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List of psychic abilities
This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities are also
known as extrasensory perception or sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.

Notable psychic abilities
Apportation – The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1]
Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project the astral body (consciousness), being
associated with out-of-body experience, in which the astral body becomes separate from the physical body
(djinn).[2]
Aura reading – The ability to perceive "energy fields" surrounding people, places and things.[3]
Automatic writing – The ability to write without conscious thought.[4]
Clairaudience – The ability to acquire information by paranormal auditory means.
Claircognizance – The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by means of intrinsic knowledge.
Clairgustance – The ability to taste or perceive the essence of a substance from the ethereal realms without
contact.
Clairolfactance – The ability to access spiritual or mediumistic knowledge through smell.
Clairsentience – The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by feeling.
Clairvoyance – The ability to perceive person, object, location, and physical events through extrasensory
perception.[3]
Divination – The ability to gain insight into a situation by way of an occultic standardized process.[5]
Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.[6]
Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic astral energy.[7]
Hydrokinesis—The ability to manipulate water.
Levitation or transvection – The ability to undergo bodily uplift or fly by mystical means.[8]
Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.[9]
Precognition or premonition – The ability to perceive future events.[10]
Prophesy – The ability to predict what will happen in the future.
Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic"
incision that heals immediately afterwards.[11]
Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects by way of extrasensory perception.[12]
Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or object, usually by touch.[13]
Pyrokinesis – The ability to manipulate fire.[14]
Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant and unseen target using extrasensory
perception.[15]
Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to perceive past events.[16]
Second sight – The ability to see future and past events or to perceive information that is not present to the
senses, in the form of a vision (precognition or remote viewing).
Scrying – The ability to look into a suitable medium with a view to detect significant information .[17]
Telepathy – The ability to transfer thoughts mentally through extrasensory perception.[18]
Thoughtography – The ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by
psychic means.

References
1. Fontana, David (2005). Is There an Afterlife?. New Alresford: O Books. pp. 352–381. ISBN 1-903816-90-4.
2. Bruce, Robert (1999). Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton
Roads Pub. ISBN 1571741437.

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3. "Glossary of Psi (Parapsychological) Terms (A-D)" (http://parapsych.org/empathyglossary_a_d.html).


Parapsych.org. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
4. Miller, Sukie (1998). After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life (1st Touchstone ed.).
New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684838694.
5. Flower, Michael (2007). The seer in ancient Greece ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California
Press. ISBN 9780520252295.
6. Miller, Sukie (1998). After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life (1st Touchstone ed.).
New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 167–192. ISBN 9780684838694.
7. Edzard Ernst. "A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | Medical
Journal of Australia" (http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/174_02_150101/ernst/ernst.html#suba10). Mja.com.au.
Retrieved 2013-11-09.
8. Oldridge, Darren (2007). Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from
the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780415404921.
9. "medium - The Skeptic's Dictionary" (http://skepdic.com/medium.html). Skepdic.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09.
10. Randi, James (1995). An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1st ed.).
New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-13066-X.
11. Spence, Lewis (2007). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger
Publishing. p. 750. ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
12. Braude, Stephen E. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.:
Brown Walker Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-58112-407-4.
13. Beloff, John (1997). Parapsychology: a Concise empathy History (1st paperback ed.). New York: St. Martin's
Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-312-17376-0.
14. Genzmer, Herbert (2007). Mysteries of the World: Unexplained Wonders and Mysterious Phenomena (American
ed.). Bath: Parragon. p. 194. ISBN 1405490225.
15. Zusne, Leonard (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L.
Erlbaum. p. 167. ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.
16. Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986). Handbook of Parapsychology (Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936.
ISBN 9780899501864.
17. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: A postgraduate conference (http://www.mdx.ac.uk/Assets/2010%20psychoa
nalysis%20conference.pdf)
18. Hamilton, Trevor (2009). Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death. Exeter, UK:
Imprint Academic. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-84540-248-8.

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