James Randi - Secrets of the Psychics Documentary (Full)

James "The Amazing" Randi is the perfect mix of Science and Magic, a true conjurer of visual machinations that can fool our senses while, at the same time, explaining to us how our senses are fooled.

In my opinion this is the best example of a "human mind debugger", he gets right into the machinations of analog tricks and sees how our brains mistakenly manifests them as a possible reality. Randi also teaches us that illusion and trickery may be comforting to the human mind, but truth is far much more wonderful as it shows us the machinations from the chaos, the sense as well as the awe in both the tricks and the real world.

For several decades, Randi has gone on to expose hundreds of psychics and teach millions across the globe about how they could be fooled into believing in a system which could potentially make them vulnerable to trickery and perhaps psychical harm.

Randi is not afraid to go against popular opinion, as shown in his battle against so-called psychic Uri Geller in the late 1970's and early 1980's.
Randi has also gone against the bizarre practise of faith "healing" and contacting the deceased, and has exposed the cruel, callous and cynical nature of the people who claim to be performing "God's will", such as Peter Popoff.
Randi has also warned us time and time again about the fraudulent practise that is homoeopathic medicine and how it is essentially water solution, dished out as hocus-pocus medicine.

James Randi is the founder of The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organisation that attempts to bring reason to world by luring potential psychics into a trap, baited by a million dollar prize to prove their psychic "powers". "powers" here is a kind of vague term,as Randi knows, so the tests are usually on the so-called psychic's terms. No self-acclaimed psychic has ever won the prize.

Whether or not some form of psychic power exists is still an open question, however many psychics often do not properly gauge their so-called skills and instead brag about them, hence scepticism about such claims should not be so strange to their ears.

Unfortunately the vast amount of psychic powers they have seem to remove all self-esteem as many psychics are often uneasy about Randi's reasonable request and attractive million dollar reward.

From the earliest days man has believed that dreams and the supernatural are in

some way real. All over the world physics demonstrate powers that their

followers accept as modern day miracles.Here in Moscow, psychic healers treat

the sick with chants and incantations.And in the Philippines, psychic surgeons

perform operations without knives.A metal spoon turns liquid in the hands of

psychic performer in Britain.This is happening, it's happening.

Nearly everyone, fortune tellers find the future in cards, crystal balls and

palms. Three out of four Americans say they've had a psychic experience.

Today you can even find a psychic at the mall. Purveyors of the supernatural

have created a multimillion dollar industry. But are psychic phenomena what

they appear to be?My name is James Randi, The Amazing Randi. I'm a magician.

Okay I have here a pen. For the past 25 years I've been investigating the claims

of psychics. A psychokinetic demonstration of a supernatural natural,

what's this? Psychics often say that an object can be moved using only the power

of the mind. And it moves what a miracle. Fashion like that, isn't that

amazing stop. Stop. Magicians can produce the same affect. Of course I was just

blowing on the pen. I don't know what I can do. But a little suggestion

and a little distraction go a long way. As a magician there's nothing I like

more than a well executed illusion. Just look at what my friend Jamy Ian

Swiss can do. There are those who use magic tricks for more than entertainment.

They convince people that what they do is real, that they have special

powers. Magical thinking you know is a slippery slope and sometimes it's

harmless enough that other times it's quite dangerous. Personally I'm opposed

to that kind of fakery. So I have no reservations at all about exposing these

people and their illusions for what they really are. I've investigated the

claims of hundreds of psychics. People aren't always happy with my conclusions,

but I do have my supporters. In 1986 I was honored with the MacArthur

Award. Unfortunately most of the prize money went into defending myself against

a series of liable suits, related to one of my earliest and most

controversial investigations. The subject was Uri Geller, a young Israeli who

claimed to have supernatural powers.He's a remarkable affinity from mental and

his psychic abilities are well documented all over the world.

In the early 1970's Geller became a superstar, the most famous psychic in the

world.Okay Jesus said look at me, visualize everything that you drew once more.

