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  by
  Jack Houck
       The PK Parties have been extremely successful because more
  than 85% of the nearly 1,000 attendees have experienced the
  metal becoming warm and soft in their hands. The PK Parties
  are also replicable because more 'than 75 parties, run by
  other individuals have produced the same level of success.
  Many people ask "What are you going to do with the things you
  are learning at PK Parties?" and "What is the purpose of
  bending silverware?"
       This paper is an attempt to answer both questions. First
  the PK Parties are the first reliable and replicable
  experiment in paranormal phenomena. Thus they provide a
  tremendous opportunity to conduct controlled experiments
  within an ongoing PK Party. I have been conducting an
  increasing number of these controlled experiments and believe
  that significant learning is taking place. Furthermore, so
  much can be learned about people from the parties. Even
  though I have no training in psychology, I feel that I have
  learned much about people and how to help them experience the
  unusual. The PK Parties have been useful as a method of
  finding people with exceptional abilities. However the
  parties clearly demonstrate that everyone can do these
  unusual things. It is true that some people are more capable
  than others. The analogy I use is that it is like tennis.
  There are natural athletes. If you give one a tennis racket
  and he only plays tennis once a year, he will always be an
  average tennis player. However if this natural athlete were
  to take the game seriously and train with lessons and MUch
  practice, he could become an excellent player. Ever., a
  non-athlete can become a reasonable tennis player with
  training. To date, identifying e,,,,cellent metal benders has
  not produced any exceptional feats. Once I gathered a group
  of better than average metal benders together for an attempt
  at remote bending of an object with no one touching it.
  Nothing happened. I suspect part of the problem was that
  each wanted to be the "star" and they were not able to work
  together coherently. Even after 50 PK Par-ties I am still
  learning how to run them better and learning about the
  phenomena by observing what happens.
       Most importantly, I enjoy seeing others experience bending
  metal and finding for themselves that even they can do
  something that previously they had thought was either,- magic
  (fraud) or was something only "special people" could do. For
  many this is a real revelation. The people learn that 'with
  the right mental attitude and technique, they can do
  anything! They also learn that everyone is a "special
  person." I have found that people who experience bending
  metal for, themselves realize that our current physics, does
  not explaineverything and it gets their attention so that at
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           least some of them begin to think about how they can apply
           what they have learned to their lives.
                The purpose of bending silverware at a PK Party is for
           learning. Most people perfect the technique in a single
           party. Once they get the technique down, then they should
           understand how they can apply it to anything they want to do
           in their lives. The important ingredients are: 1) make a
           mental connection to the object You want to affect or the
           goal You want to achieve, 2) command it to do what you want,
           and 3) then release that thought and go about your business
           knowing it will happen. It Sounds too simple but it works.
           It even sounds like the good old power of positive thinking.
                I+ identifying the applications of PK as being able to do
           anything is too general for you, then the following list may
           help with more specifics:
           1. Heal others.
           2. Set and achieve your goals.
                3. Reduce your stress by learning to release (this is
           the hardest step for Most Of US to learn)
           4. Improve your ability in sports.
           5. Bend or disable any threatening weapon.
           6. Improve YOUr learning skills.
                7. Have the ability to lift a car o+f someone if
           necessary.
           3@ Do your own car body work.
                The list is limitless. Think about the many ways you can
           apply this ability to Your life.
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