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Telekinesis (from Ancient Greek τηλε- ' far off ' and -κίνησις ' motion ' [1]) is a purported psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction. [2] [3] Experiments to prove the existence of telekinesis have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability.
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. [1] Criticized as being a pseudoscience, the majority of mainstream scientists reject it.
Writing in 1985, C. E. M. Hansel discovered weaknesses in the design and possibilities of sensory leakage in the ganzfeld experiments reported by Carl Sargent and other parapsychologists. Hansel concluded the ganzfeld studies had not been independently replicated and that "ESP is no nearer to being established than it was a hundred years ago."
4. Telepathy vs. Telekinesis: Controlling the Mind. Telepathy is the power to send and receive thoughts and images as a form of communication without opening your mouth.
Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent. [2] [page needed] Bilocation – The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint. Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind.
Diagram by the French esotericist Paul Sédir to explain clairvoyance [1]. Clairvoyance (/ k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ. ə n s /; from French clair ' clear ' and voyance ' vision ') is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense".
In American science fiction of the 1950s and '60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to the study (and employment) of paranormal or psychic phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, telepathy and psychokinesis. [1]
The balance of nature, also known as ecological balance, is a theory that proposes that ecological systems are usually in a stable equilibrium or homeostasis, which is to say that a small change (the size of a particular population, for example) will be corrected by some negative feedback that will bring the parameter back to its original "point of balance" with the rest of the system.