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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darklight" data-source="post: 1770832" data-attributes="member: 2450">Very interesting thread...I don't really have anything constructive to add, but I find the concept of strictly faith-based 'divine' powers fascinating, which is one of the reasons I like Eberron, I guess...Disclaimer: the following may be a little far fetched, and maybe only tangentially on topic...and it is fairly rambly <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> People IRL who supposedly have 'psychic powers' could be seen as people who merely truly believe that the can accomplish 'impossiple' things. Isn't that an often used notion in movies/books that deal with those subjects? Also, there have been numerous accounts of people doing 'impossible' things, when they really, really had to, like a mother lifting a car to get her child out from underneath it. You could say that was possible because the 'judgemental' (Super Ego??) part of the brain was temporarily shut off, i.e. it didn't tell the rest of the brain/body that it would be impossible. On a small level I'm fairly sure that most people are capable of more than they think, if they stop telling them selves that they can't do so and so. In a fantasy world it would seem reasonable that it could lead to more fantastic powers, and that insane people would logically be much more likely to have such powers, because they have a much easier time 'switching off' the 'Judge' part of their brain (as previously mentioned in the thread).Oh, isn't it basically the American Dream, that if you really believe you can succeed, and work hard at it, you will succeed? (I know, I know...not quite the same <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )darklightEdit: spelling</blockquote>

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