Psychic Abilities: Perceiving, receiving, or transferring information without the use of the 5 common senses (sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell).

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Sensitive:

A person with psychic abilities.

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Subject:

A person whose psi ability is being investigated.

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Psi:

A term used to encompass all paranormal abilities. Includes both ESP and PK abilities.

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Imagery:

The ability to perceive images in the mind. These may be visual, auditory, tactile, etc.

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Evil Eye:

Alleged ability of some people to harm others by looking at them.

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Shape-Shifting:

Paranormal ability to assume the form of another person, an animal or other entity.

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Phrenology:

The reading of character and mental ability from the shape of a person's skull.

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Metal Bending:

Psychokinetic ability to bend metal objects.

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Thoughtography:

Paranormal ability to produce images on photographic film (e.g., by concentrating on a mental image). Most famously demonstrated by Ted Serios.

See also Psychic Photography .

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Xenoglossy:

The ability to speak or write in a language that has not been learned.

See also Glossolalia .

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Psychic Magic: Program of ten audiocassettes that fosters clairvoyance, precognitive and telepathic abilities, and the capacity for out-of-body experiences. It also increases one's natural ability to heal oneself, others, pets, and plants. It includes Intuitive Aura Reading.

(See also: Psychic Magic, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Empathy:

The ability to understand the experience or emotional state of another person or animal. Often used to refer to an apparently psychic ability to experience another person's sensations, pain or emotions. Cf. clairsentience, intuition.

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psychic healing (psi healing, psychic therapy): Therapeutic technique that involves the channeling of psychic energy or spiritual power through the healer and into the patient. sources of such energy include oneself, God, and spirits. Common accompaniments to psychic healing include aura analysis, the laying on of hands, prayer, and massage.

The word psi refers to:

(a)   the ability to become directly (nonsensorially) aware of past, present, and/or future events outside the body;

(b)  psychokinesis; and

(c)   phenomena ascribed to such abilities.

(See also: Psychic healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Intuition:

The non-paranormal ability to grasp the elements of a situation or to draw conclusions about complex events in ways that go beyond a purely rational or intellectual analysis. Similar to clairsentience, empathy.

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Astral Projection:

The ability to separate the "astral body" from the physical body, allowing it to transcend time and space, to travel great distances or in time.

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Astral Travel:

The ability to traverse time and space along "astral planes" or an alternative term for "astral projection".

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Shaman:

A witchdoctor or medicine man/woman who communicates with spirits while in trance and who has the power of healing. May also show other paranormal abilities.

(See also: Shaman, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)

Prophecy:

(a) A prediction, usually resulting from a sense of spiritual revelation.

 (b) The ability to receive prophetic revelations.

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Mesmerism:

A system of healing developed by F.A. Mesmer, involving the induction of trance states and the supposed transfer of animal magnetism. People in Mesmeric trance often showed paranormal abilities such as clairvoyance.

(See also: Mesmerism, Psychic, Psychic Dictionary, Parapsychology, Parapsychology Dictionary)