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99-406: The OVA series is based on Futaro Yamada 's novel Makai Tensho . Although of a similar style, Ninja Resurrection is not a sequel to the anime film Ninja Scroll , despite being marketed as one outside of Japan. It also heavily borrows and adapts scenes and elements from Ken Ishikawa 's manga adaptation from 1986 and Shouko Toba's manga adaptation from 1997. Ninja Resurrection takes place in

198-497: A basketball player taking a series of free throws . When they were instructed to visualize him making his shots, they felt that they had contributed to his success. Other experiments designed to create an illusion of telekinesis have demonstrated that this depends, to some extent, on the subject's prior belief in telekinesis. A 2006 meta-analysis of 380 studies found a small positive effect that can be explained by publication bias . Magicians have successfully simulated some of

297-571: A 19-year-old secretary, was said to have telekinetic powers by parapsychologist Hans Bender in the Rosenheim Poltergeist case in the 1960s. Magicians and scientists who investigated the case suspected the phenomena were produced by trickery. Swami Rama , a yogi skilled in controlling his heart functions, was studied at the Menninger Foundation in the spring and fall of 1970 and was alleged by some observers at

396-483: A British psychic in the late 1970s, was known for his alleged telekinetic ability to bend spoons and teleport objects in and out of sealed containers. British physicist John Hasted tested North in a series of experiments which he claimed had demonstrated telekinesis, though his experiments were criticized for lack of scientific controls. North was tested in Grenoble on December 19, 1977, in scientific conditions and

495-496: A Japanese writer, poet, or screenwriter is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Psychokinesis Telekinesis (from Ancient Greek τηλε-  'far off' and -κίνησις  'motion' ) is a purported psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Experiments to prove the existence of telekinesis have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability . There

594-408: A battering-ram to enter the castle, and the soldiers battle their enemies. Shiro gathers the women, children, and elderly in the chapel, which the soldiers can't enter because it is protected by a seal. He promises to protect them with the power of God. However, the four ninjas know about this seal and the four barriers that are maintaining the seal, and each one destroys a barrier. Shiro is alerted to

693-755: A bent key on the table and comment, "Look, it is still bending", and have your spectators really believe that it is. This may sound the height of boldness; however, the effect is astounding – and combined with suggestion, it does work. Between 1979 and 1981, the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research at Washington University in St. Louis reported a series of experiments they named Project Alpha , in which two teenaged male subjects had demonstrated telekinesis phenomena (including metal-bending and causing images to appear on film) under less than stringent laboratory conditions. James Randi eventually revealed that

792-593: A crucifix, then the virgin Mary, and finally into the Devil. After maintaining its Devil form for a few moments, the smog then returns to Ocho's body. A big bulbous growth forms in Ocho's throat and crawls under her skin to her belly, where it turns into faces and then stretches and pulls Ocho's skin chaotically as it wriggles about. Suddenly, many long strands of silver hair fire out of Ocho's body and wrap around wooden beams, bars,

891-532: A cultural fad in the 1980s, begun by Jack Houck, where groups of people were guided through rituals and chants to awaken metal-bending powers. They were encouraged to shout at the items of cutlery they had brought and to jump and scream to create an atmosphere of pandemonium (or what scientific investigators called heightened suggestibility ). Critics were excluded and participants were told to avoid looking at their hands. Thousands of people attended these emotionally charged parties, and many were convinced they had bent

990-425: A dark satanic prophecy about Amakusa Shirō, which foretold that if he was prevented from becoming Christ, he would return as Satan. Along with the narration, there are Japanese paintings of these events. The first OVA called "The Cant of Hell" shows a small band of soldiers raiding a village outside of Harano Castle, and smashing a statue of Madonna. All the villagers hide except for a little boy, who they shoot. After

1089-442: A dice game wishing for a high score can interpret high numbers as "success" and low numbers as "not enough concentration". Bias towards belief in telekinesis may be an example of the human tendency to see patterns where none exist, called the clustering illusion , which believers are also more susceptible to. A 1952 study tested for experimenter's bias with respect to telekinesis. Richard Kaufman of Yale University gave subjects

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1188-487: A hermit in the mountains. As the old man talks to Jubei, a little boy leaves Musashi's house thanking him for the lessons. Musashi's house is dug into the side of a mountain. Inside is very spacious with large gigantic statues of numerous warriors. Musashi recollects the Shimabara revolt and watching Jubei fight. He questions if he would be able to defeat Jubei. Musashi then picks up a paintbrush and begins tirelessly drawing

1287-430: A key continued to bend than non-believers. Internationally, there are individual skeptics of the paranormal and skeptics' organizations who offer cash prize money for demonstration of the existence of an extraordinary psychic power, such as telekinesis. Prizes have been offered specifically for telekinesis demonstrations: for example, businessman Gerald Fleming promised to offer £250,000 to Uri Geller if he could bend

