Stephen King’s Carrie: Telekinesis–Tomorrow’s Superpower?

In 1976 Stephen King’s Carrie came to life on the big screen, only two years after the novel had been released. It was history in the making, a horror film that would go on to be played every year around this time in many households. Although the hardback only sold 13,000 copies in the first release, the paperback would go on to sell over one million.

It would become a Broadway musical in 1988. 1999 brought a sequel to the big screen, and a television movie in 2002. Today a new theatrical remake will follow in the original 1976 movie’s cinema footsteps. Are you ready to relive a good bone-chillin’ Stephen King fright and step out to the movies for this one?

Carrie is the story about a shy young high school girl – an outcast ― who discovers she has a special ability. The ability is triggered by what would be a traumatic experience for any young girl, and the ability is one we now know as telekinesis.

Telekinesis: The ability to move objects from one place to another without physical contact. It may also be considered the re-shaping of objects using the mind’s energies.

Deriving from Psychokinesis we look to the Greek for the words origin

“Psyche”, meaning mind, soul, spirit, heart, or breath.

“Kinesis” meaning motion, movement, which is translated to “mind-movement.”

Lacking a proper understanding of telekinesis, it has been mistaken for many things, witchcraft and poltergeist activity among them.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if it was tomorrow’s new superpower?

That day may be closer than you may have thought. At the University of Minnesota, through a noninvasive technique called electroencephalography (a unique brain-computer interface that records the electrical activity of the subjects’ brain) they have made telekinesis possible. No chips or implants necessary. It’s all done by use of an EEG cap fitted with 64 electrodes.

I don’t see this as being put to use with the mass public anytime soon. But imagine the possibilities. With this technology a quadriplegic would be able to type on the keyboard with merely a thought or control the television without help. Yes, it will make massive strides in the betterment of handicapped lives.

Take a look at what they’ve done…

Pretty amazing stuff. Don’t you agree?

I don’t think it’s any secret that the human mind is capable of far more than we’ve tapped into. The answer to unlocking those hidden talents? Practice. So if you want to be moving furniture around your home some day without breaking a sweat you best start concentrating on bending spoons with your mind soon. It’s going to be a very long path from where we are now to where Carrie was in the 1976 movie.

Speaking of Carrie, how do you think you would react if you happened across someone with her level of telekinesis? Would you be amazed? Or would you freak and run away? Here’s what happened when a group of unsuspecting patrons were introduced to just that situation.

That was a serious prank. And one fantastic movie promo. That video went viral in a day. You can ask for better publicity than that. Will it draw the numbers to the box office? I guess we’ll find out this weekend. Will you step out to see the remake of Carrie? Did you see the original on the big screen? Or was it a more intimate experience for you? Or are you one of those who have yet to see the famous scream flick?

Share with us your Carrie and telekinetic stories. We’re dying to hear them.

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