The Hellfire Curse
Matthew 5:22 : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hellfire. (KJV)
If you're having trouble understanding that, maybe there's a different way to put it. Such as, "If you tell a man to go to Hell and he does, you have to go with him. The only way out is love. You got to love your enemy. You resist nothing, you don't even resist what you used to think was evil."
(The Reverend Johnny Jack Jovan St. John on horseback at the Church of the Savage Mine in Virginia City, Nevada)
I peeked in on Uri Geller's website today to see how he was doing. It had been years since I talked to Uri, before Eldon died, or I should say passed away. And I did finally see Eldon, after he died.On a video tape that was made just before he went. He was talking about mind control. The tape was brought to me by a friend of mine, who by another strange coincidence not only knew and met Eldon Byrd, but Uri Geller as well.
It's one thing to know Uri Geller, to have met him and talked to him, but it's another thing to know who Eldon Byrd is and to have met and talked to him. And by strange coincidence, both these qualities appear. As far as strange coincidences go, I experience more strange and sometimes awe inspiring coincidences than anyone I know.
So of course the phone rings and it's Uri. Or perhaps, someone who sounded like him.
The video tape that I saw Eldon in was on mind control.
Uri said by some fluke in his computer an essay I wrote on skepticism had got through to him. "Synchronicity, I guess," he said.
Eldon once told me that he was at Uri's house one day eating spaghetti and he stabbed himself in the chin with the fork.
I hope it doesn't take you as long to get that as it took me.
I really love Uri Geller. He called right at the right moment, too. I think I've been getting real depressed. I sleep a lot, obsess over things. I don't stay busy enough. But Uri Geller gives me tremendous confidence in myself. But what I really love about Uri is that anyone can get that from him, all they got to do is stop being so skeptical, stop acting afraid.
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He got very angry with me when I started putting him up to a level with Jesus Christ, but this is the man one observer wrote was something other than human, a different species, homo geller. Why not? They're both Jewish.
Marcello Truzzi was the first editor of CSICOP's magazine, during sTarbaby, the Gaughelin fiasco. He must have seen through Kurtz, Randi and the others, seen what they were really into and backed off.
During Eldon's libel suit against Randi Truzzi stood up for Eldon.
Eldon was the guy who convinced me Uri was for real. He did the tests on Uri back in the seventies for the U.S. Navy. When Randi attacked Uri, he also attacked Eldon. I guess Eldon had really stood up for Uri.
Marcello died within thirty days of Eldon.
Uri may not even know this and I won't say how I do. Ask Randi if its true. Randi started out almost desperately in love with Uri. He used to write to Uri, but Uri never responded. Randi wanted to form a partnership with Uri after he saw him perform in New York, or was it New Jersey?
The letters Randi wrote became more and more desperate until they finally turned to threats and curses, then ceased altogether. Uri never read the letters.
Randi once accused me of betraying him by saying he thought he could trust me. I thought that was odd for a man to expect to trust someone you've been reviling as a stupid crazy liar. But I think I am mostly crazy in Randi's book.
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So far during the three years this has been going on I haven't heard any denials. I saw what he did to X's marriage. But that was just for having the audacity to show up in Ft. Lauderdale. What I did to Randi deserved the special treatment, for revealing those affidavits from the civil compromises detailing ......<snipped>
Yep, for that I get the special treatment.
Goldschneider and Elffer's Secret Language of Relationships describes the astrological relationship between Leo II's, Randi, and Sagittarian Capricorn Cusps, Uri.
"These two may find themselves acting out a drama over which they have no control. Their relationship has a peculiar fated quality to it, which each partner taking on defined roles, as if someone were pulling the strings. Well directed and strong minded, the relationship knows where it is going and what it is sup[posed to do, but the question is, do its partners?"
I get to wondering what would happen if Uri Geller started studying the Sermon on the Mount. I mean here's the greatest living paragnost, he ought to read up and practice what the most legendary master of healing did and how he did it.
One can appear to bend metal with his mind, locate gold and old submarines by waving his hands over maps, and the other guy can heal the sick, cast out demons and raise the dead. And as far as what Uri does he says, "if you believe, you can tell that mountain over there to get up and cast itself into the sea and it will."
George Harrison of the Beatles got mad at Uri once because he felt Uri wasn't using his powers for healing, but I don't think Uri knows how. Or maybe Uri has avoided knowing how, just as most of the rest of us have.
I think he wants to know how. But maybe something keeps getting in the way. And I think Randi wants to know how, but something keeps getting even more in his way.
But look at this. It tells you how. It ells you how to become able to do all sorts of incredible things.
The primitive Christians were noted for their ability to escape from incarceration, to suddenly become invisible enough to walk through a crowd, having the power of bilocation and to speak in a way that they could be understood by any foreign tongue, to glow with halos, to levitate. Simon the Magician claimed he too could levitate but broke a leg in a show down with one of the apostles when he fell.
Blessed are the meek, they inherit the Earth, they get the world after the arrogant have blown away.
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter the kingdom of heaven.
Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgement: But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without cause shall be in danger of the judgement: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say , Thou fool, shall be in danger of hellfire.
