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Psychokinesis (from the Greek ψυχή, "psyche", meaning mind, soul, spirit, heart, or breath; and κίνησις, "kinesis", meaning motion, movement; literally "mind-movement"), also referred to as telekinesis (Greek τῆλε + κίνησις, literally "distant-movement") with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, abbreviated as PK and TK respectively, is a term coined by publisher Henry Holt to refer to the direct influence of mind on a physical system that cannot be entirely accounted for by the mediation of any known physical energy. Examples of psychokinesis could include distorting or moving an object, and influencing the output of a random number generator.

The study of phenomena said to be psychokinetic is part of parapsychology. Some psychokinesis researchers claim psychokinesis exists and deserves further study, although the focus of research has shifted away from large-scale phenomena to attempts to influence dice and then to random number generators.

Most scientists believe that the existence of psychokinesis has not been convincingly demonstrated. A meta-analysis of 380 studies in 2006 found a "very small" effect which could possibly be explained by publication bias. PK experiments have historically been criticised for lack of proper controls and repeatability. However, some experiments have created illusions of PK where none exists, and these illusions depend to an extent on the subject's prior belief in PK.

Terminology

Early history

Spirit photography hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in this 1875 cabinet card photograph titled Fluidic Effect.

The term "telekinesis" was coined in 1890 by Russian psychical researcher Alexander N. Aksakof (also spelled Aksakov). The term "Psychokinesis" was coined in 1914 by American author-publisher Henry Holt in his book On the Cosmic Relations and adopted by his friend, American parapsychologist J. B. Rhine in 1934 in connection with experiments to determine if a person could influence the outcome of falling dice. Both concepts have been described by other terms, such as "remote influencing", "distant influencing" "remote mental influence", "distant mental influence", "directed conscious intention", "anomalous perturbation", and "mind over matter." Originally telekinesis was coined to refer to the movement of objects thought to be caused by ghosts of deceased persons, mischievous spirits, angels, demons, or other supernatural forces.

Later, when speculation increased that humans might be the source of the witnessed phenomena not caused by fraudulent mediums and could possibly cause movement without any connection to a spiritualistic setting, such as in a darkened séance room, psychokinesis was added to the lexicon. Eventually, psychokinesis became the term preferred by the parapsychological community. Popular usage favours the word "telekinesis" to describe the paranormal movement of objects, perhaps due to the word's resemblance to other terms, such as telepathy and teleportation. Some early researchers who studied psychokinesis speculated that within the human body an unidentified fluid termed the "psychode", "psychic force" or "ectenic force" existed and was capable of being released to influence matter. This view was held by Camille Flammarion and William Crookes, however a later psychical researcher Hereward Carrington pointed out that the fluid was hypothetical and has never been discovered.

Modern usage

As research entered the modern era, it became clear that many different, but related, abilities could be attributed to the wider description of psychokinesis and these, along with telekinesis, are now regarded as the specialities of PK. In the 2004 U.S. Air Force-sponsored research report Teleportation Physics Study, the physicist-author Eric Davis, Ph.D., described the distinction between PK and TK as "telekinesis is a form of PK." The Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, 2009 edition, also defines psychokinesis in a wider sense as involving the "movement or change of physical objects", while its definition for telekinesis only describes "movement." Psychokinesis, then, is the general term that can be used to describe a variety of complex mental force phenomena (including object movement) and telekinesis is used to refer only to the movement of objects, however tiny (a grain of salt, or air molecules to create wind) or large (an automobile, building, or bridge).

Measurement and observation

A spontaneous PK case featured on the cover of the French magazine La Vie Mysterieuse in 1911.

Parapsychology researchers describe two basic types of measurable and observable psychokinetic and telekinetic effects in experimental laboratory research and in case reports occurring outside of the laboratory. Micro-PK (also micro-TK) is a very small effect, such as the manipulation of molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, etc., that can only be observed with scientific equipment. The words are abbreviations for micro-psychokinesis, micropsychokinesis and micro-telekinesis, microtelekinesis. Macro-PK (also macro-TK) is a large-scale effect that can be seen with the unaided eye. The adjective phrases "microscopic-scale", "macroscopic- scale", "small-scale", and "large-scale" may also be used; for example, "a small-scale PK effect."

Spontaneous effects

See also: Poltergeist

Spontaneous movements of objects and other unexplained effects have been reported, and many parapsychologists believe these are possibly forms of psychokinesis/telekinesis. Parapsychologist William G. Roll coined the term "recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis" (RSPK) in 1958. The sudden movement of objects without deliberate intention in the presence or vicinity of one or more witnesses is thought by some to be related to as-yet-unknown PK/TK processes of the subconscious mind. Researchers use the term "PK agent", especially in spontaneous cases, to describe someone who is suspected of being the source of the PK action. Outbreaks of spontaneous movements or other effects, such as in a private home, and especially those involving violent or physiological effects, such as objects hitting people or scratches or other marks on the body, are sometimes investigated as poltergeist cases.

Types

An animation of telekinesis involving the hands as performed by a magician. Click on icon at upper right for details.

