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List of psychic abilities
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 fiction are not included.
Notable psychic abilities
Apportation – The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1]
Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project the astral body (consciousness), being
associated with out-of-body experience, in which the astral body becomes separate from the physical body
(djinn).[2]
Aura reading – The ability to perceive "energy fields" surrounding people, places and things.[3]
Automatic writing – The ability to write without conscious thought.[4]
Clairaudience – The ability to acquire information by paranormal auditory means.
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.
Clairolfactance – The ability to access spiritual or mediumistic knowledge through smell.
Clairsentience – The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by feeling.
Clairvoyance – The ability to perceive person, object, location, and physical events through extrasensory
perception.[3]
Divination – The ability to gain insight into a situation by way of an occultic standardized process.[5]
Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.[6]
Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic astral energy.[7]
Hydrokinesis—The ability to manipulate water.
Levitation or transvection – The ability to undergo bodily uplift or fly by mystical means.[8]
Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.[9]
Precognition or premonition – The ability to perceive future events.[10]
Prophesy – The ability to predict what will happen in the future.
Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic"
incision that heals immediately afterwards.[11]
Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects by way of extrasensory perception.[12]
Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or object, usually by touch.[13]
Pyrokinesis – The ability to manipulate fire.[14]
Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant and unseen target using extrasensory
perception.[15]
Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to perceive past events.[16]
Second sight – The ability to see future and past 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 significant information .[17]
Telepathy – The ability to transfer thoughts mentally through extrasensory perception.[18]
Thoughtography – The ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by
psychic means.
References
1. Fontana, David (2005). Is There an Afterlife?. New Alresford: O Books. pp. 352–381. ISBN 1-903816-90-4.
2. Bruce, Robert (1999). Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton
Roads Pub. ISBN 1571741437.
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