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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 ''sixth sense''. [[list of superhuman features and abilities in fiction|Superhuman abilities from fiction]] are not included.*[[Thoughtography]] – The ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by psychic means.
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''. [[list of superhuman features and abilities in fiction|Superhuman abilities from fiction]] are not included.[[Thoughtography]] – The ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by psychic means.


==Notable psychic abilities==
==Notable 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 sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.Thoughtography – The ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by psychic means.

Notable psychic abilities

  • Apportation – The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1]
  • Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to project voluntarily the astral (emotional body), being with associated with out-of-body experience, in which an astral body becomes separate from the physical body (djinn).[2][page needed]
  • Aura reading – The ability to perceive energy fields surrounding people, places and things.[3][page needed]
  • Automatic writing – The ability to write without conscious thought.[4][page needed]
  • 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 or perceive the essence of a substance from the ethereal realms without contact.
  • Clairolfactance – The ability to access spiritual or mediumistic knowledge through smell.
  • Clairsentience – The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by feeling.
  • Clairvoyance – The ability to perceive person, object, location, and physical events through extrasensory perception.[3]
  • Divination – The ability to gain insight into a situation by way of an occultic standardized process.[5][page needed]
  • Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.[6]
  • Eidetic memory or photographic memory – The ability to vividly recall images from memory after only a few instances of exposure, with high precision for a brief time after exposure, without using a mnemonic device.
  • Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic astral energy.[7]
  • Exorcism – The ability to make rid of evil entities performed by a shaman.
  • Faith healing – The ability to diagnose or cure diseases using religious devotion.
  • Intuition – The ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired, but instead having direct access to unconscious knowledge, unconscious cognition, inner sensing, inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition and the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.
  • Levitation or transvection – The ability to undergo bodily uplift or fly by mystical means.[8][page needed]
  • Lucid dreaming or dream manipulation – The ability to remain lucid during voluntary dreams and/or to control one's dreams.
  • Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.[9]
  • Precognition or premonition – The ability to perceive future events.[10][page needed]
  • Prophesy – The ability to predict what will happen in 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 by way of extrasensory perception.[12]
  • Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or object, usually by touch.[13]
  • Pyrokinesis – The ability to manipulate fire.[14]
  • Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant and unseen target using extrasensory perception.[15]
  • Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to perceive past events.[16]
  • Second sight – The ability to see future and past events or to perceive information that is not present to the senses, in the form of a vision (precognition or remote viewing).
  • Scrying – The ability to look into a suitable medium with a view to detect significant information .[17]
  • Telepathy – The ability to transfer thoughts mentally through extrasensory perception.[18]
  • Thoughtography – The ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto 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. ^ a b "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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