Apr 23 2010
The Psychokinesis Project
Telekinetic kids in Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain
As of yesterday, I have decided to attempt achieving one of my childhood dreams of being like those kids from Escape to Witch Mountain and spend 5 minutes a day trying to move the pen on my desk through telekinesis. All kidding aside though (okay, maybe I did have the occasional fantasy of being like those kids), I do believe people have a lot of untapped energy and brain usage and I do plan on doing this exercise every day. However, the more appropriate term for moving objects with your mind’s energy alone is “psychokinesis” so that is the term I will be using. Some even distinguish the terms as “psychokinesis” being a scientific activity and “telekinesis” being a practice that may involve the occult, which I am not interested in for this exercise; this is a purely scientific endeavor. The Oxford English Dictionary defines them as:
psychokinesis
/sikokineesiss, sikoki-/• noun the supposed ability to move objects by mental effort alone.
— DERIVATIVES psychokinetic adjective.
and
telekinesis
/tellikineesiss, telliki-/• noun the supposed ability to move objects at a distance by mental power or other non-physical means.
— DERIVATIVES telekinetic adjective.
— ORIGIN from Greek kinesis ‘motion’.
I thought I’d give it a try before really reading up on it so I did things like simply imagine it move, then I imagined expelling energy from my body to move it, and I also thought of it as a massive wall I was moving – this was actually very draining!
What I discovered is that I have the focus of a gnat and if nothing else, need to do this daily to hone my focus skills.
So now that I’ve tried a few times in my own way, I think I might do a bit of reading on the matter…
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