PK PARTY HISTORY BY JACK HOUCK

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• Publication Date: December 19, 1983
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FK FARTY HISTORY
by
Jack Houck
December 19 , 1983
~~. FK Party is defined as a t,roup of 15 or more people who meet to bend metal
using pNyr;,hvkirresi (Ply) ar mind aver matter . `I'he first FK Forty was held in
.Janrrary , 19Ft1.. The ohjectivf:~ was to assemble a group of people and create a
"peak c~rr~otional experierlce" (I t.eference 1~ . The author postulated that , at the
time of the peak emotional t~vent , the rrrind could make a connection with ,3n
object and affect that abject (i . e . psychokinesis] . The first F'K Forty was
planned to be a test of this idea .
The week before the first F'K Part;y , the author met aeverin Dahlen , a
metallurgist who had been involved with F'K research at the Univer:.ity of
California , Irvine . Together , a plan far the party was prepared . `Pwenty--one
people gathered- at the author's home an Monday evening, January 19, 1981. All
were friends of the author and came from varied backgrounds . After
introductions and general discussion , everyone was relaxed .and comfortable .
The author's grandparents'- silverplated silverware was passed out and everyone
had either a Fork or spoon . Severin stead in the middle of the room with
everyone seated in a circle and gave Ehe fallowing instructions
1~ "Get a paint of concentration in your head ."
2) "Make it very intense and Focused."
3) "Grab it and bring it down through your neck , down through your
shoulder , down through your arm , through your hand , and put it into
the silverware at the paint you intend to bend it."
4j "Command it to bend ! "
5) "F~,elease -the cvrr-mand and let it happen ."
He then instructed- the group to use their fingers to test for warmth coming out
of the silverware ar tv feel the metal surface become sticky . Everyona felt
pretty silly , ,,?attin~, there holding the silverware , until the head of a fork
being held by a boy (age 14) bent over all by itself i Almost everyone in the
room .saw this happen and experienced an instantaneous belief ~ system change .
Then the silverware in the han~:ls of many people in the room became ;oft. They
easily bent and twisted the :silverware into unusual shapes . The period during,
which the metal remainE.d saf t was between five and twenty seconds . Everyone
was sharrting and extremely excited . During the next, hour , nineteen of the
party attendees had experienced the metal getting soft and being easily formed
into any ::hope . hater we termed this "warm "farming" . Also during the firtit
party , the sarnP boy Put a ?7~--degree bend in a 5/16--inch diameter :tee! rod .
't'his wa,: very imprF.sw~ive bPCa~ase of the apparent Pace with which it was done.
(:7ne of the two party attendees why "did eat bend" was a lady who had told a
friE.nd befor? the party that, ~ti.he did eat uPe any setlse in bending silverware .
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At the end of the party she asked why she could not do it . The author was the
other unsuccessful bender at that first party. I-ie was so busy analyzing whit
was going on , that concentration on the task of bending had been difficult .
The second i-'I~ Party was held a rnanth later . This time a number of specimens of
different metal: , as well as metals made with different manufacturing
prace.,se:3 , were available to the benders . The attendees learned and practiced
with ilverware . Then they mere hat;~d irrta :spirals , bra~sr: strips bent in sealed bottles , spoon
l,~awl::; were b~iakled , and many :;teal cads were bent . No one was able to bend
the copper rad;:a . Iiastead , :orr~r,~ capper radti became sv hvt that the peaple
drappe~d therm to keep from being kaurned. Uver 85% of the attendees succeeded i,n
experiencing warm forming. The peaple who were having this experience realized
that they were doing something that most of thrm thought was impossible . Two
characteristic: of metal possibly related to PK are the number of dislocations
and the thermal conductivity : The more dislocations available in the metal
induced , for example , by cold working , the easier it is to bend . The lower the
conductivity, the easier it is to find the short period during which the metal
is soft . FGrged stainless steel silverware has been cold worked and has a low
thermal conductivity .
Twelve FK Farties were held during 1981. The format was continually improved'.
-The attendees were taught how to use dowsing rods as a means of "testing" the
silverware to see if "it was willing to bend" . This seems to reinforce the
essential belief structure . As with warm forming , most people succeed in usiry,g
a dowsing rod on their first try . It is also a useful method for helping t'o
connect the individual mind to the abject to be bent. A special feature was
added at the end of the parties . The participants held two forks at the ver',y
bottom of the handle and were asked not to apply force with their other hand'.,.