1386-543: A laboratory at the Nuclear Research Centre, and failed to bend any bars or change the metals' structure. Other experiments into spoon-bending were also negative, and witnesses described his feats as fraudulent. Girard later admitted he sometimes cheated to avoid disappointing the public, but insisted he had genuine psychic power. Magicians and scientists have written that he produced all his alleged telekinetic feats through fraudulent means. Stephen North,

1485-422: A light) is followed by action (such as flicking a light switch) in a reliable way, but the underlying neural mechanisms are outside awareness. Hence, though subjects may feel that they directly introspect their own free will , the experience of control is actually inferred from relations between the thought and the action. This theory of apparent mental causation acknowledges the influence of David Hume 's view of

1584-598: A lot of buddhist pictures. Later that night, in Edo, during a full moon; Soiken Mori, Shosetsu Yui, Botaro, Inshun, and Mataemon stand on an altar in a room, surrounding Ocho, who is laying on the floor. They all start chanting "Satan". A cloud blankets the moon, causing the room to darken. Suddenly the moon turns red, the wind blows strongly, and electricity starts flashing within the room. Ocho starts levitating, her body convulsing wildly as her clothes fall off. Suddenly, she exhales an enormous cloud of smog. The smog shapeshifts into

1683-489: A magician's performance in which a fork bent and eventually broke. Believers in the paranormal were significantly more likely to misinterpret the tape as a demonstration of telekinesis, and were more likely to misremember crucial details of the presentation. This suggests that confirmation bias affects people's interpretation of telekinesis demonstrations. Psychologist Robert Sternberg cites confirmation bias as an explanation of why belief in psychic phenomena persists, despite

1782-620: A millionth of an ampere. Planer writes that such experiments are extremely sensitive and easy to monitor but are not utilized by parapsychologists as they "do not hold out the remotest hope of demonstrating even a minute trace of [telekinesis]" because the alleged phenomenon is non-existent. Planer has written that parapsychologists have to fall back on studies that involve only statistics that are unrepeatable, owing their results to poor experimental methods, recording mistakes and faulty statistical mathematics. According to Planer, "All research in medicine and other sciences would become illusionary, if

1881-628: A narration about the Battle of Sekigahara , the final battle between the Western Army, who were loyal to Toyotomi Hideyoshi , and the Eastern Army, led by Tokugawa Ieyasu ; the events that led up to the Shimabara rebellion, including the capture and execution of Konishi Yukinaga , a Christian daimyō whose beliefs forbade him from committing seppuku, and the banning of Christianity in Japan; and

1980-433: A ninja. Mataemon suddenly leaps into the trees and slowly kills the ninja. Two more ninjas attack him. He kills one and chases the other. The ninja flees across rooftops, but Mataemon is faster than him. Mataemon calls the ninja a mouse. The ninja calls up other ninjas to assist him. Mataemon tells them his name and how it has been a while since he killed a man. The ninjas believe he is lying about his identity. Mataemon removes

2079-564: A number of contexts outside parapsychological experiments. C. E. M. Hansel has written that a general objection against the claim for the existence of telekinesis is that, if it were a real process, its effects would be expected to manifest in situations in everyday life; but no such effects have been observed. Science writers Martin Gardner and Terence Hines and the philosopher Theodore Schick have written that if telekinesis were possible, one would expect casino incomes to be affected, but

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2178-428: A number of ways for faking telekinetic metal bending. These include switching straight objects for pre-bent duplicates, the concealed application of force, and secretly inducing metallic fractures. Research has also suggested that telekinetic metal bending effects can be created by verbal suggestion . On this subject the magician Ben Harris wrote: If you are doing a really convincing job, then you should be able to put

2277-584: A pair of scissors "floating" between her hands, is often found in books and other publications as an example of telekinesis. Scientists suspected Tomczyk performed her feats by the use of a fine thread or hair between her hands. This was confirmed when psychical researchers who tested Tomczyk occasionally observed the thread. Many of India's " godmen " have claimed macro-telekinetic abilities and demonstrated apparently miraculous phenomena in public, although as more controls are put in place to prevent trickery, fewer phenomena are produced. Annemarie Schaberl ,

2376-469: A phenomenon should only ever appear at the limits of detectability of questionable statistical techniques. He cites this feature as one of Irving Langmuir 's indicators of pathological science . Park pointed out that if mind really could influence matter, it would be easy for parapsychologists to measure such a phenomenon by using the alleged telekinetic power to deflect a microbalance , which would not require any dubious statistics. "[T]he reason, of course,

2475-476: A pill bottle across a kitchen counter by telekinesis. Her feats were endorsed by parapsychologist Charles Honorton . Science writer Martin Gardner wrote that Parise had "bamboozled" Honorton by moving the bottle with an invisible thread stretched between her hands. Boris Ermolaev, a Russian psychic, was known for levitating small objects. His methods were exposed on the World of Discovery documentary Secrets of

