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Psychokinesis (PK) is the general term for using the mind to control matterwithout any technological help. Of course, mankind has devised all sorts of contraptions to manipulate and control matter in ways once thought impossible, but we're talking about control without using any outer, physical force. PK can include quiet activities such as prayer and healing or fantastic feats like table tipping, fire walking (ouch!), or that all-time classicspoon bending.
Hey, Bend That Spoon
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The most famous spoon bender to date is Uri Geller, the Russian whose phenomenal ability to mentally bend metal brought him world fame in the early 1970s. In addition to spoons, he could bend keys and stop wrist watches. Indeed, his PK abilities even affected these objects from afar: His fans in their homes at distant locations who tuned into his broadcasts reported having their broken watches start and perfectly good keys bent.
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PK also began to attract everyday Californiansand party goersin the early '80s. Jack Houck, a PK researcherand party animalis well-known for all the PK parties he's thrown, at least 300 since 1981. He started throwing these PK parties to check out his early findings that certain abilities are strongest when linked to a highly emotional event. (In Chapter 16, we mentioned that this same idea applies to telepathy.) In order to create an emotional event around attempts to induce psychokinesis, Houck threw partieswith games planned around mental metal bending.
Houck refers to his most elementary experiment as Kindergarten bending, wherein novice ''benders" apply the following steps to flatware forks that rest on the palms of their hands. If you're interested in throwing a spoon-bending party, we recommend you do a little more "research" first, but here are the steps Houck takes with his guests:
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1. He asks the participants to use their mental abilities to concentrate on the spoon.
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2. When the participant holding the spoon says, "Bend!" the other participants use all their mental powers to imagine the spoon bending.
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3. Finally, they release their mental effort and allow the spoon to bend.

 
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