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$0 eBook: Uri Geller - Magician or Mystic? - Biography of the controversial mind-reader

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By Jonathan Margolis, 400 pages, published Dec 12, 2013.

US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073U14F0/
AU: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0073U14F0/

Amazon's Description:

Jonathan Margolis's biography of Uri Geller, the controversial spoon-bending and mind-reading performer, was the first to examine dispassionately whether the former Israeli paratrooper is a talented magician or something altogether more mysterious – perhaps even an authentic paranormalist.

Reviews

"Superstitious atheists will find this book toxic. Jonathan Margolis clearly spooked himself writing it and I got an attack of the creeps one night just reading it." - Evening Standard

"Uri's ability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is known the world over…Uri is not a magician. He is using capabilities that we all have and can develop with exercise and practice." - Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the moon

"I think Uri is a magician, but I don't particularly believe that he is using trickery. I believe there are psychic abilities. They don't accord with any science we have at the moment, but maybe some future science will back them up with theories." - Brian Josephson, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1973

"Uri bent a spoon for me. The first time he did, I thought there must be a trick. The second time I was stunned - completely, completely stunned and amazed. It just bent in my hand. I've never seen anything like it. It takes a lot to impress me. Uri Geller is for real and anyone who doesn't recognise that is either deluding himself, or he is a very sad person." - David Blaine

"Geller has bent my ring in the palm of my hand without ever touching it. Personally, I have no scientific explanation for the phenomenon." - Werner Von Braun

"I came to this book a rationalist and a skeptic. Yet, open-mindedness requires me to report that Jonathan Margolis' carefully researched, scrupulously detailed and even-handed exploration of Uri Geller's paranormal capacities suggests some of our current scientific understandings will need radical revision in the next century." - The Jewish Chronicle

"A brilliant book - nine out of ten." - Channel 4

"A fascinating, unaided, open-minded account of a great modern puzzle." - Mail on Sunday

"An even-handed and assiduously researched work… something close to a definitive assessment." - New Statesman

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  • +9

    Magician.

    And not a very good one at that. His tricks aren't flashy enough, although that's because he's passing them off as telekinesis.

    Here's how you bend spoons:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxSNuIx4m5k

    When he was put to the test, the show hosts changed the spoons and provided their own instead of letting Uri bend the ones he brought with him. He was unable to do it, then said it doesn't always work.

    As James Randi said, if you're using psychic energy to bend the spoon, you're doing it the hard way.

    Here's Criss Angel testing Uri's psychic abilities:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2ulGTQ9x8

    • And not a very good one at that. His tricks aren't flashy enough

      Careful, he might sue you…

    • If half the world thinks he can really bend spoons then he is a very good magician.

      Randi is more than happy to give a $1 million dollars to anyone who can do anything. No-one has ever claimed it. If anyone trying to sell you the supernatural then tell them to get tested for the million dollars and not bother trying to cheat you out of your $100 or whatever.

      • Here's how you bend spoons:

        If half the world thinks he can really bend spoons then he is a very good magician.

        This entire line of reasoning becomes moot once you realise that there is no spoon!

  • +2

    Uri Geller - Magician or Mystic?

    I remember the trick he did where he made a whole country appear out of thin air.

    He called it Uri Nation…

    • +5

      He called it Uri Nation…

      He's always taking the piss

  • +4

    Absolutely, a poor magician who continues to con people out of money for his 'services'. He is right up there with 'spirit mediums' for being transparent in his (lack of) 'abilities' and equally for being reprehensible.

    • Absolutely, a poor magician

      I don't think so…

      "On 11 February 2009, Geller purchased the uninhabited 100-meter-by-50-meter Lamb Island off the eastern coast of Scotland"

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Geller#Property

      • +3

        OK, maybe not so poor, just unskilled.

        Hopefully the Loch Ness monster (who is more real than his 'powers') will eat him.

        • just unskilled.

          Careful, he might sue you…

  • +5

    Wiki
    "A false dilemma (also called false dichotomy, false binary, black-and-white thinking, bifurcation, denying a conjunct, the either–or fallacy, fallacy of exhaustive hypotheses, the fallacy of false choice, or the fallacy of the false alternative) is a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option."

    I'd choose fraud if there was an option for it.

      • Always pre drill with a wiki quote.
        To be sure your nails don't bend.
        Don't let Yuri be taking any kudos.

  • Apparently Uri Geller can do something truly amazing:

    http://viz.co.uk/uri-geller-i-can-do-dog-shits/

  • +3

    I miss the spooky stuff like this from the 70's and 80's.
    But still these days you can't get elected American President unless you believe in zombies or one particular resurrected dead anyway, ask Mr Trump. Anyway life's so cool sometimes bendy spoons and reading minds is outrageous but dudes with wings and halos will smite someone to eternal fiery damnation for being gay.

    • These days it's potions and lotions and fancy herbal extracts that will do everything from making you thin to stopping you from aging. All they'll actually do is bleed your wallet dry and perhaps damage your vital organs.

  • +2

    The trick I'd really like to see him try and do is go to Saudi Arabia and leave with his head still attached (they still execute people for sorcery).

    He's an idiot and so is anyone who thinks otherwise. Well that or mentally ill.

    OP should be ashamed they're promoting such rubbish.

  • -2

    He's no John Edward, but as a successful charlatan who has made an awful lot of money out of suckers over the years, full marks to him I say.

    Steve Jobs essentially did the same thing & he's lauded by halfwits everywhere…

    • Every time I can't find my iphone, I will blame it on Steve Jobs making it disappear. Actually a great business model. Make something popular that will then disappear after a week.

      • Watch me make my popularity disappear……Abra…cadabra….APPLE SUCKS…

  • An Honest Lier is a good documentry about James Randi. Uri Geller featured a lot.
    It is available on NetFlix.

  • False dichotomy, where is the douchebag option.

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