In this book, with interplanetary travel common place, the meeting of other populations that have always possessed such powers is becoming widespread and more and more humans are studying and copying the more elementary mind games to partake at least in part, to gain benefits otherwise not possible.
Certainly, practice and tutoring can strengthen the ability, – with some warlocks able to create storms and a host of other devastating weather conditions, purposely at will. Similarly, their zapping of themselves or others to and from dimensions, now forms part of hominoid existence.