Is There Any Scientific Evidence That Telekinesis Exists?

Published by
Anna LeMind, B.A.

Telekinesis is the ability to move inanimate objects at will. Some examples include:

  • changing the direction of a compass needle,
  • moving objects in the air,
  • bending metal items, or
  • extinguishing the flame of a candle at a distance.

Among the psychic phenomena such as clairvoyance, telepathy, and others, the phenomenon of telekinesis is one of the most intriguing ones. These psychic abilities have long puzzled the human mind. They have been known to yogis, mystics of antiquity, who were believed to be able to materialize objects, move them, or lift them into the air. Do these miraculous psychic powers exist and is it possible to affect material objects without direct physical impact, according to science?

Is It Possible to Measure Telekinesis in Laboratory Settings?

Some researchers claim that the possibility of telekinesis being real could have associations with the formation of powerful physical fields (telekinesis generates a strong electromagnetic field and acoustic signals that last about 0.1-0.01 seconds).

However, even if telekinesis exists, measuring it in laboratory settings would be a challenging task. The difficulty of studying the phenomenon of telekinesis would have to do with the fact that the results of experiments would be hardly reproducible. Thus, it wouldn’t be an easy task to study telekinesis by conventional methods of modern science. People who claim they have telekinesis usually can’t explain how they do it and find it difficult to manage this condition and to reproduce it in subsequent experiments.

People who claim to be telekinetic also say that they experience extreme physical and mental stress that has tangible effects on their health. During experiments, they would experience acute brain activity, high blood pressure, and increased heart rate. Even when the experiment is over, the subject needs much time to recover and return to their normal state.

According to people who claim to have psychic abilities such as telekinesis, it often appears as a result of injury, illness, stress, or trauma. If this is true, it could hint at the hidden reserves of the human brain.

Experiments at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory

Dr. Robert G. Jahn, the head of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR), conducted a series of experiments on consciousness-related anomalous phenomena such as telekinesis, which aimed to confirm the possibility that the human mind can affect material objects.

It included thousands of experiments, which involved hundreds of men and women of all ages and professions. Subjects had to move a pendulum, placed under a transparent plastic cap. They were also asked to affect a variety of devices and liquid media, such as highly precise chronometers, lasers, electrical generators of electromagnetic radiation, and water.

As a result, some subjects did show evidence of psychic abilities, but the observed effects were too small, counting for about 0,1%. Moreover, the experiments were then criticized in the scientific literature for the flaws in experiment procedures, a lack of control series, and ethical violations.

Thus, according to psychologist C. E. M. Hansel, who assessed the results of Jahn’s experiments,

“Very little information is provided about the design of the experiment, the subjects, or the procedure adopted. Details are not given about the subjects, the times they were tested, or the precise conditions under which they were tested.”

So, unfortunately, to date, there is no confirmed scientific evidence that telekinesis exists. However, anything is possible, and it could be that future experiments may help to reveal the possibility of telekinesis.

References:

  1. https://www.discovermagazine.com
  2. https://link.springer.com
  3. https://en.wikipedia.org
  4. https://psycnet.apa.org

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  • I've had odd situations like the cell phone radiation as well... I was listening to a song on the radio with my friends (a song that I didn't know well at all; didn't even really like) and I began to move my body with the music (which, by the way, I've realized to be the ultimate secret to dancing :P).. the anamoly here, is that without trying to control it, my feet began to tap to the music *exactly*. At first, I stopped trying to control it and they just went by themselves at an exact pace.. then I was able to stop paying attention and give full thought to conversation with my friends. The entire song was tapped and rolled through my legs and feet with no effort; though I could add more beats or take some out and play with it. It was amazing. I can purposefully control static of radios, affect others' emotions... I wish someone else who has these abilities or knows of a psychic institute would give me some sort of (helpful) assistance to keep my on track.. does anyone know of something or someone like this???

    • I experience similar things. Whilst most of what I can do is what I've learned from studying the human mind and the power of the subconscious all my life, some of my abilities seemed to become unlocked after having a near-death experience. I can sit in my room, focus on my light bulb and cause the light to start flickering erratically. I have blown three bulbs within a couple of weeks by doing so recently. I can also affect others emotions (empathy is emotional telepathy, emotion is energy in motion), I sometimes get precognition and I can also manifest beautiful loving orbs of light in the night sky. Amazingly, a few years back I myself was an atheist and believed that everything had a rational explanation. That is, until my lifetime studies of the subconscious mind led me to discovering the ultimate truth and I believe that becoming an atheist was simply just a part of that journey. In reality, atheists who assume that the subconscious is responsible are right but they're wrong thinking that it ends there - it doesn't.

    • These offers are bullsh*t. They want to seek out those with paranormal abilities so that they can target you in order to suppress the truth and stop it from getting out. Even if successful, they will deny the results, not pay you and claim that you were unsuccessful. Additionally, the way they carry out these experiments under controlled conditions shows that they don't have even the slightest understanding of how this phenomenon works and therefore they undermine these abilities by putting conditions in place which prevent the phenomenon from happening. I do not find science credible any more, especially not peer-reviewed science. It's all junk science designed to disinform and to lead people away from the truth.

  • sometimes i see the clock tick one second back....its random so how can that be explained?

  • So how about gravity? Law of physics? where the scientific explanation of this ability? If there is scientific data, where brain imaging tests, to see what kinds of brain regions correspond for this phenomenon? Those scientists in this article are widely known of their inaccurate experiments. So if experiment is not accurate, so is data. I think people just want to believe so deeply that they imagine things to move or do some other unnatural things... Maybe you should find real scientific experiments that there done on this phenomenon and then post that those abilities exist.

    • I can provide a scientific explanation but that explanation would be considered pseudoscience by conventional mainstream science and that's because conventional mainstream science is utter bullsh*t designed to disinform and discredit certain truths. By the way, I myself am a qualified physicist and I stand by what I just stated. The true scientific data behind this phenomena is classified under military conditions. They do not want it becoming publicly accessible. The military are decades ahead of conventional mainstream science and they control it and manipulate it to only make publicly available information which they want publicly available. As I said in another comment, peer-reviewed mainstream science is junk science designed to disinform so that the true science can be used in secret projects for military applications..

  • I don't think that you have telekinesis. Because I was born with it and I can feel the object as if it was in my hand as I'm moving it .

Published by
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