He claimed to read peoples minds.I'm going to show what I got and if I'm wrong,

then I'm wrong but it truly came very strongly. It could be two mountains with a

round thing on or two people.Can I show?Yeah do that too. Am I wrong?

You're right.All right good. That's what I got. Ah, that's.

Wow.He claimed to bend keys with his mind.I know you're going to think this is a

setup friends and old time has never coned you on anything. This guy is bending

this key by rubbing it, it was bent about a one degree angle when he started out

and it's coming up on 45 degrees now and it's still moving.

You're thinking bend is that what you're doing?Yes I'm saying bend.

The same thing, hard, soft.I'm saying bend, bend, bend and sometimes I say bend.

But Geller was best known for his way with spoons.

Hold the tip of a spoon very very gently.Okay.What I'm doing is I'm trying to

melt the metal down. Yes you see I'm feeling.It's going.

It's getting loose.Yeah.And there's no force at all in my hands.

There's no force at all.Look.It's, it touches here around soaking it there is

absolutely no [inaudible].I have a wisdom tooth.As you can see the metal is

beginning to crack here.It's breaking.Yes. Look it's becoming, it's

like [inaudible], see look and keep stroking it here. You see the crack is

becoming bigger.Yep.I melt the metal down so.So how?

I want it to bend, I just say bend.You know they're.

You see? Now wait a minute, wait a minute, keep soaking your feet more and keep

it at home. Once you want it to start working or if there is a radio

that is broken, want it to start working. Television broken just wanted all

those broken things.What Geller was saying effectively was that wanting things

could make them so.Who started working.I felt that claim had to be challenged.

The media, even some scientists were taking the Geller phenomena seriously, so I

decided to show for starters that I could at least duplicate these effects using

trickery. Now a key can be displayed in such a way that it looks like it's

bending. For example,just by stroking it you'd swear that it's bending right up

before your eyes.Magicians call this process ratcheting. But to do this the key

has to be bent in advance. The hard part of course is how to go about bending

the key without letting them catch you. Now there's several ways, I could for

example take it and press the tip against the top of the table, that would do

it. Or in shifting my chair backwards or forwards, as I just did, I could

have taken it and dropped it below the level of the table and pressed the tip on

the chair I'm sitting on. Which is exactly what I just did. Did I fool

you?Mentalists have been duplicating hidden drawings for years. But Geller had

chosen to use trickery, he could have used any of a number of techniques. One

favorite involves turning your back and covering your eyes while the drawing is

being made. Now I've always wondered why you would cover your eyes while

you're back is turned.Of melting metal is something else again. It's done

something like this. And it gets soft, so I say to it bend, bend, bend and it

bends. Of course it does take a little preparation. In fact it takes a lot of

preparation. Now this isn't proof positive that other demonstrations aren't the

result of supernatural power but isn't this a more reasonable explanation? And

then of course there was Mister Geller's appearance on the Tonight Show. I got a

call after they booked him to appear.Will you welcome please Uri Geller.

Johnnie had been a magician himself and was skeptical. I was asked to help

prevent any trickery.Nice to see you.Thanks.We have only met.

This scares me.This scares you, yeah we just got some things together here.

I told them to provide their own props and not to let Geller or his people

anywhere near them.One of our staff members did some drawings which have been

sealed in an envelope and I'd like you take your own pace when you feel like you

want to try anything, do you want to try that particular experiment first?

When I feel for it.Sure.We'll start eliminating the ones that do not have the

word.All right without touching them.He is really suspicious. I am having a hard

time with you.I don't mean to be, I really don't.

Just keep looking. Okay let me rest a little while.

All right.You know I'm surprised because before these problem, your producer

came and he read me a list 40 questions you're going to ask me.

Well I can ask you all kinds of questions if you'd like me to ask you questions.

I have to have time.John we are back. Uri was telling me, you don't feel what

strong tonight is that?I don't feel strong. It's not all tonight, right now I'm

feeling being pressed and then I can't.Well I'm not trying to press you, I'm

really not but you know.Telling me well will you try that or that.

Well I thought that was the idea of, of no I'm not trying to put you down.

