It has been in the news.

We don’t make this stuff up.

According to reports [below], Israel has been using “psychics” and spiritists in its military campaigns.

Headline:

“After the recent war, a few sheets of paper were found on the streets of Tehran containing talismans with Jewish symbols,” wrote the editor. “In the first year of the Gaza war, news had also leaked about Netanyahu meeting with occult specialists” [our italics].

This would seem like Iranian propaganda or fanaticism but for the fact that others—including the most famous (and controversial) psychic in the world, Uri Geller, an Israeli native—have for decades, since the 1970s, claimed the same thing.

While many believe Geller is a fraud, others have taken him seriously, including Stanford Research Institute, the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the CIA, U.S. Army Intelligence, and the University of London, conducting strict and sophisticated experiments with him (such as seeing if Geller, who was alleged to have the ability to bend metal objects, could do so with objects sealed in a vacuum; he reportedly and repeatedly could, in a way no magician could possibly duplicate).

Moshe Dayan, Israel’s legendary Defense Minister, was an early supporter of Geller and reportedly watched him perform psychic feats in person.

At any rate, Geller said he helped the Mossad, “projecting” his mind to locate enemy spies and “see” what adversarial nations were secretly up to (what is known in the occult as “clairvoyance”).

Former senior Mossad officers have neither confirmed nor denied specific details, but some have admitted that “unusual methods” were explored in psychological warfare and espionage, particularly during the 1970s. CIA researchers wrote that Geller “demonstrated his paranormal perceptual ability in a convincing and unambiguous manner.” They concluded he had “substantial” abilities, though other CIA officials remained skeptical about long-term reliability.

Whatever the case, along apparently with Israel, the U.S. and Russia both have beyond question dabbled in this highly precarious realm—authentic or fraudulent, not a good idea. And now still being deployed in modern war.

[resources: Lying Wonders, Strangest Things]