This is 1 of the 10 topics from Richard van der Linde's – Bukuru founder – research into superhuman skills.The main source to be credited is www.dmtquest.com. At the bottom of the page is a link to the other topics.

Summary: the mind is known to be able to push out electrons from atoms, which creates magnetic force that can either push or pull.

If you found the earlier Bruce Lee anecdote interesting, you might like watching Qigong master Kanzwa Sensei putting animals to sleep from about 50 meters away or various other demonstrations of telekinetic force strong enough to push down a grown man without touch.

Image: screenshot from Superhuman Experience, episode 3

In a previous chapter, we assessed a great number of cases where people demonstrated a remarkable concentration of physical power compared to their normal abilities. In all such cases there was physical contact. In this chapter, we’ll take things one step further and investigate reports of applied physical force without physical contact. This is the phenomenon of telekinesis (the term telekinesis is interchangeably used with psychokinesis and its abbreviated form “PK”), which John Chavez of DMT Quest defines as “the psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction”. The late Irish journalist Brian Inglis defined it in a similar way: “the action of mind or unaccounted-for forces on matter”.

Reported cases

In his book Mysteries, Colin Wilson describes the phenomenon of swaying. This requires four or five people to stand in a circle around a participant who has their eyes closed. The surrounding volunteers predetermine a direction for the participant to sway in by sheer concentration, without revealing this aloud. All the participant in the middle has to do is to let their mind go blank. In the most basic setup, the people forming the circle place their fingers lightly on the participant.

Colin describes his first experience as a participant as follows: “Suddenly there was a strong sensation of being pulled forward, as if by a magnetic current, and I had to be caught as I swayed.”. While this could be explained for by suggestion from the light touch, Colin adds that the experiment even works without touch, but that it takes longer. Colin shares that this experiment shows the most success in evenings when people are relaxed and less prone to resistance. He adds, “If the person in the middle resists, he would get dizzy.”

In another example from his book (p. 567), he provides an account of J.B. Rhine, who's by some considered the father of parapsychology. According to the book, one day, a gambler walked into Rhine's office, claiming he could affect the fall of a dice. Rhine subsequently conducted tests, and “his results revolutionized parapsychology. For they showed beyond all possible doubt that when someone first made a determined effort to influence the dice, the results were significantly above expectation.”. Through his tests, Rhine made a much more important discovery: “if students went straight on to perform a second test, the results dropped steeply. For a third test, they became lower still. In other words, students could exert PK telekinetic powers when they were fresh and really put their minds to it. Then their attention began to waver, and the results fell off.”

How does one explain this? Are Rhine's research results legit? Was Rhine fooled, or perhaps was he a fraudulent scientist? Guy Bavli is a magician known for his skills in the art of mentalism and mind reading. He gained international recognition through performing in over 50 countries and featuring on various television shows, culminating in him winning the World Magic Award for Best Mentalist. The most readily accessible video of Guy's superpowers is documented in an episode of Stan Lee's “Superhumans” episode, broadcast in 2011. In a snippet of this episode, posted on his YouTube channel, Bavli first demonstrates his abilities on a metal spoon in a restaurant, and then in a hardware shop, but these acts are met by skepticism from the host. He then works his magic on a wooden paint stirrer to prove that no magnets or wires are involved in his act. Bavli then bends a key held in the host's palm, this time in front of an infrared camera to capture any unusual heat pattern. Finally, he is taken by the host to a neuropsychologist's office where his brain is hooked to an EEG machine to study his brain activity as he makes a spoon fall into a glass. This climax sequence elicits a quite interesting revelation.

Brain waves: The huge gamma spike

Newton's law lends itself to easy acceptance: An object continues to stay in rest unless acted upon by a force. Parallel, an object acted upon by an external force will be set in motion. Thus, it makes perfect sense for a powerful gale to blow over an empty plastic bottle. In a similar fashion, can the human mind, under a certain state of consciousness, radiate invisible energy waves outwards, with a force powerful enough to move small objects?