Much to my surprise the Tonight Show episode didn't have much affect on Uri

Geller's career. Neither did the book that I wrote about him. But

eventually his star faded. Why people are so drawn to the irrational is

something that has always puzzled me. I want to be, if I can, as sure of the

world, the real world around me as is possible. Now you can only obtain that to

a certain degree, but I want the greatest degree of control, I don't,

I've never involved myself in narcotics of any kind, I don't smoke, I don't

drink because that can easily just fuzz the edges of my rationality, fuzz

the edges of my reasoning powers and I want to be as aware as I possibly can.

That means that giving up a lot of fantasies that might be comforting, in

some ways but I'm willing to give that up in order to live in an actually real

world, as close as I can get to it.During the 1980's I entered a world that I

found filled with [inaudible] and a rife with abuse, the world of faith

healing. I developed a special interest in a television evangelist named Peter

Popoff.God told me, he said you smack that cancer with your fist.

At the time Popoff was pulling in nearly $4 million a year healing people on his

miracle crusades.You got cancer of the stomach? Are you ready for God to burn

that cancer out?Here it goes in the mighty. Devil back off. Back off devil,

hallelujah,hallelujah.You really believe you're healed?

Yes.You think your cancers are gone now?Yes I believe that because God never

lies and we stand in his word. Praise the Lord.I'll tell you from now on you're

going to have a song of victory in your heart.Amen

To his followers Popoff seemed to have divine powers.

Is it ghoul Alice, ghouled?He knew their names.Stand up Alice.

As well as the afflictions they'd come to cure.God is touching that thyroid

condition right now. God is touching your nerves right now. God is touching your

eyes, just lift up your hands, get ready,here it comes.

He also knew the personal details of their lives.

Going to hear good news from Charles before everything is brought to you, he's

going to be completely delivered because of your prayers, because of

your faith, here it comes complete healing it, Jesus. Mighty name right now,

right now, right now amen. It's all right to praise the Lord.

I suspected that Popoff's revelation were other than divine. The radio scanner

we brought to the hall picked up a decidedly worldly source.

Hello PP can you hear me? If you can't you're in trouble.

Is it Popoff?Was being prompted by his wife through a wireless earpiece.

John.Dewey Johnson.She'd gotten her information from prayer cards, filled out by

the faithful before the show began.She wants to get rid of the walker.

You want to get rid of this walker sister?How long have you been walking on that

walker?About three years.Three years.She lives at 1627 10th Street.

1627 10th Street? Is that right?That's right.She has arthritis all over.

Burning this arthritis, right out of your body, take a few steps just to make

the devil mad, hallelujah that's it just move around a little bit there

she goes. Just walk with me, oh glory to God she's not going to need that walker

anymore, God has just put new strength, new health, burning that

arthritis out of her body. Just keep going hallelujah. Hallelujah.

I was able to arrange for another broadcast of the miracle crusade on the

Tonight Show. But this time the wireless prompting was included. In 1987

Peter Popoff declared bankruptcy.Greater is he. Greater is he.

The laying on of hands takes on new meaning in the Philippines. Where psychic

surgeons perform miraculous operations without knives. I investigated

this phenomenon and then went on the Tonight Show to demonstrate what I'd

learned. Believe me what you're seeing is strictly special affects, it's slide

of hand and nothing more and this is the way it looks. A little animal blood and

few chicken parts complete the illusion. A bonus.

That's a bit better just a second, just one second.

Maybe better for you. You don't feel any better?Wow that doesn't come up.

This is where I live with several birds and a old red cat outside of Fort

Lauderdale Florida. From here I run my investigations, write my books and go

about lecturing. Recently I was asked to give a class of college freshman a

chance to evaluate on of the oldest systems of fortune telling, astrology.

So you know I started out life as a magician, I still am a magician I guess, I

think it's in the DNA I'm not to sure. But I'm an actor playing the part

of a wizard, I know how people are deceived, I know how they deceive themselves.

