Introduction
Psionics is action of pure consciousness on reality as it is. This stems from the understanding that the universe, as it is understood by our brains, is an illusion. Since our very brains are made from this illusion, it is hard to escape it and into reality as it is.
Consciousness
It is of critical importance to understand a single concept first off.
Consciousness is the ability to experience, or having awareness.
This is not the same as thought, emotion or fancier concepts like selective attention. These are all processes of the brain (or of neuronetic processes that occur in so-called artificial intelligence).
We mean experience (or awareness) ontologically. We're not talking about efficient meanings of awareness such as that evidenced by statements like: "the robot became aware of the obstruction in its view".
Because experience or awareness is inseparable from ourselves, it is difficult to put a defintion to it without falling into the efficient meanings.
These clarifications make the defintion from the Third Theory of Final Causation clearer: “Psionicognizance is the active component of coherent consciousness”. This applies the term coherence to our better understanding of consciousness.
Coherence
The casual reader would likely think that coherence is just a fancy word for concentration, but this would take us down the path of neurological ideas, such as executive function. Where consciousness is about experience, coherence is the clarity of that experience. This is best understood by the practice of meditation, with mindfulness providing a narrow path through the confusion, bringing us closer to what we mean.
Active
The consciousness and coherence, it is possible to then become active. Activity in this sense means, allowing you to begin to experience a certain separation from the illision, and perform actions that generally fall into one of five categories:
- Clairsentience
- Psikinesis
- Psimetabolism
- Psiportation
- Telepathy
All humans exhibit consciousness, coherence and activity and manifest any or all of these categories, nearly all the time. It is the lack of coherence mainly, but also the recruitment of that coherence into activity, that prevent any noticeable effects. Nonetheless, evidence from countless experiments designed to bring each of these areas out from the statistical background, is legion.
Clairsentience
This is often called the foundation discipline of psionics as it concerns the awareness and coherence itself, bringing its practitioners the ability to see around and through the illusion. Principally, you become aware of the ethereal realm through one or more of its aspects.
Be aware that the ethereal’s aspects are constructions of ourselves, not the ethereal itself. Throughout human history, the ethereal has been mostly glimpsed through our dreams. That ever-transforming, illogical experience, whose details are difficult to remember and order in our minds, is our most common experience. We catalogue this experience into seemingly logical parts, that psions call aspects.
If you are able to see the ethereal realm in a clearer fashion, you can navigate it, to an extent, to perceive things that you would not normally be able to see, with just your physical eyes and brain.