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Originally Posted by Astromancer
Rhine-12
The world of Rhine-12 is a hell parallel or rapidly going that way. As in most Rhine parallels the experiments of J.B.Rhine lead to Psi Powers being proven. In this parallel, once the break though to learning PSI powers was made, it was ridiculously easy to teach PSI powers to others. Thus once one driven Researcher in the 1990's made the breakthrough to full telepathy it was child's play to teach telepathy and most other Psi powers to anyone in their teens or older.
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Well it started before that. When strong psions are asleep, the conscious mind is asleep, as in all normal humans. But the telepathic functions are easier for the subconscious to use than the conscious mind. Thus people's unconscious minds reached out and made contact with other minds.
Now the unconscious self is rarely a lovely and restrained personality, in fact we generally repress many unpleasant traits and urges, but these dream selves knew nothing of restraint. Dream rape and other forms of violence became commonplace. Where Freddy Kruger was one ghost, Rhine-12 has billions of Freddy's crawling out of everybody's subconscious each night.
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You could turn that on its head by saying that only altruistic urges magnify psychic power. That would eventually lead to just as much destruction through ignorance.
Giving all dictators empathy only for them to get assassinated in coups and/or cause massive political upheaval on a global scale.
Helping endangered species only for them to become invasive eco-disasters.
Etc.