Spoon bending instructions and pictures
Spoon bending is a hot topic and a reader, Shannan Rohde, has written in the previous article about bending spoons, How to bend a spoon using your mind, about his spoon bending experience. Many other readers asked him to provide them pictures and detailed instructions. Below are his instructions plus some pictures of him and the bent spoon.
Everyone is encouraged to try. If you succeed please send your mail and photos toand I will post your success stories and photos on this website as well.
Your age should not have anything to do with it actually. I will give you a step by step on how I did it and hopefully you should be able too as well. I am 36 years old, but I have been “Sensitive since I can remember”. The steps to bend a spoon:
Updated: All the crowd from Randi’s site. What’s your reaction to the post about JREF’s prize at About the James Randi Million dollar challenge
Update2: There’s now a video of Shannan doing the bending. See it at: Spoon bending video
- Go in your drawer and pick out 10 or so spoons. And lay them out on the table. Use your feeling and let them tell you which spoon will bend. (I know it sounds funny but this is what I did the first time).
- When you feel you have the right spoon and mind you pick one that is fairly thin to start out with.
- Hold the spoon vertical and look at it and ask it to bend. Or say you will bend for me. Really believe it.
- Start your meditation. Breathe in and breathe out. Breathe in energy from the universe and imagine it as a golden ball above your head.
- Breathe out negative feelings and put the recycled air into your solar plexus. (The energy)
- Keep doing this for about 15 breaths while massaging the spoon just below the bowl of it.
- Make your self lightheaded while really concentrating on your breathing and producing energy and thinking the spoon will bend..
- Then at the point of when you feel you’re ready with all thoughts clear except the spoon get ready
- Look at the spoon for about 2 seconds and think you will bend for me, while still breathing, breathe faster and hype yourself up..
- Look out the window or at something for about 1 second and start to bend the spoon, and say very loud BEND! BEND! BEND! (really get into it) you will notice that the spoon becomes like rubber.
- Your spoon will feel like rubber and it will bend for you.
- After you have bent the spoon around two or three times, lay it down and wait about 1 min. the spoon will harden again.
I have noticed that the more people that are around you the collective energy will help you get there more. Make a lot of noise laugh I did this the other day and it was my fifth spoon and it felt like rubber. Have them touch the spoon before bending it.
You have to believe the spoon will bend. Tell yourself you have done this a million times already. After you have a spoon bent, keep it around you and whenever you have doubt look at it and remember that you did this and you can do this again.
You will bend the spoon, I promise.
The photos I have enclosed it of my fourth spoon bending. And yes there is a little physical force behind it, but not enough to bend it like the photos I send you. You will do this. I promise and it does take practice. The secret is in the meditation. You are transferring energy to the spoon and making it apart of you, like bending your finger.
Non of these photos were photoshopped except to reduce the size to 640 by 480.
Thank you,
Shannan D. Rohde
www.uniquemadness.com
“Medium in Training”
Dear visitor, if you are already here, why won’t you participate in my parapsychological (psi) experiments. and test yourself for “paranormal” abilities. To see more details click Psi experiments
Snannan has also sent some photos and a description of them. First, some photos of the bent spoon. Notice how it is twisted three times.
Now, some photos of Shannan bending the spoons. His wife has photographed them. The photos have some anomalies in them. Shannan has 2 possible cause for them:
- That the camera had flaws in it
- That what you see is the energy (psychic or Metaphysical)
Look closely at the this one and you can see the energy start to spark on the spoon, it is reddish.
Shannan believes this to be a 4d multi-dimension capture. The photo of him on the right is not torque the spoon but him intensely saying BEND! BEND! BEND!
For additional psychokinetic exercise see Jar and Pendulum psychokinesis exercises
Further discussion on spoon bending is in the forums at Spoon bending discussion.
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PK parties are FAKE. Spoon bending is FAKE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2CSnHHkNU
Enough of this bullshit.
Utter drivel.
If you believe this, you’re stupid. It’s just that simple.
thanks for the instructions
ive been trying to bend spoons for awhile and this finally worked, yay!
i told my co-worker then he bent a spoon too…
here is a pic of it:
http://www.therighteousdevices.com/pics/spoon.jpg
W.T.F?!
Bend a spoon whith your what?
HANDS!
Come on, anybody can do that!
Teach me how to fly for God’s sake!
I do it enough in my dreams, why not here as well..?
But bending spoons, come on people!
Well, maybe someone should show us how to bend a spoon WITHOUT touching it. It’s all about mind over matter isn’t it?
Any tips? I went over the instructions about ten times and it still won’t work. What could I be doing wrong???
So I am looking around for telekinetic things because I am telekinetic myself and I find Shannon! Freaky! To find what I look like do an “image” google search for rustyrale. The NTS took some photos of me when I tried to when the JREF challenge… I did spin objects..but there skeptisism brought me down to a low point where I could barely manage effects…. Anyways If this reachs Shannon please look me up so we can talk…I’d darn sure like to know a little bit about a guy that can pass for my twin.
Hey shannan, thanks for the instructions, I am a telekinetic psychic and can move psi-wheel and light objects like straw without touching. I found your step-by-step instructions very useful and tried it and got the result on the first try, here is the photo of my bent spoon http://www.geocities.com/rsbdr/TK/spoon.JPG,
thanks a lot
>I did spin objects..but there skeptisism brought me down >to a low point where I could barely manage effects….
You either did spin objects or you “barely managed it” there is no in between… If you did you would have won the challenge, so I assume you didn’t. It is the well known argument why paranormal people can’t perform when properly tested: the negative vibes made it impossible!
Not only are we to believe that the paranormal exists but also that it is ALWAYS influenced by non-believers making it impossible to check as well. Granted, this could be true, but that doesn’t mean we are to ignore the possibility that it could also mean it simply doesn’t exist.
Shannan,
i know you’ve probably heard this at least a thousand times, but here it is: i can’t seem to bend the spoon! no matter what i do, it won’t bend. i’ve tried meditating and telling the spoon that it will bend for me, and i rubbed the neck of the spoon, just below the bowl. nothing seems to work. another site mentioned something about having other people around you so that there will be more energy within the room, making the spoon easier to bend, or something like that, but i get the impression that my friends would consider me crazy if i asked them to accompany me. it also said to imagine there is a golden ball of energy above your head, and to use that energy to make a certain part of the spoon bend.
ever since i watched the You Tube of you bending that stainless steel spoon five times in a row, i believed that it’s possible. but self doubt still gets to me, and i’m not sure if that’s whyi can’t bend the spoon, or if i just can’t do it at all. if you could give me any tips regarding my problem, i’d really appreciate it.
thanx, Katie
hi shannan! i have successfully bended my spoon 3 times.. i was wondering how others melt the spoon to which it looks like liquid metal.. T_T
Hi Shannon
I am now wanting to try spoon bending. About a year ago my brother introduced me to healing. As I was bought up as a devout Christian my belief system was quite regimented, and so the theories introduced to me battled my established neural net.
The healing based upon similar theory of drawing universal energy and providing oneself as a channel for this energy, to effectively heal a person.
I have had many extraordinary experiences that have shattered my old belief system. I have been guided along the path as it were, to study of the brain, neural net, paranormal experiences, and quantum physics, teachings of Ramtha and Abraham.
I understand that to many who’s minds are conditioned to this physical plane that even the mention of these things would cause neural net resistance and opposition.
I have recently started using a device called the Aurameter, or energy check to locate negative energy fields in sick patients. In our understanding of quantum physics, we are at the quantum level, energy(atoms vibrating). So negative energy fields at differing vibratory rates may manifest in this physical plane as a chest flu, up to a cancer lump. The Aurameter detects these as we use the checking system as learnt by Colin Lambert of Magnetic Healers Unlimited of New Zealand. We are able to heal the patient. The website for Colin Lambert is http://www.magnetichealers.org.nz/.
This is not a pitch for healing, or a money making exercise. I have never charged for healing, and never will. Colin Lambert has since passed away, but his work continues. I am not affiliated with Magnetic Healers Unlimited and do not make representation of them. Just some interesting stuff there. I think many of your critics are actually searching for truth. They are a bit like me when I started learning stuff. Resistant because of conditioning. I’m not saying to believe everything you learn. Minds are like parachutes, they work better when open (someone elses quote). Just give it a chance. Go out of your comfort zone. You can always come back. It’s always been your choice. At least give yourself some options.
Your choice.
Ne…No comment for that!
The spoon can be bought in many magic store. Hi, Mr Rohde, have you seen the matrix…? Just bend the spoon like that.
hello=)
I have tried to bend a spoon many times but it does not work:(
i’m not shure i’m doing it right. And I’m so confused, some places does it sand that I need to un-concentrate and some places does it stand that I must concentrate. what is the best? someone pliz help me….. (sorry my bad english)
I truly do find it interesting to read all the flaming that has gone on on this page. It makes me laugh.
I myself have experienced the paranormal, and have exerted control over the world around me with mere force of will. Haven’t bent any spoons, but being able to move things without touching them would technically classify as a form of telekinesis, now wouldn’t it?
I’m a pagan, have no faith or belief in god. Positive energy is all good and well but it is not necessary. Your body just lasts longer if that is what you use. Using anger and the like will simply wear down your body, just as yelling and screaming at someone will wear you down.
Precognitive dreams, “deja vu”, and the like are all examples of the paranormal. In that case, it is a psychic ability that is typically dormant unless your subconscious is the controlling factor.
I have affected the world around me with no direct interaction, other than simply existing, and using pure will. I have transferred energy from my body into another’s. I have taken another’s sickness into me, and experienced it even as they got better. We all have the ability, but as stated many times by the “believers” as they have labeled themselves, you simply have to step above the normal preconceptions posed by a “God fearing” society, or some such other shite, and truly believe you can do it.
If using my mind to its fullest, and affecting the world around me, is a sign of witchcraft, or me being a nut, as some have stated, then I guess I’m a witch, and a nut.
Yes, one can bend spoons, or keys, or forks, using pure force of muscle. In essence, yes, you are utilizing your mind to bend the spoon. What some have stated, though, is an example of using will alone to affect something outside their own material bounds. Not as easy as it sounds, and not as fake as half of the people who have flamed Shannon and those who have agreed with him, WANT to believe.
The flaming and badmouthing is a perfect example of “Fear what you do not understand, and cannot achieve.” Lay off. If you can’t believe it, and refuse to give it credence, don’t bother commenting. Makes sense to me.
My two cents.
thank you, a good example of a wholesome intellegent human being.
i totally agree with you
Humans havent yet discovered their true potential nor advanced in any way.
We are like children who seek the light , without realising that its inside of us all along.
Hi Shannan, I would not debate with skeptics any longer. When someone doesn’t want to believe something, there are no explanations that will change that. I have learned that myself through many different situations and scenarios.
It will drain you if you keep on giving energy to these negative people. I suggest you let them think whatever they want without responding to them because that is exactly what they want from you so they can have some excitement in their pitiful lives.
Kinda like your presidency..
