In the movie "The Matrix" the kid that's bending spoons said it's not the spoon that bends, IT'S YOU.
So maybe instead of picking things up with our minds we're supposed to walk over and pick them up ourselves. If our mind controls our body technically it's our mind doing it in the end. I'm kidding around, I just don't have any idea how they do it.
At a spiritual talk I attended once someone asked a question about psychic stuff and the speaker said "you can't decide between white bread and wheat bread and you want to levitate things?"
