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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