..of those words you've heard of, and some you possibly haven't.
Astral Projection:the projection of the conscious mind via the etheric double or energy body. This is what happens during "out-of body" experiences (O.B.E.s).
Biopsychokinesis:The ability to communicate with Plants.
Clairaudience:the ability to hear voices that convey useful information (not schizophrenia); the psychic faculty that corresponds with the physical sense of hearing.
Claircognizance:A psi ability where a person "just knows" of a fact, an impeding accident, etc. Could be called an advanced intuition.
Clairempathy:the ability to sense the emotional and physical condition of others from a distance (see also Empathy and Telempathy).
Clairgustance:psychic faculty that corresponds with the physical sense of taste.
Clairolfactance:psychic faculty that corresponds with the physical sense of smell.
Clairsentience:psychic faculty for sensing energy and conditions pertaining to communicating entities; the ability to read auras. This is the ability associated with mediumship.
Clairtangency:psychic faculty that corresponds with the physical sense of touch.
Clairvoyance:psychic faculty that corresponds with the physical sense of sight.
Dream Clairvoyance:clairvoyant images received in or during dreaming.
Objective Clairvoyance:the ability to "see" people, events that are taking place on spiritual planes or alternate dimensions.
Reciprocal Clairvoyance:during telepathic contact over great distances the parties involved can see each other as if face-to-face.
Subjective Clairvoyance:the reception of images by communicating entities (such as ghosts) while the subject is in a trance.
Telepathic Clairvoyance:the reception of a visual image from a telepathic sender.
Traveling Clairvoyance:the ability to see events taking place some distance away.
Cryokinesis:The psi ability to cool or freeze things by slowing molecular action..
Empathy:the general ability to sense the emotional and physical states of others and perceiving them as one's own feelings and sensations.
Levitation:the ability to neutralize gravity locally through psi processes in a controlled fashion, thus enabling an object to rise.
Mental Projection:the ability to project one's mind any distance while keeping the integrity between mind and physical body.
Namapathy:true psychic healing. The psychic can heal the subject, but sometimes sustains the damage of the victim if the psychic is not careful.
Nimpathy:a sharing of sensation; a community of feeling. This is an actual transmission of physical sensation and is not related to empathy or telesthesia (see below).
Parakinesis:the ability to locally neutralize inertia, thus enabling a very small amount of force to produce a disproportionate amount of movement in an object.
Precognition:the ability to see the future either while awake or in dreams.
Premonition:an indistinct "hunch" or feeling of impending danger to ones self or others.
Could be called an advanced form of Intuition.
Presentiment:a feeling of danger to one's self only. Could be called an advanced form of Intuition.
Psycholuminescence:the ability to produce cold light by a psi-to-light conversion process; such light is sometimes called "witch light."
Psychometry:the ability to, and technique for, gathering information on people and events by touching some object that was present at the time.
Psychopyresis:the ability to start and/or control fires.
Radiesthesia:the ability to locate water, minerals, etc. from a distance; dowsing.
Retrocognition:the ability to perceive or see events that have taken place in the past.
Retrocognitive Telepathy:the ability to pickup thoughts generated in the past.
Electrical Psychokinesis (EPK):the ability to manipulate electrical objects.
Where street lights, [electrical] clocks, computers, and any /or
all electrical appliances are affected; usually negatively.
Telekinesis:defined as the ability to move objects or affect matter from a distance; mind-over-matter. Also known as TK and psycho-kinesis (PK). See also cryokinesis, psychopyresis, and electrical psychokinesis (EPK)
Jinx Ability:an aspect of telekinesis that negatively affects the "laws" of probability so that things go wrong, the strangest and most unlikely things happen, etc. Usually this is a subconscious aspect of telekinesis.
Telempathy:the ability to communicate by way of emotions rather than thought as in telepathy (below); communication with animals is usually telempathic in nature.
Telepathy:mind-to-mind communication; mind reading.
Catalyst Telepathy:the ability to awaken latent and/or dormant psychic abilities in others.
Oneiromancy:the telepathic ability to enter into another person's dreams and alter their content.
Touch Telepathy:a limited form of telepathy accomplished through physical touch; e.g. the "Vulcan mind-meld."
Telesthesia:the transmission of such sensations as fear, sensuality, etc.
Transfiguration:the ability to take on the illusion of being someone else. This is not an actual physical transfiguration, but a mere projection that the psychic sends out in order to fool those around him/her. The psychic can only “take on” a form similar to his/her own in mass and height. Psychics with the same gift will see through the illusion near immediatly.
Xenoglossy:the ability to speak and/or understand any language; known as the "gift of tongues."
Slang words
Deja Vu—The unnatural feeling that one has been at a place before.
Empath—A person with a strong degree or a high level of empathy, clairempathy, telempathy, or all of them together.
Esper—Generic name for any person with ESP or Psi abilities. See also psi.
Latent Telepath—someone who has telepathic abilities but who is not aware of them or can consciously use them.
Preja Vu—The opposite of deja vu: the preternatural feeling that a person will be at a place at some future time.
Psi—This word can either mean the unique energy involved with all psychic phenomena, but it also is the descriptive general term for a person with any psychic abilities. This term is interchangeable with esper.
Psion—A seldom-used alternate name for a psi. (See above).
Psychic—This word mostly denotes a person who may or may not have any psi abilities but usually for money, makes predictions, does "psychic" surgery, tells people about their past lives, etc.
This word can also be used loosely to describe a renowned person of considerable psi ability e.g. the Russian psychic, Wolf Messing.
Scanner—Slang name for a person with a wide range of strong psi abilities.
Seer—Generic term for someone with the gift(s) of prophecy (precognition), clairvoyance, andextratemporal perception.
Snooper—Slang name for a person with well-defined clairvoyance or any general sense of perception; a seer.
Teek—Slang name for a person with telekinetic abilities.
Teep—Slang name for a person with telepathic abilities; a telepath.
Telepath—A person with strong telepathic abilities. In this context, it is a person who not only has the abilities but is also aware of them and can use them to varying degrees.
Originally Posted by bindeweede
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