ?? because he has a small mirror in his hand SIMPLE
Don't be daft. 😮
Thanks for all the great content. Makes my day to watch amazing videos like these. Thank You!
Hello Oscar, I want to ask you a question: do you feel that your work is not rewarded, and your videos do not have enough views?
Talent doesn't see money
I was on a show with Uri, and was sat about 5 meters from him during his performance, The man was fascinating, magician or illusionist ? His showmanship was brilliant, I watched him very closely and tried to see how things were done, But nothing. I spoke to Uri and he was a wonderful person who gave his time to talk to me, I still have the spoon Uri bent and broke into two parts which I picked up from the stage, I had it mounted on a ceramic tile which I later got Uri to sign at another event.
Excellent work buddy. I'm old enough to remember Geller & his showmanship from the 70's & was surprised so many were taken in. I was a big fan of James Randi & his exposés. I really appreciate this. Bless 👍
There is an assumption that scientist know everything. Indeed they have a better knowledge of science but not of magicians technique. I’ve duped people in the scientific world and I’ve nowhere near the skill of Mr Geller
anytime someone claims to know the secrets of the universe, I know they're full of shit. science sometimes means saying that you don't know. and that's okay. But the things that we do know can be tested and verified, getting the same result each time.
Video production and narration was good.. 👍
The spoon bending is quite easily achieved, but I don't get how he do the drawing trick.
My great uncle, Avishalom Drori taught Geller hypnosis, and they did hypnosis shows in Tel Aviv in the 1970s. My great uncle was a legit hypnotist. At some point Geller decided he was out, and did not include hypnosis in his shows thereafter. Just a fun fact :) Whatever the case is, regardless of whether he has special powers or not, it cannot be denied that Geller is an incredibly charismatic and talented performer and story teller, who has been able to capitalise on these traits for a really long time.
The trick is: there is no spoon.
Hi Oscar, I really enjoyed your video, gave me plenty of food for thought. I still do not believe in psychic powers, but it was good to hear the other side. Well presented, thank you. TOB.
Here, you draw something on this piece of paper, and let me turn around looking the other way, and for no reason at all, let me cover my eyes even though I can't see you at all, and hope this little mirror i'm hiding reveals what you are drawing
can you tell me where you got your ring plsss?
This guy legitimately made me believe that people could read my thoughts as a kid. Made me paranoid as fuck. I used to get a lot of very uncomfortable and intrusive thoughts and I would constantly see signs that people could read them.
Nice job Owen. Informative and entertaining. A well told story.
ha ha if uri geller tricked cia than im deeply concerned about this organisation
This is great, Oscar. Thanks for trying out something new!
I have recently been reading about UFO’s / UAP’s and have a fascination with all things attached to high strangeness and the occult. I try to balance an open mind with a critical one.
So I have been reading about Geller in a Jaques Vallee book and I decided to do a quick research about Geller, that is how I stumbled on your video. I rememberec that his abilities have been debunked in the past and I just wanted to verify that.
But apparantly Geller seems to have abilities wich seem extraordinary. Even though I still keep in mind that high profile government agencies are run by mere flawed humans and that they too van fall victim to magical thinking as any mere mortal can, I do still think there is a facet of conciousness we don’t quite understand yet, supernatural,phenomena seem to be a part of the human experience through the ages.
Anyways great balanced video! Keep it up!
And who knows maybe there is a facet beyond the physical realm we havent looked into yet and might therfore believe it does not exist.
Oscar! Thanks for those videos! Can you pleas make minde reading with no gimmicks??
Yes I can :)
@@oscar i ment make videos of mind reading with no gimmicks
In all seriousness, there ARE human beings out there that can read ur mind as clear as an open book, knowing your every though Before you can even speak it.. yes there are tricksters but dont let that make one jaded that Real examples of true telepathy dont exist, because they Absolutely do.
One episode of the famous serial lieutenant Columbo, was exactly based on this guy. I recommend you to see it.
It's one of my favourites 'Now You See Him'. Jack Cassidy as 'The Great Santini', it's superb.
The oil companies were not trusting Uris claim, they were trusting his success in providing exact geographical spots to drill for oil, and finding it. The validity of the claim came from the success of his accuracy in finding it.
It would make sense to debunk something that challenges the laws of physics so that people wouldn’t reach their highest potential by commercializing physic powers that could be obtained by us all.
Thank you for showing me one of your best trick how to fool my family❤
B4 Uri there was a more famous magician. His name was Jesus and he could walk on water turn water to wine and turn a loaf of bread into enough food for everyone. I've also seen David Blain do the same tricks
What are the companies names that employed him?
