Secrets of the Psychics - James Randi Documentary

from the earliest days man has believed that dreams and the Supernatural are in some way real all over the world psychics demonstrate powers that their followers accept as modern-day [Music] Miracles here in Moscow psychic healers treat the sick with chance and [Music] incantations and in the Philippines psychic surgeons perform operations without knives a metal spoon turns liquid in the

hands of a psychic performer in Britain yes it's happening it's happening nearly everywhere fortune tellers find the future in cards crystal balls and Palms only up to a point three out of four Americans say they've had a psychic experience today you can even find a psychic at the mall purveyors of the supernatural have

created a multi-million dollar industry but are psychic phenomena what they appear to be [Laughter] my name is James Randy the amazing Randy the under I'm a magician okay I have here a pen for the past 25 years I've been investigating the claims of Psychics a psychokinetic demonstration of a supernatural nature watch this

psychics often say that an object can be moved using only the power of the mind and it moves in a miracle fashion like that isn't that amazing stop stop magicians can produce the same effect of course I was just blowing on the pen don't know but a little suggestion and a little distraction go a long

way as a magician there's nothing I like more than a well executed illusion just look at what my friend Jamie Ian Swiss can do but there are those who use magic tricks for more than entertainment they convince people that what they do is real but they have special powers magical thinking you know is a