Dear Adam and Jamie,
My name is Thiago, I'm 13 years old and I simply find this show awesome. I recently started to become interested in telekinesis and using the mind to control things. I have had a couple of experiences with this, 2 being unintentional, and 1 being intentional.

My intentional experience was a time when I was just sitting in my room listening to the radio. I wanted to change the station but could not find the remote so, being as lazy as I am, just sat there for a couple of minutes and the station changed. It was pretty funny (sorry, i couldn't resist).

I won't describe my two unintentional experiences just yet.

So the myths are:
1. Someone CAN control inaminate objects with their mind.
2. A site I went on said that children going through puberty have more unintentional experiences with telekinesis than someone who's hormones are stable, for example an adult.

I know that this forum is just for myths that you wouldn't try on the show, but can you guys do a long term experiment, say 6 weeks, to test out these myths. I understand if you can't. Thank you.

Your biggest 13 year old fan,
Thiago

You were most likely sitting on the remote or something heavy was sitting on it and that causes the channel to change if you think you truely have Telekentic powers then see if you can do it again then tell your parents about the Million dollars you are going to win for them from the james randi foundation.
My step son is 12 he looses the remote in his bed or in a chair cousion all the time and the tv changes.

do you think posting my unintentional experiences will help?
Also, the site claimed that everyone has the ability to do telekinesis. Some just have more ability and, for kids, attention span. It also said that before the industrial revolution, people tended to rely more on their minds to do things. That all changed when machines did all the work for us.
Anyway, I don't have total control over my telekinesis yet. I am pretty sure I can do it. So can other people, if they try hard enough.

No way...no such thing....Telecawhat?

I decided that I will post my unintentional experiences. They both happened on the same day.

1. I was washing my hands in the bathroom on the second floor of my house. I was just not thinking about anything and the door just opened. What was weird was that no one was on the second floor, but me. And every time I go in the bathroom, I check that the door is properly closed. This was early in the morning.
2. Later that day, the door to the same bathroom opened again, this time with no one in it. My 7 year old sister was the only one upstairs, but she was watching TV. She had no idea why the door opened.

They might have been coincidences, or my house might be haunted with bathroom door opening ghosts, but I think they were pretty cool. Anyone with a response to why this might have happened, please comment. Who knows, if we comment enough, we might even get this topic on the show.

Thiago

No ghosts...Not telecawhat...I'm sure something caused the door to open

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They might have been coincidences...

They were. There is no credible reason for believing in telekinesis. The people who claim to be able to move things with their minds are--every single one of them--tricksters.

In fact, the Randi Foundation will pay a million dollars to anyone who can demonstrate telekinesis under controlled conditions. Very few are willing to even try when they cannot control who stands where and what everyone can see. Of those who have tried, none has even come close.

That should tell you something. It won't tell anything, though to those who only want to believe in the magic.

why does everyone doubt things so easly it may be possible, so it hasnt been proven? so what there are some things out there that science cannot solve it dosent mean its fake. metaphysics is one of these things

Even if there was any one that was able to do any of this I doubt they would care to prove it. If you were able to would you care if anyone believed you? Would you even say anything? I sure wouldnt, you would end up as a guinea pig.

Actually we only ues a FRACTIO of our brain and one study showed that a combinations our brain can move objects with our mind

Was your bathroom window open at the time? if you have an open window, it sometimes causes doors to close and open due to wind.

You know that Uri Geller guy, the one who bends spoons. He was catching hell not too long ago because someone put a video on youtube of an onscreen performance where he is fairly clearly shown holding a magnet to try and make a compass move.

Telekinesis is rubbish.

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Originally posted by schueboo:
Actually we only ues a FRACTIO of our brain and one study showed that a combinations our brain can move objects with our mind

I have seen a study that proves god exists... just a shame I can't link the results... oh well...

We use our brain, but we only use a small part of our brain for THINKING, it's estimated that Einstein used about 14% of his brain for thinking, average people about %8. The rest is used for things like... moderating body temperature, moving, sight, hearing... you know, important stuff. Never seen a diagram with a "telekinesis part".

Your brain works as a huge network of electrical signals, it can't affect other objects.

If people had these unique gifts....then throughout history...many of them would have exploited these talents, for personal gain...or they would have been exploited by others. The human race, good or bad, has been driven by motives (evolutionary) that cause people to take advantage of their strengths. Governments would have invested outlandish resources to take capitolize on people with these "unusual abilities" to gain advantages over adversaries. The historical record indicates otherwise. Criminals, politicians, military leaders could have capitolized on such potential. By the way...just because we only use a fraction of our brain (if you beleive this to be true), doesnt mean that we are potential GODS...with the ability to EXERT FORCES BY THOUGHT. Brain are like computers...they calculate...not produce unseen forces. Why would anyone believe a higher functioning brain would do such a thing? Maybe a very efficient brain would be SMARTER...but would it produce MOTIVE FORCES?

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so what there are some things out there that science cannot solve it dosent mean its fake.

So - that means there is no way to investigate such things in a rational manner, since they are outside the realm of science.

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Actually we only ues a FRACTIO of our brain

Uh - no. We use all of it, as evidenced by thousands upon thousands of real-time brain imaging scans showing that no part of the brain is ever INactive.

Even when reading whackadoo psuedo-science web garbage, the neurons are still firing. Although they are certainly wasting their time doing so in this case.

If we could move things with our brains what would our brains use to move them? Brain Waves? Thoughts have no mass, no wieght.

It is true that thoughts have no mass nor weight but as we can see with radioactivity, people had no clue about it until it was discovered and described by people like currie and co. Why do we believe that we know everything about the brain? There have been claims of telekineses throughout history. Monks in tibet believe they can do it when meditating.
If it wouldn't exist, why do we even have a name for it? There is more between heaven and the human mind than we might think and who knows, in a hundred or so years we might find a new kind of force/energy that would explain telekineses.
oh and speaking of james randi's 1 million dollar, if I could use telekineses I would most likley stop by one of the casinos in vegas and make 10x as much than he offers so we can't say telekineses doesn't exist just cause we can't do it or haven't seen it or haven't seen anybody seen doing.

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Monks in tibet believe they can do it when meditating.

Despite such claims, they have never demonstrated any such ability.

Here's the way it works: if you have any actual evidence supporting this sort of thing, feel free to introduce it. When confronted by refutations of such evidence, however, the proper thing to do is to withdraw the claim. The WRONG thing to do is to insist, despite once again having no actual evidence, that the claim is valid simply because you WANT it to be valid, and extend the claim to include the implicit (or explicit) "It's true because I say it's true!" dodge. Failure to present any evidence is exactly that: failure. It is the strongest possible proof that there's nothing to look at in the first place.

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Your brain works as a huge network of electrical signals, it can't affect other objects.

it does theoretically make telepathy possible.