psychic condensation

A vapor-like tenuous body housing the spirit body. Some refer to ectoplasm as "condensation."

(See also: Psychic condensation, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic counseling

To give a private reading on a one-to-one basis pertaining to the personal information desired by the client

(See also: Psychic counseling, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic experience

The reality of a supernormal phenomenon, either of spontaneous or meditative type. The event must have a personality involved, there must be no reasonable explanation in terms of orthodox science and it must be non-attributable to divinity

(See also: Psychic experience, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic energy

An intelligent, powerful, invisible force formed by the friction of the blood cells running back and forth throughout the veins and arteries filling the body with electricity, capable of being controlled and directed by the human mind

(See also: Psychic energy, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic force

An energy emanating from, or about, a medium, a sensitive, or any person possible in lesser amounts. This force may demonstrate itself in multiple ways as in the radiating field known as "aura" in the powering of ESP and PK

(See also: Psychic force, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic healing

Removing or adjusting abnormal conditions of the physical organisms. The power for the curing originates from a high ethereal source and is delivered through the cooperating resources of a medium and spirit helpers

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

psychic science

The composite of all forces, powers and facts relating to, demonstrating or controlling the existence and/or activities of spirit entities

(See also: Psychic science, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic surgery

Healing or removal of diseased tissue without instruments

(See also: Psychic surgery, Body Mind and Soul)

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)

LeShan psychic training: means of promoting the faculty for psychic healing through attainment of an altered state of consciousness.

(See also: LeShan psychic training, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psychic Shield: Six-cassette complement to Psychic Self-Defense. It is a form of chakra healing.

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

physical psychic phenomenon

Physical type manifestations are objective and usually can be witnessed by those present through the natural senses. Examples include rappings, table tilting, and materialization though the latter does not always register with everyone present

(See also: Physical psychic phenomenon, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic dentistry: healing of teeth or gums, production of fillings in teeth, or generation of teeth by faith healing (prayer and the laying on of hands) or psychic healing. Psychic dentistry may also include extraction of teeth (e.g., impacted molars) by psychokinesis.

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

Psychic Surgery

The performing of paranormal surgery, in which the body is opened and closed using the bare hands as surgical instruments. Patients remain fully conscious and allegedly experience no pain. While some observed surgeries remain unexplained, many have been exposed as fraud, accomplished by sleight-of-hand tricks known to most stage magicians.

Psychic surgery received much Western media attention in the 1960s and 1970s, prompting thousands of sufferers to seek treatment in the Philippines and Brazil, where psychic surgery was easily available.

Some patients have reported cures that are supported by medical diagnosis, but many have not been cured.

Some of the 'tumors' removed from patients have been found to be chicken or pig organs, other lumps of animal flesh, or balls of cotton wool palmed by the surgeon. Kidney stones have been exposed as ordinary pebbles. Animal blood is concealed in little plastic bags in the palm or in false thumbs; in some cases the blood is already congealed when it allegedly spurts out of the patient. Using the blood, wads of cotton, and sheets for diversion, the appearance of penetration can be created by folding the knuckles against the skin.

Many psychic surgeons demonstrate on obese patients, whose fatty skin is easy to manipulate. If patients complain of pain, no cures, or other postoperative problems, psychic surgeons often blame them on the spirits, past-life karma, or a lack of harmony between the patient, healer, and magnetic vibrations in the room.

(See also: Psychic Surgery, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

psychic surgery (etheric surgery): means of healing tissue, or removing diseased tissue, with bare hands or common instruments, painlessly and uninjuriously.

Practitioners are called psychic surgeons or etheric surgeons. Some claim that they operate only on an individual's etheric body or perispirit.

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

A Theosophical definition of Psychic Powers :

Psychic Powers

The lowest powers of the intermediate or soul-nature in the human being, and we are exercising and using them all the time  - yes, and we cannot even control them properly! Men's emotional thoughts are vagrant, wandering, uncertain, lacking precision, without positive direction, and feebly governed.

