Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your report on the investigation at Stanford Research Institute of the psychic power of Uri Geller [March 12] is shocking. There are good aspects, yes: first, that SRI and the team of physicists dared to examine Geller's claims; second, that the funds could be raised to pay the bill...
...account of the incident. In Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead (New American Library; $7.95), a biography written with William V. Rauscher, a close friend of Ford's and his literary legatee, Spraggett admits that he is a believer in Ford's psychic powers but says that Ford had the canny habit of cramming for many of his séances...
...other hand, insists that there are a few references to people or events in the séance for which he could find no research in Ford's papers. The author concludes: "Personally, I think the evidence supports the hypothesis that Arthur Ford was a genuinely gifted psychic who, for various reasons, scrutable and inscrutable, fell back on trickery when he felt...
...other psychic, a New York artist named Ingo Swann, is still being studied...
After leaving SRI,* Geller volunteered to demonstrate his powers to TIME'S editors. Last month he appeared at the Time-Life Building in Manhattan and projected thoughts and images, claimed to read minds and caused a fork to bend-supposedly by using psychic energy. After Geller left, Professional Magician James Randi, who had been present, duplicated each of his feats, explaining that any magician could perform them. The fork bending, said Randi, was accomplished by sleight of hand; after distracting his audience, Geller had simply bent it with his two hands...