Study & Research Psychics

This Study Guide consists of approximately 127 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Psychics.

Study & Research Psychics

This Study Guide consists of approximately 127 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Psychics.
This section contains 323 words
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clairaudient: "Clear hearing," usually meaning that the hearer can hear voices or messages from the dead.

clairsentient: "Clear feeling," the ability to feel the emotions of a spirit.

clairvoyant: "Clear seeing," the extrasensory ability to predict the future; also known as "second sight."

ESP: Extrasensory perception, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, or precognition.

ganzfeld experiment: An experiment in telepathy in which the person receiving the message is placed in a quiet, darkened room, with the eyes covered, and tries to describe a picture sent via psychic means by a sender in another place.

medium: A person who communicates with spirits of the dead; also called a "channeler."

OBE: Out—of—body experience. A feeling of departing one's body and observing it from outside the body.

parapsychology: The scientific study of psychic or paranormal phenomena.

psi (pronounced "sigh"): The term used to indicate both ESP and psychokinesis.

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