Nicolas Holder - 24 Dec

Ever since the beginning of mankind, humans have always tended to believe in what they can see and touch or feel, and willingly or not, they somehow always neglected what could not be seen directly. Probably the best proof that this was the case is the theories and formulas forged by some of the greatest minds of humankind, who had to undergo a terrible treatment in order for their work to be recognized. The finest example of this kind of treatment is by far Galileo Galilei, the man who claimed that Earth is not the center of the galaxy, but rather revolves around the center, in which stands the Sun. He was nearly killed for that statement!

We now know that not only Earth but 7 more planets revolve around the sun, and we know it for a fact, but for him it took the better part of his life to try to prove it. The times have changed, humankind has evolved, and people now have more sophisticated methods of proving many things once considered impossible, yet, perhaps out of that inborn feeling of fear of the unknown, some people still have that same chills going down their spine upon the very mention of the terms still hardly explored by science, such as parapsychology, telepathy, telekinesis, ESP or out-of-body projections. And just because something is not fully known to humankind, it doesnt mean that it doesnt exist.

On the contrary, consider the atom and its particles, protons, electrons and some other, even smaller pieces of that natures puzzle we still cannot see them with the naked eye, some even under the largest of microscopes, and some have only theoretically been proven to exist and yet the ENTIRE WORLD is formed out of atoms. What cannot be seen does not necessarily have to be impossible or non-existent, maybe we just need some more time to adjust to it and study it more closely. Exactly that is needed with the relatively young science of parapsychology.

When speaking of parapsychology, two terms come springing to ones mind telepathy and telekinesis as main examples of ESP (extrasensory perception), though there are various other forms of paranormal behavior, as some call it, mocking the very thought of a person being able to influence anything other than his own thoughts through the power of his mind. And telekinesis proves just the opposite.

Telekinesis is the power of a human to influence material world around him through the power of his will, or better to say his mind, since we will see that telekinesis is not necessarily a willing process. Through telekinesis, people are able to move things, meaning physical objects, without ever touching them by hand. This phenomenon has been known to exist a long time ago, but only recently has it been put to various tests in order to prove its genuineness.

For many years, centuries even, all who possessed this gift were mocked and ridiculed, and almost always classified as frauds and cheaters. For that reason, many decided not to show their gift in public, and so it remained a mystery until the post WWII period, when both Americans and Russians started doing tests on people with telekinetic powers in order to gain an edge in the Cold War.

Telekinesis, otherwise known as psychokinesis, is direct influence of the mind on any physical object, without the presence of any known physical type of energy. In laymens terms, telekinesis is movement or distortion of any object from ones surroundings only by thoughts, without actual physical contact of any kind with it. The first term telekinesis was coined in 1890 by a Russian psychical researcher Aleksander Aksakof (or Aksakov), who came up with the name for the phenomenon, derived from Greek tele meaning distant , and kinesis meaning movement .

The term psychokinesis was coined a bit later, in 1914, by American publisher Henry Holt, and derived from Greek psyche which means life or soul , and kinesis , meaning to move . Original meaning of the term though, was only coined in order to describe mysterious movements of objects that were initially attributed to ghosts of deceased people, or angels, demons or some other supernatural forces. It seems though that telekinesis never actually emerged from under that veil of mystery and supernatural.