Psionics

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Psionics is the study and/or practice of using the mind to induce paranormal phenomena. Examples of this include telepathy, telekinesis, and other workings of the outside world through the psyche. The topic is widely discussed in fiction. B. P. Wiesner and Robert H. Thouless first proposed the term "psi" in 1942 as a more general term to include both extrasensory perception and psychokinesis. The original terminology proposal divided psi into psi-gamma, for cases of cognition, and psi-kappa, for cases of action. These terms were later modified into "passive psi" and "active psi." Later, John W. Campbell proposed the term "psionics," from psi (psyche) + electronics (machine), which implied that the paranormal powers of the mind could be made to work reliably.