Learn To Be Psychokinetic

It's not even a question - Can you learn to be psychokinetic? It's a decision - Learn to be Psychokinetic.
Some people are born with a talent for it like some people are born with a talent for music or management or slacklining. Joseph Nuzum of Pennsylvania was a natural psychokinetic as well as having pyrogenesis abilities. (He could set things on fire with his mind. And you thought the X-Files was fiction.) Joe could melt the insulated wires inside a nine-volt radio without being anywhere near it. (For more on Joe see March 14th of the Almanac of the Infamous). Ninel Kulagina is another natural. She could stop a frog's heart with her mind.

Desire is the main requirement to learning telekinesis. Followed closely by discipline. Very closely. With self discipline anything is possible. Easy beginner practices include:

• Hold your hands over a compass. Concentrate on focusing the energy coming out of your hands on moving the compass.
• Suspend a needle from a pencil so that it hangs inside a jar and won't be affected by your breathe or random breezes. Practice getting the needle to move with your mind; side to side of in circles.
• Light a candle and move the flame; higher and lower, side to side and in circles with your mind.

Dedication is everything.

A Secret Power in Every Day

Magic is everywhere; in nature, in you, in time itself. Every day has a secret power. You have to hunt for this power though - that's why it's called a secret power. My whole life I suspected its existence, only to be told it didn't exist. Finally I decided to decide for myself. I would gather information and come to my own conclusion.

My search began with my certainty that everyone is special. We don't have to do anything to prove it. We are born that way. This idea is gaining popularity in the collective consciousness as portrayed by Lady Gaga's Born this Way Baby. But I wanted to know more, specifically, how am I special? Admittedly this is an egotistical pursuit. So maybe it's not solely, or soul-ly about me. If I was born this way maybe it's connected to the day I was born. Maybe I don't own it. Maybe I'm just responsible for it.

Next question: what's special about the day I was born? And hundreds of people are born everyday of the year so everyday must have a power in it. Has something special happened each and every day of the year?

Thus began ten years of research. Delving into libraries, prowling through bookstores and traveling the internet I looked for unsolved mysteries and unexplained phenomena for every day of the year. And found them! After that the Secret Power was obvious.

Voynich Manuscript Overview

The Voynich Manuscript is one of the most 'searched for' unexplained phenomenon. The following information is taken from the book jacket flyleaf of

The MOST MYSTERIOUS MANUSCRIPT: The Voynich “Roger Bacon” Cipher Manuscript edited by Robert S. Brumbaugh 1978 Southern Illinois University Press

THE VOYNICH “ROGER BACON” MANUSCRIPT SECRETS – presumably magical or scientific and possibly containing a formula for an Elixir of Life – continue to defy deciphering efforts after almost four centuries, as this amazing history shows.

Bought about 1586 for a very high price by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II, who had a keen interest in magic and science, the Voynich manuscript consists of some 200 pages, with many unusual botanical and astronomical illustrations. The work was thought to be that of Roger Bacon, the thirteenth-century English philosopher, who had a reputation for being a magician, and whom legend credited with discovery of an Elixir of Life.

The writing, presumably in cipher, defied reading by Rudolph’s’ scholars, and the manuscript passed in the eighteenth century from Prague to Rome, where it continued to defy attempts at decipherment. In 1912 it was bought and brought to America by Wilfrid Voynich, a rare-book dealer, and in spite of Voynich’s generosity in supplying photocopies to professional paleographers, military intelligence experts, botanists and the like, the text remained unread until 1921.

The modern history of the manuscript is not much clearer, as this account of the attempts to solve its mysteries shows, In the 1960s the manuscript was acquired by the Yale Beinecke Rare Book Library (Beinecke MS 48) through the gift of Hans P. Kraus, the legendary rare-book dealer, who bought it following the death of Mrs. Edith Voynich. Robert S. Brumbaugh, a philosopher at Yale who had served in military intelligence during World War II, became interested in it, and began what has turned out to be nearly ten years of scholarly effort, the involvement of a group of scholars – who are kept abreast of developments by a “Voynich Newsletter” – and the employment of sophisticated tools and techniques in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the cipher.

In the course of his investigations Professor Brumbaug brought together a collection of articles tracing the history of “the world’s most mysterious manuscript” the Voynich ‘Roger Bacon’ cipher, which form the basis for the present book.

Brumbaugh himself in 1972 identified the “alphabet” used in the cipher and read plant and star labels, but the results where the alphabet was applied to the text proper were unexpected and still unexplained. However, a good deal has been learned about the manuscript’s provenance, Brumbaugh reveals, and efforts to transcribe and decipher the manuscript continue.

The manuscript’s importance, needless to say, lies in what it can tell us about medieval science, numerology, botany, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, cryptography, astronomy, and cosmology.

Curses & Superstitions

355 years ago a cursed kimono torched the city of Tokyo burning three-quarters of it to the ground. A Japanese priest was attempting to exorcise an evil force from the garment that had been owned by three teenage girls consecutively. In the presence of the girls' fathers, the priest attempted to cremate the kimono.

As it caught fire a raging wind appeared and whipped the blaze into a frenzy, as if a wicked spirit had been released and was taking charge of the flames. The surrounding paper and wood buildings were mere kindling as over the next two days the firs destroyed 1,200 tradesman's houses, 770 samurai residences, 9,000 shops, 350 temples and shrings, 500 palaces, Edo Castle and 61 bridges.

Do curses really exist? What to do? What to do?

Many of us develop good luck charms or rituals:

• Artist Paul Klee had to have at least seven cats around him before he would pick up his paint brush.
• French writer Voltaire would only step out of his house left foot first. He was terrified to leave leading with his right foot.
• Transportation tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt had the legs of his bed placed in dishes of salt
• English author Thomas De Quincey washed and polished every coin he handled.
• Winston Churchill petted black cats for good luck
• German poet Schiller could not work unless he was surrounded by piles of rotten apples