2574-407: A professor of electrical engineering , has written that if telekinesis were real then it would be easy to demonstrate by getting subjects to depress a scale on a sensitive balance, raise the temperature of a waterbath which could be measured with an accuracy of a hundredth of a degree centigrade , or affect an element in an electrical circuit such as a resistor, which could be monitored to better than

2673-594: A room. Frank Podmore wrote there were many observations which were "suggestive of fraud" such as the contact of the girl's garments to produce any of the alleged phenomena and the observations from several witnesses that noticed there was a double movement on the part of Cottin, a movement in the direction of the object thrown and afterwards away from it, but the movements so rapid they were not usually detected. Spiritualist mediums have also claimed telekinetic abilities. Eusapia Palladino , an Italian medium, could allegedly cause objects to move during séances. However, she

2772-831: A spoon under controlled conditions. The James Randi Educational Foundation offered the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge to any accepted candidate who managed to produce a paranormal event in a controlled, mutually agreed upon experiment. Currently, the Center for Inquiry offers a prize of $ 250,000, the largest in the world, for proof of the paranormal. Between 1979 and 1981, a survey on belief in various religious and paranormal topics conducted by phone and mail-in questionnaire polled 1,721 Americans on their belief in telekinesis. Of these participants, 28% of male participants and 31% of female participants selected "agree" or "strongly agree" with

2871-536: A spoon with the mind would involve the manipulation of those atoms through the four forces of nature : the strong nuclear force , the weak nuclear force , electromagnetism, and gravitation . Telekinesis would have to be either some form of one of these four forces, or a new force that has a billionth the strength of gravity, for otherwise it would have been captured in experiments already done. This leaves no physical force that could possibly account for telekinesis. Physicist Robert L. Park has found it suspicious that

2970-403: A variety of ways". Their conclusion, published in a 1987 report, was that there was no scientific evidence for the existence of telekinesis. Carl Sagan included telekinesis in a long list of "offerings of pseudoscience and superstition" which "it would be foolish to accept ... without solid scientific data". Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman advocated a similar position. Felix Planer,

3069-413: A wave of confusion among anime fans. First, the animated film ended in a cliffhanger and was never finished after only two episodes were completed. Second and more importantly, most viewers felt they were led to believe that this was a sequel to Ninja Scroll , as both titles featured a main character named Jubei, similar design and animation style and even the title logo was given a design similar to that of

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3168-453: Is a historical narration about the strongest swordsmen of the time and how swordsmanship became a science and evolved. The samurai's discussed are Musashi Miyamoto, Mataemon Araki, Inshun Hosowei, Botaro Tamiya, Munenori Yagyu, and Jubei Yagyu. It states that their battles are legendary but their deaths are shrouded in mystery; for example, Musashi disappeared in foggy mountains and Mataemon was poisoned by an unknown person. Several months after

3267-477: Is a street festival going on that night, with hundreds of people in attendance. Botaro is standing in the crowd. He draws his sword and begins slicing randomly, cutting men, women, and children in half. As people start fleeing, Mataemon races through the crowd, hacking people with his sword. Inshun carries a staff with a boomerang blade on the top. He flings the blade into the air and it cuts through many people before returning to his staff. Some persons try fleeing from

3366-532: Is attacked and raped by a born-again Inshun Hosowei. As he slowly rapes her, he licks her breasts and plays around with her. After he is finished raping Ohina, he kills her. Mataemon Araki, who is sitting nearby, comments on how Inshun likes doing that. Inshun retorts that Mataemon does the same thing. As Mataemon constantly stabs a kunai into his hand, he says that today he doesn't feel like killing girls but wants to kill rats. The two men are being spied on by

3465-409: Is easily slicing through Christian soldiers as he watches the events. Jubei tries to slice the dragon in half but it proves useless. He then flees but the dragon catches up to him, and he holds on to the snout of the dragon as it flies through buildings and into the sky. Shiro emerges from the top of the dragon's head and begins strangling Jubei. Two of the ninjas try to assist Jubei by firing harpoons at

3564-416: Is in complete contradiction to established science. In 1979, Evan Harris Walker and Richard Mattuck published a parapsychology paper proposing a quantum explanation for telekinesis. Physicist Victor J. Stenger wrote that their explanation contained assumptions not supported by any scientific evidence. According to Stenger their paper is "filled with impressive looking equations and calculations that give

3663-601: Is no reliable evidence that telekinesis is a real phenomenon, and the topic is generally regarded as pseudoscience . There is a broad scientific consensus that telekinetic research has not produced a reliable demonstration of the phenomenon. A panel commissioned in 1988 by the United States National Research Council to study paranormal claims concluded that: despite a 130-year record of scientific research on such matters, our committee could find no scientific justification for

