List of psychic abilities
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This is a list of psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. These are also sometimes known as extrasensory perception or a sixth sense. Inclusion in this list does not imply scientific recognition of the existence of an ability. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.
- Apportation - Materialization, disappearance, or teleportation of an object.
- Aura reading - Perception of the energy fields surrounding people, places, and things.
- Automatic writing - Writing produced without conscious thought.
- Astral projection or mental projection - An out-of-body experience in which an "astral body" becomes separate from the physical body.
- Bilocation or multilocation - Being in multiple places at the same time.
- Clairaudience - receiving messages in thought form from another frequency or realm. It is considered a form of channeling.
- Clairvoyance, second sight - Perception outside the known human senses.
- Death-warning - A vision of a living person prior to his or her death.
- Divination - Gaining insight into a situation via a ritual.
- Dowsing - Ability to locate objects.
- Energy medicine - Healing by channeling a form of energy.
- Faith healing - Diagnosing and curing disease using religious devotion.
- Mediumship or channeling – Communicating with spirits.
- Precognition, premonition and precognitive dreams - Perception of events before they happen.
- Psychic surgery - Removal of diseased body tissue via an incision that heals immediately afterwards.
- Psychokinesis or telekinesis - Manipulation of matter or energy by the power of the mind.
- Psychometry or psychoscopy - Obtaining information about a person or object.
- Pyrokinesis - Manipulation of fire.
- Remote viewing - Gathering of information at a distance.
- Retrocognition - Perception of past events.
- Scrying - Use of an item to view events at a distance or in the future.
- Telepathy - Transfer of thoughts or emotions.
- Transvection - Bodily levitation or flying.
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