Psychokinesis is the umbrella term for various related speciality abilities, which may include:

  • Telekinesis: movement of matter at the micro level (atoms, subatomic particles, etc.) or macro level (visible objects, life forms, etc.)
  • Speed up or slow down the naturally occurring vibrations of atoms in matter to alter temperature, possibly to the point of ignition if combustible (also known as pyrokinesis when speeding up vibrations, and cryokinesis when slowing them down).
  • Control of magnetism.
  • Control of photons (light waves/particles).
  • Influencing events (sports, gambling, election, prolongation of life, etc.).
  • Self levitation (rising in the air unsupported, flying).
  • Thoughtform projection a.k.a. telepathic projection (a physically perceived person, animal, creature, object, ghostly entity, etc., created in the mind and projected into three-dimensional space and observable by others; for thought images allegedly placed on film, see Thoughtography).

Belief

In September 2006, a survey about belief in various religious and paranormal topics conducted by phone and mail-in questionnaire polled Americans on their belief in telekinesis. Of these participants, 28% of male participants and 31% of female participants selected "agree" or "strongly agree" with the statement "It is possible to influence the world through the mind alone". There were 1,721 participants, and the poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4%.

In April 2008, British psychologist and skeptic Richard Wiseman published the results of an online survey he conducted entitled "Magicians and the Paranormal: A Survey", in which 400 magicians worldwide participated. For the question Do you believe that psychokinesis exists (i.e., that some people can, by paranormal means, apply a noticeable force to an object or alter its physical characteristics)?, the results were as follows: No 83.5%, Yes 9%, Uncertain 7.5%.

Notable claimants of psychokinetic ability

See also: Category:People claiming to have psychokinetic abilities
Eusapia Palladino "levitates" a table while researcher Alexander Aksakof (right) monitors for fraud, Milan, 1892.
  • Martin Caidin (1927–1997), the author whose 1972 novel Cyborg was used as the basis for the television series The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, claimed to be able to cause movement by means of telekinesis in one or multiple small tabletop "energy wheels", also known as psi wheels beginning in the mid-1980s. Parapsychologist Loyd Auerbach, a friend of Caidin's who sometimes accompanied him in demonstrations and workshops, reiterated a strong endorsement of him in his June 2004 Fate magazine column: "Martin Caidin was capable of moving things with his mind." James Randi offered to test Caidin's claimed abilities in 1994. In September 2004, Randi wrote: "He frantically avoided accepting my challenge by refusing even the simplest of proposed control protocols, but he never tired of running on about how I would not test him."
  • Uri Geller (1946 – ), the Israeli famous for his spoon bending demonstrations, allegedly by PK. Geller has been caught many times using sleight of hand and according to author Terence Hines, all his effects have been recreated using conjuring tricks.
  • Many of India's "godmen" have claimed macro-PK abilities and demonstrated apparently miraculous phenomena in public, although as more controls are put in place to prevent trickery, fewer phenomena are produced. Perhaps the most notable is the spectacular allegation of Mahaavatar Babaji's materialization of an entire palace, mentioned in Paramahamsa Yogananda's classic Autobiography of a Yogi.
  • Nina Kulagina (1926–1990), who came to wide public attention following the publication of Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder's best seller, Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain. The alleged Soviet psychic of the late 1960s and early 1970s was filmed apparently performing telekinesis while seated in numerous black-and-white short films, mentioned in the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency report from 1978.
  • Matthew Manning (1955 – ) of the United Kingdom was the subject of laboratory research in the United States and England involving PK in the late 1970s and today claims healing powers.
  • Eusapia Palladino (1854–1918; alternate spelling: Eusapia Paladino) was an Italian medium who allegedly could cause objects to move during seances and was endorsed by world famous magician Howard Thurston (1869–1936), who said he witnessed her levitation of a table.
  • Swami Rama (1925–1996), a yogi skilled in controlling his heart functions who was studied at the Menninger Foundation in the spring and fall of 1970, and was alleged by some observers at the foundation to have telekinetically moved a knitting needle twice from a distance of five feet. Although Swami Rama wore a face-mask and gown to prevent allegations that he moved the needle with his breath or body movements, and air vents in the room had been covered, at least one physician observer who was present at the time was not convinced and expressed the opinion that air movement was somehow the cause.

Notable witnesses to PK events

Alleged psychokinetic events have been witnessed by psychologists in the United States, and elsewhere in the world by professionals with medical degrees, physicists,  electrical engineers, military personnel, police officers,  and other professionals and ordinary citizens. Robert M. Schoch Ph.D., professor at Boston University, has written "I do believe that some psychokinesis is real" referring to the evidence for micro-psychokinesis obtained by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab experiments and similar studies and some reports of macro-RSPK observed in poltergeist cases. He reports once seeing a book "jumping off a shelf" while in a room where a female psychokinesis agent was also present. Best-selling author and medical doctor Michael Crichton described what he termed a "successful experience" with psychokinesis at a "spoon bending party" in his 1988 book Travels. Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, author Dean Radin has reported that he, like Michael Crichton, was able to bend the bowl of a spoon over with unexplained ease of force with witnesses present at a different informal PK experiment gathering. He described his experience in his 2006 book Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality and online (with photos). Author Michael Talbot (1953–1992) described a variety of spontaneous psychokinetic events he experienced and were witnessed by family and friends in two of his books, Beyond the Quantum and The Holographic Universe.

