Psi

Psi or PSI or Ψ may refer to:

Alphabetic letters

Psi (Greek) (Ψ, ψ), 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet

Psi (Cyrillic) (Ѱ, ѱ), a letter of the early Cyrillic alphabet, adopted from Greek

In arts and entertainment

In comics

Psi (comics), a character in DC Comics

Psi Division, a division in the Judge Dredd and 2000 AD series of comics

Psi-Force, a comic series

Psi-Hawk, a comic character

Psi Lords, a comic series

In film and television

PSI, the psychic power used by some characters in the EarthBound series

Psi Corps, in the Babylon 5 fictional universe, the ruling body of Earth's telepaths

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal, a Canadian television series

In music

PSI (album), an album by Pitchshifter

Psi Com, a 1980s rock band

Psi Power, a 1978 song by the UK rock group Hawkwind

PSI Records, a music record label

Ψ CMX DVD, a Finnish language video album by the band CMX

Pitch Shifter Industries, an acronym used by the British band Pitchshifter

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, a video game in which characters use psychic powers

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Parapsychology

Parapsychology is a field of study concerned with the investigation of paranormal and psychic phenomena which include telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, apparitional experiences, and other paranormal claims. It is often identified as pseudoscience.

Parapsychology research is largely conducted by private institutions in several countries and funded through private donations, and the subject rarely appears in mainstream science journals. Most papers about parapsychology are published in a small number of niche journals. Parapsychology has been criticised for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide convincing evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.

Terminology

Para is from Greek, and means "beside, closely related to, beyond..." The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by the philosopher Max Dessoir. It was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research in order to indicate a significant shift toward experimental methodology and academic discipline. The term originates from the Greek: παρά para meaning "alongside", and psychology.

Psi (comics)

Psi is a DC character created by Paul Kupperberg and Carmine Infantino for Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #1 (November 1982).

Fictional character biography

Her real name is Gayle Marsh. At the age of twelve, she developed psychic powers, primarily psychokinesis. After her parents died she was raised by the scientist David Pendergast who was preparing to fight a new menace called "the Decay." In college, she took the alias of Psi and fought Supergirl several times, thinking that Supergirl was the Decay. The truth was that David Pendergast was an extension of her own fears. Realizing that the Decay was David and herself, she put a stop to Pendergast and herself.

Later she joined the Suicide Squad for a mission in Central America, but she was killed by the Rocket Red Brigade. Her allies, Mister 104, the Thinker and the Weasel do not survive the mission.

During the events of Blackest Night, Psi's corpse is reanimated as a member of the Black Lantern Corps alongside several other fallen Suicide Squad members. Psi is apparently destroyed by the Manhunter's self-destruct mechanism to unleashing an explosion of Green Lantern energy that eradicates the Black Lanterns.

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