THE PK ZONE:
A Cross-Cultural Review of Psychokinesis (PK)
By
Pamela Rae
Heath, M.D., Psy.D.
A comprehensive review of psychokinesis, which includes
stories of events around the globe,
the experimental research, and what it is like to actually do psychokinesis.
Book Description
This book is a tour de force, which leads the reader
through the long and fascinating
history of psychokinesis (PK), in all its facets. From the earliest days of
levitating saints
and rock throwing poltergeists to the latest research being done in the field,
this book
covers it all. With degrees in both medicine and parapsychology, Dr. Heath
documents
her material with painstaking care as she puts together all of the pieces of
this intriguing puzzle.
Long a topic of myth and legend, the first section of the
text explores stories of miraculous events
from a variety cultures around the globe. The second portion of the book shifts
from the anecdotal
to what science has taught us. Over a hundred years of experimental research
are reviewed
to examine what has been learned from archival data, field investigations, and
formal controlled
studies of this controversial field. The third section of the book describes
what performers
have themselves said about their experiences, in their own words.
Finally, the book considers what kinds of things appear to
inhibit, or facilitate, performance.
By the end, the reader is left with a comprehensive sense of all that is currently
understood about PK.
This
exceptional new book on the experience of PK covers:
Part 1:
Psychokinesis
through the Ages: A Historical Cross-Cultural Review of PK Anecdotal Material.
This included the topics of religious and spiritual PK, levitation, stigmata,
inedia, teleportation, bilocation, fire immunity, luminosity, hemography,
deliberately caused bodily damage phenomena, weather PK, physical mediumship,
anomalous healing, sports PK, poltergeists and spontaneous nonrecurrent PK.
Part 2:
Research and
Theory. This covers case collections, field research, and experimental research
on the subject of PK. There is a discussion of various theories and factors that
might be involved in PK
performance, possible training methods, what learning theories would suggest
about PK, and what models
and theories have been proposed to
account for PK.
Part 3: The PK Matrix: Experiential Research.
This section is devoted
to what PK performers have said
about what it is like for them to do PK. There is a brief discussion of
phenomenological technique to help
the reader understand this research methodology, followed by a description of
the primary constituents
of the experience and how they interact. Finally, there are some discussions
about the apparent overlap
between PK and ESP, possible limiting factors to PK, and what experiences
suggest about how people
can learn to perform PK
.
Loyd Auerbach says: “This book is a natural follow-up
to my own book Mind Over Matter. For anyone truly interested not only
in how PK shows itself, but also what the common factors are for PK performers
(and what they experience when PK happens), you must have this book!”
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