List of psychic abilities explained

This is a list of psychic abilities attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities pertain to variations of extrasensory perception or the sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.

Psychic abilities

• 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 separate from the physical body temporarily.^[1]
• Atmokinesis – The ability to control the weather by calling for rainfall or storms.
• Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.^[2]

• Bilocation – The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint.

• Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind.
• Curse – Any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.

• Energy medicine – The ability to heal with empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.^[3]
• Ergokinesis – The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction.

• Hydrokinesis – The ability to control water with one's mind.

• Iddhi – Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation.
• Illusions – The ability to conjure up illusions from one's mind.
• Inedia—The ability to survive without eating or drinking has resulted in starvation or dehydration in multiple cases.
• Invisibility – The ability to turn oneself invisible.

• Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.^[4]

• Materialization — The creation of objects and material or the appearance of matter from unknown sources.^[5]
• Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.^[6]
• Mind Control – The ability to control someone's mind.

• Petrification — The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye.
• Phytokinesis — The ability to control plants with one's mind.
• Prophecy (also prediction, premonition, or prognostication) — the ability to foretell events without using induction or deduction from known facts.^[7]
• Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" disruption that heals immediately afterward.^[8]
• Pyrokinesis – The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind.
• Psychic Hold – The ability to throw an electric current like a rope.

• Shapeshifting or transformation — The ability to physically transform the user's body into anything.

• Telekinesis or Psychokinesis – 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.^[9]
• Teleportation – The ability is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
• Thoughtography – The ability to impress an image by 'burning' it on a surface using one's mind only.
• Time Travel – The ability to escape the flow of time by jumping to either the past or the future.

• Witnessing – The gift of being visited by high-profile spiritual beings such as Mary, Jesus or Fudosama (Acala).

• 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.

Extrasensory perception

See main article: Extrasensory perception. Extrasensory perception, or sixth sense, is an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities.

• Clairvoyance – The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense.

• Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.^[10]
• Dermo-optical perception - The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through the skin.
• Dream telepathy – The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams.

• Precognition (including psychic premonitions) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events without using induction or deduction from known facts.^[11]
• Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.^[12]

• Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.^[13]
• Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.^[14]

• Telepathy – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.^[15]

Notes and References

1. Book: Bruce. Robert. Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience. 1999. Hampton Roads Pub.. Charlottesville, VA. 1571741437.
2. Book: Miller, Sukie. After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life. 1998. Simon & Schuster. New York. 9780684838694. 1st Touchstone.
3. Edzard Ernst . A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | Medical Journal of Australia . Medical Journal of Australia . 15 January 2001 . 174 . 2 . Mja.com.au . 2013-11-09.
4. Book: Oldridge, Darren . Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds . 2007 . Routledge . London . 9780415404921.
5. Book: Roach. Mary. Mary Roach. Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife. 2008. Canongate. Edinburgh. 9781847670809. 122–130.
6. Web site: medium - The Skeptic's Dictionary . Skepdic.com . 2013-11-09.
7. Prophecy . p . 26 January 2022.
8. Book: Spence, Lewis. Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology. 2007. Kessinger Publishing. [Whitefish, Mont.]. 978-0-7661-2817-0. 750. 3rd.
9. Book: Braude, Stephen E.. ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination. 2002. Brown Walker Press. Parkland, Fla.. 1-58112-407-4. 21. Rev..
10. Book: Miller, Sukie. After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life . 1998 . Simon & Schuster. Ulan Batar . 9780684838694. 167–192. 1st Touchstone.
11. Precognition . p . 26 January 2022.
12. Book: Beloff, John. Parapsychology: a Concise empathy History. 1997. St. Martin's Press. New York. 978-0-312-17376-0. 97. 1st paperback.
13. Book: Zusne, Leonard. Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking. 1989. L. Erlbaum. Hillsdale, N.J. . 0-8058-0508-7. 167. 2nd.
14. Book: Wolman, Benjamin B.. Handbook of Parapsychology. 1986. McFarland. Jefferson, N.C.. 9780899501864. 921–936. Repr..
15. Book: Hamilton, Trevor. Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death. 2009. Imprint Academic. Exeter, UK. 978-1-84540-248-8. 121.