Hey…I do belive it..7 chakra, meditation, psychokinesis.. How about you reply this comment to my E-mail..I’m trying to bend my spoon but….nothing happened…so please…E-mail me….I’ll be waiting…
Gonzalo ……why dont you organize your mind to follow your instructions, it is the same as a Captain in a ship ….the crew listens to the captain who gives them the command to follow . Force your brain and body to listen to your commands and try to calm your chatterbox ( the voice that keeps putting you down like i cant do it etc..)
at this rate you will take over your though’s and feelings and you can guide them to follow what you desire
this is what i did and it worked
Still cant bend the god damn fork… i read all books and say i have to love the fork lol im so mad and desesperated that i did it ,i started a relationship with the fork , i kissed the fork i met the fork mom and dad i lost my virginity cuz of the fork i married the fork omg apport new ideas of what can be done to the fork because i still cant bend it im so frustated fork isnt getting bend…
Acually you are closer to doing it then you know. Your ideology is the same concept.
waw … it’s not a magic .. because i think earlier that just a trick and have some secret like manipulation..
that was before i see this web page and after i see this
it’s owesome… i have try it and always fail… >.<
Hi i tryed out spoonbending and i cant i know its real but i still cant do it tryed to be one with he spoon meditation etc etc and cant do it even i used positive mind and were patient still cant what am i doing wrong? should i take yoga classes to open all chakras and finally bend it?
gentaly rub the spoon with your finger and think of nothing dont even consentrate on bending it. when you feel tingling in the hands just be aware of it an keep rubing the spoon and so on. before you know it the thing will bend it worked for me on day when i as doing psychometry. never even planned on bending keys. when i noticed i touch keys and they would bend after a while and dident think nothing of it. then thats when it happened i was thinking of nothing when i rubbed keys on my ingertip barelytouching the serface and then it bend almost imidiately. try making a ring with midle finger and thumb and with the other same fingers make a chane a link inside the other circle this starts energys lockage and getstronger good luck
i cant bend spoons i bend forks wtf lol
im glad to hear that from you shannan
keeep up the good work and yea the spiritual state of mind and piece is the most valuable experience which we can get , I devode alot of time researching and devoting my self to spirituality, it makes me feel compfortable and happy !
thats the only thing our intellect wants from us…
ps :
My english is bad because its my 5th language
i bent a mans key just by rubbing it ever so gentaly and blanking my mind completely with out ever intending to bend it it. i had a spot of tingling in my hands but it bent anyway even though wasent in the tips. i was tendin to do psychometry while rubbing the object. and in fact many keys owned by me bented with out i ever doing that stuff.
Hi,
Thanks for the information here are the spoons I bent.
shannan im very impressed !
we can eventually bend the spoon or anything else with our own mind …. this world is full of retards so there is no point for you to proof things like this , you can see clearly see that people dont want to advance as we supposed to ….. did you ever people though why we have 2x mixed unknown DNA in our blood? coincidence or what? look in google for the scientific proof!
Shannan once again i congratulate you with all your efforts
the only thing that we cannot do in this physical plane is controlling the mother nature
If we could actually , (which is possible) we would ruin the principal law of nature which the creator created for our own safety.
I suggest you to ignore and forget about the rendy contest …because once you do it , your life will change forever not because of the money but because of (xxxx……………….) i guess you know what i mean by that .
I agree with you and know what you mean. Thank you for your comments, For some reason I feel I know who you are. I am devoted to my religon and have been spending time with the development and understanding of myself. I was just suprised that I could do it and in a panic of fame, addressed the subject. My frame of mind is in a pure spiritualist state right now, and I haven’t been happier.
Thank you again and light be with you showering you in love.
how come ppl still dont realise that paranormal is a normal experience for us?
we have no restrictions to go to the astral world where all these paranormal things are just normal !
seriously after reading all those llame comments about proof and all that ……did they ever ask what would happen to the person when he proofs it?
besides fame and money what else will he achieve?
you ppl dont really think how thinks work in this present world ……even if shannan goes there and proofs it, he will just become a scientific (dog) on which they would do all these unnecessary experiments.
by the way shannan on these pictures you are reminding me someone who i knew in my past life, maybe 2-3 generations ago
so far i bended 13 spoons and never failed. Those techniques are pretty well organized and worked for me.
is it really true that everyone has psychic abilities?
yes, everyone has psychic powers, the Pope, The president, The common man, and you too =-)
yes sarah its true it comes in flash pictures when just about falling asleep or comes when your about to say something someone was about to say first. or know tings will happen then it does. most of these things are psychic abilities but are not aware of it cause of coinicidence
I am amazed at the aggressive and allegedly “funny” comments some people have posted. I do consider myself a skeptic to many “paranormal” phenomena but I have always had an interest in them for as long as I can remember. I studied physics before changing my mind and deciding to go into neuropsychology and neurophysiology and have had considerable experience with this type of phenomenon. I would like to calrify for a number of people that it is generally considered in psychology and medicine that the term ‘mind’ does not refer to the control of automatic and reflex actions (as say for example breathing, muscular action etc). The mind in psychology refers to the ‘conscious’ and ‘imaginative’ states that we most commonly experience. Yes, bending a spoon requires the mind to make the decision but so does walking and that is an automatic action. A spoon cannot be easily twisted in such a way normally, especially not 5 times. I have come across countless cases where mothers have lifted 1 tonne cars off their babies after an accident, and also other related pehnomena such as human magnestism. Uri Geller is a special case (hence the fame) becuase he seems to have this amazing ability on another level, unfortunately the whole idea of psychics and mediums has become embroiled in his case, which was relatively simple in the first place. The words ‘paranormal’ and ‘supernatural’ should not have these religious and ‘magical’ associations. The mind is a much more powerful tool than western modern life has us believe. This phenomenon should be classed as paranormal becuase it is not ‘normal’. It can be explained by a persons ability to gain access to ‘reserves’ of vital energy that the mind usually closes off (due to these states draining way too much energy, if we were in a meditative state of physical power and control we would be living like hummingbirds without enough nectar). Other similar cases have been demonstrated by many eastern monks and ‘fakirs’ such as the ability to stop the heart, survive in an airless chamber for hours and lie on beds of nails without damage to their backs. So this phenomena is perfectly conceivable and there is consierable evidence for it. I do not think you will win the Randi challenge Mr Rohde because it is an impossible challenge, deliberately designed as a stalemate as ‘paranromal’ phenomena cannot be merely produced. I must criticise, however, your use of eastern mystical terms such as ‘chi’ and ‘chakras’ as this is imposing personal ‘religious’ beliefs upon an otherwise interesting case. The same is with the ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ energy you were referring to, this merely provokes harsh and mocking comments.
Thanks
This is very impressive and I am DEFINITELY a believer in power of the mind influencing matter… But is it possible to do this without twisting it with your hands?
http://www.fork-you.com
It is possible.
But its like going to school all over again
Welcome to “Kindergarten spoon bending”(bending items that can be bent with physical force, but you make it way too easy with PK)
than highschool(cant bend it withough PK but still use both hands)
than graduate(hold with one hand and bends on its own)
I DID THE SPOON BENDING BUT DIFFERENTLY I NEVER SHOUTED BEND. I KNOW NO ONE WILL BELIEVE THIS SO I CALLED MY COUSIN AND SHOWED IT TO HIM. AFTER BENDING A FEW MORE SPOONS AND FORKS I TRIED TO FORGET ABOUT IT. I DON’T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHY THE SPOON IS BENDING. WELL IT IS TRUE YOU CAN BEND SPOONS I DID IT BUT TO THE EXACT MIND, SPIRIT, PHYSICAL, PARANORMAL, SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION I DON’T KNOW IT AND WILL JUST PROBABLY NOT EVEN BOTHER THINKING ABOUT IT. I SAW A SITE THAT HAS THAT URI GELLAR THING I THINK ITS TRUE BECAUSE I DID IT, AS FOR THE EXPLANATION TO IT. NEVER MIND.
THANK YOU
do you have to use your hands?
how do you use it or get it?
training at your local new life centers, or integrated healing arts. It is about 100.00 for the class. You will like it.
Hi Shanon, have you ever bent anything like metal bars or butter knives?
what is Reiki?
Reiki is a type of Energy Healing from Japan.
i watched your video and i tried it, it worked but not very well it bended half of a circle, i think i might have done it wrong. But i am sure it worked
Hey Toby,
It takes a little practice, but don’t give up. Just kinda leave yourself for a few seconds when you start bending the spoon. You will get it. I have not experienced pain from this, But I do notice my hands are very hot afterwards. When I do Reiki, I also experience this extreme heat in my hands. I learned how to do this in 5 mins.
dose it hurt when you bend these spoons?
i think its you, the one on the video were you bend the spoon about five times, that is amazing!!!
hey um i want to do this so i can show my friends at school, how do you get the energy you need to bend the spoon? can you do it on forks? can you teach me to do this easy? how long did it take you to do this?
My story starts off like this, I went to San Diego on St. pattys day, and i went to a hookah bar. There was a magician there who claimed he could put qurters through cans and bend forks and spoons, and i was intrigued but i had to have him do it for me, So he contined to place it in my hand and twist the fork with suck ease, like a radio nob. and bent it 90 degrees with a flick of the wrist and the pronges fanned out. I was completly shocked and from there on i was changed.
I came here and read how to do it, And i sat there with a group of friends and ive told em about all this. And i was able to wrap that sucker up pretty good =] im glad i can feel the energy and channel it. It truly makes me happy. But how do you get to the point where you can no longer even have to use ur hands? im sure it takes alot of practice and it can be done, but is there anything more you need to know to be able to work up to that? ive taught 5 people so far, and when we try collective energy bending we get strong results.
Your supporting friend
Jay so california
Hi Jay,
I am in the same boat as you. I am trying to do this with one hand. I look at you tube and see people do this and it is a goal of mine. I know it is concentrated energy, and extreme willpower. When I find this secret out, I will pass this on to everyone.
The fact that it was a magician performing a well know trick didn’t bother you somehow…?
The spoons bend because the friction of your thumb rubbing on the shaft generates heat, which softens the metal and causes the spoon to bend under the weight of the head. In order to be successful use either really cheap or expensive silver spoons. Stainless steel doesn’t work very well. Rub vigorously applying steady pressure. The spoon should heat up and bend in a few moments, you can speed the process by shaking the spoon as you rub it. Try it next time you are waiting for the check at T.G.I.Fridays.
Mr “Uri G,” I’m a skeptic, but please, many people keep saying that about heat and friction and its rediculous. Take a spoon and start rubbing it yourself — it gets a little warmer, but it takes a lot of heat to make a piece of metal bend. Now, what you will learn if you play around with a spoon, is that you can bend it in five loops “normally,” without psychic energy involved, and that’s the important factor here, not the little bit of heat put into the spoon.
ahahah yes stainless steal doesnt work so good when your trying to heat it with your hands
but a good vibe with concentration and i managed to rip the head of the spoon right off a thick stainless steel, at least double the thickness of a resturant spoon.
of corse this will not sound believable to anyone except those who really can do it, we know who we are.
and for the skeptics
sucks for you guys, your skepticism is never gunna allow you to do it.
unless fo corse you run into a guy like i did and change your life
I think that this thickness vs. Width thing came up before. Do you mean the width, looking head on at a spoon, or the thickness, sideways? Because — I’m serious — I’ve destroyed a lot of spoons in the past few weeks and they’re not that hard to destroy (Shannon inspired me to destroy spoons, if nothing else
). A thick spoon with little width, or a wide spoon that’s not thick, are both easy targets to have the sh*t kicked out of ‘em. The point that I, and a lot of other skeptics on here are making, is that these tests don’t demonstrate anything that can’t be done by getting mean with a spoon. Phrased differently (I think it needs it), these photos\tests\anecdotes aren’t good tests. But I’ve seen a lot of suggestions for good tests, and I hope that Shannon (and others) will consider performing these better tests so that this matter can be settled.
