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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
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.
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.
ESP
Extra sensory perception information is perceived through
means beyond the five senses. The sixth sense.
Fortean Phenomena
Strange phenomena, especially those which challenge conventional
scientific knowledge.
Geomancy A system of divination
involving the interpretation of lines or figures
Hypnagogic Imagery
Imagery occurring in the hypnagogic state (occuring while
dropping off to sleep). .
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.
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
Precognition
Knowledge of the future, and is able to see things that
may happen through special ways.
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.
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.
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.
Thought Energy The
Bio Energy created by the mind.
