What Is Psychokinesis (PK)?

Psychokinesis (PK) refers to the interaction of consciousness or intention with physical matter in ways not explained by conventional physical mechanisms. PK can take many forms, from subtle experiments involving mind-matter interactions such as spoon bending.  Other examples include, sticking objects to walls, such as coins or silverware.

Ideas surrounding mind-matter interaction have existed for centuries within spiritual, esoteric, and Eastern traditions. Beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, however, practices involving altered states of consciousness, intuition, and psi phenomena increasingly moved beyond small esoteric circles and Eastern traditions and entered Western universities, laboratories, and organized consciousness-exploration programs.

During this period and in the decades that followed, consciousness and psi phenomena were explored through institutions and programs including Stanford Research Institute (SRI), Princeton University’s PEAR Laboratory, the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), and the Monroe Institute in Virginia, which became known for experiential exploration of altered states of consciousness and related phenomena.

Psychokinesis offers a hands-on way to explore these ideas. Rather than approaching the spoon simply as an object to overpower physically, participants explore the roles of intention, belief, attention, emotional state, expanded awareness, and surrender. The spoon becomes a focal point of biofeedback for exploring more of what you are.

Today, that exploration extends beyond the laboratory into a growing community of researchers, practitioners, and consciousness explorers. Events such as the Psi Games bring people together to share experiences, explore different practices, and participate in competitions involving psychokinesis, remote viewing, precognition, dowsing, mind sight, and other psi phenomena.  

These psi practices are atavistic abilities, innate capacities that lie dormant within every human being and have the potential to be rediscovered.