And many magicians, most magicians really allow people to deceive

themselves. Would like to see me fool you?Yes.Who's wearing a wrist watch or a

regular ordinary wrist watch? You've been a good girl haven't you? Yes. That's

just fake though I thought it was a Rolex for a minute, oh well. Now what time

does it say on your watch? It says nine minutes before three and it says it's

the 2nd of October right?Yes it does.Very good open up your hand for me flat

like that, the clean one. All those things, all those things. Now I'm going to

put the watch face down, put your finger of your other hand on the back of the

watch okay. Very good. Now my watch says nine minutes to three so we disagree

slightly but not enough for any never mind. Okay. Watch what happens now, I'm

really concentrating on the, I think I hurt myself. Don't laugh this is

silence. Let me see now,holding it only by this, oh would you tell the folks

what time it says on your watch now please? . It says 340.

340 how time fly's when you're having fun. Isn't that wonderful. Now let me show

you, this is such a little tiny itty bitty watch, hold it tightly in

your hand, don't lose.Oh my goodness.What happened? Oh the gentleman was

carrying it over here behind his waist and he didn't even know it. There you

go, you have your watch. Do it again,do it again. The trickster never works

alone. His audience assistant. If he does his job well they want to be fooled.

Arshola could you pass that back? Wendy.Plenty astrology test each student was

giving a detailed horoscope.Robin, could you pass that?

They were told it was drawn up by a professional based on information they had

supplied about when and where they were born.Actually these horoscopes were not

quite what they appeared to be. I'd like you to share something with me if you'd

be so kind. I asked the students to grade them for accuracy on a scale of one to

five. Five being the most accurate.How many gave it a one? Let's see a show of

hands. Two? Three? Four?And five? Okay. So we scored pretty highly with this

then? Let's do a little experiment, you got your horoscopes right in front of

you. Take them in your hand like this and hand them over your shoulder to the

person behind you.Okay everybody and the guy at the end down there you'll have

to come up to the front cause these people on the front don't have one now.

Okay. Everybody changed them around, everybody's got a, open up somebody else's

horoscope and read it carefully please.It's just the same.

Oh god.What a surprise. They had all received the same horoscope. The

personality descriptions were generally true of everyone like recently you have

had to recover from a disappointment. Some of them seem specific because they

were so personal. Your sexual adjustment has presented some problems for you.

And there were others that anyone might hope would be true. You'll have a great

deal of unused capacity. People like to believe certain things are true. And

they like to fall for very specific absolutely enormously accurate horoscopes

right?Right.Of course they are. Do you have a question?

Yes I have a question. So why do people persist in ascribing to these systems?

That's the big question of course. And psychologically that is the most

interesting question, I think that people are trying to get some control over

their lives, by knowing more about themselves of course they get control over

their lives. But that's what we're doing all of us, each and every day of

our lives. Whether it's financial, whether it's emotional, whether it's a love

interest, whether it's health we're trying to get control of our life,

we're looking for power and astrology offers you apparently a very old and a

very easy formula whereby you can do that sort of thing.

What you've presented me today is evidence that this can be misused or abused,

but you have not convinced me that there is nothing to this.

Oh no no I didn't intend to do that.Okay and I feel that your exercise today was

kind of cynical and one sided and so now it is wise to be unbelieving of this.

Well I can't prove it doesn't work, I never prove it doesn't work.

And I see there a lot of times where intellectuals have wanted to disprove

mystical things because since it didn't fit into their framework of beliefs.

That's ture.They wouldn't allow it.But I can't prove to you that Santa Clause

doesn't exist. I really can't. Can't disprove any, can't prove a negative. But I

can show you that it's not very likely to be true, that's the best I can do.

Needless to say my message isn't always popular. My friend Ray Hyman is a

psychologist and he has an idea why.We seem to be taken as, we're taking

something away and not giving something in return.

Yes.And these people want something, they're looking for something and I think

we have to understand what is it they're searching for and what they're

seeking.Ray has an insiders perspective on these questions. He once worked as a

professional palm reader. On a recent visit to Florida he allowed me to observe

while he gave readings to two volunteers.I want to look at a few other things

before we go very far and look at your thumb it's the most important.

