Telekinesis through a window … possibly

This is an oldie, dating back over six months. I never posted it because I didn’t have enough statistical data to know whether this was the real deal. I didn’t repeat the experiment enough times, and in the end I abandoned it because I started obsessing about something else: telekinesis under a glass bowl. Once I achieved that, all my attention went there. Nevertheless, “TK through a window pane” was an interesting experiment that others might want to try for themselves and see what kind of results they get …

Telekinesis vs. static electricity

Telekinesis in a sealed environment is a fairly impressive way to demonstrate its reality. That said, there is a pesky natural force that is quite capable of penetrating plastic and glass containers. Here’s a thorough investigation into the behaviour of static electricity.

The first video uses a hairbrush to collect static, but the second video uses nothing but a hand and shows how easily we can be fooled into thinking we are doing genuine telekinesis.

Telekinesis and occult dangers

In the course of my investigation into telekinesis, my biggest concern has been that somebody might discover the reality of it (as I did) and then use this awareness as a springboard to jump headlong into various occult practices, like astral travel, ouija boards, spirit channelling, etc. This is extremely dangerous, as a friend of mine learned – the hard way.

I achieved what I set out to achieve, which was simply to confirm the reality of something beyond conventional physics. So it’s quitting time for me. It’s either quit or delve deeper into the unknown, where serious danger lies. Time to put on the brakes and be wise …

Writing a new book: Reality Check

The intellectual and spiritual journey I’ve been on for the past year has been powerful and life-changing. It shows no sign of fading. In fact, the whole picture has gotten clearer and clearer as time has progressed.

I’m really glad I blogged about it all, because I now have a permanent record of what is probably the most important transition of my life. For a while, I’ve been considering turning the past year’s blog entries into a physical book, but I think I need to start afresh and introduce the insights from a more effective angle than the haphazard way that they occurred to me at the time.

I put an outline together today, penned an introduction and the first chapter, totaling some 3,000 words. I’m really happy with the results so far.

I’m not sure how much or how little a book of this kind is going to interest the folks who visit here. I just feel passionately about, so I’m going to do it.

The working title is Reality Check, which is a perfect fit thematically, but is a bit common. I’m sure those words have already been used as titles before now. I’m all ears for an alternative title.

I would like the cover to feature a kitten playing with its reflection in the mirror (i.e. not fully understanding reality), but how I’m going to get a photo of that I’ve no idea.

I want to thank everyone who posted challenging comments to my blog entries over the past year. It’s good to be kept on your toes and also helps me to notice my failure to communicate at times.

The journey is, of course, not over, and probably never will be. I haven’t reached any sort of ultimate conclusion, and I doubt there’s a point where I will say, “I understand it all now. Job done.” So, when is a good time to write a book about the nature of reality? Might as well be now.

Telekinesis hoaxes and how to spot them

In the following videos I discuss useful principles for discerning whether a video demonstration of telekinesis is real or fake. I expose some popular YouTube videos (particularly those of godspeed09) that are wrongly believed to be examples of advanced telekinesis.

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Telekinesis under a glass bowl

A couple of days ago I finally cracked the barrier of doing telekinesis in a sealed environment – under a glass bowl. The psi wheel was perfectly still for many minutes, then I achieved multiple spins for the best part of a minute. I am now nine months into my training. It’s a great feeling to finally put to rest a nagging sliver of scepticism that I’ve felt for so long. Whatever is behind telekinesis, it’s weirder than the sceptics claim, without a doubt.

For me, the real excitement behind telekinesis lies in the gathering of evidence that there’s more to a human being than western science has yet fathomed.

I didn’t record the breakthrough moment. However, I produced the following video earlier this evening. Not quite as dramatic, but the real deal nevertheless …

The 10-minute guide to telekinesis

Since I started putting videos of my telekinesis experiments on YouTube, I’ve been inundated with requests asking for advice. The most popular question is “What goes through your mind when doing telekinesis?” So I decided to make this video, condensing everything I know (or everything I’ve theorised) about the subject into ten minutes, as a guide for beginners who are struggling to get started.

