Has Uri Geller been confirmed psychic?

I think most people, especially the typical profile of individual on this forum, are unwilling to accept that they are more than their physical body, such is the strength of the conditioning they have received/inability to break it.

To accept or believe in the possibility of psychic ability would really mess up their comfy perceptions of life, causing them to ask some difficult questions about the state of the world as a whole. That being so, they would chose 'the easy option' of denial.

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In theory we use a small % of brain power for everyday lives. What about the majority of unused %? Apparently humans are capable of using as of yet unknown parts of their brain to control the electromagnetic fields around them which if controlled right can control electromagnetic fields elsewhere.

For example, use brain to use electro field to manipulate field around a spoon and bend it.

We still don't know everything about the brain yet

A rational person does believe in the possibility of psychic ability. They just demand scientific evidence for it.

Magicians can duplicate everything Geller does. In fact, Geller was a straight up magician in his youth. And nowadays, he does not claim to be psychic. In an interview with Magische Welt, Geller admitted to not having supernatural powers.
I’ll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

I don't think denying psychic claims is the easy option; accepting them without good evidence is the lazy option.

A rational person does believe in the possibility of psychic ability. They just demand scientific evidence for it.

Magicians can duplicate everything Geller does. In fact, Geller was a straight up magician in his youth. And nowadays, he does not claim to be psychic. In an interview with Magische Welt, Geller admitted to not having supernatural powers.
I’ll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

I don't think denying psychic claims is the easy option; accepting them without good evidence is the lazy option.

questionnaires are so much easier to work with than actual parapsychological events.

Parapsychology is a dying subset, to go into a career as a parapsychologist is career suicide. Why because of the rather pompous attitude of 'scientists' who dismiss everything that doesn't fit with their understanding.

using scientific tools to examine something which doesn't fit within positivism is a bit of a joke, parapsychology really needs to stop its yearning for mainstream 'scientific' recognition, and go down an alternative path in terms of research methods.
any evidence available is based on scientific methods which are inadequate to study metaphysics.

Actually, scientists spent large portion of the twentieth century examining parapsychological and supernatural claims. Even some very logical positivist scientists like Hans Eysenck looked into it (and was quite sympathetic!). However, the facts are that none of these claims have stood up to testing. So any scientist who goes down that route nowadays is being disingenuous - the tests have been done, the claims don't add up, so don't waste your time studying it. It's like a geographer pursuing flat-earth theory, or an engineer trying to invent a perpetual motion machine.

Ad you may know, the Randi foundation offers a $1m prize who anyone who can conclusively demonstrate their supernatural powers.

Science is simply the best means of discovering what is true. What possible alternative could there be?

I chose parapsychology as one of my final year units.

Parapsychology is the scientific study of phenomena such as ghosts, ESP etc, and based on the research that was going on at my uni I noticed that it leaned heavily on belief in such phenomena rather than the phenomena itself, questionnaires are so much easier to work with than actual parapsychological events.

Parapsychology is a dying subset, to go into a career as a parapsychologist is career suicide. Why because of the rather pompous attitude of 'scientists' who dismiss everything that doesn't fit with their understanding. They wish to maintain their dominance, but fail to realise that non-acceptance of new discoveries is itself anti-science. Their motives are to keep their funding and status. See Gregg Braden if you wish to wake up.

My own personal conclusion, as the unit never went there, was that using scientific tools to examine something which doesn't fit within positivism is a bit of a joke, parapsychology really needs to stop its yearning for mainstream 'scientific' recognition, and go down an alternative path in terms of research methods.

There is no doubt in my mind that people exist that have some kind of ability, off the top of my head I could name Nina Kuligina, whether these are exceptional individuals, or whether all humans have this as dormant ability, I don't know for sure but I do have my suspicions.

All I'm saying is evidence is kept from you, and that any evidence available is based on scientific methods which are inadequate to study metaphysics.

Yes science has attempted to explore everything, but it is only suitable for a 3rd dimensional 5 sense reality. You fail to understand what I'm saying about metaphysics and the scientific method, i.e. it has limitations and is not ultimate truth as we have been led to believe.

I'm not here to convince you of this or that, as it is clear you've already made your mind up on the matter, just know that there is more to what can be seen, heard, touched, tasted, and felt. All I want people to do is open their mind a little.

If you hold an iota of the scientific principle of accepting new findings (which is something the mainstream scientists don't do in order to hold their dominance) you could spare some time to watch Gregg Braden. He comes from scientific background, and explains the problems with science, he touches upon many things like anti-science, ancient civilizations and their advanced technology, and the old evolution chestnut (which completely puts the argument beyond doubt using scientific methods btw, but most will never hear this b/c of the dominance of those who hold the power).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKrENfkMEM

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looking at monks breaking bricks with their heads and stuff...

In theory we use a small % of brain power for everyday lives. What about the majority of unused %? Apparently humans are capable of using as of yet unknown parts of their brain to control the electromagnetic fields around them which if controlled right can control electromagnetic fields elsewhere.

For example, use brain to use electro field to manipulate field around a spoon and bend it.

With Monks, they use their brain to control their electrofield to weaken the bricks electro field or to protect their heads from push/pull forces or whatever so they can break the brick without injuring themselves.

It's just a theory though and I havn't explained it like a proper scientist but I'm tired and blah.

We still don't know everything about the brain yet nor our own electromagnetic fields which the ancients mistaken for Chi apparently.

I'm sure it's all physics really.

There's no objective or reliable evidence of any kind that Nina Kulagina (her name was spelt 'Kulagina' by the way, this is the Wikipedia article -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Kulagina) - was anything other than the usual trickster. Soviet paranormal science was notoriously riddled with wishful thinking and quackery; they felt they were in a 'psychic arms race' with the US and the people who ran it were very clever liars who kept well paid jobs by bull****ting.

Braden spouts pseudo-scientific nonsense.

There's a good article about his rubbish here.
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/zero_point_to_g.html

We use a small percentage of our brain at any one given time. I read that we use virtually all of it at some point. So saying that the other 90% might have magic powers is plain wrong.

Monks who can break blocks are not magic, but that is not to diminish their talent. They can only do that through decades of hard work and commitment. A friend of mine does karate, he says his sensei hits a rock as hard as he can with the sides of his hand dozens of times every morning. If you or I were to do that we'd likely break every bone in our hands but this guy worked his way up over the decades to harden up his skin and bones. I'm sure people who punch through concrete will do the same.
To me, this is FAR more impressive than "magic" - just by hard work and commitment can someone do something that is far beyond what normal humans can do!

Chi energy is not magic as you call it.

Labeling it as such forces inaccurate perceptions in the mindset of the everyday person.

What you say is correct to an extent, there is much conditioning of the physical body involved in such demonstrations, but there is more than conditioning involved.

When you see a shaolin monk resting his full body weight between a spear and his neck, you will know that no amount of conditioning can 'toughen' the neck to not become pierced.

They have trained in such a way to concentrate Chi energy at various parts of the body at will.

Chi is all around us, the practice of Tai Chi cultivates this energy, drawing it into our body more readily than just breathing.