A case of spontaneous telekinesis happened to a French girl, Angelica Cotten, when she was 14 years old. On the evening of January 15, 1846, she and three village girls were embroidering. Suddenly the needlework fell out of their hands, and the lamp was thrown into the corner. The friends blamed Angelica for everything, in whose presence strange things always happened: furniture moved back, chairs began to fly around the room.
Her parents, hoping to make some money, organized a show in Mortana. The girl attracted the attention of the Parisian scientist Francois Arago. When the girl was in an "electrified" state, almost everything that touched her clothes bounced to the side. When Argo tried to touch the girl at the moment of her paroxysm, he experienced a shock, as from touching a source of electric current. If a magnet was placed next to her, even when she did not know about it, Angelica began to shake violently. The compass arrows, however, did not respond to her presence. Most of the objects that moved with her were wooden.
Angelica is not the only one with this ability. In 1888, Dr. Ercole Chiaia from Naples described the amazing medium Eusapia Palladino as follows: “This woman attracts the objects around her and lifts them into the air. She plays musical instruments - organs, bells, tambourines, without touching them with her hands.
She was shown to a renowned psychiatrist, Professor Cesare Lombroso, who was shocked by what she was doing. Particularly striking was her ability to leave fingerprints in a cup of mastic at a distance. She made, and even aggressively, the furniture to move towards the audience, and the hands she materialized in the air, devoid of a bodily shell, looked real.
Telekinesis is the ability to influence inanimate objects by an effort of will - to turn the compass needle, hang objects in the air, bend metal products, extinguish a candle flame at a distance. Among psychophysical phenomena: clairvoyance, telepathy, proscopy and others - the phenomenon of telekinesis is one of the most intriguing.
These paranormal abilities have long agitated the human mind. They were also known to the mystic yogis of antiquity, who, it is believed, could materialize objects from the air, move them, lift them into the air. In the twentieth century, such abilities began to be observed among representatives of younger civilizations, who had never heard of yoga or any psycho-spiritual practices. What are these hidden psychic forces that allow people to influence objects without direct physical impact?
Some researchers argue that the impact occurs due to the formation of powerful physical fields (it is noted, for example, that telekinesis generates strong pulsed fields of electromagnetic origin and acoustic signals with a duration of 0.1-0.01 s). Other researchers believe that the impact may occur through mental effort (psychokinesis). In this case, thought is considered as an intangible substance that affects intangible entities.
The difficulty in studying the phenomenon of telekinesis is primarily due to the fact that it is extremely rare and manifests itself in a pronounced form in individuals. The results of experiments on telekinesis are poorly reproducible. This makes it difficult to study it using methods generally accepted in modern natural science. Often, the subjects themselves cannot explain how this turns out, they cannot control this state at will, and with difficulty reproduce it in subsequent experiments.
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Experiments on telekinesis, even with outstanding phenomena, cannot be carried out indefinitely, since its manifestation is associated with extreme exertion of physical and mental forces, which can significantly damage health. During the demonstration of telekinesis, there is a sharp activation of mental processes, an increase in blood pressure, heart rate. Even after the end of the experiment, the subject for a long time cannot return to a normal state.
It has been noticed that telekinesis, like other parapsychological abilities, sometimes appears as a result of injuries, diseases, stress, electric shocks … This confirms the idea of the hidden reserves of the human body, especially the brain. In history, there are cases when people, at a distance, bent, moved, suspended in the air forks, spoons and other objects, and also turned the compass needle, changed the clock, dispersed the clouds, extinguished the candle flame.
For example, one Western researcher has learned how to influence with his thought the ciliates-shoes observed under a microscope. Through the effort of thought, one can also act on the growth of plants, the development of pathogenic fungi, on the metabolic process in a living organism, on the treatment of wounds …
All this sounds so incredible that it would be easier to consider conversations about telekinesis as fairy tales, but there are living people-phenomena demonstrating unique abilities - "by the power of thought" who can move large objects (N. S. Kulagina), hang them in the air and hold them on weight for a long time (E. D. Shevchik). And such precedents are not uncommon.
Scientists have long been interested in the question of what is the nature of such phenomena: the result of the actions of spirits or the power of the human mind? In 1854, Comte de Rasparin reported on successful experiments in moving a table, carried out in Switzerland, during which several people, sitting around the table, moved it by force of will. He believed that this phenomenon is due to some invisible force produced by the participants in the experiment.
Psychokinesis can occur with or without conscious effort. In 1912-1914. Everard Fielding, a member of the Society for the Study of Psychic Phenomena, studied the ability of the Polish medium Stanislava Tomchuk. In a state of hypnosis, she controlled her abilities by forcing spoons and matchboxes to move without touching them.
The Austrians Willy and Rudi Schneider, who became world famous, could make a handkerchief rise from the floor, and it changed shape, as if there was a hand inside it, and the joints of the fingers were clearly visible. Objects during their sessions moved around the room, although no one touched them. In the presence of both brothers, the German writer Thomas Mann watched as the bell on the floor rang vigorously by itself. Many scientists began to come to Braunau to personally verify their abilities. Among them was Albert Freiherr, a physician and parapsychologist who, since the end of 1921, conducted a total of 124 experiments to study the brothers' abilities over several years.
Another person demonstrating telekinesis is B. V. Ermolaev, a specialist in the field of cinema. He picked up various objects (lighters, cigarettes, cigarette boxes, glasses, etc.), held these objects in his hands, and then released them. The objects were suspended in the air at a distance of up to 5 cm from the hands. There are photographs showing the hanging of a cigarette, a box of matches. But the most curious thing is that he could hang matches that fell out of the box in the air.
The so-called "Geller effect" became known to scientists who observed Uri Geller, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1946. Already at the age of four, his ability to bend metal spoons with the effort of thought was manifested. In 1972, the American paranormal researcher Andria Puharik attracted the attention of physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff of the Stanford Research Institute in California. They were particularly impressed by Geller's clairvoyance ability. It was said that he can read minds, bend keys and other metal objects with a simple touch or even a glance, start up mechanisms and stop them.
British psychologist Kenneth Batcheldore, after 20 years of studying the phenomena of telekinesis, published several reports in 1966 that concluded that psychokinesis was possible. However, the question of how psychokinetic effects are achieved with the help of the mind is still awaiting a decision.
In recent years, telekinesis has been most actively studied by researchers at Princeton University (USA) under the leadership of Dr. Robert Jahn, who is in charge of the anomalous research laboratory. They were able to prove: a person with his psyche can influence material objects. According to a strictly verified methodology, thousands of experiments were conducted there, in which hundreds of people took part - men and women of different ages and professions. One of the groups was tasked with mentally influencing the swing of a pendulum placed under a transparent plastic cap. Five subjects managed to do this at any time of the day at a considerable distance, the rest - only in isolated cases.
Scientists have established that the power of the mind can be used to influence a variety of devices and liquid media. These are high-precision chronometers, lasers, electrical circuits, generators of electromagnetic radiation, emulsions, colloidal solutions, water … The fact that thought is capable of influencing physical bodies is no longer a secret for anyone. If scientists accept this fact, it can change the entire scientific picture of the world.
Some researchers suggest that each of us is endowed with similar "paranormal" abilities that were once natural for humans, they are just in a latent state. Future experiments may help to reveal more about the nature of telekinesis. So far, one can only state the fact of the existence of a special psychic energy governing telekinesis.