Paranormal Terms

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 life2 - a power or process of transforming something common into something special3 - an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting

ANOMALY

1 - deviation from the common rule - irregularity2 - 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 - The illusion of remembering scenes and events when experienced for the first time.  2 - A feeling that one has seen or heard something before 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 perception.

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-a 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.