Uri

Uri Geller (born 1946 in Tel Aviv) is the internationally best-known figure of the psi debate of the 1970s and 1980s. With bent spoons, stopped watches and reproduced sealed drawings he became a television phenomenon from Tokyo to New York. What sets him apart from a pure stage performer: at the same time he was a test subject at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in one of the few studies of such phenomena ever to make it into the scientific journal Nature (Targ & Puthoff, 1974) – and the direct trigger for the two-decade, CIA-funded remote-perception program later known as "Stargate". He remains publicly active to this day and runs his own museum in Old Jaffa. Geller does not offer bookable sittings; he is a public figure, present through his website and social media channels. How the scientific testing of his abilities and the ongoing controversy should be assessed is covered in detail in our blog posts on Geller.