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1973
R. Targ
"fuse" and
the object drawn was
a firecracker.
All
target selection
and picture drawing was done with Geller already
in the shielded
room.
Geller was notified via
intercom when
the target picture was drawn and
taped
to the wall
outside his enclosure.
His almost immediate response was
that he saw
"a cylinder with
noise coming out
of
it".
(He was continuously monitored by a one-way
audio circuit.)
His drawing to correspond
to the target was
a drum,
along with a number of other cylindrical-looking objects.
Figs.
2 and
3.
The second word selected was
"bunch," and
the target was
a bunch
of grapes.
Geller' s immediate response was
that
he saw "drops
of water
coming out
of
the picture."
He then talked about "purple circles".
Finally,
he said that he was quite sure that he had the picture.
His
drawing was
indeed
a bunch of grapes.
Both the target picture and
Geller' s rendition had 24 grapes
in
the bunch.
Figs.
4 and
5.
In this work the target picture
is never discussed by the experi-
menters after the picture
is drawn or brought near
the shielded room.
The intercom operates only from the inside
of
the room to the outside,
except when the push-to-talk switch
is depressed on the outside of
the
room.
In our detailed examination
of
the shielded room and
the protocol
used
in these experiments no sensory leakage has been found,
nor has any
defect
in the protocol been brought
to our attention.
Sunday, August
5.
Geller
is locked
in the shielded room and
the target
is drawn
in
the experimenter's office about
a half mile away.
The target
selected from the dictionary was an outline drawing of
a man, which evolved
through the drawing process
into
a devil with
a trident.
To start
the
experiment,
Puthoff,
who was with Geller,
called Targ, who was with the
drawing.
Geller spent almost
a half hour working on
the drawing before
producing the first of
several responses.
His drawings were as follows.
1.
"Moses* Tablets"
i.e.,
Ten Com-
mandments,
Inside the world with
a
trident on
the outside.
2.
Apple
with a worm coming out
of
it.
A snake was
in
the same picture.
3.
Com-
posite picture with the Ten Commandments
on
top of
the world,
God
inside
the world and the trident on the outside,
along with
a neatly drawn
leaf.
One
is
led
to speculate
that
the Garden of Eden representation
in these
three drawings
is perhaps associational material
triggered by
the
target.
The inability on Geller’s part to draw the devil may be culturally
in-
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Uri Geller August
4-11,
1973
R. Targ
With regard to the pictures,
Geller did draw the trident from the
target picture,
but he did not draw the man who was holding
it.
From
this
it seems clear that Geller does not simply copy lines from the
target picture,
but rather he does perform some mental processing
on
them before drawing them himself.
Fig.
6-9.
The second
target picture was drawn by an experimenter while he
was inside the shielded room with Geller outside the room with another
experimenter.
In
this case
the target was
a representation of
the solar
system,
drawn without
the orbit
lines.
His
immediate verbal reaction
before drawing was one of
"space".
Fig.
10 and
11.
Geller' s drawn
response
to the target while outside
the room also omits
the conventional
orbit
lines and appears
to have many similarities
to the
target drawing.
The block in the center of Geller ’s
picture,
according
to his
statement,
was his afterthought suggested by the movie 2001 and was drawn an an
addition just before comparing target with response.
Monday, August 6 .
The experiment
to be done this day was
a pure
clairvoyance
task.
A picture was drawn by
a scientist outside of
the
usual experimental group.
The picture was
locked in the shielded room
before Geller’s arrival at SRI.
Geller was then
led by
the experi-
menters
to the shielded room,
and asked
to draw
the picture inside
the
room.
He drew a number of pictures,
all of which he rejected as not
being applicable.
He said
that he got no clear impression and passed.
The target was a rabbit,
and nothing Geller drew in any way resembled
a rabbit.
It should be added
that
the picture was drawn by
a scientist
of whom Geller is not fond,
and Geller asked at
the outset
if
this was
the case.
The experimenters said that this was not
the case,
since
they did
not know who had drawn the picture.
Geller felt vindicated
to some extent when he found out that his
initial guess as
to the artist
had been correct.
Tuesday,
August
7 .
This day two target pictures were attempted with
Geller in the shielded
room.
He was connected
to an EEG apparatus
to
allow measurement
of his brain waves at the time that he was attempting
to perceive
a hidden picture.
