In the 1960s, Campbell abandoned his public obsessions with psionics and pseudo-science.
Psionics is a term used mostly in fiction and games to denote a variety of paranormal psychic abilities. The term was invented in the field of parapsychology, but gained little acceptance. The term is often used in works of fantasy and science fiction as well as video games and role-playing games
Psionics is a highly specialised field of advanced science which deals with the abilities of the mind enabling the Adept to affect the physical universe without physical manipulation of any kind, creating effects which appear to have no material cause Psionics is thus referred to as a 'non-causative' science