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Was Geller the mystery psychic?
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| Posted by: Roy Stemman |
10/11/2006 10:35 AM |
Hardly a day goes by without my receiving a report of a psychic being consulted to solve a crime or mystery. Television production companies, in particular, have discovered that the combination of alleged paranormal powers and unsolved crimes makes for compelling viewing.
The fact that few of them result in an arrest or conviction is largely immaterial. The psychic usually achieves enough “hits” to be impressive and it is left to us to wonder how many “misses” were edited out.
But this week’s reports of the Israeli Army using psychics to try to locate three missing men – kidnapped in two different incidents – certainly comes as a surprise.
One of the psychics is named as Orit Tomer Ish-Yemini, who is better known in Israel as a healer and psychic diagnostician than a paranormal detective. Described by the Jerusalem Post (in 2002) as articulate, slim, beautiful and a heavy smoker, Ish-Yemini is said to be able to diagnose people’s problems just by looking at them.
She is married to a police officer who was once a patient. “I knew as soon as he walked in the door that he was going to be my husband,” she said.
But who is the other psychic who is said to have been present at a high-level military briefing (see: “Medium helps Israeli Army hunt kidnapped soldiers”)?
The only clue we are given is that he is male.
I can think of only one person who is likely to be consulted by the Israeli Defence Forces (even on an informal basis):
URI GELLER
 My reasoning, without recourse to psychic abilities, is simple. If the meeting described by www.haaretz.com actually took place and was attended by the individuals named (the army’s chief of staff and the Israeli defence minister) it is highly unlikely that a “nobody” – in psychic or other respects – would be invited to take part. And I know of no Israeli "psychic" of note, apart from Uri Geller, who would command such respect.
Though sceptics frequently dismiss him as just a magician and “spoon-bender”, Geller is highly respected in many circles, particularly for his charitable work. For example, he helped negotiate an amicable agreement between the Red Cross, Palestine Red Crescent and Israel’s Magen David Adom – a deal that was agreed in Geneva in November last year.
“Uri Geller did not just help break the ice with the skills that have made him famous,” said Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey. “He has also played a pivotal role in helping everyone focus on the main objective and overcoming differences over secondary details at key junctures,” she told the assembled dignitaries.
Geller also claims to have had success at locating hidden resources – such as oil – while flying over them.
If Geller was present at the Israeli military briefing which looked at ways of locating the missing soldiers, he would, of course, be sworn to secrecy – a difficult situation for such a self-publicist but one which his humanitarian concerns will certainly override.
However, for the record, I should just mention that despite the apparent intervention of two psychics, the three Israeli soldiers are still, sadly, missing and their fate is unknown.
Roy Stemman
11 October 2006
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