Due to brief nature of this article, subject will be confined to issue of psychokinesis and time. While many of same basic rules will apply to our information gathering skills, such as telepathy, precognition and remote viewing, because of our personal perspective, it is easier in some ways to understand what is going on with time when we try to effect change on world around us.

Our problems with time, in regards to PK stem from two basic points;

1. Time does not exist, at least not in way we are used to dealing with it, on a psychic level. This may indicate that psychic effects are taking place at a quantum level.

2. The portion of our minds that controls psychic functioning does not have a concept of time. That exists in a different area of brain. So our psychic efforts must be linked to events rather than time coordinates.

Between these two points and our common perception of time, we run into a few problems. By noting problems we can come up with some solutions that can increase our psychokinetic success rate.

PK spreads out over time. When you try to effect anything on a psychic level, actual effect can be (if a researcher is careful and looks at data) charted as starting before you begin attempt, rise to a peak of strength a short while after attempt takes place and then tapering off over time. Because time does not work in same way on a psychic level, you can effect things before during and after actual cause (your PK attempt) happens. Because your mind does not understand time in portions of brain that controls psychic functioning, its targeting of a specific event tends towards a more shotgun pattern.

It can take some thought to really understand how to deal with this problem. Time is so integral to how most of us think, that it seems almost silly that we would have to account for drift and PK effects going to wrong time.

For example, white uniforms were attire of Japanese Buddhist monks and lay-people alike. The kyu and dan "class" and "level" grade rankings were originally developed for and used as markers for how much a monk had learned and progressed through his training. And, much of etiquette within dojos "training halls") is identical to those used in these same temples to show respect to all that has gone before me and to all that I aspire to become. In fact, Japanese kanji characters used to write word 'dojo' actually refer to "a place where enlightenment takes place."

Now, before you run out and scream about quitting for fear of being converted to Buddhism, Hinduism, or some other 'foreign', sacrilegious cult - don't panic. Buddhism, while often practiced like many conventional Western religions, is not really a religion at all - at least not way most people define or practice a so-called 'religion'.

As developed by founder Siddhartha Gautoma, refered to as Buddha ("one who is awake"), and fine-tuned over past two and a half - plus centuries, Buddhism is a philosophy of personal development whereby practitioner works to understand his or her true nature and immutable laws of universe that govern world and everything in it. It is not at all a belief system as are many religions today, but instead relies on student coming to an intimate understanding of reality and truth through direct, personal experience.