List of psychic abilities

Psychic abilities

• Apportation – The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.[1]
• Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project the astral body (consciousness), being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which the astral body is felt to temporarily separate from the physical body.[2]
• Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.[3]
• Divination – The ability to gain insight into a situation using occult means.[4]
• Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.[5]
• Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.[6]
• Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.[7]
• Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.[8]
• Precognition or premonition – The ability to perceive future events.[9]
• Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" incision that heals immediately afterwards.[10]
• Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects by the mind.[11]
• Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.[12]
• Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.[13]
• Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.[14]
• Telepathy – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.[15]

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9. Randi, James (1995). An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (1st ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-13066-X.
10. Spence, Lewis (2007). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Publishing. p. 750. ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
11. Braude, Stephen E. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.: Brown Walker Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-58112-407-4.
12. Beloff, John (1997). Parapsychology: a Concise empathy History (1st paperback ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-312-17376-0.
13. Zusne, Leonard (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. p. 167. ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.
14. Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986). Handbook of Parapsychology (Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936. ISBN 9780899501864.
15. Hamilton, Trevor (2009). Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic. p. 121. ISBN 978-1-84540-248-8.