Spiritual Awakening Through Online Telekinesis Training

The Trebor Seven YouTube website is the longest-running site teaching telekinesis on the Internet.  It’s creator, Robert Allen, not only demonstrates his abilities through hundreds of “TK moves” but he also aims to teach telekinesis through his channel and other websites.  As students begin their exercises to unlock their own abilities, hoping to join the ranks of the virtual Jedi, they are introduced to a religious perspective which is a precursor to success at telekinesis.  In this paper, the author will adopt the phenomenological approach and take the role of the new student, reporting on the process of learning telekinesis through “being-in-the-world”, embodiment, and radical Otherness from Robert over a period of three months.  Combined with interviews of Robert and his students, this paper will examine YouTube as a meeting point of community, spirituality, initiation, and educational empowerment, particularly for sites which claim to teach psi abilities.