3762-596: Is organizing an army of ronin and that inhuman creatures were appearing. He also tells Munenori that he saw ghosts: Mataemon, Inshun, and Botaro. Munenori doesn't believe him and scolds Godaiyu for drinking. Godaiyu tells Munenori he wasn't drinking. Munenori says that those men were some of the most skilled killers, and he ponders what Shosetsu is planning. He then begins coughing uncontrollably. Godaiyu says that Jubei would be useful. Munenori yells at him to never mention that name, and Godaiyu apologises. Munenori tells him to continue observing Shosetsu, and Godaiyu slides away into

3861-399: Is stopped by Soiken, who shows him the severed heads of the two children and tells him not to trust Jubei. Shiro goes ballistic and uses his magic to summon a lot of power into himself. He then uses the power of psychokinesis to destroy the roof and fire the tanto and shingles at Jubei. Shiro then summons a black dragon with which he attacks Jubei. Miyamoto Musashi, who has entered the castle,

3960-415: Is that the microbalance stubbornly refuses to budge." He has suggested that the reason statistical studies are so popular in parapsychology is that they introduce opportunities for uncertainty and error, which are used to support the experimenter's biases. Cognitive bias research has suggested that people are susceptible to illusions of telekinesis. These include both the illusion that they themselves have

4059-758: Is to move any kind of object on it when it is charged with static electricity by rubbing a towel or hand on it. Physicist John Taylor wrote, "It is very likely that electrostatics is all that is needed to explain Alla Vinogradova's apparently paranormal feats." Psychics have also claimed the telekinetic ability to bend metal. Uri Geller was famous for his spoon bending demonstrations, allegedly by telekinesis. He has been caught many times using sleight of hand . According to science writer Terence Hines , all of Geller's effects have been recreated using conjuring tricks. The French psychic Jean-Pierre Girard has claimed he can bend metal bars by telekinesis. He

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4158-402: Is too young to quit being a warrior. Jubei tells him he is tired of murdering in the name of duty. The old man asks Jubei how many persons he killed but Jubei tells him that he lost count. The old man says that he should take a break and rest a little. The old man also says that Jubei reminds him of an old friend named Musashi Miyamoto, who strove to excel everyone in swordsmanship and now lives as

4257-545: The Tokugawa era, at a time when Christians in Japan were being persecuted . The leader of the Shimabara Rebellion , Amakusa Shirō , hoped to resist the government forces attacking Christians like him, but is assassinated. Soon after, Amakusa's restless spirit returns to avenge his fallen comrades and is up to Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi to put a stop to the demonic onslaught. The Revenge of Jubei begins with

4356-521: The inverse-square law , the second law of thermodynamics , and the conservation of momentum . Because of this, scientists have demanded a high standard of evidence for telekinesis, in line with Marcello Truzzi 's dictum "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof". The Occam's razor law of parsimony in scientific explanations of phenomena suggests that the explanation of telekinesis in terms of ordinary ways—by trickery, special effects or by poor experimental design—is preferable to accepting that

4455-516: The laws of physics should be rewritten. Philosopher and physicist Mario Bunge has written that: [telekinesis] violates the principle that mind cannot act directly on matter. (If it did, no experimenter could trust his readings of measuring instruments.) It also violates the principles of conservation of energy and momentum. The claim that quantum mechanics allows for the possibility of mental power influencing randomizers—an alleged case of micro-[telekinesis]—is ludicrous since that theory respects

4554-566: The Russian Psychics (1992). He would sit on a chair and allegedly move the objects between his knees; but when filmed, lighting conditions revealed a fine thread fixed between his knees, suspending the objects. Russian psychic Alla Vinogradova was said to be able to move objects without touching them on transparent acrylic plastic or a plexiglass sheet. Parapsychologist Stanley Krippner observed Vinogradova rub an aluminum tube before moving it allegedly by telekinesis. He suggested that

4653-544: The Shimabara Riot, Jubei is resting under a tree when he starts to have memories of the riot and all the bodies. An old man is riding into the Yagyu lands when he spots a boy and a girl spear-fishing. The girl keeps nagging the boy and he dunks her into the water. The old man rides on towards the Yagyu estate. The girl jumps onto Jubei and pretends to be frighten of a snake. She then confesses how much she likes Jubei. When

4752-501: The Tokugawa. Hearing this, Shiro angrily demands to know the purpose of his existence. Suddenly, Ocho, who is revealed to be Soiken's daughter, appears and Soiken tells Shiro that if he wishes to be reborn, then he must become one with Ocho. Casting the spell that will allow Shiro to be reborn, Makai Tensho, Soiken cuts off one of his own fingers, which then comes to life and crawls inside Ocho. While Ocho proceeds to have sex with Shiro in

4851-529: The U.S., the deceptive marketing gave it one of the worst reputations in American anime fandom. Despite the series' initial negative reception among critics, it was received more positively among viewers and developed a cult following in recent years, with many praising it for its animation, orchestral soundtrack by Masamichi Amano , action scenes and art style. Futaro Yamada Futaro Yamada ( 山田 風太郎 , Yamada Fūtarō , January 4, 1922 – July 28, 2001)

