index.htm    Vulcan    Psionics       Psionics, the discipline dealing with practical application of preternatural powers, has become quite highly developed by the Vulcans as both art and science, though naturally poorly understood among non-telepathic races. It was made a requirement for entry into the Inter-Galactic Council, used for faster-than-light (FTL) communication and to detect and fight machine and artificial intelligences (MIs, AIs).                       A glossary of basic terms may be a good place to begin.  LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS                                        MULTI-PLY MINDMELDINGS   1: subconsciousness                                                                  (Mentor of Arisia)   2: subnormal consciousness (hypnogogic)                2-ply: power over a family, couple   3: normal consciousness                                          3-ply: power over a society, triumvirate   4: supernormal consciousness (SSP)                       4-ply: power over a world   5: psychic consciousness                                        5-ply: power to over a galaxy   8: mediumistic consciousness                                  6-ply: power over space-time                                      9: empathic consciousness                                      7-ply: power over hyperdimensions                     10: telepathic consciousness                                                 11. mindmelding consciousness (grokking)                      KINDS OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS                     12. zygophrenic consciousness (gestalt)                                          (Jim McKeever)                                                                                                 CE1K: sighting                                                                                                 CE2K: physical evidence INTERSTELLAR RELATIVE SAPIENCE CODE                         CE3K: physical contact                      (William Sleator)                                                CE4K: communication IRSC   5: self-conflicted                                                            CE5K: commitment IRSC 10: world-destroyer                                                           CE6K: transformation IRSC 100: teachable fool                                                           CE7K: union (grokking) IRSC 150: truthteller           LEVELS OF SUPERNATURAL POWERS               (Christina Larner) A1: simple manipulation of supernatural powers A2: dangerous manipulation of simple supernatural powers a1: limited manipulation of simple supernatural powers a2: dangerous but limited use of simple supernatural powers B: ritualized  individual manipulation of supernatural powers C1: ritualized group manipulation of supernatural powers C2: ritualized group manipulation of supernatural powers with demonophany (CE2K) C3: fully ritualized group manipulation with human sacrifice (CE3K-CE7K) COMBINATORY TELEPATHY AB: A is reading B's mind ABA: A is reading 'B is reading A's mind" in B's mind ABAB: A is reading '"B is reading 'A is reading B's mind' in B's mind ABAH: A is reading 'B is reading A's mind" in B's mind but hiding it from B's mind ABH: A is reading B's mind but hiding it from B's mind BA: B is reading A's mind BAB: B is reading "A is reading B's mind" in A's mind BABH: B is reading "A is reading B's mind" in A's mind but is hiding it from A's mind CAB: C is reading "A is reading B's mind" in A's mind CAHB: C is reading "A is reading B's mind" in A's mind and hiding it from A's mind CABH: C is reading "A is reading B's mind" in A's mind and hiding it from B's mind CHAB: C is reading "A is reading B's mind" in A's mind and hiding it from both a's mind and B's mind PSIONIC DISCIPLINES  (Task Force Games) 9: Srunihki -- general amateur psionic discipline 8: Surini Maklar -- psionic discipline devoted to acquisition and manipulation of raw data, or factual knowledge 7: Vesehr of Trak -- (Traken) psionic discipline devoted to the perfection of one's own physical form and physical world 6:Srenkon De Kafli -- an offshoot of the Korini Dercou, who instead of avoiding the enemy, take control of their minds and render them incapable of commiting any hostile acts. 5: Paktoc Kelfee  -- (Kelfeen) psionic discipline devoted to the development of pure intellect, abstract philosophy, meditation 4: Tenets of Serin -- (Serinen) psionic discipline devoted to healing, especially mental illnesses 3: Korini Dercou -- psionic discipline devoted to stealth, gile, obfuscution and misdirection without outright dishonesty 2: Path of Mey'lar -- (Mey'laren) psionic discipline devoted to Travellers, dedicated to perception (time, space and reality) and learning in art, science, philosophy 1: Path of J'haniar -- (J'haniaren) psionic discipline devoted to telepathy and mindmeldering 0: Klonik Path -- (Kloniken) psionic non-discipline combining the other nine in llogical, unexpected ways acathisa: power to continue in motion indefinately agnosia -- power to selectively not recognize something familiar amaurosis -- power to not see amnesia -- power to forget one's own