My wife recently attended a one day energy work seminar. One of the exercises was to use your energy to soften a spoon and then bend it with your hands, using perhaps one tenth the force it would normally take to bend the spoon. There were 8 or 10 people present. Every one except my wife and father-in-law was able to bend their spoons. My mother-in-law bent her spoon so far, that it broke.
Why should someone learn to bend spoons?
People are all regulated by a mechanism in their brain that I call the governor. The mechanism normally will prevent the brain from believing the impossible is possible. Learning that spoon bending is possible is one way to start to remove the constraints of the governor.
Here is a great article on attending a spoon bending (aka PK) party from Uri Geller’s website:
In the spring of 1985, I was invited to attend a spoon bending party. An aerospace engineer named Jack Houck had become interested in the phenomenon, and from time to time had parties at which people bent spoons. I was given a street address in southern California, and told to bring a half-dozen forks and spoons I didn’t care about, since they would be bent during the evening.
It was a typical suburban California house. About a hundred people were there, mostly families with young kids. The atmosphere was festive and a little chaotic, with all the kids running around. Everybody was giggly. We were going to bend spoons!
We all threw the silverware we had brought into the center of the floor, where it made a great metal pile. Jack Houck then dumped a carton containing more silverware onto the floor, and told us what to do. He said that, in his experience, to bend spoons we needed to create in atmosphere of excitement and emotional arousal. He encouraged us to be noisy and excited.
What usually happens after someone is successful bending a spoon?
If a person is actually confronted with evidence that reality is not what we think, then governor will again step in… and make the extraordinary into the ordinary. In a sense, it will make us forget. Also from the article on Uri Geller’s website:
“You mean you experienced this extraordinary phenomenon and you didn’t try to explain it?”
“No,” I said.
“That’s very strange,” he said. “I would say that your behavior is a pathological denial of what happened to you. This incredible experience occurs and you do nothing to investigate it at all?”
“I don’t see why it’s pathological,” I said. “I don’t go investigating why everything in the world happens. For example, I know that, if I bend a wire rapidly, the wire will get hot and break-but I don’t really know why that happens. I don’t think it’s my job to rush out and find out why. In this case, spoon bending, the room was full of people doing the same thing, and it seemed very ordinary. Kind of boring.”
In fact, this sense of boredom seem to me often to accompany “psychic” phenomena. At first the event appears exciting and mysterious, but very quickly it becomes so mundane that it can no longer hold your interest. This seems to me to confirm the idea that so-called psychic or paranormal phenomena are misnamed. There’s nothing about them. On the contrary, they’re utterly normal. We’ve just forgotten we can do them. The minute we do do them, we recognize them for what they are, and we think, so what? Spoon bending is like doing the laundry, or riding a bicycle. No big deal. Not really worth much conversation.
Looking through links I have saved over the years, I found this really good instructional video on spoon bending. See the spoon bending videos at the Zensight website. Notice how Carol Ann bends the spoon into several loops in the first video.
Jack Houck has some good information about how have successful PK parties and Material Deformation by Intention.
At the time this paper was presented on March 28, 2003, I had given 361 PK Parties that were attended by approximately 17,000 people since January 1981. All of these parties have been documented. The date, location, number of attendees, and the number of people who had success in each of the phases of the PK Parties are kept in a computerized database. Similarly, from PK Party #44 through #343 attendees filled out questionnaires, recording their perception of what they did and that data has been recorded in another computerized database. 59% of the 14,315 people attending those PK Parties turned in completed questionnaires. Pictures of individuals, couples or families were taken at each PK Party and a copy given to the people in the pictures when possible. Occasionally it was not possible to correlate the face in the picture with the name and address of the individual. Figure 2 shows typical results during these phases of a PK Party.
One of the first rules in spoon bending is to not let yourself be skeptical… or let other skeptics influence you. This encourages the governor to step in and prevent the experience.
Sometimes, while you are doing kindergarten bending, you find that there is some guy looking over your shoulder saying, “AH, you are just bending it physically.” That really doesn’t help you at all. So I suggest using a little technique that I developed to shut down the interference from the skeptics. You simply get a big smile on your face, look at the skeptic, and shout “SHUT UP!” I really don’t want the skeptics to get in the way. I want you to learn how to do the PK and have lots of fun in the process.
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My next to the worst PK Party was for a group of nine Ph.D. physicists and their families at Los Alamos. All the wives and children bent silverware, but none of the physicists bent. It wasn’t that they were physicists because many physicists have been to PK Parties and bent. But these scientists all worked together in a very closed environment and, in a sense, their subconsciouses would not allow them to deviate from the norm. The same phenomenon sometimes occurs between spouses at PK Parties. They are so linked and patterns established at the subconscious level that they do not allow each other to learn this new skill. For this reason, I suggest spouses not sit next to each other at PK Parties.
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PK Parties have become so popular all over the world that literally millions of people are learning to bend metal. Eldon Byrd went to Japan to put a PK Party on for national Japanese television. He gave the PK Party over the airways where the people at home could participate. They had TV cameras placed all over Tokyo and told the people to bring the things they bent out to the street so they could be photographed. The TV station estimated that between 6 and 20 million people came running out into the streets with bent up metal and chop sticks.
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We try to create a peak emotional event at a PK Party. The bigger this peak emotional event, the better the results. When I am in different parts of the United States, I say “It’s OK to do these things in California.” Usually the people can relate to doing weird things in California, so I have them pretend that they are in California for the PK Party. It is important to act silly and have fun during the party.
The PK Party is not really about bending metal, but allows you to experience things which you may not have believed possible, which in turn should help you reduce some of the artificial limits placed on your life. At the end of the PK Party I always take a picture of people with their bent up forks and spoons, and later send it to them so they will have a record of how happy they looked after the party with all of their bent material.
Namaste, my friends. Soon we will change the world.
