Psychokinesis: Magic Secret #1 - Life Is a School

On page 35: “Levitation is categorized as psychokineis, the ability of humans to make objects (or themselves) move in the absence of any known force. The recorded instances of levitation that Hal (Puthoff) had stumbled across only seemed possible in a physics sense if gravity had somehow been manipulated. If these vacuum fluctuations, considered so meaningless by most quantum physicists, did amount to something that could be harnessed at will, whether for automobile fuel or to move objects just by focusing one’s attention on them, then the implications not only for fuel but for every aspect of our lives were enormous.”

On page 105: “An idea slowly began taking shape. The simplest way to test all these ideas was to see if human consciousness could affect some sort of probalistic system, as Rhine had done. Rhine had used his special cards for the ESP ‘forced choice’ guessing, or ‘precognition’, exercises and dice for ‘psychokinesis’ – test of whether mind could influence matter.”

On page 110: “Her (young student) task was to research the existing scientific literature on RNG studies and other forms of psychokinesis and to carry out a few preliminary experiments. If she convince (Robert) Jahn (Princeton) that the field held some creditability and, more importantly, could be approached from a technical perspective, he told her, then he’d agree to supervise her independent work.”

On page 128: “The world of consciousness research was a small one. One of the other members of the (Mind Science) Foundation was Helmut Schmidt, and (W.G.) Braud soon met Schmidt and his REG machines. It was there he began to wonder how far the influence of the human mind worked. After all, human beings, like REGs, qualify as systems with considerable plasticity and lability – potential for change. These dynamic systems were always in flux and might also be susceptible to psychokinetic influence on some level – quantum or otherwise.”

On page 134: “Braud had looked hard for the common thread in all these experiments. He’d noticed several characteristics which tended to more readily guarantee success: some sort of relaxation technique (through meditation, biofeedback or another method); reduced sensory input or physical activity; dreams or other internal states and feelings; and a reliance on right-brain functioning.

“Braud and others found what had been termed the ‘sheep/goat’ effect – these effects work better if you believe they will and less than average if you believe they won’t…

“Another important characteristic appeared to be an altered view of the world. People were more likely to succeed if, instead of believing in a distinction between themselves and the world, and seeing individual people and things as isolated and divisible, they viewed everything as a connected continuum of interrelations – and also if they understood that there were other ways to communicate than through the usual channels…

“Could it be that this communication is like any ordinary form of communication, but the noise of our everyday lives stops us hearing it. . .

“When Braud’s own studies were combined with twenty-seven others, twenty-three, or 82 per cent, were found to have success rates higher then chance.”