Gruber, Prof. Dr. Karl (GER)

Book: Experiments in Movement from afar

Chapter: Further records of scientifically interested participants

Page 135: “When I review my observations with Willi Sch., I come to the overall conclusion that in this medium there were real telekineses as well as real materializations in rich abundance. For example, the telekineses were moving and lifting smaller and larger objects such as luminous rings, a table bell, a handkerchief, a tambourine, straw tables, a paper basket, an oak table, a heavy piano stool, etc., and also, a game box, at the command of the participants. The telekinesis was ideally located at a distance of 1 m to 1 m 20 cm from the medium, but also greater and smaller distances were observed. The phenomena showed on the one hand a marked elegance and precision in the execution of movements, and on the other hand, sometimes a very significant force. The time from the start of trance until the occurrence of the first phenomenon was very different, sometimes up to 3 hours, but then the phenomena followed continuously in rapid succession when the inhibitions apparently often existing, were overcome. The materializations consisted of the appearance of more or less well-defined hands near the red light lamp, then again in the sudden appearance of more amorphous, flat, grey structures, finally in the formation of the shadow of larger or smaller hands, paws or blunt formations on a light plate. I have also noticed contact by stumps or hands in several sessions. Of great interest, however, was the observation that – apparently regularly – the telekinetic process was preceded by a materialization process. The manner in which the individual objects were passed through the air was by the existence of a material moving organ – we obtained the proof of this assumption by direct observation. Firstly, in the experiments using the gauze cage, approximately 75 cm above the ground to the right of the medium in the direct path of the objects to be moved, an expansion of the gauze netting was found as if a narrow elastic, rod-like body had been pressed through the wall. Moreover, in the experiment with the raising of the handkerchief, it was clearly felt as if the cloth had been laid or held by a movable hand-like limb. At the lifting of the little table one could see how a bright ring was lifted off the table, then apparently pushed over the end of a limb-like stump, which then pushed itself under the table and raised it up. Then I was able to observe how, in the light of the red light lamp, a dark green small hand-like structure lifted a light ring at the edge of the table, and in the last sessions, in the light of the lamp, various telekinetic phenomena were perfectly produced by a movable limb covered with the cloth by lifting and ringing the bell, picking up and putting down of the game box, etc. This proves that, in our case, telekinesis and materialization were the same, that is, only different forms of expression for the same basic parapsychological process – a brilliant confirmation of the earlier claims of Schrenck-Notzing, Ochorowicz, Crawford.  Continue reading

Grunewald, Fritz Ing. (GER)

Book: Physical-mediumistic investigations

Physikalisch-mediumistische Untersuchungen, Autor: Ingenieur Fritz Grunewald, Verlag: Johannes Baum, Pfullingen in Württemberg 1920

Physikalisch-mediumistische Untersuchungen, Autor: Ingenieur Fritz Grunewald, Verlag: Johannes Baum, Pfullingen in Württemberg 1920

Chapter: Table Sessions
Page 24: “More convincing than the usual tilting phenomena, are in the cases of the lifting of tables off the floor. Especially when seen that the raised table remains in the air for a long time in it’s floating position, as I have seen in individual cases for the duration of approx. 15 seconds.”

Hofmann, Prof. Hellmut (A)

Book: PSI the “other reality”

PSI die „andere Wirklichkeit“, Autor: Prof. Dr. Hellmut Hofmann, Verlag Edition va Bene, Wien 2001, ISBN 3-85167-111-2

PSI die „andere Wirklichkeit“, Autor: Prof. Dr. Hellmut Hofmann, Verlag Edition va Bene, Wien 2001, ISBN 3-85167-111-2

Chapter: The spoon bender Uri Geller
Page 84: “Clearly it was seen that the point of the key bent itself slowly upwards. The tape recordings has proved that the bending process took approximately ten seconds.”

Kerner, Dr. Justinus (GER)

Book: The Seer of Prevorst

Die Seherin von Prevorst, Autor: Dr. med. Justinus Kerner, J. F. Steinkopf Verlag, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-7984-0815-9

Die Seherin von Prevorst, Autor: Dr. med. Justinus Kerner, J. F. Steinkopf Verlag, Kiel 2012, ISBN 978-3-7984-0815-9

Chapter: Emergence of the magnetic state
Page 33: You saw various items, for example very often the silver spoon which was removed and from her hand in placed on the plate quite a distance from her, without fallen like being thrown. They moved very slowly through the air as if carried by an invisible hand to where they belonged.”

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Lebrecht-Thümel, Dr. Olga (GER)

Book: Experiments in Movement from afar

Chapter: Further recordings from scientifically interested session participants

Page 151: Due to the kindness of Dr. Baron von Schrenck-Notzing I was granted the privilege of attending more than 49 experimental sessions with the medium Willi Sch. They were held in the private laboratory of Dr. v.Schrenck as well as in the rooms of the psychological institute of the University in Munich. More than thirty times I took control of the medium myself during the experiments. Therefore, I can now be emboldened to pass judgement with as much certainty as an experimenter can have concerning his own perception.