French biologist Remy Chauvin carried out a number of experiments to test psychokinesis. Because of the results of one of the experiments, Chauvin came to believe that mind can influence matter. Chauvin's experiment involved using a uranium isotope, a Geiger counter and several assistants. Some parapsychologists have written that ordinary people may be able to influence biological organisms from distance such as the growth rates of fungi and bacteria. Carroll Nash (1984) reported that human subjects could use their psychokinetic ability to influence the rate at which bacterial genes mutate.

Anecdotes such as these - stories by eyewitnesses outside of controlled conditions - are considered insufficient evidence by the majority of scientists to establish the scientific validity of psychokinesis.

Notable experiments suggesting PK activity

A 1995 experiment published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration reported psychokinetic activity through "influencing events". The possible psychokinetic influence of 80 groups of 15 chicks on a randomly moving robot carrying a lighted candle in an otherwise darkened room was tested. According to the researcher, in 71% of the cases, the robot spent excessive time in the vicinity of the chicks, and in the absence of the chicks, the robot followed random trajectories. The overall results were deemed statistically significant at p <0.01.

In a systematic investigation reported by Jahn and Dunne, results of over 25 million binary trails collected during seven years of experimentation with random-event generators provide replicable evidence of an anomalouse correlation between conscious intention and the output of REGs.

A long-term series of laboratory experiments demonstrated that persons were able to exert direct mental influences upon a variety of biological systems that were situated at a distance from the influencer and shielded from all conventional informational and energetic influences. The experimental design ruled out subtle cues, recording errors, expectancy and suggestion ("placebo") effects, artifactual reactions to external stimuli, confounding internal rhythms, and coincidental or chance correspondences.

PK Parties

"PK Parties" were a cultural fad in the 1980s, where groups of people were guided through rituals and chants to awaken metal-bending powers. They were encouraged to shout at the items of cutlery they had brought and to jump and scream to create an atmosphere of pandemonium (or what scientific investigators called heightened suggestibility). Critics were excluded and participants were told to avoid looking at their hands. Thousands of people attended these emotionally charged parties, and many became convinced that they had bent silverware by paranormal means. Two of those who claimed to have folded over the bowls of spoons while attending one of these events were author Michael Crichton and parapsychologist Dean Radin (see above section). The founder of the PK parties was Jack Houck (1939 - 2013), an aeronautical engineer at Boeing until his retirement in 2005.

Scientific view

If PK were to exist as claimed by some experimenters, it would violate some well-established laws of physics, including the inverse square law, the second law of thermodynamics, and the conservation of momentum, according to Martin Gardner and Thomas Gilovich. Hence scientists have demanded a high standard of evidence for PK, in line with Marcello Truzzi's dictum "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". When apparent PK can be produced in ordinary ways—by trickery, special effects or by poor experimental design—scientists accept that explanation as more parsimonious than to accept that the laws of physics should be rewritten.

The late Carl Sagan included telekinesis in a long list of "offerings of pseudoscience and superstition" which "it would be foolish to accept (...) without solid scientific data" though even highly improbable claims may possibly be eventually verified. He placed the burden of proof on the proponents, but cautioned readers to "await—or, much better, to seek—supporting or disconfirming evidence" for claims that have not been resolved either way. Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman advocated a similar position.

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Nobel laureate Brian Josephson coauthored a 1991 scientific paper that agreed with the theories of earlier published researchers that consciousness and the creative mind could have a role in affecting the statistical outcomes of quantum phenomena.

In their 1991 research paper Biological Utilization of Quantum Nonlocality, Nobel Prize laureate Brian Josephson and co-author Fotini Pallikara-Viras proposed that explanations for both psychokinesis and telepathy might be found in quantum physics. Gerald Feinberg's concept of a tachyon, a theoretical particle that travels faster than the speed of light has been advocated by some parapsychologists who claim that it could explain psychokinesis. Haakon Forwald (1897-1978) a Swedish electrical engineer suggested that psychokinesis of objects could occur due to gravitational fields produced by mental influence acting on neutrons in the atoms inside the objects, however his hypothesis has never been proven and critics have pointed out his hypothesis is faulted by general relativity.

There is a broad consensus, including several proponents of parapsychology, that PK research, and parapsychology more generally, has not produced a reliable, repeatable demonstration.

In 1984, the United States National Academy of Sciences, at the request of the US Army Research Institute, formed a scientific panel to assess the best evidence from 130 years of parapsychology. Part of its purpose was to investigate military applications of PK, for example to remotely jam or disrupt enemy weaponry. The panel heard from a variety of military staff who believed in PK and made visits to the PEAR laboratory and two other laboratories that had claimed positive results from micro-PK experiments.

The panel criticised macro-PK experiments for being open to deception by conjurors, and said that virtually all micro-PK experiments "depart from good scientific practice in a variety of ways". Their conclusion, published in a 1987 report, was that there was no scientific evidence for the existence of psychokinesis. Parapsychology advocates responded by accusing the panel of bias.

