Uri Geller is a famous Israeli illusionist and psychic. He has the gift of telekinesis and telepathy. Received world fame after speaking on a television show. His spectacular trick of bending steel spoons amazed the audience of many countries around the world. Uri Geller's most amazing trick is to stop the clock at the Big Ben Tower in London.
The content of the article
- Facts from the biography
- Creative way
- Personal life
1. Facts from the biography
Uri Geller was born on December 20, 1946 in Israel, in Tel Aviv. His parents are Jewish, immigrants from Hungary.
On the maternal side, Uri Geller has family roots with the famous psychotherapist Sigmund Freud.
When he was 11 years old, his parents divorced. He and his family moved to Cyprus to the homeland of his stepfather, where he graduated from high school and then returned to Israel at the age of 17, where he entered the officers' school. He was expelled from school for falling asleep at the post. He was drafted into the army.
In June 1967, a war broke out in the Middle East between Israel and Egypt, which lasted six days. In this war, Uri was slightly injured and was demobilized from the army.
He joined the children's camp as an instructor. There he began to show his first tricks to children.
In 1971, fate brought him together with Andrea Pukharish, an American researcher of paranormal phenomena. This creative union has become a significant milestone in the biography of the illusionist. Together they toured around the world. Uri Geller’s phenomenal trick of bending metal spoons has conquered the whole world.
In 1975, Uri Geller donated his Cadillac to the National Museum of England, to which he attached five thousand bent spoons and forks. Many famous actors, singers, politicians, priests and even presidents gave him their spoons. Of these, he made an incredible decoration for his car.
2. Creative way
Uri Geller's paranormal abilities appeared in childhood. At the age of three, while walking in the garden, he saw a luminous ball flying across the sky. A spherical object hovered directly above it. The ball made high-pitched sounds and pierced with bright light. The unconscious boy fell to the ground. After this incident, inexplicable events began to happen to him.
In his book “My Story, ” Geller said that at six, he freely read his mother’s thoughts. When her mother returned from the neighbors with whom she played cards, Uri always correctly named the amount of money she lost.
At the age of nine, the spoon in his hands broke with which he ate the soup. Once, he and his mother were in a cafe. Suddenly, the people who were sitting with him at the same table began to curl in teaspoons.
At thirteen, he was able to break a bicycle by the power of thought. At school, Uri read the thoughts of his classmates and teachers.
At the beginning of his career, Uri Geller worked as a magician in Tel Aviv. He performed on stage and was fond of predictions. There were many illusionists, so the audience was not easy to surprise. He could not become famous. American Andrea Puharish became interested in the supernatural abilities of a young man. Becoming a producer of Uri Geller, he helped him organize appearances on television shows in Europe and America. The talented psychic has gained worldwide fame.
In his hands, metal spoons and forks break, the clock speeds up or slows down. He guesses what is shown in the drawings that are hidden in another room.
Geller explains how he manages to demonstrate incredible tricks. He sees in his mind a screen, like a television. When a psychic thinks of something, the image appears on the screen as a picture. This screen is always present in his head.
Geller showed his extrasensory abilities in his search for oil in Mexico. He flew by plane over the terrain, and then indicated on the map the exact location of the oil. The President of Mexico, in gratitude, granted him citizenship.
The popularity of Uri Geller was promoted by the Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir. On the eve of 1970, reporters asked her what, in her opinion, would the coming year be for Israel? She replied: "Ask Geller, he knows."
The illusionist visited Russia in 2008. On the TV show "Phenomenon" he demonstrated his unique abilities.
In 2010, Geller was invited as chairman of the jury to the television program “Battle of psychics, ” which was held in Kiev.
Uri Geller acts in films as an actor, and also acts as a producer.
In 2001, the film "Shizarium" was released, in which he starred as a detective.
In 2006, in Israel, he successfully conducted his television show "Prestige".
In 2007, Uri Geller, at the invitation of NBC, became the host of the Phenomenon show.
Geller is Honorary Vice President of the Royal Hospital for Children in Bristol and the Royal Hospital in Berkshire.
He speaks three foreign languages: English, Hebrew and Hungarian.
He currently lives in southern England in the county of Berkshire. He has written 16 books. He works as a columnist for various publications. His articles are published in many countries of the world.
