Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25414732-20180428190936/@comment-16461120-20180514182054

My understanding is that they are humans who were taught how to unlock their abilities through meditation, similar to how Stephen was trained to tap into magic, but not related to magic in the case of Heather and Victor's psionics, and as such they're not metahumans, rather it's something any human with sufficient knowledge, willpower, and instruction time could learn.