Great comment. I suggested one experiment under the spoon bending video, comment #10.2.1.2.1.1, and I too hope that Mr. Rohde will re-do his experiment under these better conditions.
And I wish that everyone would stop getting so worked up over the whole thing (that goes for EVERYONE).
verry interesting had a feeling people did that saw it on tv you can tell strength is used cause the fingers change colors when pressed hard. i bend car key with psychic energys by accident.i was doing psychometry and wasent planning on bending anything was stroking it barely touching the serface when in seconds it bent by itself had the tingles in the hand but not in the fingers but ya it bent seems every key i toch bends with out intending.
Shannon:
I’m a skeptic, but I tried to bend a spoon using your instructions, for a rather long time, as a matter of fact, and nothing happened. I genuinely wanted them to bend, and I must say that it was a rather relaxing experience trying even if nothing happened. But the fundemental fact of the matter is that nothing happened.
So, what I was wondering, can you post more photos\videos of yourself bending spoons so that I can get a better grip on what it is you’re doing? Or, can you get more people to post videos of themselves doing this on Youtube? A little corraboration couldn’t hurt (the videos already on Youtube of spoons benders aren’t impressive).
Peace.
Mr. Rohde,
You left yourself wide open for the “non-believers” to throw rocks when you used two hands to do the actual spoon bending. My I suggest that you exert a little more energy for a longer duration and let the spoon bowl bend down onto it’s self and keep your thumb down far enough on the handle and other hand in your pocket. Just let it collapse!
The Robert Monroe Institute Gateway group do this but with a fork and using both hands to complete the energy circuit. They also believe in your group energy theory.
You have to leave no room for the “Rock Throwers” if you want to really make a difference between “mind power” and all the frauds out there…
Just a suggestion. Take it for what it’s worth. I know this can be done with the mind so please don’t make a circus act out of it.
F.G.R.
wow neat they have my email address with out me sighning hehe. anyway i dont beleive that video for 2 ways one when he held it up ward you can see the line where he rubs and bends it. in other words theres a shadow line from bright reflection to dark shadow. thats where the rubbing and bending starts. i my self bend keys and have no idea what causes it i dont do it at will it just happens. good video though and check his fingers they turn white and show the skin is pushed inward when pressing the fork simply rub it gently no force nessasary
I tried to bent the spoon but at the point where I hyperventilate and REALLY do a bent I pooped in my pants sort of. I did this twice (pooped) and now I am worried that I am injured. I tried to do it again a third time (bent a sppon not poop in my pants) but I just pass a little gas. Maybe I should not strain so much you think Has anybody else have this problem???
Shannon -
i have read through about 50% of all the posts and most of the people who don’t believe that you are actually doing what you say you are just seem to be lashing out at you. i understand what it is that you are saying and how to go about doing it. i have not tried it yet myself, but i do plan on trying it soon. i would think though that if you were to make a simple video using one (1) finger to bend a spoon in half that might shut some people up. make sure though that you show proof that the spoon is strong before you bend it by throwing it around or something. this way people can see that if it were a soft metal to begin with, then the throwing would have already bent it some. then just go to town on it and once you have it in the rubber like state, a simple push with a finger should bend it right over. it’s just a thought, but it might help these people who are being stupid.
1. Shannan quite clealry refers to *bending spoons*, not minds, as noted in his title of his alleged article.
2. OK, WHERE’S THE VIDEO? a URL is all that’s needed for my amusement–i’m not a mind reader.
3. Forget the pants; take a look at that handsome ‘electric blue’ shirt! OMG, is that another aura?
4. In actuality, an ad hominem attack is too much trouble for this site.
5. I will swear, however, that I was about to fall off the chair laughing at some of the posts.
tc, y’all
cpanther
Hi, I am surprised I managed to bend a spoon easier than if I used brute force.
But a few questions…
First of all, when I meditate before I bend the spoon, my body feels like there is no circulation of blood (that weird feeling) and makes me feel like I am gonna faint.
Secondly, is this dangerous if repeated consecutively?
I feel like I am releasing my energy too much….
Kevin,
Your feeling dizzy because your hyperventilating. The worse that can happen is that you’ll pass out so sit on the floor if your going to do the breathing to that extent.
F.G.R.
I dont belive this of pics…… if I see it in live… then ye i would belive it
Hi Shannan.. I just went through the method you described for bending a spoon and also through all the for and against comments. I am an programmer and have a pretty rational mind. I wouldn’t say that you are faking the whole thing but I also cannot accept it till it is tested in a controlled environment. The experiment and its results should also be reproducible. Thats the way any credence will be given to your claims.Thats the test that even Einsteins theory of Relativity and Newton’s laws of motion had to go through.
To the sceptics, I would like to point out one thing. Your scepticism may have a sound basis, but until something is disproved thoroughly, one cannot say that it cannot happen. Long back, nobody believed that the earth was not flat and people who put forth the spherical earth theory were laughed upon. Could anybody in 10 A.D have imagined that a device like a computer could exist? No. Why? Just because the science of yore wasn’t advanced enough. Science cannot explain many phenomena.. take ghosts for example. But to someone who has actually seen a ghost, does it even matter? In the 70′s, who had imagined an invention called the cell-phone that is so popular today? Our imagination can only extend as far as our science has progressed and our science has a lot to progress still.
So everybody, I only plead you to proceed with an open mind and try to bring this thing to a logical end. Mr. Shannan’s task is to prove that such a phenomenon truly exists and the task of the sceptics is to disprove it. If it is proved conclusively that such a thing exists, maybe we will end up contributing a wee bit to the progress of science and of mankind.
Well said, I like what you wrote very much.
>The experiment and its results should also be reproducible.
How about adding the question: “Why do you have to touch the spoon at all?”
>Long back, nobody believed that the earth was not flat and people who put forth the spherical earth theory were laughed upon.
In your example the equivalent of spoonbender-believers are the people who believed that the earth was flat, because they refuse to believe that something they THOUGHT they saw could be false. Because looking over a landscape sure makes it look flat, just like looking at someone bending a spoon sure looks like something magic. It was actually people with a scientific approach who proved that the earth was round by saying: “If the earth is flat, why can’t anybody show me the edge?”. Furthermore they provided proof by measuring shadows to prove that the earth was spherical. In the spoon case scientists aren’t simply saying that they refuse to believe that spoons can be bend by the mind, they are just asking why nobody can show it in a controlled experiment. We are not talking about a difficult to prove concept like that the earth is round or that God exists, but about something that requires only ONE true spoonbender in the whole world who could prove it in 5 minutes in front of a few scientists in a controlled environment. All theoretic discussions about if it could be possible and that we should keep an open mind, are futile when a simple test should already have proven it, if it were possible. This has never happened.
>Science cannot explain many phenomena..
Before science can explain a phenomenon, it has first to be determined that the phenomenon exists. It’s hard to explain something which doesn’t exist.
>take ghosts for example. But to someone who has actually seen a ghost, does it even matter?
To someone who claims to have seen a ghost, and may actually believe it himself, it should most definately matter to find out if he is hallucinating or perhaps simply mistaken rather than to accept anything our senses tell us.
BTW: you do realize that this guy is just joking right? Do you really think he would post pictures making faces like someone who is using extreme force to bend something, when he is claiming that he is doing it with his mind?
Congratulations on proving the power of the mind – that many skeptics of psychic phenomena are as dumb and gullible as the believers. And even worse, seem to utterly lack a sense of humor. The photos are hilarious, and that these morons can’t see the obvious parody of the ol’ uri geller scam makes it even funnier.
Please, oh please, turn your wicked wit next to the religious folks. Maybe put on some sandals and a robe and stroll over a frozen lake, just to prove you can walk on water.
Wow, you’ve proven that you can bend a spoon using both hands. Who would have ever thought that was possible. Congratulations.
As mentioned by Katty B (in the above mentioned fork-u.com web site), author Michael Crichton talks about his experiences in spoon-bending in his book “Travels”. As it turns out – Crichton did this at a “spoon-bending PK party” given by a retired engineer by the name of Jack Houck.
http://www.jackhouck.com/pk.shtml
Jack started these parties back in 1981 and has been giving them since that time. Oddly enough – I had read Crichton’s book years ago and had always wanted to attend one of these parties but the opportunity never came up. I finally saw a party announced at a place in my area back in November last year and attended. It was led by Jack and I was astonished to find out he lived just a few blocks down the street from me ALL THIS TIME! Plus – we had been working at McDonnell Douglas together for a short time a few years ago.
The level of PK that Shannan shows in his video here is, in Jack’s terminology, “the kindergarten stage” which approximately 85 % of his PK party attendees can attain.
At the “high school stage” – a smaller percentage of people can buckle the bowl of a spoon (and this is done with old solid silver spoons that Jack purchases explicitly for the parties) and/or 3/8″ extruded aluminum rods and/or 1/2″ steel rods.
Finally – at the “graduate school stage” – an even smaller percentage of the party attendees hold a spoon (or fork) IN EACH HAND BY THE END with the bowl (tines) upward and it is seen that one or both of the spoons/forks BEND WITHOUT ANY OTHER PHYSICAL CONTACT EXCEPT THE ENDS. I witnessed this performed by 2 people (out of a group of approximately 100) with my own eyes.
Anyhow – now you know the origin of these parties and Jack’s web site has more info including research reports, photos, etc.
Brilliant Rohde.
Although it’s troubling to see the number of extremely slow people out there who just don’t get it.
Barry Humphries used to do stuff like this in the 60′s when he dabbled in Dadaism, you should check it out. It’s the art of doing things just to get a reaction from people.
I have a special power too. I can levitate heavy objects using my mind. Granted, to the untrained layman skeptic-type person, it may appear as if I am merely lifting them with my arms, however, True Students of Psyonics will recognize my powers for what they are – it is my mind that is doing the lifting, not my arms.
There are no laws in the universe but what man has made and teached to others.IF there is doubt in your mind you will not succeed at anything you try such as spoon bending.Our minds are capable of much more than anyone here has even had the intelligence to mention here.And there is no way there is enough room in here for me to even get into this.Hint though,respecting other people as you would like to be respected is how you teach yourself to have self respect .When you are able to use the other part of your brain,it is unimaginable what one is possible of if you believe in it strong enough.Anyone in here know anything about Quantum Physchics ? Dimensional travel ? Reiki ? Telpathacy ? and too many other paranormal things to mention.What people don’t understand they are afraid of and strike back.Let’s just say i have seen spoon bending and much more than that,and a lot of other things the other side of the brain does understand.Furthermore,if your energy is strong enough as you say it is then you would understand you do not have to hold a spoon to bend it,and especially not with two hands.
Whether he did it or not and whether you believe it or not,determines what your mind is capable of and until your mind can see that light ,you will never believe because you don’t have the respect to believe in yourself.To not have respect for someone that teaches you,you will not believe and not succeed.
I’m capable of doing many strange or not normal things as you people call them.I won’t mention any of them bcause i see and have to deal with enough of this in my life as it is.Some are even unexplainable,the energy i have is sometimes too strong and kicks the total crap out of me,sometimes leaves me very drained and ill for days.I don’t undertand it all myself but i learn as i grow older,and as i get older i get stronger and in more control of these energies.They say they are gifts to us when we just get them from birth,but in this life with todays people and society it is almost a bourdon to have them,simply because people have lost the ability to believe in anything anymore.Everything has been buried by lies and greed,the world is getting brainwashed into following instead of believing what is real and what is right.We are all created equal and all have the ability to do paranormal things,IF you think you can.For those of you who don’t understand read the story about the little engine that thought he could.,lol sorry couldn’t help that one ! and i hope this supports html code? just need to find a place you can’t hunt me down,i been stalked enough for the unexplainable things that i do.
try the link if no pic appears here
http://i18.tinypic.com/2qu5cmv.jpg
AND being that i’m a professional phtographer,as a hobby,those are the worst photos i have seen in my life !
