Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26184563-20130421015649/@comment-28047626-20160505155451

Gilgameshkun wrote: Okay, you two apparently have been chatting a lot here, so I'm not going to read up on everything you've been saying. I'll just try to get the gist of it.

But I will add that neither Splinter nor the Shredder know in-universe any magic&mdash;they are simply extremely well-trained. The ki attacks are based on traditional Eastern beliefs of chi, chakras, etc., which they didn't treat as magic either. And even Splinter's psychic abilities are implied to just be a result of many years of intensive spiritual training. What he said about splinter's spiritual training, Mabye Splinter's medatation gave him the ability to heal people and Leonardo has been given that ability too. No he got it be reading a scroll.