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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ariosto" data-source="post: 5239881" data-attributes="member: 80487">I'm saying that when I want 'psionics', I want born psychic athletes instead of scholars of sorcery. Less Harry, more Carrie! The outcast thing, the fear and loathing, is maybe not necessary, but is a notable theme. If being born with psychic potential comes (or is thought to come) from spiritual development in previous lives, then that is a slightly different matter, because of the holiness involved.I disagree.It's been said a lot about 'muties'!I am trying to say that their power is entirely natural, of creatures -- not supernatural, of the Creator(s) before the world. This is in contrast with the primal creative powers typically employed by magicians, which are able to break seeming laws because they are aspects of the deeper true Laws of the cosmos. The psychic has naught to do with Runes or the Tree of Life, angels or demons or the like.No, it is rather to the point that no aid of evil spirits (or any supernatural entities) is involved -- the psychic's power is innate. If it deals with spirits at all, then they are souls (or equivalent) of natural beings.If a psychic's gift is, say, clairvoyance or telepathy, then that defines what the psychic can do. Wanting to turn invisible or levitate won't make it so, if one is not made that way. It's like having either hands or wings.</blockquote>