I'm Uri Geller and this is my legacy
I would describe myself irregular as a
person that actually shocked the world
with something quite trivial and
surprising you see I always say that the
secret of success is originality and I
came up with something original
something that was never seen before so
I really shocked the world with that
feat I look at myself as someone maybe a
freak of nature maybe a little advanced
ahead of my time maybe something that
triggered my mind power
my mental abilities began at a very
early age first of all very few people
know this but when I was about a year
old my mother put me in a pram under a
window at that time in Israel was
Palestine and the British we're the
rulers in Israel in Palestine in a
British soldier shot two bullets into a
window from across the railroad station
in I remember that I remember the glass
shattering falling slow-motion onto my
face there was a little teddy bear that
covered my face and nothing happened to
me I wasn't even scratched so maybe that
was a shock maybe that was a actual
trigger the second experience that
happened to me that definitely falls
into the category of a shock is the
following I'm about five years old I'm
playing in an Arabic garden magical
garden and I heard kittens cry and as a
five year old and I'm looking for them
suddenly out of nowhere I see a huge
sphere of light it's strobing it's
almost like a living entity but it was
just a sphere a ball of fire I look at
this phenomena and then I can see with
my eyes it'd been almost I describe it
today as a laser beam it hits my
forehead and it was so tangible it's so
powerful that it pushes me into the
grass now I don't know how long I lay in
the grass but I ran home to tell my
mother she didn't believe me she thought
that I was either dreaming fantasizing
lying
making it up but no I wasn't making it
up it happened and this is why I had
heard to this story through all my life
I didn't ever way from it I wrote about
it in my books I talked about it in on
documentaries and really people thought
come on this is so far out it can't be
true and and recently an Israeli Air
Force officer validated this entire
scene I was talking about this amazing
encounter I'll call it encounter on a
program on the BBC that documentary was
shown in Israel and I get an email from
a man called Yakov II who says hey URI
I was there I saw that sphere I saw you
I saw a little boy running home because
the apartment building was very near the
garden it was maybe 50 meters away and
he actually validated this story and I
said wow I grabbed the phone I called
him I came to Israel I filmed him and he
says that when I ran away from the
sphere of light this fear followed me
and when I got into our entrance bill
into the doorway the sphere exploded on
the facade of our building and kind of
tarnished it in a dark residue that that
was it so there I had a validation that
no I wasn't making up a story I wasn't
dreaming it when I'm asked today what I
think that was I have a few theories
let's talk about the most rational one
there it was some kind of a gel physical
phenomena you know sometimes the earth
releases different gases and who knows
but they form bubbles and and so for
maybe that was a very simple sign has a
simple scientific explanation next
theory that
could have been a spiritual encounter
something to do with religion maybe
something to do with my belief system
something that I created with my mind
but it was tangible it was there I could
touch it the third theory is the most
far-out one then I really had an alien
encounter I did not see an alien being I
didn't see the greys with the big eyes I
saw this fear but after I told this
story over and over I get thousands of
emails from people telling me we had the
same encounter and we believe it was
some kind of a UFO visitation it was
some kind of a an extraterrestrial being
trying to communicate with us that's a
possibility I am a believer
there is nothing I do not believe him I
believe in infinity so everything is
possible of course their UFOs of course
your aliens very soon after this
encounter in this magical Arabic garden
I'm eating soup I'm lifting a spoon up
towards my mouth suddenly the spoon
bends and breaks and I'm left holding
the handle of the spoon which maybe I'll
demonstrate later so my mother looks at
me and I look at the handle but what
does a five and a half six year old kid
know my mother again wasn't surprised
and she thought oh well maybe powers the
paranormal you know we didn't know the
word paranormal then and then I thought
to myself
hang on spoon can I do it again and
again so I tried it in school
and I tried it and I showed it to my
mother's friends everyone was shocked
surprised and amazed aghast say what is
this that's when I realized that I had
something something different something
unique my friends in school pupils they
were good in basketball they were good
in soccer they were they were good in
arithmetic
I was very average but I was good at
bending spoons and reading minds and the
way I discovered that I could read minds
was I was not not good in mathematics in
arithmetic so I could concentrate on the
back of a pupils head and I would copy
the answer the teacher didn't know how
he got the answer right when the
equation was wrongly written then I
could look at the clock on the wall
really to move in our head so I I
started discovering things that I could
do at a very early age
later on in life I I had to label myself
and and of course I had to always
reinvent myself and today I look at it
as the phenomena I I see it as the field
of the paranormal there is a section of
it that is mind over matter or
psychokinesis telepathy the ability to
do extrasensory perception but I was
always controversial
even in school even when I was seven
eight nine year old children and
teachers didn't know how to guess how to
to digest this thing some thought I was
a magician some thought it was just some
kind of a mind over matter phenomena and
nobody really knew and I I realized then
