Are there really psychics who can bend or even break metal spoons/forks using only their minds?
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In the 1970s, there were many reports of people who claimed to have the ability to cause such events. The most notable in the West was Uri Geller, a former stage magician who demonstrated his alleged psychic powers by bending metal spoons (hence the popular name above) as well as metal keys and several other objects and materials. However the reports were met with skepticism by most scientists, and many reported performances were eventually exposed as tricks and frauds by professional stage magicians such as James Randi.\n\nIn most cases, the trick could be accomplished simply by misdirection, a basic tool of the stage magician. Namely, the performer draws the audience's attention away from the spoon during the brief moment while he is actually bending it with his hands. The typical bend, where the bowl meets the handle, requires relatively little force.\n\nAnother possible method is to use a metal spoon that has been previously doctored so that a simple flick will cause it to bend. This can be done, for instance, by repeatedly bending the spoon at the desired spot, until the metal cracks and weakens. A skilled magician can disguise a sharp flick so that it appears smooth and natural.
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There are only two types of "psychics." There are the outright frauds who are out to make a buck and the people who genuinely mistakenly believe that they have extra-sensory abilities.\n\nMy question for everyone who believes in the psychic phenomenon is: Why does James Randi's $1,000,000 prize to be awarded to anyone who can reliably demonstrate psychic abilities go unclaimed? It started at $10,000 thirty years ago. It has grown a hundred fold. Yet no one has stepped forward and demonstrated any sort of ability that meets the criteria. \n\nNot Sylvia Brown, not John Edward, not Uri Gellar, not Joe Schmoe, who sits in his basement and "predicts the future." \n\nIf you're claiming that psychic ability is simply "a feeling," then somerandominternetperson is right, we are all psychic because we all have feelings.\n\nWhat kind of feelings are you describing? What do you "see?" What can you "tell?" What can you "do?"\n\nI will continue to be skeptical (not misinformed) about psychics until someone demonstrates that the phenomenon is something more than parlor tricks. Are you that person?
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Psychic ability is a gift from God, I believe.  Our souls/energy leaves our physical bodies when they expire.  The soul/energy transfers to another state...the laws of science even support that theory.
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Yes, although I don't believe they exist to the extent portrayed on tv, in the movies or in books.\n\nYou can develop your own powers if you wish.  Even if it doesn't appear that you have any.
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I don't particularly believe in psychics myself, but if in a situation of desperation, most people, including me, would do whatever it takes to get things done. A friend of mine had a sister that was missing for almost 2 years, her family finally decided to use a psychic, between the police and the psychic, her sisters body was found.
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No this is totally impossible. There did use to be a novelty product called x-ray glasses and looking through these gave a skeleton type effect to the person. The lens (or holes) has small pieces of feather stuck over them and this combination gave an optical illusion.\n\nHypnotist sometime have a pair of glasses that hypnotised people wear and they beleive that they see people naked. This of course is not try it is only because the hypnotist has suggested it.\n\nHope this helps.
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ya know Dionne Warwick had a lot of so called phychics stealing money from people using her name and got busted for frud\n\nI dont think the few people who can do such a thing are on yahoo but aol has a room of psychics
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I really think this can only be detrmined by a psychic!
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if by super powers you mean laser eye beams and bullet speed , you really need to let go of that ... but some people still believe in telekinesis and psychic abilities ...... i can't really put that into a category but its not childish...
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What you are talking about is a little weird, but you can sort of do it.  It isn't by creating alternative personalities.  That only exists in rare psychological illnesses.  But you can train yourself to do two things at once, and you can train your left hand to do one thing, your right hand another.  But you better be damn smart.  I have read of a few people that smart and had one college professor like that.
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Psychics are real. I don't know about you, but I have never heard anyone say, "I really shouldn't have trusted my gut instincts." That's basically what it's about, being in tune to your intuition.\n\nI do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing. I can do this with person after person, and it always goes through at a different rate. I'm always careful to not call out too often where the energy is, so that I don't lead the experience. I think that it's important to verify the phenomena.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things which could not have been randomly guessed.\n\nOne time on a camping trip, we created a psychic link which allowed us to keep tabs on each other without needing those family band radios.\n\nOne time, while engaging in on-line activities, a witch and I played a game of "where am I touching you" and we were able to correctly identify where and how the other person was touching from thousands of miles apart over IM\n\nFor a while, a friend and I maintained a karmic connection, and sometimes I would smell something, and call her up, and it was exactly what she was smelling.\n"Did you just make cookies?"\n"Was the dog just breathing in your face?"\n"Did you just disinfect something?"\n\nOften times when I'm driving, I'll see someone walking who doesn't look as several cars go past, and I'll look at the person, and they'll turn to look as I approach. Whereas people with the person (the ones I wasn't looking at) don't turn.\n\nThese are just a few reasons off the top of my head why I believe in Psychics
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Mind reading? Technically it is impossible, it is possible however to get an information from the mind by the believers of the idea of "psi".  It is the energy which is basically life. Such is required for one to use to determine what the person knows and feels, according to the belief anyway.\n\nBut what you are describing is a huge coincidence.  It happens every now and then, if it happens everyday and about 10-20 times a day, then it is a paranormal occurance, and then the only thing I can tell you is, take pictures, videos, and any other proof, because that would be amazing.
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I think that Mediums are psychics and they communicate, not with the dead, but with the universe. I think that Sylvia Browne is the best Medium. As for them being evil, only the ones that choose to be, just like all people.
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Telekinesis is the ability to move or bend objects using ones mind.
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There are people who claim to be able to see into the future, move objects without touching them, or talk to the dead, but none of them are real. There has never once been any proven psychic in the world currently. If they ever existed, they were known as "Prophets."
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Yes.  Simple thoughts may not produce anything, but heavy concentration can yeild some surprising results.  I believe that long ago, man was attuned to this phenomenon and "magic" may have actually existed.  Over eons of time, this ability has gradually been purged from us from witchcraft trials and disuse and ultimately disbelief that such acts are possible.
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Scientifically, yes but uncontrollably, and only in a small area. Supernaturally is another thing and i think you can but through demonic forces (although they would masquerade as good) most of the time and not good forces. but thats for another topic to discuss.