In a word, fear. People fear what they do not understand and cannot rationally explain. Rather than allowing the mystery to be part of the "truth", they want proof--the kind of proof that would appease a belief system which negates most of the wilder possibilities. I don't think society is ready (yet) for large scale psychic training.
I agree we all have the potential for these abilities. In some people they will stay dormant forever due to their beliefs around all of it i.e., dismissing things as coincidence etc. I do think more and more people are becoming receptive, though.
I am a engineer/scientist but am very attuned to the psychic world. Years ago I would have dismissed it all as ridiculous, if not dangerous.
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