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Namah Editorial

t h e direct influence of mind over clairvoyantly detected events have also included the
matter known as psychokinesis (PK). outcomes of events based on quantum mechanical
Rao emphasises that, “….psi may random event generators.
function beyond the familiar categories of
understanding and may point to a state of “Consider psychokinesis. Occasionally just
being that cannot be properly classified as wishing for a certain physical outcome has
mind or matter. Psi phenomena raise the some detectable influence on that outcome. A
question whether there exists a realm of striking example is biasing the outcome of an
reality beyond the phenomenal world of electronic computer-like device that randomly
appearance, which is primarily a product produces a binary outcome. The person causing
of our information-processing capabilities the biasing, the agent, usually has no idea how
and mechanisms (3)”. the device works….

Let us look into some psi phenomena more “These sound like the characteristics of minds —
specifically. Charles T. Tart describes: or perhaps souls — that may be quite enmeshed
in the characteristics of matter most of the
“Consider telepathy. The human mind can time but can somehow operate and (at least
occasionally have some sort of direct information partially) exist independent of matter, minds
transfer, factual information or emotional tone, that occasionally have access to nonphysical
‘contact’ if you prefer, with other human sources of information we cannot begin to
minds… adequately conceptualise; that perhaps
may be capable of surviving physical death.
“Consider clairvoyance. Occasionally a mind can And if these are characteristics of people, may
directly know the state of the distant physical there not be minds or a Mind much greater
world, without using the senses of the body…. than our own? God (4) ?”

Micro-psi atoms

Perhaps one of the most remarkable example
of psychokinesis is the amazing story of how
two theosophists, C.W. Leadbeater and
Annie Besant (who died in 1933 and 1934
respectively) began experimenting in 1895
with their clairvoyant powers of “micro-psi”
magnitude to unravel the nuclear structure of
all the naturally occurring 92 elements down
to the “quark” and “sub-quark” level much
before the discovery of isotopes of several
“Consider precognition. Occasionally a person elements by Aston in 1912 with his newly
can correctly predict a future event which is, in discovered mass spectrograph.
terms of widely accepted physical principles,
inherently unpredictable…. Precognitively and With sheer will-power, they had discovered

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