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GELLER MEETS WITH DR. MURRAY AND VINCE SPADEA AT
WIMBLEDON | 30 Jun 07 |
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Special to JohnFMurray.com - Wimbledon,
England - Four years ago during one of Dr.
Murray's trips to England, Murray received a
personal invitation by famous spoon bender Uri
Geller for a visit to Geller's home. Read the story about that trip to
Geller's home here
The following
year Dr. Murray returned the invitation -
teasing Geller that he needed to improve his
tennis game - and Geller made a guest appearance
at Dr. Murray's sport psychology workshop. He
gave a one hour inspirational speech to the
attendees, performed some of his feats and then
concluded with the highlight, bending the metal
T-2000 tennis racket made famous by Jimmy
Connors. You can read the BBC story here.
Geller came through again this year.
During one of Dr. Murray's meetings with tennis
pro Vince Spadea, Uri and his family met Dr.
Murray and Spadea in Wimbledon Village, provided
some interesting words of wisdom, and then
showed Vince what put Geller on center stage in
the USA national media many many years ago. He
bent a metal fork for Vince by rubbing it
gently, and then almost perfectly replicated a
drawing of a small house that Vince had drawn
totally outside of his view. Geller had
accomplished the same feat with Dr. Murray and
others at the workshop.
Why the interest
in Geller? As Dr. Murray explains, "no matter
what anybody says about Uri, he has treated me
as a friend several times in England, he has a
wonderful family, and he's a lot of fun. I think
he likes the fact that I am a performance
psychologist and he is distantly related to
Sigmond Freud. How he bends spoons or replicates
drawings I have no clue. All I know is that he
is a fun, interesting and informative fellow who
has the ability to inspire. There is not too
much wrong with that."
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