Exercise 9: Psychokinesis Exercises
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Place a candle in an enclosed room, free of drafts and air movement. The air must be very still. Sit and stare at the flame, willing it to move sideways until it burns at a right angle instead of vertically up into the air. Staring is not necessary, but willing it to move is what makes it move. Concentration should not be effortful. It is, rather, focused attention. Effort will only deter your endeavors. (You might think of the movie Matrix in which the young boy who bends spoons tells the hero, Neo, “There is no spoon.” This meant that all matter is illusory to begin with, so it is malleable and fluid under the direction of consciousness.) Another angle is to visualize the result of the candle flame leaning sideways, even before it happens, and create an attitude of “cooperation” between you and the candle flame so that the candle flame changes for you in cooperation rather than succumbing to your will. Once you have fully visualized and set up the instruction for the candle flame, release the thought and allow it to happen, make it so. This is an important step.
Another “mind over matter” exercise is to use water in a bowl for this endeavor. Sit and stare at a large bowl of water before you. With your mind, visualize the water swirling around in a circle in the bowl, faster and faster. Now release the thought and allow it to happen.
Enid Hoffman tells a great story in her book Develop Your Psychic Skills (1981) about how important it is to release the thought: “Let me tell you a story of a student of mine, who was experimenting with this exercise. He did the exercise correctly, right up to the releasing part, but as he stared at the water, it did not move. The phone rang… With a sigh, he rose from the chair feeling like a failure, but determined to try again after answering the phone. On his return, he found that a lot of the water had splashed out of the bowl, all over the table… The interruption forced him to release the thought because he had to direct his attention to something else… We may think we have released a thought, only to find out later that we really haven’t.”
After working with things like fire and water, easier to move than solid matter, then you can move on to things like forks, spoons, and other such objects. Another great practice object is a compass, moving the needle from its northerly direction. Magnetic fields are easier to influence than solid matter as well.
When you are ready to try your skills on solid matter, hang a string of bells. Using your attention, will them to move, establishing an atmosphere of cooperation between you and the object, believing in your consciousness being the force that can allow an object to move if you lift your belief in physical laws for a moment. It is more a matter of allowing than efforting. You can also bend forks, spoons and keys. Metal responds well to telekinesis. A ping pong ball is easy to move, rolling it away or toward you with your will.
You can also do this exercise for the purpose of levitation. Use a matchstick, a plastic coin, a toothpick or some other very light object. (You can graduate to levitating cars later!) Feel its weight, the force of gravity on it, and its texture. Then feel the weight of the object lessening and the law of gravity lifting from this object. This has been done, and you can do it too. Practice and belief are of the essence. Do not become discouraged if at first you do not succeed. There may be new neural pathways in your brain to create, and certain beliefs and thoughtforms that you must adjust before you can do this. Keep practicing and confronting your disbelief in your abilities. Relax your mind more and more, and know that you are eternal consciousness, and that even solid matter is mostly made of air, and this is a quantum physics scientific fact!
You can actually make things disappear and reappear too, blinking out of existence for a moment. This sometimes happens when such intense focus and energy is put on an object that its vibratory rate changes. Because you will be surprised, your concentration will break and the object will reappear.