PSI Games 2025: Psychic Abilities Olympics
From August 1–3, 2025, the Omni Charlottesville Hotel hosted the inaugural PSI Games — a gathering blending structured competition, hands-on learning, and deep conversations about the nature of human consciousness. With disclosure emerging as a central public conversation, many saw the event as a sign of the times — an era of curiosity, openness, and exploration of the unknown.
PSI refers to a wide range of psychic phenomena studied in parapsychology, including extrasensory perception, telepathy, remote viewing, precognition, and psychokinesis. The PSI Games tested these abilities in a public setting, combining scientific curiosity with the thrill of competition. These skills are not only real to those who practice and demonstrate them under controlled conditions, but also increasingly recognized as strategically valuable in a world where every advantage counts.
As the world’s first kid-friendly psychic abilities conference and tournament, the event aimed to educate, inspire, and connect people. Organized by nonprofit Quest Gate under founder and executive director Hakim Isler, it had the support of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the University of Virginia’s Division of Perceptual Studies. The goal was not to prove the impossible, but to explore what becomes possible when curiosity, integrity, and skill meet in a supportive community.
The program featured a five-category team tournament: Remote Viewing, Mind Sight (extra-ocular vision), Precognition, Psychokinesis, and Pendulum Dowsing. Before the contests, participants joined practice sessions — from guided remote viewing drills to dowsing treasure hunts — using tools like pendulums and rods. These sessions let competitors refine their abilities before entering the official, double-blind challenges.
Each challenge had its own highlights. In Mind Sight, blindfolded participants demonstrated color and number identification, with footage from the weekend showing accurate, on-the-spot results that drew positive reactions. Psychokinesis stations featured devices like the Egely Wheel, which responded visibly to focused intent. Dowsing events included the Hidden Treasure Challenge, where rods and pendulums were used to pinpoint concealed targets. Remote viewing and precognition ran as structured, time-stamped tasks with later reveals, echoing the training and live exercises led by instructors on the program.
The history of remote viewing was present in spirit, with legacies of pioneers like Ingo Swann and Russell Targ — whose work in the U.S. government’s Stargate Project helped define protocols still used today — echoed in the event’s structure and instruction. Both Swann and Targ advanced the idea that consciousness can extend beyond the limits of the senses, a principle at the heart of PSI Games.
Five teams of five competitors, each specializing in one category, competed for points. All participants passed a pre-screening and qualifying assessment, sometimes including a Zoom-based skill test. Cumulative points determined the winners. On Sunday, Team Vision Without Eyes (VWE) claimed the $3,000 top prize, with second and third place teams receiving $2,000 and $1,000 respectively.
Beyond the competition, the conference featured workshops, keynotes, and immersive experiences. Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell spoke on telepathy in non-verbal autistic children, Danny Sheehan discussed legal and societal aspects of psi and UFO phenomena, and Thomas Campbell shared his theory of consciousness. Paul H. Smith and Dale Graff, veterans of the U.S. government’s remote viewing program, provided practical training. Other highlights included Pam Coronado’s psychic detective workshop, Nelson Dellis’s memory mastery class, Reiki healing sessions, interactive Psi Tribe meetups, and a Skywatch with Chris Bledsoe. VIP ticket holders met with speakers, and attendees could tour UVA’s Division of Perceptual Studies.
Tickets ranged from $150 General Admission to the $625 Platinum Package, which included unlimited workshop access, hosted meals, VIP experiences, and a special T-shirt. Family discounts improved accessibility, with free entry for children ages 6–14 and discounts for teens and parents. Vendors offered products and services tied to human potential and consciousness.
The event sold out ahead of time. While not livestreamed, professionally recorded replays are available. The atmosphere was described as energetic and collaborative, with scientists mingling with intuitive practitioners and moments of shared excitement during challenge reveals.
The timing of the PSI Games adds to its cultural significance. As interest in disclosure, UAP research, and consciousness exploration grows — through congressional hearings, whistleblower accounts, and open discussions — the event serves as both a celebration and a milestone, reflecting a shift toward openness and the merging of science, spirituality, and the unexplained.
Unlike hyper-controlled prize contests like the $500,000 Paranormal Challenge, PSI Games values lived experience, communal observation, and participatory testing alongside measurable data. It accepts that some truths may be real even if current science cannot fully measure them, fostering a culture of exploration free from adversarial skepticism.
The momentum is reinforced by statements from government-linked scientists. In May 2025, physicist Hal Puthoff told Joe Rogan that the United States has recovered “more than 10” non‑human craft, based on decades of cleared research. Along with remarks from Eric W. Davis and revelations about programs like Immaculate Constellation, this underscores that disclosure is already unfolding. PSI Games’ disciplines, such as remote viewing, connect directly to official research, positioning the event as a public-facing continuation of once-classified inquiry.
Recent whistleblower accounts of the Pentagon’s Immaculate Constellation program describe crash-retrieval and reverse‑engineering projects, tight compartmentalization, and increasing pressure for transparency. Against this backdrop, PSI Games functions as a civic counterpart to official disclosure — a venue for open training and exchange in readiness for engagement with claims of non‑human intelligence and consciousness-based technology.
The idea of a psychic arms race, reminiscent of the Cold War era when figures like Soviet PK specialist Nina Kulagina were studied for potential strategic advantages, also resonates here. In a world where tensions between major powers like the U.S., China, and Russia continue, PSI Games reflects the idea that developing such skills in the open could provide benefits once sought behind closed doors.
Congress mirrors this shift. Rep. Eric Burlison has openly discussed a U.S. crash‑retrieval program, cited species types like grays, Nordics, reptilians, and insectoids, and acknowledged the potential of interdimensional entities, pointing toward a late 2025 hearing. In this climate, PSI Games’ open, skill‑building environment feels like part of a broader national conversation.
Psionics concepts also align with the moment. The possibility that non‑human technologies may be keyed to consciousness reframes psi skills as practical interfaces. If certain craft respond to focused mind states, then abilities trained at PSI Games — from precise remote viewing to disciplined PK — could be essential operator skills. In this light, PSI Games serves as a public training ground for a future where human consciousness works alongside advanced technology.
Charlottesville now holds the honor of hosting the first-ever psychic Olympics — an event where remote viewers, mind-sight adepts, and dowsers stepped into the spotlight to explore the true potential of the human mind.
