| Magister |
Master, teacher or magician. |
| Magnetic Control |
An APK talent involving the control of magnetic, diamagnetic and paramagnetic lines of force and other magnetic phenomena. |
| Magos |
Greek word for "magi." |
| Magus |
Originally, the singular form of "magi." Later, a powerful magician. |
| Mana |
Polynesian word for psychic energy. |
| Mandala |
Sights (especially drawings, paintings and carvings) used primarily as associational and/or trance inducing devices. |
| Mantic Arts |
The various methods of divination. |
| Mantis |
A diviner or seer. |
| Mantra |
Sounds used primarily as associational and/or trance inducing devices. |
| Mass |
The property of a body that is a measure of its inertia, that causes it to have weight (in a gravitational field), and that is a measure of the amount of material it contains. |
| Mass Control |
An APK talent for increasing or decreasing the mass of an object or being. |
| Maya |
(1) Sanscrit for "illusion." (2) A tribe of Central American Indians. |
| Mayin |
One who controls the worlds of illusion, a magician or mystic. |
| Mechanistic |
A word used (usually as an insult) to refer to those who prefer to analyze even supposedly nonphysical phenomena in terms of physical or mechanical patterns of behavior. |
| Medicine Person |
A tribal official who combines the modes of magician, psychic and cleric, using her or his talents for personal and tribal benefit; especially in such matters as healing, hunting, fertility, weather and war magic. |
| Medium |
A psychic (and frequently cleric as well) who specializes in being possessed by or otherwise communicating with, various spirits especially those of dead humans; someone who knows how to plug-in to the metapatterns of the recently dead, or can arrange such plug-ins for others. See Necromancer. |
| Mental Projection |
An OOBE or psi talent that may involve traveling GESP without the image of an "astral body" being brought along. |
| Mesmerism |
From Franz Mesmer, a form of telepathic sending in which the data sent consists of suggestions backed by the insistent power of the sender. |
| Mesopaganism |
A general term for a variety of movements both organized and nonorganized, which have attempted to revive or recreate various forms of Paleopaganism, but which suffer(ed) from being locked into a Judeo-Christian worldview. Examples would include many Renaissance artists and philosophers, the Masonic Druids, Aleister Crowley's Thelemic religion, Gleb Botkin's "Long Island Church of Aphrodite," etc. See Neopaganism and Paleopaganism. |
| Metabolism |
The sum or gestalt of the processes going on inside your body. |
| Metamorphosis |
Change, especially of the outward appearance. See Werewolf, or your local politicians. |
| Metapattern |
As used in this text, the sum and gestalt of all the interlocking patterns that make up an individual, including the body (or bodies), the various levels of mind or awareness, the psychic and artistic abilities, memory and intellectual capacities, and perhaps whatever it is that is usually called "the soul." |
| Metaphysics |
Philosophy of the relations between "underlying reality" and its manifestations. |
| Miracle |
A paranormal act or occurrence done by or for someone who belongs to a religion that you approve of, usually credited to divine intervention. |
| Miracle, Counterfeit |
A paranormal act or occurrence done by or for someone who belongs to a religion that you do not approve of; usually credited to demonic intervention. |