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July 2008: The World’s Most Famous Psychics
 

With all the televised paranormal and psychic shows out there these days, some of the world’s most famous psychics have become all but forgotten.

Controversial or conservative, these men were famous for their psychic abilities long before psychics captured the popular imagination (or the 1-900 phone lines). Most of you have heard of Uri Geller and his spoon bending, but how many of you have ever heard of Peter Hurkos or Edgar Cayce ? This month we will examine these illustrious legends of the psychic realm.

Uri Geller is perhaps the most investigated self-proclaimed psychic in the history of the world, but his stage career ultimately served only to discredit any actual psychic abilities he might have possessed. This is unfortunate, because worldwide scientific experiments conducted on the man corroborated his telekinetic powers. Born in Tel Aviv in 1946, to parents of Austrian-Hungarian descent, Uri served as a paratrooper in the Israeli Army, was wounded in the 1967 Six-Day War, and worked as a model and nightclub entertainer before beginning a career as a stage magician. In the 1970’s the psychic capitalized on his abilities to further his career as a professional performer. His televised performances catapulted him to international fame, as he claimed to demonstrate paranormal powers of dowsing, telepathy and psychokinesis. He has been both authenticated by respected scientists and debunked by such investigators as James Randi and Richard Feynman, using hidden cameras to record Geller’s maneuvers.

Randi has allegedly caught Geller on video bending spoons with both hands, and using tiny magnets on his thumb to move a compass. When he later was broadcast on YouTube, Geller tried to prevent the website from using the clips.

Equally compelling however is the firsthand testimony of many reputable scientists who have witnessed Geller’s feats. Dr. Wernher von Braun himself stated that Geller bent his ring - placed in the palm of his hand - without Geller ever touching it. Dr. Peter Fenwick, an esteemed neuropsychiatrist at Oxford, witnessed Geller curling a spoon on a colleague’s outstretched hand while standing several feet away. There are countless other examples witnessed by the scientific community in Geller’s presence.

Another psychic with equally amazing abilities preceeded Geller. Peter Hurkos, born in 1911, purportedly discovered his talents escaping from Nazis in 1944 in the Netherlands. While scrambling across rooftops in a desperate attempt to evade his pursuers he fell to the ground, suffering a severe concussion. Upon regaining consciousness in the hospital 6 days later he realized that he could read people’s minds simply by touching them. His grandmother, a local fortune-teller, encouraged him to go onstage. Word of his abilities spread, until he finally agreed to be studied in the lab in order to further explore his skills. He reluctantly agreed to assist police on several cases. Hurkos described his psychic visions: “I see pictures in my mind like a television screen. When I touch something, I can then tell what I see.” Hurkos began his career as a psychic entertainer, claiming to use his psi to obtain details of his audience members’ personal lives. Investigator James Randi has accused Hurkos of simply using any magician’s cold reading tricks, choosing common themes and picking up clues from the person’s answers. 

Hurkos was studied in 1956 by Andrija Puharich, M.D. under tightly controlled conditions for 2 ½ years. Puharich concluded Hurkos was 90% accurate. Hurkos’ fame soon spread worldwide and he was even featured in a 1960 TV episode of One Step Beyond where the host interviewed him on film after the broadcast of the two-part episode “The Peter Hurkos Story” was aired. In this broadcast, Hurkos invited any research facility to test him. Later tests conducted at the University of California at Davis were inconclusive when Hurkos tested negative for standard psychic abilities.

Hurkos’ accuracy in police investigations has also been called into question, many times not even having been invited by police to participate or making incorrect physical descriptions. Hurkos claimed to have identified the Boston Strangler, traveling to Boston to assist authorities but was ultimately arrested for impersonating a police officer; presumably to gather information he could later claim to have obtained by psychic means. The Attorney General at the time – Edward Brooke – said Hurkos came “uncannily close” to describing the suspect. The controversy around Hurkos continued when he claimed to have identified Charles Manson to the police, when in fact Manson’s follower Susan Atkins implicated him while incarcerated on other charges. Was Hurkos a charlatan or did he really possess unusual psychic abilities ? We may never know.

Perhaps the most celebrated psychic of the past was Edgar Cayce, born in Kentucky in 1877 to a religious farm family. While still a schoolboy, he discovered his psychic powers one night when he fell asleep on his school books. Upon awakening, he found he could recite every word from cover to cover, never having opened the books ! Normally an unremarkable student, Cayce began to excel in school for the next couple of years until his talent eventually faded. Years later as a struggling photographer, he was to accidentally discover yet another unusual talent: the ability to diagnose illnesses while in a trance.

