Have you all heard of these? Psi-wheel on Wikipedia
There are quite a few videos on Youtube of people using them and showing them moving. The basic idea is to place a very light object, usually a folded piece of foil or paper, balanced on the head of a needle and try to make it move without physically interacting with it. Often times the psi-wheels are placed under glass covers over the psi-wheel in order to refute the common claim that movement is due to air currents.
I played with them a bit. I can get it to spin quickly by placing my hands near it and even get it to spin under glass. When I move my hands away it stops spinning/moving (or slows before eventually stopping). What I did not feel I had much success at was making it react in any way to my intent. I see others on Youtube apparently able to use intent in a more impactful way. I’ve read a couple books by Sean McNamara on the subject. In his classes and experiences people are getting movement even by standing far away or in other rooms.
I spent a little time trying see if there were any obvious causes of the movement. I checked for static electricity, air flow, temperature fluctuation, and any changes in the electromagnetic field. Here’s a short video showing movement beside an EMF and temperature gauge. Notice how as soon as I move my hand way the movement stops, the readings never change. However, in one of Sean McNamara’s books he mentions that he went to a lab and had high-precision tests done during his work with the psi-wheel and they found very minute fluctuations in temperate when he had his hands near. Probably my gauge is not sensitive enough to register these.
I am a believer that there is such a thing as chi, prana, whatever your preferred nomenclature may be - an energy that emanates from the body that we aren’t currently able to measure well since it doesn’t register on typical scientific instruments. Allegedly, that’s the force that’s moving the psi-wheel and it’s possible to regulate that energy with intent in order to have it cause physical impact on external objects. Though the term telekinesis is often used here, and if we assume that the above assertions regarding movement-mechanism are accurate, I think telekinesis is an imprecise and inaccurate label. Maybe it’s just semantics and perhaps it’s debatable, but to me the word telekinesis is a synonym for psychokinesis and evokes the ability to interact non-locally, whereas mentally regulating a force to have external impact is not non-local at all, and is seemingly a very different effect from, for example, being able to use intention to affect a random number generator in a distant location, perhaps even across time.
In any case, the experimentation that I have done here I do feel necessarily requires invocation of neither chi/prana nor telekinesis. Movement I’ve experienced potentially could be explained by very subtle heat fluctuations. Even when making the psi-wheel move under glass, which I also observe being able to do but with extended time, I think could be explained this way. I’m not saying with certainty that it’s just heat, but only that it might be. I have a tougher time explaining some of the videos of others as being strictly heat related. Some look to clearly be able to switch directions with intent and have impact at a distance well beyond range of sensing body-heat. For example, check out this guy.
Interested to hear any thoughts on this topic.