Ray started reading palms to help put himself through college.

There's a little narrowing of the second joint here, that's tact, that suggests

tactfulness.At the time he was convinced there was nothing to it.

This is the spiritual mental, I had no belief that it would work, but to be

convincing I did read the books and I did study the lines the way and told

it the as it's suppose to be told. And to my surprise it worked. And then it

became a very rapidly in palm reading. There's a break in your lifelines,

this is your lifeline right here. So you have had some physical problems, you

still may have some problems here, some medical problems of some sort.

He was right about that. That I had had some heart problems. Is there anything

there about my mother?About your mother? The one thing, the thing is clear is

that right from the beginning you didn't want to be dominated by her, you wanted

to make up your own mind about what your life is going to be like and so on.

I have been very head strong when it comes to my mother and she has kind of

tried to dominate me sometimes and I've rebelled against it

At the same time you want to be, you want to be on your own terms to stuff like

that.He's pretty right on the money with a lot of things. Maybe he's got some

part to himself that others are not in touch with and he knows these things.

It's turned about the relationship between your mother and yourself.

As a palm reader Ray was quite successful. Then a college friend bet him that

she would do just as well if he told his subjects the opposite of what he

read in their palms. He decided to give it a try.

Is that and I did this on my first client and she didn't say a word, she had no

reaction at all which was very spooky to me cause I'm use to feedback.

I thought it was because I had bombed, but it turned out because she was so

stunned I was so accurate. And this was really a shock to me because I had

done everything wrong, so I did it the next night wrong and then I realized it

doesn't make any difference what you tell them, it's more what you

convince them, how good you are and what you get them to believe.

As a professional psychologist Ray is very much aware of the role that careful

observation can play in a reading.You're living in a strange world, you'd be

better if you're living maybe 50, 40 years ago in some ways.

I've always said that I should have been born a long time ago.

This present world is, presents problems for you and you're not to happy with

it, you'd be. From the way she was dressed and so I could say that she'd

rather be living in an earlier time than today cause she was dressed from an

earlier time anyway. There's a change, there's been a, there for awhile

look like you had two jobs or two careers I'm not sure. And very recently you

have switched in fact there's been a major career change.

I've been in the same career for six years. Next year I'm thinking about

changing careers but I haven't done it yet so he could just be a little off in

his timing.If you set people up right you can tell them almost anything, they

really got creative and intelligent mind, they can make sense out of no matter

how crazy it seems to be they can find a way of reinterpreting it so it really

fits them like a glove. This person wants me to succeed, she'll work out some

accommodation.And you certainly don't need someone to deliberately fool you to

have what seems to be a psychic experience. Your mind can create one all by

itself.Let's say you don't like to fly and you're worried about a trip you're

going to take, then suddenly during the flight the plane suddenly woo drops a

few thousand feet because of down draft. You might very well choose to think

that you had some kind of psychic intuition about this. But what you're forget

is that you've had that same queasy feeling every time you've gotten on an

airplane and if doesn't fulfill itself you forget about it. You see the brain

is constantly searching for relationships, it's trying to work out cause and

affect. So we can know what to expect in our lives, that's natural. The

brain is very good at this but it does make mistakes. And one to explain these

mistakes is by some kind of psychic explanation. My investigations have

taken me to dozens of countries, but until recently one of the most interesting

wasn't open to scrutiny. It's long been rumored that Russia harbors

psychic talent like nowhere else in the world. The country has an ancient

mystical tradition. And the government has encouraged psychic research.

It's in Moscow?That's right.And you're not suppose to check in there?

Two pieces.Now that the country is open to visitors, I wanted to check things

out for myself. I had seen the Phylum's that came out during the Cold War. Juna

was a famous healer who had Brezhnev as a client.Carl Nicolai could apparently

turn on lights with the force of his will. The most famous Russian psychic is no

longer living, her name was Nina Kulagina. During a long career she appeared to

move all sorts of things through the power of her mind.