The average man cannot even keep his emotions and thoughts in the grip of his self-conscious will. His weakest passions lead him astray. It is this part of his nature whence flow his "psychic powers." It is man's work to transmute them and to turn them to employment which is good and useful and holy. Indeed, the average man cannot control the ordinary psycho-astral-physical powers that he commonly uses; and when, forsooth, people talk about cultivating occult powers, by which they mean merely psychic powers, it simply shows that through ignorance they know not to what they refer. Their minds are clouded as regards the actual facts.

Those who talk so glibly of cultivating occult powers are just the people who cannot be trusted as real guides, for before they themselves can crawl in these mysterious regions of life, they seem to desire to teach other people how to run and to leap. What most people really mean, apparently, when they speak of cultivating occult powers is "I want to get power over other people." Such individuals are totally unfit to wield occult powers of any kind, for the motive is in most cases purely selfish, and their minds are beclouded and darkened with ignorance.

The so-called psychic powers have the same relation to genuine spiritual powers that baby-talk has to the discourse of a wise philosopher. Before occult powers of any kind can be cultivated safely, man must learn the first lesson of the mystic knowledge, which is to control himself; and all powers that later he gains must be laid on the altar of impersonal service  - on the altar of service to mankind.

Psychic powers will come to men as a natural development of their inner faculties, as evolution performs its wonderful work in future ages. New senses, and new organs corresponding to these new senses, both interior and exterior, will come into active functioning in the distant future. But it is perilous both to sanity and to health to attempt to force the development of these prematurely, and unless the training and discipline be done under the watchful and compassionate eye of a genuine occult teacher who knows what he is about.

The world even today contains hundreds of thousands of "sensitives" who are the first feeble forerunners of what future evolution will make common in the human race; but these sensitives are usually in a very unfortunate and trying situation, for they themselves misunderstand what is in them, and they are misunderstood by their fellows. (See also Occultism)

See also: Psychic Powers, Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul)

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)

Psychic Self-Defense: Program whose principle is that negative forces, negative influences, or negative thought-forms - a usually imperceptible form of subtle energy - often are the source of addictions, bad luck, depression, and other problems. It is a form of aura balancing.

(See also: Psychic Self-Defense, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

psychic-intuitive healing: a means of exploring the multi dimensional aspects of oneself. It embraces color therapy, dimensional energy healing, and long distance healing.

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

In 1979 James S. McDonnell, board chairman of McDonnell Douglas and believer in the paranormal, awarded a USD $500,000 grant to Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, for the establishment of the McDonnell Laboratory for Psychical Research. He intended the money to be used for serious study of psychic phenomena in a controlled setting. The lab was led by physicist Peter Phillips, who decided to focus on spoon bending by children, ...

See also:

Project Alpha, Project Alpha - Peter Phillips' experiments, Project Alpha - Steve Shaw and Michael Edwards, Project Alpha - Revelation and aftermath, Project Alpha - External articles

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paranormal healing: Field of metaphysical health-related practices.

It encompasses absent healing, Bach flower therapy, Bioplasmic healing, channeling, faith healing, the laying on of hands, LeShan psychic training, magnetic healing, psychic dentistry, psychic healing, psychic surgery, psychosynthesis, remote diagnosis, Seicho-No-Ie, self-healing, shamanism, the Simonton method, spirit healing, spirit surgery, spiritual healing, and Therapeutic Touch.

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

A Theosophical definition of Clairvoyance :

Clairvoyance

In its largest sense Clairvoyance simply means "clear-seeing," insight behind the veils, inner visioning. Genuine clairvoyance is a spiritual faculty and is the ability to see and to see aright; and in seeing to know that your seeing is truth. This is no psychical faculty.

The clairvoyance commonly called the psychical clairvoyance is very deceptive, because it is a mere moonlight reflection so to speak, and this moonlight reflection is uncertain, deceiving, and illusory. Genuine spiritual clairvoyance, of which the psychical clairvoyance so called is but a feeble ray, will enable one to see what passes at immense distances.

You can sit in your armchair and see, with eyes closed, all that you care to see, however far away. This can be done not only in this exterior world, but one can penetrate into the interior and invisible worlds with this spiritual vision, and thus know what is going on in the worlds spiritual and ethereal.

This vision is not physical vision, nor that which, on the astral plane, manifests itself as psychical clairvoyance; but true vision is spiritual clairvoyance  - seeing through the inner spiritual eye.

See also: Clairvoyance, Mysticism, Body Mind and Soul)