Hello?
I know it has been a few months since this was posted, but I need to respond to this. One question, have any of you asked a real psychic about psionics? do any of you have any personal experience with Psionics? Even one brief brush with the supernatural?
like all good writing, you need to do "RESEARCH", and you need to have "Experience" with the topic.
Why?
To make a really good book that conveys "WHAT" your topic is, what it feels like, what it means, how is it a part of the world.
1. The Sybil, an ancient Greek order of women-only psychics. The earliest record of the Sybil goes back 4,000 years ago.
The Sybil, would serve as the "Oracle of Delphi".
2. Oneiroi. the ancient Greeks created beings who had god-like power, but were not gods. Oneiroi were gods of dreams.
There is a modern Greek society of "Dream explorers" that dates back centuries.
3. The Roma (Gypsies), the wandering folk is believed to have some measure of psychic ability. These people are not Egyptian, They are not Roman, They are people who fled Mongol hordes and found no shelter in the countries they fled to, and fled through. Some say they are the "west of india" people that Nazis called "Aryan".
4. Mesmer, a guy who sometimes hung out with Benjamin Franklin, the inventor of hypnosis, was said to also have "Mind powers".
5. Nostradamus, a physician who supposedly concealed the details of his precognitive dreams in cryptic poetry.
6. Grigori Rasputin, the mad monk. A Russian mystic who was said to have precognitive visions, healing powers, etc. before the fall of the Tzar.
His enemies tried to kill Rasputin a number of times; Stabbing, poison, strangling, hanging, shooting him, even tying the man up and tossing him in a freezing river to drown... He escaped the ropes and the icy river purportedly only to die of "Exposure" trying to enter a locked Palace building.
"Psionics" has some "peculiar" personages who may have had "mental powers" dating back centuries. The oldest mentions in western history could go back - to millennia before the beginning of the Egyptian dynasties. Signs of human civilization do not "Suddenly Start" only 5,000 years ago. Evidence from gobekli-tepe push the origins of civilization back 12,000 years, and other "rejected" archaeological discoveries point to numerous cataclysmic "bottlenecks" that wiped advanced human civilization from the earth many times! There are archaeological sites that date back to the Mt.Toba Super volcano eruption 65,000 to 70,000 years ago! One "Forbiden archaeology" site in Mexico dates back 120,000 years... a time when modern archaeology states there were no humans in the Americas.