Telekinesis

What Is Telekinesis?

Telekinesis - also known as psychokinesis or PK - involves moving objects by the power of the mind. It's a form of psi that makes physical changes to reality. As such it is a significant step up from telepathy which involves the exchange of information but no physical activity. A more general term for this form of psionic activity is "remote influencing".

When people think of telekinesis they usually think of large scale, spectacular effects such as are depicted in science fiction - levitation, movement of objects and people, even throwing them around. Such forms of PK would also fit in with the standards reports of poltergeist phenomena - some people have speculated that poltergeist effects are the result of unconscious telekinetic activity, often originating from young people going through puberty.

Such large scale telekinesis is known as macroscopic PK. Although spectacular it is extremely rare, even in anecdotal evidence. More easy to measure and - arguably - reproduce is microscopic PK. This involves very small changes which only become evident through statistical analysis.

Most scientific research into telekinesis involves micro PK and large numbers of trials with random apparatus. For example, automatic dice rolling machines or ball bearings bouncing into different slots. The psychic operator attempts to influence the results of these experiments.

So far most of these tests show little if any deviation from the norm, however by combining the results of many such experimental runs into a "meta-analysis" some researchers have claimed statistically significant results.

How Does Telekinesis Work?

Applied psi powers - psionics - which actually affect the material world pose a massive problem for conventional science. Telekinesis would appear to contravene many of the accepted "laws" of physics. In order to produce a scientific model of PK we would have to posit some force generated by the mind that is powerful enough to affect matter, that can be controlled and focussed sufficiently to achieve the desired results yet cannot currently be detected or measured.

For this reason some skeptics choose to reject telekinesis out of hand as "impossible".

An alternative approach might be to take a more holistic view of the universe. Perhaps the psychic operator doesn't actually "make" anything happen but simply "persuades" the universe to respond in a certain way. Practice allows subconscious learning of how best to achieve the desired results.

Could psionic abilities such as telekinesis simply be the will of the observer giving the universe a little "nudge" so that the probability wave collapses in the desired direction? If so, with training and practice it might be possible to learn how to do telekinesis at some level and potentially develop any natural abilities.

Perhaps. But it hasn't worked for me.