Glossary

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.

• Aura reading - Perception of the energy fields surrounding people, places, and things.

• Automatic writing - Writing produced without conscious thought.

• Astral projection or mental projection - An out-of-body experience in which an "astral body" becomes separate from the physical body.

• Bilocation or multilocation - Being in multiple places at the same time.

• 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.

• Death-warning - A vision of a living person prior to his or her death.

• Divination - Gaining insight into a situation via a ritual.

• Dowsing - Ability to locate objects.

• Energy medicine - Healing by channeling a form of energy.

• Faith healing - Diagnosing and curing disease using religious devotion.

• Mediumship or channeling – Communicating with spirits.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.