4950-415: The air and descends onto the three resurrecteds: Botaro, Mataemon, and Inshun. After charging-up, the four jump through the ceiling. The moon returns to normal. Somewhere else, Jubei is walking through the woods when suddenly there is a strong gust of wind which cuts his cheek, causing him to bleed. Musashi is still drawing, when a sudden breeze blows out the candle. A drop of blood falls on his page. There

5049-484: The air and tosses a kunai into Jubei's eye. As Jubei stays bleeding, his father states that he knew Jubei would not attack him and used this knowledge against Jubei. Munenori tells Jubei that he must never lose and should exploit every weakness of his opponent and that he can't rely on strength alone. Jubei tells his father that he doesn't need his father's platitudes and that he is stronger than his father ever would be. Munenori banishes Jubei from his house and lands. There

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5148-410: The appearance of placing [telekinesis] on a firm scientific footing... Yet look what they have done. They have found the value of one unknown number (wavefunction steps) that gives one measured number (the supposed speed of [telekinesis]-induced motion). This is numerology, not science." Physicist Sean M. Carroll has written that spoons, like all matter, are made up of atoms and that any movement of

5247-407: The army's general, is informed of the attack's failure and they have suffered at 500 casualties. Suddenly, a cloaked individual appears and tells Matsudaira that Christian soldiers' holy magic has protected Harono Castle and that they will not be able to penetrate the castle while they are protected. He then tells Matsudaira to leave the matter to him before disappearing. A brief narration then explains

5346-400: The burning chapel, Soiken declares that from the flesh and blood of the victims of Shimabara, Shiro will be reborn as Satan and help destroy the world. Sometime afterwards, the corpses and severed heads of the victims of Shimabara are shown skewered on pikes both outside and throughout the remains of Harono Castle. Meanwhile, outside the castle, Jubei is shown to have built two small graves for

5445-446: The ceiling, and even Soiken's and Shosetsu's necks. Shosetsu tries to get it off, but Soiken tells him to leave it. As Ocho is suspended upside-down, Soiken calls for Satan and Shiro Amakusa to come out. Ten fingers push out of Ocho's mouth and wiggle about. Then a long split cuts from inside Ocho's body and a naked, silver-haired Shiro pushes his way out, ripping her into many pieces. Shiro shrieks and green energy shoots from his body into

5544-484: The darkness. Jubei is walking through a fog in the woods when he comes upon a small hut. Inside the hut, Jubei talks to an old man about the prophecy of 'Tenshi'. The old man asks if Jubei really believes in Satan and reminds Jubei that he saw Shiro's staked head. The old man informs Jubei that he has people familiar with underground paths and will be able to use them in case of battle. The old man then tells Jubei that Jubei

5643-471: The destroyed chapel and Mori Soiken was never again seen by mortal men. The second OVA is called "Hell's Spawn". It begins by showing a younger Jubei kill five samurai with ease. Jubei's father, Munenori Yagyu, scolds him for his constant murders but Jubei makes excuses. Munenori challenges Jubei to a duel; warning him that he will not hesitate just because Jubei is his son. Jubei attacks but restrains himself and only slashes Munenori's shirt. Munenori jumps into

5742-407: The destruction of the seal and senses Jubei, referring to him as a "mighty power that will kill us". Jubei slices a bunch of men and then comes across two kids whom he wall-runs past. The kids then find Mori Soiken, who smiles wickedly and kills them. Jubei meets Shiro on a roof and Shiro bargains with him to spare the lives of the women and children if he commits seppuku, which Jubei accepts, but Shiro

5841-419: The dragon, but it breaks free, so the biggest and strongest of the ninjas tells those two to stay put. He and the ninja who likes explosives perform a tactical attack: the latter opens up a bazooka and fires it at the dragon, while the former protects himself with a folding metal suit of armor with rocket propulsion (concealed in his small shoulder pads) and attacks from a different angle, causing massive damage to

5940-430: The dragon. Jubei cuts off Shiro's hands and falls to the roof, but the dragon's head is still alive and sneaks up behind Jubei. Jubei holds up the children's heads and hesitates Shiro mid-attack, which he capitalizes on to throw his sword at Shiro, spearing him in the chest. The impact rips Shiro from the dragon's head and flings him into a window of the main chapel. Shiro then angrily curses Jubei for what he has done before

6039-465: The earnings are exactly as the laws of chance predict. Psychologist Nicholas Humphrey argues that many experiments in psychology , biology or physics assume that the intentions of the subjects or experimenter do not physically distort the apparatus. Humphrey counts them as implicit replications of telekinesis experiments in which telekinesis fails to appear. The ideas of telekinesis violates several well-established laws of physics, including

