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Do Psychic Abilities Like Telekinesis Really Exist?
People often question whether psychic abilities such as telekinesis exist. The following may help to explain some of this phenomena.
In the second half of 1960, American television stations had a series of programs featuring a young Israeli Uri Geller, who literally mesmerized the audience, demonstrating his paranormal ability to move metal objects using thoughts. Perhaps these old shows later inspired the Wachowski brothers to create the famous scene in “The Matrix” movie. Uri Geller could indeed make spoons and keys bend by a flick of his fingers and compass needle to rotate just by staring at it. Once he managed to stop the mechanical Big Ben clock in London with a simple mental effort. It looked as if in the beginning of a space era, humanity has finally witnessed a true case of telekinesis.
The power over metals and metal objects were not the only Geller’s ability. The psychic also exhibited other amazing abilities, for example, he was able to reproduce pictures he had never seen by “memory”. A volunteer was asked to sketch a picture, so that Geller could not see it, and 
Geller using his amazing talent would reveal its general contents.
Although today the shows by Uri Geller are explained as neat tricks, they caused a powerful wave of enthusiasm and interest in the paranormal that swept the Western world during the 1970s. During this time, the psychic had become the subject of interest by serious scientists. Legendary Nobel laureate Richard Feynman recalled meeting with him: “Uri Geller had become quite the center of public madness, the man who was supposedly able to bend keys by simply rubbing them with his finger. After his invitation, I arrived to his hotel to attend a session devoted to mind reading and bending keys. Reading my mind did not go well, I think because nobody was able to read my thoughts anyway. And when my son held out his hand with a key and Geller rubbed this key it also did not work. He told us that he could do it well in the water. Well, imagine the scene when we all stand in the bathtub with water pouring on the key and Geller rubs it with his finger. So I failed to study this phenomenon”.
A less skeptical insight to this phenomenon was offered by the Stanford’s scientists Harold Patoff and Russell Targ, who invited Geller to study his psychic abilities, which he readily agreed to. Several experiments took more than a month to conduct.
To start, Geller was asked to reproduce drawings created and sealed in envelopes before the experiment commenced. Some of these drawings were looked at by the researches so that Geller could “read out” this information from inside their memory, if he indeed possessed such ability. Other drawings were unknown even to them. And despite the fact that in most cases Geller was unable to perform the task, and in some cases he could not even think of what to draw, some of his drawings strikingly resembled the original version(interestingly, often the drawing was mirrored, for example, if it was a drawing of a car, Geller’s picture had the car moving in an opposite direction).
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/02/do-psychic-abilities-like-telekinesis-really-exist/
