All of them have been the primary objects that famous and infamous magicians alike have used to demonstrate their mastery of telekinesis. Telekinesis, also known as Psychokinesis PK is simply the ability to move an object in some manner without coming into physical contact with it.
In essence, it is the psychic ability to use the power of the mind to manipulate a specific target and conform it to your will. In order to perform telekinesis, or psychokinesis, you must exude energy from your mind to move or re-shape a physical object without handling it in any physical manner.
How telekinetic power works has yet to be proven in the scientific community, however there are a number of concrete theories as to how psychokinesis is feasible. According to Stephen Wagner, renowned Paranormal Researcher and Expert, there are a few top contenders :. While interest in this subject has been sporadic during the last century, there are a few individuals who became global sensations, based on their alleged telekinetic powers:. Nina Kulagina was a Russian woman who became famous after claiming she had psychokinetic powers.
She has demonstrated her powers on a wide range of objects, including bread, clocks, and a salt shaker. While a few of her demonstrations were captured on film, many believe she was nothing but a clever magician, well versed in the art of sleight of hand. This Polish woman gained international fame when the media reported that poltergeist-like activity happened around her often. Stanislawa successfully demonstrated levitating small objects between her hands, but only under hypnosis.
Perhaps the most famous of well-known psychics, Geller became famous for demonstrating how he can bend spoons and keys with his mind. While many fellow magicians are convinced that Uri is merely a mastermind at sleight of hand, he gained many believers when he started doing his metal bending tricks from great distances.
Recently, parapsychologists have begun to speculate about the possibility of accidental telekinesis. Many scientists believe in the theory that, unlike having a non-human spirit hanging around in your house, poltergeist activity is the end result of how emotional states can affect an external environment. Some believe accidental telekinesis is feasible, and works on the same principle—that heightened emotions, especially stress and anger, can alter physical objects around you.
Fictional psychokinetics are easy to find: The popular X-Men comic and film franchise includes the character Jean Grey, whose powers include extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. The movie "Push" is about a group of young Americans with various psychic abilities who team up and use their paranormal powers against a shadowy U. Though many Americans believe in psychic ability about 15 percent of us, according to a Baylor Religion Survey , scientific evidence for its existence remains elusive.
Some people even link psychokinesis to the spiritual world, suggesting for example that some reports of ghosts — such as poltergeists — are not manifestations of the undead at all, but instead the unconscious releases of a person's psychic anger or angst.
If people could move everyday objects with nothing more than their thoughts, this should be quite easy to demonstrate: Who wouldn't like their latte delivered by a psychic barista from across the counter, floating it right to your hand with a mere gesture? This doesn't happen, of course. Instead researchers have focused on what they term "micro-PK," or the manipulation of very small objects.
The idea is that if the ability exists, its force is obviously very weak. Therefore, the less physical energy that would have to be exerted on an object to physically move it, the more obvious the effect should be. For this reason, laboratory experiments often focus on rather mundane feats such as trying to make dice land on a certain number at an above-chance rate, or influencing a computerized random number generator.
Because of this change in methodologies, psychokinesis experiments rely more heavily on complex statistical analyses; the issue was not whether a person could bend a spoon or knock a glass over with their minds, for example, but whether they could make a coin come up heads significantly above 50 percent of the time over the course of 1, trials. The idea of people being able to move objects through mind power alone has intrigued people for centuries, though only in the late s was it seen as an ability that might be scientifically demonstrated.
Though many people were convinced — including, ironically, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes — it was all a hoax. Fraudulent psychics resorted to trickery, using everything from hidden wires to black-clad accomplices to make objects appear to move untouched. As the public slowly grew wise to the faked psychokinesis, the phenomenon faded from view.
It was revived again in the s and s, when a researcher at Duke University named J. Rhine became interested in the idea that people could affect the outcome of random events using their minds.
Rhine began with tests of dice rolls, asking subjects to influence the outcome through the power of their minds. Though his results were mixed and the effects were small, they were enough to convince him that there was something mysterious going on.
Unfortunately for Rhine, other researchers failed to duplicate his findings, and many errors were found in his methods.
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