List of psychic abilities

This is a list ofpsychicabilities attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities pertain to variations ofextrasensory perceptionor thesixth sense.Superhuman abilitiesfrom fiction are not included.

Psychic abilities

Astral projectionormental projection– The ability to voluntarily project anastral bodyormental body,being associated with theout-of-body experience,in which one'sconsciousnessis felt to separate from the physical body temporarily.^[1]^{[page needed]}
Atmokinesis – The ability to control the weather by calling for rainfall or storms.
Automatic writing– The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.^[2]^{[page needed]}
Bilocation– The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to asaint.
Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind.
Curse– Any expressedwishthat some form ofadversityor misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.
Energy medicine– The ability to heal with empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.^[3]
Ergokinesis – The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction.
Hydrokinesis– The ability to control water with one's mind.
Iddhi– Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation.
Illusions – The ability to conjure up illusions from one's mind.
Inedia– The ability to survive without eating or drinking has resulted in starvation or dehydration in multiple cases.
Invisibility – The ability to turn oneself invisible.
Levitationortransvection– The ability to float or fly by mystical means.^[4]^{[page needed]}
Materialization— The creation ofobjectsandmaterialor the appearance ofmatterfrom unknown sources.^[5]
Mediumshiporchanneling– The ability to communicate with spirits.^[6]
Mind Control – The ability to control someone's mind.
Petrification— The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye.
Phytokinesis — The ability to control plants with one's mind.^{[citation needed]}
Prophecy(alsoprediction,premonition,orprognostication) — the ability to foretell events without using induction or deduction from known facts.^[7]
Psychic surgery– The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" disruption that heals immediately afterward.^[8]
Pyrokinesis– The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind.
Psychic hold – The ability to throw an electric current like a rope.^{[citation needed]}
Shapeshiftingortransformation— The ability to physically transform the user's body into anything.
TelekinesisorPsychokinesis– The ability to influence aphysical systemwithout physical interaction, typically manifesting as being able to exertforce,controlobjectsand move matter with one's mind.^[9]
Teleportation– The ability is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
Thoughtography– The ability to impress an image by 'burning' it on a surface using one's mind only.
Time Travel– The ability to escape the flow of time by jumping to either the past or the future.
Witnessing– The gift of being visited by high-profile spiritual beings such asMary,Jesusor Fudosama (Acala).
Xenoglossy— The ability of a person to suddenly learn to write and speak a foreign language without any natural means such as studying or research, but that is often rather bestowed by divine agents.

Extrasensory perception

Extrasensory perception, orsixth sense,is an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities.

Clairvoyance– The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using asixth sense.
Dowsing– The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called adowsing rod.^[10]
Dermo-optical perception– The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through the skin.
Dream telepathy– The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams.
Precognition(including psychicpremonitions) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events without using induction or deduction from known facts.^[11]
Psychometryorpsychoscopy– The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.^[12]
Remote viewing,telesthesiaorremote sensing– The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.^[13]
Retrocognitionorpostcognition– The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.^[14]
Telepathy– The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.^[15]

References

^Bruce, Robert (1999).Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience.Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub.ISBN 1571741437.
^Miller, Sukie (1998).After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life(1st Touchstone ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster.ISBN 9780684838694.
^Edzard Ernst (15 January 2001)."A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | Medical Journal of Australia".Medical Journal of Australia.174(2). Mja.com.au.Retrieved2013-11-09.
^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.
^Roach, Mary(2008).Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife.Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 122–130.ISBN 9781847670809.
^"medium - The Skeptic's Dictionary".Skepdic.com.Retrieved2013-11-09.
^Randi, James(n.d.) [1995 (print)]."Prophecy".An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.Digital adaptation by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. (Online ed.).James Randi Educational Foundation[St. Martin's Press(print)].Retrieved26 January2022.
^Spence, Lewis (2007).Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology(3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Publishing. p. 750.ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
^Braude, Stephen E. (2002).ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination(Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.: Brown Walker Press. p. 21.ISBN 1-58112-407-4.
^Miller, Sukie (1998).After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life(1st Touchstone ed.). Ulan Batar: Simon & Schuster. pp. 167–192.ISBN 9780684838694.
^Randi, James(n.d.) [1995 (print)]."Precognition".An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.Digital adaptation by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. (Online ed.).James Randi Educational Foundation[St. Martin's Press(print)].Retrieved26 January2022.
^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.
^Zusne, Leonard (1989).Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking(2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. p. 167.ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.
^Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986).Handbook of Parapsychology(Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936.ISBN 9780899501864.
^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.

