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    In my opinion, this is one of the best old threads. I have linked it a couple times because I find it to be a great example of people getting a taste of "the real thing". Nice to see it came up again and better yet in actual practice!

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    I saw coins on the wall. What is the hat for sticking a coin on the wall?

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    I saw coins on the wall. What is the hat for sticking a coin on the wall?
    I have no idea! We'll have to ask moosette... her application is about to be approved, and then we can direct her to this thread to reveal all.

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    I'm scared to try because I'm scared it will work. What then?
    Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

    Free will can only be as free as the mind that conceives it.

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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
    I'm scared to try because I'm scared it will work. What then?
    Then you get to scratch it off your bucket list.

    I was scare that it wouldn’t work. It’d make me less than. Bruise me-lil-ego. Silly notions keep us from creating our personal mysteries, our personal stories.

    We’re all good at different things. If not this, then something else. For me, it was another confirmation that there are cool things happening all around. I can join in or not. I say, ”What the heck. Why not?”

    I bent my spoon and then bent it back with a slight bump.




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    Of course, Paula, you realize if you can do that you can do even more wondrously magical things just as easily, right?

    And that only 'I' stands in the way of 'me'.
    Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water...Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

    Free will can only be as free as the mind that conceives it.

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    Quote Posted by Ernie Nemeth (here)
    Of course, Paula, you realize if you can do that you can do even more wondrously magical things just as easily, right?

    And that only 'I' stands in the way of 'me'.
    I never know for sure. Where I am today is that I'm not interested in recreating. I'd rather be open to the surprises along the way. And there have been some Cracker Jack surprises that I would've missed if my focus was on re-creation rather than awareness of present mysteries.
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    When I tried to straighten my spoon it broke. Maybe because I waited too long and let the spoon cool down where i had been rubbing it with my thumb.

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    How to Bend Spoons with Carrie Kohan (8 min)

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    Quote Posted by RunningDeer (here)
    How to Bend Spoons with Carrie Kohan (8 min)
    I don’t know why Carrie Kohan set the spoon demonstration to private. She talks a little bit about it @ 8:49, and shows some of her twisted spoons.

    I used her approach. In a nutshell from the other video, everything is made up of atoms. So I merged the spoon atoms and myself. Once I felt my fingers tingle/buzz, the alchemist bent it. ♡

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    I have never really tried in earnest to bend a spoon, but one day my husband and I were changing the brakes on his truck... He had a difficult time doing the right side and it was my turn to do the left side, after watching him do it.

    I got on the ground, after lifting the truck on the jack and removing the tire, and remembered this thread.. Knowing it would take some force to move some of the pieces of the brake assembly, and not damaging it, I relaxed and thought about the truck. I remembered that it had a built in on board computer system for certain elements, so I focused my intentions on linking to that, and I told the truck that what I was doing was to help keep the truck from any damage, as it stopped the truck before it hit anything..

    Oddly enough, I said nothing about doing this as I did it, because I didn't want to have anyone laugh at me... But with the very slightest bit of pressure, the things I needed to move, in order to take off and replace the parts, seemingly moved themselves for me.. I barely touched them. The parts both came out, and slid right in, with almost zero effort on my part. It was as if someone had deliberately prepped them for me, and all I had to do was take them out and replace them..

    Not only did it work beautifully, but it was much faster and very gentle as far as having to use any force.. And within minutes I was tightening the lug nuts again, and lowering the truck.. It wasn't until going down a very steep hill a few days later that I was reminded that this was the "TEST RUN" for the new brakes.. And they worked beautifully. I didn't even consider that they may fail if I had done it improperly...

    So I have to say, there is something about reaching out to your environment. While I have never bended a spoon? I have used the technique and it worked!

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    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Looks fun! Though, I did first of all check to see if the post was made on a past First of April.

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    I've read this post 2 or 3 times already and I still have doubts if it is a light hearted joke, some satyre, or something actually working out.

    Please confirm Q.Q

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    Quote Posted by I am B (here)
    I've read this post 2 or 3 times already and I still have doubts if it is a light hearted joke, some satyre, or something actually working out.

    Please confirm Q.Q
    100% serious. I was amazed that I could do it. RunningDeer/Paula tested the same technique soon after, and was delighted that she succeeded. After this post of hers (#24), quoted below, she posted a few more times about her experience... do read.


    Quote Posted by RunningDeer (here)
    Quote Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
    Real [physical] pressure... but it really doesn't take all that much. It's certainly not 'using force'.
    Got it!

    I didn't realize you can use a bit of pressure. I see now that it doesn't take much. I was envisioning the Matrix way. "There is no spoon."

    My spoon bent and then bent back with a slight bump.


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    Quote Posted by I am B (here)
    I've read this post 2 or 3 times already and I still have doubts if it is a light hearted joke, some satyre, or something actually working out.

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    The first time I bent the spoon and bent it back again was on August 21, 2015.




    The second time was on October 31, 2020. The bent soup spoon now hangs over a wooden bowl on the kitchen counter.


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    I can feel that it works.

    My mind is always so busy - but I did get to a point where there was warmth and nothing else and it bent a little. But as quick as the moment came it left, but at least I know it is possible.

    ...stopped to take a pic. As I was writing the previous lines, a heat and itch came to both of my palms.

    There are curved red lines on the palms of both hands - two on one, one on the other, but as things go, I am having difficulty adding the pics. (Yesterday I added pics without an issue.)

    I will try again.

    Rather than frustrate myself further, I will try to add these pics later. Every effort to save the photo in a small enough file to upload is failing.
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    Ok, not perfect but it worked. I had to send the pics to my wife's phone and have her edit them.

    The first pic is my right hand. There is a reddish' curve like a 'C' .

    On the left hand there are 2. In this pic they are horizontal creating two curves in the top half of the pic like an "m" shape i guess. (This one is harder to see in the pic.)

    They were hot and itchy and very prominent at first - but faded as I tried to get a pic of them.

    I am not going to say what came to my mind initially, as I am looking for some feedback. Wth?
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    Patient, this is the best I can do to change the saturation. The good news you can see the reddish marks.
    Quote Posted by Patient (here)
    Ok, not perfect but it worked. I had to send the pics to my wife's phone and have her edit them.

    The first pic is my right hand. There is a reddish' curve like a 'C' .

    On the left hand there are 2. In this pic they are horizontal creating two curves in the top half of the pic like an "m" shape i guess. (This one is harder to see in the pic.)

    They were hot and itchy and very prominent at first - but faded as I tried to get a pic of them.

    I am not going to say what came to my mind initially, as I am looking for some feedback. Wth?

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