Research with random number generators has been influenced by signal detection theory, viewing the effect of PK as a weak but real "signal" hidden in the "noise" of experimental results. An effect too weak to be demonstrated in a replicable experiment would still show up as a statistically significant effect in a large set of data. To test this, parapsychologists have carried out meta-analyses of large data sets, with apparently impressive positive results. This has in turn been criticized as an invalid use of meta-analysis, since the original studies are too dissimilar for the resulting statistics to be meaningful. A 2006 meta-analysis of 380 studies found a small positive effect within the margin that could be explained by publication bias.

Physicist Robert L. Park finds it suspicious that a phenomenon should only ever appear at the limits of detectability of questionable statistical techniques. He cites this feature as one of Irving Langmuir's indicators of pathological science. Park argues that if PK really existed it would be easily and unambiguously detectable, for example using modern microbalances which can detect tiny amounts of force.

PK hypotheses are also tested implicitly in a number of contexts outside parapsychological experiments. Gardner considers a dice game played in casinos, where gamblers have a large incentive to affect the numbers that come up. This is in effect a large sample-size test of the same hypothesis as the J. B. Rhine dice experiments, but year after year the house takings are exactly those predicted by chance. Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey argues that many experiments in psychology, biology or physics assume that the intentions of the subjects or experimenter do not physically distort the apparatus. Humphrey counts them as replications of PK experiments (but implicitly so) in which PK fails to appear.

In the book Parapsychology: The Controversial Science (1991), British parapsychologist Richard S. Broughton, Ph.D, wrote of the differences of opinion among top scientists encountered by Robert G. Jahn, director of the (now-closed) PEAR laboratory, regarding the psychokinesis research that the lab was engaged in at the time.

Explanations in terms of bias

Cognitive bias research has been interpreted to argue that people are susceptible to illusions of PK. These include both the illusion that they themselves have the power, and that events they witness are real demonstrations of PK. For example, Illusion of control is an illusory correlation between intention and external events, and believers in the paranormal have been shown to be more susceptible to this illusion than skeptics. Psychologist Thomas Gilovich explains this as a biased interpretation of personal experience. For example, to someone in a dice game willing for a high score, high numbers can be interpreted as "success" and low numbers as "not enough concentration." Bias towards belief in PK may be an example of the human tendency to see patterns where none exist, which believers are also more susceptible to.

A 1952 study tested for experimenter's bias in a PK context. Richard Kaufman of Yale University gave subjects the task of trying to influence eight dice and allowed them to record their own scores. They were secretly filmed, so their records could be checked for errors. The results in each case were random and provided no evidence for PK, but believers made errors that favoured the PK hypothesis, while disbelievers made opposite errors. A similar pattern of errors was found in J. B. Rhine's dice experiments which at that time were the strongest evidence for PK.

Wiseman and Morris (1995) showed subjects an unedited videotape of a magician's performance in which a fork bent and eventually broke. Believers in the paranormal were significantly more likely to misinterpret the tape as a demonstration of PK, and were more likely to misremember crucial details of the presentation. This suggests that confirmation bias affects people's interpretation of PK demonstrations. Psychologist Robert Sternberg cites confirmation bias as an explanation of why belief in psi phenomena persists, despite the lack of evidence: "eople want to believe, and so they find ways to believe."

Psychologist Daniel Wegner has argued that an introspection illusion contributes to belief in psychokinesis. He observes that in everyday experience, intention (such as wanting to turn on a light) is followed by action (such as flicking a light switch) in a reliable way, but the underlying neural mechanisms are outside awareness. Hence though subjects may feel that they directly introspect their own free will, the experience of control is actually inferred from relations between the thought and the action. This theory of apparent mental causation acknowledges the influence of David Hume's view of the mind. This process for detecting when one is responsible for an action is not totally reliable, and when it goes wrong there can be an illusion of control. This could happen when an external event follows, and is congruent with, a thought in someone's mind, without an actual causal link.

As evidence, Wegner cites a series of experiments on magical thinking in which subjects were induced to think they had influenced external events. In one experiment, subjects watched a basketball player taking a series of free throws. When they were instructed to visualise him making his shots, they felt that they had contributed to his success.

Magic and special effects

See also: Mentalism

Magicians, sleight-of-hand-artists, etc., have successfully simulated some of the specialized abilities of PK (object movement, spoon bending, levitation, teleportation), but not all of the feats of claimed spontaneous and intentional psychokinesis have been reproduced under the same observed conditions as the original. According to philosopher Robert Todd Carroll, there are many impressive magic tricks available to amateurs and professionals to simulate psychokinetic powers. These can be purchased on the Internet from magic supply companies. Metal objects such as keys or cutlery can be bent by a number of different techniques, even if the performer has not had access to them beforehand. Amateur-made videos alleging to show feats of psychokinesis, particularly spoon bending and the telekinetic movement of objects, can be found on video-sharing websites such as YouTube. Critics point out that it is now easier than ever for the average person to fake psychokinetic events and that without more concrete proof, the topic, apart from its enjoyment in fiction, will continue to remain controversial.

