Shamans, or curanderas would avidly ingest the sacred mushrooms for the extrasensory perceptual effects it gave them in order to better assess problems faced in their society.
However, his powers are very limited, in that he physically can not touch anything and has no extrasensory knowledge of events that take place when he is not present.
The term psychic refers to an alleged ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through what is described as extrasensory perception.
