"Randi, of course, has offered to test Geller and to give him $1 million if he can prove his claims. But Geller has always declined, saying anything that would quiet skeptics — and by extension make him less controversial — would hurt his career. "If someone wants to stay in the business of being a psychic," he says, "they should simply ignore the skeptics.""
That's got to be the most obnoxious bullshit I ever read. Ever.
This is actually the best quote I've heard from Geller, he speaks very frankly that the publicity has, in the long run, helped more than hurt him. Normally he just pretends to be serious about being a psychic and, true to his statement here, ignores skeptics. It looked like Randi had shut down his career for a while but I understand he's recently had quite a healthy resurgence in popularity.
The maddening thing is, the way that the MSM covers these types of things, I really used to believe all of this stuff as a kid. I really thought that Geller had people bending spoons all over the UK when I was like 11. Randi sometimes comes across as harsh and I don't necessarily buy the rosy picture that is painted of him by his fans, but I think his work and that of others like him is incredibly important. I'm sorry to hear of his cancer, he will be missed when he passes.
This is where one should inject a joke about his skepticism and his famous expressions thereof. Here's an unfunny example of one: "He doesn't believe in the cancer and is offering anyone a million dollars who can prove the existence of it."
I saw this amazing mentalist on 60 Minutes. Marc Paul is a UK-based mentalist who does not claim to be a mind reader or psychic, and he can do extraordinary things with his people-reading skills.
In his book, he said from a very early age he was able to correctly intuit if and where his family was going to go on vacation.
"However, there is one spectator left who he can’t quite read..
The performer then claims that he suspected something like this would happen, and out of a pocket he removes a sealed envelope that he opens and reads."
"There was nothing too difficult to do from a sleight point of view in his lecture notes, however to sell the effects as well as he does is a real art and it was fascinating to watch him at work.
I have outlined the effects he demonstrated below, but for me it wasn’t the actual effects that was important last night, it was watching his presentation skills. His performance skills. In short it was watching his skills as one of the best mentalists."
I'm not sure that he is. How many times are psychics booked on shows to prove that they are psychic? Instead, they appear on shows like Montel Williams to tell parents of missing children what has happened to their child. They get a lot of publicity without skeptics; skeptics appearing on such shows does convince a few people.
That's got to be the most obnoxious bullshit I ever read. Ever.