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A Glossary of paranormal
terms
- ALCHEMY
1 - a medieval chemical science and speculative
philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the
base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal
cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of
indefinitely prolonging life
2 - a power or process of transforming something common
into something special
3 : an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
- ANOMALY
1 - deviation from the common rule - irregularity
2 - something anomalous : something different,
abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified.
- APPARITION
The visual aspect of a ghost or spirit.
- ASTRAL PROJECTION
The phenomenon of projecting the soul or spirit for
out-of-body travel.
- CLAIRAUDIENCE
the power or faculty of hearing something not present
to the ear but regarded as having objective
reality.
- CLAIRVOYANCE
1 - the power or ability of discerning objects not
present to the senses.
2 - ability to perceive matters beyond the range of
ordinary perception.
- DEJA VU
1 a - the illusion of remembering scenes and events
when experienced for the first time
b - a feeling that one has seen or
heard something before
2 : something overly or unpleasantly familiar
- DEMONOLOGY
1 - the study of demons and evil spirits.
2 - belief in demons - a doctrine of evil spirits.
- DIVINATION
1 - the art or practice that seeks to foresee or
foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge
usually by the interpretation of omens or by the aid of
supernatural powers.
2 - unusual insight - intuitive
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- DOPPELGANGER
A ghostly counterpart of a living person.
- DOWSING
To find (as water or minerals) by dowsing
- EMPATHY
The feeling of understanding, being aware of, being
sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the
feelings, thoughts, emotions, and experience of
another, of either the past or present without having
the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully
communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also -
the capacity for this.
- ESP (extrasensory perception)
Perception (as in telepathy, clairvoyance, and
precognition) that involves awareness of information
about events external to the self not gained through
the senses and not deducible from previous
experience
- EVP (electronic voice phenomena)
The recording of unexplained sounds or voices on
recording devices
- FAITH HEALING
a method of treating diseases by prayer and exercise of
faith in God
- GHOST
The soul or spirit of a deceased person.
- INTUITION
1 - Quick and ready insight
2 a - Immediate apprehension or cognition
b - Knowledge or conviction gained by
intuition.
c - The power or faculty of attaining to
direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational
thought and inference.
- LEVITATION
The act or process of levitating; ie, The rising or
lifting of a person or object by means held to be
supernatural.
- PARANORMAL
Beyond the range of scientifically known or recognized
as normal. Covers the range of the rare, supernatural
or unusual.
- PARAPSYCHOLOGY
The science concerned with the investigation,
especially by experimental means of events that are not
accounted for by natural laws and that are considered
to be evidence of mental telepathy, clairvoyance, and
psychokinesis and other paranormal phenomena.
- PHASMOPHOBIA
An abnormal fear of ghosts, spirits, or specters
- PAST LIFE RECALL
To have memories, or flashbacks of having lived in
another time period.
- POLTERGEIST
A noisy usually mischievous ghost or sprit thought to
be responsible for unexplained noises, rapping,
footsteps. etc. Some poltergeist activity may be
related to psychokinesis of a living person.
- PRECOGNITION
Clairvoyance relating to an event or state not yet
experienced.
- PRECOGNITIVE DREAMS
To have dreams of events that has not yet been
experienced.
- PREDICTION
To predict future events before they happen.
- PSI
A generalized term for paraschological abilities such
as remote viewing, ESP, psychokinesis. It is the 23rd
letter of the Greek Alphabet.
- PSYCHIC
1 - Lying outside the sphere of normal physical science
or knowledge : immaterial, moral, or spiritual in
origin or force
2 - One who is sensitive to nonphysical or supernatural
forces and influences, marked by extraordinary or
mysterious sensitivity, perception, or
understanding.
- PSYCHOKINESIS (PK)
See Telekinesis.
- PSYCHOMETRY
Divination of facts concerning an object or its owner
through contact with or proximity to an object.
- REMOTE VIEWING (RV)
To visualize through sight, or feelings, shielded
information or natural or structural features. related
to ESP.
- SCRYING
To gain insight by gazing into a crystal ball, water,
fire or other random media.
- SYNCHRONICITY
Meaningful coincidences that are sometimes caused by
subconscious psychic activity.
- TELEKINESIS-PSYCHOKINESIS-LEVITATION
To move or levitate an object without physical contact.
To move an object with thought alone.
- TELEPATHY
The knowing what others are thinking. The ability to
communicate with others on a psychic level without the
necessity of spoken language.
- WRAITH
The likeness or apparition of a living person seen just
before death, a ghost or spirit.