Probably the number one thing people ask me is: How can I learn spoon bending? And can I really do it? Seriously?
Taking things backwards (always more interesting, don’t you think?) the answer is yes you too can spoon-bend. I’ve taught hundreds, no thousands of people to do it and trust me when I say that 85% to 95% of them succeed their very first try.
You too can destroy your cutlery! Make it unique! Make it useless!
Spoon bending is for (almost) everyone
There are a few people who do not succeed, however. In my experience, these fall into three key categories:
- Those who are extremely elderly and very low in life energy. These folks barely have enough life energy to keep themselves going and don’t seem able to muster enough to make their spoons or forks soften.
- Those who are ill with chronic diseases they’re actively fighting, or simply ill. This does not include people who are managing a chronic disease. I’ve taught people with ALS and with cancer, for example. However, if you’re acutely ill with anything, your attention and focus is going to be on healing yourself, not on bending forks and spoons to uselessness. Wait till you’re feeling better to try.
- Those whose minds are so closed they refuse to actually try to bend it–or who convince themselves they’re trying when they’re actively blocking themselves from success. This does not mean you can’t be skeptical–I’ve had a lot of skeptics in my workshops. It does mean you have to set that skepticism aside and genuinely try to follow the instructions.
How to fail at spoon bending
In terms of the third category, a story about one workshop participant will explain what I mean. I did a workshop with one person who verbally said she desperately wanted to succeed at spoon bending. Yet, she was a scientist and was very skeptical. (Not a problem, usually; I’ve taught lots of skeptical scientists to do this, including several others in the very same workshop as this lady.) So we started the spoon bending thing and she was doing very well till we got to the part where the spoon (or fork in this case) was supposed to soften. As instructed, she held it between her hands, the fingers of one hand holding the tines, the fingers of the other holding the end of the handle. And she was focusing and concentrating and (presumably) running energy through that fork. Every so often I’d ask her to gently see if she could bend it. And I’d see her grasp tighten and her arms would tense and she’d shake her head and say no, no way.
Hmm…
Can you drink your soup from this tablespoon? I didn’t think so. Don’t blame me. I take no responsibility for ruined flatware. I’m just saying…
So I gave her a boost. Most people who have trouble initially, aren’t running enough energy through the fork, so I placed my two hands about an inch on the outside of hers as she held the fork horizontally. And I ran some energy through it too. Then I asked her to see if it was softening again. Once again, her grip tightened, her arms tensed…and nope…no movement.
We repeated this a couple times, with no positive result. Finally I asked if I could just test the fork. I picked it up…and it was as soft as butter! A three-year-old could have twisted that sucker into a pretzel. The fact is, she’d succeeded brilliantly. But when I handed it back to her and asked her to try to bend it, again her grip tightened, her arms tensed, and she claimed she couldn’t bend it even a little.
This is a clear case of her being so convinced that she couldn’t that she faked herself out. Her mind convinced her that she was trying to bend the fork when actually, she was working hard to keep it in its original state.
In other words, she was divided. Part of her genuinely wanted to succeed. The other, stronger, part of her, however, was desperately trying to make sure she didn’t. The only time I’ve seen this particular effect is in scientists who are worried about what success may mean to their worldviews.
Over the coming days, I’ll share the secrets to spoon-bending with you, so keep coming back. It’s not hard. Really. But do not blame me if you mess up your best cutlery fiddling around with this!
If you’re going to be bending your spoons and forks, at least bend them responsibly!
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Hi Maureen. I wanted to point out that you said something wrong on Coast to Coast AM a few minutes ago, you said, “science can sometimes be arrogant” which no offense, is an atheistic bigoted phrase meant to exclude anyone else as being apart of science except them. I’m not saying you did that on purpose. Science as you know is a field of knowledge, it doesn’t belong to anyone and there is more than one field of knowledge, so to say, “it’s arrogant” is lumping in everyone who is a scientist, which includes Christians, as if they are no different then the atheists, many of who pretend or in their delusion believe they are superior or the only people qualified to be scientists, and everyone else except agnostics are biased, delusional, superstitious and illogical. You can’t say all scientists are like that. If you had said, sometimes scientists from certain groups can be arrogant, or say arrogant things, that would have been correct.
Many years ago, a group of us watched Uri Geller bend a spoon on TV (and start a “broken” watch). There were around six or seven of us. We tried bending spoons. Not one managed it (nor I). Once, I talked to Uri, telling him that one cannot know too much. He disagreed. In time, I came to the realization that he was correct.
I “hung out” with Ingo Swann for eleven years. We had a behavioral incompatibility but still managed to get together for walks and movies. He no longer answers his phone so I have no idea how he is. As for letters, he has never responded to any I have sent. Sometimes I feel the eleven years were a lot dream I had but I know too much about him today, to believe that. Good luck with your work.
You’ve had influences from some amazing people! The thing is that I’ve found that virtually everyone (with very few exceptions) can spoon-bend, at least at the “kindergarten” level I teach it, where the spoon (or fork) just gets soft enough for you to easily twist into new shapes. IN small groups, where I can give personal attention to anyone having trouble, I get virtually 100% success rate. In large groups of hundreds of people, and I ask them to hold up their twisted forks at the end, it’s at least 80-90% success rate. (No formal stats on this, just based on how many people say they did it.) It’s easy to do. I think we often fake ourselves out by thinking stuff is hard when it’s just new instead.
typo “long dream” not “lot dream”
Time does NOT exist. It is a mind construct.
http://www.realityshifters.com/pages/articles/whimsical.html
I think you’re right. It’s all in how we PERCEIVE the world as opposed to how it is.
I am disappointed not to be able to bend spoons, etc. and especially since Uri Geller bent a key while in my hand as we had an encounter when I was West Coast Editor of POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY and my magazine had trashed him. I was doing a piece on Kirlean photography by Thelma Moss at UCLA, hence the encounter. Geller and I had several phone conversations after that and he remote viewed the room I was in with fair accuracy.
You are vague in “Impossible Realities” with regard to instructions. You need to tell people what to think about or on, or something if they are to succeed at these activities.
I wonder why you do not use the term “psi” as in most such literature, instead of just “energy.” That seems rather undefined, unspecific and not clear.
Did you have an editor for your book? It contains some problems that should not be in a finished, properly edited work.
Adrian Vance
I am disappointed not to get a response and instructions. I have been rubbing one particular fork until we became friends and now I feel people should not watching me when I do this.