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That is an excellent video that shows how a mentalist simulates psychic powers by slight of hand and how easily people can be fooled by them. Geller is obviously a clever entertainer but he has never given me any reason to think he was anything more than that. Even as a kid, watching him on Carson and the Mike Douglass show, I thought it was silly that this obvious entertainment routine was being presented as the proof of bizarre abilities. Watching the guy heal toasters and bend spoons with his miraculous powers was comical. Imagine having fantastic super powers like Professor X or Marvel Girl from the X-men and the best you got going is doing parlor tricks for rubes who are amazed and amused by the repair of small appliances and the destruction of kitchen utensils!

[QUOTE="trainedobserver, post: 126503, member: 2192"] That is an excellent video that shows how a mentalist [I]simulates[/I] psychic powers by slight of hand and how easily people can be fooled by them. Geller is obviously a clever entertainer but he has never given me any reason to think he was anything more than that. Even as a kid, watching him on Carson and the Mike Douglass show, I thought it was silly that this obvious entertainment routine was being presented as the [I]proof[/I] of bizarre abilities. Watching the guy heal toasters and bend spoons with his [I]miraculous[/I] powers was comical. Imagine having fantastic super powers like Professor X or Marvel Girl from the X-men and the best you got going is doing parlor tricks for rubes who are amazed and amused by the repair of small appliances and the destruction of kitchen utensils! [/QUOTE]

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