The Belief Effect in Psychokinesis – Psychics, Skeptics and Science [1]

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By Brendan D. Murphy [3]

Guest Writer for Wake Up World [4]

Repeated ignorant or stubborn denial of the existence of certain powers does not keep them from existing — except for us! ~ Harold M. Sherman

Goat, Sheep or Jackass?

Have you ever noticed how closed-minded skeptics rarely if ever have any experiences with the siddhis (psychic faculties) or “the paranormal” in general?

Soviet research into psychokinesis involving Nina Kulagina demonstrated qualitatively that a skeptic’s mere presence does have an effect on a psychic’s ability to function properly. Hence, with a closed minded skeptic (CMS) or several in the room, or otherwise involved in the experiment, a psychic is more likely to “fail”, thus “proving” the CMS right (at least in his own narrow reality tunnel). It is a case of self-fulfilling prophecy.