MIND MEDICINE
by Uri Geller

Page 12 (Intro)

    I was born with an extraordinary gift--or perhaps I acquired it as a child. Science calls it psychokinesis; headline writers call it spoon-bending. Everybody calls it strange. Ever since I can remember, I have been able to bend and break metal just by looking at it. Merely by walking onto a stage, speaking on the radio, or appearing on television, I can awaken similar powers in an audience. Bring your car keys to one of my shows, and you might make end up taking a taxi home.

    What can it mean? Why would the powers above us--and I believe fervently in a higher intelligence that guides our lives--bestow something so imcomprehensible on me? To anyone seeing it for the first time, metal-bending is profoundly shocking. It is also perfectly trivial. Why does this happen? I am not asking to know the precise physical process by which my mindpower twists a spoon, I am asking for for the inner reason. I am asking for the truth.

    I do not believe I was given this gift to help the world's silverware manufacturers through economic slumps. What I do believe is that the higher powers require me to bend minds as well as spoons.