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Nina Kulagina

After reading up on Nina Kulagina, a Russian woman who had very advanced psychokinetic abilities, I’m even more fascinated by the thought of it but at the same time I’m wondering if trying this on a daily basis is good for one’s health, especially after reading in Wikipedia that “In the late 1970s, a near fatal heart attack forced Kulagina to scale back her activities. According to a report produced by Dr. Zverev, her heartbeat was irregular, she had high blood sugar, and her endocrine system was disturbed. Over the long term, she suffered from pains in her arms and legs, could not coordinate properly, and experienced dizziness. The report said that these symptoms were the result of her paranormal exertions, and limited her ability to demonstrate psychokinesis under controlled conditions.”

Not that I’m ever going to be a Nina Kulagina or anything, but I certainly don’t want a disturbed endocrine system!

Then I did a search on psychokinesis and found more anecdotal stories of people who had been meditating or practicing psychokinesis and had health problems.  On the other hand, it would seem that psychokinesis could also be used in healing… but on the other hand, maybe the energy in our bodies shouldn’t be taken out of balance??  Maybe simply allowing electrical impulses to make our physical bodies move things is the most efficient and best use of them.  Maybe nature shouldn’t be tampered with.

Nonetheless, these questions haven’t stopped me from working on moving my pen for a few minutes each day and as I haven’t had a rise in blood pressure or any of these other symptoms, I’m not terribly worried about the health ramifications at this point.  Not to mention I’ve thus far been completely uneffective and can barely focus on the damn pen for five minutes in the first place.  Look what this culture with it’s three minute music videos, 30 second ad spots, constant media barrage, and teh internets has done to my attention span!  (Memo to myself, do future experiments relating to a media-free life and whether or not that constitutes a real life.  OK, these would be more along the lines of existential experiments rather than scientific ones, but still may prove interesting).  I said it in the last psychokinesis post and I’ll say it again: if nothing else, at least this is good exercise in focus and has brought some awareness to my lack thereof!

But back to Nina, one note of interest is that this skill came to Kulagina naturally; it was discovered that when she got angry, things around her would move, and it was after that that she was used for telekinetic experiments and demonstrations.  So were the physical problems a result of an already out-of-balance system?  Who’s to know.  And while my brief daily experiments may never amount to anything fascinating, Nina was fascinating – have a look:

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