The need for PK researchers to be aware of conjuring techniques was illustrated by events in the early 1980s. The McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University reported a series of experiments in which two subjects had demonstrated PK phenomena (including metal-bending and causing images to appear on film) and other psychic powers under laboratory conditions. Magician James Randi revealed that the subjects were two of his associates, amateur conjurers Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards. The pair had created the effects by standard trickery, but the researchers, being unfamiliar with magic techniques, interpreted them as proof of PK. The laboratory closed not long after.

Prize money for proof of psychokinesis

Main article: List of prizes for evidence of the paranormal

Internationally, there are several individual skeptics of the paranormal and skeptics' organizations who offer cash prize money for demonstration of the existence of an extraordinary psychic power, such as psychokinesis. Experimental design must be agreed upon prior to execution, and additional conditions, such as a minimum level of fame, may be imposed. Prizes have been offered specifically for PK demonstrations, for example businessman Gerald Fleming's offer of £250,000 to Uri Geller if he can bend a spoon under controlled conditions. These prizes remain uncollected by people claiming to possess paranormal abilities.

The James Randi Educational Foundation offers the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge to anyone who has a demonstrated media profile as well as the support from some member of the academic community, and who can produce a paranormal event, such as psychokinesis, in a controlled, mutually agreed upon experiment. To date no one has either been able to demonstrate their claimed abilities under the testing conditions or have not fulfilled the foundation conditions for taking the test; the prize money still remains to be claimed.

In religion, mythology and popular culture

See also: List of superhuman features and abilities in fiction

There are written accounts and oral legends of events fitting the description of psychokinesis dating back to early history, most notably in the stories found in various religions and mythology, some examples of which follow.

In the Indian epic Mahabharata, Shakuni, one of the key characters uses his power to manipulate the dice used for playing the game of dice between Bhishma's grandchildren. Using his power he makes sure that Pandavas lose to Kauravas (the side Shakuni supports) and the main plot of Mahabharata starts from there.

In the Bible, Jesus is described as performing various miracles that have been described as psychokinesis, including turning water into wine, healing the sick, and multiplying food.

Mythological beings, such as witches, have been described as levitating people, animals, and objects. The wizard Merlin of the King Arthur legend is said to have used his powers to sail through the ocean in a house made of glass and transport Stonehenge across the sea from Ireland to England.

Psychokinesis has been an aspect in movies, television, computer games, literature, and other forms of popular culture, often presented as a superpower. An early example is the 1952 novella Telek by Jack Vance. Notable portrayals of psychokinetic characters include Sissy Spacek as a troubled high school student in the 1976 film Carrie (a 2013 remake stars Chloë Grace Moretz in the title role), based on the Stephen King novel of the same name; Ellen Burstyn in the healer-themed film Resurrection (1980); the Jedi and Sith in Star Wars; the Scanners in the film Scanners; and three high school seniors in the 2012 film Chronicle. Psychokinesis is also commonly used as a power in a number of videogames and role playing games.

