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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 5246202" data-attributes="member: 21169">Looking at the terms used for psionic disciplines in 1e, the only two really new ones are 'telempathy' and 'object reading'. The rest however mostly stem from the same period as that for the modern sounding spells I listed upthread - 1800 or so onwards, often from 19th and early 20th century fringe science and pseudo-science.Id Insinuation and Ego Whip obviously derive from Freud, but 'ego' dates to 1780, and 'id' to 1920, so it actually predates 'ESP' and 'teleport'.Cell Adjustment and Molecular Agitation/Manipulation/Rearrangement sound 'science'-y, but 'molecular' dates to 1815, much the same period as that for many spells.The earliest reference to 'telempathic' (used in Telempathic Projection) I could find was 1963 so that is a new one.A lot of the names are the same as those used for spells - Invisibility, Levitation, Telekinesis, Clairvoyance, Dimension Door, etcThen there's Mind Over Body, Object Reading, and Aura Alteration. Mind Over Body may be a reference to 'mind over matter', which was first used in 1863, but popularised in the 60s and 70s. 'Object reading' is a newer term for psychometry, which was itself coined in 1842. I wasn't able to get a date for the later term. The concept of colored auras is supposedly an ancient Eastern idea, but comes to us from 19th century theosophist, Charles Leadbetter.</blockquote>