The intensity of concentration required for telekinesis means that in the predominant beta state humans cannot access, let alone sustain, such an ability. So what’s happening? This is perhaps best answered toward the end of the episode on Bavli: At the moment the spoon dropped into the glass, there was a huge gamma spike in his brain as measured on EEG. Somehow, the telekinetic ability seems to coincide with intense gamma waves.

Image: The gamma spike in Bavli’s EEG reading at the moment of the spoon falling into the glass.

Dr. Thomas Brod’s office would host the event while Bill Scott would administer the EEG equipment. In 2011, Dr. Brod would present the data at the annual meeting of the International Society for Neurofeedback Research. He titled his abstract, “Asymmetric Frontal Gamma & High Beta During a Telekinesis “Demonstration”. It was observed that prior to the telekinesis, the subject’s brain activity checked out as a normal baseline. However, during the actual moment of telekinesis there was a gamma wave measurement of nearly 400 Hz.

Scott, the administrator, would comment on the findings by stating, “It’s about twice as high (a gamma wave) as a someone would have if they were having a seizure. I’ve never seen anything like it.”.

Dr. Brod was very tempered in his write-up stating that the findings do not prove the existence of telekinesis. He also noted that the majority of the activity was taking place in the left frontal part of the brain. In addition to the spike in gamma waves was “even more elevation in the Theta region of the EEG”. Brod concluded that the data was accurate as “artifacts from an electromagnetic generator or from physical movement should have shown up equally in both the left and right EEG channels”.

In the “Superhumans” episode, Bavli provides an insight on his telekinetic demonstrations, sharing that he focuses not on the outcome itself, which is to move the physical object in question, but rather on the process of withdrawing his will from all thought and channeling all his senses into the visualized outcome. When the will is absolutely withdrawn from every other stimulant and directed on the object of desire, something fascinating seems to occur.

The Role of (Zero) Will

Colin Wilson writes in his book, “Magic is the art and science of using the will. Not the ordinary will of the contracted ego but the ‘true will’ that seems to spring from some deeper area of the being.” He calls it the ‘wider self’ as opposed to the ‘contracted ego’. “The moment you let go of the result is when you get the result.” All successful demonstrations of telekinesis seem to emerge precisely from this egoless state of flow – a frame of mind where there is awareness without the sense of someone who is aware.

Could some life event affect this release of the telekinetic power? Mysteries includes a relevant example of a New Yorker, Felicia Parise, who was inspired to try telekinesis after watching videos of the Russion mentalist Nina Kulagina: When Felicia Parise first tried moving small objects, she failed, although she made overwhelming efforts of concentration. One day, she received a phone call saying that her grandmother was dying; it was a severe emotional shock. As she reached out for a small plastic bottle, it moved away from her hand. After the funeral, she tried moving the bottle again by ‘thought pressure’ and was this time successful. The emotional shock had somehow released her latent PK powers.

Essentially, the first time Felicia performed telekinesis, it was a complete accident: She had absolutely no intention to move the bottle. But what happens when will gets in the way? Again, Wilson provides an example: When students were tested by Dr Helmut Schmidt at the Parapsychological Laboratory at Durham, North Carolina, they somehow achieved the opposite effects from the ones they were trying for. They were supposed to make a delicate light meter move clockwise; instead, it moved anti-clockwise. Their attempts to ‘will’ were apparently putting their powers in reverse.

To illustrate this idea better, here's a video of Uri Geller's appearance at Johnny Carson's show (the comment section is a great indicator of the general ratio of skepticism to belief in his telekinetic ability among the viewers). We might tend to think of such abilities in absolutes – whether a person does or does not possess the power – whereas in reality the strength might exist in various degrees across people from diverse societies. Since mental energy is at play, the magician is more likely to succeed in a place where the audience wants him to succeed, as the telekinetic power seems to fluctuate based on the wills of all spectators too. In this particular case, Geller was apparently set up to fail by his sceptic nemesis and fellow magician, James Randi. As Geller himself admits in the video, his nervousness blocks him from performing successfully before the crowd. Thus, he succumbs to Frankl's law of reversed effort: “The more we become racked with anxiety to do something well, the more we are likely to botch it.”

