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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 356102" data-attributes="member: 1106">I think you've missed my point.&nbsp; Enlightenment is about &quot;knowing the unknowable&quot;, whereas (as Psion pointed out earlier in this thread) psionics is traditionally a parapsychological handwave explanation to fit supernatural powers into a sci-fi or contemporary setting.&nbsp; The keyword here is &quot;explanation&quot;.Magic can be formulaic (especially hermetic magic), which implies that there is a magical science of it's own behind it, or it can be mystical and unable to be broken down into formula (such as much innate, bloodline, or spontaneous magic).&nbsp; Usually it seems to be a combination of the two.Psionics tends to fit firmly into the pseudo-scientifically explainable category in order to make it fit a sci-fi setting without completely delving into not-even-pseudo-scientific mysticism, whereas spiritual enlightenment tends to fit firmly into the mystical and unscientific (which means unpseudo-scientific as well, and therefore by implication unpsionic) category.The spiritual and the scientific (even the pseudo-scientific) are usually at odds, and eastern mysticism is anything but scientific...whereas psionics errs towards pseudo-science.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 356102, member: 1106"] I think you've missed my point. Enlightenment is about "knowing the unknowable", whereas (as Psion pointed out earlier in this thread) psionics is traditionally a parapsychological handwave explanation to fit supernatural powers into a sci-fi or contemporary setting. The keyword here is "explanation". Magic can be formulaic (especially hermetic magic), which implies that there is a magical science of it's own behind it, or it can be mystical and unable to be broken down into formula (such as much innate, bloodline, or spontaneous magic). Usually it seems to be a combination of the two. Psionics tends to fit firmly into the pseudo-scientifically explainable category in order to make it fit a sci-fi setting without completely delving into not-even-pseudo-scientific mysticism, whereas spiritual enlightenment tends to fit firmly into the mystical and unscientific (which means unpseudo-scientific as well, and therefore by implication unpsionic) category. The spiritual and the scientific (even the pseudo-scientific) are usually at odds, and eastern mysticism is anything but scientific...whereas psionics errs towards pseudo-science. [/QUOTE]

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