Definitions of Psychic and Paranormal Phenomena

Anomalous Cognition (AC): a form of information transfer in which all known sensorial stimuli are absent. Access to information from events outside the range of the senses. ESP. The sixth sense.

 Anomalous Mental Phenomena (AMP): a general term that includes AC and AP. Also known as PSI.

Anomalous Perturbation (AP): a form of interaction with matter in which all known physical mechanisms are absent. This phenomenon is also known psychokinesis (PK).

Astrology: the science and art of discerning the meaning to humans and human affairs of the position or movement of celestial phenomena, mainly the stars and planets.

Channeling: Channeling is the ability to obtain information from personalities who do not live on earth. Mediums do this when they use their sensitivity to link into spirit vibrations and, using either clairvoyance, clairaudience or clairsentience, or a combination of all three, bring forward evidence from a spirit communicator which is relevant to the recipient of such a communication.

Clairvoyance: knowledge of a distant time or location acquired through extrasensory perception. Can involve the present, the past, or the future ­ that is, simulcognition, retrocognition, or precognition. Clairsentience,Clairvoyance : Clear-Seeing,Clairaudience

Civination: involves using some physical plane device or occurrence to discern God's will. Because the items are consecrated to God, God does the choosing and indicating. There are a multitude of divination instances in the Bible. During the various Biblical stories God uses stones, lots, arrows, and animal livers to reveal his will. Today people more commonly consult the Tarot, the I-Ching, the message in a random page from the Bible, and the like. Though specific magical artifacts differ from time to time and culture to culture, the practice is essentially the same.

ESP: see extrasensory perception.

Extrasensory Perception (ESP): the ability to acquire information without using the known senses. Real-life experiences that appear to involve ESP are commonly termed psychic experiences. Anomalous cognition. See also clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition, telepathy, the sixth sense. ESP is an acronym, a term made from the first letters of the words extra-sensory perception. Extra means "above," "beyond," or "super."ESP, proper, deals with the receptive arm of psychic phenomena. Its very name says so. ESP is distinguished from PK, the active or outgoing arm. On another level, ESP actually embraces all psychic phenomena. The term seems to shapeshift into extra-sensory phenomena. In this sense each of the psychic gifts are particular manifestations of ESP. They each have their own characteristics and qualities. healing: another of the psychic gifts. The kind of healing that occurs in the Bible ­ and occurs among spiritually awakened people forever ­ is accomplished through prayer and the transfer of energies. Jesus does much of his healing by the laying on of hands. Yet he tells the apostles at one point that certain healing can only be accomplished by prayer: "This kind can not be driven out by anything but prayer" (Mk. 9.29). Clearly, there is a hierarchy of power in psychic activity/healing. This subject is by itself so large that it merits a separate book. On our current adventure we only cursorily visit healing and the healing principles.

Hypnosis: state wherein one is particularly suggestible. May exhibit signs of trance behavior or may appear to act with total waking awareness.

Intuition: art or process of coming to direct knowledge or certainty without rational processing.

Majick: causing events to occur by the use of mental-spiritual directives. Psychokinesis (PK) is magic. When Elijah commands the lightning, he performs magic. By the utilization of his mental directives, he commands fire. Magic (Conjuring) , Magic (Sorcery)

Mystical: 1) having a spiritual meaning, existence, reality, or comparable value that is neither apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence. 2) of, resulting from, or manifesting an individual's direct or intimate knowledge of a communion with God.

Paranormal: not scientifically explainable within the classical model of reality; beyond normal; supernatural.

Parapsychology: the science that lies beside or beyond psychology -- studies paranormal experiences and capabilities.

PK: see psychokinesis.

Precognition: knowledge of the future gained through esp.

PSI: taken together, all of the ESP and PK phenomena. Anomalous mental phenomena. Communication and movement occurring beyond the normal confines of the physical senses. Represented by the Greek letter psi.

Psyche: the vital principle of corporeal matter that is a distinct mental or spiritual entity that is co-extensive with but independent of body or soma, soul, and self.

Psychic: 1) of, arising in, or relating to the psyche. 2) not physical or organic. 3) a person sensitive to nonphysical or supernatural forces and influences. 4) one who receives or practices any of the paranormal arts and sciences; one who, either intentionally or spontaneously, experiences any form of the psi phenomena of ESP and PK.

Psychical: of or pertaining to things of the realm of psi.

Psychokinesis (PK): less common than ESP, is the direct influence of the human mind on the environment. Mind over matter. Anomalous perturbation (AP). Magic.

Reincarnation: the phenomenon in which the human being who dies is born again as a human. Reincarnationists hold that we move through a train of embodiments acquiring more sublime truths or spiritual functions, much as we progress through grades in the school system. This also is one of the family of psychic phenomena in the Bible. It is a subject of sufficient magnitude that we treat of it in another book.

Retrocognition: knowledge of the past gained through esp.

Sixth Sense: extrasensory perception, clairvoyance.

Spiritual: of, relating to, or consisting of spirit; of the nature of spirit rather than material. Spiritualism

Synchronicity: an "amazing coincidence" that is not coincidental. By objective reckoning, there is no visible connection between two independent events, however, there are organic correlations operating at/from the spiritual level.

Telepathy: discerning the thoughts, feelings, intentions of other people through esp.

Teleportation: moving (portation) over a distance (tele). It involves being or getting somewhere without using the conventional modes of travel, which during Biblical times were primarily walking and assing. Psychic phenomena are subjective, right-brain phenomena, of the spiritual realm.  

Transmigration:Pre-existence, Rebirth, Reimbodiment, Palingenesis, Metensomatosis,  Reincarnation.

Encarta Encyclopedia & Lee C. Morrhead