Among spoon bending tricks, I have seen some decent sleight of hand variations that have taken me by surprise. It’s like a well done card trick where, even though I know that you’re forcing my card pick (3 of Clubs again?) it’s still impressive. Yes I know that you can’t really saw someone in half, but creating the illusion that you can is interesting.

There’s a line though when the purveyor of illusion crosses into the ‘mystical’ like with Uri Gellar or Doug Henning or John Edward or Sylvia Browne. When you begin to believe your own bullshit, you become a danger to yourself and others.

The New Age types take many of these simple parlor tricks and close up magic effects and throw in zen, energy reading, psychic phenomenon, spirits, The Secret ™, quantum effects, and so on. What they don’t understand (such as with quantum effects) they make up out of whole cloth. I’ve been running across videos that people like this have been uploading to Youtube, outlining thier fits of crazy. I was pretty sure that this one was just another nut until I saw the psychic energy working through her to bend and twist that spoon live, on camera, with no post production effects or CGI.

Fast forward 1:47 if you just want to see the magic quantum effects of her mental powers summoning up the spirits to miraculously bend that spoon. Wow.

This has to be a joke… is this how new age spoon benders really operate? I am going to use the power of my mind and my knowledge of the power of intention to cause that coffee mug on the table to rise up to my mouth and deliver coffee to me… Using only the power of intention, my hand is caused to move down toward the mug, to grasp it firmly, and lift it up to the height of my mouth. Using only my mind and my intention, I cause the cup to tip slightly, and cause the coffee to flow into my mouth. Ta da!

I’m not sure how anyone watching this could believe that they’re unable to bend thrift store spoons by hand without all the new age clap trap… I would bet that your average toddler could do this without the powers of the ancients. Does this zensight person actually believe this crap? Your power of intention bends a spoon? My power of intention doesn’t seem to be clotting blood in that artery in your neck. Must… try…harder…

Getting that unicorn that farts rainbows was easy compared to inducing strokes in ‘psychics’.