Psychokinesis is the most popular topic among new folks at any psionics website. With the game Star Wars: The Old Republic coming out later this year, I expect we’ll be getting a new influx of visitors hoping to learn to “use the Force.” There are not many Jedi or Sith here at the social club, but if you would like to play with some Psychokinesis, give these ideas a try:
1 – Sloshing and Pushing Stuff. Psions tend to make a hobby of spinning, rolling, pushing, and stopping small objects. The “psi-wheel”, or pinwheel, is the most popular such object in this part of the “online energy community.” Uncle Chuckie advocates a similar device that balances a piece of a drinking straw on a sewing needle in his book “Psychic Power (Formerly ‘Psionics 101’).” In “Psychic Paradigm,” the late Bevy Jaegers suggests using a radiometer. A radiometer is sort of like a psi-wheel in reverse: you want to move a psi-wheel, and you want to stop a radiometer from moving. Ping-pong balls, glass marbles, and crumpled balls of kitchen foil can be pushed along a flat surface.
How do you push the thing? You have a few options here. You could use Wolf’s approach and send a nice dense stream of psi-stuff from your gut; or push stuff through the ends of your fingers to bop the wheel. Or you can simply stare at the wheel while willing it to move. My current favourite is to swing psi-stuff back and forth from the heel of the palm to the base of the fingers and back, until it feels like it is water sloshing in a bucket. Once the sloshing sensation is there, send puffs of psi-stuff out from those two points, alternating between them, to strike one corner of the wheel. The idea is based on something G. Harry Stine suggests in his book “Amazing Mind Machines You Can Build.” Perhaps I’ll also expand this into a whole post of its own sometime…
2 – Quiet intention. Calm your mind and body, ignore whatever the object is doing at the moment, and lightly concentrate on picturing the object doing what you want it to do. Ideally, concentrate on the desired end result, rather than the process. Of course, there is oomph involved, but this time, don’t force anything. Just relax and focus. For example, this is a good approach for mucking with the butterfly game at the Garden of Dreams psi-arcade: calm your mind and imagine the butterfly already on the target bush before clicking on the start-button. Focus on the butterfly being on the bush and ignore everything else, until the end of the game. (If you’ve never heard of the butterfly game, it is one of several fun little online games at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The IONS folks were using it for a psi experiment.)
Anyway, the same concept works pretty well for mucking around with the rolling of dice. This one is of special interest to gamers, particularly if your house rules encourage PK practice. Once again, it’s the end result you want to picture while willing it into reality. We’ll use a tabletop game such as Warhammer 40K for an example. You’re about to launch your attack. Just before you roll, clear your mind and imagine all your dice coming up as sixes. Hold that thought while you roll the dice. Do the same thing when your opponent rolls, but concentrate on your opponent’s dice all coming up as ones.
3 – “Healing” for inanimate objects. If you practice any kind of energy-healing that involves running the “energy” into or through the injured part or person, you’re in luck. Use the same approach for your PK practice. For example, run energy into a battery to re-charge it. Don’t be alarmed if it takes ten minutes or so, the first few times you try it. It gets easier with practice, and is a handy trick when your camera battery runs down.
There you have it: three quick-and-dirty practice ideas.
I have two questions for you, for the comments:
- What is your favourite way to practice, play, or otherwise muck with PK; or is PK not your thing?
- Do you like the conventional “blog post format” I used above, or would you prefer I go back to my usual approach here?