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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. [[List of superhuman abilities|Superhuman abilities from fiction]] are not included.	+
-	*'''[[Apport (paranormal)|Apportation]]''' - Materialization, disappearance, or teleportation of an object.<ref name="fontana1">{{cite book|last=Fontana|first=David|title=Is There an Afterlife: A Comprehensive Review of the Evidence|publisher=O Books|year= 2005|location=Hants, UK|pages = 352–381|isbn=1-903816-90-4}}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Aura (paranormal)|Aura reading]]''' - Perception of the energy fields surrounding people, places, and things.<ref name="parapsych.org">{{cite web|url=http://parapsych.org/glossary_a_d.html |title=Glossary of Parapsychology Terms |accessdate=September 2010}}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Automatic writing]]''' - Writing produced without conscious thought.<ref>{{cite book|author=Suki Miller |title=After Death: How People around the World Map the Journey after Death |year=1995}}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Astral projection]]''' or '''[[mental projection]]''' - An [[out-of-body experience]] in which an "[[consciousness|astral body]]" becomes separate from the physical body.<ref>''Astral Dynamics'' by Robert Bruce. Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc, 1999 ISBN 1-57174-143-7</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Bilocation]]''' or '''multilocation''' - Being in multiple places at the same time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McGoven |first=Una |publication-date = December 19, 2007 |title = Chambers Dictionary of the Unexplained |publisher = Chambers |page = 68 |isbn = 978-0-550-10215-7 |url = http://www.amazon.com/Chambers-Dictionary-Unexplained-Una-McGovern/dp/0550102159 |year = 2007 }}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[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.<ref name="parapsych.org"/>	+
-	*'''[[Death-warning]]''' - A vision of a living person prior to his or her death.<ref>{{cite book|author=Podmore, Gurney and Myers|title= Phantasms of the Living|year=1885}}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Divination]]''' - Gaining insight into a situation via a ritual.<ref>Flower, Michael Attyah. ''The Seer in Ancient Greece.'' Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Dowsing]]''' - Ability to locate objects.<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of new age beliefs|author=John Ankerberg, John Weldon|chapter=Dowsing and water dowsing|pages=167–192|year=1996|publisher=Harvest House Publishers}}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Energy medicine]]''' - Healing by channeling a form of energy.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/174_02_150101/ernst/ernst.html#suba10 | journal=Medical Journal of Australia | title=A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | first=Edzard | last=Ernst | year=2001 | volume=174|issue=2 | pages=88–92|pmid=11245510}}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Faith healing]]''' - Diagnosing and curing disease using religious devotion.<ref name=Village>Village, Andrew. "Dimensions of belief about miraculous healing." ''Mental Health, Religion & Culture,'' June 2005; 8(2): 97-107</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Mediumship]]''' or '''channeling''' – Communicating with spirits.<ref name='Skepdic'>[http://skepdic.com/medium.html "Mediums"], Robert Todd Carroll, ''Skeptic's Dictionary'', Retrieved March 23, 2007 "In spiritualism, a medium is one with whom spirits communicate directly."</ref>	+
-	*'''[[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.<ref>{{Cite book| last = Spence| first = Lewis | title = Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology Vol. 2| publisher = Kessinger Publishing Co| year = 2003| pages = 750| isbn = 978-0-7661-2817-0}}</ref>	+
-	*'''[[Psychokinesis]]''' or '''telekinesis''' - Manipulation of matter or energy by the power of the mind.	+
-	*'''[[Psychometry (paranormal)|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 (flying)|Transvection]]''' - Bodily levitation or flying.	+
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