P.S. to insult someones intelligence on a subject you know nothing about,proves to me that most that speak here and leave rude comments have some very hard lessons to learn in life.
and this is just an example,heh
http://www.totallytom.com/screamineagle.html
and that will be all,have a nice day people,”removes top hat and takes a bow”
I really don’t know how to take your post. It sounds like your saying a positive thing and yet a negitive thing as well. Anyways thank you for what you shared and peace be with you too. I hope no one stalks you =-)
See http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-1852-M_Shermer.aspx for a response to things like “There are no laws in the universe but what man has made and teached to others.”
See “http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-1852-M_Shermer.aspx” for a response to things like “There are no laws in the universe but what man has made and teached to others.”
I found that bending the spoon was easy, trivial in fact. I have also bent several forks, a large metal bar and a number of other objects. Unfortunately my power has become so great that everywhere I go metal things start bending at random. This has become a little inconvenient, a friend came by to pick me up and when he opened his car door it bent and now he can’t close it. He is not happy. I think i might go and see if I can bend a bridge somewhere. that would be amusing I think.
I also attempted the experiment without following the instructions and was successful at bending the spoon which is where I was able to come up with my professional opinion as a mechanical engineer in post number 87 where I was then told through Shannan’s “ESP” abilities that I wet my bed till I was 12. I’d like an explanation on that type of argument.
I wonder how many of the people who ridiculed you have actually performed the experiment. Many of these people criticize you for being a “retard”, or otherwise insult you. This sort of criticism proves nothing – it is called arguing against the person (argumentum ad hominem, IIRC), and it is a logical fallacy.
All that is needed is for someone to perform the experiment and see what happens. Until the experiment is performed, there is little that can be said about it. I can give you all sorts of logical reasons why it could not work (or why it *must* work, depending on what prejudice I have). Until I do the experiment, though, my comments are without foundation.
Refusing to do the experiment is similar to the clerics who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope to see Jupiter. If you want to cling to your prejudices, it’s best not to challenge them…
very well written, Thank you
Good reply, Chiron. Finally, somebody is mature enough.
i attempted the experiment without chanting, just twisting a spoon, with the strength of my hands. my spoon is thicker than the one used in the video, and the pictures, and from a cold start, i bent the spoon just like the pictures show.
i did this yesterday, before my comments.
Physics is a science that is made up by man in relation to a universe he does not fundamentally comprehend. He makes up science. As man ages more and more bits and peices are added. Many things that are unseen are relevant. And things that were considered unmeasurable become relevant. The forces that act on things have not all been made into textbooks yet, purely because man is making it up as he goes. He is writing a little book to explain the strangeness into things which make sense.
It is good that Mr Skeptic exists. He serves the requirement for order and clear answers, he abhors bullshit, good, yet he must never forget that what is known has evolved from our attempts to explain what is unknown, and thus they remain maps, rational explanations, incomplete, useful and potentially also limiting if clung to.
Maybe the skeptics require science to evolve several hundred years before an explanation is arrived at through the materialists slow march to enlightenment(which is called mainstream science)?
Is anyone here able to bend a materialist?
In the meantime I can offer a simple explanation. Physics is a science that is made up by man in relation to a universe he does not fundamentally comprehend. He makes up science. As man ages more and more bits and peices are added. Many things that are unseen are relevant. And things that were considered unmeasurable become relevant. The forces that act on things have not all been made into textbooks yet, purely because man is making it up as he goes. He is writing a little book to explain the strangeness into things which make sense.
It is good that Mr Skeptic exists. He serves the requirement for order and clear answers, he abhors bullshit, good, yet he must never forget that what is known has evolved from our attempts to explain what is unknown, and thus they remain maps, rational explanations, incomplete, useful and potentially also limiting if clung to.
In all of this I have shown that to bend a skeptic requires identification as the skeptic.
Thank you Raphael. I like how you worded this.
I posted a comment earlier (#77). While most of that post was in regard to my general opinion about telekinesis and whatnot, there was a question in there that I was hoping would get answered. To reiterate:
I would like to know what happened to all that red “metaphysical energy” that was in the pictures, but not the video. Also, where the apparent second self saying “BEND, BEND” was?
Although I am by all means a skeptic, I am genuinely interested in what your explanation for the aforementioned observation is. Thanks in advance.
From my conversation with Shannan we concluded that the “effects” on the picture are just bad photography, or more precisely, long exposure times, which lead to the lights smearing on the photos. You can see the exposure times in the EXIF data of the JPGs of the photos.
Regarding the shouting, I believe Shannan himself will explain better, but my understanding is that he doesn’t need this anymore to gather his inner strength, so to speak. Yet, all spoon bending advocates suggest newcomers to do this shouting.
I run this site, for those who didn’t understand that Shannan was only one of the readers and send me his photos and video to post them on this website.
Perhaps bad photography/smearing would explain the red blurs, but what about the second self clearly shown in the picture? That couldn’t be the result of any kind of “bad” photography. If Shannan was able to conjure such a strong psychic energy such that it could be physically seen and even photographed, then why was it not in the video?
Hi Shannon,
What kind of camera and shutter speed did you use to get your last three photos?
Thank You,
webwalker13@charter.net
Hi,
Two questions and then a comment…
1) What type of film, (shutter speed) and camera were you using for the photos they were great!
2) Your instructions were very clear and I easily bent two spoons while in the process of reading your instructions. In fact, I did not get all the way through your instructions before my first spoon bent. But, in all fairness went back and read what to do before bending my second spoon.
3) How long did it take you before you were bending thicker items?
I have sent you a few of the pictures and would be happy to demonstrate live over the computer for non-belivers… http://www.kalapajeon.com/Freebies.htm
Best Wishs,
Kala Pajeon
Author of the Candle Magick & Talisman Magick Workbooks ~;-)
kalapajeon@charter.net
(aka webwalker13@charter.net)
Hi,
Two questions and then a comment…
1) What type of film, (shutter speed) and camera were you using for the photos they were great!
2) Your instructions were very clear and I easily bent two spoons while in the process of reading your instructions. In fact, I did not get all the way through your instructions before my first spoon bent. But, in all fairness went back and read what to do before bending my second spoon.
3) How long did it take you before you were bending thicker items?
I have sent you a few of the pictures and would be happy to demonstrate live over the computer for non-belivers…
Best Wishs,
Kala Pajeon
Author of the Candle Magick & Talisman Magick Workbooks ~;-)
kalapajeon@charter.net
(aka webwalker13@charter.net)
This is BULLSHIT!!!!!
All you people who are getting crazy angry over what this guys claims he can do really need to chill. Its not like he’s hurting any of you. Some of you act like he’s some kind of murderer. Just because you don’t believe in his “abilities” doesn’t give any of you the right to bash him. I don’t believe in any of this kind of stuff but that doesn’t mean I’m going to start berating him. Its alright to disagree with him just try and be more civil about it and show him the same respect he’s been showing all of you. By the way, I hope you’ve burned those pants by now.
LOL!! thank you, I feel the same on what you said about the micro-humans here. I did get rid of the pants. But I am starting to wear my old 1985 parachute pants with the zippers unzipped.
Peace be with you. =-)
did you just call us “micro-humans”?
are you inferring that you are a part of a superior race of humans?
wtf?
the same respect he shows us? well, not that i’ve been terribly disrespectful up to this point, but i’d say he waived all rights to civility when he posted that comment about the guy wetting his bed till he was 12.
where’s the respect?
oh, ha ha.
he changed my name on the last post to bucket-o-chicken.
if he was being less of a douche, so would we.
WHAAHAAA!!!! You’re very funny!!!
Did you had enough oxygen at your birth?
This is the saddest display of idiocy I have ever seen on the internet, and I’ve surfed ytmnd. I’m not referring to Mr. Rohde- I’m referring to everyone who has taken this seriously and actually pointed out reasons why this isn’t psychic. Really, Internet users? Bending spoons with your hands doesn’t require psychic powers? What brilliant powers of logical deduction you possess! Are you sure that you are not psychic yourselves? Well, either way someone needs to get Randi on the phone, because we’ve found a bunch of people who are CLEARLY suited to carry on his legacy after he dies!
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! LOOK AT THE PICTURES! LOOK AT THE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS!
What’s more annoying than people who pretend to be psychic to gain money and fame? Skeptics with no friggin sense of humor.
Incidentally, if you enjoy reading about fake psychics, the fictional character Sasha Nein (from the game Psychonauts) has a very well-written blog:
http://agentnein.livejournal.com/
Hey, you seem real enough, you should go take Randi’s 1 million dollar challenge. Just think, you could buy a new house or a fancy sports car with your amazing ability. (Or even better, you could prove to the world that you’re blowing hot air)
P.S. He doesn’t think very highly of you
http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-03/030907bomb.html#i6
Even if I did win the challenge do you know I would tell them to keep the money, just to prove a point.
I can fart and bend a spoon more then that you big sissy.
I’m glad to see that my post was removed, probably due to the fact that it easily disproved this mind spoon bending nonsense. The bending of the spoon is obviously occurring at the narrowest point of the spoon. The process of bending metal beyond the point where it will bounce back into its original shape is called metal fatigue and the point where the spoon is bent beyond where it will return to its normal state (meaning the spoon will stay bent) is called the yield point. Once part of the metal has been put under this kind of stress it will leave the outer edges of the stressed point also weakened making it very possible to continue bending the spoon round and round till you get to a thicker part of the spoon and your strength finally meets its match and you no longer can bend the spoon. This is a very simple concept taught to all engineers and anyone in the field of metallurgy.
You can find a detailed article here on the subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_(material)
Now I’m sure all this will be scoffed as some wrong brain nonsense and thats fine with me. It just seems that those of you who believe that people who use one side of the brain are superior than those that use primarily the other side and are the inferior of the world. Kind of reminds me when Hitler came through speaking “truth” about those that were inferior. Hopefully people can have a chance to read this and use at least part of their brain (why would we have two halves if one was greater than the other?) to see this for the tomfoolery it is.
wow, an amazing individual. My ESP Abilities are telling me you wet the bed till you were 12.
Is this comment directed at me? If so, what kind of reply is that? Are you actually 5 years old? I don’t understand how you can completely ignore tested and proven facts. Do you think that people who design buildings, bridges, cars, trains, bikes, mechanical toothbrushes, planes just will all these things into existence? They just go with what they feel? That planes are only able to fly because of the collective happy thoughts from amongst the passengers? And by the way, I’m not an amazing individual, just a normal guy who has a normal family living in a normal house but I’m doing abnormal things.
Then go do normal things in a normal forum.
Peace be with you as well.
Are you even reading my posts? I said at the end that I’m doing ABNORMAL things.
You’ve been completely raked over the coals here and it seriously takes a strong man to admit defeat, but clearly you are not a strong man. It would just be nice for once to have someone claiming to have special powers, attempt to prove said powers, fail and then admit defeat. If you are able to, at a later date, provide sufficient proof as to new abilities then I think you should gladly show them to the world. The best theories, facts and proofs are the best because they’ve stood the test of time and scrutiny. It might be best that you put a little humility into that third eye of yours.