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6138-597: The effect was produced by an electrostatic charge . Vinogradova was featured in the Nova documentary Secrets of the Psychics (1993) which followed the debunking work of James Randi . She demonstrated her alleged telekinetic abilities on-camera for Randi and other investigators. Before the experiments, she was observed combing her hair and rubbing the surface of the acrylic plastic. Massimo Polidoro has replicated Vinogradova's feats with acrylic surface, showing how easy it

6237-417: The existence of [telekinesis] had to be taken seriously; for no experiment could be relied upon to furnish objective results, since all measurements would become falsified to a greater or lesser degree, according to his [telekinetic] ability, by the experimenter's wishes." Planer concluded that the concept of telekinesis is absurd and has no scientific basis. Telekinesis hypotheses have also been considered in

6336-577: The existence of phenomena such as extrasensory perception, mental telepathy or "mind over matter" exercises   ... Evaluation of a large body of the best available evidence simply does not support the contention that these phenomena exist. In 1984, the National Academy of Sciences , at the request of the US Army Research Institute, formed a scientific panel to assess the best evidence for telekinesis. Part of its purpose

6435-456: The fifth force than to electric forces. Such an additional force between atoms should therefore exist all the time and not during only alleged paranormal occurrences. Taylor wrote there is no scientific trace of such a force in physics, down to many orders of magnitude; thus, if a scientific viewpoint is to be preserved, the idea of any fifth force must be discarded. Taylor concluded that there is no possible physical mechanism for telekinesis, and it

6534-468: The first place was to see how dumb America was. How dumb the world is." In the late 1970s, British psychic Matthew Manning was the subject of laboratory research in the United States and England, and today claims healing powers. Magicians John Booth and Henry Gordon have suspected Manning used trickery to perform his feats. In 1971, an American psychic named Felicia Parise allegedly moved

6633-468: The foundation to have telekinetically moved a knitting needle twice from a distance of five feet. Although he wore a face-mask and gown to prevent allegations that he moved the needle with his breath or body movements, and air vents in the room were covered, at least one physician observer who was present was not convinced and expressed the opinion that air movement was somehow the cause. Russian psychic Nina Kulagina came to wide public attention following

6732-476: The kite. They leap from the platform through a lightning storm and float down to the castle using capes. Using the aerial assault, Jubei and his four ninjas enter the castle and begin easily slicing the Christians in half. One ninja in particular, who has a penchant for explosives, detonates a wave of explosions throughout the castle. There is intense fighting with much bloodshed. Matsudaira Nobutsuna's army uses

6831-443: The lack of evidence: Some of the worst examples of confirmation bias are in research on parapsychology ... Arguably, there is a whole field here with no powerful confirming data at all. But people want to believe, and so they find ways to believe. Psychologist Daniel Wegner has argued that an introspection illusion contributes to belief in telekinesis. He observes that in everyday experience, intention (such as wanting to turn on

6930-493: The latter. Critics saw this as ADV's attempt to capitalize on the popularity of Ninja Scroll at the time, which had taken American audiences by storm with the exposure assistance from MTV's animated TV series Liquid Television . Ninja Resurrection' s interesting storyline and character development, violent action horror-gore, and episode cliffhangers left DVD audiences wanting more, that would never come, as no further episodes were released. While Ninja Resurrection sold well in

7029-435: The majority of academic parapsychologists do not find the evidence compelling in favour of macro-[telekinesis]". There have been claimants of telekinetic ability throughout history. Angelique Cottin (ca. 1846) known as the "Electric Girl" of France was an alleged generator of telekinetic activity. Cottin and her family claimed that she produced electric emanations that allowed her to move pieces of furniture and scissors across

7128-477: The mind. This process for detecting when one is responsible for an action is not totally reliable, and when it goes wrong there can be an illusion of control. This can happen when an external event follows, and is congruent with, a thought in someone's mind, without an actual causal link. As evidence, Wegner cites a series of experiments on magical thinking in which subjects were induced to think they had influenced external events. In one experiment, subjects watched

7227-559: The old man, whose name is Jushin Sagoguichi, enters the estate he is dismayed that it is in ruin and that some walls are broken down. A servant tells him that lord Jubei allowed it to get that way. Jubei and the two children arrive and it turns out that Jushin is the children's father. Inside the house, Jushin scolds his daughter for not being ladylike and scolds his son, who is his heir, for doing servant's chores. Jubei tries to calm him down with sake. Another young girl, named Ohina, enters

7326-414: The origins of Shimabara Rebellion. Matsudaira is then shown leading another attack on Harono Castle. A nearby soldier informs Miyamoto Musashi about this. Musahi then proceeds towards the castle, while noticing a kite heading towards the castle. The extremely huge kite, tethered to someplace, floats high in the clouds above Harano castle. Jubei Yagyu and four other ninjas are standing on a narrow platform on

7425-414: The power, and that the events they witness are real demonstrations of telekinesis. For example, the illusion of control is an illusory correlation between intention and external events, and believers in the paranormal have been shown to be more susceptible to this illusion than others. Psychologist Thomas Gilovich explains this as a biased interpretation of personal experience. For example, someone in

