Fantasies

Sometimes I think about the popular fantasies of humans, and wonder if there's something to it. In our modern age, anyone who believes in "special powers" like telepathy and other preternatural abilities would be ridiculed on reflex. I am neither believer nor skeptic, but am rather curious about the whole thing. What if those fantasies were real? What if those fantastic abilities remained untapped? Sadly, I have yet to personally encounter compelling evidence of the existence of genuine preternatural abilities. Yet, the limitations of empirical observation are apparent to me at the same time. It is something that people across various cultures have wanted to believe in, and sometimes I wonder whether there's more to it than we've been taught in school. One thing I've been pondering is the matter of human abilities in general requiring training to grow. Given that nobody's really interested in cultivating preternatural abilities these days, it's perhaps unsurprising that any extant abilities would wind up atrophying anyway. It is something I've been considering, but it still swings both ways. It might be too weak to use with any regularity, or it simply does not exist.