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List of psychic abilities From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This is a list of psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world peop le. Many of these are also known as extrasensory perception or sixth sense. Ther e is no evidence that psychic abilities exist, and they are not recognized by th e scientific community. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included. Apportation - Materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1] Aura reading - Perception of energy fields surrounding people, places and things .[2] Automatic writing - Writing produced without conscious thought.[3] Astral projection or mental projection - An out-of-body experience in which an " astral body" becomes separate from the physical body.[4] Bilocation or multilocation - Being in multiple places at the same time.[5] Clairvoyance or second sight - Perception outside the known human senses.[2] Death-warning - A vision of a living person prior to his or her death.[6] Divination - Gaining insight into a situation, most commonly through a ritual[7] Dowsing - Ability to locate objects, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod .[8] Energy medicine - Healing by channeling a form of energy.[9] Faith healing - Diagnosing and/or curing diseases using religious devotion.[10] Levitation - Bodily levitation and flying.[11] Mediumship or channeling - Communicating with spirits.[12] Precognition, premonition and precognitive dreams - Perception of events before they happen.[13] Psychic surgery - Removal of diseased body tissue via an incision that heals imm ediately afterwards.[14] Psychokinesis or telekinesis - The ability to manipulate matter by the power of thought.[15] Psychometry or psychoscopy - Obtaining information about a person or object, usu ally by touching or concentrating on the object or a related object.[16] Pyrokinesis - Manipulation of fire.[17] Remote viewing - Gathering of information at a distance.[18] Retrocognition or post-cognition - Perception of past events.[19] Scrying - Use of an item to view events at a distance and/or in the future.[20] Telepathy - Transfer of thoughts or emotions in either direction.[21] References[edit] Jump up ^ Fontana, David (2005). Is There an Afterlife?. New Alresford: O Books. pp. 352 381. ISBN 1-903816-90-4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Glossary of Psi (Parapsychological) Terms (A-D)". Parapsych.o rg. Retrieved 2013-11-09. Jump up ^ Miller, Sukie (1998). After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life (1st Touchstone ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 97806 84838694. Jump up ^ Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc , 1999 ISBN 1-57174-143-7 Jump up ^ Preston Peet (2007-12-19). "Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained: Un a McGovern: 9780550102157: Amazon.com: Books". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2013-11-09. Jump up ^ Gurney, Edmund (2011). Phantasms of the Living. Cambridge University P ress. ISBN 9781108027328. Jump up ^ Flower, Michael (2007). The seer in ancient Greece ([Online-Ausg.] ed. ). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520252295. Jump up ^ 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. Jump up ^ Edzard Ernst. "A primer of complementary and alternative medicine comm only used by cancer patients | Medical Journal of Australia". Mja.com.au. Retrie ved 2013-11-09. Jump up ^ Loewenthal, Kate (2009). Religion, Culture and Mental Health. Cambridg e: Cambridge University Press. pp. 97 107. ISBN 9780521107778. Jump up ^ Oldridge, Darren (2007). Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the

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