List of psychic abilities

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This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities are also known as extrasensory perception or the sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.

Notable psychic abilities

  • Apportation – The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1]
  • Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project the astral body (consciousness), being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which the astral body is felt to temporarily separate from the physical body.[2]
  • Aura reading – The ability to perceive "energy fields" surrounding people, places and things.[3]
  • Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.[4]
  • Clairaudience – The ability to acquire information by paranormal auditory means.
  • Claircognizance – The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by means of intrinsic knowledge.
  • Clairgustance – The ability to taste without physical contact.
  • Clairolfactance – The ability to access spiritual or mediumistic knowledge through smell.
  • Clairsentience – (latin: just knowing) – The ability to psychically acquire intrinsic knowledge.
  • Clairvoyance – The ability to perceive people, objects, locations, or physical events via extrasensory perception.[3]
  • Conjuration – The ability to materialize physical objects from thin air.
  • Divination – The ability to gain insight into a situation using occult means.[5]
  • Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.[6]
  • Energy manipulation or energy work – The ability to manipulate physical or non-physical energy with one's mind.
  • Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.[7]
  • Hydrokinesis – The ability to manipulate water with the mind.
  • Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.[8]
  • Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.[9]
  • Precognition or premonition – The ability to perceive future events.[10]
  • Prophecy – The ability to predict the future.
  • Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" incision that heals immediately afterwards.[11]
  • Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects with the mind.[12]
  • Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.[13]
  • Pyrokinesis – The ability to create and manipulate fire with the mind.[14]
  • Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.[15]
  • Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.[16]
  • Second sight – The ability to see future and past events or to perceive information that is not present to the physical senses, in the form of a vision (precognition or remote viewing, a seer).
  • Scrying – The ability to look into a suitable medium with a view to detect significant information .[17]
  • Telepathy – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.[18]
  • Thoughtography – The ability to imprint images from one's mind onto physical surfaces—such as photographic film—by psychic means.

References

  1. ↑ Fontana, David (2005). Is There an Afterlife?. New Alresford: O Books. pp. 352–381. ISBN 1-903816-90-4.
  2. ↑ Bruce, Robert (1999). Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. ISBN 1571741437.
  3. 1 2 "Glossary of Psi (Parapsychological) Terms (A-D)". Parapsych.org. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  4. ↑ Miller, Sukie (1998). After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life (1st Touchstone ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684838694.
  5. ↑ Flower, Michael (2007). The seer in ancient Greece ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520252295.
  6. ↑ Miller, Sukie (1998). After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life (1st Touchstone ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 167–192. ISBN 9780684838694.
  7. ↑ Edzard Ernst. "A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | Medical Journal of Australia". Mja.com.au. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  8. ↑ Oldridge, Darren (2007). Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415404921.
  9. ↑ "medium - The Skeptic's Dictionary". Skepdic.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
  10. ↑ Randi, James (1995). An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-13066-X.
  11. ↑ Spence, Lewis (2007). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Publishing. p. 750. ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
  12. ↑ Braude, Stephen E. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.: Brown Walker Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-58112-407-4.
  13. ↑ Beloff, John (1997). Parapsychology: a Concise empathy History (1st paperback ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-312-17376-0.
  14. ↑ Genzmer, Herbert (2007). Mysteries of the World: Unexplained Wonders and Mysterious Phenomena (American ed.). Bath: Parragon. p. 194. ISBN 1405490225.
  15. ↑ Zusne, Leonard (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. p. 167. ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.
  16. ↑ Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986). Handbook of Parapsychology (Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936. ISBN 9780899501864.
  17. ↑ Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: A postgraduate conference
  18. ↑ Hamilton, Trevor (2009). Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-84540-248-8.
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