Psychics

thumb|250px|The mind is quicker than the eyePsychics are individuals which tapped into the full potential of their brain, usually via intense mental training, biological enhancement, drugs or implants, causing them to develop psychic abilities. Despite it's esoteric nature and close connection to spiritual circles in the past, psychic abiltiies were not related in any means to any supernatural or paranormal power, and were simply a function some brains posessed after being modified or trained.
==History==
===Pre Cold War===
Most people historians consider psychics, such as astronomers or seers weren't actually real psychics - just regular people. Actual psychics only started to emerge mid-nineteenth century, when spiritism was on the rise in the Western World. Because of intense mental training, several spiritist mediums managed to tap into their brains and unlock miraculous powers. Still, psychics were rare - there were no more than ten actual psychics on all of Earth by the time the year 1900 rolled around.
During the 20th Century, the German Third Reich was experimenting with psychic powers via their secret Thule Society and Vril Society think tanks, with the Vril Society especially focusing on trying to tap into what it's members called the "Vril energy". The Nazis, conducting parapsychological research in castles and mansions all across the Reich, never managed to get too far in discovering psychic abilities, due to the outbreak of the Second World War.
===Cold War===
thumb|250px|One of the MK Ultra documents detailing the workings of Psychic brains (this is one of the least complicated ones)During the Cold War, both superpowers started researching parapsychological phenomena - Americans and Soviets; they were far more advanced in doing so, and took a far more scientific approach to it, other than the quasi-religious esoteric one of the Thule and Vril, replacing runes, long periods of thinking by candlelight in mountainside castles and dusty tomes of Germanic legends with brain surgeries and mind-altering drugs.
On the American side, the psychic research took form in two programs - Stargate Project and the MK Ultra. The MK Ultra project was a program conducted by the United States government to research the human brain and it's capabilities through mind control, mind-altering drugs and other means, in fear of alleged Soviet mind control weaponry. The CIA would research various ways of altering and expadning the mind, especially utilizing lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). The targets of these experiments were sometimes civilians, who were given LSD and then followed by CIA agents, who would note their behavior.
thumb|250px|A Psychic CIA officer tapping into his powerAs time went on, and MK Ultra project expanded, many CIA officers and other agents experimented on themselves, developing psychic abilities, especially one nasty trick of concentrating their thoughts and bio-electricity from the nervous system, and unleashing it from their foreheads in a form of brain-waves that upon contact with another human being's body would cause physical damage. The MK Ultra project also included work on other mind control and mind altering technology, but all of these experiments were shelved, and weren't used during the Third World War - most either weren't ready, or were too dangerous to use. And sadly, the vast majority of CIA agents that became psychics thanks to MK Ultra, were killed by Yuri Semashkoshov during his behind-the-lines missions during the last months of the Third World War.
The Soviets were also interested in parapsychological phenomena. First, research into this subject was banned by Joseph Stalin, because the Socialist Theory disapproved the existence of the paranormal - including parapsychology, but the ban was lifted by the 1960's, because the prospect of psychic weaponry was too tempting and too promising for the big mustache man's successors. The Soviets had dreams of using psychic individuals to look inside the minds of Western officials, from generals to presidents, without them even noticing a thing; the Soviets would be able to peer inside the thoughts of every single person in the United States or any other enemy country. NATO countries would lay open to them, ripe for destruction without even firing a single nuke, as the Soviets would be able to command their armies to fire at their own brothers-in-arms and civilians, or just simply to control their populace, turning them into mindless Soviet supporters.
thumb|250px|The human brain is a Pandora's box of electrical charges we can only begin to understand. Most brains are but receivers; however, some are advanced, sending and receiving charges as they choose.Suspicious individuals were rounded up, such as shamans from Siberia, mediums and parapsychologists from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic Republics, and many more. Names of some people related to these projects include Wolf Messing, Nina Kulagina and Leonid Vasiliev. This psychic research was worked on alongside the other two trump cards - Vladimir Demikhov's mutants and the Dome Of Light failsafe; it was however the one looked down upon the most. Mutants were real, tangible and very dangerous - the Soviets knew they can count on them; the Dome Of Light was also tangible, while the psychic powers were something the average Soviet man couldn't really see, and thus was highly sceptical towards them.
The worst Soviet debacle in terms of psychics was the 1969 incident in Peru, in which several Soviet soldiers, led by a female doctor, desired to find a theorized lost city, where psychic potential was to be unlocked in them via some mysterious means. As their Cuban guides stayed in Lima due to food poisoning, and the Soviets themselves didn't know either Spanish any of the native languages, they were duped by shady Peruvian guides to enter a temple in which their other friends pretended to be angry natives, and robbed the scared-shitless Soviets out of all of their money and valuables. As many of the Soviets never saw any real Native Americans, they never questioned as to why the angry temple guards are wearing soccer-themed t-shirts, and have rubber skull masks on their heads. The Peruvian con-artists got plenty of money and souvenirs to sell on the market, and the Soviets had some serious explanation to do back home.
===Post-War===
thumb|250px|Digitalization of human civilization which started the late 90's allegedly ended psychics (And childhood, if nagging parents are to be trusted)Cold War was the peak of psychic research, and as the Third World War ended, psychics became a insanely rare occurance again. The Soviet psychic research obviously ceased, most proof of it quickly burned as NATO forces raided laboratory after laboratory; the CIA quit their work on psychics as well. In fact, as time went on and the next century rolled around, psychics started to disappear all-together, as with spiritism dying most people didn't even realize they were able to tap into higher brain functions, and thus from 1991 to 2011, only a maximum of ten psychics existed at all, if research is to be believed.
Doctor Bittersweet of the American Majestic 12 proposed a theory that the on-going digitalization of human civilization after the Third World War, including exposure to new inventions such as the internet, more advanced television and mobile phones nullified the average person's brain, and the nocebo effect caused by common people simply believing psychics are just fictional characters and sharlatans made realizing one is a real one impossible. Some rumors however suggest that fully-fledged psychics still exist in Nepal, Bhutan, China or India, where Buddhist monks keep on tapping into the depths of human brains with intense meditation.
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