Born in a small hospital in Tel Aviv at 2 a.m. on the 20th of December 1946 making Uri a Sagittarian. He was named Uri after a cousin, who unfortunately was killed in Budapest in a trolley bus accident.

Uri's first paranormal experience was in a garden of an Arabic house opposite where Uri lived he was in the tall grass when he felt something above him and heard a high pitched sound.He felt something massive just hanging above him, then something struck Uri either a beam or ray of light, it physically knocked him to the grass. He remembers feeling very scared and running home to tell his mother.Shortly after this he was eating some soup with his mother when she noticed the spoon had bent!

When Uri's parents (Margaret and Tibor) divorced, his mother fell in love with Ladisalas Gero a heavily built man in his fifties, and a Hungarian Jew. He ran a small hotel in Cyprus, and it was there that Uri moved.  At this point Uri added the English language to the Hebrew and Hungarian he already spoke.
 As a young man Uri knew there was something that would make him well known and he thought it would be a horror film actor! His favorite film was Tarantula
Pauline also met Uri and has written his mini biography 1955) and his hero was Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.

In the summer of 1971 on Tuesday 17 of August, Uri met doctor Andrija Puharich .He was deeply interested in parapsychology and ESP Purarich enlisted the help of doctor Edgar Mitchell one of the astronauts for Apollo 14, to research into Uri's powers.

It all started routinely with ESP tests etc. Purahich then later in the relationship Hypnotised Uri and according to Puharich a mechanical robot voice could be heard which came either from Uri, or directly above him.For a full story of this episode read the biography by Jonathan Margolis " Magician or Mystic?
To read the rest of Uri's Life read the above mentioned biography which supplies a highly interesting read from Jonathan, who was extremely sceptical but approached the subject in a logical manner and comes to a conclusion, did he change his mind ?

"Uri Geller's ability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is known the world over...Uri is not a magician. He is using capabilities that we all have and can develop with exercise and practice."- Dr. Edgar Mitchell,Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the moon

"If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way."
--James Randi

"Because a good magician can do something shouldn't make you right away jump to the conclusion that it's a real phenomenon."
--Richard Feynman

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