Possibly the most daunting challenge that faces modern psi researchers is to explain what force or forces could be responsible for the strange phenomena attributed to psychokinesis, or PK. Quite simply, the notion that tangible objects might change their form or location with no apparent application of physical force is all but impossible for conventional physics to accept.
But many PK enthusiasts point to a more easily grasped concept: the idea that it is possible, in varying degrees, for the human brain to interact directly with its environment. Perhaps, some speculate, certain psychically gifted people (i.e. Uri Geller, Franz Anton Mesmer, John Dee) can modulate their brain waves to achieve control over events in the physical world. As evidence, parapsychologists offer laboratory experiments that seemingly associate certain types of brain waves with PK and other allegedly psychic occurrences. The four major types of brain waves are beta, alpha, theta, and delta, as measured and charted by an electroencephalograph.
In their efforts to establish a theoretical basis for PK, parapsychologists turn also to certain modern scientific principles that appear to suggest models for paranormal physical occurrences. To some psychic researchers, for example, the strange, unpredictable behavior of subatomic particles seems to be similar to certain PK effects. Others say that PK may be attributed to invisible energy contained in these particles or perhaps in such phenomena as heat and sound. No parapsychologist, however, has yet satisfactorily explained how the human mind might interact with such forces, thus shaping physical events.
For more data about exorcisms, séances, poltergeists, ghosts, haunted houses, miracles, dark magic, the occult or parapsychology please read Peter Washington’s Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon or Mind Over Matter by Time-Life Books. THE END
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