Swami Rama, Jack Schwartz, and Uri Geller
Demonstrations of Mind/Brain Over Body and Matter
Photo Credits: "Beyond Biofeedback", Elmer and Alyce Green;
"Walking With a Himalayan Master", Justin O'Brien,
"The Geller Papers", Charles Panati.
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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