Spoon Bending is an interesting phenomenon. No doubt there are many illusionists that have fascinated others by creating the illusion of bending a spoon with the mind. Of course any physical bending of a spoon does originate in the mind as intention.

What spoon benders tend to want to imply is that they are using mental force and not physical force to bend the spoon.

Typically a spoon bending experiment demonstrating the application of a “mind force” would play out as follows. We place a spoon on a table, the spoon bender expresses his intention to bend the spoon and the spoon is then observed bending. Based on the spoon benders expressing his intention to bend the spoon we could surmise that the spoon bending was not a random event but is directly tied to the spoon benders expressed intention and some non-physically transferred force was involved.

I have yet to witness the above experiment performed in my presence, I would hold that it is possible not based on what is known by science but what is not known. Based on current knowing it is not probable, however something unknown could increase it’s probability.

We should note that illusion and fantasy do not provide for practical or beneficial application, so other than entertainment, they are worthless. A scientist is really ultimately concerned with practical application and a realized benefit that can be experienced with consistency. As we could all guess a Christian fundamentalist would explain it simply as the work of the devil.

What interests me about spoon bending is that a close and trusted friend had the experience of spoon bending without the effort normally required to bend the spoon. I have no doubt that is experience was valid, but what could be behind the manifestation of this experience?

This event happened at a PK party. Now it turns out upon investigation that there is physical contact with the spoon and a mechanical transfer of energy through fiction does occur.

What is interesting is that the amount of energy transferred resulting in the bending of the spoon does not adhere to the principles of classical mechanical physics or the expectation of the spoon bender.

What we also find is a very interesting observable phenomenon experienced by the participants at the point of their success that has a correlation with a valid scientific principle, one that is relatively new associated with virtual particles.

Indicating that the mind and it’s field affect apparently acts as a quantum fulcrum or rather may alter or change causality operations at a sub atomic level.

“Virtual Particles being Consciousness”

Many scientists / skeptics would immediately scoff at the idea of spoon bending and would fail to investigate the phenomena with an open mind.

As such they would never properly interview the spoon benders.

Having interviewed a spoon bender, a certain observation, they made during their experience regarding a common factor at the point of success was conveyed to me. Later when studying research and information involving the discipline of quantum physics there I found and amazing correlation that may reduce the energy requirements for moving mass.

But all is good because we would not want these egoic minded scientists discovering powerful things.
 

It appears that the electromagnetic field produced by the spoon benders brain influences virtual particles in such away as to trigger a quantum tunneling effect on the spoon or other metal object, at least that is the most likely scientific parallel. There even appears to be a buildup of energy which is released. The spoon bender puts their attention on an intention (bend the spoon) and holds this for a while. When they then shift their attention, usually not intentionally, from the intention the phenomena occurs. Keep in mind virtual particles do not exist when you "look at them", but only turn up when you "turn away" they may also be viewed as a quantum bookkeeping mechanism.

Many scientists would claim that because of differences in terms of scale and interaction between quantum and classical mechanics, practical applications using mechanisms operating at the micro level would not be possible at the macro level, yet there might be a factor that does make it possible.

Of course what happens goes deeper than this.

This is a bit about virtual particles from Wiki and below that is a bit on quantum tunneling. If you read and comprehend them with the “spoon bending in mind” you may get an inspirational insightful flash as various groups of dendrites make new connections.

In physics, a virtual particle is a particle that exists for a limited time and space - so its energy and momentum values cannot be defined with unlimited precision. (Indeed, because energy and momentum in quantum mechanics are time and space derivative operators, then due to Fourier transforms their spans are inversely proportional to time duration and position spans respectively).
Virtual particles exhibit some of the phenomena that real particles do, such as obedience to the conservation laws. If a single particle is detected, then the consequences of its existence are prolonged to such a degree that it cannot be virtual. Virtual particles are viewed as the quanta that describe fields of the basic force interactions, which cannot be described in terms of real particles. Examples of these are static force fields, such as a simple electric or magnetic fields, or any field that exists without excitations that result in its carrying information from place to place.
However, the above summary is not the complete consensus view. Because virtual particles do not exist when you "look at them", but only turn up when you "turn away" they may also be viewed as a quantum bookkeeping mechanism. Many in the scientific community view them as an ad hoc abstraction that is required because our current view of reality as described by quantum mechanics is not complete. It is thought by this segment of physicists that virtual particles will no longer be required when a more complete view of quantum mechanics is integrated with general relativity and gravity in general.
In quantum mechanics, quantum tunneling is a micro and nanoscopic phenomenon in which a particle violates principles of classical mechanics by penetrating or passing through a potential barrier or impedance higher than the kinetic energy of the particle.[1] A barrier, in terms of quantum tunneling may be a form of energy state; analogous to a "hill" or incline in classical mechanics, which would suggest that passage through or over such a barrier would be impossible without sufficient energy. However, because of differences in terms of scale and interaction between quantum and classical mechanics, practical applications of the latter would be inaccurate.
On the quantum scale, objects exhibit wave-like behavior; in quantum theory, quanta moving against a potential energy "hill" can be described by their wave-function, which represents the probability of finding that particle in a certain location at either side of the "hill". If this function describes the particle as being on the other side of the "hill", then there is the probability that it has moved through, rather than over it, and has thus "tunneled".
Now one other clue. The spoon benders at these PK events are actually creating friction rubbing the spoon.

Friction at the micro scale results from the Casimir effect or Casimir force.

The Casimir effect is the force that comes from “Nothing”.

The Casimir Force is an electric force, but its origin is different from that of ordinary electric forces. It is a purely quantum-mechanical effect arising from Zero-Point Fluctuations: a turmoil of virtual particles that come in and out of existence and that can violate the energy-momentum conservation of the system for very short periods of time, as described by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

By the way if we reverse the Casimir force we produce levitation. Which scientists are working on now.

This is from Wiki notice the “All pervasive”

In physics, the Casimir effect or Casimir-Polder force is a physical force exerted between separate objects due to resonance of all-pervasive energy fields in the intervening space between the objects. This is sometimes described in terms of virtual particles interacting with the objects, due to the mathematical form of one possible way of calculating the strength of the effect. Because the strength of the force falls off rapidly with distance, it is only measurable when the distance between the objects is extremely small. On a submicron scale, this force becomes so strong that it becomes the dominant force between uncharged conductors.
~Richard Gerber September 3, 2007 here

Now of course this is leading somewhere. Read Here