EXPERIMENTS Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973

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The objective of this group of experimental sessions is to verify Geller apparent paranormal perception under carefully controlled conditions and to head toward an physical and understanding of the psychological variables underlying his apparent ability.

In each of the eight of this picture drawing experimental period we conducted experiments_ In these experiments Geller from the target material either was separated by the isolation by an electrically isolated shielded room Ke provided by having the targets drawn the East Coast_ continued to work with picture drawing repea tabllity s0 that we could tasks in an effort to achieve to determine the meaningfully vary the experimental conditions effect of physical parame on the sult success in phenomena . As a re-has_denons this experimental period consider he tra ted his pargnormal perceptual and days have ters

Sa turday August 4 . Two drawing exper ts In both of these, Geller were conducted this was closeted in an opaque acous 'tically and electrically shielded room This room is the double-walled used for EEG research in the Life shielded roon by means of an inner Sciences Dlvision of SRI It is locked and outer door , each of wh ich is secured frigerator-typc locking mechanism. with a re1 imen day _

The drawings used in this experiment wcre selected by randomly could college dictionary and selecting the first word which reasonably be drawn The first word obta inec in this two large

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fuse and the object vas a firecracker. All target sclection and picturc drawing was done with Gclle1 lready in the shielded Geller was notified via intercom when the target picture was and taned the ont.side

His almost imediate response was tlat he a cylinder with noise coming out of it (He was continuously monitored by a one-way circuit.) His drawing to correspond to the target was a drum , along with a number of other cylindrical-looking objects 2 and 3 _ Figs -

The second word selected was 'bunch , and the target was 8 bunch of grapes Geller 5 immediate response was that he 'drops of water coming out of the picture_ then talked about purple circles Fínally , he said that he was quite sure that he had the picture His drewing was indeed a bunch of grapes Both the target and Geller s rendition had 24 grapes in the bunch _ 4 and Figs.

In this work the target picture is never discussed by the experimenters after the picture is or brouglt near the shielded rooin The intercom opera only from the inside of the room to the outside , except when the push-to-talk swltch is depressed on the outside of the room In our detailed examination of the shielded room and the protocol used in these experiments sensory leakage has been found , nor has any defect 1n the protocol been brought to our attentiontes

Sunday, August Geller is locked in the shielded room and the target is drawn in the experimenter's office about a half mile away . Tle target selected from the dictionary was an outline drawing of a man , which evolved through the drawing process into devil with a To start the experiment, Puthoff who was with Geller, called who was with the drewing. Geller spent almost half hour working on the drawing before producing the first of several responses Targ,

Hls drawings were follows 1 'Moses' Tablets i.e . Ten Con mandnents inside the world with trident the outsidc_ 2 . coning out of it_ A snake was in the same picturc _ 3 Con posite plcture th Ten Coinma ndnen ts of the vorld God ide the world and the trident the outslde a long with neatly drawn leaf . Oe led to speculatc that the Garden of Eden rcpresentation in thesc thrce drawings is pcrhaps associational ma tcrial triggcred by the T'he Inabllity Gellcr 5 part to draw the devil may be culturally wi top ins



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to the pictures Gellcr did the trident the target picture, but did not draw the mna n was holding it_ From this it seens clear that Geller does not simply copy lines from the target picture: but rather does on then them himself _ 6-9 ing Fig.

The second target picture was drawn by an experimenter while he wa5 inside the shielded room with Geller outside the rooni with another experimenter In this case the target was a representation the solar system , drawn #ithout the orbit lines His immediate verbal reaction before drawing was one of space 10 a nd Geller' s drawn response to the target while outside the room also omits the conventional orbit línes and appears to have many similarities to the target drawing. block in the center of Geller s according to his was afterthought suggested by the movie 2001 and was dravn an addition just before comparing target wi th response Fig. an