Cayce had become the victim of laryngitis which lasted for months, forcing him to give up his job as a traveling salesman for a career in photography. When he went to see a hypnotist’s act at the Hopkinsville Opera House, the hypnotist attempted to implant a post-hypnotic suggestion to restore Cayce’s voice. While under hypnosis, Cayce responded in a normal voice, but the laryngitis would soon return on awakening the subject. Later, a New York specialist interested in Cayce’s condition suggested a hypnotist ask Cayce to diagnose himself while under hypnosis. Another local hypnotist was located to try the experiment. To everyone’s surprise, Cayce declared himself to be suffering a “psychological condition producing a physical effect”, to be cured by a suggestion to increase the circulation to the afflicted area. Cayce spoke normally for the first time in nearly a year after being awakened. The hypnotist had a stomach problem and asked Cayce to help him also by going under hypnosis. Cayce did so, describing herbal medicines and exercises. When the prescribed treatments worked, Layne (the hypnotist) was convinced Cayce should do these hypnotic trance readings for the public. A shy and unassuming man, Cayce’s religious convictions prevented him from charging for his readings, which he conducted at home in hus spare time. People would write for help, and knowing only their name and location Cayce could diagnose and outline a treatment plan for them. Dr. Ketchum, a homeopathic physician, began using Cayce to assist on some of his more difficult cases. Ketchum submitted a paper to the American Society of Clinical Research, and a New York Times article soon followed. Cayce continued to work as a photographer, giving readings in his spare time for years.

Growing resistance from the medical community meant many of Cayce’s clients could not find doctors to make up the strange medicines prescribed in the readings. Cayce dreamed of building a hospital to treat patients, but the reading s themselves made it quite clear that any information given was not to be used for financial gain. Eventually Cayce was forced to give up his photo studio by the demand for readings. He began to accept donations and began to seek financial backing for the hospital, but he never turned anyone away for inability to pay. Finally, a New York patron by the name of Morton Blumenthal put up the money to build a new hospital in Virginia Beach, VA in 1928. Despite the stock market crash of 1929, Atlantic University also opened its doors in 1930 and the hospital was able to operate successfully until 1931. In June 1931 the Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc. (A.R.E.) was formed to examine and distribute the vast amount of information obtained over the years from Cayce’s readings. The information had expanded to include not only medical advice, but also philosophical and metaphysical topics explored by “the Source” in Cayce’s trance sessions.

Through the efforts of ARE and Cayce’s son Hugh Lynn, Atlantic University re-opened in 1985 with the addition of the Cayce/Reilly Massage School. Although he never became a wealthy man, Cayce had the satisfaction of seeing his work benefit many people when he died in 1945. Cayce’s legacy endures today as ARE reaches millions worldwide through its website and Atlantic University.

ONLINE REFERENCES

www.uri-geller.com/uri-biography/uribiog3.hym

www.peterhurkos.com/peter_biography.htm

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDD103DF930A35755C0A96E948….

www.edgarcayce.org/edgar-cayce1.html

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uri_Geller&printable=yes

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THIS MONTH'S TRUE STORY CONTEST WINNER

August 2008: The Bosque Lights

This month’s winning true story was related to me by my friend EE who experienced these events over a period of months in northern New Mexico, two summers in a row. What’s more, these events were also witnessed independently by six other people living in the area.

My friend was returning home with his mother late one night in September about 10 years ago, when he saw an odd light moving near the bosque (woods) near his house. He got out of his car about sixty feet from his outside gate. The light was a bright amber color, like a glowing cigarette, and appeared to be about fourteen feet off the ground. It was elongated into a tunnel of light leading into the woods. The light was moving back and forth, up and down, in about a fifteen-foot circle. The light itself appeared to be about the size of a basketball or a steering wheel. E’s mother became very frightened, saying it was "the devil" and was afraid even to look at the light. They could both hear owls hooting loudly, and saw four of them on the wall encircling their property.

E ran into the house for his gun and a flashlight, thinking someone was prowling around in the woods. His mother warned him not to go back into the woods after the mysterious light, but he was determined. By the time he came back out to his car, the light had gotten much larger and brighter. Getting really scared now, my friend stood and watched for about 15 minutes before locking the front gate, getting back into the car and driving down the road to where it dead-ended at the woods. He turned the car around in reverse, got out, put his keys on top of the driver’s side front tire, and locked the car. It was about 2 AM by then. As E started walking into the woods he suddenly heard what sounded like three large animals growling and moving around him. He saw one charging and he shot at it twice – it was about the size of a bear, but he couldn’t see it clearly. Then it got very quiet for a couple seconds until he heard howling around him. He stood there a minute before deciding to start walking along a trail into the bosque. About 200 feet away was a stand of Russian Olive trees. As he got closer to the trees, he turned and saw another ball of light in the trees, again about fourteen feet off the ground. The light seemed to sense his presence and became stationary for about two seconds before suddenly disappearing. E stood there, waiting to see if the light would come back, until the sun began to come up. He could still hear owls flying around in the semi-darkness.