[1] Bruce, Robert (1999).Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience.Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub.ISBN 1571741437.

[2] Miller, Sukie (1998).After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life(1st Touchstone ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster.ISBN 9780684838694.

[3] Edzard Ernst (15 January 2001)."A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | Medical Journal of Australia".Medical Journal of Australia.174(2). Mja.com.au.Retrieved2013-11-09.

[4] 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.

[5] Roach, Mary(2008).Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife.Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 122–130.ISBN 9781847670809.

[Skepdic-6] "medium - The Skeptic's Dictionary".Skepdic.com.Retrieved2013-11-09.

[7] Randi, James(n.d.) [1995 (print)]."Prophecy".An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.Digital adaptation by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. (Online ed.).James Randi Educational Foundation[St. Martin's Press(print)].Retrieved26 January2022.

[8] Spence, Lewis (2007).Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology(3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Publishing. p. 750.ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.

[9] Braude, Stephen E. (2002).ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination(Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.: Brown Walker Press. p. 21.ISBN 1-58112-407-4.

[10] Miller, Sukie (1998).After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life(1st Touchstone ed.). Ulan Batar: Simon & Schuster. pp. 167–192.ISBN 9780684838694.

[11] Randi, James(n.d.) [1995 (print)]."Precognition".An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.Digital adaptation by Gilles-Maurice de Schryver. (Online ed.).James Randi Educational Foundation[St. Martin's Press(print)].Retrieved26 January2022.

[12] 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.

[13] Zusne, Leonard (1989).Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking(2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. p. 167.ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.

[14] Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986).Handbook of Parapsychology(Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936.ISBN 9780899501864.

[hamilton121-15] 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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v t e Parapsychology
Outline
Topics	Apparitional experience Astral projection Auras Bilocation Clairvoyance Deathbed phenomena Dermo-optical perception Dream telepathy Ectoplasm Electronic voice phenomenon Extrasensory perception Ganzfeld experiment Ghosts Kirlian photography Levitation Materialization Mediumship Near-death experience Orb Out-of-body experience Pam Reynolds case Paranormal Parapsychology research at SRI Past life regression Plant perception (paranormal) Poltergeist Precognition Psychic Psychic detective Psychic reading Psychic surgery Psychometry Pyrokinesis Reincarnation Remote viewing Retrocognition Second sight Sensory leakage Spoon bending Superconscious Telekinesis Telepathy Thoughtography Xenoglossy Zener cards
Active organizations	American Society for Psychical Research Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena College of Psychic Studies Institut Métapsychique International Institute of Noetic Sciences International Association for Near-Death Studies Koestler Parapsychology Unit Parapsychological Association Parapsychology Foundation Rhine Research Center Society for Psychical Research The Ghost Club
Defunct organizations	American Psychical Institute British College of Psychic Science Cambridge Ghost Society International Institute for Psychical Research London Dialectical Society Metropolitan Psychical Society National Laboratory of Psychical Research Oxford Phasmatological Society Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory Society for the Study of Supernormal Pictures
People	List of parapsychologists Skeptics of parapsychology
Publications	An Experiment with Time Extrasensory Perception Irreducible Mind Journal of Near-Death Studies Journal of Parapsychology Journal of Scientific Exploration Life After Life Life Before Life Mental Radio Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Past Lives Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind The Roots of Coincidence Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation Varieties of Anomalous Experience
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