T_Rumble, I removed your comment since it contained foul language in it. I don’t delete comments because just I disagree with them, as you can see from other comments still here.
I see plenty of posts that contain quite a bit of foul language and have not been removed.
you know that all these “supporters” and this person who supposedly went from being a “non-believer” (or “sane” as i like to call it) to someone who bent their own spoon “with their mind” could very well be rohde posting on the site under names he makes up, right?
just thought i’d point that out
I only use my own name.
I can’t figure out if this is a joke or not.
Hi Shannan,
Thank you for this wonderful technique! Whether it’s my strong mental power or the bad quality of the spoons I have; it just works! Thanks to you I rediscovered my concentration skills…
Now I also know why my spoons always bent when I’m trying to scoop some vanilla ice out of the tub. It must be that vanilla ice radiates waves of positive energy too!
But I wonder: is there any mental process to ‘unbent’ the spoons? My girlfriend gave me a new series of spoons for my birthday, because she didn’t like to use the bent spoons to stir her soup. And I realized that present was kinda embarrassing…
Greets,
A Belgian fan
This whole topic and its “psychic” emphasis are absurd.
Why do you think you’re supposed to pick a spoon with a thin neck? That’s a cheap and flimsy spoon–the kind you come across in public school cafeterias–and it takes very little to mess it up.
When you rub the thinnest bit of the spoon between your fingers, you create friction. Friction means heat. It doesn’t take much heat to anneal cheap-ass metal; the heat generated by the friction you create by manhandling the spoon is enough to make it all wilty. And thus you have flatware that would make Dali proud.
That dingbat Uri Geller made a fortune cold-cocking the minds of gullible nitwits who didn’t learn anything in Physics 101, and his legacy continues.
Rohde,
do you even pay attention to what you’re saying here? of course you can bend a spoon with your hands. i can do it from a cold start. escpecially since you roll it down the handle like that. the only time you twisted it sideways was at the weakest point.
twist sideways the whole time, from the bottom of the handle up. then put that up here. if the spoon becomes like rubber, it should be possible, but if not, well, then you’re merely bending metal with your hands, and it’s not possible to bend a spoon THAT way normally. good luck with that.
had i a camcorder, i would bend a spoon too, with MY HANDS, just like you did, and post it on the web, just so i can prove my point.
by the way, you’re on fark, which is where the sceptics are coming from. you listed under the tag dumbass.
enjoy.
Thank you, I already know about fark.
care to respond to the rest of my post? about bending the spoon a specific way? no, just responding about fark? i didnt think you’d have any responses to that, because you can’t do it.
if you can’t prove me wrong rohde, well, then its obvious you’re making this crap up.
step up rohde, let’s see what you’ve got.
bucket-o-death, dont you think you’re taking this all a bit too seriously. this guy has put up a really entertaining page and you’re acting like he’s killed your dog or something. he bent a spoon and there’s people around the world enjoying it. i dont really care if he bent it using his hands or whatever… look at those pictures…! this guy is genius!
if you came from fark you should be ashamed – surely you know how to take a joke on the chin.
this guy isn’t joking, he wants people to believe that he’s doing this with “special powers”
do you know how that goes? do you know how many of the gullible will actually throw their money at these people?
it’s wrong, and he’ll take the money gladly. someone has to speak up enough that at least they think twice about their money.
I haven’t once for a single penny Bucket-o-chicken
suuuuure you haven’t.
of course you’re going to say that up here, and hey, maybe it’s even true!
but can you honestly say you would refuse the chance to be the next uri geller?
Honestly… I would.
well now i’m intrigued.
why?
mainly because he was proven a fake, embarked on making money off people that didn’t have money and then ultimately created individuals like you and everyone else here that say” Fake, or as one guy said, a left hook to my face, and all the other negative comments.”
All this stuff does not bother me in the least bit. I do not want to be famous, on TV, or looked at with awe. I just want people like you and everyone else to know that when you put your mind to something, you can achieve it.
So if everyone saw a UFO landing with ray guns are you all going to come on forums and say “That’s not real, or ill break your face cause what you saying is fake?” Only to get wiped of the face of the earth?
I could send you a video of me floating 500 feet in the air and it STILL would be labeled fake. But i don’t care one bit, everybody and I mean everybody has an opinion. I am just simply stating a fact.
I wish the very best to you, and hope the very best for you… I mean that..
quite frankly, that guy who said he wants to break your face has some problems. i don’t think many people agree with his…violent way of thinking.
the message that you can do anything you put your mind to is a good one. the message that you are enabling yourself to bend spoons with only the power of your mind, i do not agree with.
i don’t agree because it is quite ridiculous, and it makes the rest of us look bad. I myself do “readings” i started with tarot cards, but found after a time that i no longer needed them. There are many supernatural occurences in this world, and many who acknowledge that, but you sir, are making us look like morons.
that is why i have taken offense to this site, that is why i have attempted to show you to be a charlatan.
frankly, i don’t care what these people think of me, personally. post that i’m not a psychic, whatever, i don’t care. but don’t look at this guy, and take him as an example of all people that claim to have abilities above the normal abilities of our species.
there are those out there who would shock you, scare you, and some who would leave you perhps not with a firm belief in the supernatural, but at least with some doubt that it is not possible.
This is such BS. hahahaha. good life skills right here. ahahaha.
thank you scott
Telekinesis is moving something from a distance without using any perceptible force, aka, the mind. I don’t think it’s just for bending metal.
A NOTE TO UNBELIEVERS: can i just say that i didnt believe this – i thought it was a load of nonsense and that shannon was a stupid looking beardy idiot. but i was WRONG and i want to apologise for my prejudice. i tried this out about half an hour ago, assuming it was a just a waste of time, but the effect was just awesome. it totally worked for me and i’m starting to wonder what else i can do with this power. you can see teh results on teh link bit below.
i just want to say THANKS TO SHANNON for openning my mind to this new world.. i am thinking of persuing this further and looking at what other potential i might unlock
EVIDENCE – if you don’t believe me – look here
http://img174.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf1313fe9.jpg
DON’T PLAYER HATE
sorry, WRONG LINK
here it is
http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bendspoonke6.png
YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS
dude, I just pissed my pants laughing at that. Bravo on the humour, that was funny. SERIOUSLY!
glad you liked it. well, you’ve gotta make light of these things – everyone was taking it far too seriusly. don’t let these people get you down – this is the best web page i’ve seen in weeks. good luck to ya!
bending a spoon with your mind and bending it with your hands are 2 different things. Sorry dude, you like so many other people on the net are a fake/wannabe. You should consider erasing this page, people might stop laughing at you then
Psycokinetics is using you body and mind to shift matter.
Telekinetics is just using your mind to alter metal.
I hope that clears you up on this subject. This is an example of Psycokinetics.
I’m sorry you were confused and peace be with you.
Actually, psychokinesis and telekinesis is two names for the same thing. Both are about using affecting physical world (such as moving things) without “regular” powers.
There’s also Micro Psychokinesis, or MicroPK, for short, that’s about the mind altering states of micro objects or of random events, such as the result of random number generators.
That’s the research that has been at PEAR labs before it closed recently.
no we will keep this page I think.
I wonder why it looks like he’s bending it with his hands? I think I can do that!
Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you’ll see, that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself.
I would like to know what happened to all that red “metaphysical energy” that was in the pictures, but not the video. Also, where the apparent second self saying “BEND, BEND” was?
Anyways, I, like many of the above, am led to believe this is only fabricated. The fact that it makes no sense physical world aside, the fact that you went so far as to post a picture of one physical self bending the spoon, and a metaphysical self telling the spoon to bend, completely discredits you. Anybody with an iota of common sense knows that it is not possible to photograph a non-physical object. The only rational explanation is that you superimposed another picture of yourself bending the spoon on top of the original picture. And with this in mind, that fact that you would try to emphasize this alleged “metaphysical energy” by doctoring up you photographs and passing them off as real, completely ruins your credibility.
The act of bending a spoon with one’s mind from a theoretical standpoint is simply not possible (and actually, the “bending” of the spoon was done through your fingers – your mind only seems to weaken the spoon). The reality we live in is governed by natural law, and explained by science (and by science, I mean the verified observation of the physical universe). And according to science, it is not possible for the human mind to give off some kind of physical energy that would physically weaken the spoon and then harden it again (at least, it has never been documented). However, if it is something that anybody can do, as you so claim, it is reasonable to assume that somebody credible (i.e., a scientist) would have investigated into such a phenomenon.
I am able to blow all the negative energy out my bumhole.
Is that paranormal?
ha ha ha.. yeah i just did that too… and the dog bent up… i have a psychic anus!!
In the second to the last one, you look evil – or high on something. I cannot make up my mind. lol
Personally, when I bend spoons, I like to use the same method Uri Gellar does. I wait ’til nobody’s looking, then crank down on a flat surface. Then I just hold my hand over the bend, start rubbing it, and slowly reveal the already bent spoon.
You can do keys this way too. Just make sure you use two keys, one with fairly deep notches. Slide the shaft (huh huh) of that key into the hole in the other one, and squeeze your hand. It’ll bend the key. You can then do the same process as with the spoon, slowly revealing the bend.
Needless to say, there’s no such thing as psychic powers, and this guy in the pictures is just a gay looking doofus. “Wife.” Sure, whatever.
thank you and peace be with you too Howie.
Hey, if you can be the world’s greatest website designer and still be illiterate and deluded there’s hope for the rest of us.
Your pictures taken in the back yard were shot using a 4+ second exposure and a flash. You’re not only an idiot, but you are very specifically deceiving people telling them there was no photoshopping involved.
There’s no need for photoshopping if you use basic camera skills to produce the effects in your pics.
You know damn well how the “energy” showed up in your pics.
my comment was number 69…hehe hehe hehe…though in a more mature light, one could say that 69 resembles a yin yang
Dude, watch out for Sylar.
I believe that it is probably possible to bend spoons with one’s mind, however the gentleman in the pictures has not proved that he can do it. Keep trying though…
I’ve experienced some psychic phenomena…I’ve dreamed future events, had another person ask me about my past and already knowing the answer because she had a dream about it. Also in meditation I have felt a connection to the universe that is deeper than our five basic senses allows. Once while on LSD it seemed that I could see several seconds into the future while also viewing the present. Though, LSD severely alters our perception of time so it may be that my brain was just seeing time passing much slower than usual.
I think Shannan is for real. To those who just refuse to believe, well, bend over and I will give you a good spooning.
P/S – But Shannan, you gotta check on ‘em fashion sense. It *really* takes a lot to be a proper spoon-bending poster boy these days. Really.
Please go find your high school English teacher and give them a good slap on the head for being so negligent in teaching you proper English. I know it’s petty to pick on such a thing, but it’s hard to take you seriously when you write like an imbecile.
well, that was dumb
I experienced joy and sadness in perusing the comments. Not being able to summon the faith and focus neccessary to bend spoons drives many people to say cruel words I suppose, eh? Good show! You should have Soundgarden’s “Spoonman” playing in the background on this site. Bender is my favorite robot. .ECAEP
If a fat chicks falls in the forest, do the trees laugh?
Listen you f******* dumbass.
If you can bend spoons with your mind – even though it looks like a good deal of effort and strain is going on, take your trick to the sceptics society. They will pay $1 million to anyone who can bend a spoon with their mind.
1 million dollars you freakin idiot – 1 million. Go and phone them now.
I used your technique on some spoons, but accidentally bent my wanger instead.
Nonetheless, the Mrs. loves it, so thanks!