Psychokinesis and scepticism

I’m the habit of looking up the words “psychokinesis” and “telekinesis” almost daily on YouTube. I believe in telekinesis (because I can do it), but there are many hoax videos, and they can be spotted with a well-trained eye. What alarms me is that many of these hoaxes are getting a staggering amount of positive comments. It’s like a large part of the general public has given up on critical thinking.

User godspeed09 is the one who peeves me off the most. He can talk the talk. His profile says:

A group devoted in the research and practice of Telekinesis, with support from both philosophical and scientific studies. We seek to discover the untapped potential inside us for the betterment of the community and self. A lot of the things shown here are beyond what many have displayed in the past. Our technique on Telekinesis is a breakthrough from the conventional and our abilities are maximize for the greater that many have deem impossible in the past. We believe this will contribute to the new wave of science.”

It sounds good until you see the kind of videos he puts online. In general, he’s a big fan of “invisible” thread (a magician’s trick you can purchase on eBay). For something a little different, check out this one:

Then go to eBay and search for “folding dollar”. Yep, it’s there! godspeed09 is a clear and obvious trickster and yet he has presently clocked up 680 subscribers.

In spotting telekinesis hoaxes, look out for “constipated” facial gestures, magical hand fluttering, string pulling (pay careful attention to the behaviour of the object being pulled), “too good to be true” motion, use of static electricity or magnets, and misdirection. To be honest, what the practitioner does with his hands is the most common and obvious tell; if you see him doing the same motions that stage magicians do, then he’s almost certainly faking it.

Occasionally something comes your way that really challenges sceptical observation. Take a look at this. It has to be the most creepy psychokinesis demonstration I’ve ever seen. This is something called pyrokinesis (pyro as in fire):

I was gobsmacked the first time I saw this. I couldn’t figure out how it was done. Then somebody said “fibre optic laser.” I watched it all again and the pieces fell into place. Concealed down the man’s left sleeve is a fibre optic laser. My guess is it’s being voice-actived by that “eeeee” sound he makes. At this point I’m just making guesses, but with those guesses in mind, there are several obvious tells that quickly show themselves. He always positions his hand in a strange angle that keeps it out of harm’s way from the laser (and what do weird double-jointed finger twitches have to do with psychokinesis, anyway?). At 6:05 he uses crafty misdirection to make you think he is burning the paper with the finger-tip of his right hand. But if you look carefully at where he rests the paper, it’s in the precise position that allows the laser inside his left sleeve to burn through the underside of the paper. Busted! What would have really made this trick interesting is if one of the other guys present said “eeeeee” at the wrong moment!

People who believe in paranormal phenomena (and I’m one of them) would do well to remember that scepticism is a useful tool for avoiding self-delusion. I think scepticism gets a bad name because some sceptics use it to debunk genuine mysteries without proper investigation. These kind of people occasionally comment on my personal telekinesis videos with explanations like “It’s air currents,” or “It’s body heat.” The sceptic needs to remember that if he wants to hold on to a conventional explanation, he ought to test the convential explanation, rather than simply accepting it by default because it suits his materialist belief system. On the other hand, those who are more open to the unexplained need to get a much firmer grip on critical thinking, or else they will be prey to every psychic charlatan out there.

First steps in understanding intuition

A subject that I want to get a solid understanding of is intuition, not least because I’ve used the word to defend some of the things I’ve come to believe in over the past half a year. It strikes me that this is a topic best understood by experience, not by theory. Well, this morning I had my first verifiable experience of intuition in action (the first I’ve taken proper notice of, at least).

If you are the sort of person who sets his alarm at the same time every morning, you may have had the experience of forgetting to set your alarm (or leaving it off because it’s the weekend), and you discover that your body wakes you up at exactly the right time anyway, as if you have some kind of internal clock that keeps accurate time. It appears to be the unconscious mind at work. I’ve had this experience, and I’ve had the similar experience of waking up seconds before my alarm goes off.

