On May 25, 2015, mastermindreader wrote:
Actually, Uriah Fuller was a pseudonym of Martin Gardner. Karl Fulves was the publisher.

On May 25, 2015, mastermindreader wrote:
Actually, Uriah Fuller was a pseudonym of Martin Gardner. Karl Fulves was the publisher.

The Shiels’ Effect

The Shiels’ Effect was originally released as a special “supplement” to Tony Raven’s “Invocation.” (There were two books in this series. The first was my Pseudomentally Yours in 1977. The Shiels’s book appeared shortly thereafter. As far as I know, these were the only two such supplements Raven published. He must have published quite a few of them, though, because they appear to be readily available.) The Shiels’s Effect appeared while Uri Geller was still a major, and very controversial, figure on the psychic scene.

It was Geller’s leap to fame that provided the book’s premise – how to create a psychic superstar. From the ground up Doc Shiels’ chronicles, the rise to fame of “Tim Finnegan,” from the creation of his image, the methods behind his “psychic” abilities, and his publicity campaign.

There is a lot more in the book that is of great value to the psychic entertainer who is contemplating a new publicity campaign.

On May 26, 2015, mastermindreader wrote:
If you're not familiar with the Geller craze of the 1970's, a lot of the book won't make sense to you. It does contain some interesting insights along with a few methods that have long since been refined and improved upon.

On May 28, 2015, Mr Timothy Gray wrote:
I maintain that the beauty of Uri is that of all the malicious, duplicitous, evil things he could have done at the height of his career, he just kept bending spoons. It is so idiotic it is profound. And if a slight-of-hand man bending spoons - even if he is claiming psychic power - is worthy of your ire, your view of real world troubles is sadly screwed.