| A man named Jim Hurtak contacted Vallee at one point and claimed to have information for him. He was a friend of Andrija Puharich, who was deeply involved in the Uri Geller case and was a psychic himself who had had many “UFO encounters.” On April 1, 1976, Hurtak and Puharich were on a talk show broadcast in San Francisco and the subject of Jim’s involvement with the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions was broached. Jim had replied on air that, “It has been a rallying point to motivate people to do deeper problem-solving. If anything, it’s been a shot in the arm to get better government and put our better philosophy of humanism toward planetary unity.” The think tank is no longer in operation but was initially started with a grant from the Ford Foundation. Puharich then gave details of a UFO contact scene near Tel Aviv when he was in the desert with Uri Geller and he witnessed a “blue flashing light” and “Geller walked into a UFO and returned with a glass object that he gone missing several days prior. Please keep in mind, that Puharich has a very unsavory background, which I am about to cover extensively. After Puharich talks, Hurtak then describes his own encounter and says, “Well, believe it or not, I was giving a series of seminars three years ago, and coming back with two of my students we noticed a light following our car down Highway 152, and we pulled off the road and roughly 100 to 200 yards from the road this vehicle came down. I felt a strong magnetic attraction in the direction of the vehicle. I experienced at that time what most people would call the higher intelligence. A beam of light went through my body, and I received scientific codes which I was told to call the Keys of Enoch.” (18) Here is an excerpt from their website regarding the book, “A 600-page color illustrated book now available in limited edition. The Keys of Enoch contain spiritual-scientific teaching from two higher Teachers of universal intelligence called ‘Enoch’ and ‘Metatron.’ Enoch identified himself as the same Enoch mentioned in the ancient biblical texts. However, this book is not channeled information but comes from a direct experience. The purpose of The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch is to open the mind of humanity to new ideas, inviting you to share in the experience of the education of the soul. The Keys are a blueprint of the many levels of spiritual consciousness and are designed to bring you in touch with the meaning of Divine Intelligence.” Books like The Keys of Enoch are typical of New Age information that circulates as spirituality, attempting to use new clothes to dress up old ideas. Returning back now to the case of Uri Geller, who is a most interesting fellow, I cannot say whether or not I believe his “talents” as I have studied magic and realize the tricks of illusions. Let’s look at what we can prove that is factually real, about his life. Geller is the son of Itzhaak Geller, a retired army sergeant major. He was born on December 20, 1946 in Tel Aviv. His performance includes bending spoons, describing hidden |
drawings, and making watches stop or run faster. All three of these tricks have been proven as long-time “illusionist” tricks. However, I do believe that spoon bending can be done with the mind. All one must do is study the work of Joe Gallenberger. The advanced use of telekinesis can be acquired by using Robert Monroe’s Hemi-synch programs also incorporated into Gallenberger’s Syncreation course. This may have been the way Geller was trained, but I doubt it, because Geller is a charlatan. Puharich met Uri Geller in 1971 and appears to have launched his career endorsing him as a genuine psychic. Puharich not only brought him here to the US but wrote a supportive 1974 biography of Geller as well. In his book, A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, Paul Kurtz writes: “Hypnotized by Puharich, Geller identified himself as ‘Spectra,’ a computer aboard a spaceship from a distant galaxy. Under the control of ‘Hoova,’ he was sent to intervene on earth and Puharich was to assist Geller. How much of this was due to Puharich's or Geller's fantasies and how much was a result of pure fabrication on the part of both is difficult to say. The ‘intelligences’ that Uri drew upon were from outer space.” (19) A backfire of media publicity likely caused Geller to state: “Although much of his [Puharich's] book was accurate factual reporting, many people were put off by the space-fantasy passages, and I admit that they caused me some embarrassment... You must remember that all of this fantasy material was obtained while I was under hypnosis. One reason I wrote My Story was to give my own version of events, though I must emphasize that there is a slight possibility that some of my energies do have an extraterrestrial connection.” (20) Puharich supposedly told people that extraterrestrial computers sent messages to humanity through Geller that humans must change their ways soon or a major disaster is likely to occur. (21) Puharich even went one step further and claimed “extraterrestrial beings had communicated to him that Geller was the chosen savior of humanity and had been given the ability to contact flying saucers and perform paranormal phenomena such as psychokinesis, spoon bending, telepathy and teleportation.” Puharich also claimed to have experienced poltergeist phenomena with Geller. (22) We will return to both Geller and Puharich shortly. (18) ibid, p. 150 (19) Messengers, p. 211 (20) In Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. Shepard, Leslie. (1991) Gale Research. p. 655 (21) Evans, Christopher. (1974). Integral fruitage. New Scientist. 25 April. p. 191 (22) Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller, Anrijua, Puharich, (1974) |