Interest in The Paranormal
According to Uri Geller, Pell in the late 1980s took an active interest into Geller's claims of remote viewing. On Geller's personal website he states that he was called by Pell and asked to describe a drawing he was looking at that moment. When Geller answered "a dagger with an ivory handle", Pell replied that he had gotten it correct and he was now convinced that Geller was genuine. Geller reports that Pell was one of the most "forward-looking" and "open-minded people" he had ever met who was very interested in using psychic powers for peaceful means.
In a 2009 interview, skeptic James Randi discussed his experience with Senator Pell who had asked him to try and duplicate one of Geller's remote viewing feats. Randi recounts that the drawing he was supposed to reproduce was inadvertently exposed to his view, and that upon seeing that the two drawings matched the Senator exclaimed, "I know a trick when I see one and that was not a trick ... you have the power!"
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