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[shadow fox]

any one any psychic powers. i have empathy.

 

[cosmictraveler]

any one any psychic powers. i have empathy.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as:

"The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term coined in the early 20th century, equivalent to the German Einfühlung and modelled on "sympathy." The term is used with special (but not exclusive) reference to aesthetic experience. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of the actor or singer who genuinely feels the part he is performing. With other works of art, a spectator may, by a kind of introjection, feel himself involved in what he observes or contemplates. The use of empathy is an important part of the counselling technique developed by the American psychologist Carl Rogers."

 

[The Doctor]

Empathy is also a psi ability that comes in two "flavors:" clairempathy and
telempathy. One, is the ability to sense and feel what other people are feeling,
while the other is the ability to communicate with animals. There's also psi-
induced charisma, an unique aspect of empathy, and lastly related to empathy
is the gift of telesthesia: the ability to project one's emotions on to someone
else (whether they want them or not).

While it's not a fun ability to have, it's a very useful and sometimes formidable
ability. An empath knows when someone is lying, or can sense bad psychic
environments and alien, or ghostly influences. There's infinitely more to empathy
than that silly dictionary definition.

The Doctor