List of psychic abilities
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This is a list of psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Inclusion in this list does not imply scientific recognition of the existence of an ability. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.
Apportation - Materialization, disappearance, or teleportation of an object.[1]
Aura reading - Perception of the energy fields surrounding people, places, and things.[2]
Automatic writing - Writing produced without conscious thought.[3]
Astral projection - An out-of-body experience in which an "astral body" becomes separate from the physical body.[4]
Bilocation - Being in two places at the same time.[5]
Biofield energy healing - Healing by channelling a form of energy.[6]
Clairvoyance - Perception outside the known human senses.[2]
Death-warning - A vision of a living person prior to their death.[7]
Divination - Gaining insight into a situation via a ritual.[8]
Dowsing - Ability to locate objects.[9]
Faith healing - Diagnosing and curing disease using religious devotion.[10]
Mediumship - Communicating with spirits.[11]
Precognition, premonition, prescience, precognitive dreams, and second sight - Perception of future events before they happen.
Psychic surgery - Removal of diseased body tissue via an incision that heals immediately afterwards.
Psychokinesis or telekinesis - Manipulation of matter, space, time or energy.
Psychometry - Obtaining information about a person or object.
Remote viewing - Gathering of information at a distance.
Retrocognition - Perception of past events.
Scrying - Use of an item to view events at a distance or in the future.
Telepathy, extrasensory perception, and sixth sense - Transfer of thoughts or emotions, especially knowing another person's thoughts.
Transvection - Bodily levitation or flying.
[edit]References

^ Fontana, David (2005). Is There an Afterlife: A Comprehensive Review of the Evidence. Hants, UK: O Books. pp. 352–381. ISBN 1903816904.
^ a b "Glossary of Paraspychology Terms". Retrieved September 2010.
^ Suki Miller (1995). After Death: How People around the World Map the Journey after Death.
^ Astral Dynamics by Robert Bruce. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc, 1999 ISBN 1-57174-143-7
^ McGoven, Una (2007). Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained. Chambers (published December 19, 2007). p. 68. ISBN 978-0550102157.
^ Ernst, Edzard (2001). "A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients". Medical Journal of Australia 174 (2): 88–92. PMID 11245510.
^ Podmore, Gurney and Myers (1885). Phantasms of the Living.
^ Flower, Michael Attyah. The Seer in Ancient Greece. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
^ John Ankerberg, John Weldon (1996). "Dowsing and water dowsing". Encyclopedia of new age beliefs. Harvest House Publishers. p. 167-192.
^ Village, Andrew. "Dimensions of belief about miraculous healing." Mental Health, Religion & Culture, June 2005; 8(2): 97-107
^ "Mediums", Robert Todd Carroll, Skeptic's Dictionary, Retrieved March 23, 2007 "In spiritualism, a medium is one with whom spirits communicate directly."
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