Sometimes significant bending occurred . Shouting at the silverware has also
been added as a means of helping to enhance the emotional level in a group'.
This procedure adds to the intensity of the command to bend and helps create
pandemaninum throughout the party , in order to help break people's
concentration thus assisting the release or "letting go" step .
The second year saw 24 parties orchestrated by the author . In the spring df
1982, Fran Zeff Brown ran a FK Forty far her parapsychology class in Orange
County , California , and achieved the same high success rate . This was the
first replication of the FK Party format. The author gave two FK Parties i'n
the t~Jashington , D . C . , area in May and June of 1982. Some of the attendees of
those parties began to run their vwn F'I{ Parties with very high success rates.
Far example , John Alexander has now held more than ,50 parties . Figure ~ shows
the number of people attending the author's PIi Parties , as well as an estimate
of the total numFser of peaple attending FK Farties, -based on feedback provided
by the many people running their own parties . In the third year , the number cif
parties run by the author has been averaging .three per month , and they
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generally have more people per party . -The largest party was held in Vancouver,
B , t; . , t:"anada , in September , 1983 , with over 44p attendees .
The ;ucces: rate .eems to drop a.t the bigger parties . This is spawn in Figure
2, wherein the ^uccess rate iw plotted as a function of the number of people
atten~Iing a party . It appears that the best party size is between 15 and 44
p~~rticipants . C)ne reason f'or the lower success rate at the big parties may be
that people do not get enough personal attention . About ,50?~ of the people
report experiencink; warm forming using the basic instructions given earlier
The rest seem to need somf: personal attention from the person giving the party
or from a helper. Also, at the big parties .a few people go around creating
some negative attitudes . The more helpers , the easier it is to prevent the
critics and analytical types from. interfering with those who want to experience
the warm forming , as well as to provide more individual attention . If there
were one helper per 20 people , the expected success rate would be between 80
and 100?b , even at the larger parties .
The success rate was unusually low at a Few parties . One of those was at the
1983 Parapsychological .Association Conference . The attendees might have been so
busy analyzing what was going on that they either did not want to or could not
experience FIB themselves . .Another low-success-rate party was at Los Alamos
New Mexico . Nine FhI) physicists , along with their wives and children , attended
the party . The wives and children did very .welt , but the men seemed to have
difficulty . Fart of their problem might have been their analytical nature
possibly more importantly , they all worked closely together in a relatively
closed society and doing something as "unusual" as a PK Forty was
subconsciously "not permitted . " In general , parties are the mast successful
when there are some children , the people are open-minded , and they enjoy having
Fun with a new and unusual experience. A few times, the author has given a
party starting late in the evening after an all-day conFerence . The people are
mentally and physically exhausted , which makes it difficult to get them al',l
whipped up for a peak emotional event .
In the early days of the FK Forties, it was very difficult to get a high
success rate with a small group of people . This seems to be changing in botk
the author's experience and for those other individuals who have been running
PK Parties . Same are suggesting that the ideas of the morphagenetic field
theory (Reference 2~ may be taking effect (the mare a new phenomena occurs, the.
easier it is to create) .
The only new feature added to the PK' Parties in 1983 was seed sprouting . Eldon
Byrd had seen Uri Geller do this in Japan in the spring . He suggested to the
author that it be tried as a part of a PK Forty . Un July 29 , 1983 , soy bean
Needs were put in water at the beginning of the party . Near the end of the
party , a few of these beans were placed in the open hands of the participants ,
Much to everyone's amazement , about half of the beans seemed to pop open and a
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few seemed to have grown a small sprout . This has been tried at four of the
author's FK Forties with similar results , There is not enough data or
controlled experiment y at this: time to postulate what might be happening in or
around the see(ls .
In searching far an explanation far what is physically happening in the metal ,
we have' tried a nurnbrar of different experiments , One of these was a "hacksaw
experiment" (f~.efere.nce 3~. In thi;_. experiment, four hacksaw blades were
purchased , Cme tyres kept ~~way from the others as a control and the other three
were expas~.~:i at four 1="I~ f~'artie: during a three--rrlonth period. Only Severir
Dahlen and tt~e author knew that these hacksaw blades were in a paper bag on the
floor in the r;enter of the trarticipant circle at the parties . The hardness of
all three exposed blades. war.: red~.l~,ed dramatically and there was no change in
the hardness of the control bladF~ , Many of the other experiments exhibited a
general softening of metals