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List of psychic abilities
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 sixth sense.Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.
- Apportation - Materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1]
- Aura reading - Perception of energy fields surrounding people, places and things.[2]
- Automatic writing - Writing produced without conscious thought.[3]
- Astral projection or mental projection - An out-of-body experience in which an astral body becomes separate from the physical body.[4]
- Bilocation or multilocation - Being in multiple places at the same time.[5]
- Clairvoyance or second sight - Perception outside the known human senses.[2]
- Death-warning - A vision of a living person prior to his or her death.[6]
- Divination - Gaining insight into a situation, most commonly through a ritual[7]
- Dowsing - Ability to locate objects, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.[8]
- Energy medicine - Healing by channeling a form of energy.[9]
- Faith healing - Diagnosing or curing diseases using religious devotion.[10]
- Levitation - Bodily levitation and flying.[11]
- Mediumship or channeling - Communicating with spirits.[12]
- Precognition, premonition and precognitive dreams - Perception of events before they happen.[13]
- Psychic surgery - Removal of diseased body tissue via an incision that heals immediately afterwards.[14]
- Psychokinesis or telekinesis - The ability to manipulate matter by the power of thought.[15]
- Psychometry or psychoscopy - Obtaining information about a person or object, usually by touching or concentrating on the object or a related object.[16]
- Pyrokinesis - Manipulation of fire.[17]
- Remote viewing - Gathering of information at a distance.[18]
- Retrocognition or post-cognition - Perception of past events.[19]
- Scrying - Use of an item to view events at a distance or in the future.[20]
- Telepathy - Transfer of thoughts or emotions in either direction.[21]
References[edit]
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- ^ Gurney, Edmund (2011). Phantasms of the Living. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108027328.
- ^ Flower, Michael (2007). The seer in ancient Greece ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520252295.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Loewenthal, Kate (2009). Religion, Culture and Mental Health. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 97–107. ISBN 9780521107778.
- ^ 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. p. "Werewolves and Flying Witches". ISBN 9780415404921.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Spence, Lewis (2007). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Publishing. p. 750. ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
- ^ Braude, Stephen E. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.: Brown Walker Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-58112-407-4.
- ^ Beloff, John (1997). Parapsychology: a Concise History (1st paperback ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-312-17376-0.
- ^ Genzmer, Herbert (2007). Mysteries of the World: Unexplained Wonders and Mysterious Phenomena (American ed.). Bath: Parragon. p. 194. ISBN 1405490225.
- ^ Zusne, Leonard (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. p. 167. ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.
- ^ Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986). Handbook of Parapsychology (Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936. ISBN 9780899501864.
- ^ Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: A postgraduate conference
- ^ 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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