ALL ABOUT TELEKINESIS

 INTRODUCTION TO TELEKINESIS

power to move things: the supposed psychic power to move or change the shape of inanimate objects without the use of physical force.telekinesis. in parapsychology, the action of mind on matter, in which objects are caused to move or change as a result of mental concentration upon them.

A term denoting the claimed faculty of moving material objects without contact, presumably by psychic force. The movement of objects, without contact or with only limited contact was frequently observed in the séance room. Phenomena included rappings, table-turning, levitations, the conveyance of apports, and other material phenomena. Spiritualists believed these were caused by the intervention of discarnate spirits. Magnetists believed in the existence of some kind of fluidic or energetic emanation as the cause of such movements. Others, discounting those phenomena that were the result of fraud, suggested some form of telekinetic theory, which held that all these varied feats are accomplished by the thoughts of mediums and sitters, independent of muscular energy, whether direct or indirect.
 Movement of objects from a distance by supposed paranormal means. The alleged forces are generally acknowledged to be small, but if they exist at all it is exceedingly hard to understand why it is possible to carry out delicate experiments and operations, with galvanometers and so on: surely eager experimenters would exert their telekinetic powers, though unwittingly, to affect the results of their experiments, and this would produce nonsense in science, and much else. Such negative evidence brings strong weight to the opinion that there is no such thing as telekinesis.