It might seem that you get to know the world better by practising psionics, I used to think that too. And no, I'm not as self centred as you might think. It's just a fact. Telepathy for example, you need to open up your mind, how do you do that? By closing out any outside distractions from the world, so you can focus on the signals you will receive. For energy manipulation, you do this by focusing on a part of your body, giving it all your attention to maintain the flow, or by drawing energy into yourself from your surroundings, and then the same procedure.
Meditation depends! If it is meditation to give you insight into a thought, to help you think over something you are struggling with, it's only a natural process.
But if you practise meditation to draw on energy or try to OOB, or anything else, it causes you to close yourself off from the world, to focus on your innerself to accomplish something.
It's kind of a paradox you know. To get to know the world, you need to close off from the world. This is not how God intended it to be. God wishes us to enjoy creation in the way He intended us to. Sure, we all have Psionic gifts, but.... start thinking, what parts of the world have you lost when you started psionics.
Do you guys ever go outside and just enjoy the beauty of nature? I lost the sight of the beauty of nature when I practised psionics. I could just think of ways of using it, or I was trying to see the deeper stuff behind it (auras, energy flows etc...). But I lost sight of the real matter.
Sure, psionics adds a big dimension to your world, it makes the world seem a lot richer, and it does. The only thing you have to sacrifice for it, is the world you think, breathe and live in every day, because you will have more sight for the psionic world than the real world.
Kind regards, and God's love
Michael