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The original was posted on /r/highstrangeness by /u/MantisAwakening on 2025-02-02 03:56:04+00:00.

1. Psi is not rare. Parapsychology research over decades shows that pretty much everyone possesses some psi ability.
2. Psi is not like it’s shown in movies. The research shows it to generally be a “weak” effect. The most replicated psi experiment, the Ganzfeld experiment, shows that if people are given a 1/4 chance they can get it right about 1/3. Yes, it’s better than chance, but it isn’t usually reliable enough to be profoundly life changing.
3. Psi, like any other innate talent, can be improved with practice. Some people are naturally better at it the same way some people are talented musicians or athletes. But it still generally takes lots of practice to get good at it. Remote viewing is a good way to practice it.
4. Be wary of anyone claiming to be a psychic wizard. Parapsychology research shows that even the best psi practitioners don’t score much above 65% on average. It’s a conscious ability and is very similar to confabulation in how it’s experienced—even the experts couldn’t tell the difference between a hit and a miss.
5. Belief plays a role. This is well demonstrated, but not well understood. Parapsychologists call it the Sheep-Goat Effect, or the Experimenter Effect. People who have strong disbelief often will score negatively in psi experiments (psi missing), indicating they use their natural psi ability to give them the wrong answer to subconsciously reinforce their belief that psi doesn’t exist. Skeptics who research the phenomenon often get null results. This shouldn’t be surprising—the subconscious mind modulates psi, which is a conscious ability.
6. The NHI seem to be much more capable at psi than humans are. This has been shown in research such as the Scole Experiment and other psi experiments involving NHI participation. All bets are off when they’re involved.
7. Psi research suggests non-local consciousness may be the best explanation for much of it. If consciousness is modulated by rather than generated by the brain, this perspective provides a simpler explanation under Occam’s Razor for psi phenomena than assuming widespread methodological flaws or statistical anomalies across thousands of replicated studies in decades of research. With the tremendous scope of extant data, denial of the phenomenon is no longer the simplest explanation.
8. Psi abilities seem to be stronger in altered states of consciousness. This includes meditating, when waking up or falling asleep, sleep paralysis, use of entheogenics, etc.
9. Businesses and governments have both admitted to using psi to influence day-to-day decision making. It’s just another data point for them. But misapplication can result in bad data. Garbage in, garbage out.
10. A lot of the groups gaining publicity for psi on social media are misrepresenting what it is and what you can do with it. In particular, remote viewing is poorly represented in terms of how it works and what it’s capable of. If anyone claims to be reliably and consistently predicting the future using psi, ignore them unless they publish the results in advance, and recognize that sometimes coincidences are just that.