Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-101.186.47.120-20180723095730/@comment-2600:8807:2381:7600:694A:FF80:3EC9:214E-20181003133120

Pffft. I don't need sigils to alter time, I can do that just through concentration. Well, technically speaking I'm only altering my perception of time. That said, so are the rest of you.

As per whether psionics are real: In the sense that this wiki would have you believe and to the extent that people here want to claim: No. In the sense of being able to get more out of your mind and body than you have by default: Yes. The vast, vast majority of people can't do anything at all besides delude themselves into perceiving things that aren't there or crafting personal tulpas, lame useless things like that. And the vast majority of people go for the "big powers" which I have never seen conclusive proof of someone being able to perform. This is not impressive, this is just a hobby for imaginative folk.

For actual things you can do, here's a list of "powers" you can train yourself to do: - Alter your perception through meditation alone. - Alter your state of mind through meditation and sensory tricks. - Resist cold. ( Not the same as cryokinesis and it involves training your body too. ) - Resist or even ignore pain. - Alter your perception of time. - Heighten reflexes. ( By tapping into your mind and body's survival reflexes without having to actually be in danger. ) - Alter your metabolism. - Increase or decrease healing ability. - Heightened empathy/emotion reading. - Hypnosis & Auto-hypnosis - Mental influence through heightened suggestion and subliminal messaging. ( Con-men get great use out of this one. )

Here's some that I've seen inconclusive evidence for: - Weak intuitive prognostication. ( It's hard to measure this one. Think of it like "spidey-senses". These seem to exist.  ) - Weak electrokinesis ( Mostly interfering with electronics, I've not seen anyone be able to control this with enough accuracy to do anything useful. ) - Weak tychokinesis. ( It's hard to measure this one too. )

Here's some that I've never seen verifiable evidence for: - Pyrokinesis. - Cryokinesis. - Non-magnetic telekinesis. ( I've seen cases of manipulation of small amounts of ferromagnetic material that could be psi. ) - Effective blind telepathy. ( As in, communicating with someone when line-of-sight is broken. ) - Effective explicit prognostication. ( Exact, non-cryptic narrations of future events as a prediction or as a vision. )

If you're training these without training your body to accomodate them though, you're going to be SoL on actually getting anything done. And not everyone can actually pull these off. There's no guarantee that you'll ever manage any of these, Basically all of the "cool" things, I've never seen anyone do without faking it. And you'll see that a lot on this wiki - people who have altered their perception or made a tulpa and then consider that "success" in the skill that they claim to be training. ( A user making a cold spot and feeling it and calling it cryokinesis. No the fuck it's not. If it can't be observed by thermal camera or by other people's perception without suggestion, it's not cryokinesis. It might be auto-hypnosis or maybe they've actually managed to affect their sensation, but that's not the same thing. )

A big, big, big thing to keep in mind here. Creating a tulpa is not psychokinesis. At least, not by itself. If you can affect the world around you with your tulpa, that's psychokinesis. A lot of people like to treat creating a tulpa like some great feat of psi when anyone with average to above average ability to focus can do it. It's just a thoughtform. They're not terribly impressive on their own and they don't really affect much. In fact, the original sources for the word "tulpa" are Tibetan monastic sources in which the goal is to create a tulpa and then disspell it, realizing it's only a construct of your own mind. People who couldn't distinguish that their tulpa wasn't "actually real" were considered to have failed the exercise and were generally considered lost. The whole point was to realize that you can create thought-constructs so convincing that they seem like manifest gods when they're nothing at all and that was a distraction from enlightenment.