This morning I had an interesting variation on this kind of event. I woke up because my bladder was full, so I got up and went into the bathroom. While relieving myself, I thought, “Why did I have to wake up at 7.30? No point going back to sleep now, because the alarm is set for 7.40 as usual … Hold on a minute. How do I know it’s 7.30?” It was dark outside, could have been 6.30 or 7.00, but I had the overpowering sense that it was definitely 7.30 on the dot. Furthermore, there was no way that I could have glanced at the clock on the way out of the bedroom because I always keep it facing the wall; I hate the way the LEDs light up the room. When I got back to my bedroom, I checked the clock, and it said 7.31. Spot on.

We know that the conscious mind doesn’t possess an accurate sense of time, otherwise there would be no market for wrist-watches. But the experience of many people confirms that the unconscious mind has an uncannily accurate timekeeping facility.

It seems to me that in those early moments of semi-wakefulness, before the conscious mind starts it’s usual chitter-chatter, I was able to pull information from my unconscious mind. I have also experienced in interesting parallel with this in another area of study: in my experiments with telekinesis, I’ve learned that it works best when I quieten my conscious mind and send information to my unconscious. It’s a strange experience, almost like there’s two of me, the conscious and the subconscious, or the ego and the soul.

Talking to our inner self is probably something you’ve done without realising it. I might say to myself, “Drat. What’s the name of the black actor in Pulp Fiction? I can’t remember.” Anything from a moment to several minutes later, the answer will pop into my conscious mind, as if from nowhere. “Samuel L. Jackson!” Now, the next time you have a conversation with yourself like that, ask yourself what process you went through to recall the information you wanted. Because I have no idea. The unconscious you just seems to get on with the task, and then it gives you the answer when it’s done. Spooky.

What is an intuition and where does it come from? It’s a sense of knowing that comes from the unconscious mind. And what is the unconscious or subconscious mind? That’s a hell of a question, one I want to get to the bottom of, and one that holds the answers to how much information it’s possible to access. Are we all one consciousness, as I suspect? Are we everything that exists? Hopefully I’ll be able to learn more about this.

It could be an interesting experiment to quieten my conscious mind through meditation and see if I can sense the time accurately on multiple occasions.

What is important to note from my experience this morning is that the concept of intuition is not some irrational flight of fancy. Intuition could well be a means of learning that is every bit as important as the critical thinking of the conscious mind.

Finally, telekinesis with no hands

It has been quite a while since I posted anything on psychokinesis/telekinesis. Far from having given up on it, I’ve been practising regularly. Progress has been as slow as a drunken snail, but definite. Now, after five months, the kind of results I’m getting are much more dramatic than at the beginning, when I relied on keeping my hands extremely close to the “psi wheel.”

Some of you may remember a video I made on “no hands” telekinesis a few months ago, which I deleted soon after posting because I became uncertain about air currents in the room I was using. And since the psi wheel was moving back and forth erratically, I had no means of telling whether it was for real.

Now I present uni-directional movement on a psi wheel without the use of hands. I’ve even gone as far as putting on a facemask for the benefit of those who’ll say I’m breathing on it. I don’t mind looking silly, if it’ll shut those skeptics up.

The last shreds of doubt have now left my mind. Airflow, heat, static and magnetism do not explain telekinesis. Something else is going on that mainstream science doesn’t acknowledge. Based on my own attempts to find and refine a mental technique that works, and on the evidence that the ability grows with practice, it’s my strong conviction that mind is what’s responsible.

Psychokinesis: Experimenting with hand distance

I have good and bad days practising psychokinesis. It’s hard to work out what factors are involved; I’ve even wondered whether eating pistachio nuts has had a negative effect! In any case, today was great. I achieved really effective, fluid spin on a psi wheel whilst keeping my hand a surprising distance from it. What’s particularly interesting is that I achieved consistent anti-clockwise motion, then consistent clockwise motion. That’s a first. Never mind the fact that I wasn’t consciously trying to change the direction! Even from the point of view of attaching a conventional explanation to this, the change in direction is weird. After all, when you pull the plug out of the sink, the water always spins away in the same direction, no matter what. Make of it what you will:

More and more, I am drawn to the idea that there is energy being emitted from my body – energy that is not heat or static. Is it this stuff they call “chi”?

