What Is Telekinesis

by Nicolas Holder

  Each one of us is used to having a bunch of thoughts scattered around our minds, and trying to perform any given task usually requires only finding the right one and, metaphorically speaking, reeling it in. But here you need to actually suppress all other thoughts, and amplify the one you need, yet do it in a discreet way, not forcing the outcome. Possible initial feeling of discomfort might come from the fact that what you are trying to “invoke” what has always been a part of you, but you have never tried to access it before. Therefore you must relax and let it be a part of you.

  Doing so repetitively trains your mind in easing itself into a process in which it attracts desired items and makes them one with your thoughts. Additionally, since as we have seen subconscious part of the mind is usually the one controlling telekinesis, you help the subconscious part of your mind “see” the input you are presenting to it, which helps it believe in it more firmly.

  Following the above mentioned simple rules, you will be amazed by the results you achieve. If you are persistent enough, and have enough faith in yourself, you can do it. Just do not be stubborn, and follow the normal flow of your thoughts. In the beginning guide your thoughts through the process, for later on they will be the ones guiding you.

  Case studies of famous mediums

  Unlike the common belief that a medium is only that person that is in some way able to communicate with the world of the dead, mediums are actually all people capable of achieving any of the feats that could be classified as ESP. History is full of both written and narrated stories of heroes and ordinary people achieving extraordinary feats such as telepathy, astral projection or telekinesis. And all these people can be classified as medium. If you are to take a closer look into it, you will come to realize that actually many of the most famous feats accomplished before the modern age and its machines, meaning long before they were recorded and certainly long before we knew about them, can only be explained by telekinesis. For instance, as mentioned before, what about the pyramids? How were the stones carved at that time without even the simplest of the modern tools, and furthermore how were they transported to the desired location and piled up one atop another? And did Moses really part the sea for the safe passage of the Israelites?

  There are numerous other examples of such achievements throughout the ages. You have to keep in mind that many of these stories existed much before they were written down, so every narrator changed the story the way he wanted to until it finally got the shape in which it was written. Perhaps some of them are over-inflated and perhaps not true at all, but something had to have inspired them. You also had to bear in mind the fact that we today do not really know much about telekinesis, and one can only imagine how it must have been 2000-3000 years ago. Probably any ESP phenomenon would have been experienced as something supernatural, and with the emerging of religion, it would most probably be declared God’s work, or later on Satan’s doing. Nevertheless, if we cannot be 100% sure about the happenings from our distant past, we certainly have enough written and even recorded evidence from our recent past, from the period of at least the last 100 years.

  Even though telekinesis was extensively tested through the course of the last 100 years, especially from the post-WWII period to the mid ‘80s, no research has been thorough enough to confirm without a shred of a doubt that telekinesis exists in a scientific way, yet none has proven that it definitely doesn’t. Since many of these experiments were photographed and recorded, it is actually left to the public to decide whether a human mind is capable of such feats. And according to what is available to the public out of everything that has been recorded and scientifically tested so far, it IS.

  Here are some examples of the famous mediums and what they were able to achieve.

  Stanislawa Tomczyk

  Stanislawa Tomczyk was probably one of the most known mediums of the recent age. She was a Polish spiritualist from the early 20th century. Though there are only few visual documents available from that period, it is said that she possessed many abilities, some of which are telekinesis (the written documents state “producing movements without contact”), stopping the movement of a clock disclosed in a glass container, and influencing the roulette table so as to get the numbers set by herself more often than it was justified by chance. She seemed to be causing the movements of these objects through the tiny threads that formed on the tips of her fingers during the séances. These threads were exceptionally thin, and when cut in half by scissors, they would be immediately restored to their former shape. The threads were clearly seen, as the experiments usually took place in good light.

  Photo of Stanislawa Tomczyk, taken in 1913, that shows her floating a pair of scissors in midair. Her hands were examined and washed before each séance, and nothing was found to explain how she did it.

  Tomczyk was under the guidance of psychologist Julian Ochorowicz, who led the séances and controlled the environment they worked in, in Wisla, Southern Poland. What Ochorowicz did was regularly hypnotized Tomczyk for therapeutic purposes, and what he noticed was that she was controlled by the entity called “Little Stasia” that, according to her own words, was not a spirit of any deceased person. He later on found out that Little Stasia was actually a diminutive of Tomczyk’s own name, Stanislawa, and that it was probably her double or alter ego and thus a part of her. He was proven wrong at one point when he was able to obtain a photograph of Stasia in an empty room deprived of any light source, while Stanislawa was with him in another room. Sadly, even with today’s wonders like the internet, this photograph is nowhere to be found.

  In 1909, one of Tomczyk’s séances was witnessed by Professor Theodore Flournoy, who was so astonished with what he had seen that it left him, according to his own words: ”… in no doubt as to the reality of simple telekinesis…”. The experiment was replicated some time later in Geneva, Switzerland, and this time attended by Fluornoy’s colleagues Professors Clarapede, Cellerier and Batelli, as well Fluornoy’s own son. However, this time the spectators ended up being disappointed.

