Psychokinesis facts for kids
Psychokinesis or telekinesis is the supposed ability to change matter, energy, space or time by using your mind. It is often mentioned and performed in science fiction movies and video games.
Abilities
Psychokinesis is the word used to describe many different abilities. These abilities include:
- moving objects (this is called telekinesis; see below)
- changing the shape of objects (this includes melting or bending metal)
- influencing events
- healing
- teleportation (disappearing and reappearing in a different place)
- traveling through objects, like a wall
- changing an object into something else
- changing oneself into something else
- putting an energy field around oneself
- control of magnetism
- control of photons (light waves/particles)
Telekinetic abilities
- moving objects (move, lift, shake, vibrate, spin, bend, or break large and small objects)
- lifting oneself up off of the ground (including flying)
Images for kids
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Artist conception of spontaneous psychokinesis from 1911 French magazine La Vie Mysterieuse.
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Eusapia Palladino "levitates" a table while researcher Alexander Aksakof (right) monitors for fraud, Milan, 1892.
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Spirit photography hoaxer Édouard Isidore Buguet (1840-1901) of France fakes telekinesis in this 1875 cabinet card photograph titled Fluidic Effect.
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Magician William Marriott reveals the trick of the medium Stanisława Tomczyk's levitation of a glass tumbler. Pearson's Magazine, June 1910
See also
In Spanish: Telequinesis para niños