Psychokinesis: Airflow, heat or psi?

So, it seems I can spin a psi wheel with the power of my mind (see previous post). Or am I being fooled by subtle drafts of air flowing through the room? Or is it perhaps the heat from my hands generating a convection current? Let’s test these theories …

Psychokinesis, after three weeks of training

My first post on psychokinesis (or telekinesis) generated a lot of controversy. I’ve been practising it on a daily basis since then. Well, “practising” is maybe too rich a word; “staring at an unmoving object” is maybe a more accurate description of my general activity, interspersed with occasional weak signs of apparent success. Then, twenty-one days after starting, I experienced a major breakthrough which was so significant that I had to grab the camera.

The first video is a preamble that I recorded after filming parts 2 and 3. I urge you to watch it and not skip ahead, as it gives me an opportunity to get some things off my chest and to present my personal attitude to the experiment. Somehow it was better to say it than write it. Consider it my first video log …

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Psychokinesis: Proving that human beings are more than flesh and blood

So, am I actually getting anywhere with all my recent open-minded truth-seeking? Well, I did last night. Boy, did I!

I used to believe there was no soul, that human beings were purely biological in nature, that consciousness was not some great mystery, merely electrical impulses going through a brain. In more recent years, for various reasons, I came to believe in a human soul that survives death. Last night, I ended up proving it (or something close it). I proved that there is a lot more to being a human being than what conventional science is prepared to admit. Well, I proved it to myself, at least. If you would like to prove it to yourself, you’ll have to do a little work …

Yesterday evening I performed a simple little experiment in psionics called the “psi wheel.” If you key that phrase into YouTube, you’ll find countless examples of it; here is the best one I encountered *. Lo and behold, with a little patience (about an hour’s worth), I was able to make it work. I’ll do my best to describe what I did.

Psychokinesis means the moving of an object by the mind alone. When I was about thirteen, I witnessed what I believe to be the real deal. Many of the online “psi wheel” videos show people using their hands around an object. This is unfortunate, because it allows skeptics to debunk the phenomenon as heat from the hands creating a convection current and spinning the wheel. The experiment I witnessed as a teenager did not involve the use of the hands, so I decided not to use my hands at all. I would hazard a guess that hands merely serve as a sort of psychological aid, helping you believe you can do it.

Anyway, I concentrated on that wheel for quite a while. I believed I could do it, and I think that was probably important. I’ve tried psychokinesis a couple of times in my life and always failed. Learning about the psi wheel clued me into something important: the weight of what you’re trying to move is likely a major factor. I had always tried to move something substantial, like a light-switch or a key or a pencil. Remember, this is the very first baby-step in an ability. I’m trying to discover if there is the slightest force, no matter how small, acting on an object. To do that, the object needs to be both light and easily moved. A piece of paper suspended on a pin is an ideal choice.

Nothing happened for quite a while. The only thing that did any moving was my state of consciousness. I’ve never read up on meditation, but I think this is what I was experiencing. When you concentrate for a while on a single thing, you can feel your mind sort of lift or shift in a strange way. It’s hard to describe. A bit like when you’ve had slightly too much alcohol and you feel a sort of buzz in your head, a slight sense of disconnection with the world. Your vision also goes a little strange, although this may purely be a result of staring at the one spot for a long time. But what you feel in your mind is more than an illusion. I discovered this meditative state long ago when I was a teenager, and it scared the hell out of me, because it was a little too different from normal awareness for comfort. This time, however, I shunned fear and found it was rather more pleasant. I thought perhaps I might be on the verge of being able to move the wheel. But even in the meditative state, nothing would happen.

