Swami Rama, Jack Schwartz, and Uri Geller

In 1969 at the invitation of Dr. Elmer Green of the Menninger Foundation, Swami Rama was a consultant in a research project investigating the voluntary control of involuntary states. Later joined by Jack Schwartz, and then a host of other yogic subjects in India, these people participated in experiments that helped to revolutionize scientific thinking about the relationship between body and mind, of precise conscious control of autonomic physical responses and mental functioning, previously thought to be impossible.

Under these scientific conditions, Swami Rama demonstrated the ability to stop his heart from pumping blood for 16.2 seconds and to produce an 11-degree difference in temperature between different parts of the palm of his hand. In one demonstration, using only mental power, he caused a fourteen - inch aluminum knitting needle mounted on a shaft five feet away, to spin.

Below, the foam and plexiglass mask Swami Rama wore over his face to prevent any air current from his mouth or nose from affecting the movement of the PK needles in the telekinetic experiment (He was also completely covered and wrapped further with a cloth over his entire body to prevent any other bodily movement from affecting the needels):

Below, a photograph of the PK device which Rama successfully moved without any physical contact:

Below, Swami Rama responds to a skeptical challange from a physician, in which Rama claimed that he could cause the energy from a chakra to glow as to be visible to the naked eye. The polaroid photo below is unretouched, and shows light emminating from the heart chakra area.

Below, Jack Schwartz painlessly- smiling- thrusts a large darning needle through his biceps repeatedly on request for the lab researchers. He was able to stop and start bleeding at will, control his heart rate (stop his pulse), hold lit cigarettes to his arm with no pain, or permanent skin damage. The cigarrette burns ranged from simple red marks to blisters on different occassions. With 72 hours all trace of burns dissappeared. Although he had been doing these kinds of demonstrations for years, the reserachers remarked that "The skin on Jack's arm is as smooth as a baby's." All of his puncture "wounds" closed immediately, and were completely healed and completely invisible between 24 and 48 hours. He further had a ritual of rubbing the needle around on the dirty floor with his shoe before demonstrating.

In 1973 Eldon Byrd, a physicist at the U.S. Naval Surface Weapons Center, Silver Spring Maryland designed a unique test on several occassions for Uri Geller involving a unique metal alloy called nitinol. This material actually "remembers" the shape in which it is manufactured. Byrd thoroughly tested the nitinol wire samples before presenting them to Geller, unannounced. Upon lightly touching the wire, within seconds the wire became permanently deformed. An original straight example of the wire is shown in the top of #1 then after Geller touched it below, with a high magnification of the bend in #2. Other permanently deformed examples are shown in #3 and #4. The only possible way of deforming the wire in the manner demonstrated by Geller would be by heating the wire to at least 900 degrees F. and holding and simultaneously twisting with pliers. Byrd commented on a paper regarding his tests of Geller, "There is absolutely no explantaion as to how Geller bent the wire by gently touching it."

These people all have something in common:
They all say that similar extraordinary abilities are all within the capabilities of every single one of us through simple conscious application of our nature given brain/mind abilties.

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THE NOT SO AMAZING RANDI----   Dec. 2017