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how would our world culture change if psionic powers as described
by palladium books were real?

A good example of this would be two books by Anne Mccaffery "to Ride Pegasus" & "Pagasus in Flight"

And Pegasus in Space as well as the Rowan series which is the same world hundreds of years later. All by Anne Mccaffery.

ManDrake13 wrote:

Prince Cherico wrote:how would our world culture change if psionic powers as described
by palladium books were real?

Things would change very little actually. Slightly different people might take on the slightly different roles, but society as a whole would be completely unaffected. You should take a look at Beyond the Supernatural it mixes our modern world with Palladium Psionics and Magic, and nothing really changes except for the players not the way things work.

However, Beyond the Supernatural (both editions) makes psionics distinctly uncommon and secretive. You don't have proper study of them (indeed, 2nd edition makes that impossible), and there aren't any schools of it. You can't take "Telekinetics: The Basics of Mind Over Matter" by correspondence course, or at your local community college, and expect to actually learn to move things with your mind.

Slightly more on target, IMO, would be the TV show Angel, especially how Wolfram & Hart and its clients used them. While it focused a lot on "demons being an underground part of society", its psychics were a commodity. You had seers in the employ of corporations. Someone with uncontrolled electrokinetic powers made her living as an (extremely hot) psychic assassin. You can learn telekinesis by correspondence course, even if it won't appear in the course catalog of a community college.