URI GELLER SOLVES HISTORY’S GREATEST MYSTERIES: 1
Idler 26 Summer 2000
Conduct psychic investigations from the comfort of your armchair. Or even your bed.
By Uri Geller
The CIA’s remote viewing programme, Project Stargate, trained dozens of intelligence agents to project their minds to distant points on the globe. Reports have trickled out, detailing the kinds of tests developed by government scientists who wanted to make psi a major cold war weapon. Former American agent David Moorhouse published a bestseller revealing how remote viewing – a technique for inwardly “seeing” what exists at specific map references – was regarded by the CIA for a time as the perfect complement to satellite pictures.
In the Eighties, the Agency experimented with glimpses of the future. Instead of asking their mind-spies to focus on places like psychic satellites, they suggested a trip into the years ahead. The reports were alarming. Each viewer said the world of the future was a blackened, blasted place, in the grip of a nuclear winter or an ecological catastrophe. The accuracy of remote viewing, when used to report on known sites in the current time-frame, has been established at around 85 per cent. We can only pray that the psi spies’ vision of the future fall into that narrow band of inaccuracies. Humanity retains a 15 per cent window of hope.
The Idler asked me to conduct a remote viewing investigation in the other direction – into the past.
My mission: to solve the unsolvable, decode the indecipherable, discover the unknowable, without moving a muscle. It would be the ultimate test of the mind’s superiority over the body. Even if your psychic abilities have always lain dormant, you too can probe these unsolved mysteries. Light a candle in a quiet, darkened room, and gaze into the flame. Frame clearly in your mind the question you wish to investigate – it’s no use looking for answers if you don’t know the question. Now relax, and breathe steadily. Enjoy the flow of oxygen into your lungs, steady and rhythmic.
Let your mind flow out to the flame. Feel your thoughts drawn to the fire like moths. Let them flutter into the fire, and repeat that question to yourself. Watch the images that flash in your mind, but do not stop to recapture them – there will be time to go back and make sense of what you’ve seen later. For now, just let the past unfold in broken images on your internal TV set… and perhaps unravel an unsolved mystery.
Idler 26 Summer 2000
Conduct psychic investigations from the comfort of your armchair. Or even your bed.
By Uri Geller
The CIA’s remote viewing programme, Project Stargate, trained dozens of intelligence agents to project their minds to distant points on the globe. Reports have trickled out, detailing the kinds of tests developed by government scientists who wanted to make psi a major cold war weapon. Former American agent David Moorhouse published a bestseller revealing how remote viewing – a technique for inwardly “seeing” what exists at specific map references – was regarded by the CIA for a time as the perfect complement to satellite pictures.
In the Eighties, the Agency experimented with glimpses of the future. Instead of asking their mind-spies to focus on places like psychic satellites, they suggested a trip into the years ahead. The reports were alarming. Each viewer said the world of the future was a blackened, blasted place, in the grip of a nuclear winter or an ecological catastrophe. The accuracy of remote viewing, when used to report on known sites in the current time-frame, has been established at around 85 per cent. We can only pray that the psi spies’ vision of the future fall into that narrow band of inaccuracies. Humanity retains a 15 per cent window of hope.
The Idler asked me to conduct a remote viewing investigation in the other direction – into the past.
My mission: to solve the unsolvable, decode the indecipherable, discover the unknowable, without moving a muscle. It would be the ultimate test of the mind’s superiority over the body. Even if your psychic abilities have always lain dormant, you too can probe these unsolved mysteries. Light a candle in a quiet, darkened room, and gaze into the flame. Frame clearly in your mind the question you wish to investigate – it’s no use looking for answers if you don’t know the question. Now relax, and breathe steadily. Enjoy the flow of oxygen into your lungs, steady and rhythmic.
Let your mind flow out to the flame. Feel your thoughts drawn to the fire like moths. Let them flutter into the fire, and repeat that question to yourself. Watch the images that flash in your mind, but do not stop to recapture them – there will be time to go back and make sense of what you’ve seen later. For now, just let the past unfold in broken images on your internal TV set… and perhaps unravel an unsolved mystery.
"All pubs are terrible places now. I mean you wouldn't have known a decent pub at your age, I shouldn't think. They didn't have fucking music. They didn't have cigarette machines. They didn't sell the chemical beer. They were for proper drinkers, not for fucking yobs, hooligans. I want to go into a pub and meet interesting people, not to look at a lot of people sitting on the floor drinking out of tins. I can't stand it. Mostly people in your age group. Ruin pubs."