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Akashic Records Memories of all experiences since the beginning of time, believed by some mystical doctrines to be stored permanently in a spiritual substance.

Animism Religious practices based on the belief that all living things and natural objects have their individual spiritual essence or soul.

Astral Body A term used by occultists, spiritualists and theosophists to refer to a double of a person's physical body. The astral body is believed to be separable from the physical body during astral projection, out of body experience.

Astrology The ancient system of divination that uses the positions of the planets, stars and moon.

Automatic Writing The ability to write intelligible messages without conscious control or knowledge of what is being written

Automatism Activites,writing, drawing, musical performance that occur without the automatist's conscious control or knowledge. Also known as motor automatism.

Aura An Aura is an energy field or it could also be called our life force.

Bilocation Being or appearing to bein two different places at the same time

Cartomancy Fortune telling using cards

Channeling A trance like state used by psychic mediums to contact spirits.

Clairaudience The art of hearing voices, music, and sounds that are not audible to the normal ear, and may not be of physical form.

Clairsentience A superphysical tool that is used by the psychics, and comes from the French word meaning “clear sensing” and was used popularly in the eighteenth century.

Collective Unconscious Concept put forward by Carl Jung to refer to a level of unconscious thought and experience shared collectively by humans.

Crystal Healing Use of crystals of differing colours [therefore different vibrations] on parts of the body to stimulate

Deja Vu The knowledge and perceiving future events where no control can be exercised over.

Divination The art of foretelling the future, finding the lost and finding solutions to everyday problems.

Dowsing A form of divination, where a forked rod, bent wire or pendulum to find people, animals, objects and substances.

Empathy The art of tuning in on an intuitive or psychic level to the emotions, moods, and attitudes of a person.

Energy Medicine biofield therapeutics based on the premise that the body is composed of energy fields and illness

ESP Extra sensory perception information is perceived through means beyond the five senses. The sixth sense.

Esoteric Meant for, understood by initiates; intended for or understood by only a particular group; limited t..

False Awakening An experience in which a person believes he or she has woken up, but actually is still dreaming.

Fortean Phenomena Strange phenomena, especially those which challenge conventional scientific knowledge.

Geomancy A system of divination involving the interpretation of lines or figures

Guided Imagery A technique that uses the mind to imagine sights, sounds, movements to induce physical reactions

Herbal Medicine The use of plant materials containing biologically active ingredients to treat chronic or mild

Hypnagogic Imagery Imagery occurring in the hypnagogic state (occuring while dropping off to sleep).

Holistic Medicine Targeted to the whole person – mind, body, soul; relating to or concerned with wholes or with comple..

Intuition Immediate knowing/apprehension by the mind without reasoning; quick and ready insight; immediate

Lucid Dreams Dreams which occur when the dreamer is aware of the fact that they are dreaming.

Medium An individual held to be a channel of communication between the earthly world and a world of spirit.

Metaphysics The study of what defies the preconceived laws of physics or nature. 

Morphic Resonance A term coined by Rupert Sheldrake to refer to the way in which the morphogenetic field fof an object or organism may influence distant fields

Mysticism Often described as a direct experience of God or a union with God.

Near Death Experiences In some cases, patients claimed that they then come out into the light, seeing their own body from a distance and observe that they have another body.

Numerology The ancient study of your 'numbers' and how they influence your character and the events that will take place during your life.

Out of Body Experiences Events which occur spontaneously and vary from person to person and many people who have had the experience actually see their body from another point in space.

Palmistry Art of telling fortunes from the lines, patterns and marks on the palms of the hands

Paranormal Phenomenon is one that is beyond the normal experience and understanding of an ordinary man.

Parapsychology Term coined by J.B. Rhine to refer to the experimental and quantitative study of paranormal phenomena. Now generally used instead of "psychical research" to refer to all scientific investigation of the paranormal

Phrenology Reading someone based on the persons physical abnormalities.

Physiognomy The art and science of reading character from the facial and bodily form.

Precognition Knowledge of the future, and is able to see things that may happen through special ways.

Premonition A temporary state of mind that is usually associated with traumatic events such as accidents, or deaths and is usually caused by anxiety, unease, and a gut-level feeling which induces an apprehension of a probable future event.

Prophecy Divinely inspired vision of great events to happen.

Psychokinesis A hybrid word derived from the Greek words representing mind and motion.

Psychometry The art of getting impressions or visions from a piece of jewelry or object by simply touching or holding it in your hand, and it is usually used in training spiritual and psychic groups.

Reincarnation The process of the soul or essence returning to inhabit a physical form after death.

Retrocognition The art of seeing or sensing the past. Retrocognition occurs at spontaneous times, but very uncommonly during the course of daily life, dreams, and parapsychology experiments.

Remote Viewing (RV) An ESP procedure in which a percipient attempts to become aware psychically of the experience of an agent who is at a distant, unknown target location.

Reiki Hands are laid on energy centres of the body to enable healing to occur

Runes An ancient Anglo-Saxon word that meant 'secret' or 'mystery'. A form of divination

Scrying iamethod of divination done by gazing into a crystal ball or mirror until clairvoyant visions are seen on the surface of the minds eye.

Spirit Guides A non physical entity that is usually seen as the Higher Self, an angel, a highly evolved being or group mind, or a spirit of the dead.

Tea Leaf Reading Foretelling the future by interpereting signs created by spilled tea leaves

Tarot A set of 78 cards, 22 of which depict vices, virtues, elemental forces, used in Foretelling

Telekinesis The production of motion in objects (as by a spiritualistic medium) without contact or other physical

Telepathy Communication of impressions from mind to mind without aid of senses; communication from one mind to.

Theosophy Quasi-religious and philosophical system of the Theosophical Society, founded in 1875 by Madame Blavatsky. Its paranormal claims were controversially and damningly reported upon by the Society for Psychical Research in 1885.

Thought Energy The Bio Energy created by the mind.

Zodiac An imaginary band in the heavens centred on the ecliptic that encompasses the apparent paths of all