Healer:

Someone who claims the power of healing.

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Manifestation:

The appearance or taking form of an entity. Can also mean the outbreak of activity.

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Immortality:

Various beliefs based on the assumption that some aspect of personal existence survives death.

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Aleuromancy:

From the Greek 'aleuron' and 'manteia' (divination), the divinatory practice of utilizing flour to forecast future events. One method involved mixing flour and water in a bowl and then interpreting the patterns left at the bottom and sides of the vessel.

Another practice involved writing sentences upon slips of paper, which were then baked into balls of dough and divided amongst participants to learn their fates. The practice is still in existence in the form of Chinese fortune cookies.

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Entity:

See Discarnate Entity.

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Vision:

A religious apparition.

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Rebirth:

In Buddhism, the belief that there is some continuity of mind from one life to the next. Buddhism, however, does not accept the existence of the individual soul and therefore does not view rebirth as the soul's literal re-incarnation.

See also Bardo, Reincarnation.

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Divination:

Practices involving the interpretation of signs or symbols that seek to obtain oracular knowledge of events. Examples of divinatory practices are geomancy, tarot, I Ching, sortilege, and reading tea leaves.

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Metaphysics:

Derived from the Latin word meta which means beyond, metaphysics would literally mean that which is beyond the laws of physics. The study of psychical research.

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Absent Healing:

Psi phenomenon in which the practitioner is able to invoke healing changes within a subject without being present at the time of healing or at a great distance.

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Aeromancy:

A divinatory practice utilizing atmospheric, airborne, or sky phenomenon to interpret future events. Examples may include cloud formations, comets and meteors, changes in weather patterns, or wind currents.

The term also describes an obscure practice reported to involve the summoning of ghosts and specters (allegedly with the aid of demons) to project images of future events upon the clouds.

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Alien Abduction:

Term used to describe being taken onboard an "alien" craft against one's will or being 'kidnapped' by extraterrestrial beings.

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Haunting:

Paranormal phenomena such as apparitions, unexplained sounds, smells or other sensations that are associated over a lengthy period of time with a specific location.

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Apparition:

A fully manifested ghostly figure reported to be complete in form, sometimes to the point where it is virtually indistinguishable from a living person. See also "crisis apparition", "haunting apparition", "experimental apparition", and "thought form apparition".

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Kundalini:

In Yogic belief, a source of tremendous vital energy that may be stimulated by various practices. Kundalini, or the 'Serpent Power', is believed to provide energy for paranormal phenomena. The body's energy that is found coiled at the base of the spine; symbolized by a coiled female serpent. Kundalini yoga uses breath, sound, and meditation as its major resources - specifically, moving the breath along the spine to stimulate different energy centers.

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Occultism:

Esoteric systems of belief and practice that assume the existence of mysterious forces and entities.

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Arithmancy:

Alternatively 'Arithmomancy' and 'Arithomancy'. The term comes from the Greek 'arithmos' (number) and 'manteia' (divination), relating to forecasting future events by the use of numbers; esoterically it is concerned with the science of correspondences between gods, men and numbers, as taught by Pythagoras.

The Caldeans also practiced this type of divination, as well as the Platonists and Pythagoreans. Arithmancy is also a part of the Jewish "Kabbalah".

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Agogwe:

An allegedly mysterious creature reported in the east African country of Tanzania, described as being a rust colored, woolly-haired mammal which walks upon two legs, most often reported as being between four and four and one-half feet tall. A similar creature, the "sehite", has been reported in the Ivory Coast.

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Bhujangasana:

Cobra posture.

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Abductee:

A human or animal which has been taken without consent by an extraterrestrial life form.

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Vedas:

'Veda' means knowledge. 'Vedic' refers to things that come from the original knowledge of the Vedic scriptures of ancient India, revealed by God through sages.

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