  Further research was undertaken in 1910 by scientists at a physical laboratory in Warsaw, Poland, where Tomczyk produced remarkable results under strict test conditions. These results, as well as the entire research, were later on published by Baron Schrenck Notzing in his 1920 book “Physikalische Phenomene des Mediumismus”.

  Eusapia Palladino

  Eusapia Palladino (21.01.1854 – 16.05.1918) was an Italian medium famous for the performances she put up all around Europe, including France, Germany, Poland and Russia. These performances were not cheap at all for that time, but those who could afford it indeed had something to see. Palladino was a very versatile medium, and her powers consisted of more than one form of ESP. She was known for levitating and even elongating herself. Her powers included apportioning of flowers, materializing the dead, producing spirit hands and faces in pieces of wet clay and even levitating tables. One of her favorite performances was playing an instrument under the table without any physical contact. She was also reportedly able to communicate with the dead with the help of her spirit guide John King. She was considered a true talent, and her audience included some of the greatest minds of the age, including several Nobel Prize laureates.

  Palladino was born in Minervino Murge, Bari province, Italy, into a peasant family. This fact from her life in a way helped her career, as she was considered a normal, everyday woman with extraordinary powers, which contrasted the steady belief that only mystiques could perform “miracles”.

  Eusepia Palladino during one of her séances

  Of all the people who investigated her achievements throughout Europe, probably the most notable are the Nobel Prize laureates Charles Richet, who studied her over a period of several years, and Pierre and Maria Curie and Jean Perrin, who investigated her while she was doing her séances in Paris. Pierre Curie was, in absence of a better word, fascinated by her feats, and later said about her séances: “It was very interesting, and really the phenomena that we saw appeared ine
xplicable as trickery—tables raised from all four legs, movement of objects from a distance, hands that pinch or caress you, luminous apparitions. All in a [setting] prepared by us with a small number of spectators all known to us and without a possible accomplice. The only trick possible is that which could result from an extraordinary facility of the medium as a magician. But how do you explain the phenomena when one is holding her hands and feet and when the light is sufficient so that one can see everything that happens?”

  As she grew older her powers begun to fade and she was performing less frequently, until she eventually disappeared form the European public scene.

  Swami Rama

  Certainly an interesting case worth mentioning is the Indian holy man called Swami Rama. He was born in 1925 in a small village in northern India, in the Garhwal Himalayas. Ever since he was a boy he was taken and raised by his master, Bengali Baba, who later persuaded him into going to the West, where he spent the better part of his life teaching. He travelled across Europe and the USA.

  Swami Rama is perhaps the most noted of the Indian holy men, as he was the first to allow Western scientists to study him and perform experiments on him back in 1960s. Before him no other holy man allowed to be studied or even filmed while performing, and certainly not by foreign scientists, let alone Americans.

  It was in 1969 that Dr. Elmer Greene and his wife received a call from Dr. Daniel Ferguson regarding a patient he was treating at the time in the Veterans Administration Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Ferguson informed the couple that he had a most unusual patient, a yogi that was capable of controlling his own heart beat and obliterating his pulse entirely. Ferguson called the couple to gather a scientific crew and come to visit and study the yogi. As of 1970 the couple was set and the experiments started.

  In these numerous experiments, the yogi showed various forms of what can only be classified as controlling the matter. In one experiment, Rama was able to increase the temperature of the left side of his right arm by several degrees above the right side without ever moving either hand. What is peculiar about Rama’s case, is that in this and some other experiments, a polygraph was used to check if he was really able to what he claimed and do it at his own will. And indeed, what the polygraph test showed was that the sound of his voice when he was announcing the beginning of the experiment coincided with the beginning of changes starting to take place within his body.

  Another interesting, though dangerous experiment was when Rama voluntarily stopped his heat beat and therefore the blood flow for nearly 17 seconds, without even blinking so as to show that something strange was happening. Experiments further showed that Rama could willingly produce different kinds of brain waves, including sleep waves while he was actually aware of the surroundings.

  At two occasions, Swami Rama was able to move a knitting needle from a distance of five feet, while being under strict control. Namely, his mouth was covered with a special mask so he wouldn’t be able to produce the air needed to cheat his way into moving the needle, and his entire body was covered in a gown. Furthermore, all the ventilation shafts in the room were sealed for the purpose of the experiment. Nevertheless, physician present at the time was not convinced that the conditions were controlled enough, and suggested that there might have been some kind of air movement.

  Swami Rama died in 1996. He is remembered for founding Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, and remains one of the most prominent figures in both Indian, and parapsychology worldwide. To the last day he claimed that his powers came from the techniques of meditation mastered over many years of training and nothing more.

  Among those that manifested, among others, the ability of telekinesis, the following three people were probably the most famous mediums, most thoroughly tested, and their feats were well documented on photographs as well as on tape. This is because of the fact that they were the most recent “wonders”. They have been subjects of some of the most raging debates regarding ESP, but they have never been proven without any doubt to be either frauds or real phenomena.

  Ted Serios

  Of the three most well known mediums, Ted Serios is probably the most peculiar one. Born in 1918, Serios was a Chicago bellboy who claimed to have developed psychic powers. But his powers were unlike any others. Namely, what he used to do differed from any other form of telekinesis, and was close to what the Chinese call “Nensha”, or the power to carve one’s thoughts into a surface. Serios was capable of producing the images from his mind onto an undeveloped roll of film. This telekinetic technique he named “thoughtography”.

