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Glossary of Psi

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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Psychokinetic Metal-Bending (PK-MB)

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A psychokinetic effect in which metallic objects such as keys, cutlery and so on are subjected to more or less permanent deformation or other structural change. More

Psychokinesis

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Paranormal action; term coined by Henry Holt and adopted by J. B. Rhine to refer to the direct influence of mind on a physical system that cannot be entirely accounted for by the mediation of any known physical energy. See also Psi-Kappa under Psi; ... More

Psychic Surgery

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A form of psychic healing practiced particularly in the Philippines, in which diseased tissue are said to be removed without the use of surgical instruments, and bleeding, infection, and the like, are inhibited paranormally . The term is also used of ... More

Psychic Archeology

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Archeological research which is pursued with the assistance of a sensitive or other source of paranormal information. More

Psychical Research

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The original term for “ parapsychology , ” still widely used, especially in Britain. More

Psychic(al)

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InternJack on Tuesday, November 17, 2015

As a noun, “psychic” refers to an individual who possesses psi ability of some kind and to a relatively high degree; as an adjective, it is nowadays applied to paranormal events, abilities, research, and so on, and thus means ... More

PSI Phenomenon

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Any event which results from, or is an instance of, the operation of psi ; examples are the forms of extrasensory perception and psychokinesis . More

PSI-Missing

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The use of psi in such a way that the target at which the subject is aiming is “missed” (that is, responded to incorrectly, in a test of extrasensory perception ; or influenced in a direction contrary to aim, in a test of psychokinesis ) more ... More

PSI-Hitting

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The use of psi in such a way that the target at which the subject is aiming is “hit” (that is, correctly responded to, in a test of extrasensory perception ; or influenced, in a test of psychokinesis ), more frequently than would be expected ... More

PSI-Conducive

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Favorable to, or facilitative of, the occurrence of psi, whether it be manifested as psi-hitting or psi-missing . More

PSI

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A general blanket term, proposed by B. P. Wiesner and seconded by R. H. Thouless (1942), and used either as a noun or adjective to identify paranormal processes and paranormal causation; the two main categories of psi are psi-gamma (paranormal cognition; ... More

Premonition

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A feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something ominous or dire, yet about which no normal information is available. See Precognition . [From the Latin præ , “prior to,” + monitio , ... More

Precognition

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A form of extrasensory perception in which the target is some future event that cannot be deduced from normally known data in the present. Compare Retrocognition . [From the Latin præ -, “prior to,” + cognitio , “a getting to ... More

Poltergeist

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A disturbance characterized by bizarre physical effects of paranormal origin, suggesting mischievous or destructive intent: these phenomena include the unexplained movement or breakage of objects, loud raps, the lighting of fires, and occasionally ... More

Percipient

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Broadly speaking, someone who perceives or who has a perception-like experience, in particular, the person who experiences or “receives” an extrasensory influence or impression; also one who is tested for ESP ability. Compare Agent . [From ... More

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