List of psychic abilities
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This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been
attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities
are also known as extrasensory perception or sixth sense.
Superhuman abilities from ction are not included.
1 Notable psychic abilities
Apportation The ability to undergo materializa-
tion, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1]
Aura reading The ability to perceive energy elds
surrounding people, places and things.[2]
Automatic writing The ability to write without
conscious thought.[3]
Astral projection or mental projection The abil-
ity to project voluntarily the astral (emotional body),
being with associated with out-of-body experience,
in which an astral body becomes separate from the
physical body (djinn).[4]
Aerokinesis The ability to create, control and ma-
nipulate the air.
Biokinesis The ability to control the parts of our
body and regeneration
Omnipresence The ability to be present in multiple
places at the same time.[5]
Omniscience The ability to know everything.
Omnipotence The ability to have unlimited power.
Clairvoyance The ability to perceive person, ob-
ject, location, and physical events through extrasen-
sory perception.[2]
Clairsentience The ability to acquire psychic
knowledge by feeling.
Clairaudience The ability to acquire information
by paranormal auditory means.
Clairolfactance The ability to access spiritual or
mediumistic knowledge through smell.
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Claircognizance The ability to acquire psychic
knowledge by means of intrinsic knowledge.
Clairgustance The ability to taste or perceive the
essence of a substance from the ethereal realms
without contact.
Death-warning The ability to undergo sensation of
impending death associated with near-death experi-
ence.[6]
Divination The ability to gain insight into a situa-
tion by way of an occultic standardized process.[7]
Dowsing The ability to locate water, sometimes
using a tool called a dowsing rod.[8]
Eidetic memory or photographic memory The abil-
ity to vividly recall images from memory after only a
few instances of exposure, with high precision for a
brief time after exposure, without using a mnemonic
device.
Electrokinesis The ability to generate and control
lightning and electricity.
Energy manipulation The ability to summon and
manipulate elemental energy.
Energy medicine The ability to heal with ones own
empathic astral energy.[9]
Empathy The ability to feel others emotional feel-
ings or soul karmic energy feelings.
Exorcism The ability to make rid of evil entities
performed by a shaman.
Faith healing The ability to diagnose or cure dis-
eases using religious devotion.
Foresight or Prediction The ability to predict what
will happen in the future.
Hypnosis The ability to control ones own mind or
anothers to go into a trance or dream-like state of
awake awareness.
Intuition The ability to acquire knowledge without
proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without
understanding how the knowledge was acquired, but
instead having direct access to unconscious knowl-
edge, unconscious cognition, inner sensing, inner
insight to unconscious pattern-recognition and the
ability to understand something instinctively, with-
out the need for conscious reasoning. [1][2] [3][4]
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Levitation or transvection The ability to undergo
bodily uplift or y by mystical means.[10]
Lucid dreaming or dream manipulation The ability
to remain lucid during voluntary dreams and/or to
control ones dreams.
Mind Control or thought control The ability to un-
dergo involuntary reeducation of basic beliefs and
values to the individual whilst impairing ones au-
tonomy and independent thinking and also disrupt-
ing ones aliations.
Hydrokinesis The ability to manipulate and control
water and change it into desired shapes and forms.
Mediumship or channeling The ability to commu-
nicate with spirits.[11]
Postdiction or retroactive clairvoyance The abil-
ity due to eect of hindsight bias that encompassess
predictions of signicant events and explanation of
the causes.
Precognition or premonition The ability to perceive
future events.[12]
Psychic shield The ability to aid in warding o en-
tities or shadow roamers of the living.
Psychic surgery The ability to remove disease or
disorder within or over the body tissue via an ener-
getic incision that heals immediately afterwards.[13]
Psychokinesis or telekinesis The ability to manip-
ulate objects by way of extrasensory perception.[14]
Psychometry or psychoscopy The ability to ob-
tain information about a person or object, usually
by touch.[15]
Pyrokinesis The ability to manipulate re.[16]
Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing The
ability to see a distant and unseen target using ex-
trasensory perception.[17]
Retrocognition or postcognition The ability to per-
ceive past events.[18]
Second sight The ability to see future and past [12] Randi, James (1995). An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds,
events or to perceive information that is not present
to the senses, in the form of a vision (precognition
or remote viewing).
Scrying The ability to look into a suitable medium
with a view to detect signicant information .[19]
Technopathy The ability to undergo a direct com-
munication pathway between an enhanced or wired
brain and an external device.
Telepathy The ability to transfer thoughts mentally
through extrasensory perception.[20]
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Thoughtography The ability to burn images from
ones mind onto surfaces such as photographic lm
by psychic means.
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