"Time did a devastating hatchet job on Uri Geller (and others). Time selected those events and circumstances thoroughly discrediting Geller. Time also grouped such meticulous researchers as Charles Tart with highly suspect and careless showmen, tarring all with the same brush. Guilt by association is hardly objective journalism. Nevertheless most "nonordinary" phenomena are subjective and not amenable to cultural "prediction and control." This has been one issue of my book. Should Geller-type material become fully acceptable within such channels of the culture such as Time, we would know that the cultural force would have absorbed, and not destroyed, the Crack-sign value of such phenomena. When those working in the field of "nonordinary" phenomena stop trying to prove to the Establishment, they will make a great leap forward. Anonymity is the direction."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Joseph Chilton Pearce in Exploring the Crack In the Cosmic Egg, p. 146
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Uri_Geller
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Uri Geller
13 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Uri Geller →
Related Quotes
"Like I told you, I'm not a magician," he says. "If something isn't working, I don't try to guess."
"My boss treated me like a slave and I felt completely degraded. Then, just once, I did a terrible thing - I peed in h…"
"I can say with absolute certainty I do not cheat. I am not a magician."
"OK, David. Here we are on the train to Exeter, to the football club of which I am joint chairman, and where we're doi…"
"I don't care what those schmucks think. I'm a millionaire."
"I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire characte…"
"I went to a number of homes around the country, sometimes with my own spoons in my pocket, or I would select one at r…"
"Those responding to Geller's phenomenon by "bending forks" themselves, were following the same pattern. Their ego "ro…"
"Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way."
"The weakness of the attack lies in its lack of discrimination. It is possible that psychic surgery is a hoax, that pl…"