Tuesday, November 17, 2015
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Zener Cards.
The original name given to the ESP cards; named after the perceptual psychologist Karl Zener, a colleague of Rhine’s, who apparently suggested the symbols to be used on the cards (circle, cross, square, star, and wavy lines).
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Veridical.
Truthful; corresponding to, or conveying fact. [From the Latin veridicus , derived from verum , “truth” + dicere , “to say”]
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Transliminality.
Term introduced by Michael A. Thalbourne (1991a), meaning literally “the tendency to cross the threshold into awareness.” Persons exhibiting a high degree of transliminality are more likely to believe in, and claim experience of, paranormal ...
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Trance.
A state of dissociation in which the individual is oblivious to their situation and surroundings, and in which various forms of automatism may be expressed; usually exhibited under hypnotic , mediumistic or shamanistic conditions. [From the Old French ...
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Precognitive Telepathy.
The paranormal acquisition of information concerning the future mental state of another conscious being.
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Latent Telepathy.
An instance of telepathy in which there seems to be a time lag between the agent’s attempt to transmit the target, and the percipient’s awareness of that target.
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Telepathy.
Term coined by Frederic Myers to refer to the paranormal acquisition of information concerning the thoughts, feelings or activity of another conscious being; the word has superseded earlier expressions such as “thought-transference.” See also ...
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