Blood Ties

Psychic Abilities (as classified/defined by Bishop’s team)

Adept: the general word used to label any functional psychic; the specific ability is much more specialized.

Clairvoyance: the ability to know things, to pick up bits of information, seemingly out of thin air.

Dream-projecting: the ability to enter another’s dreams.

Dream-walking: the ability to invite/draw others into one’s own dreams.

Empathy: An empath experiences the emotions of others.

Healing: the ability to heal injuries to self or others, often but not always ancillary to mediumistic abilities.

Healing Empathy: An empath/healer has the ability to not only feel but also heal the pain/injury of another.

Latent: the term used to describe unawakened or inactive abilities, as well as to describe a psychic not yet aware of being psychic.

Mediumistic: A medium has the ability to communicate with the dead.

Precognition: A seer or precog has the ability to correctly predict future events.

Psychometric: the ability to pick up impressions from objects.

Regenerative: the ability to heal one’s own injuries/sicknesses (a classification unique to one SCU operative and considered separate from a healer’s abilities).

Spider Sense: the ability to enhance one’s normal senses (sight, hearing, smell) through concentration and the focusing of one’s own mental and physical energy.

Telekinesis: the ability to move objects with the mind.

Telepathic mind control: the ability to influence/control others through mental focus and effort. Extremely rare ability.

Telepathy: (touch and non-touch or open): the ability to pick up thoughts from others. Some telepaths only receive, while others have the ability to send thoughts.

Unnamed abilities include:

The ability to see into time, to view events in the past, present, and future without being or having been there physically while the events transpired.

The ability to see the aura of another person’s energy field.

The ability to channel energy usefully as a defensive/offensive tool/weapon.