The Thorn Institute

Psychokinesis & spoon bending

The history of micro-PK research, what's replicable, what isn't, and a sober walk-through of group spoon-bending events — what's happening, what's not, and how to think about it.

03 · Keynote topic

PK is the topic where credulity and dismissal both run hottest. We slow it down — the replicable findings, the failed replications, the design issues, and what a well-run group spoon-bending evening actually looks like from the inside.

Source material

Recommended books on the subject

Not a reading list review — these are the works whose intel and lived experience sit behind this talk. The keynote is a distillation, filtered into something you can use in 30, 60 or 90 minutes.

Dean Radin

Real Magic

Radin · 2018

A senior parapsychologist treats 'magic' — divination, force of will, theurgy — as ordinary phenomena waiting for proper science.

Russell Targ

Limitless Mind

Targ · 2004

Targ argues from decades of Stanford lab work that telepathy, precognition and remote viewing are measurable, repeatable, and inconsistent only with a strictly local view of mind.

David Wilcock

The Source Field Investigations

Wilcock · 2011

Wilcock's sprawling tour of torsion fields, pyramid energy, DNA experiments, and ancient cycles as evidence of a 'source field'.

Itzhak Bentov

Stalking the Wild Pendulum

Bentov · 1977

An engineer's playful, diagram-heavy attempt to describe consciousness as a resonance phenomenon spanning cells, planets, and universes.

30 min

Primer

A tight introduction — what it is, what it isn't, and the two or three things most worth knowing.

60 min

Keynote

The full talk — the science, the history, the practice, and an honest read of what's serious and what's hype.

90 min

Keynote + practice

Keynote plus a guided demonstration or short practice the audience can take home and run themselves.

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