Healing that takes place when the healer is not in direct contact with the person to be healed.

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A person, not present during a sitting, on whose behalf readings are given. See also Proxy Sitting.

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Traditional Chinese medical practice that involves sticking needles into specific locations on the body. See Healing
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(a) Person who attempts to communicate information to another in an ESP experiment.
(b) The subject in a psychokinesis experiment.
(c) Person who is the focus of poltergeist activity.

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Memories" of all experiences since the beginning of time, believed by some mystical doctrines to be stored permanently in a spiritual substance (Akasha).
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Reported experiences of being abducted by alien creatures, often into spacecraft. Abductees often experience lost time and suffer loss of memory. When memories are recovered, often using hypnotic regression, abductees may report that surgical operations were performed on them.
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Electrical activity in the brain (about 10 cycles per second) associated with a state of mental relaxation.
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Altered State of Consciousness (ASC). A term used to refer to any state of consciousness that is different from "normal" states of waking or sleeping. ASCs include hypnosis, trance, ecstasy, psychedelic and meditative experience. ASCs do not necessarily have paranormal features
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Religious practices involving the veneration of dead ancestors
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Benevolent spiritual beings who help people in need.
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A term coined by F.A. Mesmer to refer to a putative force or fluid capable of being transmitted from one person to another, producing healing effects
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Refers to cases in which animal corpses (often cattle) have been found with bizarre injuries that do not seem to have a normal explanation in terms of illness, accident or action of predators. Cuts and injuries often appear to have been carried out with surgical precision. Typically the corpse is drained of blood. Certain body parts may be absent (e.g., genitals).

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Religious practices based on the belief that all living things and natural objects have their individual spiritual essence or soul.
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A dream believed to announce an individual's rebirth. See also reincarnation.
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A general term referring to unusual experiences that cannot be explained in terms of current scientific knowledge. Cf. psi.
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Natural phenomena that cannot be explained in terms of current scientific knowledge. See also Fortean phenomena.
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See cerebral anoxia.
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A visual appearance (cf. hallucination), often of a person or scene, generally experienced in a waking or hypnagogic / hypnopompic state. See also crisis apparition, ghost, haunting.
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In parapsychology, false evidence of paranormal phenomena, due to some extraneous normal influence.
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A term used by occultists, spiritualists and theosophists for the out of body experience. It is believed to result when the astral body separates from the physical body.
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A theory and practice which attempts to identify the ways in which astronomical events are correlated with events on earth (e.g., with an individual's personality and biography, or with social and political trends).
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Re-emergence of ancestral characteristics; a genetic throwback.
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Divination.
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A field of energy believed by some to surround living creatures. Certain clairvoyants claim to be able to see the aura (generally as a luminous, coloured halo). See also Kirlian photography.
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See automatism.
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The ability to write intelligible messages without conscious control or knowledge of what is being written. See also automatism, dissociation.
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Physical activites (e.g., arm movements, writing, drawing, musical performance) that occur without the automatist's conscious control or knowledge. Also known as motor automatism. See also automatic writing, dissociation.
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(a) Seeing one's "double". See also astral body.
(b) Looking back at one's own body from a position outside of the body. See also out of body experience.
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Ancient Egyptian concept of a person's essence, believed to be be immortal. Cf. Ka. See also Soul.

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In Gaelic belief, a female entity who heralds a death by groaning and screaming.
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In Tibetan Buddhism, an intermediate state of existence, usually referring to the state between life and rebirth.
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Term used in card-guessing tests of clairvoyance, in which the top card of the deck is placed to one side after each guess.
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Procedure in which a question is secretly written on a piece of paper which is folded or sealed in an envelope, and handed to the psychic who attempts to answer the question. Various trickery can be employed by fraudulent psychics and mentalists.
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Psychokinetic effects on biological processes.
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A general term for techniques that involve giving a person information about their current physiological state (e.g., heart rate, EEG). Biofeedback is used to enable people to control consciously their physiological processes.

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Conjuring technique of concealing objects using black covers against a black background. Also used by fraudulent mediums.
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Magical spells or rituals practiced with the intention of harming others. Cf. white magic .
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An identical procedure to open matching, except that the key cards are unseen by the subject.
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(a) A communication in which the sitter is asked to look at a specific book and page in order to receive a significant message.
(b) An effect in which the psychic or mentalist divines the words written on a particular page of a book.

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