I tried a variation of this psychical exercise utilising the region of my third eye and the bonnet of an enemy’s Volvo. I channeled all that dark energy through my third eye from my solar plexus and put a small dent in the metal! It was amazing! With focus and the power of directed psychokinetic energy I was able to dent my enemy’s bonnet using the power of rage!
Granted, the power is short of range so I had to make sure my forehead was close enough to the bonnet of the vehicle. The gesture was an abrubt and powerful bowing motion (in the Japanese style, bent at the waist). I tried using words of power like “tosser” and “wanker”. The word that really helped I shan’t print. The word is too powerful.
Your knowledge of the subject is astounding.
Cheers!
do not give in to the dark side as obi-wan-kenobi says. I have gone down that path before, and it only brings destruction and death plus alot of bad karma. It took me 8 years to purge the karma I built up from my military days. Use the light for goodness, helping, and healing and watch you power increase a thousand fold my friend.
Why do you bother explaining this to all? Why do you waste your time?
I am not sure if I can bend a spoon the way you have described. I would like to. I have tried it before, when my mind was more conditioned, and was obviously unsuccessful. It’s a bit freer after these years. I must try again.
I wonder why we have to subscribe to good emotions or a God or things of a positive kind, why we have to breathe in the good and breathe out the bad. Why do we have to differentiate between the positive and the negative? I am not expecting an answer. I wonder why I asked the question then. [Not sure].
I only posted here as I felt that you are wasting your time if you try to prove things this way and it’s not helping people who might actually try to do this, with the exception of Paul Claessen, ofcourse. You need to provide irrefutable evidence. However, is it worth wasting your time? [Not sure again].
If this is a spoof then I have wasted my time in posting here, or maybe I have not. I really don’t know. Does it matter? [Cliché - Not sure once again].
[My email address, that mentioned with this post, is not correct. I don't want more spam from spammers].
10-4.
it is a question we all ponder all the time, when it comes down to it why are we even here period? To strive to make our life mean something. I waste my time cause all we have is time.
Something different is always something to add to our collective.
Peace be with you, and I am truley sorry if you felt you were wasting your time.
Someone should tell Senator Ted Stevens that someone is wasting a ton of internet tubes on this nonsense.
Sure buddy.
Now write me back with your excuse …ups…I meant the “reason” why you don’t go and face the JREF one million dollar challenge…….
Im in the process of application and sign up for this Jose R. Thank you for your concern and peace to you.
It actually worked! I was first a little skeptical but after four hours it finally bent! Thanks for the great tutorial, the breathing allowed me to focus a lot better.
36 going on 2.
I would love to try this but I live in China, and as such we don’t have any spoons – only chopsticks. I wouldn’t even know how to use a spoon let alone bend one. Does this work on any other metal objects?
I beliebe so but I personally have only tried spoons and forks.
That’s pretty funny! Pehaps for your next trick you could disappear up your own ar$e?
I’ve just bent every piece of cutlery in my kitchen using only the power of my mind!
Of course, I do touch the cutlery with my hands…but only very gently!
My secret??
I pretend that I am ‘one with the spoon’.
I blend my spirit with the spirit of the spoon and then, slowly, it just bends.
However, I had trouble with my electric carving knife though.
It seems that Westinghouse has defective souls in their products.
But I was able to at least bend the electric cord!
James Randi’s $1,000,000 challange at http://www.randi.org is as good as mine.
Hysterical article. If only it was satire it’d be brilliant. The fact that it’s a person who really believes he’s capable of mythical things while still acknowledging he’s just bending the spoon with his hands makes it all the more tragic.
In a related note: Why is it that people who try to document the paranormal don’t ever know how to handle a freaking camera?
Either way, thanks for the laughs.
your welcome. Glad to give you positive energy.
I have been having trouble with the instructions. It says that you have to hype yourself up but I am depressed and cannot seem to get past the apparent hype threshold needed to be successful.
Of course, failure causes me to become more depressed and with each failure I fall further and further away from the threshold.
I am sure that one success would lead me to a life of joy nad happiness but alas, it is not to be.
be in the moment. Your thinking of the past to much while trying to do it. You will do it, if you belive you can.
I guess you have to stand out in the yard because all the paranormal energy might blow the windows out of the house or something.
If the spoon becomes like rubber, why do you have to grimace like that when you’re bending it? Are you trying to scare the metal into turning rubbery?
Rohde says, “Are you an expert in the field? Are you a lawyer?” If that comment is meant to imply that lawyers are shysters and charlatans just like spoon benders are, prepare to get sued, dude.
I guess it’s good, that the statements were not clearly directed to a specific lawyer or expert. just in general. I would not like to get sued.
Hey! Now *everybody* can do it! I’ve turned Mr. Rohde’s instructions into a Javascript so you can bend spoons straight from your own webpage (just cut’n'paste)! Cool eh?
var spoons = new Array([10]) //pick out 10 spoons
theSpoon = new Object (spoons [math.rnd(10)+1]) //select one
theSpoon.hold(vertical)
theSpoon.lookAt()
meditation.start()
15; i++){
energy.breathe(in)
negativeFeelings.breathe(out)
energy.putIn(solarPlexus)
theSpoon.massage(belowBowl)
}
theSpoon.tell(“bend”)
theSpoon.lookAt(seconds(2))
theSpoon.bend(withHands)
for i=0; i 3; i++){
theSpoon.tell(“BEND!”, veryLoud)
}
I gotta admit, being in the web business and owning my own company, that this was very creative. It shows me your a very logical person and left brainer. I personally would of done this with a and but then again I am a coldfusion expert. I do like javascript for the simple things for client browsers, but I prefer server methods anyways. Also where is your closing operator? Where is the Declaration? Oh wait thats your writing it and willing it to close. Also I prefer to externalize my scripts. It helps in ranks.
Go back to the board Einstein, your almost there..
I’ll help you if you need, and i won’t even add psychic to it. Just good old logic.
Here is an example of brain power. Go to yahoo and type in *”World’s best website designer”*. I am #2 in the world. I was #1 for 1 1/2 years, but I moving into different keywords.
Good luck re-writing. Oh wait, your telling a joke and not being *serious*. That’s the difference. I am serious.
acually i stand corrected after i wrote this post, I went in and checked again on the ranking. I am number 5 now for World’s best website designer on yahoo. But that is ok cause it’s the same on google too. =-)
man I love seo rythems.
Ya, ’cause a high ranking on google means you really are “The world’s fifth best website designer”.
So which is better, “World’s best website designer” or “World’s greatest website designer” or maybe “ultimage web guru”.
it’s so much better, cause robots decide not human.
Strange that the world’s #2 best website designer can’t write a message board function that doesn’t swallow up for instance the “greater than” character (ASCII 62) and the entire line preceding it. Maybe your mind was focused on something more important, what do I know.
cfsilent and cfscript is what I ment. My mind was on spoon bending =-)
You really should post a warning on your web site about the damage that can be done inadvertently using your spoon-bending technique! I tried this in my mother’s house, and without intending to, bent several very valuable antique pieces of silverware in a cabinet near where I was standing. Needless to say, my mum was really ticked off.
I’m sorry you got in trouble. You should ask first.
I am a true Bendy. You are a flake and should use meditation to better yourself, not unleash it on your spoons and forks. What the heck did they ever do to you?
I hope that people see through your crap…
Good ol’ Mr. Randi is the one people should be looking up to, not you. Go read James Randi…he cuts through all this crap.
“The hands did the bending, but the mind helps you bend”
Yup. Your brain controls your hands. Anybody with use of both can bend a spoon. But not everybody can make a completely hilarious website that is simultaneously a sad comment on cultural gullibility.
I think if you wear the pants your ego will dissipate immediately, leaving you free to delude yourself.
If this kind of thing were true, people, it could be verified. It isn’t necessary to scientifically measure some unknown, unmeasureable force. It would be sufficient to verify that a conventionally understood mechanism was NOT being used (mechanical force, a special spoon, etc.).
I agree, this is a very clever joke.
Spoon bending is for boobs that are impressed that pushing on a thin piece of metal bends it. Try it without touching the spoon whatsoever. If you can do it you can have 1 million dollars. But you cant, at least not without a powerful magnet.
There is no spoon.
Lets see yoy try it with a Ginzu knife
I decided to try this, and the results were AMAZING!!!
After a few moments, I realized I looked like an ass, did not want bent silverware, psychic powers don’t exist, and then went back to doing more productive things with my time.
Awesome TlalocW!! Try it again but this time don’t feel like you look like an ass, you look beautiful. You did want to bend the silverware but your ego took over, it’s ok I still have this sometimes. Psychic powers do exist, but you were taught not to believe in them. And doing more productive things are what we strive for. To help your mind be more then it is and realize that. Spoon bending is for self-confidence, realizing a human being can do more that what they believe and achieveing a high state of exsistance.
Peace be with you..
I tried to do what you did. But as I was looking at spoons trying to connect with the one that wanted to bend, I found my mind bending instead. Are there mind-bending spoons as well as spoon-bending minds? Should I worry about this?
Stephanie
That’s funny and creative. Describe what you mean about mind bending. Do you mean like having a great time? You have nothing to worry about, It’s all positive energy. The only negitive energy here is the negitive comments.
I think I mean mind-bending in the sense of how well we can convince ourselves of almost anything, if it serves our purposes. Benjamin Franklin said something about man being a rational animal in that he can come up with a rationalization for whatever he wants to do. We can be irrational, too, telling ourselves something *could be* true, no matter how far-fetched it seems, if believing answers some need within us. Now I’m going to watch your video.
How to bend a spoon.
1. Take a thin spoon
2. scream your head off.
3. While doing 2. apply force to the spoon.
Voila.
that is the non-metaphychical approach but yes that will work if using brute force.
oh my god you guys! i just wrote this response WITH MY MIND yall. i mean it was incredible. i thought about words, and than i transfered energy to my fingers and then THEY JUST APPEARED ON THE SCREEN! LIKE MAGIC! OH MY GOD, IM STILL DOING IT!!!
that’s what do with the spoon.
Can’t all of you who believe this sort of trick have the guts to look inside yourselves and see that you are being fooled because you want to be fooled. Can’t you look at the evidence laid out by many people, not the least of which is James Randi, and subscribe to the Achems Razor approach in life. Why can’t you bend the spoon like the ‘magical’ Rhode? Because it’s a trick and a lie. Go read something educational and better yourselves rather than feed into this garbage. Good day and good luck
or do the same thing like Brian and simply do not believe, that’s why People like Brian can’t and won’t do it.
I personally claim no trick to this. I’ll have the video done tonight. I personally wish I had a He-Man shirt to wear when showing you, but hey you can’t always get what you want, unless you believe you can..
I give Brian a great big hug and look at him deep in the eyes and say, ‘I love you man”.
=-)
Are you sure it’s not the seriously commenting skeptic who’s being fooled here?
And uhm .. WHOSE razor???
Do we really NEED another razor wielding guy?
Is having Occam not enough?
LOL! Nice, er, camera work. Too bad about those, uh, anomalies. I don’t think I have the strength for this psi stuff.
And MOST people will never get it… because they can not see beyond their conditioned selves, and self-impossed limitations.. gotta hand that one to christianity. “be afraid, be very afraid” LOL!
Then again, like minded and enlightened souls DO find each other and grow.
For every spoon ever bent anywhere in the world, there is one, and only one cause–ME! I have telekenetic abilities that activate whenever anyone tries to bend any sort of cutlery. I can’t control their activation myself, and I’m getting sick and tired of feeling that strange tingle in the back of my head at all hours of the day and night.