August 6 _ The experiment to be done this was 2 pure clairvoyance A picture was drawn by a scientist outside of the usua l experimental group _ The picture was locked in the shielded roon before Geller arrival at SRI _ Geller was then led by the experimenters to the shielded room and asked to the picture inside the room He drew a number of pictures , all of whicl as being applicable_ He said that he no clear impression and passed _ The target was a rabbit, and nothing Geller drew in any way resembled rebbit It should be added that the picture was drawn by scientist of whom Geller is not fond_ and Geller asked at the outset if this was the csse experimenters said that this was not the case , since did not know drawn the pictureGeller felt vindicated to somle extent when he found out that his initial guess to the artist had been correct_ day got they as

Tuesday August Z. two target pictures were attempted the shielded He was connected to an EEG apparatus to allow measurement of his brain waves atthe time he a ttempting to pcrceivc hidden picture The two target pictures werc tree and envelopc He experienccd dlfficulty, did ma ke a drawing that corresponded to eitler drawing and passec _ he found it very dífficult to hold adçquately still to Ie will repeat thc EEG experimcnt another time to and obtain better data The sanic skeptical cxperimentcr drew thc thc EEG operator thís second unsucccssful day . day wi in try



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Wednesday 8 . Three targets were dravn during the course of this day 5 Ir tle first, the experimenters closed the outcr door of the labora in which the shiclded room is located (in ad dition to the inner double doors) and worked in an adjoining tory

The target picture in this case was a canel Geller felt unsure and passed , but his first choice drawing was a horse 12 and

experimenters then returned to the room outside the shielded roon drew the second plcture which was the Golden Gate inside the shielded room drew some Bridge. Geller curved lines with sone squares underHe said that he didn t know what was and passed . Fig. 14 _

The third picture 8 flying sea Geller a lmost ately said that he saw flying swan over a hill_ He drew several birds and said that he was that his draving correct, which ít 15 and 16 .

In these experiments conducted with this shielded room six day work was done Good results were obtained on the four when there no openly skeptical observer (except the experimenters whom Geller has learned to accept) _ days

9 We moved the experimen ts to new shielded room from the Life Science to the Engineering build in order to ma ke use of the computer facilities thereing

After Geller was secured in shielded room about 150 feet down the hall and around a corner from the computer rooin a picture was on the face of the TV screen driven by the ter compu s graphics program The plcture drawn was a kite_ Shortly after Geller was notlfied that the picture he had the computer room ca lled to determine if the target picture was geometric ture or object_ We told him that it was object, by talking to intermediary , who was ignorant of the target picturc Geller' s first drewing case a square with the diagonals drawn in Ilc then also drew some trlangular airplanes and passed first 2 reprcsentation of the tual drawing target picture_ 17 and 18_ pic ac Figs.






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ausust pictures were drawn and stored in the computer memory tha t visible evidence was availablc in the computer roon aftcr the picturc was drawn -

The first picture was church _ The picturc was dra"2 and stored the memory of the computer _ Geller 5 responses are shown in the attached collection of drawings. It is clcar that both of his attempts elements in conunon with tle target drawing, but had idea that it was a church and he passed . 19-21 . have

The second target picture was stored on face of the TV tube thc intensity turned off s0 no picture was with the room lights turned Geller drew arrow under a rounded brick and then drew another arrow inside 2 suitcasc. Ke consider the arrow in the suitcase similar to the target, which was an arrow through heart. Figs.

These latter two experiments admit of at least hypotheses whicl will require further work to differentiate: (1) clairvoyant perceptlon of information stored in the computer, (2) telepathy , since there were several people in the computer room, all of whon knew the nature of the target that stored two

• distance thy experiment wa5 also done Friday An East Coast scientist was called and asked to draw simple representational object for Geller to Following the experiment he indicated that he drew two peaked nountains with sun in the upper rightGeller drew side by side with a circle in the upper right. Geller s picture als0 had a through We consider this to be suggestive of comunication but not conclusive. Ke do not have East Coast original long telepa

Saturday August 1l _ A lengthy long distance experineut was performed another East Coast scientist. In this case the man chose to draw cross-sectional view of the (In retrospect considcr this to be an unsuitable target since Geller would not recognize the even if successful.) Geller bcgan by writing down the words drawing nedical and 'living' th e of Jis wrote words aviation and architecturc two one of complex and indescribablesecond did ana tomical cross-scctlon_ These rcsponscs bcing sent to the for comparison top tor

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