TELEKINESIS

TELEKINESIS
   An important item of sf TERMINOLOGY, from the Greek words for "movement at a distance", developed from the earlier word "psychokinesis" (often shortened to PK), coined by Dr J.B. Rhine (1895-1980) in the 1930s; Charles FORT used the term TELEPORTATION to describe the same phenomenon.Telekinesis is the ability to move objects by the power of the mind, and after telepathy is the most commonly used PSI POWER (which see for details) in sf. The word "telekinesis" was probably not coined in sf, but began to be used in sf (especially in ASF) in the early 1950s.
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