We humans seem to have figured out how to perform miracles. Now that would be an evolutionary leap. Let’s look at the amazing work of English psychologist, Kenneth Batcheldor. About Batcheldor, Colin Brookes-Smith writes, “It is no exaggeration to say that this renewed interest in macro-PK by one person alone may well have far reaching consequences not only on the whole of parapsychology but also on belief in survival after death.” Colin Brookes-Smith, 1981, Theta, p.3.
We associate paranormal phenomena with unusual people like saints, yogis, mediums, and the like. Batcheldor worked with ordinary people on the assumption that one can learn to produce PK effects. For a striking example. a group of four participants that he guided succeeded in causing a wooden table to levitate—without any physical contact. Just by intending it to happen, but in the right way. The fact that we may learn to produce psychokinetic effects—in short, reshape physical reality solely by means of our minds—opens us to an enlarged world of possible experience.
The group context for making PK is important to underscore, whereby a normally quiescent ability may be induced to spring to life. After working with various groups, he found it could be embarrassing, even terrifying, to realize you had such power over physical reality. Supposing we all do harbor such power within us, we might back off with a certain trepidation. It could throw your whole life in disarray to start performing miracles in public.
For those who can handle the fear and want to learn how to tap into the hidden powers of their inner life, our guide has a few suggestions. The first big idea is that psychokinesis is a human skill we can learn. It is after all an extension of our normal intentional life, presiding over all the actions we perform, unconscious or conscious.
A group of four sitting around a wooden table place their hands on the table, palms down, exerting no force; the PK task is to move, lift, and ideally, cause the table to rise and detach itself from the human hands. This is not an experiment about mechanical or electrical forces; the forces here are mental or we might say spiritual or possibly quantum mechanical.
The first thing to note about the psychology of the PK process, the sensation and mindset of effort need to be eliminated. Instead, a clear and relaxed awareness of the goal—say, to move or raise the table. PK is a goal-oriented process. Expect success. Never dwell on the difficulties of achieving the goal. The research shows that firm confidence leads to desired results. In this process, we are encouraged to be spontaneous. Spontaneity is one earmark of flights of paranormality. Also notable, there is an effect of darkness that seems to be conducive to psi-productivity, so the light can be adjusted to individuals, but the tone and quality of the group dynamic must be unified, trusting each other and the process.
The paranormal group dynamic is a delicate operation. Two negative points are crucial to PK success: no critical analysis and no disruptive changes. Batcheldor writes: “. . . critical thinking interferes with any form of delicate conditioning, and I consider the training of psychokinesis a form of conditioning.” Critical thinking has its place but is lethal to creative or expansive streams of consciousness. PK, it would seem, insists on full attention agency. Distraction is fatal. Batcheldor writes, “All changes are inclined to inhibit progress.” So, the group met in the same rooms, house, appointed times, décor, and with the same personnel. Any novelty that might break the flow of attention was avoided.
The instructions are clear as to what hinders and what helps. Try too hard and not feel confident will hinder; being open and spontaneous will help. To succeed in the PK experiment, subjects must stay in harmony with each other and with themselves. They, the group, may become adept at knowing how to come together and focus where they need to focus.
We have yet to speak to the larger scope of Batcheldor’s model of PK production. Once we realize we can learn to deploy our PK potentials, we begin to think less about merely moving tables. A well-evolved PK-creating capacity could be brought to bear on a wide field of possibilities. We’ve already noted the healing powers from mild placebos to the more dramatic healings at Lourdes and by saints like Padre Pio. We need in this project to keep reminding ourselves of the key role of empathy, which is grossly lacking in the leaders of the rogue nations, the cesspools of mendacity and hypocrisy.
As we learn to improvise groups expert in PK and ESP production, we will discover new ways to help people and each other. The challenge will be about learning to use our paranormal mental potentials in creative ways. I plan to explore this theme in greater detail. Readers might be up to getting into this process. Questions and comments are welcome. We are talking about new forms of creativity open to us all—the only requirement is that we are conscious human beings.
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