How to bend
The Spoon

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00:05The classic example of mind over matter is spoon bending the ability to make an

00:11ordinary spoon bend until it breaks.

00:15Using the power of the mind.

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00:41Watch again as the spoon bends and breaks into two.

00:51How did the phony psychic pull off this scam?

00:55Look closely. He begins by selecting a spoon and he shows us that it's real.

01:01What you don't see is that the spoon has actually been pre-cut almost all the way

01:05through allowing it to break easily.

01:08The psychic holds the school and supposedly focuses his energy on it. But

01:13he's actually using his thumb to snap the spoon into two pieces. By concealing the

01:18break between his fingers

01:20the audience has no idea that he is simply manipulating the spoon to look

01:23like it's bending.

01:26Here's what's really happening. By releasing the pressure on the two halves

01:30the psychic is actually letting the pieces of the spoons slip apart making

01:34it appear to melt. Then he merely drops the two pieces.

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