that this is what's gonna push me out of
poverty cuz we were very poor my mother
was a seamstress my father was a
womanizer was never at home I remember
me and my mom walking to the flea market
she would buy old American parachutes
from which she would saw dresses she we
would collect plastic back alight spoons
after people would eat their ice creams
and she would wash them and resell them
we were broke and as I was growing up I
used my exercise of perception for
instance to make my mother win in card
games she would take me to a little card
club she would play a Remmy and I would
sit next to her and I could look at the
cards of the other players which
obviously you can't see but I always
knew I detected who had the Joker or who
had two jokers and I would kick my
mother's leg to tell her which person
had the Joker in a way was kind of
cheating but I could do that
telepathically and my mother would win
quite a lot of money which would help
our existence because she had to she was
the earner and in the family my father
wasn't around then my parents divorced
and my mother married a Hungarian Jew
who lived in Cyprus I was 11
didn't know English so I left Israel and
suddenly a whole new culture opens up
different religions Turks Greeks the
British also occupied Cyprus at that
time we're talking about nineteen five
seven and my school was called Terra
Santa College he was up on a hill and
around the school there were hundreds of
caves and we would go down into the
caves to explore and I remember on a few
occasions we got lost and I would use my
mental powers to lead the kids out of
there out of the caves so I would use
these abilities in different areas I
don't know what it was maybe it was
dowsing maybe it was using my my
extrasensory perception waves almost
like a sonar but yeah I used to do these
different unusual things and again
everybody was just wow and I already
then felt that I was entertaining also
people now my stepfather died a year
after my mother married him and we left
running this little hotel which had 14
rooms the Mossad the Israeli Secret sale
service discovered that we're from
Israel and they turned this hotel into a
Mossad safehouse
and there would be Mossad agents spies
they were checking and from there they
would go to spy you know in Syria Egypt
one day I approached one of these agents
I must have been 12
his name was you of shechem and I told
him you have your eyes or you're a spy
aren't you he was what what are you
talking about how do you know why I'm
saying these things to make a long story
short he I became at 12 years of age a
spy for Israel you know what I did I
bent a spoon for him and I did telepathy
with him and he would tell me it would
give me instructions okay I'm leaving
now the hotel but I'm going to send you
letters don't open them you get on the
bicycle and give them hand them into the
hand of the Israeli consul in a
consulate which wasn't far away from our
little hotel establishment and I
realized that he was spying say in Egypt
or in Syria he would send secret
information in letter forms in the
envelopes I jumped on the bike and drove
them down to the console so I knew that
I was acting for the Mossad and then you
off says to me
Orry I can't understand your powers but
you are helping us I want you to go back
to Israel when you're 18 join the
paratroopers go to office school and
then find me and I told him you know how
am I gonna find you you're gonna find me
because we are going to use you you have
amazing very special abilities what that
we need
I'm asked many times if I'm unique in my
family possessing these abilities is
skill these powers call it whatever I'm
an only child but having said that I'm
gonna touch on something very sensitive
and very emotional you see my father
didn't want children and he forced my
mother to go through eight abortions and
my mother fought for me so maybe there
is a connection because I do feel that
around me I must have my brothers and
sisters maybe angelic form angels
spirits I know I'm not alone that was a
shock to me when my mother told me that
so today I'm no brothers no sisters in
my family my son Daniel when he was
young he could maybe do some telepathy
but they tried bending spoons my
daughter Natalie tried many times but no
one could
remember I said before that the secret
of success is originality and there's
nobody who that did spoon bending before
me and how did that come about very
interesting I was on a major television
show on the BBC in 1972 he it was called
a David Dimbleby show and I'll tell you
hide it came about I'm sitting around me
skeptical scientist and David Dimbleby
hands me a spoon and he says show us
your powers and I hold the spoon and
suddenly I do something that I've never
done before I look into the camera like
this and I hold up this spoon and I say
everybody at home
go and get your spoons I didn't realize
that I sent ten million people to the
kitchen everybody came back to the TV
screens holding a spoon because no one
could fathom believe that spoons are
gonna Bend in their own homes in the
living rooms in Scotland in Wales in
England in I mean and this is what
happened I'm reminding you what happened
on that show hold the spoon and I stroke
it very gently and I look at it and I
say Bend knelt bend melt and look the
middle is becoming almost like plastic
as to see no heat is produced
I say Bend melt then the look and then I
went like that and the spoon broke Bend
melt Bend
melt do you know what happened the
instant the spoon broke on the BBC the
BBC's telephone system blows up not
because of me not because of my energies
but because spoons were bending in
people's homes when the phone calls were
coming in at that time the system
couldn't take a hundred thousand calls
at the same moment and the phenomena was
huge
not only spoons been but watches stopped
watches moved pictures tilted on the
walls lights flickered this was a mass
phenomenon all over England
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