Now that the media are no longer strictly controlled, there's a vast new

audience for the paranormal on Russian television. Every night a program called

the Stars Speak, precedes the news with an astrological forecast.

The psychic Cash Perozki has even used television to demonstrate his claimed

ability to control pain. In this case during a live operation.

There are even commercials that extoll the miraculous.

During the Cold War both the Soviets and the Americans carried out research on

psychic warfare. At one time there was fear in the Pentagon about a

psychic or psi gap.The Russians claims some success with psychic mind control,

but their evidence was sketchy.So I was interested to find scientists as the

prestigious Institute of the Brain in Moscow, had reported measuring psychic

affects under test conditions. I arranged to observe these. The data they'd

collected in their test seemed promising.Simply could see there's a same

affect. You see this as just before.It appeared that the psychic had been able

to change the brainwaves as well as the blood pressure of the test subject. And

if these results could be confirmed but they would be a real breakthrough for

parapsychology. To make sure that scientists would not know what the psychic was

doing, it was agreed that he would be isolated in a remote wing of the complex.

Since it was founded in 1926, the Institute has been a national center for the

study of the brain. But much of the work done here had until recently been kept

secret. The psychic's name was Igna Chanco . According to parapsychologists in

Moscow, he was the real thing.All right we now have little over one minute

before we will start the selection process.Accompanying him was Zoya his

assistant.The experiment would last an hour, broken down into four 15 minute

tests.Hearing each test Igna Chanco would attempt to change either the subjects

brainwaves or his blood pressure. Or he might be asked to do nothing at all.

At the beginning of each test Igna Chanco randomly determined what he would do.

What do we have?Okay so we do nothing for 15 minutes.

For the first segment Igna Chanco would not attempt any kind of influence.

This will be like control. Anything? Control.The scientists began their

measurements. Unaware of the psychics selection.For phase two Igna Chanco chose

a heart symbol. He would try to change the subjects blood pressure.

We are raising the blood pressure. Beginning from the pelvis and working along

the backbone.Until there's burning in the backbone. That's enough, there's no

need to go any further.The spreading has already started.

Phase three, the brain. Igna Chanco would try to change brainwaves.

Stimulation. The pituitary. Stimulation of the pituitary.

Like that. Good, like that.The fourth and last test would again focus on

changing brainwaves.He will now be very smart. We've stimulated both the right

and left brain.When the experiment was complete, the scientists examined their

measurements for changes in the subjects brainwaves and blood pressure. Any

variation from normal would indicate a psychic influence. All right now let's

handle them one at a time. What is our conclusion in test number one? If you

remember during the first test Igna Chanco had done nothing.

It could be the blood pressure.The scientists saw a change in the subjects blood

pressure. Then number two? In test two, Igna Chanco had tried to change blood

pressure.The affect was on the brain, I think so. Should have gave me a

disagree.This time they detected a change in his brainwaves. What do we think on

three?With some disagreement they called the next test correctly for the

brain.Maybe with brain in the third case.Maybe? Okay that's brain, what about

number four? The last test had been another attempt to change brainwaves.

Nothing.But the scientists found no change at all. All right shall we announce

the results then?The experiment had produced one positive result out of four.

Just what would be expected by chance alone. Not very convincing evidence. So

what about their previous claims? I had an idea what might be at work here. I

suspected if that in the past when they examined their data, they had knowing

what affect they were looking for. In scientific lingo, that the test had not

been blinded. They confirmed this raising the possibility that their previous

work had not been objective.Look to see correlation.

But one of the group believed that the problem lay elsewhere.

I feel strongly that is impossible to accurately measure these extrasensory

phenomena by observing electrophisological indicators because the methods

are to crude.But remember that modern methods no matter complicated, technical

and technically perfect in advance are of no use whatsoever unless it is

conducted in a double blind fashion. Of course the results of a single test are

in no way conclusive. But one thing I've learned over the years is that

scientists,like the rest of us, have an uncanny ability to find what they're

looking for.Whether it's there or not.Communism from it's very start was

considered a scientific system. With its failure, many Russians have become

suspicious of science all together. At the same time private enterprise has

begun to develop and operates largely unchecked. A good example is healthcare.