The meditative state was hard to hold on to for more than a few minutes, so I drifted naturally back to a more ordinary conscious state. It was a few minutes after that that I made the wheel move. I mention the meditation only because it may have been significant as a preparatory step for my mind to be able to do this. The wheel gave a bit of a twitch, and another. I don’t know what I was doing except that I was pushing on it with my mind. I wondered if my leg against the table had caused the movement. So I moved it away. Again, I was able to move the wheel a fraction. I wondered if my breath was affecting it. I covered my mouth and nose with my jumper, blew out a couple of big breaths to make sure nothing would get through the fabric, and nothing did. Sure enough, I was able to make the wheel move with my mind once again. It was a difficult experience to quantify, because sometimes it would work, then a few seconds later it would fail. Then I could get it to work again. I managed to get the wheel to move about a centimetre one way, then a centimetre the other way, back and forth several times in quick succession. I was determined to do a full counter-clockwise revolution. But I found it hard to keep the thing going, and also hard to get the direction the same every time. One of the things I did notice was that when it would start to go the wrong way, I could instantly stop concentrating and it would stop moving. Although I didn’t manage a full revolution, I did manage a one-quarter turn in the direction I intended, in several pushes. After that, I couldn’t do anything more.

While this was happening, I was thinking about the possibility of a draft from the door that I had left open behind me. I didn’t want to get up and close it during the experiment, so I decided that I would leave the wheel set up afterwards and see if any drafts caused movement later. The wheel never moved in the slightest, despite me walking about the house, opening and closing doors and causing air currents. When I got up this morning, the wheel was in exactly same position as I left it last night.

During the experiment, the movements were small and didn’t always happen when I willed them. It’s hard for me to figure out exactly what I was doing to create the movement. It doesn’t seem to be about willing something really hard. If anything, when I applied extra mental pressure, that seemed to stop the wheel working. I don’t know exactly what “mental muscle” I was flexing, so to speak, but I’m confident that I was genuinely flexing it. I think it’s the same principle as those “magic eye” images that were all the rage a decade ago. It takes a bit of experimental practice to start seeing them, but once you discover how, you can do it quickly and confidently from then on. Likewise, if I decide to practise the psi wheel a little more, I’m confident I’ll be able to get better at it. But should I?

Well, I’m very conscious that a friend of mine recently warned me about the dangers of playing with forces outside of our understanding. This guy was speaking from personal experience of having learned the hard way, and it sounds like I’m dismissing his advice. It has to be asked: why exactly am I doing this? It’s certainly not to have special powers to impress people with. I’m interested in discovering truth. I’ve been reading a lot of material recently around the view that human beings are made up of energy that transcends the physical body. Are we merely soulless flesh and blood, as the scientists would have us believe? The answer to that has major implications for our view of ourselves, of the world, and of such practical matters as medical science. Medical science, as you know, treats only the body. But are we only a body, or are we made up of more than that? Interestingly, acupuncture is based on the idea of the body possessing several “chakras” (energy centres), and there’s a school of thought that says illnesses can be caused by imbalances in our energy centres. If that is the case, then I’m sure you can see that our view on what it is to be human has major implications for medical science.

Far be it from me to encourage people to grab the nearest Ouija board (I would say an emphatic “Don’t!”), but if you’re an open-minded person interested in learning something new about reality that you won’t find in a science textbook, I would encourage you to try the psi wheel experiment. If you’re a skeptic, then you’re a lost cause until you can learn a little open-mindedness – which you really should. I agree that doubt is a good thing. It keeps us honest and helps us get closer to the truth by questioning what we think we know. You’ve seen me employ plenty of doubt in my experiment above. But skepticism is like doubt on steroids.

What I now know is that yesterday evening I made use of some kind of energy from within myself – energy that science does not even acknowledge exists. This personal confirmation reaffirms to me the complete inadequacy of the closed-minded, anti-spiritual attitude of what is called science today. We are more than just physical bodies, and this knowledge is either being supressed or ignored, to our detriment.

* It appears the video I’m linking to is an elaborate hoax. An unfortunate choice on my part, but hardly proof that genuine psionic ability is a farce. Just another example of the countless illusions that magicians have been using for centuries. Proof only of our ability to be fooled. It’s like I said at the top, “If you would like to prove it to yourself, you’ll have to do a little work.” No video is going to convince anybody. [Appended 7 August 2008]