See also

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  19. Hajela, Deepti (October 3, 2005). "New exhibit looks at occult photography". Associated Press story. Retrieved January 19, 2008. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  20. Myers, Frederic William Henry (1890). Proceedings. London, England: Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. For the alleged movements without contact... M. Aksakof's new word 'telekinetic' seems to me the best attainable. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help) Note: this quote as a cited reference can also be seen on page 722 in the multivolume "The Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition", 1989, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, ISBN 978-0-19-861229-2." The "M. Aksakof" is actually "A. Aksakof", as indicated in this 1896 quarterly journal Borderland
  21. "Online Etymology Dictionary". Archived from the original on August 27, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2007. Telekinesis. 1890, said to have been coined by Alexander N. Aksakof (1832-1903) Imperial Councilor to the Czar... Translates Ger. 'Fernwirkung.' {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  22. ed. in chief Frederick C. Mish (2005). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts, USA: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. p. 1004. ISBN 978-0-87779-809-5. OCLC 146761465. Psychokinesis (1914).... {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  23. "Parapsychology Foundation "Basic terms in Parapsychology"". Archived from the original on August 27, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2006. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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  27. "Overview of Current Parapsychology Research in the Former Soviet Union, Introduction" (PDF). Subtle Energies Volume 3, Number 3. 1992. p. 1. Retrieved July 3, 2007. AMP research programs in the Soviet Union have primarily focused on experimental studies in 'distant influence' on animate an inanimate systems; i.e., psychokinesis (PK) and bio-PK. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  28. ^ Broughton, Richard S. (July 30, 1991). Parapsychology: The Controversial Science. New York: Ballantine Books. pp. 35, 75–79, 149, 161–162, 329–330. ISBN 978-0-345-35638-3.
  29. "Overview of Current Parapsychology Research in the Former Soviet Union, Abstract" (PDF). Subtle Energies Volume 3, Number 3. 1992. p. 1. Retrieved July 3, 2007. The authors primarily discuss experiments in anomalous perturbation (often referred to as psychokinesis—PK and bio- which have been the main focus of AMP research programs in the Soviet Union. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  30. ^ Berger, Arthur S. (1991-02). The Encyclopedia of Parapsychological and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House. pp. 326, 341, 430. ISBN 978-1-55778-043-0. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  31. ^ editor in chief, Richard Cavendish; editorial board, C.A. Burland ...  ; new edition edited and compiled by Richard Cavendish and Brian Innes.; et al. (1995) . Man, Myth & Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation. p. 2442. ISBN 978-1-85435-731-1. OCLC 228665658. Spiritualism aroused violent antagonism and criticism concentrating particularly on the physical phenomena occurring at seances, which opponents claimed were faked. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Page 1626, v. 12: entry on Matthew Manning.
  32. Hamlin Garland Forty years of psychic research: a plain narrative of fact 1936, pp. 127-128
  33. H. F. Prevost Battersby Psychic Certainties Kessinger Reprint Edition, 1988, pp. 125-126
  34. Hereward Carrington Eusapia Palladino and Her Phenomena Kessinger Reprint Edition, 2003, p. 267
  35. Davis, Eric; physicist, Ph.D, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, 2004. "Teleportation Physics Study" (PDF). p. 55. Retrieved July 19, 2006. Telekinesis is a form of PK, which describes the movement of stationary objects without the use of any known physical force.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  36. Colman, Andrew M. (2009). A Dictionary of Psychology. New York City: Oxford University Press, Inc. ISBN 9780199534067.
  37. ^ Guiley, Rosemary Ellen (July 17, 2001). Encyclopedia of the Strange, Mystical & Unexplained. New York: Gramercy Books. pp. 454, 456, 478, 609. ISBN 978-0-517-16278-1.
  38. "Library.ThinkQuest.org - Glossary: Macro PK and Micro PK". Retrieved October 14, 2006.
  39. Roll, William G. (1958). The Seaford Disturbances. Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 2,. pp. 79–124. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
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  41. Pratt, J. G. (Vol. 70, January 1976). An Instance of Possible Metal-Bending Indirectly Related to Uri Geller. The Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. As far as I can say, no one in the apartment that night would take credit for being the responsible PK agent. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  42. Reader's digest ; . (1990). Mysteries of the Unexplained. Readers Digest Association. p. 181. ISBN 978-0-89577-146-9. OCLC 10605367. Attempting to understand the forces at work, researchers in parapsychology have hypothesized that the poltergeist's feats in moving objects (which are seen to fly in violation of the laws of gravity, gliding, rising, and turning corners) are examples of psychokinesis, or PK — the ability to influence inanimate objects by mind power.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  43. ^ "Abstract Quantum theory and PSI force Symetries". Retrieved October 4, 2013. By Marcello Benati, April 18, 2011. Quote: "Micro-psychokinesis involves the influence of consciousness on atomic particles. . . . Macro-PK involves the movement of stable, normally unmoving objects by mental effort."
  44. The PK Zone: A Cross-cultural Review of Psychokinesis (PK). By Pamela Rae Heath, page xxv: "Micro PK . . . is traditionally defined as PK effects that: 1) are slight or weak im magnitude and require statistics for their demonstration, or 2) involve atomic or subatomic processes."
  45. "psychokinesis: definition of psychokinesis in Oxford dictionary (American English)". Oxforddictionaries.com. September 26, 2013. Retrieved October 2, 2013.
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  47. Kakalios, James (October 4, 2005). The Physics of Superheores. New York: Gotham Books/Penguin Group, Inc. ISBN 978-1-59240-146-8. The author, James Kakalios, is a physics professor. Page 133: 'Knowing that all matter is composed of atoms, we now recognize that when an object is 'hot,' the kinetic energy of the constituent atoms is large, while when an object is 'cold,' the kinetic energy of the atoms is lower."