7524-659: The publication of Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder's bestseller Psychic Discoveries Behind The Iron Curtain . The alleged Soviet psychic of the late 1960s and early 1970s was shown apparently performing telekinesis while seated in numerous black-and-white short films, and was also mentioned in the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report from 1978. Magicians and skeptics have argued that Kulagina's feats could easily be performed by one practiced in sleight of hand, or through means such as cleverly concealed or disguised threads, small pieces of magnetic metal, or mirrors. James Hydrick , an American martial arts expert and psychic,

7623-425: The results were negative. According to James Randi, during a test at Birkbeck College , North was observed to have bent a metal sample with his bare hands. Randi wrote "I find it unfortunate that [Hasted] never had an epiphany in which he was able to recognize just how thoughtless, cruel, and predatory were the acts perpetrated on him by fakers who took advantage of his naivety and trust." "Telekinesis parties" were

7722-450: The room bringing food. She speaks graciously to Lord Jushin and Jushin compliments her on how beautiful she has become since he last saw her. As Jushin and Jubei eat, Jushin tells them that the shogun, Yorinobu, has requested that all unmarried girls of noble birth between the ages of 15-23 should be brought to Kishu. Jubei finds the mandate strange. Onwei, Jushin's daughter, protests stating she wants to stay with Jubei. Jushin tells Jubei that

7821-408: The said conservation principles, and it deals exclusively with physical things. Physicist John Taylor , who has investigated parapsychological claims, has written that an unknown fifth force causing telekinesis would have to transmit a great deal of energy. The energy would have to overcome the electromagnetic forces binding the atoms together, because the atoms would need to respond more strongly to

7920-406: The scarf covering the lower half of his face and tells them he is "a born again". The ninja tells him "then you will die again". All the ninjas attack him at once, impaling him on several swords. Mataemon condescends the ninjas' futile attack. He pops the swords out of his body, along with his intestines. He then unsheathes his own sword and uses it along with his dangling intestines to attack and slay

8019-458: The shinobis. Two shinobi escape him. One backs into a dark corner and is quickly sliced to pieces by a resurrected Botaro Tamiya. Botaro tosses a dagger into the other ninja but he replaces himself with a cat. Mataemon yells at Botaro for ruining his fun. At Tajima-no-Kami Yagyu residence, the ninja who survived, whose name is Godaiyu, reports to Munenori Yagyu. He tells him that Lord Yorinobu in Kishu

8118-422: The shogun is amassing a large army and gathering much food and it looks like he will increase taxes. He also tells Jubei that many strange men have been coming to the capital. Jushin also tells Jubei that many girls have gone missing. Jubei invites Jushin to watch the girls spar. In the morning, Ohina demonstrates her skills with a naginata by defeating a lot of men in a sparring match. Onwei then challenges Ohina and

8217-503: The soldiers are annihilated by a barrage of arrows. Nearby, armored Christian soldiers raise banners adorned with crucifixes and cheer for their recent victory. Meanwhile, inside a chapel that had been set up in Harono Castle, Amakusa Shiro's lieutenant, Mori Soiken , informs the people of their recent victory, stating that their victories were given to them by God as a reward for their piousness. He then states that as long as Shiro,

8316-498: The soldiers leave to report the Christian rebels to the shogun, a small girl named Ocho runs to the boy's body and begs him to wake up. The boy, who is Shiro, miraculously revives and shows the approaching villagers that the bullet hit a crucifix he had. Sunlight shines through the clouds onto Shiro and he raises the crucifix and a long beam of light shoots from it up into the sky. The villagers bow down and worship Shiro, declaring him

8415-554: The son of God and the returned messiah and saviour, and the Madonna statue reforms by itself. Meanwhile, an evil-looking man in the bushes watches the events as they unfold and smiles. 10 years later, during the Shimabara Rebellion, a small group of shogunate soldiers are seen marching though a thick fog outside Harono Castle. Suddenly, flaming arrows land near the troops and explode to form giant crucifixes, after which

8514-479: The son of God, is with them, they will emerge victorious. Shiro then addresses his people, telling them to not hate their enemies, stating that they deserve respect and that the current conflict was inevitable. He also reminds them that both sides have died and suffered. His main desire is to end this war and not further betray the will of God. Meanwhile, at the camp of the Tokugawa Army, Matsudaira Nobutsuna ,

8613-463: The specialized abilities of telekinesis, such as object movement, spoon bending , levitation and teleportation. According to Robert Todd Carroll , there are many impressive magic tricks available to amateurs and professionals to simulate telekinetic powers. Metal objects such as keys or cutlery can be bent using a number of different techniques, even if the performer has not had access to the items beforehand. According to Richard Wiseman there are

