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Daily Inspiration Quote by Uri Geller

"I've just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers"

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The brag is doing two jobs at once: inflating Uri Geller into a mass educator while quietly preserving his signature ambiguity about how any of it actually happens. “Over the radio” is the crucial detail. Radio is intimate, disembodied, and ripe for suggestion; you can’t see the method, only feel the story. In that medium, “teaching thousands” to fix watches and appliances sounds like public service, but it also reframes a classic psychic-performance claim as DIY empowerment. He’s not merely doing the impossible; he’s allegedly handing you the keys.

The subtext is a savvy rebranding of responsibility. If a watch starts ticking again after you listen to a voice on the air, Geller can accept the credit without submitting to the scrutiny. “Catalyst or trigger” is the escape hatch: he’s not asserting he directly manipulates metal or circuitry; he’s claiming to “access” latent powers in others. That language borrows from self-help and pop psychology, turning paranormal spectacle into personal potential.

Context matters: Geller rose in an era when TV and radio rewarded charisma over verification, and when “mystery” sold better than a clear mechanism. This quote stakes out a populist mythology: America as a nation of hidden psychics, appliances as proof, broadcast media as the conduit. It’s also a shrewd inoculation against debunkers. If the power is in the audience, then failure isn’t fraud; it’s you not being “triggered” enough. That’s not just showmanship. It’s a business model built on plausibility without accountability.

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Uri Geller (born December 20, 1946) is a Entertainer from Israel.

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