The
two
target pictures were
a
tree and
an envelope.
He experienced difficulty,
did not make
a drawing that
corresponded
to either drawing and passed.
Also,
he found
it very
difficult
to hold adequately still
to make good EEG records.
We will
repeat
the EEG experiment another
time
to
try and obtain better data.
The same skeptical experimenter who drew the rabbit was
the EEG operator
on
this
second unsuccessful
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Wednesda y, August
8 .
Three targets were drawn during
the
course
of
this day’s work.
In
the
first,
the experimenters closed
the outer
door of
the laboratory
in which the shielded
room
is located
(in ad-
dition to the inner double doors)
and worked
in an adjoining room.
The target picture in this case was
a camel.
Geller felt unsure
and passed,
but his first choice drawing was
a horse.
Figs.
12 and
13.
The experimenters then returned
to the room outside
the shielded
room „nd drew the second picture which was
the Golden Gate Bridge.
Geller
inside the shielded
room drew some curved
lines with some squares under-
neath.
He said
that he didn’t know what
the picture was and passed.
Fig.
14.
The
third picture was
a flying sea gull.
Geller almost immedi-
ately said that he saw a flying swan over a hill.
He drew several
birds and said that he was
sure
that his drawing was correct, which
it was.
Figs.
15 and
16.
In these experiments conducted with
this shielded
room,
six day's
work was done.
Good results were obtained on the four days when there
was no openly skeptical observer
(except the experimenters whom Geller
has learned
to accept).
3'jlursday,
August
9.
We moved
the experiments
to
a new shielded room
from the
Life Science
to
the Engineering building
in order
to make use
of the computer facilities available there.
After Geller was secured
in a shielded room about 150 feet down
the hall and around
a corner from the computer room,
a picture was
drawn on
the face of
the TV screen driven by the computer’s graphics
program.
The picture drawn was
a kite.
Shortly after Geller was
notified
that
the picture had been drawn,
he had the computer room
called
to determine
if
the target picture was
a geometric picture
or an object.
We told him that
it was an object,
by talking
to an
intermediary, who was
ignorant of
the target picture.
Geller's
first
drawing
in
this case was
a square with the diagonals drawn
in.
He
then also drew some triangular airplanes and passed.
His first drawing
was
a good representation of the actual
target picture.
Figs.
17 and
18.
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10 .
Two pictures were drawn and stored
in the computer
memory so that no visible evidence was available
in the computer room
alter the picture was
drawn.
The first picture was
a church.
The picture was drawn and stored
in the memory of
the computer.
Geller's responses
are shown
in the
attached collection of drawings.
It
is clear that both
of his attempts
have some elements
in common with
the
target drawing,
but he had no
idea
that it was
a church and he passed.
Figs.
19-21.
The second target picture was stored on
the face of
the TV tube
with the intensity turned off so that no picture was visible with the
room lights
turned
on.
Geller immediately drew an arrow under a rounded
brick and
then drew another arrow inside
a suitcase.
We consider
the
arrow in
the suitcase similar to the
target, which was an arrow through
a heart.
Figs.
22-24.
These latter two experiments admit
of at least
two hypotheses
which will require further work to differentiate:
(1)
clairvoyant
perception of information stored
in the computer,
or
(2)
telepathy
since there were several people
in
the computer room,
all
of whom
knew the nature of the target that was stored.
A long distance telepathy experiment was also done on Friday.
An East Coast scientist was called and asked
to draw
a simple repre-
sentational object for Geller to copy.
Following the experiment he
indicated
that he drew two peaked mountains with
a
sun
in the upper
right.
Geller drew two arches side by side with
a circle
in
the
upper right.
Geller's picture also had
a train-like object running
through it.
We consider this
to be suggestive of communication but
not conclusive.
We do not have
the East Coast original.
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A
lengthy long distance experiment was performed
with another East Coast scientist.
In
this case
the man chose
to draw
a cross-sectional view
of
the brain.
(In retrospect we consider this
to be an unsuitable target since Geller would not recognize
the drawing
even
if successful.)
Geller began by writing down
the words
"medical,”
organic,
and
living"
on
the top
of his paper.
Later he wrote
the
words
aviation
and "architecture".
He made
two drawings, one
of which
was complex and
indescribable.
The second did somewhat resemble an
anatomical cross-section.
These responses
are being sent
to the
originator for comparison.
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