8712-416: The spinning blade, but are too slow. Shiro, who can use his hair for attacks, extends his hair to impale and slice-up people. Many are killed, with their bodies and heads staked for display. Soiken laughs and declares that hell is unleashing its force. The show ends with the four resurrecteds jumping into the air one by one. In 1998, ADV Films' decision to release Makai Tensho as Ninja Resurrection caused

8811-581: The statement, " It is possible to influence the world through the mind alone. " Parapsychologists divide telekinetic phenomena into two categories: macro-telekinesis , large-scale telekinetic effects that can be seen with the naked eye; and micro-telekinesis, small-scale telekinetic effects that require the use of statistics to be detected. Some phenomena—such as apports , levitation , materialization , psychic healing , pyrokinesis , retrocausality , and thoughtography —are considered examples of telekinesis. In 2016, Caroline Watt stated "Overall,

8910-417: The subjects were two of his associates, amateur conjurers Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards. The pair had created the effects by standard trickery, but the researchers, being unfamiliar with magic techniques, interpreted them as proof of telekinesis. A 2014 study that utilized a magic trick to investigate paranormal belief on eyewitness testimony revealed that believers in telekinesis were more likely to report

9009-489: The task of trying to influence eight dice and allowed them to record their own scores. They were secretly filmed, so their records could be checked for errors. Believers in telekinesis made errors that favored its existence, while disbelievers made opposite errors. A similar pattern of errors was found in J. B. Rhine 's dice experiments, which were considered the strongest evidence for telekinesis at that time. In 1995, Wiseman and Morris showed subjects an unedited videotape of

9108-429: The two battle to a standstill. Jushin compliments them on their improvement and soon afterwards leaves with them to Kishu. Before Onwei leaves, she reminds Jubei to bathe at least once every three days and to wear clean clothes. As Jubei watches them go, he tells his servant to send a spy to watch the castle in Kishu and that he, Jubei, would be gone for five days. Somenight later, at Shosetsu Yui's residence in Edo, Ohina

9207-414: The two children who Soiken killed before he and his men leave. While leaving, he walks by Miyamoto Musashi, who, after Jubei and his men leave, proceeds to laugh evilly. The closing narration reveals that, with the exception of four soldiers who had surrendered, Shiro's forces were completely annihilated. In addition, Shiro, whose severed head is shown on top of a cross, was found lying injured and immobile in

9306-503: The window breaks, causing him to fall into the chapel. Having survived the fall and surrounded by flames and corpses, a saddened and wounded Shiro demands to know why God has abandoned him and his people. Soiken appears behind him and tells him that God does not exist, claiming that he is nothing more than a figment created by the weak in order to give their lives hope, and that his former master, Konishi Yukinaga, believed in and fought for God, which caused his entire family to be murdered by

9405-457: Was caught levitating a table with her foot by magician Joseph Rinn , and using tricks to move objects by psychologist Hugo Münsterberg . Other alleged telekinetic mediums exposed as frauds include Anna Rasmussen and Maria Silbert . Polish medium Stanisława Tomczyk , active in the early 20th century, claimed to be able to perform acts of telekinetic levitation by way of an entity she called "Little Stasia". A 1909 photograph of her, showing

9504-429: Was famous for his alleged telekinetic ability to turn the pages of books and make pencils spin while placed on the edge of a desk. It was later revealed by magicians that he achieved his feats by air currents. Psychologist Richard Wiseman wrote that Hydrick learnt to move objects by blowing in a "highly deceptive" and skillful way. Hydrick confessed to Dan Korem that his feats were tricks: "My whole idea behind this in

9603-541: Was tested in the 1970s but failed to produce any paranormal effects in scientifically controlled conditions. He was tested on January 19, 1977, during a two-hour experiment in a Paris laboratory, directed by physicist Yves Farge. A magician was also present. Girard failed to make any objects move paranormally. He failed two tests in Grenoble in June 1977 with magician James Randi. He was also tested on September 24, 1977, at

9702-568: Was the pen name of Seiya Yamada ( 山田 誠也 , Yamada Seiya ) , a Japanese author. He was born in Yabu, Hyogo . In 1947, he wrote a mystery short story Daruma-tōge no Jiken ( 達磨峠の事件 , lit. "The Incident on Dharma Pass") and was awarded a prize by the magazine Houseki ( 宝石 ) . He was discovered by Edogawa Rampo and became a novelist. He wrote many ninja (忍法帖 Ninpōchō series) and mystery stories . Many of his works have been adapted for film, TV, manga, and anime. This article about

9801-568: Was to investigate military applications of telekinesis, for example to remotely jam or disrupt enemy weaponry. The panel heard from a variety of military staff who believed in telekinesis and made visits to the PEAR laboratory and two other laboratories that had claimed positive results from micro-telekinesis experiments. The panel criticized macro-telekinesis experiments for being open to deception by conjurors, and said that virtually all micro-telekinesis experiments "depart from good scientific practice in

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