  48. ^ Genzmer, Herbert (2007-03). "Psychokinesis". Mysteries of the World: Unexplained Wonders and Mysterious Phenomena. Bath, United Kingdom: Parragon Books Ltd. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-4054-9022-1. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) Republished in 2012 as Myths and Mysteries of the World, same publisher and cited page number, new ISBN 978-1-4454-9026-7. The 2012 version is a boxed set that includes a DVD documentary. Page 194 (parenthetical material appears in the original): "One of the most puzzling categories within the parasciences is telekinesis or psychokinesis, an ability demonstrated by certain people who, using solely mental power and concentration, can move and change objects or leave them suspended in space and time. . . . Other related phenomena are the changing of particulars of the past (retropsychokinesis), starting fires using mental powers (pyrokinesis), transforming water into ice (cryokinesis) and manipulating wind (aerokinesis)." Page 195: "Unfortunately, in our day, a tidal wave of fraud has inundated psychokinesis. The perpetrators use methods similar to those of magicians and trick artists in variety shows. This ensures that the existence of telekinesis remains controversial."
  49. Hathaway, Michael R. (September 1, 2003). "Glossary". The Everything Psychic Book. Avon, Massachusetts, USA: Adams Media / F+W Publications Company. pp. 139, 271. ISBN 978-1-58062-969-0. Psychokinesis. The ability to levitate, move objects, heal, and manipulate psychic energy...Psychokinesis is the ability to...create healing.
  50. ^ the editors of Time-Life Books. (1988-11). Mind Over Matter (volume of Mysteries of the Unknown encyclopedia series). New York: Time-Life Books. pp. 7–8, 27, 82, 85. ISBN 978-0-8094-6336-7. OCLC 17877875. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  51. Bersani, F. (1983). Psychoenergetics: The Journal of Psychophysical Systems. United Kingdom: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. pp. 99–128. The effects observed range from the typical bending of metal objects, such as spoons, keys, bars, etc., to strange effects like light flashes and teleportation. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  52. "Mass Media Funk". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Retrieved February 27, 2007. Those who practice TT believe they are able to move 'energy,' some sort of psychic force field or chi which they believe permeates the body and surrounding aura.
  53. ^ Kakalios, James (October 4, 2005). The Physics of Superheores. New York: Gotham Books/Penguin Group, Inc. ISBN 978-1-59240-146-8. The author, James Kakalios, is a physics professor. Pages 254-255: "With our improved understanding of physics, we can now more accurately describe Kitty Pryde's mutant power as being able to alter her macroscopic quantum wave function, increasing her tunneling probability to near 100 percent at will." Page 255: "How, when she's is 'phasing' and immaterial, can she walk?"
  54. York, Michael (2004). Historical Dictionary of New Age Movements. Lanham, Maryland USA: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. 185. ISBN 0-8108-4873-2. Shamanic shape-shifting is a further form of telekinetic transformation.
  55. editor in chief, Richard Cavendish ; editorial board, C.A. Burland ...  ; new edition edited and compiled by Richard Cavendish and Brian Innes.; et al. (1995). Man, Myth & Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation. p. 2354. ISBN 978-1-85435-731-1. OCLC 228665658. Shape-shifting. The idea that it is possible, in certain circumstances, for men to change their natural bodily form... Sorcerers also, and some great heroes, were believed to have the same power, by virtue of magical knowledge or some innate quality; and so, though more rarely, were a few otherwise ordinary people who acquired the gift through possession of a charm or the performance of a ritual act. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  56. McCoy, Edain (March 1, 1999). Astral Projection for beginners. Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewllyn Publications. p. 207. ISBN 978-1-56718-625-3. Creative visualization is the practice of mentally envisioning a desired outcome, infusing it with personal energy, and then releasing it to the cosmos so that it can grow to manifest in the physical. While all that sounds unduly complicated, what it boils down to is that it creates a thoughtform on the astral plane that, with proper effort, can be brought into the physical world.
  57. editor in chief, Richard Cavendish ; editorial board, C.A. Burland ...  ; new edition edited and compiled by Richard Cavendish and Brian Innes.; et al. (1995). Man, Myth & Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corporation. p. 2679. ISBN 978-1-85435-731-1. OCLC 228665658. The evocation of a tulpa, an entity created entirely by an act of the imagination, was described by Alexandra David-Néel in her book Magic and Mystery in Tibet (1929) {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  58. ed. in chief Frederick C. Mish (2004). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts, USA: Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. p. 1284. ISBN 978-0-87779-809-5. OCLC 146761465. Teleportation. The act or process of moving an object or person by psychokinesis. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  59. Colman, Andrew M. (2001). Dictionary of Psychology. Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 599. ISBN 978-0-19-866211-2. Psychokinesis. The movement or change of physical objects by mental processes.
  60. Study conducted by the Gallup Organization between October 8, 2005 and December 12, 2005 on behalf of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, of Waco, Texas, in the United States.
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  68. Hines, Terence (2003). Pseudoscience and the Paranormal (2nd ed.). Prometheus. p. 130. ISBN 978-1-57392-979-0.
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  70. J. Gaither Pratt; H. H. Jürgen Keil (1973). First Hand Observations of Nina S. Kulagina Suggestive of PK on Static Objects. Vol. 67. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. pp. 381–390.
  71. Jürgen Keil (1984). Parapsychologie in der Sowjetunion (in German). Vol. 26. Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie und Grenzgebiete der Psychologie. pp. 191–210.
  72. Paraphysics R&D - Warsaw Pact (U). Prepared by U.S. Air Force, Air Force Systems Command Foreign Technology Division. DST-1810S-202-78, Nr. DIA TASK NO. PT-1810-18-76 (PDF). Defense Intelligence Agency. 30. March 1978. pp. 7–8. G.A. Sergevev is known to have studied Nina Kulagina, a well-known psychic from Leningrad. Although no detailed results are available, Sergevev's inferences are that she was successful in repeating psychokinetic phenomena under controlled conditions. G.A. Sergevev is a well-respected researcher and has been active in paraphysics research since the early 1960s. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  73. Muldoon, Sylvan (1947). Psychic Experiences of Famous People. Chicago: Aries Press. pp. 55–56. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help) See endorsement quote by Thurston at Eusapia Palladino article. Text of entire book also available at google.books.com
