Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27864278-20170201121340/@comment-43598400-20190823185603

I think that magic and psi are the same thing, but magic is dressed up psi or psi is dressed down magic.

Magic almost always requires at least one of the following: formulae; rites and ceremony; tools; certain utterances, acts or movements; some sort of focus; or collaboration with external forces. It doesn't have to involve all those things, but it's pretty much always has at least one and usually more. In other words there's always some amount of pomp and circumstance involved. Psi, on the other hand, is just the psyche directly knowing or changing something, unaided.

For some, the bells and whistles may strengthen effects. For others, they may be a distraction. For others it may differ moment to moment. It's like asking if a birthday is better than a birthday party.