I've read accounts of spoon bending parties and I have no reason to contradict those who have done it. However I did attend a class on spoon bending and saw spoons bend but I don't think the explanation was paranormal.
Firstly, the teacher's spoon broke. I didn't understand how that could happen. I looked all over the internet and read many accounts and I never heard of that happening. Then a friend of mine explained the obvious: if you bend a piece of metal back and forth it eventually breaks.
Secondly one student in the class said that her spoon bent but that she just forced it. The teacher agressively insisted, "But you used less force than you normally would." The student replied, "well, uh, yeah".
Thirdly, many accounts I've read said that you can't bend the spoon back once it's bent. However this didn't stop one student from straightening his spoon.
So my belief is that in this class people who's spoon bent were either deceiving themselves or deceiving others and in either case they were encouraged to do so by the teacher.
This was at a spiritualist church and I stopped going to that church when the teacher of the class became pastor.  |