Enjoying Some Psychic Research by Shara Lanel

When I write a story using psychic phenomenon, I make my own rules.  Casey, my heroine from Telekinetic Kisses, has had her gift since she was young, and doesn’t quite have control of it. She’s vowed to never become a lab rat again.  During sex…well, let’s not touch that subject. No talk about micro and macro psychokinesis. What she does is unavoidably in your face…even if she tries to hide it from Parker so that she can appear normal.

Author James Conrad defines the difference between telekinesis and psychokinesis thus: "Telekinesis is the movement of matter by mental means at the micro and macro levels, while psychokinesis (the general term) applies to any of a variety of more complex mind-matter effects, including TK, but also phasing through walls, extraordinary healing, etc." But PK seems to be the most used, as I’ve discovered during my recent reading. (James Conrad has an awesome list of movies with TK/PK here: http://jamesaconrad.com/TK/TK-movie-list.html. )

I had never heard of micro and macro PK until I started researching for my book. Macro-PK equals observable events. Micro-PK means events not visible by the naked eye, such as change on a cellular level, through thought, that leads to healing.  One interesting tidbit I read is that some scientists believe in teleportation at the quantum level, but we’re nowhere near beaming up humans. I know a bit about Schrödinger's cat, but basically nothing about quantum physics, so I’m not even going to go there. An example of macro-PK is Uri Geller’s bending of spoons.

The stories about psychic experiments in the Soviet Union during the Cold War inspired Casey’s past as a lab rat. Yuri Andropov, head of the KGB from ’67 to ’82, wanted to move right ahead with studies of psychic warfare, and he told researchers not to worry if the subjects were injured or…died.

Another intriguing example of telekinesis is the poltergeist. These are not thought to be spirits of the dead, necessarily, but repressed psychic energy manifested in projectile stones and spontaneous fires. Wouldn’t want to be around that person—can we say Firestarter?

If you want to do your own research on PK, here’s a few links to get you going:

http://www.parapsych.org/faq_file1.html

http://www.parapsych.org/glossary_a_d.html

Parapsychological Association

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychokinesis

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

Global Consciousness Project

http://www.parapsych.org/glossary_a_d.html

Glossary of parapsych terms

http://www.remoteviewed.com/remote_viewing_history_sri2.html

Videos of the lab test at SRI with Uri Geller

http://www.skepdic.com/geller.html

Geller naysayers

Research on PK

http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/chan-evid.html

http://www.esalenctr.org/display/confpage.cfm?confid=8&pageid=80&pgtype=1

http://www.fourmilab.ch/rpkp/

Check out an excerpt from Telekinetic Kisses (http://www.liquidsilverbooks.com/books/telekinetickisses.htm) and have a rockin’ Halloween!

~Shara

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Bio:

Award-winning author Shara Lanel started her writing
career by passing around serial stories in her sixth grade
class. She moved on to writing and editing for her school
paper. But then her dreams switched to making movies-too
much Indiana Jones-so she went to NYC for college and
majored in film.

But her true love remained writing. One hubby, one
dog, and one son later, she started writing romance. Joining
Romance Writers of America introduced her to the business
side of romance, but it was the research that fascinated her.
She met sexy SWAT guys and shot targets at her county’s
Citizen’s Police Academy. She’s attended crime scene
investigation workshops and read books on every subject
from werewolves to The War of 1812.

Shara currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, growing
hot peppers and starting fires in her kitchen in her spare
time. To learn more about Shara and read excerpts from
her books, visit www.SharaLanel.com.

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