This is a list of alleged psychic abilities that have been attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities are also known as extrasensory perception or sixth sense. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.
Notable psychic abilities
- Apportation â€" The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.
- Astral projection or mental projection â€" The ability to project voluntarily the astral (emotional body), being with associated with out-of-body experience, in which an astral body becomes separate from the physical body (djinn).
- Aura reading â€" The ability to perceive "energy fields" surrounding people, places and things.
- Automatic writing â€" The ability to write without conscious thought.
- Clairaudience â€" The ability to acquire information by paranormal auditory means.
- Claircognizance â€" The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by means of intrinsic knowledge.
- Clairgustance â€" The ability to taste or perceive the essence of a substance from the ethereal realms without contact.
- Clairolfactance â€" The ability to access spiritual or mediumistic knowledge through smell.
- Clairsentience â€" The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by feeling.
- Clairvoyance â€" The ability to perceive person, object, location, and physical events through extrasensory perception.
- Divination â€" The ability to gain insight into a situation by way of an occultic standardized process.
- Dowsing â€" The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.
- Energy medicine â€" The ability to heal with one's own empathic astral energy.
- Exorcism â€" The ability to make rid of evil entities, performed by a shaman.
- Faith healing â€" The ability to diagnose or cure diseases using religious devotion.
- Levitation or transvection â€" The ability to undergo bodily uplift or fly by mystical means.
- Lucid dreaming or dream manipulation â€" The ability to remain lucid during voluntary dreams and/or to control one's dreams.
- Mediumship or channeling â€" The ability to communicate with spirits.
- Precognition or premonition â€" The ability to perceive future events.
- Prophesy â€" The ability to predict what will happen in the future.
- Psychic surgery â€" The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" incision that heals immediately afterwards.
- Psychokinesis or telekinesis â€" The ability to manipulate objects by way of extrasensory perception.
- Psychometry or psychoscopy â€" The ability to obtain information about a person or object, usually by touch.
- Pyrokinesis â€" The ability to manipulate fire.
- Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing â€" The ability to see a distant and unseen target using extrasensory perception.
- Retrocognition or postcognition â€" The ability to perceive past events.
- Second sight â€" The ability to see future and past events or to perceive information that is not present to the senses, in the form of a vision (precognition or remote viewing).
- Scrying â€" The ability to look into a suitable medium with a view to detect significant information .
- Telepathy â€" The ability to transfer thoughts mentally through extrasensory perception.
- Thoughtography â€" The ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by psychic means.
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