Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 5

[Shannon]

Tech and power have nothing to do with it.  The issue is being specific enough and making the program safe.  Because different types of psychic sense and ability require such different specifics to trigger them, control them and make them safe, I doubt I will ever be able to create a single sub for that purpose without making it so generalized as to be "generally" useless.

Thanks for the reply @Shannon. Sorry for my late reply but something else did occur to me. So are you saying though that you could make a specific sub for a specific psychic ability then? I did have an idea that you might like. If you can only make subs aimed at specific psychic abilities would you be interested if someone made a poll of those different psychic abilities where people could vote on their top ones they want. Once you have that info regarding pretty much guaranteed purchases you could simply pick the top 2 or 3 choices. I think this idea might work as in if you have 2 to 3 money making subs to choose from you can more plan out what you will be doing over the next few months. As in you could build one of those psychic subs whenever you need to make money for the company in between building major programs. 

Its just an idea I wanted to float by you in case that was possible. Might be a good way to generate income in between main titles since you already know Psychic ability was a major requested sub and this way you can make 2 or 3 of the most requested titles to earn decent money on each.

I can create a subliminal to develop and increase telekinetic ability, telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience and other types of psychic abilities.  However, the more I try to make a sub for all of them, the less effective it becomes for each of them, and the more restrictive I must make the safeties on top of that.

The real issue is that everyone has a different set of "psychic strengths and weaknesses", and I cannot know what each is for each person.  So let's say I create a subliminal for clairvoyance development and the person is one who cannot visualize.  It will necessarily fail.  If the person was born deaf and somehow (for the sake of example) managed to use a subliminal for clairaudience without ever developing the ability to hear normally, they could not (to the best of my understanding) clairaudiate.  If they had very weak telekinetic ability, it might take them years of use to develop telekineses to a detectable level.  And so on.

On top of that, the majority of people self regulate their own psychic ability by actively squashing it, ignoring it, denying it because "science says" it doesn't exist.  The conscious mind working against you is a powerful force.

Ultimately, I'm not entirely sure how profitable it would be to create such programs because there are so many factors working against success.