Originally Posted by
Vir Sapiens
I honestly think some people are just born with the knack for this sort of work. You either have the right arrangement of neurons in your perceptual centers or you don't and if you don't you can train your mind to compensate, but you will never be as effective as a natural. I think there is a certain genetic component to the "greats" in the occult world being as effective as they are/were. I wouldn't go so far as to say a magical bloodline so much as it is a mutation or a recessive trait that only rarely manifests in the human population.