JUST STOP IT, ALL OF YOU! Spoon bending is absolutely real, only everyone thinks that they are doing it themselves. YOU ARE NOT! You are merely activating *my* abilities at a distance, and stealing *my* chi to bend your spoons!
I am currently looking for legal recourse in this matter, so if anyone knows of a good lawyer, let me know.
Are you my Dad?
SO, when I bent that spoon in #37, it was actually YOU who did the bending?
I will have to inform my wife about that!
Prepare for a long lasting headache!
Pah! This is boring! I’ve been telling everybody this for YEARS!
If this is Truly Uri, please write me, we have a alot of talking to do about spoons =-)
shannanrohde @ uniquemadness . com
I wouldn’t put too much faith in that being the real Uri Geller, as the link he put leads to a cute little site about why god isn’t real.
Regardless – my little brother could do a better job with those photos on Photoshop, and spoon-bending has been debunked ages ago. I’d suggest you go to the James Randi Foudation but since you’re obiously a fraud I wouldn’t waste their time on you.
thank you for the energy and the input.
*warm smiles*
Seriously, what is so unbelievable about using the mind to direct energy to change the energy of something else??
I have been able to do this technique on one occasion. Yes, my first attempt was futile.. nothing happened.
After I concentrated and got in the proper mindset, I could feel the metal warm and change to a more fluid substance. I was easily able to bend the spoon many times, and felt energized from this for quite awhile afterwards.
Whats the UNBELIEVABLE part? The mind is a powerful tool, IF you believe it is..it is.. and I AM!
So you’ve centered your chi, mastered your chakra, breathed in the good and out the bad, etc., and all you’ve gotten out of it is the ability to use your hands to ruin cheap cutlery? If I were you, I’d work on making cute girls’ clothes drop off.
done that already.
Ok people here’s the deal. Tonight I will make a video of this for you all and you can judge then. No tricks, no nothing but raw footage. Should be up in a couple of days.
oh did i tell you i won the lotto the other day as well.
Shannon, I recall that, decades ago, when spoonbending was first shown on telly, there was a rash of small children repeating the performance in their homes. But, I am especially interested in the lotto performance: $%&* Randy, he can remain sceptical; please send me the protocol for this. Send directly to my e-address if you’d rather not have the lotto people shut down their operations. Yes, I will employ a solicitor, accountant and investment advisor when I win.
Bliminus
If you write down a number and show it to me, then concentrate and focus on thinking of that number, I can tell you what number you wrote down. Except instead of knowing because you showed me the paper, I will know because I can sense your thoughts. Really. I promise.
A form of Telepathy. That is awesome Scatch..
“I neveer claimed I bend it with my mind. I used my mind to bend the spoon. The hands did the bending.” (8.1)
The mind causes the hands to bend the spoon? Priceless.
Exactly what I was thinking
My mind causes different parts of my body to do things all day long, and no one gets that interested… and I can bend a spoon like that WITH MY HANDS, and I don’t even have to shout at it.
I would be completely convinced this was a parody if it weren’t for the rest of the pages on this site. This is a parlor trick, not a demonstration of of psychic powers. Geez. But hey, if you’re all happy getting your inspiration by fooling yourselves, have fun.
Amazing! I did this and it worked!
I even think I have improved on the method outlined above, this can actually be done more efficiently: here’s how I did it ..
I left out steps 1 to 9, and 11 and 12.
Of the remaining step (10), I also did NOT look out of a window first, nor did I say anything out loud or felt for the “ruberness” of the spoon.
But BOY did that spoon bend!
The only problem is that I now have a headache. This is related to my wife finding out I was bending her spoons…
Great job! My wife is on my ass too, I had to go out and buy new spoons and forks. She is happy now. Thank you for the support
You’re welcome, but uhm… psst.. just between you and me, I’m not really supporting anything.
pssst… that’s ok =-) it’s called a choice.
Correction: To be brutally honnest: I just realized that in my shortcut method, as outlined above, I DID, indeed, NOT skip step 1 entirely! I DID, in fact, first GET a spoon. I think this step is vital (although, if you can do without it, that REALLY is going to get you that million bucks!). I didn’t pick ten though, one was enough and although I didn’t give it much thought I was pretty sure that it was going to bend.
SO my method comes down to 2 steps:
1. Get a spoon
2. Bend it
(and possibly: 3. Hide evidence from wife)
While bending perfectly good spoons this way can hardly be considered normal, and although, yes some brainpower was definitely involved (muscles don’t work well without the brain), there’s nothing paranormal about the procedure.
YOU CAN DO THIS TOO!
(Just don’t. It’s silly)
This method, by the way, is something that Mr. Randi would, I’m sure, categorize as “doing it the easy way”.
you should write him and ask, he might acually agree.
Already did.
And although I haven’t received a response (yet?), I’m totally convinced that he, indeed, WOULD agree with my method being “doing it the easy way”, since that’s what he has been telling us all along about his own abilities to do what ‘psychics’ do “the hard way”.
very cool, thank you for your input. I video will be up today from this morning for you. Then you can really go to town.
Yet another addition. This time to my step 1:
since Shannan’s method of GETTING a spoon is a bit misleading. In fact he mentions TWO methods, which can lead to picking DIFFERENT spoons with different methods. Let me clarify.
His first method:
1. “Go in your drawer and pick out 10 or so spoons. And lay them out on the table. Use your feeling and let them tell you which spoon will bend.”
His second method is:
2. “pick the thinnest”
For my shortcut method above, I strongly suggest you follow method #2!
In all fairness, the full text of that method is:
“When you feel you have the right spoon and [sic] mind you pick one that is fairly thin to start out with.
”
There is a problem with the semantics (and logic) here though: what I feel is the right spoon, after having the spoons tell me which one will bend, is NOT necessarily or automatically the thinnest one! What to do? Shannan is very clear about this: Pick the the thinnest, NO MATTER what your feeling told you. Hence my somewhat shortend and more logical (not to mention practical) form of his second method.
What I am saying is pick a thin spoon to start out with. Then after building confidence go thicker
Yes, I understand that.
And starting with a thin one sounds like practical advice. But it negates your OTHER advice to pick 10 spoons and have the spoons TELL you which one will bend. Simply saying ‘pick the thinnest’ would have sufficed.
And that’s the WHOLE POINT about my mentioning MY method here! Take out the mumbo jumbo and you can STILL do EXACTLY what you describe (minus the ‘rubber’ part), without having to invoke ANYTHING magical or paranormal. (Focussing on something, whether you call it meditation or something even more esoterical, is, of course, nothing paranormal:
if you see a weight lifter control his breathing, then close his eyes, and stand there for a short while and FOCUS (call it meditation: fine!) on the task ahead… you’re NOT really saying that when he LIFTS that weight, he’s demonstrating some paranormal effect, do you?
EVEN though he wouldn’t get that thing off the ground if he casually walks by it and tries to pick it up, while being on the phone with his ex.
Your spoon bending falls into this VERY same category!
It’s simply a matter of applying some physical force, strong enough for you to having to FOCUS on what you’re doing. That’s all.)
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
The world as it is, is already spectacularly interesting, awesome and mind boggling. No need to make up stuff.
I’m convinced (now! I wasn’t at first!) that you truly believe in what you’re implying here and that you take my (obvious) skeptisism for ‘closed-minded-ness’. I’m fairly sure that there isn’t going to be a single thing that I can say or do, that would change your mind.
I can only hope, that one day, you will start to see the light.. that reason and rationality will become more and more and more appealing than all those ‘paranormal’ experiences that, deep down, don’t seem to be as ‘satisfying’ and revealing as you’d hoped them to be.
Been there…
Take care, man!
Since all of my spoons were in the dishwasher I tried to bend a knife and ended up severely cutting my hand.
Who do I send the medical bill to?
I can send it by mail, fax, or mentally if necessary.
I made it halfway though before realizing this was supposed to be funny. Great job Shannan. I love when people make fun of fake psychics like Uri Geller & their “abilities”. Thumbs up for the laugh.
This is great stuff, but unfortunately I doubt it has the intended effect. Just look at the embarassing comments until today (at least most of them).
Notice how the audience changes. I guess this is because this post has been linked form the randi weekly comment page http://www.randi.org
Looks like many people can’t read and have no humor.
… and pleeeeease tell me where I can buy one of those marvellous 4d multi-dimension cameras.
now watch the comments flood in
=-)
This is clearly a joke. LOL – you people are stupid, either way.
This is top-level, world class silliness. Let’s not even comment on the “using your mind to bend spoon” aspect. Let me just ask : what’s the use ? Can’t you do anything else with your mind ? Can you use your mind, your arms or anything you want, to make a bent spoon straight again ? That would be useful. But spoiling cutlery and making it unusable ? I don’t really see the point…
Why don’t you try straightening bent spoons – now that would be more impressive and more useful
I tried this, but unfortunately, the cat was in the room at the same time. The results weren’t pretty.
Mr Rohde, I followed your instructions to the letter in an attempt to replicate your spoon bending feat but I was totally unsuccessful. I couldn’t understand what I might be doing wrong so I made another attempt using a plastic fork. Still the fork wouldn’t bend but I think that I managed to twist it a bit …
Of course, if he is bending spoons with his mind, one wonder why he has to hold it so strongly with his hands…
Really can’t say that I’ve read enough of the posts to tell if this has been said or not, but…
This is F’ing REDICULOUS! First of all, the “double-image” in the one picture, as well as the trails/”energy” in other pictures are called SH!TTY PHOTOGRAPHY! Has anyone ever heard of double-exposure? I would suggest that you put down the damn spoons, and maybe pick up some literature on using a simple camera. Emphasis on “simple”, because that is exactly what you are. Don’t bother with SLR, you might hurt yourself.
I don’t feel that I should even have to comment on the nature of bending spoons with one’s mind… If people choose to believe that, then there is no amount of reasoning that can convince them otherwise. They have already proven themselves to be completely unreasonable, as well as pathetically gullible.
For those who choose to view this exercise with a measured curiosity, with the realization that it is indeed a “trick” and not physically (sic. MENTALLY) possible, I will say that it is indeed a very neat trick, and upholding the illusion is just as exciting as being able to actually bend metal with one’s mind. In this respect, you should research the trick, and use it to it’s utmost. Everyone loves a good bar trick…
Its clear from Rhode’s facial expressions that he is using too much physical energy. Iam afraid there is little psychic energy involved in this experiment.
The real thing is to to do it without touching the spoon. Otherwise one can only assume that the spoon is made of of flexible metal. Its very easy to have these stills….if w ecan catch hold of some aluminium spoons that are used in small town eateries in the third world for example.
It’s Rohde, not rhode. Also for you I explained the faces I made in an earlier post. Again, people if your going to post negitive comments PLEASE at least read the full post. Thank you.
P.S. update. My 7 year old daughter did 2 loops the other day with me coaching her. The excitement and glee was priceless. If My 7 year old daughter can do this with her will power and focus, I’m sure the ones here that can’t will when they acually apply there energy to it. Stope the chatter in your mind, forget what you where taught as little controled by society and do what’s right by your parent, government or whatever and bend the spoon. You can do it if you let yourself….
Love, peace and happyness to you all.
I don’t see the humor here. You’re lies are beyond belief, and I even question the legality of what you are doing online here. But if these people are dumb enough to believe any of this… *shrug*
What makes you so sure that these are lies? Where you there? Are you an expert in this field? Have you done spoon bending before? Are you a lawyer?
