psychokinesisn.

1914 H. Holt On Cosmic Relations I. xiv. 216 Now assuming Telekinesis to be established, perhaps we are as nearly ready to consider what I shall call Psychokinesis as people were a generation ago to consider Telekinesis.

1943 Jrnl. Parapsychol. 7 22 Psychokinesis seems better for a general term to cover both effects than telekinesis, which leaves out the psychical and emphasizes distance.

1949 H. H. Price in W. Carington Matter, Mind & Meaning p. xv The mysterious phenomenon of Psychokinesis..had occupied a good deal of his [sc. Carington's] attention in the last year or two of his life.

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Dec. 760/3 Mr. Rose seeks to establish the power of alleged rain-makers by testing their ability to will (by ‘psychokinesis’) the fall of a die.

1973 Times 1 Dec. 16/4 The other group of tests dealt with..psychokinesis, and included Mr Geller's apparent ability to bend spoons, nails and other metal objects.

1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 40/1 In this urbane and clearly argued book, Nicholas Humphrey looks into the current vogue for the paranormal and asks some hard questions about clairvoyance, extra-sensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK).

2004 B. Rundle Why there is Something rather than Nothing vii. 157 Locke's account of voluntary action..amounts to regarding it as an exercise of psychokinesis directed at one's own limbs.

1920 H. L. Eno Activism iv. 46 The collective activity of psychons, also, which we shall call ‘psychokinesis’ differs, with its various combinations upon its own plane, in intensity.