Wow, I've never heard of Uri Geller, great video by the way, can't wait to see more stories and magic from other magicians, and more magic from you Oscar.
I never heard of Randi. Uri Geller was famous here in the EU. I recall watching his show and having two watches which were not ticking (not wound up, and not working at all), and during his performance one started ticking. Amazing! And I think it was our own belief which made our (own) watch ticking, even though it only ran a few minutes. Our spoons did not bend .. ..
please make more of these types of videos
I can’t wait
Thanks!!!
Randi is so amazing. I am a big fan of him. Plus i really like these type of videos, keep it up
I am old enough to remember Geller hitting the world. He is a phenominal entertainer and smart as hell. Amazing Randi and Jonathon owe Uri for their careers. Who Cares how it is done, just entertain us.
In all fairness, i think this guy is very smart and i think he is a nice guy. He can not only bent the spoon but also the truth. Why he is very smart because he earned millions and people gave him a podium with exactly doing nothing. He had nothing to offer especially the truth. He was already exposed many many years ago, but still managed to get attention and above all the millions worth of sellings.
So according to the poem, he's loving and giving.
Really well produced Oscar. Thank you.
Guess Oil isn't that hard and I like to see his hit to miss rate.
only 21 hour wait yay
Am I the only one who hears "Carlson" when he is talking about Johnny Carson?
Why!?
That's the question everyone should be asking him,
Okay so you have been given special powers to bend spoons,
WHY?
for what purpose,
He's got to be the worst most useless super hero in existence.
You didn't do a very good research because Randi in his book about Geller explained how he fooled the CIA.
This might be the only chance for me to talk to you.
Anybody can talk to the dead - or to a tree - or to a rock. I used to talk to my wife, but it took me 20 years of marriage for me to learn that talking to a rock is better because it doesn't scream at me.
interesting to think how they scammed the tree drawing- most likely 1) they rehearsed it beforehand (like the infamous "quiz show") for ratings or 2) Geller was one of the priviledged few that get d2bw and rnraw which would allow him to see the nanocameras behind the guy drawing- which would still appear as if magic, but is done through nanotechnology., But most likely was option 1) they simply got together before the show and prepared the eventual scam.
oscar u are a story telling bro i love this video i appreciate love love how u did the story😍😍😍😍😇🥰(:
Today i met Uri Geller and i don't really care if the magic he does is real or not because i think he is a nice and funny person and i enjoyed meeting him
You the kind of people that easily tricked and lied to just because the con artist or scammer is funny and nice to you.
If you drill anywhere that's there sedimentary basins you will find oil
Oscar this was a fantastic insight to this man. I wonder what Harry Houdini Say or do if he was alive. The old saying fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.😊👍👍👍😊🤟
Geller was also great man ? What do you think about CIA and mousod?
I'm bit confused
Be rational while answering me
What's the possibility that he can be relly using some unknown powers
Big fan🎉
Jenny Craig might help.
OMG awesome videos ❤❤❤
He wasn't a male model in a night club, but appeared in ads in newspapers.
Stupendo lavoro
I’d like to know if he had anything connection with the Monroe institute
So.......the "dark" truth behind Geller's magic was that
he really does have psychic powers?! Did I get that right?
I saw him today and I just don’t know how he does it
These spoons always amaze my 5 year old nephew, not my 8 year old nephew😂
Couldn't a simple DNA comparison between Gellar and Freuds relatives prove or disprove his claim about being related?
Anyone who believes celebrity magicians use actual magic should not be allowed to operate spoons unattended
can you make a magic card trick out of sketch?
Good video
Who else has Incubus’s “Nice to know you” playing in their mind?
thank you
He’s a chancer!
Good video 👍
A simply astounding video Oscar. Very interesting and informative. I immensely enjoy all your videos. I love the tutorials to. Would love to see another Coin magic one.
Oscar pls we need a video on how to unlock stranger's phone without knowing their passcode
Could he tell me this weeks lottery numerbers please 👍
Great piece of content , keep with the good work
No one believes uri had real powers. We are lied to by magicians all the time it's their job to lie to us even when they say this is an ordinary deck. Uri is just a magician or mentalist u telling us nothing we didn't already know
He’s still alive now in 2023 and still claims he’s got Supernatural power’s. He started the lie and has to keep it up.
James Randi can also do all of Uri tricks, live in fact according to James Randi, Uri geller can perform only 5 tricks, nothing more and he (James) dubunked them all.😅
I think that Geller is nothing but a phony and that he is just a mentalist/magician.
Omg wow
:)