  Ted claimed his images were the product of his psychic powers, but his stories only got credential after a Denver-based psychiatrist, Jule Eisenbud (1908–1999), took interest in him and endorsed his work. With Eisenbud as his backbone, Serios became a worldwide phenomenon in a short time.

  Ted’s method of work was the following:

  He would take a small cylinder object that he explained was needed for his concentration, and he would place it on the lens of a camera. When he would be ready, he would either give the signal to the photographer to release the shutter, or he would do it himself. With the camera usually pointed into his forehead, he was able to produce many amazing photographs. These would range from the scenes he had seen around him, to detailed photos of buildings from places he had confirmedly never visited. He was also occasionally able to perform these feats even from the distance of several feet from the camera.

  One especially interesting fact about Serios is that he was almost always inebriated or drunk when doing the photographs. In fact, in the rare occasions when he wasn’t drunk, all he was be able to produce were “blackies” and “whities” as Eisenbud called them, which were actually either entirely black or overexposed photographs.

  Not all of his images were clear and showing a place or thing that can be exactly pointed at. Due to this imperfection many could be interpreted in different ways, which made it subjective whether or not something other than blur was on them. But those that were nearly perfect showed a somewhat distorted picture of reality. That was exactly what puzzled the scientists working with him. It is said that, for instance in our dreams, our mind actually sees the distorted images of reality. The images that were projected clear showed exactly such properties. Of the better know photographs, two are particularly important – the photo of Eisenbud’s ranch showing the barn out of place and different, and the photo of the entrance into the building of Canadian Royal Mounted Police, where “CANADIAN” was spelled "CAINADAIN".

  He also showed a certain amount of an ESP phenomenon called remote viewing. As part of experiments, volunteers were asked to attend the sessions and hold sealed envelopes containing photos Ted was supposed to reproduce. It is reported that he was very successful at reproducing these images he knew nothing about.

  Though he was on more than one occasion called a fraud he never admitted cheating, and no sufficient evidence was ever found to sustain those claims.

  Ted Serios, who in his later years abstained from alcohol, died in 2006 as an 88-year-old.

  Uri Geller

  A man who showed remarkable success in many spheres of ESP including telepathy and telekinesis, Geller was born in 1946 in Tel Aviv, which was at the time the British Mandate of Palestine, Izrael. As a child of 11, he moves with his family to Cyprus, where he attends college and learns English. Working as a model in 1968-69, he started performing for small audiences at nightclubs as an entertainer, and become well known in Israel. Not long afterwards, Geller started visiting public halls, auditoriums, and military bases and performing his “miracles” with metal, which was his specialty, and the foundation of his career. But what actually is this remarkable person capable of?

  According to his own words, Uri Geller possessed the powers of telekinesis, telepathy and dowsing. His performances included, among others, bending spoons and other metal objects, guessing hidden drawings, stopping watches and moving the needle of a compass merely by t
he power of his thoughts. He became famous after performing live on television shows.

  His most well known telekinetic ability was bending of spoons. Namely, Geller was exceptionally adapt at causing keys, spoons and other cutlery to bend using only the powers hidden deep within his mind. He would take a metal object, which at first he held himself but in later shows he actually allowed the audience or show hosts or guests to hold them, and he would then gently rub its surface with one or two fingers, as if caressing it, never exercising any visible force upon it, and the object would start to slowly bend. In case of forks and spoons, he was able to “soften” the metal to such an extent that they would eventually break in half. There is an easily obtainable documented case from one of his live TV performances, when he managed to break a ladle held by the show host in half in a matter of minutes. In fact, there are dozens of such videos online, showing Uri’s truly remarkable ability. Geller’s powers of telepathy and telekinesis extended so far that people often reported having their keys and other metal objects bent at home, while watching his shows and following his mental instructions.

  Another thing Geller is capable of, again video-documented while he was being examined, is mentally projecting a picture or a number to another person. He could implant the image of what he wanted into another person’s mind, and he would give the individual a piece of paper to draw or write down what they saw. He would have another piece of paper with what he projected, and the two would match. But what he became famous for was the reversed process. Namely, he would have an individual write something down or draw something, hide it from his eyesight, possibly conceal it in an envelope or similar, and he would then guess or draw what he received. These images he drew were almost always exactly that which was on the original. Even when they were not 100% like the original, they still had some 90% of similarity, and there is only one recorded case of him missing an image, which happened to be the most abstract image he had ever done. And even that one case counts as missing only scientifically. To an untrained individual, the resemblance is still remarkable. Interestingly enough, he had one thing in common with the thoughtographer Ted Serios. Most of the pictures he drew of the images received were actually mirror images of what was the objective drawing, or were distorted in some minor way, but never as much as not to be recognizable. As mentioned with Serios, this fact was found to be very intriguing, because human brain actually does experience the reality as mirror images. In his shows, Geller often performed this as entertainment for his guests, and as stated he nearly always had remarkable results.