Friday, February 23. 2007
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 to and 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.
Discuss this and other posts in the mind-energy.net forum.
Evidence of Memory Formation
-Hatter
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, fess up deceiver of plebs and baloonheads, or I shall smite you down with an anvil.
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?
Alley
Good luck.
Happy Bending
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.
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
-Hatter
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..
#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.
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.
mskittay
I hope your anger turns to happyness.
"Shakes hands with you and gives you a big hug".
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.
I hope you have a great day and that reach out and wake up some more people-don't burn yourself out!
Take care
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.
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.
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...
Notice how the audience changes. I guess this is because this post has been linked form the randi weekly comment page 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.
=-)
Who do I send the medical bill to?
I can send it by mail, fax, or mentally if necessary.
The mind causes the hands to bend the spoon? Priceless.
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.
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.
Bliminus
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!
shannanrohde @ uniquemadness . com
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.
warm smiles
Then again, like minded and enlightened souls DO find each other and grow.
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...
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)
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".
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.
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!
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".
=-)
And uhm .. WHOSE razor???
Do we really NEED another razor wielding guy?
Is having Occam not enough?
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.
I will have to inform my wife about that!
Prepare for a long lasting headache!
1. Take a thin spoon
2. scream your head off.
3. While doing 2. apply force to the spoon.
Voila.
Stephanie
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.
Peace be with you..
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.
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 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.
theSpoon = new Object (spoons [math.rnd(10)+1]) //select one
theSpoon.hold(vertical)
theSpoon.lookAt()
meditation.start()
energy.breathe(in)
negativeFeelings.breathe(out)
energy.putIn(solarPlexus)
theSpoon.massage(belowBowl)
}
theSpoon.lookAt(seconds(2))
theSpoon.bend(withHands)
for i=0; i 3; i++){
theSpoon.tell("BEND!", veryLoud)
}
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.
man I love seo rythems.
So which is better, "World's best website designer" or "World's greatest website designer" or maybe "ultimage web guru".
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.
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.
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.
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 www.randi.org is as good as mine.
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.......
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!
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.
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.
Nonetheless, the Mrs. loves it, so thanks!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Is that paranormal?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
if you came from fark you should be ashamed - surely you know how to take a joke on the chin.
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.
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?
why?
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..
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.
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.
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
here it is
http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bendspoonke6.png
YOU WONT BELIEVE THIS
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
just thought i'd point that out
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.
Peace be with you as well.
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.
P.S. He doesn't think very highly of you
http://www.randi.org/jr/2007-03/030907bomb.html#i6
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/
where's the respect?
he changed my name on the last post to bucket-o-chicken.
if he was being less of a douche, so would we.
Peace be with you. =-)
are you inferring that you are a part of a superior race of humans?
wtf?
Did you had enough oxygen at your birth?
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)
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)
What kind of camera and shutter speed did you use to get your last three photos?
Thank You,
webwalker13@charter.net
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.
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.
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...
i did this yesterday, before my comments.
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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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....
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
And I wish that everyone would stop getting so worked up over the whole thing (that goes for EVERYONE).
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
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.
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.
THANK YOU
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)
Thanks
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 .
Thank you again and light be with you showering you in love.
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
Thanks for the information here are the spoons I bent.
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
that was before i see this web page and after i see this
it's owesome... i have try it and always fail... >.
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
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.
We are like children who seek the light , without realising that its inside of us all along.
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.
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)
The spoon can be bought in many magic store. Hi, Mr Rohde, have you seen the matrix...? Just bend the spoon like that.
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.
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
thanks a lot
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.
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!
i told my co-worker then he bent a spoon too...
here is a pic of it:
http://www.therighteousdevices.com/pics/spoon.jpg
If you believe this, you're stupid. It's just that simple.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2CSnHHkNU
Enough of this bullshit.
While you are "meditating" and rubbing the spoon, you are actually heating it up. The 15 breathes, look out the window, etc, are time eaters. I rubbed the spoon, gave it to my little 3 year old daughter and told her to bend. She bent it into a U shape. Its the heat. But if you get some people that buy into the power of the universe will bend a spoon BS, you are good. For smart people, not so good.
you do not have to show your face.
Update2: There's now a video of Shannan doing the bending. See it at: Spoon bending video
that is the video to which I am referring
you do not have to show your face.
But honestly, do you really take the picture with double vision of the guy making an ugly face seriously? I'm convinced this guy is playing you all.
Stop wasting cyberspace, doofus. You look like a fool and a half. How much money have you made this year tricking the gullible? I'll bet you sleep just fine at night, too. Here's a novel idea - Get a job.
always knew it can be done, its just that most of the peple get it as weird...anyway, Thanks and off I go to see if I got it
Rubbing does not heat steel up enough to effect it flexibility. Anyone who has worked with metal knows it doesn't budge until
Shane
Shane
What people say on this post regardless if it is positive or negitive, all that matters is that people watch and absorb what they see. It is all that takes a human mind to expand there awareness. Even if it is just a micron.
Peace be with you,
Shannan
P.s. I have and never will charge for my service. A true Psychic just wants to help and advance the human race.
LOL. After that response, however, I must say you have made me consider that there is an outside chance that you are actually serious about your supernatural abilities. If that is the case I hope I did not offend you in any way, as you seem like a nice guy, but I can bend spoons in the same manner quite easily (cheap ones) without any supernatural ability and if you are using supernatural ability "You are doing it the hard way!"
Yes, I would love to see a spoon twisted without being physically touched in the process (including heat, magnetism or other natural means). I assume that is what you mean by "just my mind".
If you can indeed do that you deserve monetary compensation for being the first ever. You WOULD be the first ever, correct? If not, who else has done such a thing beyond a shadow of a doubt under the conditions of a scientifically controlled experiment? I would love to see you succeed, write a book, sign a movie deal for the rights to tell your amazing story, etc. etc.. Maybe you are the ONE!
Peace be with you my friend.
Shane
Very good for Enlightment. I watch it everyday and when I meditate I just follow what I have seen and Memorized from it. It really does help.
Peace be with you, and we both know the truth.
Shannan
After 3 tries, I finally bent the spoon. But I am unsure if I bent it with my mind or physically. I bent the part where the handle connects to the circle bit of the spoon half way, making an 'L' shape. I would like to know if I actually did it, or just did it with pure force.
Also, I would like to know your first time that you bent the spoon. Was it just a bend, or did you manage to twist the spoon?
Try it. If you can't do it at first, try again. To bend a spoon into loops like that, takes alot of effort. I do it effortlessly because with the mind I have manipulated the the spoon (it become like rubber), it then soon after hardens again.
Remember, we and everything around us is energy. Including spoons. It's not magic, it's physics!
How did you do it?
I have a bad headache after did it..
And the reason I reply this to you is because you've posted the LATEST comment, and you did it right..
Cool dude, reply me!
Thanks