Psychokinesis

Rejdak visited Kulagina in 1968 in order to test her and photograph the PK. These tests were carried out only after the psychic had been searched for magnets, strings, and other props which she could conceivably employ to fake the PK. This is what Rejdak reported:

After we sat down around the table, I required Mrs. Kulagina to leave the position at which she had decided to sit, and to sit at the opposite side of the table. The first test was to endeavor to turn a compass needle first to the right and then to the left. Mrs. Kulagina held her hands approximately 5-10 cm over the compass during the experiment, as well as during the following ones. After an interval of concentration, the compass-needle turned more than ten times. Thereafter, the entire compass turned on the table, then a matchbox, some separate matches, and a group of about 20 matches at once.

I placed my gold ring on the table: it moved faster than all the other objects . . . I chose some glass and china objects from the buffet, weighing from 10 to 20 dg., and Mrs. Kulagina made them move as well. On request, she could induce motion on the objects, while they were on a seat or on the floor. All this was performed in full light. The gold ring which she had made move was taken by me from my finger and put on the table. She passed her hands over it and the ring moved toward her. Threads or other attachments were out of the question.

The matches we used had not been examined because they belonged to us, as also did the match-box, and so could not have been prepared by her. Fraud was impossible, as she was sitting in a fully illuminated room controlled by Prof. Sergeyev, Dr. Zvenev, Mr. Blazek, and myself. Other objects . . . were selected by myself and so she had no opportunity of preparing them.

During the entire series of tests, Kulaginas body had been monitored to see what was happening to it physiologically. After the experiments were over, it was clear that she had lost weight, her heart beat erratically, her blood sugar increased, and her muscles ached. In general, this all indicates a stress-alarm: adaptation.

Mme. Kulaginas physical reactions to her PK are very similar to the ones about which Palladino would complain at the end of one of her séances. She, too, was a physical wreck at the completion of a trying set of tests. She lost weight, cramped up, and would even vomit. There is little doubt, to my mind at least, that both Kulaginas and Palladinos PK represents virtually the same process at work and has (or had) the same relationship to their organisms. Once again it looks as though stress is the key to volitional PK. But why? Why should PK be related to a stress reaction? Why cant it be exercised with ease a la the poltergeist?

There is obviously a delicate balance that must be reached between psychological readiness, conscious volition, and physical readiness before PK can manifest. It could be that if there is no psychological readiness to exhibit PK (as, for example, the psychological frustrations which provoke the poltergeist), then physical volition must compensate for it. Obviously, subjects like Kulagina are always physically ready to produce PK, but they are not always psychologically prepared. If, however, the subject can manifest the requisite psychological conditions to produce PK, then the physical factors can take second place. For instance, Kulagina did not at first produce PK with any strain. Objects apparently just moved under her fingertips. At this point, she had a psychological readiness to produce PK. Since she also had an innate physical readiness to perform, the PK could manifest easily. Later as she tried consciously to produce and control the PK, she had to use physical stress to compensate for what might be considered a psychological resistance to producing the phenomena. Great psychics may not always be prepared consciously or unconsciously to exert PK. This is where the strain comes in . . . working with the physical body to eject the PK against mental resistance. Since PK is usually an unconscious process, we are probably always mentally resisting it, consciously or unconsciously, even if we believe we are trying to produce it. Very few poltergeist agents for instance, are good experimental PK subjects.

. . . Even the very movements of the PK-affected objects appear to be governed by a few rigid principles: (1) It is easier for Kulagina to roll objects such as cigarette or cigar containers than to shift them from an upright position. (2) When Kulagina is working with new objects they always move away from her; only after practice can she attract them. (3) Howwever, objects that are attracted to the psychics body move faster and more energetically. (4) It takes greater energy for Kulagina to move objects farther away from her than ones close at hand. (5) Often the objects begin their motion as though imitating the psychics own bodily movements. When she swings and controts her body as she strains to exert the PK, the objects might begin to move in similar fashion. (6) Even after a test is over, an object might continue to move although Kulagina is no longer attempting to induce PK.

Soviet scientists have also studied how screening affects the objects Kulagina tries to influence by PK. They have found that screening the target objects with lead-impregnated glass, paper, metal plates, wood, and so forth has no effect on the PK. Shielding will not affect the PK even if a screen is placed around the objects while they are in motion. Yet, on the other hand, Kulagina cannot move objects placed in a vacuum. Unlike Palladino, though, Kulagina cannot discharge an electroscope, nor has any electrical charge ever been detected around her moving objects.

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