past analgesia -- power ignore pain apportation: psychokinetic power to bring distant objects near (2 Kg 4:2-7, Mt 14:19, 15:32, etc.) archetype -- original model after which all similar things are patterned assumption: supposition of truth, for the sake of logic autistic thinking -- power to use daydream (delusions,hallucinations, fantasies, imaginary companions, superego) to arouse ambition, deal with emotions, escape pressures autolevitation: psychokinetic power limited to own body autoscopy -- power to see one's self as others see you autosuggestion: power of conscious self to influence subconscious belief: state or habit of trustfulness in incertainty belle indifference -- power to accept with calm other powers capgras syndrome -- power to recognize others' doubles catalepsy -- power to continue immobile indefinitely chod: voluntary, ritualized possession chromesthesia -- power to experience other sensations as color (pitch = brightness, volume = size) clairaudience -- power to hear what is not present to hearing clairvoyance: power to "see" distant, past or future things unknowable via telepathy Clang association: what sound-alikes have connecting them compulsion -- power to do work with meticulous care until goal is reached conception: generic idea conceived by "imagineering" confabrication -- filling in gaps in memory with fiction cryptaesthesia: power to know hidden things (Mt 17:27) cryptaesthesia -- power to perceive what is hidden cryptoscopy: controlled cryptaesthesia Cumberlandism: pseudo-telepathic reading of muscle movements delusion: false belief or opinion strongly held despite invalidating evidence demonophany: appearance of a malevolent supernatural power in visible form (CE1K) depersonalization syndrome -- power to think and act like ghost, robot, undead, zombi denial -- power to ignore unreal despite all evidence to the contrary dereistic thinking -- power to go beyond reality, experience or logic dermo-optic perception: power to see with skin, especially finger tips dixit: unconfirmed, sometimes dogmatic, statement doppelganger: spirit double, "ghost" of someone still living doxastic: pertaining to mere opinion eidetic imaging: power to remember everything seen eidolon: ghost ellogic: [illogic:?:logic, with syllabic ll-] between logic and illogic, see Clang association, cluttering, dysgrammatism, dyslexia, spoonerism, Ganser syndrome, jargonaphasia, metonymy, neologisms, portmanteaux, parapraxis, strephosymbolia, verbigeration, word salad empathy: power to understand and share another's mental state encredible: [pronounced "en-kred-ih-buhl"] between credible and incredible endiablee: put the devil into someone energumen: demonically possessed person ensanity: [sanity:?:insanity, with syllabic n-, Tib. bardo] intermediate state between sanity and insanity epignostics: study of otherwise unknowable revealed knowledge (Col 1:9) esper: person with powers of extrasensory perception ESPionage: use of psychic powers to spy euhererism: theory that all myths have factual basis extranormal: beyond ordinary normal to extraordinary normal faith: beilef without sufficient evidence fancy: caprious or delusive imaginings fantasy: free, unreaistic, improbable imaginings fideism: dependance on faith rather than reason flense: : strip covering off of flexanimosity: mental flexibility folie a deux: hallucination shared by two persons fugue -- amnesia and creation of new identity (persona) via confabrication, paramnesia galeanthrope: were-cat glamour: power to create ilusion in another grandiosity: power to recognize one's self as powerful,wealthy, important world-saver Ganser syndrome: power to give slight off answers gedankenexperimenting: purely mental, often non-logical, hypotheticalizing and inference gestalt: so unified as to be an integral whole rather than as the mere sum of parts, 12th level consciousness grokking:  power to form so strong an empathic or telepathic bond as to become nearly gestalt, 11th level consciousness haecceity: that which makes something or someone different from anything or anyone else hallucinating: power to sense what others do not as inhypnogogic state (‚cho des pens‚es, "voices in head", visual,olfactory, gustatory, tactile, kinesthetic) hiering: power to receive telepathically hozh'q: [Navaho] beauty not only in eye but also heart of beholder and spreading to rest of creation hyperaemia: power to direct blood and bodily fluids to diseased or injured part of one's body hyperaesthesia: extremely heightened powers of perception, SSP hypermnesia: extreme power of remembrance, total recall hypnogogic: related to the state between sleep and wakefulness, level 2 consciousness idea: transcendental reality pattern illusionist: person with power by encouraging presumption or misperception to spread erroneous concept or belief image: common conception symbolizing a basic attitude imbosk: hide or conceal impression: externally stimulated, vague idea inspiration: influence or action upon intellect or emotions by supernatural agent hypnoidal -- pretrance, eye closing, relaxation intuition -- immediate asensual insight invisiblity: power to make others not see you (Lk 4:30) jamais vu -- experiencing unfamiliarity in familiar, mooreeffooc effect jargonaphasia: power to speak jargon jaunting: self-teleportation Jesus factor: power that prevents Humans from self-anihilation jootsy thinking: [Jump-Out-Of-The-System anagram] thinking outside "the box" kalokagathia: that which is both good nd beautiful kenobe: expert knowledge: fact known familiarly, experienced levitation: psychokinetic power to raise an object against gravity (2 Kgs 6:6) limen: awareness borderline logology: study of the power of words, especially the spoken word LPSM: [logopsychosomatic medicine] holistic healing that includes words that affect mind and therefore also body   lusionist: person with power to turn minds to the truth and away from illusion macropsia: power to see irrespective of distance, "telescopic vision" mandala: labyrinth useful in traversing more mysterious interior path masochism: power to find pain pleasureful materialization: hyperdimensional manifesting in space-time metonymy: power to speak in euphemisms mindswapping: CE7K with loss of self-identity mooreeffooc effect: [coffeeroome ananym] experiencing familiar in a new way mulct: take away by trickery narcolepsy: powery  to instantly fall asleep nauscopy: power to see afar off, beyond "telescopic vision" neologism: newly coined word made by portmanteauing, punning, slip of tongue noemics: study of understanding noology: study of intuition noopneustia: immediate and direct intraspiritual influence without use of imagination, "suggestion" notion: vague, tentative or chance idea noumena:intuitive evidence as opposed to phenomena nvisiblity: state between visibility and invisibility nying-tul: [Tibetan] tertiary tulpa, subcreation's subcreation's subcreation oob: [out-of-body] power to see own body as if from outside opinion: view, judgement or appraisal oxplo: [occult exploitation] ignorant promotion of occultism to ignorant paralogic thinking illogically, llogically or jootsically parapsychology: collective term for study of all that is paranormal parapsychophysics: study of psychokinetics, apportation, levitation parapsychophysiology: study of stigmata phantom: something seen, heard or sensed but unreal phrontistery: place for study and contemplation pilpul: ingenious, hair-splitting,penetrating argument pistology: study of faith poiesis:creativity poltergeist: [Germ. "noisy spirit"] rap agent postcognition: power to know past events, sometimes mistaken for inherited memory or reincarnation evidence PPO: [permanently paranormal object} object with supernatural power, fka relic praying: power to make supernatural changes by words or ritual precognition: power to know the future not predictable or knowable via telepathy, usually in dream or daydream premonition: unfocused sensation of future event, hunch prognostics: science linking exeligmology with pronetics prophesy: power to know unknowable by normal means psychometry: touch postcognition psychophonics: phone ring precognition psychotronics: study of psi phenomena as a practical bio-energy source psytocracy: society artificially stabilized by behavior control technology psywar: psionic warfare pyrolysis: psychokinetic power to start fires pysmatics: question asking, not necessarily answer finding rapport: harmonious, mutual confidence-building connection between two minds, can be influenced by others' minds RSPK:[repetitive spontaneous PK] non-supernatural polt sabsung: [Thai] quenching an inexpressible emotional or spiritual thirst spieking: power to transmit telepathically spoekenkiek: power to see spirits SSP: [super-sensory perception] above normal, but not paranormal, perception, 4th level consciousness strephosymbolia: letter reversal syntheresis: power to know supreme principles of being, thought, morality teleacoustic: having to do with rappings teleathesia: power to perceive from a distance telek: ["telekinetic" contraction] person with telekinetic powers telekinesis: power tomove from a distance telepathy: mind-to-mind communication, often mistaken for pseudosciences such as chiromancy, graphology, ideodynamics; can be hallucinogenic, illusionistic, llusionistic teleplastics: usually mere hallucination, but sometimes spiritual action upon material guided by human intelligence thermoneurosis: power to control own body temperature thought: result of meditation, reflection or ratiocination tulpation: creation of tulpa, manifestation of (deep, dark) subcreation or C2 supernatural power understanding: grasp, comprehension of general relations of the particular verbigeration: power to repeat seemingly meaningless phrases vorganger: usually invisible but audible harbinger or premonition wabi: [Jap.] flaw that produces more beautiful, unique whole wei-wu-wei: [Chin.] conscious inaction, doing nothing at the proper time and for the proper reason yang-tul: [Tib.] secondary tulpa, subcreation's subcreation yoin: [Jap.] experience that continues to work interiorly long after initial stimuli linking past and present, experience and experiencer yugen: [Jap.] awareness of creation so intense as to trigger feelings too deep and mysterious for words zygophrenia: "Siamese-twin" mental state, 12th level consciousness