A week later, E saw the light again about 10 PM. This time, his neighbor’s son saw it too. This man’s father and father-in-law were driving by and they called over to them. When they drove into E’s driveway, these men could see the light too.. They all piled into the son’s truck and drove a mile or so to the Rio Grande, but saw nothing more. They came back to the house and were about to leave when my friend asked them to wait, and showed them the area in the woods where he’d first seen the light. Sure enough, it was there again, still hovering above the ground like before. All four men stood there watching it about 45 minutes as it danced around in mid air. No one could figure out what it was, or where it was coming from. It finally disappeared as the sun rose, just as before, and everyone went home to bed. E heard another owl that night, on the other side of an arroyo outside his property. As he went to get his gun he could hear it fly off into the woods.

The light continued to appear on and off for about four months, and returned the following summer. Including my friend and his neighbors, there were a total of seven witnesses, all of whom reported strange feelings of foreboding and weirdness. My friend’s mother insisted it was the devil and wanted no part of it. She maintained it was the work of a local bruja, or witch. The owls E and his mother saw that first night on the wall were extraordinarily large, standing approximately four feet tall. Their wings made heavy flapping sounds, and the birds just didn’t seem quite right. There was an evil, frightening feeling about them before they all flew off together. Owls are usually solitary creatures who hunt alone. A pack of owls is itself highly unusual. The fact that they appeared at the same time as the lights only intensified my friend’s apprehension. To this day E is undecided whether it was a UFO, an evil manifestation, or merely some form of St. Elmo’s fire he saw in the woods. All he knows is that the experience was extremely fascinating and frightening at the same time !

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ARE PSYCHICS REAL ?
What is a psychic, what is the paranormal ? I believe the human mind encompasses remarkable powers to transcend time and place, to reach out to other minds. Throughout history, people have demonstrated remarkable powers of ESP, telepathy, psychometry, telekinesis, clairvoyance, and so on. Many have seen ghosts, visions of the past, experienced visitations from spiritual figures and assistance from angelic beings. Science has had some success documenting such phenomena in the laboratory, but much remains unexplored and unexplained. In my opinion, all of these phenomena we consider "paranormal" are actually "perfectly normal" and are merely another extension of the human mind.

You are invited to join us here at MGTR as we explore various strange and wonderful topics. Write me with your own true stories of ghostly encounters & psychic experiences ! A new winner will be selected each month to receive a FREE reading of their choice, and the winning story posted on this site. Please submit photos if possible. E-mail your story to me at: madamegstearoom@yahoo.com

HISTORY OF MGTR:
MadameGsTeaRoom.com started in the summer of 2000 when my friends kept asking me to do my old-fashioned tea leaf readings for them; what started as a pleasant hobby soon evolved into an online webzine !

I eventually decided to go online and offer the only genuine tealeaf readings available on the web. Don't be fooled by automated online "readings" -- my readings are REAL, and AMAZINGLY ACCURATE. I invite one's own guardian angels & guiding spirits to influence your personal reading, blessing each cup before proceeding with the reading. Don't be surprised with the information you may receive - it is often quite honest, even blunt, as I let the images that form in the teacup guide me. PLEASE ALLOW 1-2 BUSINESS DAYS PER READING - these are individually done by myself ! (I also do Tarot card readings online, and palm readings privately.) I use the symbology of the leaves in an actual teacup and saucer to interpret each person's particular situation as I work with their guardian angels and spirit guides. There is nothing spooky or evil about intuitive readings, as I utilize both my natural ESP and divine guidance/prayer in receiving each person's reading. You may e-mail me at anytime with your questions & concerns as well. Blessed Be !

Mme. G

NOTE: psychic readings are for entertainment purposes only. No claim as to results or accuracy is made or implied herein. 
                    
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Not my will but thine, O Lord, be done in and through me. Let me ever be a channel of blessings, today, now to those that I contact, in every way. Let my going in, mine coming out, be in accordance with that thou would have me do, and as the call comes: Here am I, send me, use me !

                                                
- Edgar Cayce 
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