I like this mental exercise. I agree that it is possible that they have the mental projection superpower and no desire to run the world. That would make sense,

I like this mental exercise. I agree that it is possible that they have the mental projection superpower and no desire to run the world. That would make sense, at least from my cursory knowledge of yogis :). However, their philosophy has a central tenet of minimizing suffering. Wouldn't they use their superpower to eliminate suffering to any extent possible? And a counter-point to that is, what if they do have the superpower, and they do use it, and that is why there is less suffering in the world than there otherwise would be. It looks like what we need is a double-blind study.