psychic: "Of the psyche or soul."

Sensitive to spiritual processes and energies. Inwardly or intuitively aware of nonphysical realities; able to use powers such as clairvoyance, clairaudience and precognition. Nonphysical, subtle; pertaining to the deeper aspects of man.

See: mysticism, odic.

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

psychic

1. Realm of the paranormal, occult, or astral. 2. A person who is sensitive or responsive to etheric, spirit, or other non-physical powers or manifestation

(See also: Psychic, Body Mind and Soul)

psychical

1. Something other than known physical process. 2. Sensitivity to the powers beyond the known physical laws. 3. From, or of, the mind of psyche, as differentiated from the substance of body

(See also: Psychical, Body Mind and Soul)

Psychic Counselor/ Psychic Consultant

A psychic practitioner who uses his or her psychic abilities during private or group sessions to psychically tune into a client's life in order to help the client deal with problems. Common psychic tools for tuning in include Tarot cards, pendulums, clairvoyance and channeling.

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

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

A general term describing a person with one or more paranormal abilities such as extrasensory perception, clairvoyance or telepathy.

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

Psychic Birth

A quickening of spiritual or cosmic consciousness and power. This new consciousness is one that recognizes oneness with God and the universe. Psychic birth is a spiritual birth. (cosmic Consciousness.

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

Psychic Energy

The energy that enables people to be psychic and perform miracles.

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

Psychic Healer

A therapist who uses healing energy through touch or hand movements by the practitioner over the body of the patient. Also, employing spirit guides to aid in health

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

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 Massage

A New Age healing system that uses touch to harmonize or balance the physical, etheric or astral vehicles. It was developed almost simultaneously in three locations - California, Australia and Arizona. See Psychic Massage.

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

Psychic Vampire

One who consciously or unconsciously drains people of their vitality. (see Psychic Vampire. )

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

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 artist

A sensitive who serves spirit forces as the mechanism for creating pictures or other representations

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

psychic attack

The transference of negative energy between two persons through the use of telepathic skills

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

psychic barrier

Tangible, forceful, protective vibrations around an individual or area

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

psychic block

A wall made in one's auric atmosphere preventing a psychic from tuning into that person

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

psychic cantilever

An extension of ectoplasm extruding from the medium to support the levitation of inanimate objects

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

power point (Psychic vortex)

Spot or place along an Earth meridian with a capacity to amplify and transform energy, especially where two paths interconnect

(See also: Power point (Psychic vortex) , Body Mind and Soul)

psychic communication

Transmission of message between spirit operator and medium

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