Early days as a photographer’s model in Israel. 1969. Little did Uri know then that sixteen years later he would have his own cosmetics line.
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Geller’s visit to Longleat, home of the Marquess of Bath, as recorded for posterity. The sword directly below the horse’s tail was bent by him, and the silver spoon was bent to breaking point while being filmed by BBC Television.
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A showcase at Ripley’s ’Believe It Or Not’ Museum in San Fransisco.
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Keeping fit in an airport car park between engagements in 1981.
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The spoon-bending sequence mentioned in Chapter One, photographed by co-author Guy Lyon Playfair.
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The angle of bend increases from the third to fourth picture although neither of Geller’s hands has changed position.
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The spoon continued to bend a few degrees after being returned to its owner.
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Korea, 1984. Locating tunnels below a chicken farm for the Korean military.
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Geller’s successful attempts to scramble the contents of a floppy disc at Wang UK’s London headquarters, 1985,
followed by a conference with mystified employees.
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Influencing a computer tape in Japan by means similar to those shown on Geller’s 1983 Japanese television programme.
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A well-witnessed demonstration of computer-stopping at the Young Presidents Organization seminar in San Diego, 1985.
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Computer specialists look on as Geller erases the Axel Springer publishing group’s memory, 1986, as featured in the best selling West German magazine, Hor Zu.
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With Wernher von Braun (centre) and Edgar Mitchell (right) photographed secretly in a NASA rocket
laboratory examining a computer tape just erased by Geller.
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With astronaut Edgar Mitchell (left) and Kent State University metallurgist Dr Wilbur Franklin.
Captain Mitchell is teaching Geller how to sprout a seed using only the power of his mind.
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Sprouting a red radish seed in front of seventeen million West Germans on the Thomas Gottschalk TV show.
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The same seed, before and after sprouting.
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One of Geller’s first experiences of precious mineral location underground.
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Aerial prospecting over the Solomon Islands with Zamex director Peter Stirling (right).
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Prime Minister Sir Peter Kenilorea witnesses the deformation of an islander’s heirloom at the inauguration of the gold mine.
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Geller’s aerial dowsing technique during a flight over one of the Solomon Islands in 1985.
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The first gold is mined on Guadalcanal near one of the sites indicated by Geller.
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Searching for gold in the Amazon region of Brazil. An inspection of a selected site.
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Studying the maps.
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(left to right) Barry Thompson, Geller, Tony Hammond and Dennis Thomas at the offices of Uri Geller Associates, studying a map before flying out to the location to find gold.
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Geller lecturing at the Small Mines Symposium held at Inperial College, London, sponsored by International Mining and The Royal School of Mines, with session Chairman Barry Smale-Adams of RTZ looking on.
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Two of Geller’s successful inventions -- the Diamontron and the bestselling Moneytron.
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’Uri Geller’s Strike!’ - his first board game for Matchbox Toys.
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Lecturing to the United Nations Parapsychology Society.
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Entertaining front-line officers and troops in Lebanon.
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Entertaining civilians during Geller’s 1984-5 tour of Israel, the most intensive of his career.
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Mexican and American Presidents. Jose Lopez Portillo and jimmy Carter in the White House, 1979.
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Geller in Aeromexico T-shirt.
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The gun presented to him by Lopez Portillo.
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Sightseeing with Mexico’s First Lady.
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Reading Henry Kissinger’s mind. Rosalynn Carter (next to Geller) holds a recently bent spoon, which continued to bend in her hand.
On her left is Senora Carmen Romano de Lopez Portillo. On the far right is Jose Lopez Portillo (’Pepito’).
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Two influential figures in Uri’s career: Sir Val Duncan, Chairman and Chief Executive of the Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation;
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and lawyer Dr Ammon Rubinstein, later a minister in the Israeli cabinet.
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With Israeli politician Ezer Weissman (centre) and fellow inventor Meir Gitlis (left).
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More seed sprouting during Geller’s significant visit to the US Mission at the Geneva Arms talks.
With (left to right) Senator Claiborne Pell, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Yuli M. Vorontsov,
First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union and Chief Soviet arms negotiator, and Ambassador Max M. Kampelman,
Head of United States Delegation Negotiations on Nuclear and Space Arms.
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After breaking a spoon as a fiftieth-birthday bift to Adnan Khashoggi (left), Geller
sets about cementing Middle East relations.
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Dr David Owen, leader of the Social Democrats, froms a spoon-bending allieace with Geller at a 1985 garden party at the home of Clement Freud, MP,
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while Geller socializes with Liberal leader David Steel in 1986.
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With Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal - a confidential meeting in London.
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Uri and his family in relaxed mood in front of their home in Berkshire.
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Flying off on a business trip from the private Geller helipad.
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On board Uri’s boat Paranormal at his private mooring on the Thames.
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Uri with his horse Spoonbender (owned jointly with MP Clement Freud) and trainer Toby Baldwin.
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With son Daniel in one of Uri’s American homes; behind them a Dali statue.
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The Geller Effect has regularly made headlines and cover stories for the world’s
leading magazines since Uri’s debut in 1969.
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