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A Ghost Psychic Photography
Agent Goat Psychic Surgery
Alpha H Psychokinesis
Altered State/States of Consciousness Hallucination Psychokinetic Metal-Bending
Anomalistic Psychology Haunting Psychometry
Anomalous Healing; Psychic Psychotronics
Anomaly Hypnagogic State Q
ANPSI Hynopompic State Qualitative Experiment
Apparition Hypnosis Quantitative Experiment
Astral Body
Astral Travel		 I R

Aura

 Intuition Random Number Generator (RNG)
  J Reading
B Judging Receiver
Biofeedback K Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis
Allobiofeedback Kirlian Photography Reincarnation
Bio-PK L Remote Viewing
C Levitation Associational Remote Viewing
Chance Lucid Dream Retroactive PK
Channeling

Luminous Phenomena
M

 Retrocognition

Clairvoyance

 Macro-PK

RSPK
S
Sender
Clairvoyant Meditation Sensitive
Coincidence; In the Paranormal Mentalism Shaman
Cold Reading Metal-Bending Sheep
Control Micro-PK Super Sheep (or White Sheep)
Crisis Apparition Mini-Geller Sheep Goat Effect (SGE)
Cross-Correspondences Muscle-Reading Spontaneous Case
D Mystical Experience Subliminal
Deja-Vu N Survival
Dermo-Optical Perception Near Death Experience (NDE) Synchronicity
Diagnosis; Paranormal O T
Telepathy
Dissociation Occult Latent Telepathy
Divination Out-Of-Body Experience (OBE) Precognitive Telepathy
Doppelganger P Thoughtography
Dowsing ESP Projection Thought-Transference
Dream; Veridical Paranormal Trance
E Parapsychological Trance Personality
Ectoplasm Parapsychology Transliminality
Electroencephalograph (EEG) Past Life Regression V
Electroencephalography Percipient Veridical
Electronic Voice Phenomena Photography; Paranormal Z
ESP PK Zener Cards
ESP Cards Poltergeist  
Exceptional Human Experience Precognition  
Experimenter Effect Premonition  

Extra Sensory Perception
F

 PSI  
Faith Healing PSI-Conducive  
Fantasy Proneness PSI-Hitting  
G PSI-Missing  
Ganzfeld PSI Phenomenon  
Manuel Ganzfeld Psychic(al)  
Auto Ganzfeld Psychical Research  
Geller Effect Psychic Archeology  
General Extrasensory Perception Psychic Healing  

 

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Sensitive

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
A person who frequently experiences extrasensory perception and who can sometimes induce it at will. Compare Medium . More

Sender

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Less technical expression than “ agent ,” used to denote the person or subject designated as the “transmitter” of telepathic information. Compare Receiver . More

Retrocogniti0n

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Term coined by Frederic Myers to refer to a form of extrasensory perception in which the target is some past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means. Compare Precognition [From the Latin retro , “backward, behind,” ... More

Retroactive PK

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Psychokinesis occurring in such a way as to be an instance of retroactive causation; to say that event A was caused by retroactive PK is to say that A would not have happened in the way that it did had it not been for a later PK effort exerted so as to ... More

Associational Remote Viewing (ARV)

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
As described by Targ (1983), a form of remote viewing in which the area where a desired item might be located is divided up into a finite number of discrete locations; each of the possible locations, or addresses, is associated or linked with a ... More

Remote Viewing

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
A neutral term for general extrasensory perception introduced Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff (1974), especially in the context of an experimental design in which a percipient attempts to describe the surroundings of a geographically distant agent .  More

Reincarnation

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
A form of survival in which the human soul, or some aspects of self, is, after the death of the body, reborn into a new body, this process being repeated throughout many lives. From the Latin re -, “again,” + in -, “into,” + caro ... More

Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK)

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Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Expression coined by William G. Roll to refer to paranormal physical effects which occur repeatedly over a period of time, especially used as a neutral description of poltergeist disturbances. See also Psychokinesis . More

Receiver

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
An expression which is less technical than “percipient,” used to indicate the subject designated as the “recipient” of telepathic information. Compare Sender .  More

Reading

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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The statements made by a sensitive (or as a result of the process of divination ) in the course of an attempt to obtain paranormal information or “messages.”   More

Random Number Generator (RNG)

Published by View InternJack's profile InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
An apparatus (typically electronic) incorporating an element (based on such processes as radioactive decay or random “noise”) and capable of generating a random sequence of outputs; used in tests of psi for generating target sequences , and ... More

Quantitative Experiment

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Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Any test for psi which uses targets each of which has a specific prescribed value for the probability of its occurrence; such a test therefore allows for direct statistical evaluation of the results obtained. Compare Qualitative Experiment . [Ultimately ... More

Qualitative Experiment

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Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
(i) Any test for extrasensory perception which uses target material and forms of response which do not allow a definite probability-value to be attached to the response items made; examples are most free-response tests, tests of psychometry , mediumistic ... More

Psychotronics

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Last Updated: Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Czech term for “ parapsychology ” (excluding the study of survival), but embracing certain phenomena that are not now generally accepted as parapsychological. According to (the late) Larissa Vilenskaya (1983, p. 107), the term was first ... More

Psychometry

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Term coined by Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1893) to refer to the practice in which sensitives hold an object in their hands and obtain paranormal information about the object or its owner; owing to the confusion with a psychological term, ... More
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