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Judge Psychic Dictionary Index

Person who compares targets and responses in an psi experiment.

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Ka Psychic Dictionary Index

Ancient Egyptian term for the double or astral body.  

Karma Psychic Dictionary Index

Hindu and Buddhist ethical doctrine of "as one sows, so shall one reap". .

Key Cards Psychic Dictionary Index

Reference cards used to indicate each target alternative in a card-guessing test.

Kirlian Photography Psychic Dictionary Index

A photographic method involving high frequency electric current, discovered by S.D. & V. Kirlian in the Soviet Union. Kirlian photographs often show coloured halos or "auras" surrounding objects.

Kundalini Psychic Dictionary Index

In Yogic belief, a source of tremendous vital energy that may be stimulated by various practices. Kundalini, or the "Serpent Power", is believed to provide energy for paranormal phenomena.

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Laying on of Hands Psychic Dictionary Index

A healing practice, in which the healer's hands are placed on or near the body of the sick person.

Levitation Psychic Dictionary Index

The paranormal raising or suspension of an object or person.

Life after Death Psychic Dictionary Index

See survival.

Life Review Psychic Dictionary Index

Flashback memories of the whole of a person's life, often associated with the near-death experience.

Lucid Dreaming Psychic Dictionary Index

Dreaming in which the person is aware that the experience is a dream. Often associated with feelings of aliveness and freedom, and with the ability to control dream events.

Lucidity Psychic Dictionary Index

(a) An early term for clairvoyance.

(b) Lucid dreaming.

Luminous Phenomena Psychic Dictionary Index

The experience of strange lights or glows, often around objects or people. See also aura.

Lycanthropy Psychic Dictionary Index

The supposed magical transformation of a person into the form of a wolf. See also shape-shifting, therianthropy, werewolf.

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Macro-PK Psychic Dictionary Index

Psychokinetic effects that can be directly observed rather than only inferred from statistical analysis. Cf. micro-PK.

Magic Psychic Dictionary Index

(a) Practices that aim to use paranormal or spiritual means to influence events. See also white magic, black magic.

(b) The art of conjuring.

Magician Psychic Dictionary Index

A person who practices magic.

Majority Vote Technique Psychic Dictionary Index

An ESP procedure in which several subjects guess a target (or one subject makes several guesses). The most frequent guess is used as the response.

Mantra Psychic Dictionary Index

A sacred sound or sacred syllables used in meditation. See also transcendental meditation.

Match Psychic Dictionary Index

An alternative term for hit.

Matching Psychic Dictionary Index

See preferential matching, matching tests.

Matching Tests Psychic Dictionary Index

Card guessing tests in which the subject uses key cards when making guesses. See also blind matching, open matching, screen touch matching.

Materialization Psychic Dictionary Index

The formation of a visible and tangible object or human shape during a seance. Cf. apport.

Mean Chance Expectation (MCE) Psychic Dictionary Index

The most likely chance score in a psi test.

Medicine Man / Medicine Woman Psychic Dictionary Index

A witchdoctor or shaman.

Meditation Psychic Dictionary Index

Mental or physical-mental techniques which aim to produce spiritually desirable states of consciousness. See also ASC, Yoga.

Medium Psychic Dictionary Index

A person believed to act as an intermediary between discarnate entities and the living. See also clairvoyant medium, trance medium, mental mediumship, physical mediumship.

Mediumship Psychic Dictionary Index

Activity of a medium.

Mentalism Psychic Dictionary Index

A branch of conjuring involving the simulation of psi.

Mental Mediumship Psychic Dictionary Index

The paranormal obtaining of information by a medium. Cf. physical mediumship.

Mesmerism Psychic Dictionary Index

A system of healing developed by F.A. Mesmer, involving the induction of trance states and the supposed transfer of animal magnetism. People in Mesmeric trance often showed paranormal abilities such as clairvoyance.

Message Psychic Dictionary Index

See communication.

Metal Bending Psychic Dictionary Index

Psychokinetic ability to bend metal objects. A phenomenon popularised by Uri Geller.

Metamorphosis Psychic Dictionary Index

See shape-shifting.

Metempsychosis Psychic Dictionary Index

Another term for reincarnation.

Micro-PK Psychic Dictionary Index

Psychokinetic effects that cannot be directly observed, but only inferred from the statistical analysis of data. Cf. macro-PK.

Mind Reading Psychic Dictionary Index

See telepathy.

Miracle Psychic Dictionary Index

A beneficial event attributed to supernatural or divine intervention.

Misdirection Psychic Dictionary Index

Techniques used by conjurers and mentalists to distract a person's attention or confuse their thinking.

Miss Psychic Dictionary Index

A mismatch between the target and response. Cf. hit.

Mnemonist Psychic Dictionary Index

A person who has learned techniques that enable extraordinary feats of memory.

Morphic Resonance Psychic Dictionary Index

A term coined by Rupert Sheldrake to refer to the way in which the "morphogenetic field" (underlying form) of an object or organism may influence distant fields.

Motor Automatism Psychic Dictionary Index

See Automatism

Multiple Personality Psychic Dictionary Index

A psychiatric condition in which the person manifests two or more distinct and separate personalities at different times. Cf. possession.

Muscle Reading Psychic Dictionary Index

See contact mind reading.

Mystic Psychic Dictionary Index

(a) A person who has mystical experiences.

(b) Used loosely to refer to psychics, mediums or romantics.

Mystical Experience Psychic Dictionary Index

ASCs involving experiences of ecstasy, unity, timelessness, loss of self, divine revelation, etc.

Mysticism Psychic Dictionary Index