Two rare psychic abilities

Pyrokinesis is such a rare phenomenon or psychic ability that one could hardly find any documented example of it.

If Tibetan monks can generate extreme heat with their bodies, enough to dry wet blankets, then it is theoretically possible to produce fire by psychic or mental power alone.

One of the first recorded cases of a person’s ability to produce fire was that of A.W. Underwood of Paw Paw, Michigan. Dr. L.C. Woodman wrote about him in the New York Sun issue of Dec. 1, 1882:

“He will take anybody’s handkerchief, hold it to his mouth, rub it vigorously, while breathing on it, and immediately it bursts into flames and burns until consumed.”

According to a report in the book “Phenomena, a Book of Wonders” by John Michell and Robert Rickard, “Underwood would strip, rinse his mouth out and set any cloth or paper alight by his breath.”

Underwood said his ability to create fire was most useful when he was on hunting trips. He could get his camp fire going within seconds without a match.

The Russian psychic Nelya Mikhailova (who later changed her name to Nina Kulagina) was also recorded to have produced fire spontaneously.

The Russian parapsychologist or psychotronics investigator Dr. Genady Sergeyev said, in an interview with the Sunday People on March 14, 1976, “She can draw energy somehow from all around her. Electrical instruments can prove it. On several occasions, the force rushing into her body left four-inch long burn marks on her arms and hands. I was with her once when her clothing caught fire from the energy flow—it literally flamed up. I helped put out the flames and saved some of the burned clothing as an exhibit.”

The book Phenomena also quoted a story in Man, Myth and Magic (1970-72). Kenneth Grant told the story of a male disciple of a female spiritual guru named Anandamayi Ma, who asked her to show him her powers by burning him to ashes.

“As she joined him under a sunshade, he felt a fierce heat beat down upon his head. It grew so intense he begged her to stop. Grant says the man’s umbrella was quite burned in parts.”

In the Philippines I have not yet come across anybody who can produce fire simply by mind power. Come to think of it, in these modern times, who needs such power when anyone can easily produce fire by striking a match?

‘Thoughtography’

Otherwise known as “thought photography,” this is the very rare mental ability to transfer the image of what is in one’s mind into a photographic film. In the West this psychic feat is associated only with one man, a Chicago bellhop named Ted Serios.

Dr. Jule Eisenbud, a Denver psychiatrist, investigated the reported powers of Serios over a number of years. He published a book entitled “The World of Ted Serios.”

How did he do it? Ted Serios would concentrate or focus his mind on a particular object, say a classic Volkswagen car. When he had the image firmly fixed in his mind, a Polaroid camera would be aimed at his head and, upon his signal, the shutter was pushed.

When the film was developed, a recognizable image of a Volkswagen would appear on the film.

Although Serios did not always produce good images on film, Dr. Eisenbud showed that on many occasions he succeeded remarkably well. Eisenbud concluded, according to psychic researcher and author Colin Wilson, that Serios’ powers were genuine.

Much earlier, in 1962, in Japan, Tomokishi Fukurai, a professor of psychology at Tokyo University, investigated and reported on the remarkable ability of a woman “who could transfer specific images, usually geometrical figures or Japanese characters onto unexposed film plates.”

No camera was used and the target plate was sandwiched between the others. The woman consistently succeeded in imprinting the middle plate with the designated images, leaving the center plates entirely clear.

Fukurai published the results of his investigation, which created a serious controversy and resulted in his losing his job at the university.

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