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just to correct something that may be misunderstood on the last post

even thought science is incompatible with magic pure psychic powers aren’t really magic because they are partially predicted by quantum physics while magic itself which uses a lot of rituals is ultimately incompatible with magic

the reason is that while pure psychic powers have the human consciousness as a source the magic uses “energy” of many different sources and many rituals that makes it unstable

not sure of why but most peoples will agree that the more specific the magic it becomes more difficult to use while vague magics with high risks and limited area effect are the strongest ones

to make it simple while pure psychic powers are limited by nature they are a little more controllable don't require rituals and are less affected by science but of course if you reduce the wave function they will be reduced as well

i won’t go deep on magic theory or quantum physics because i myself only have a vague sense of how they work and they are yet to be completely understood but this is pointless since knowing an incomplete theory won’t actually help you in develop the ability

we all have latent psychic abilities but most humans can’t control them because they are unconscious like the heart beating or sleeping

as you mentioned before psychic are often portrayed as peoples with high meta-cognition which means cognition about cognition also referred as self-awareness by many is the process in which a conscious being starts to notice how it’s own consciousness work

the result is like a computer that can hack into itself in human cases abilities like pk and esp can awake by controlling the subconscious

however there is a shortcut as you mentioned visualization and self-hypnosis and the risk as you are aware is the one of hallucination but if you keep trying eventually you will get there