Also, certain supernatural abilities would have been so useful in stone age societies that they would have given an evolutionary advantage to the individuals possessing them, and hence we all should have those abilities by now, as evolution should have made those adaptations more common.
In Larry Niven's "Known Space" books [0], there was a planet where telepathy was common. Natural selection kept it in check so a hunter would only be able to nudge a prey into walking into an ambush. Then an alien exploratory vessel lands on the planet, aliens that have no resistance to telepathy are instantly controlled and you get an intergalactic slaver empire from a neolithic culture in one generation.
So red queen effect [1]. Maybe telepathy evolves in tandem with resistance to telepathy.
