Post by ±Witchcraft± on Aug 21, 2007 18:55:05 GMT -5
PSYCHIC POWERS AND ABILITIES
ASTRAL PROJECTION - The ability to leave one's body and travel in spirit to another location.
AURA READING - The ability to see the energy fields that emanate from living beings. Psychic ability can often reveal itself throught the seeing of auras.
AUTOMATIC WRITING – the ability to write messages of wisdom and guidance from a higher realm of consciousness that is transcribed directly in writing (either handwritten or typed), which does not originate from the conscious mind; channeling in written form.
CHANNELING – the ability to receive messages from higher guidance; the person who does the channeling often delivers the information by speaking, but it can also be written.
CLAIRAUDIENCE – the ability to hear messages from higher guidance - these messages can be heard through the ears, or internally in the mind (which is a form of Telepathy).
CLAIRSENTIENCE - the ability to pick up energies and emotions from people, places or things, often called empathy. A clairsentient person is often referred to as an empath.
CLAIRVOYANCE - a French word meaning “clear seeing” which refers to the ability to see visions, to receive visual images and impressions, often seen through the "mind's eye" or "third eye".
DIVINATION - A broad term that includes fortune telling, precognition, prophesy, and other methods used in an effort to predict the future.
DOWSING – the use of a dowsing tool, such as a pendulum, for locating water, gold, oil, lost or missing items, or for answering any question. A Pendulum is an excellent tool to help someone access his/her own intuition in a way that can be clearly seen and felt.
ESP – stands for extra-sensory perception, referring to the ability to receive information beyond the five known senses, but actually involves using the five senses in a heightened way in combination with the sixth sense of intuition. It is a common term for psychic powers of all kinds.
INTUITIVE – someone who is able to access higher guidance and information through the use of a highly developed intuition.
INTUITION – the way that our higher guidance communicates with us in order to guide us with an inner knowing or "inner voice".
LEVITATION - The ability to cause one's body to hover off the ground. One of the more well-documented cases of levitation involved St. Theresa of Avila during the 16th century.
MEDICAL INTUITIVE – a psychic who specializes in issues of health and disease in the body.
MEDIUM – a person who has the ability to communicate with spirits who have passed over to the other side.
MIND OVER BODY - Suppressing or mentally satisfying the need for water, food, or sleep. There is some debate over whether this is actually a psychic ability since many of those who are associated with this trait (monks, yogis, mystics, etc...) are not generally called "psychics".
PRECOGNITION - Quite simply, "knowing the future". However, since time is a dynamic construct, no one psychic can ever know every detail about the future. Usually this ability refers to knowing general outcomes of specific courses of action, with occasional flashes of detailed insight.
PSYCHIC – a person who is able to receive higher guidance and information through one form or any combination of psychic powers; usually refers to someone who has highly developed psychic powers to the point of being a professional psychic.
PSYCHOMETRY – the ability to receive information from the energy of objects, photographs, or places through clairsentience.
PYROKINESIS - The ability to start fires with one's mind.
READERS – some readers are intuitive or psychic, and some are not. There are many types of readings that can be performed, such as reading palms, Tarot cards, playing cards, runes, tea leaves, etc.
REMOTE VIEWING – the ability to see people, places and things that are remote in time and space.
SCRYING – the ability to see images, usually in shiny surfaces, like a crystal ball, a mirror, a black mirror, or even a bowl of water.
TELEKINESIS - Also known as psychokinesis, the ability to move objects with one's mind.
TELEPATHY - mind to mind communication, also known as "mind reading".
TRANCE CHANNEL – a person who goes into an altered state of deep trance and allows another entity to speak through them, presumably an entity who is more highly evolved.