Introduction
The reason for this document is twofold: The first reason I put this together was to keep a permanent record of the various myths, legends, and rumors which abound in the psi community. This record may have historical value, in future times. The second reason is that these kinds of rumors are often frank examples of paranoia and wish-fulfillment fantasy. They can be a kind of trap which unwary psis may fall into, leading to paranoia on a personal level, withdrawel from society, or superiority complexes. This document is written to show what is out there in the hopes that psis who read it will be encouraged NOT to take these kinds of stories at face value, and to very thoroughly investigate rumors before they decide whether or not they may be true. The people you hear these stories from may very often believe them wholeheartedly, and may very often claim to have proof of them...but often that proof turns out to be something that "a friend told me"...or the typical "it happened to a friend of a friend " situation which all Urban Legends seem to originate from. Urban Legends are exactly what many of these stories are, albeit rather unusual ones.
The Legend of the Ones:
A long time a ago, during a witch burning, a psi was burned.
There were two psis in town and they both knew the differences between
psis and mages, and people who use other stuff.
So when the one was burned, the others left town and went collecting
psis.
They then all moved to the moutains in the west, where they founded a
great psi community.
They are waiting for society to fall apart to come down from the
mountains and collect all the worthwhile psis.
The legend states that The Ones send out people to spy on the psis,
and choose those which will be collected when the time comes.
The Chosen Ones:
The Chosen Ones are very charismatic psis with super-powerful abilities
who were said to be fated to rise up and lead the psi community into
prosperity. This may be based on someone having once met a haute', but
for those of us who have met a haute' we find the legend a bit far-
fetched..
Arthurian Legend, Psi-Style
Some great psi leader collects a large number of psis, very loose knit
and disorganized. From outside of the group comes a psi who is trained
by the leader. The leader has a lot of knowledge, decent abilities (though
not extraordinary). The newcomer has many strong abilities, but lacks the
knowledge. The old leader disappears/dies, and the newcomer becomes the
leader. He creates a large group of powerful psi-warriors, and acquires
a powerful psi weapon, and they went off and conquered a small section of the
world and lived in prosperity.
End of Humanity
Begins with sociological critical mass--if you put too many people in
too small of a space, they will reach critical mass, and go insane at
some point, just as rats will. The checks, balances, and controls no
longer function because the needs of the masses has gone beyond them,
and their capacity for rationalization has been overburdened.
In an alternative version, the only the psis are left alive at the end.
Abandoning Ship
A long time ago, somewhere on earth, there was a clan of cave men who
became predominently psi. Thus, they didn't develop a whole lot of
technology. Time passed, and around the age of the Sumerians, people
ran across them, and took some of them into slavery (which didn't last
long). Those who were taken return with the concept of technology, and the
entire tribe begins traveling around the world, collecting information on
technology and more psis to add to their gene pool, and they settle somewhere
and use their newfound knowledge to create huge psi-amplifying devices.
They build a ship/ark, load up plants and animals, and they leave for parts
unknown (supposedly left earth), never to be seen again.
Tidbits
Atlantis and Lemuria were both psi societies that killed themselves off.
Rumors:
Somewhere near Sedona, Arizona, there is an underground brick complex.
They kidnap psis, experiment on them there, and then leave them in the
desert for dead. They have supposedly developed some interesting technology
based on their experiments.
The government has a manual on the proper government useage of psi abilities,
put out by the NSA and CIA.
They are supposedly building a military task force made up entirely of
psis.
The government has biomagnetic weapons.
The world has become a big battleground--various small groups of people
versus other small groups of people, etc. Eventually, all the non-actives
are dead. (Those who do not use psi, or any other energy type or magick).
There is very little advanced technology left. Eventually, most of the
Witches, mages, and faith-working religious sects, and outside-energy-using
psychic manage to nearly wipe each other out. The remainders join together,
summon up things, let things loose, and create a bunch of nasty stuff, killing
themselves in the process. The remaining psi groups that are left all join
together and form a Net, wipe out all those leftover things, killing themselves
off and blowing up sections of the world. Yes, that's right--everyone dies.
Supporting evidence: remote viewing and precognition by various psis who
had not conferred with one another previous to them, and one dead psi
found with wires sticking out of his head and a pentagram with point up
carved on his chest.
No supporting evidence.
Supporting evidence: The NSA has done studies available to the public
(for a substantial fee) mainly on remote viewing.
Supporting evidence: Testimony of people supposedly attacked with them,
and if you request information from the NSA, they state it will take
30 hours to research and compile their declassified information on
biomagnetics and remote viewing. And a few project names that persons
who claim they were involved have mentioned. An electronics company
who is subcontracted by the Standford Research Institute had an
individual fix some equipment in a room. The equipment in the room
included EEGs, Catscan, radio broadcasting equipment, a main frame,
and some unidentified electronic equipment. The SRI has a contract
with the NSA. The NSA refused to confirm or deny that the SRI was
doing research for them into biomagnetics. The NSA also implied that
some information was still classified. The Center for The Improvement of
Human Functioning International, Inc, in Wichita, Kansas, will offer
recovery services to persons claiming to have been psychotronically
attacked.
