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Psychic Spies Are No Longer Fictional — Intelligence Agencies Are Still Using Them.
Stephen King’s latest release, The Institute, has opened with lauded praise and a nod to his former work, The Shining, Firestarter, and Carrie, suggesting that it’s written in a revivalist vein. I’d argue that these tales of supernatural human phenomena never went away.
The thirst for fiction with a paranormal element has always been impossible to quench; from the fads and trends of vampires and werewolves to ghosts and ghouls. The difference this time is that the story elements we are seeing now, both in fictional writing and on our television streaming services, are closer to reality and therefore more disturbing.
Most of us can see that human beings are evolving away from physical strength to that of intellectual and emotional proficiency. Reaction rates and problem-solving skills are honed on computer simulations, information is no longer retained but stored electronically for easy retrieval, and communication is all-pervasive across the globe in all time zones at once. Navigating this split-second, overwhelming world takes a degree of mental agility not deemed possible just a couple of generations ago.
We are turning up the dial on our levels of perception. Expanding the range of our physical senses is perfectly feasible and, to a certain extent, some of us have already done so. People with…