After all the “discussion” on the post Spoon bending instructions and pictures and the skeptics requiring from Shannan to record a video of him bending a spoon, here it is. Shannan has recorded the video, sent it to me and I’ve uploaded it to YouTube. Watch the video, decide for yourself if it’s for real, and write in the comments. By the way, the original video is higher quality 640×480 pixels, but YouTube only allows 320×240.
Further discussion on spoon bending is in the forums at Spoon bending discussion.
My son could bend spoons and I never could realize how. It could be a spoon from my kitchen or any restaurant we went to. Also forks. He has since left us due to a heroine overdose, rest his soul. I still have a kitchen drawer full of bent spoons. Can you help me get my head around that?
Tried it, at work also, worked perfectly for many a thick metal dowel as well. All about focus, breathing, energy, putting the focus in your mind. I am bending shit on the site and challenging monstrous men to go against me. (I am not all that big. five nine, 150 lbs at most.) All to no avail. Bending spoon bowls also works.
Follow instructions they seem like a good first step, yelling is not necessary if you can focus your mind at will. I meditate a lot.
Good job. (toronto)
I wish you’d dated when this was posted. The quality of the video log is pretty poor, so is the science. I experienced this first hand, decades ago, and I still remember. I was invited to an experiment/party. I only knew two peeps there, the one who invited me and the one who came with. We could bring our own spoons or they had a box full to share or use at will. Two hosts were experimenting, collecting data. They explained the party format: Statistically, there is a higher chance of success in a group. There were 20 ~ 30 peeps all through the house. We were given basic observations & instructions to focus energy and ‘jump’ it into the spoon. We held it firm in one hand and tested the strength with a thumb and finger of the other hand. It took a while and then, “Woah!” it worked for somebody. Then, like popcorn popping, other peeps spoons went soft, when mine did it felt like … idk, taffy? I spun the spoon around the handle like a wax model. Most odd experience I’ve had. I don’t ‘believe’ – I know.
Is this a joke? He bent the spoon with his hands. That is not a psychic ability. Make it bend without ever touching it, and not on a part of the spoon that is easy to bend by hand (i.e. try turning the BOWL of the spoon INSIDE OUT.) Then I’ll be a believer.
Fake, nothing but a simple trick. He rubs the spoon with his thumb to heat it up right at the weakest part of the spoon, anyone can do this. People like him are the reason very few people believe things like this are real.
he did not heat up the metal enough to make it bendable by rubbing his finger on the spoon. everything is made of little particles moving aroud really fast, those particles all have tons of space within and between them. if you can control that space you can control matter.(my opinion through research)
With much love, I invite you to go ahead and twist a stainless steel spoon 5 times then, just using ‘the heat’ and your brute force…
I’m a tiny woman and can twist and bend thick spoons after 5 breathes… Without the meditation and connection to the spoon, I can’t budge them!
So pls… before speaking and saying what you believe to be true, prove what you’re saying. Please show us how you can do it with strength. Remember kids can do this – it’s not the brute strength that is the factor here… It’s the energy.
I look forward to your video soon.
Shannan, you rock. Spoon was just like putty, like a rubber band. Thanks for getting it on video!
Folks, there’s nothing paranormal about it. Bend a spoon with your mind? No. It’s Qi (or Prana, if you prefer) that softens the metal so it bends like rubber. First you focus your mind to direct the Qi(which is available to everybody, btw)through your body, out your hands, into the spoon. Then when you feel the metal soften, you bend it (yes, with your hands). After, the metal hardens again and you have a nice art object.
Simple, no psychic phenomena required, just basic, well-documented (like 6000 years of direct experience) movement of energy using the human bodymind. That’s what bodymind was made for, after all.
I’ve stumbled upon this site by accident. Being brought up by skeptic parents I initially thought that Shannan was simply someone who’d seen “The Matrix” too often. But I had to try it out for myself, before I decided I permanently belonged to camp “it’s nonsense.”
My first try, failed. Second try, failed again. I would try and bend it with my hands as much as I wanted; it only resulted in sore palms and fingers, and a barely unchanged spoon. I wanted to give up, but decided I’d try it ONE LAST TIME after giving it a rest.
3rd try: I read up on Shannen’s instructions, about unfocussing and tried that. The previous times I was fully concentrated on the spoon, as if I wanted to stare it into loops. This time I merely closed my eyes, breathed in and out evenly and sort of yelled for the spoon to bend bend bend. And it did! I bent it in 3 loops! It suddenly felt like rubber! (I’m bad at explaining, I know this sounds weird.)
Here you are people. I am one of the skeptics. But my judgement comes AFTER I try it for myself. You can say all you want about “someone pre-weakened the spoon, etc.” but this is no joke. The spoon I was working with was pretty thick and in order to bend it with your bare hands, you’d end up with your hands being very very sore (and then I’d still doubt I’d be able to put 3 loops in it)
I guess you guys probably won’t believe me, but I wanted to put it up anyway. Needless to say this little experiment resulted in renewed interest for this stuff, which I previously thought to be BS. Just give it a try people! If I can do it, you can!
GO SHANNAN!
So impressed by your flack-taking ability!
You are gorgeous. Good luck with practicing Telekinesis 🙂
Peaceout
I’ve just seen this for the first time and would like to say first of all that you show remarkable restraint and courage. It is difficult to put forth a concept as controversial as the psychokinetic force and then take the hits from the people who doubt, and even more difficult to weather the storm that follows gracefully. My compliments!
Also, my compliments on the manner of your presentation. I like the unassuming approach and generally low-key nonshowmanship approach.
Watching you maneuver the spoon like that is impressive, whatever the force involved. The spoon looks genuine to me, plus I see little motive for this to be a fake. It’s not as if you merely snapped it at a preweakened point, nor is there monetary or fame gain to be had here (at least, to my knowledge). If anything, you seem to play down the self-attention thing and seem to want to play up the “find otu for yourself” concept.
I am curious about the other psychokinetic discoveries you’ve made, and also if you’d made any more progress toward the telekinetic area of research.
The human mind is a powerful thing, and it would be interesting to find someone who has reached past some of the haze that most of us live behind…
Although he doesn’t put the spoon through a stress test, it doesn’t mean he’s a fraud. Like someone said before, just keep an open mind.
At least he made a video and provided instructions. Don’t be a jackass and make up theories because you can’t do it. A lot of things in this world are unexplained..
next time do it without rubbing it and use a thicker better quallity spoon i can bend crap like that without “focusing energy”or anything its not that hard.