Experience Giving PK Parties

The belief systems we hold create a lens through which we filter the world. This lens often limits the possibilities of our experiences and renders us powerless to achieve different outcomes. In the realm of healing, acceptance of a disease or symptom can lead us to expect suffering and nothing else. However, we can alter our beliefs about ourselves and about our ability to enhance wellness. My interest in psychokinesis (PK) stems from the perspective that the power of the mind is important to the healing process. What we think can create balance or imbalance in our physical functioning. But what if we don't believe that we have that power? It often takes personal experience to move us beyond theory and into acceptance. The purposes of this paper are to document the experiences of those who tapped into that experience and to discover what new thoughts arose as a result.

At the Tai Sophia Institute Fall Symposium in September 2002, I was fortunate to hear Jack Houck, a researcher of PK, talk about the connection between PK and healing. He has developed an event called the "PK Party" where people learn and perform exercises in PK (Houck, 1988). These events seemed to be the perfect way to assist people in shifting their beliefs regarding their power to heal. PK parties are a way to open people‚s minds to their inherent abilities and to suggest applications for those abilities that can improve quality of life.PK, according to Dale and White, is "the influence of mind on external objects or processes, without the mediation of known physical energies or forces" (1986). Such phenomena have been documented for centuries and their manifestation takes many forms.

PK theories are used to explain paranormal events including miracles performed by mystics, spontaneous healing, the appearance of stigmata, apparitions or other materializations, levitations, and even the placebo effect (Talbot, 1991). Scientists have investigated countless PK events, recording both anecdotal and experimental evidence (Heath, 2003). Believers and skeptics alike continue to debate the validity of PK research. However, Braude (1991) suggests that the intention of the experimenter may induce PK in the most meticulously designed laboratory research, thereby unwittingly contaminating results. Regardless of the debate, PK phenomena continue to fascinate and confound people all over the world.

- from Experience Giving PK Parties by Lynn Barnes