Inner Awareness Remembering Uri Geller s amazing powers ABOUT TWO years ago, I received this e-mail message

from a certain Steve Knight requesting details of my experience with Uri Geller, wherein he duplicated a dra wing I had done which he had not seen before. ?I run a website about Uri Geller,? said Steve, ?and one of the pages deals with Uri?s feat of duplicating people?s drawings. See www.zem.demon.co.uk/ugtd.htm. ?In your book ?More Encounters with the Unknown,? you described an occasion wher e Uri duplicated a drawing you did. I would like to put the details of this inci dent on my website, but unfortunately, I don?t have access to your book except v ia Google Books review. Could you please describe what happened, when and what i t was that you drew and Uri reproduced?? Geller is the famous Israeli psychic who astounded the world in the early ?70s w ith his unusual ability to bend metal spoons, keys and rings without physical fo rce, and by using only the power of his mind. A former club entertainer and military paratrooper who saw action in the Gulf Wa r, Uri Geller is also known to make broken watches and clocks run again through sheer will power. Although Uri has demonstrated his telekinesis (mind over matter) powers in many parts of the world the past three decades, there are still people who think that what he was doing was mere trickery or sleight-of-hand. Despite attempts by some skeptics, like the magician James Randi, to discredit h im, Uri has never been conclusively proven to be faking his powers. Even the hig hly respected Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) in Menl o Park, California, which investigated his powers under strictly controlled scie ntific conditions, could not tell for certain if his metal-bending abilities wer e a hoax. Tired of bending spoons After doing his metal-bending demos for decades, Uri Geller had grown tired of i t. In fact, during the international conference on alternative healing and paran ormal phenomena held in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1994, where I first met him , Ur i Geller, who was one of several internationally known speakers, did not even de monstrate spoon-bending. Instead, he demonstrated an even more astounding and aw esome psychic power by making a radish seed in his palm sprout in only one or tw o minutes. I witnessed this incredible phenomenon together with about 1,000 othe r people in the audience. After Uri Geller?s talk, I had a chance to have a private interview with him in his hotel suite. The only other person present was his brother-in-law, who was h is frequent companion. When I entered his suite, Uri said, ?Jimmy, I don?t have a spoon to bend for you , but I will do something else. Give me two of your business cards.? After handing him two of my cards, Uri said, ?Now, I will give you back one of y our cards and I want you to draw anything at the back of that card. I will turn my back towards you so I won?t see what you are drawing. After you have finished , you should cover your drawing with your hand or turn the card over. I will the n face you and ask you to transmit to me telepathically what you had drawn on yo ur card. And I will draw on the other card what you had drawn. Are you ready??

I said, yes, but I was so excited and nervous to be facing such a world-famous p sychic personality whom I had only read about in books, that I couldn?t think st raight. I wanted to draw a simple flower with three petals. But what I drew inst ead looked more like a tree than a flower. I then covered my drawing with my right hand. Then Uri faced me and said, ?Now t ransmit your drawing to me by thinking of it.? After about 20 seconds, he said with his eyes closed, ?I am seeing something, I don?t know what it is, but it looks like this.? And then he quickly drew on the other card exactly the same image I had drawn, which was still covered by my han d. I asked Uri, ?How do you do that?? He said when someone is transmitting a drawin g to him, an image appears in his mind. If that image remains with him for about 20 seconds, he knows he got it correctly, and he simply draws on paper what he has seen mentally. To me, what Uri Geller demonstrated during that conference in Dusseldorf, namely , his ability to make a radish seed grow in a couple of minutes and to duplicate within seconds what another person had drawn without seeing it, are more impres sive than the spoon bending demos for which he became world famous. Note: The next Basic ESP and Intuition Development seminar, which includes spoon -bending through telekinesis, will be held this weekend, March 19 and 20. For de tails on how to join this seminar, call tel. nos 810-7245 or text (0920) 981-896 2. E-mail jaimetlicauco@yahoo.com or visit my website, www.jimmylicauco.com.