It used to provided exclusively by the state, modern western medicine was the

model. Now some clinics charge for service and practice pretty much as they

wish. The traditional peoples medical center in Moscow opened in 1990. Some 30,

000 people pass through here every year. The treatments here consists of an

eclectic mix of folk remedies and psychic healing. The average charge is 50

Rubles, about half a days wage for many.There are therapies for nearly every

ailment, from cancer to impotence.This healer claims to be able to alter the

bodies chemistry through the power of his will.Down the hall a team of healers

uses a somewhat different approach. We were told that these patients were having

their biofields adjusted.Psychics say that biofields or auras are a visible form

of energy that radiates from the human body. Sick peoples biofields be work.

Bottles of water are found throughout the clinic. They're here to be charged the

healers energy. Later the water will be consumed for its pure powers.

Healing claims are difficult to test. Suggestion alone is psychologically

powerful and the body's immune system can cure most disease, without any help

whatsoever. I am pouring some tap water into this glass here. But the clinic

claimed that its healing waters have qualities that are detectable, so I

decided to test them. Now first of all we're testing to show that there is no

charge. No charge on this water at the moment. They use a dousing rod to

measure the charge. It's a simple device that beyond whatever other powers are

claimed for it, responds to the slightest movement of the hand.

There's no charge there correct?No charge.Very well, I'm going to ask the

gentleman now to put the charge on the water.He's showing, showing the field,

the field of charged water.Goes up several meters. I wanted to find out whether

they could tell the different between this charged water and plain water. If

there were no visual queues. Now if we were to place a shield like this around

the glass can he still detect the field? They said the shield wasn't a problem,

but that such a test just couldn't be made. It seems that the charge would be

picked up by all other water nearby, making differentiation impossible. We tried

to find another approach.You'll check it by this.Okay. They claimed the charged

water would reduce the blood pressure. I would simply have my blood pressure

measured before and after drinking some.Measuring blood pressure.

But here blood pressure was measured rather uniquely.

Are we going to use this machine eventually? I requested that a standard blood

pressure cuff be used.You're liable to prove that he will say how is it prior

blood pressure and then you'll check it by this.Okay. Who will check it? This

gentleman or somebody else? But once again we were

stimmed. No one in the entire facility knew how to use the cuff.

There is no one, any doctors here just all our traditional, our host.

The director of the clinic, interrupted to remind us of the importance of what

we were dealing with. He said the water had other even greater virtues.

It aided weight loss, increased energy, even bolstered the immune system.

Imagine this water appearing all over America in different bottles, green, rose,

red and people could drink it quietly and improve their health.

It this water is so powerful and so important and has such very special

qualities, it must be possible to tell whether or not it's ordinary water or

charged water. Regardless of all of these other influences, we've been told yest

that can be done, now we're being told no it can't be done because.

Before he came into the room we mixed these up like that.

Finally it was concluded that if a charged glass of water was kept at a certain

distance from other glasses of normal water, there would be minimal

contamination. Three glasses would be placed around the room, one of them would

contain charged water.And we wish you to tell us which one.

Okay.All right I'll take a seat over here.The amounts are the same.

There would be three attempts to identify the glass of charged water. The law of

averages would give one accidental success. Three hits by chance alone

would be improbable.He said that this charged.This is the charged.

Yes.Leave the room now, we'll do it.The second time with vandalizing okay.

Ah but there was once again a problem.All the glasses of water are becoming

charged. When he comes in here the other glasses start taking on a charge

because he starts thinking. The charging is driven by this mental energy. The

energy of thought. Apparently the very act of measuring a charge created a new

charge.Okay so is in fact it's being charged each of them.