I hope your anger turns to happyness.
“Shakes hands with you and gives you a big hug”.
Yhis is ridiculous. I thought there might be some validity to your nonsense. And, you have the nerve to put picture that show that your are full of it! You know very well that MIND BENDING means with your mind not with your hands. What the hell do you need your hands for! I don’t want to hear you needed to start it off. That is ridiculous and our are silly enought to put your face on a picture. And, the faces, what is that about have the OSCAR awards passed already. Gimme break and get a REAL life. Obviously the one you have is leaving too much time on your hands. You guys are being way to nice in your response. It,s people like ou that give fuel to people whou are willing to put a million on the table for someone to believe that this stuff is real
It’s called Spoon bending, not mind bending, re-read this post so you get a clear understanding what’s going on here. then post your comment.
I think what’s going on here is pretty clear. The photos suggest a physical effort sufficient to bend a cheap steel spoon, and greater than one would employ were the object to bend “like rubber”. The phenomenon here is people convincing themselves that ither they were not naturally strong enough, or did not apply sufficient force, to bend the spoon.
Mr. Rohde, you are strong enough to bend a spoon. So am I. So is your daughter, at age seven. There is simply nothing going on here to indicate a psychic phenomenon.
WOW!! Everyone is entitled to believe what they wish … Who are you to say someone cannot do something as little as bending a spoon? Closed minded people are very well closed minded…. If a million people did then you would jump on the band wagon and consider it normal…This my freind is simple science… we are all energy and all combined.. to think we are seperate is the shameful part..lol catch you on the enlightened side…
Amen Brother….or sister =-) Thank you for that comment, that is how I feel too.
No problem my friend.. I know that you are awakening some people and I think that is fabulous. I send you some encouraging words after reading some of the negative..
I hope you have a great day and that reach out and wake up some more people-don’t burn yourself out!
Take care
well said -i saw an old zulu chief explaining on telly his philosophy of why we should all live together in peace;he looked at his two hands and said simply`we all have ten fingers`and just grinned .i can hear them now , – your wrong aha youve only got eight — wood and trees come to mind lol .blessed
gives warm loving hug to you =-)
All I can say…Is those drugs and cheap “dollar store” spoons can REALLY do the trick! I wish I had me some!!!
mskittay
ahh come on, you gotta love the pants. LOL!
What’s with those ugly pants? Those things look like something from 1989. I wouldn’t be caught dead in those and I sure as hell would let my boyfriend wear them. That’s why men need us women to pick out clothes, we have much better taste.
if you look real closely….you will see a ghost dog lurking around the pictures
That is funny =-) That is our greyhound Indra. He is a the biggest baby in the world….
Why go to so much trouble when you KNOW it’s nonsense? Everyone with a brain knows it’s nonsense too. I just don’t understand what you get out of it.
Oh, and BTW, you can prove me wrong and become a millionaire by going here and taking a simple challenge – http://www.randi.org/research/index.html
That challenge isn’t as fair as it could be. Read the earlier post about it and read some of the comments about that.
-Hatter
What could be more fair than a protocol Mr. Rohde would have to come up with? Mr. Randi and his associates only ensure that the protocol is not open to cheating; all involved parties have to come to an agreement before testing is performed.
Hi Blarg,
Mr. Jerry and his “Test” are made to embarress people that have abilities. The test it’s self is made so that even the Master Jesus could not pass it. And if someone did pass the test, they would have thier laywers figure out a clause so they would not have to give the pay out. Someone should come up with a 1 million dollar prize to prove psychics and mediums like myself are just plain f*cking nutz..
#1) I think it’s pretty clear Shannon is taking the piss out of everyone and this is a parody site making fun of all the “psychic spoon benders” there just simply isn’t any other possible excuse for the silly photos, descriptions, and posts.
#2) he said: “The test it’s self is made so that even the Master Jesus could not pass it. ”
ummmmm… assuming there is a “master jesus” that could take tests…
3) i object to the misinformation about the JREF prize… a LITTLE bit of research and you would have discovered that it is indeed the claimant who creates the protocol for the test. James Randi is not even present. A legally binding contract is signed by both parties, and if the challenge is passed, the money is legally bound to be turned over… it’s not up to Randi or a team of lawyers! The money is held by Goldman Sachs and not with the foundation.
Then I accept his challege to the test. If it involves spoon bending. and will prove this bloke that a human mind can do anything when focused, but you already knew that…
Cool man,
Be warned, most applicants can’t make it past the step of convincing 3 notaries that they have some sort of paranormal power. Most of these guys are just lazy or delusional though, and looking at your dedication to this site I bet you aren’t lazy.
And if your real as you say you are you would stop letting your wife stop taking the pictures and let her have a camera recorder that would tape you instead of the picture thing cause way to many people have been trying to prove it with pictures and thats not helping people any by believing in it cause cameras just doesn’t cut it anymore with TK.
I know, I wish I could acually go to each and everyone of you on this board that really want to do this. I feel bad for the people that can’t get it cause I know they are acually trying to do this. I’ll put it this way. If you are trying and I mean acually trying then your 50% there. It shows interest and that is a big factor on spoon bending. I personally do not own a digital cam corder, but as you know it still would not be enough. People would say “Oh he altered it or some other reason to tell there bruised egos that it is not possable and will not be possable in real life. The people I have done this for at lunch all were skeptics and I did give them the spoon or fork and asked them to try to bend it without saying anything. Then they give me the spoon or fork and I twist it all up. yesterday I twisted a fork 5 times around. They walk away feeling that they saw something new there brains had never comprehended. This creates awareness that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.
Happy Bending
You claim you don’t own a camcorder – well, you own the next best thing. You own a Samsung Digimax 401 camera which can be used to take video clips with audio (I checked on their website).
If you can post a video clip of this happening you will do 2 things:
1) Prove you can really do this to silence the skeptics
2) Claim the million dollars from James Randi and either keep it, or donate it to a needy charity. If you can prove you can do what you say you can do without cheating then you will get the money as it is kept in escrow.
This guy is not lying about what he does. He clearly said that he does not bend the spoon with his mind. He bends the spoon with his hands as his mind instructs them. He self-deceived in that he doesn’t think he can go to the drawer, pull out a spoon and bend it unthinkingly. He even tells you how to progress with it: you pick a light spoon to start with. Duh! Like starting with lighter weights or a shorter run to begin your work-outs. In fact, I’m guessing he’s not really self-deceived. He and his wife just started telling this story and now it’s too far along to back down from. Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive. (Shakespeare)
Bingo, someone is finally getting it.
For some reason either I’m fooling myself that I’m say bend and at the same time I don’t really mean it by bending the spoon or I’m just not believing that much cause after all I have is people that actually go with pictures of them doing it and not with a camera and proving themselve’s to be real cause I’ve seen way to many people that actually take pictures of the after they bend the spoon and the before cause deep down I guess pictures aren’t good enough for me to actually believe that a person really did it, I know TK is real is just I need people to stop taking pictures of themselve’s with a spoon that they have in there hand and saying that they did cause anybody in the internet can say that they did it but the only proof they have is with pictures and not with an actual camera recorder.
Well to my conclusion is that the only way to bend a spoon or fork is that you have to put a little bit of yourself in the object like your soul in it to make it move but of course I’m trying and making myself hype up but for some reason I don’t have any reason to hype about cause you did say hype yourself up but doesn’t have to be a real hype and plus there’s nothing to be hyped about these day’s anymore.
If you can really do it with your mind, show us a video of you doing it WITHOUT TOUCHING THE SPOON.
Good luck.
I neveer claimed I bend it with my mind. I used my mind to bend the spoon. The hands did the bending, but the mind helps you bend the stainless steen to about 5 loops around which is impossible with just pure tourqe. And now that I think about it more, it is acually (I believe) the Solar Plexus Chakra. Reason being when you breathe in the golden energy from the top of your head, you exhale it into your 3rd chakra (Yellow) which is your center for will power “Will”. You are willing the spoon to bend, your hands are just helping. The spoon turns to rubber…
excellent info thank you – if they could do it , they would lol
Shall I post a mechanical analysis which will show, very, very clearly that it is not impossible to bend a spoon into 5 loops using nothing more than manual force?
yes please do. Trust me we all wanna prove that I am wrong in this manner.
If your claim is not that you bend the spoon with you mind, but rather with your hands (as your mind tells them to), then you are only bending a spoon with your hands. and look at your face! Work out a little bit and you can probably put 6 twists in that spoon. Too sad.
Fact is, you can’t bend them with your mind. You’re just convincing yourself you are. Derren Brown explains how this works.
ok…explain how you breathe out the bad and bring in the good? Just be like….breathe out bad! or is there more to it?
breathe in good positive energy and imagine it coming from the univerese around you forming a gloden ball of light just above your head. When you breathe out. Imagine this ball of energy going into your third Chakra or Solar Plexus. This is your chi or ki energy. Like when you yell in karate, that comes from your chi. When you feel energized to the point where you feel you can bend this spoon then go from there.
I really hope thisworks! I’m giving a presentation tomarrow in my Psychology class and i’m going to use this experiment! :]
Alley
Good luck on that, I hope it does, acually I know it will. Get everyone in your class motivated on this and use the COLLECTIVE energy of everyone in the room. Let me know how it goes. Pratice before you do it so you know your center point. Remember golden energy in when you inhale, energy going to your solar plexus chakra when exhaling.
Before you do that, you might want to note that you can bend a spoon like that without using psychic powers. Also, for a matter of psychology, actually learn how to perform the spoonkeymetal bending tricks. Interesting stuff.
Video of an Aussie gal turning a fork into a pretzel at fork-you.com/index.html
That is an awesome resource. I just checked it out and bookmarked it. She did a really good job at explaining it. Again thank you for that link.
I never gave you those powers – so you are either a demon (would explain the strange photos) or you are in cahoots with the devil. And ever since I had Jesus, I just don’t bother with such matters, thats his job, and he’s always to busy off appearing in toasted sandwiches and the likes. Coh.
So, fess up deceiver of plebs and baloonheads, or I shall smite you down with an anvil.
Don’t you know I am God? Well at least a son of god, just like you. As a matter fo fact each and everyone of us are a son or daughter of god. When was it when you were introduced to fear and control threw a church? Do you really think that is about love. I personally don’t even believe in demons, and what the hell is a devil? I do believe in Angels well we Spiritualists like to call them “Guides” and “Teachers”.
And remember when you have that fear and control which your background suggests, please know this. Jesus as you knew him was a very powerful “Medium” Like me.
I love Jesus too, but I do not worship him. Thats like me worshipping you, or my friend next door. Doesnt make sense does it?
Those are some WEIRD anomalies. What is the exact explanation for the picture with him in it twice?
-Hatter
It’s not just Mr. Rohde that appears twice; there’s a
brighter image and a second, dimmer image that is
shifted left. The camera turned between the two. Most
likely the shutter was open as the flash fired twice.
Flawed as the photos may be, the grip on the spoon and
grimace on the face are not artifacts of a defective
camera.
So I am looking around for telekinetic things because I am telekinetic myself and I find Shannon! Freaky! To find what I look like do an “image” google search for rustyrale. The NTS took some photos of me when I tried to when the JREF challenge… I did spin objects..but there skeptisism brought me down to a low point where I could barely manage effects…. Anyways If this reachs Shannon please look me up so we can talk…I’d darn sure like to know a little bit about a guy that can pass for me. Shannon could damn well be my double.