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Absent Healing Psychic Dictionary Psychic Dictionary Index

Healing that takes place when the healer is not in direct contact with the person to be healed.

Absent Sitter Psychic Dictionary Index

A person, not present during a sitting, on whose behalf readings are given. See also Proxy Sitting.

Acupuncture Psychic Dictionary Index

Traditional Chinese medical practice that involves sticking needles into specific locations on the body. An ancient medical procedure that originated in China more than 2000 years ago. It is based on the theoretical concept of balanced Qi (pronounced 'chee') or vital energy that flows throughout the body via certain pathways that are accessed by puncturing the skin with hair-thin needles at particular locations called acupuncture points. Stimulation of acupuncture points is believed to stimulate the brain and spinal cord to release chemicals that change the experience of pain or cause biochemical changes that may stimulate healing and promote general well-being.
See also healing.

Agent Psychic Dictionary Index

(a) Person who attempts to communicate information to another in an ESP experiment. Cf. percipient.

(b) The subject in a psychokinesis experiment.

(c) Person who is the focus of poltergeist activity.

Akashic Records Psychic Dictionary Index

"Memories" of all experiences since the beginning of time, believed by some mystical doctrines to be stored permanently in a spiritual substance (Akasha). Psychic Dictionary Index

The Akashic Records (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") are said to be a collection of mystical knowledge that is stored in the aether; i.e. on a non-physical plane of existence. The concept is common in some New Age religious groups. The Akashic Records are said to have existed since the beginning of Creation. Just as we have various specialty libraries (e.g., medical, law), there are said to exist various Akashic Records (e.g., human, animal, plant, mineral, etc). Most writings refer to the Akashic Records in the area of human experience. (Wilkipedia)

Alchemy Psychic Dictionary Index

See full article on Alchemy and Alchemists

Alien Abduction Experience Psychic Dictionary Index

Reported experiences of being abducted by alien creatures, often into spacecraft. Abductees often experience lost time and suffer loss of memory. When memories are recovered, often using hypnotic regression, abductees may report that surgical operations were performed on them. See also temporal lobe activity.

Alpha Rhythm Psychic Dictionary Index

Electrical activity in the brain (about 10 cycles per second) associated with a state of mental relaxation. See also EEG.

Altered State of Consciousness (ASC) Psychic Dictionary Index

A term used to refer to any state of consciousness that is different from "normal" states of waking or sleeping. ASCs include hypnosis, trance, ecstasy, psychedelic and meditative experience. ASCs do not necessarily have paranormal features.

Ancestor Worship Psychic Dictionary Index

Religious practices involving the veneration of dead ancestors.

Angels Psychic Dictionary Index

Benevolent spiritual beings who help people in need. See also guardian angel.

Animal Magnetism Psychic Dictionary Index

A term coined by F.A. Mesmer to refer to a putative force or fluid capable of being transmitted from one person to another, producing healing effects. See also Mesmerism.

Animal Mutilation Psychic Dictionary Index

Refers to cases in which animal corpses (often cattle) have been found with bizarre injuries that do not seem to have a normal explanation in terms of illness, accident or action of predators. Cuts and injuries often appear to have been carried out with surgical precision. Typically the corpse is drained of blood. Certain body parts may be absent (e.g., genitals).

Animal Psi Psychic Dictionary Index

Paranormal abilities exhibited by animals. Also known as "Anpsi".

Animism Psychic Dictionary Index

Religious practices based on the belief that all living things and natural objects have their individual spiritual essence or soul.

Announcing Dream Psychic Dictionary Index

A dream believed to announce an individual's rebirth. See also reincarnation.

Anomalous Experience Psychic Dictionary Index

A general term referring to unusual experiences that cannot be explained in terms of current scientific knowledge. Cf. psi.

Anomalous Phenomena Psychic Dictionary Index

Natural phenomena that cannot be explained in terms of current scientific knowledge. See also Fortean phenomena.

Anoxia Psychic Dictionary Index

See cerebral anoxia.

Anpsi Psychic Dictionary Index

See Animal Psi

Apparition Psychic Dictionary Index

A visual appearance (cf. hallucination), often of a person or scene, generally experienced in a waking or hypnagogic / hypnopompic state. See also crisis apparition, ghost, haunting.

Apport Psychic Dictionary Index

A physical object which appears in a way that cannot be explained (seeming to come from nowhere). Apports are often associated with the seance room and physical mediumship. Cf. deport. See also materialization, teleportation.

Artefact Psychic Dictionary Index

In parapsychology, false evidence of paranormal phenomena, due to some extraneous normal influence.

ASC Psychic Dictionary Index

See altered state of consciousness.

Astral Body Psychic Dictionary Index

A term used by occultists, spiritualists and theosophists to refer to a supposed "double" of the person's physical body. The astral body is believed to be separable from the physical body during astral projection (out of body experience) and at death. See also Ka.

Astral Projection Psychic Dictionary Index

A term used by occultists, spiritualists and theosophists for the out of body experience. It is believed to result when the astral body separates from the physical body.

Astrology Psychic Dictionary Index

A theory and practice which attempts to identify the ways in which astronomical events are correlated with events on earth (e.g., with an individual's personality and biography, or with social and political trends). See also Astrology Directory

Atavism Psychic Dictionary Index

Re-emergence of ancestral characteristics; a genetic throwback.

Augury Psychic Dictionary Index

Divination.

Aura Psychic Dictionary Index

A field of energy believed by some to surround living creatures. Certain clairvoyants claim to be able to see the aura (generally as a luminous, coloured halo). See also Kirlian photography.

Automatic Art Psychic Dictionary Index

See automatism.

Automatic Writing Psychic Dictionary Index

The ability to write intelligible messages without conscious control or knowledge of what is being written. See also automatism, dissociation.

Automatism Psychic Dictionary Index

Physical activites (e.g., arm movements, writing, drawing, musical performance) that occur without the automatist's conscious control or knowledge. Also known as motor automatism. See also automatic writing, dissociation.

Autoscopy Psychic Dictionary Index

(a) Seeing one's "double". See also astral body.

(b) Looking back at one's own body from a position outside of the body. See also out of body experience.