It seemed that the water had yet another special quality. An inability to be

tested at all.Before I left Moscow there was one more psychic specialty that I

wanted to investigate. Two women in a nearby suburb had developed a reputation

for an unusual ability. Inga Pachanko and Sklania [foreign word] claimed to be

able to describe a persons life and character in detail using only a picture of

them for inspiration. They even said the Moscow police had called on them to

help solve difficult cases. Because it's easy to inadvertently pass on

information, particularly with such congenial people, I determined that I would

work diligently to eliminate any feedback. From a group of pictures that

we supplied, they selected a quite remarkable one to work on. Ted Bundy is best

known as a serial killer and is believed to have brutally murdered more

than 30 women. He was executed nearly four years before this session. I'd read

about him and found that ironically he was a psychology major in college.

He was also married and had a child.He's good at meditation. He's athletic. And

it seems to me that to some degree was involved in wrestling. Tennis to some

degree. He has a pleasant wife He has a very pleasant [inaudible]. It started

like most readings do, a laundry list of possibilities.

He's cute, attractive, long reddish hair.They were looking for me to respond in

some way.Inga maybe you can say something. He looks like Uri Geller doesn't he?

He graduated from college. He has some kind of military training, I think he's a

psychologist by education, psychology history. It seems to me he's been to

Switzerland.There was one overwhelmingly important fact about this person. If

these women had any psychic ability, they should have been able to pick up on

Bundy's horrendous crime. You know the pretty wife and everything is not maybe

the most outstanding thing but.I don't feel this is a man with one moral

direction. He has a wife, one child, a boy. Three years ago something happened

that was critically important to his fate. I feel it so clearly. If you would

ask questions we could continue our talk in a particular direction.

It was hard to deny these women but it seemed to me that any questions I asked

would give them information.He's original, in that he can behave in many

different ways. Many variations to his behavior. Strong willed, though it's hard

to say this about a person in a negative direction. I'm uncomfortable saying

that. A leader. He is patient, manages a group wells, has a excellent memory.

Outstanding. If we had feedback it would be a completely different emotional

search.I think it's time maybe I told them the whole story.

This is a photograph of man named Ted Bundy. He was executed by the government

because he is a mass murderer. How well did they do? Well Bundy did have

more than one moral direction but then again so do a great many other people.

Nothing important happened to him three years ago, because he was already

dead. He was executed four year ago and I'm not inclined to give them that kind

of latitude. In all, 2/3rds of the statements the women made were wrong.

And the rest weren't very specific. His wife was brunette, not blonde. His child

a girl, not a boy. He was neither a wrestler, nor a tennis player and

he had never been in the military or to Switzerland. It's true that he did study

psychology. Interesting.I was saying that he had a sad, yes the eyes of a

sadist, I had a negative psyche, the morality of a negative character. I said

that categorically almost.Not quite.Before they can be results we need to be

unfettered and we aren't unfettered with him. The information doesn't come. He

doesn't inspire us. He makes up stop it, a cork. The woman is complaining Jim,

the woman is complaining.A lot of people hate my skepticism and I think I

understand why. The psychics offer wonder and endless possibilities in a world

that often seems difficult and mundane. They promise health, wealth, wisdom,

eternal life. But if you examine the record, it's not the psychics but the hard

nosed scientists who have actually delivered the things that improve human

life. And to me science describes a world far more interesting than any psychic

[inaudible]. It's a good world, not perfect but it's ours. So we better learn to

live with it, the way it is. Now I'm just doing it very gently, very

gently. Remember plead innocence through this whole thing I know nothing, I know

nothing at all. It's just at the right point now, but keep, you can

handle that, you can handle it quiet pretty and we're looking, really doesn't

show very much, just a tiniest little bit of a crack there. Now you see

how flexible it's getting you say, okay now it's broken. You see and they don't

know it. Watch not let go of it, you tell them to let go and then you

hold it up like this you see. So you do this kind of thing and you say look it's

getting flexible and you let the top part droop over very slowly, I'm

pinching it pretty tightly here. The control is not all that easy and then turn

it sideways like this and it starts to go over to one side and it gets

to this point you say, hold your hands beneath it, hold your hands beneath it.

Go ahead. All right like this and it drops in two pieces. A miracle and

then you look at them straight in the eye and you say, you know I don't know how

that happens. It's just such a mystery.Funding for Nova is provided by Johnson

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