Glossary
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This is a list of psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. These are also sometimes known as extrasensory perception or a sixth sense. Inclusion in this list does not imply scientific recognition of the existence of an ability. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.
• Apportation - Materialization, disappearance, or teleportation of an object.[1]
• Aura reading - Perception of the energy fields surrounding people, places, and things.[2]
• Automatic writing - Writing produced without conscious thought.[3]
• Astral projection or mental projection - An out-of-body experience in which an "astral body" becomes separate from the physical body.[4]
• Bilocation or multilocation - Being in multiple places at the same time.[5]
• Clairaudience - receiving messages in thought form from another frequency or realm. It is considered a form of channeling. • Clairvoyance, second sight - Perception outside the known human senses.[2]
• Death-warning - A vision of a living person prior to his or her death.[6]
• Divination - Gaining insight into a situation via a ritual.[7]
• Dowsing - Ability to locate objects.[8]
• Energy medicine - Healing by channeling a form of energy.[9]
• Faith healing - Diagnosing and curing disease using religious devotion.[10]
• Mediumship or channeling – Communicating with spirits.[11]
• Precognition, premonition and precognitive dreams - Perception of events before they happen.
• Psychic surgery - Removal of diseased body tissue via an incision that heals immediately afterwards.[12]
• Psychokinesis or telekinesis - Manipulation of matter or energy by the power of the mind.
• Psychometry or psychoscopy - Obtaining information about a person or object.
• Pyrokinesis - Manipulation of fire.
• Remote viewing - Gathering of information at a distance. • Retrocognition - Perception of past events.
• Scrying - Use of an item to view events at a distance or in the future.
• Telepathy - Transfer of thoughts or emotions.
• Transvection - Bodily levitation or flying.
1. ^ Fontana, David (2005). Is There an Afterlife: A Comprehensive Review of the Evidence. Hants, UK: O Books. pp. 352–381. ISBN 1-903816-90-4.
2. ^ a b "Glossary of Parapsychology Terms". Retrieved September 2010.
3. ^ Suki Miller (1995). After Death: How People around the World Map the Journey after Death.
4. ^ Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc, 1999 ISBN 1-57174-143-7
5. ^ McGoven, Una (2007). Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained. Chambers (published December 19, 2007). p. 68. ISBN 978-0-550-10215-7.
6. ^ Podmore, Gurney and Myers (1885). Phantasms of the Living.
7. ^ Flower, Michael Attyah. The Seer in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
8. ^ John Ankerberg, John Weldon (1996). "Dowsing and water dowsing". Encyclopedia of new age beliefs. Harvest House Publishers. pp. 167–192.
9. ^ Ernst, Edzard (2001). "A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients". Medical Journal of Australia 174 (2): 88–92. PMID 11245510.
10. ^ Village, Andrew. "Dimensions of belief about miraculous healing." Mental Health, Religion & Culture, June 2005; 8(2): 97-107
11. ^ "Mediums", Robert Todd Carroll, Skeptic's Dictionary, Retrieved March 23, 2007 "In spiritualism, a medium is one with whom spirits communicate directly."
12. ^ Spence, Lewis (2003). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology Vol. 2. Kessinger Publishing Co. p. 750. ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
Mysticism – Mysticism involves attempting to communicate with or directly experience the divine. Monks and nuns have often used meditation and prayer to induce mystical states but it can also involve esoteric practices like kabbalah.
Magic – Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.
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