When handing over control, the medium puts himself completely in the hands of the controller. I held Willis’ wrists with both of my hands or took both of his hands into mine. His two feet were either constrained by mine or pressed against the chair legs in such way, that I could always secure them. The medium’s head was either lying on my lap or against my shoulder. This position ensured a close contact and controlling the medium was easy, because one could sense every twitch and every slight movement of his body. On the contrary, he never tried to escape this control with any limb of his body. Shortly before the phenomena appeared or during its presence, he always sought close contact with the controller, as if he was looking for protection or help. He literarily pressed himself against him by – for example – squeezing my hands until it hurt. His behaviour proved in every way that the physical contact was a source of power for him. He has never found the control to be a strain. During the appearances – especially of the telekinetic phenomena – I always watched the position of his feet and could never detect any suspicious movement from them. He would never move his feet at all. Even when Count Klinckowstroen believed to have felt one, I was sure that the feet never left their place. It would have been impossible for Willi to make an unobserved movement due to the position I had adopted. It was especially interesting to be able to exercise this kind of control and not only because it was a very impressive experience, to virtually imprison the medium and at the same time to be able to see objects moving in a remote place (approx. 1,20 metres). In fact, to see a movement which had truly nothing to do with the natural limbs of the medium. But what makes it especially interesting is the fact that only in this way does one have the occasion to observe the materialisation of the phenomena at close range.

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Lucadou, Dr. Walter v. (GER)

TV-Interview with Dr. Walter of Lucadou in German


23:59´ to 24:17´Minute
“I was there part of the time, for example as the stones flew through the air. One case, which I described in my book, was a man who had just finished making a soup and suddenly a stone flew over his back and dropped into the soup pot. No one else was in the kitchen.” (Quelle: ARD)

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Pauli, Prof. Dr. E. (GER)

Book:  Experiments in Movement from afar

Experiments with movement from afar (telekinesis) – in the psychological institute of the University of Munich and in the laboratory of the writer. Author: Dr. med. Albert Baron von Schrenck-Notzing, publishing house: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig, 1924

Experiments with movement from afar (telekinesis) – in the psychological institute of the University of Munich and in the laboratory of the writer. Author: Dr. med. Albert Baron von Schrenck-Notzing, publishing house: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig, 1924

Chapter: Further records of scientifically interested participants

Page 129: “After the medium was in the state of trance, the first phenomenon clearly observed was the elevation and the floating around of a table bell, which stood on the ground. The medium was held by hands and feet during this phenomenon. Similar processes of movement phenomena were repeated several times – in a different form. The possibility of self-deception by means of autosuggestion, or by the suggestive effect of alien influences (comments of other persons), I consider to be excluded, since I had usually perceived the phenomena before a remark of another person was made.

In the second half of the session I saw in the immediate vicinity, under the same illumination, the lifting of a handkerchief lying on the floor, as well as the appearance of an arm-like, cloudy, translucent “object” evidently connected with the movements of the handkerchief. The sudden appearance, dissolution, change in shape, and movement of this “arm” was extremely striking – I cannot compare this phenomenon to any experienced since.

An explanation of the phenomena would probably be possible in a very different way – here I would like to mention only one: the suggestion of the phenomena by the medium – without words – similar to the experiments of the Indian Fakirs. Another explanation would be the expression of a force or energy in a new form, that is an energy transfer without changing the energy law of physics.

Richet, Prof. Charles (FRA)

Book: Layout of the Parapsychology and Parapsychophysics

Grundriss der Parapsychologie und Parapsychophysik, Autor: Prof. Charles Richet, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig 1923

Grundriss der Parapsychologie und Parapsychophysik, Autor: Prof. Charles Richet, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig 1923

Chapter: The four main parapsychological phenomena
Page 459: “b. Telekinesis. As I´m holding Eusapia´s head and two hands, a big, over 3 kg heavy melon is transported from the buffet to the table; the distance from the buffet to the table was more than 1 m.”

Schrenck-Notzing, Dr. Albert Baron of (GER)

Book: Physical Phenomena of Mediumism

Physikalische Phaenomene des Mediumismus – Studien zur Erforschung der Telekinetischen Vorgänge, Autor: Dr. Albert. Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing, Verlage von Ernst Reinhardt, München 1920

Physikalische Phaenomene des Mediumismus – Studien zur Erforschung der Telekinetischen Vorgänge, Autor: Dr. Albert. Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing, Verlage von Ernst Reinhardt, München 1920

Chapter: Movements and lifting of small untouched objects
Page 26: Suddenly the spoon raised about 25 cm high in the air from out of the glass through a jerk caused by lifting of the hands, remains a moment in a free-floating position and then falls back on the table.”

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