List of psychic abilities

This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities are also known as extrasensory perception or the sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Psychic abilities
  • Apportation – The disappearance, or teleportation of something from one place to another, or an appearance of something from an unknown source. [1]
  • Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project an astral body or mental body, being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which one’s consciousness is felt to temporarily separate from the physical body.[2]
  • Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.[3]
  • Bilocation — The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint.
  • Clairvoyance — The ability to see things and events that are happening far away, and locate objects, places, people, using a ‘sixth sense’.
  • Dermo-optical perception - The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through one’s own skin.
  • Divination – The ability to gain insight into a situation using occult lists.[4]
  • Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.[5]
  • Dream telepathy - The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams.
  • Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.[6]
  • Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.[7]
  • Materialization — The creation of objects and materials or the appearance of matter from unknown sources.[8]
  • Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.[9]
  • Precognition or premonition – The ability to perceive future events.[10]
  • Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" incision that heals immediately afterwards.[11]
  • Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to influence a physical system without physical interaction, typically manifesting as being able to exert force, control objects and move matter with one's mind.[12]
  • Ergokinesis - The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction.
  • Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.[13]
  • Pyrokinesis – The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind.
  • Ṛddhi – Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation.
  • Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.[14]
  • Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.[15]
  • Telepathy – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.[16]
  • Thoughtography - The ability to impress an image by ‘burning’ it on a surface using one’s own mind only.
  • 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.

References
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  2. Bruce, Robert (1999). Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. ISBN 1571741437.
  3. Miller, Sukie (1998). After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life (1st Touchstone ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780684838694.
  4. Flower, Michael (2007). The seer in ancient Greece ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520252295.
  5. 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.
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  7. 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.
  8. Roach, Mary (2008). Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife. Edinburgh: Canongate. pp. 122–130. ISBN 9781847670809.
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  10. Randi, James (1995). An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-13066-X.
  11. Spence, Lewis (2007). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Publishing. p. 750. ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
  12. Braude, Stephen E. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.: Brown Walker Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-58112-407-4.
  13. 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.
  14. Zusne, Leonard (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. p. 167. ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.
  15. Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986). Handbook of Parapsychology (Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936. ISBN 9780899501864.
  16. 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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