  74. Green, Elmer; Alyce Green (1977). Beyond Biofeedback. Knoll Publishing Co. pp. 197–218. ISBN 978-0-440-00583-4.
  75. "Beyond Biofeedback". pp. 12–16. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |chapter= ignored (help); |format= requires |url= (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help) Elmer Green's description of Swami Rama's alleged psychokinetic demonstration (with illustrations).
  76. Roll, William G. (May 18, 2004). Unleashed — Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch. New York: Paraview Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7434-8294-3. OCLC 55117933. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) William G. Roll, Ph.D., and Jeannie Lagle (Masters degree) both state that they witnessed psychokinesis involving Tina Resch. Roll additionally reports numerous other cases he investigated.
  77. ^ "Official website of Dean Radin". Retrieved June 9, 2007. see also Dean
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  80. Hasted, John B. (March 5, 1981). The Metal Benders. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. ISBN 978-0-7100-0597-7. OCLC 7923491.John B. Hasted (1921-2002), Ph.D., Physics professor, University of London. In his book The Metal- Benders, he describes his research of psychokinesis claimants and psychokinesis events he personally witnessed.
  81. Ronson, Jon (April 4, 2006). The Men Who Stare at Goats. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 63, (Back cover). ISBN 978-0-7432-7060-1."In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice—and indeed, the laws of physics—they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them."; "Lenny from Special Forces disappeared into the room where the goat was. He came back and answered, with surprise and solemnity, "The goat is down.'"
  82. Roll, William G. (May 18, 2004). Unleashed — Of Poltergeists and Murder: The Curious Story of Tina Resch. New York: Paraview Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7434-8294-3. OCLC 55117933. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help) Two police officers witnessed alleged psychokinetic activity in the Resch home in the 1984 Columbus poltergeist case.
  83. Schoch, Robert M. (January/February 2008). "Psychokinesis: A Scientist Searches for the Reality Behind PK's Representations". Atlantis Rising. Livingston, Montana USA: 42–43, 70–71. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  84. Znanie-Sila magazine, No 9, 1967 U.S.S.R.
  85. Barry, J. (1968). General and comparative study of the psychokinetic effect on fungus culture. Journal of Parapsychology, 32, 237–243 also see Barry, J. (1968). PK on fungus growth. Journal of Parapsychology, 32, 55. (Abstract.)
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  95. ^ Gilovich, Thomas (1993). How We Know What Isn't So: The fallibility of human reason in everyday life. Simon & Schuster. pp. 174–175. ISBN 978-0-02-911706-4.
  96. Sutherland, Stuart (1994). Irrationality: the enemy within. Penguin books. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-14-016726-9. he movement of objects without the application of physical force would, if proven, require a complete revision of the laws of physics. (...) he more improbable something is, the better the evidence needed to accept it
  97. Sagan, Carl (1995). The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a candle in the dark. Headline. pp. 208–212. ISBN 978-0-7472-7745-3.
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  112. Sternberg, Robert J. (2007). "Critical Thinking in Psychology: It really is critical". In Robert J. Sternberg, Henry L. Roediger, Diane F. Halpern (ed.). Critical Thinking in Psychology. Henry L. Roediger, Diane F. Halpern. Cambridge University Press. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-521-60834-3. Some of the worst examples of confirmation bias are in research on parapsychology (...) Arguably, there is a whole field here with no powerful confirming data at all. But people want to believe, and so they find ways to believe.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
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  115. Carroll, Robert Todd (July 17, 2003). "Psychokinesis". The Skeptic's Dictionary: a collection of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions. Wiley. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-471-27242-7.
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  119. ^ Brian, Denis (2000-11). The Voice of Genius: Conversations with Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries. New York: Basic Books, imprint of Perseus Books. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-7382-0447-5. . . . parapsychologists are studying some of the unusual events recorded in the Bible: changing water into wine could be called psychokinesis; ... People have spoken of such things from early times and they seem to occur in every civilization. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  120. ^ Heath, Pamela Rae, M.D., Psy.D. (2003-07). The PK Zone: A Cross-Cultural review of Psychokinesis. Bloomington, Indiana: iUniverse. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-595-27658-5. Religion has seemed to provide fertile ground for both spontaneous and intentional PK. Every great religious tract of mankind includes stories of people with the ability to heal and to multiply food, such as the Bible says were performed by Jesus Christ. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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Further reading

Published Papers on PK / TK

Military Papers on PK / TK

  • Psychokinesis and Its Possible Implication to Warfare Strategy A 1985 study on potential military applications of psychokinesis by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas USA. Listed at the U.S. Defense Technical Information Center's website and available to the public through the U.S. National Technical Information Service.
  • Teleportation Physics Study A study published in 2004 that reviews the current state research of real and hypothetical methods of teleportation. Includes a section titled PK phenomenon. Conducted by Eric Davis of Warp Drive Metrics, Nevada and sponsored by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB, California. Available publicly on the Federation of American Scientists website.
  • New Correlation Between a Human Subject and a Quantum Mechanical Random Number Generator A 1967 study by Helmut Schmidt conducted at the Boeing Scientific Research Laboratory in Seattle, Washington USA that concluded: "From the results, it is tentatively concluded that there exists a weak but significant correlation between the statistical processes operative in these experiments and the experimenter who initiates the processes." Listed at the U.S. Defense Technical Information Center's website and available to the public through the U.S. National Technical Information Service.

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