Possible scientific explanations for telekinesis

To quote NASA, gamma rays “are produced by the hottest and most energetic objects in the universe, such as neutron stars and pulsars, supernova explosions, and regions around black holes. On Earth, gamma waves are generated by nuclear explosions, lightning, and the less dramatic activity of radioactive decay.” In this context, for a human to shoot gamma rays into their physical surroundings through mind power alone sounds understandably incredulous. Even telekinetics seem to only activate it in bursts—sudden spikes of intense concentration.

To find high bursts of gamma waves in EEG recordings of someone performing telekinesis is not that surprising, given that most of the scientifically established altered states including moments of lucid dream sleep and feats by Wim Hof Method practitioners seem to include synchronous activity between both theta and gamma bands. More surprising was the 400 Hz measurement of the gamma spike. Most of the gamma wave activity across the other altered states (DMT, Ayahuasca, hypnosis, meditation) hovered in the 40 Hz range (although REM sleep spikes above 200 Hz have been observed). What might be the case is that the theta wave surge and 400 hz gamma spike signified a deep/fast oscillation coinciding with a timely expansion of the subject’s field. This would not be too different than the mechanisms from inductive charging (wireless charging). Once the field expanded far enough outside of the body and within the range of the object, the intention of moving the object manifested. It seems as though intent originating in the brain can be carried outside of the body via some sort of wave. After all, let’s not forget that objects consist of molecules, which are made up of atoms that comprise sub-atomic particles, but 99.999999999999% of every atom is considered empty space.

A small, targeted burst of DMT release in the brain could possibly coincide with the brain activity during telekinesis. Leading DMT researcher Dr. Nick Cozzi has a hypothesis that there are 2 phases of DMT in the brain: the loading phase (into the neuron or synthesized in the neuron) and the activation phase (release from the neuron via depolarization). It could well be that the loading phase of DMT coincides with increases in slow wave amplitude while the activation phase signifies a fast wave. Additional data can be derived using a magnetoencephalography (MEG) to monitor fluctuations in the brain’s magnetic field (although current MEGs seem to cumbersome to the visual acuity of the person). In 2017, the journal Scientific Reports published a study that observed significantly enhanced signal diversity in human subjects using MEG measurement after having ingesting psychedelic compounds psilocybin, LSD, and ketamine on separate occasions. Whether this type of upregulation of signal diversity would also take place during moments of telekinesis has yet to be determined. Other devices such as superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and biophoton emission measurement can be utilized to measure additional externalized data points that coincide with the occurrence of telekinesis.

Another angle is that of the antigravity effect that scientists create with high-frequency vibrations. At the right vibratory level, for example droplets of water can be made to levitate. Although the effect is not strong, it is possible that the same mechanism explains (part of) the way telekinetic power is generated through vibrations of the mind and body.

Then there is magnetic force. There is the ordinary magnet that attracts metals from a distance or pushes it away, depending on its polarity. The 2020 documentary Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible showcases how a piece of aluminum in a vacuum can be made to spin: The mind might be repolarizing the body in such a fashion that it enables one to apply telekinetic forces on one's environment.

Conclusion

People are already increasingly paying attention to what seems to be a latent human potential and how to develop this. For instance, Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible also features a group in the United States teaching children to read through blindfolds using the mind's eye, play ball games blindfolded, and move objects with the brain. While it can never be ruled out that all video-recorded examples comprise merely actors putting on a magic show, there do seem to be some scientific findings that one could synthesize in a hypothetical mechanism that makes telekinesis not that far-fetched. But that is up to you. Reading the other articles might be helpful to get a full picture of the superhuman abilities realm.