TELEKINESIS: HISTORY, SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATIONS AND REAL CASES - PSYCHOLOGY - 2025

The telekinesis is mental ability that develops a person to move or manipulate objects without the intervention of some material element. In this sense, this phenomenon can be defined as the ability of an individual to use their psychic system and, with it, alter the physical world.

Telekinesis can be appreciated as a human skill acquired by men who use more than 10% of their brain potential. According to the practitioners' testimony, this supposed talent is not only from birth, but can be obtained through praxis and meditation.

Telekinesis consists of the ability to manipulate objects or beings without the intervention of any element. Source: pixabay.com

In this way, the quality to move or modify tangible instruments is an experience or a habit that is conquered over time and, according to the opinion of the followers, its maximum power is manifested when the person manages to direct or dominate a utensil with the movement of the hands and at a long distance.

However, telekinesis is not limited to the mystical area, it also encompasses the ecclesiastical and scientific field. For the religious, this manifestation is due to the acts of some men who decide to invoke malevolent entities, which transmit waves that cause the unexpected transit of corporeal elements.

From the approach of the Church, the idea arose that the being does not have mental powers that allow it to generate an influence on the material components without the intervention of some real or spiritual mechanism. Instead, the most scientific hypotheses state that telekinesis can occur by releasing energy from the brain mass.

Likewise, the possibility that this phenomenon is the product of a neuronal disorder is highlighted. It should not be forgotten that this apparent ability contradicts physical laws; For that reason, it remains a myth, and no studies have yet been published proving the existence of telekinesis.

History

The history of telekinesis is as old as humanity, since it is often stated that this skill was possessed by all men. This legend tells that previously people lived in a golden age, where each being had the ability to master their thoughts and manipulate the empirical world through them.

Even so, those powers caused constant conflicts between individuals, who struggled to maintain the good or face superior forces in order to receive greater knowledge.

These actions caused reality to be gradually destroyed, which is why the deities chose to undo that world and build another.

However, the new inhabitants would not be able to use their maximum brain capacities. This is how one of the first hypotheses about telekinesis emerged, which consisted in the limitation of knowledge; In other words, the potential to move instruments would only be available to those people who were sensitive to or valued the hard work.

This theory was not the only one that was linked to fiction, since there is a German approach that relates the origin of the term to a fantastic story. There are also references to Greek, considering the etymology of the term.

Below we will describe the main details of the possible origins of the concept of telekinesis:

German and Greek origin

One of the origins of the concept derives from the German poltergeist, where polter means "noise" and geist is translated as "spirit"; hence the ecclesiastical institution expresses that telekinesis is the perverse connection between the spiritual and material plane.

Furthermore, this definition is linked to Nordic culture. According to the vision of the Nordics, there are entities that have the talent of moving an object weighing up to 300 kilograms with their gaze.

This is also consistent with the Greek origin of the term, according to which the word tele indicates “distance”, while kínesis refers to “movement”.

Given the age of the origins of the term, it can be said that this mental manifestation has been exhibited throughout history since quite remote times.

In ancient times

The ambiguous origin of the Egyptian pyramids is no secret to anyone, since it is alluded that due to their symmetry they were built by UFOs or people with special abilities. These included individuals who transported construction materials without touching them.

This hypothesis is based on the balance reflected by the monuments. It states that the pyramids could not be forged by ordinary individuals but extraordinary ones, since the technology that should have been used in their elaborations apparently did not exist in the time before Christ.

Furthermore, the transfer of granite and limestone from one territory to another could not be carried out in a short time. Taking this into account, the theory indicates that in past periods there were men with the power to displace the corporeal elements thanks to their thoughts. These beings were the ones who created the great historical works.

In the middle Ages

There is a project in which it is stated that telekinesis was one of the elements that prompted the German Inquisition to search for the maiden Walpurga Hausmannin, who was classified as a witch due to her alleged acts of levitation.

This young woman was sentenced to hang in the 16th century. No concrete evidence was really found, just a confession in a moment of torture when Walpurga declared that a demon had given him the power to move objects and even bodies. That is why it could be raised without any difficulty.

Despite the fact that this event was not proven, the essential thing is that it shows how the conjecture about a psychic phenomenon generated the devastation of a life by an institution that was considered just and rational.

In the modern era

Telekinesis had great relevance in the middle of the 20th century. In the late 1990s, a theory emerged that indicated Adolf Hitler's passion for supernatural events, which is why he assigned several of his scientists to carry out studies on the brain.

The purpose of this politician was for researchers to discover which neuron was that made objects float. Supposedly, numerous Jews were used for these inquiries, who did not regain their sanity or perished while executing the experiment.

Possible scientific explanations

Explanations of the principle of this phenomenon began in 1810, when the Russian psychologist Alexander Aksakof established the term telekinesis, which was adopted by the American parapsychologist Joseph Rhiner in 1934. Until now, these scientists have been the only ones who have presented a hypothesis consistent about that manifestation.

Both Aksakof and Rhiner defined telekinesis as the sliding of matter without the participation of an identifiable physical medium.

The American researcher linked this definition with quantum physics, since in general this branch of science is characterized by studying the amount of energy that is located in a particle. Due to this, it is possible to express that the characteristic features of telekinesis are the following:

- The levitation of the object is not the product of a special ability, but of the release of a substance found in the cerebral cortex.

- This substance is related to a liquid that has the function of modifying the mass.

- At the same time, that substance flows through an electromagnetic field that all individuals possess. That is, each being has the agility to develop telekinesis.

Famous real cases

On telekinesis, various cases have been exposed throughout history. Even today there are people who share videos on the internet with the purpose of showing the way in which they manipulate some utensil.

However, such facts are not usually true since no individual has managed to publicize the evolution of their powers. So far only two events have stood out, which in fact can be considered momentous:

Uri Geller (1946)

The story about the mastery of telekinesis of this illusionist has been one of the most studied, although it is not yet demonstrated how this Israeli psychic manages to arch metal just by looking at it.

In a popular act, Uri Geller showed how he folded a kitchen utensil. However, this action was not objectively argued by scientists.

In the same way, he is granted the talent to repair the hands of the clocks without needing to feel them, as well as the ability to increase the temperature of a thermometer by observing it.

Nina Kulagina (1926 -1990)

The pivotal event on telekinesis is personified by this Russian citizen, who claimed to have psychic powers. For this reason she agreed to carry out her experiments under the supervision of physicists, doctors and journalists.

In that event, Nina not only managed to lift the objects that had been given to her. She also turned clockwise, managed to paralyze a frog's heart and, through a glance, caused a volunteer's skin to turn reddish.

None of the spectators could refute her work, so much so that the abilities of this psychic were investigated by the Soviet Union during the last twenty years of the 20th century.

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