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Okay, once again, we have to ask these questions: Why did the children of the world embrace Harry Potter so quickly and deeply? Was it just a fluke? Was it just a cool story. Is it a passing fad?
Or does this literary and film phenomenon have a direct connection to the traits the world's New Children, especially the SuperPsychic Children, are exhibiting today in real life? In scientific experiments, these children show that they can "see" blindfolded with various parts of their bodies — hands, feet, underarms. And they all seem to possess an Inner Screen to view the non-physical reality that is hidden from our "physical" eyes.
Are the new DNA changes (see our October 2000 issue), and the physical, mental, and emotional mutation factors they are bringing about, reflected in some way through Harry Potter? And if so, might this not explain why our children are so fascinated? If you were an apprentice stonecutter and someone wrote a really great, high-adventure book about another stonecutter-in-training, just like you, wouldn't you be fascinated?
The New Children and "Magic"
I believe that the reaction to Harry could have been predicted from the way these New Children are demonstrating magic in their lives.
As you've seen in our October 2000 issue, the New Children use magic as a way of life. Whatever they think and believe becomes reality.
In Paul Dong's book China's Super Psychics, he talks about a child who could take a sealed bottle of something like vitamin pills, place it on a table, and with his "thoughts" remove the vitamins from inside the sealed bottle to outside, on the table. Also, this child could enable an object outside the sealed bottle to find its way inside.
This sounds like a classical magic trick. Who should ever seriously listen to such an idea, anyway? I wouldn't — except that the child was closely scrutinized in a scientifically controlled experiment by the Chinese government, and they couldn't find any illusion or fraud. In fact, it was not only this one boy that the government studied, but five thousand other children who could do the same "trick."
It has to make you think. And it definitely made the Chinese government think. They started psychic schools all over China to study these New Children and find out what was really going on.
The "Grandfather" of SuperPsychic Children
Meanwhile, our own government was conducting studies on a man we all know but whom many of us have forgotten: Uri Geller. It is interesting that Uri's rise to fame happened at the very minute when the New Children were being birthed into our world, the early 1970s (the first SuperPsychic child was actually discovered in 1974).
I feel that Uri Geller, who is presenting in the Spirit of Ma'at for the first time this month (see A Conversation with Uri Geller), was a forerunner. Through his own life, he introduced the New Children to the world without even knowing they were coming. Uri was born on December 20, 1946, so at his present age of 56 you could indeed call him the grandfather of the New Children.
And his interview in this issue reflects the kindness and profound humility that have characterized his truly amazing life.
In 1973, Uri made his human potential evident by presenting his "bending spoons" demonstration on BBC television. His opponents had been saying this spoon bending was all a magical trick and had nothing to do with psychic abilities or the human mind. So Uri elected to demonstrate it publically, on television, in a way that produced inarguable results.
He told the audience to place knives, forks, and spoons on a table in front of their own TV sets, and to see for themselves if he could bend them. And then he demonstrated, for all to see, that at least in the television studio he could bend the utensils without even touching them. Uri's audience watched as forks and spoons curled up on their TV screens.
But thousands and thousands of the audience also watched as the forks and spoons curled up on the tables in their own homes. This was all documented by the phonecalls that flooded the TV station after the show was over.
Given these events, Harry Potter may be doing more than simply providing evidence of what's happening. It seems possible that he is also acting as a catalyst. It could be that Harry will actually help to accelerate the new changes in human consciousness.
Scientific Proof
In 1974, Professor Taylor at King's College at London University, and Professor David Bohm, of Birkbeck College, both began to scientifically study Uri's abilities. It seems that after the BBC television event, hundreds of children and some adults were now able to bend spoons and forks just as Uri could. The children could just look at a spoon with the intention that it bend, and it would. Somehow, they picked up this ability just by observing Uri do it.
More serious studies of Uri's powers now began.
From a quote reported in Uri Geller: My Story:
"The fifteen children he had tested ranged from seven years old up to the early teens. Dr. Taylor was pleased with the results of his tests with them because, he said, success in the experiments was repeatable, time after time, under controlled laboratory conditions. . . . He kept emphasizing what had made him take the 'Geller Effect' seriously — the children were reflecting what I was doing, which satisfied him that the critics' theory of magic tricks was completely wrong. To choose fifteen children at random and to train them as magicians so perfectly that they could foil a whole battery of scientific instruments as well as scientists is surely impossible."
Further, Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California, conducted some very tight scientific tests to prove once and for all whether Uri was truly using psychic powers or was simply an excellent magician. Captain Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut who walked on the moon, was there to witness the results.
One of the tests Stanford gave Uri is interesting to note if you read about the Inner Screen in the New Children issue (see SuperPsychics and the Inner TV Screen).
In Uri's own words, quoting from Uri Geller: My Story:
"After a lot of informal tests, I agreed to try the telepathic tests they [Stanford] had lined up for me. For one of them they put me inside a shielded room that looked like a refrigerator. The walls were of thick, massive steel. There were two huge metal doors, and when they closed them, wham, one door would lock, then the other. And then there would be dead silence. It was so silent it reminded me of underwater diving, and of the caves in Cyprus. I don't get claustrophobia. I enjoyed the silence, perhaps because I could really concentrate.
"There was a lamp inside, of course, and a pad and pencil. Over a two-way intercom, they would give me instructions. Someone would make a drawing, which of course I could not possibly see. They would say, 'All right, the drawing is ready.' And I would close my eyes, concentrate on that screen in my forehead [Our emphasis] and capture the drawings they were sending me." pp. 244 & 245
The results of these tests "were reached against what the SRI figured as 1,000,000 to 1 odds."
This and scores of other tests conducted by the Stanford Research Institute on Uri Geller's psychic abilities were reported to the world at a colloquium sponsored by the Columbia University Department of Physics in March 1973. Among the data to be presented was evidence of Uri's success in viewing hidden objects, with experimental results showing odds of a trillion to one.
Nature magazine, one of the most prestigious scientific journals on the planet, followed suit, and published SRI's findings. Eventually, so did Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Science, Paris Match, Stern, Spiegel, Physics Today, Today's Health (an AMA publication), Human Behavior, Psychology Today, New York Times Magazine, Technology Today, (MIT's publication), and scores of others everywhere — to say nothing of leading newspapers and scientific journals all over the world.
At this point there was no doubt that the "Geller Effect," as it is now known, had entered the physical sciences as an ongoing study. Science couldn't say what the force was that was making these changes, but it could say that it was not fraud.
The New Paradigm
What I am getting at here is this: I believe that we, in this modern world, living our everyday lives, are witnessing a shift from one level of consciousness to another, a shift that seems to involve the sudden, species-wide appearance of telekinetic and other psychic powers. Harry Potter is as popular as he is because what he is demonstrating is real. Uri was one of the first, but he has been followed by masses of children who are changing the rules of life.
We are watching a new paradigm unfolding. If we can remain careful and respectful, the world is going to change into a beautiful, brand-new pattern of human expression — right before our very eyes.
Can you "see" it?
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