User blog comment:Angeldareaper/Can anyone become a psionic?/@comment-6005647-20130526050851

1) Not everything fro the craft require a certain amount of mind power, nor faith, nor belief etc. I will take the passive abilities example, I am a born empath, and I've been doing empathy my whole life, even as a child who did not believe in supernatural abilities, and did not get any idea about having abilities himself.

2) Society isn't something to blame always. It indeed makes the concept of psionics, magick etc. forgein, and even tainted in some cases, but the amount of people approaching it via relatively society-friendly methods, like alternative medicine etc. is raising.

3) Christianity has it's own forms of magick. Prayers for example, they are a form of communication with a certain entity. Also, they got their own rituals, chants, prayers, all form of divination to an extend.

4) Wicca is also a religion, and not the only neo-pagan and pagan religion that involves actually spellcasting, usage of supernatural abilities etc.

5) I personally don't fully trust it. How do I know that it isn't just an illusion? I cannot. How do i know that it is true? That's a tough question also. There are several model that actually focus on this insecurity, where doubt is the fuel of developing the abilities, like in science, where we are taught to doubt, we can take that approach to abilities also, in a more systematic style. Not to mention the models that consider everythign virtual, thus in that case one cannot trust him/herself.