Psychokinesis or telekinesis is a barely useful feature of some young people and the forces it can exert are minuscule. As a result it atrophies unless continually practiced. I have witnessed a run of 95+ of 100 coin spins controlled several times by several people to a called result before the spin. Teenagers all, and once shown that it could be done, did it reliably. Other than fun, a useless skill, but many have it. A related skill and more useful is the ability to control the fair roll of fair dice to 7. Very useful in informal craps games, if used sparingly, and has been done in casinos. The long runs that casinos advertise may be house players with the ability, although used very sparingly can change the odds favorably for the adept person.
Telepathy is a more common skill but generally useful only for people in close groups performing a desired common task. Most common in musical groups, cults, and mobs. And also the coordination of flocks of birds, Primarily used for synchronizing tempos or responses. I have not yet after many years of observing the phenomenon determined whether it is the group reading the mind of the leader, or responding simultaneously with a neighbor, but the microsecond timing of the responses cannot be explained by reaction as the time lag between observation and reaction is measured in deciseconds and in music microsecond lags are noticeable and disconcerting. (Why zoom choruses are impossible without computer assisted audio and video synchronization of individual players.) As a lifetime choral singer I theorize that most synchronize with a leader but correct by synchronization with neighbors(s). The baton is merely a telepathy aid, as the reaction time of different members is different enough to ruin the synchronization if sight response was all there is.
More rare is some telepathy in intimately bonded couples, under some situations, but many bonded couples can reliably win the dropped bill bar bet. Reaction time insures that a dropped bill cannot be caught between thumb and forefinger held open over the portrait, even if the fingers holding the drop are observed closely. But if the intent to drop is read telepathically reaction times are cancelled out and the bill is caught near the portrait. I have observed a couple win with their backs to a common wall, the bill held in a doorway in the wall.
It is also well documented that dogs read a human companion’s mind, and apparently some non-companion minds. “Don’t trust anyone your dog doesn’t like.” Dogs going to the door when their companion steps off the bus no matter if it is the usual time or a later time or when the car turns the corner into the home street is usual behavior. At obedience trials dogs respond to cues, visual or verbal, before any response time lag. I am not familiar with horses, but riders tell me that horses respond the same way.
