List of psychic abilities

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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 – Materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.^[1]
• Aura reading – Perception of energy fields surrounding people, places and things.^[2]
• Automatic writing – Writing produced without conscious thought.^[3]
• Astral projection or mental projection – An out-of-body experience in which an astral body becomes separate from the physical body.^[4]
• Bilocation or multilocation – Being in multiple places at the same time.^[5]
• Clairvoyance or second sight – Perception outside the known human senses.^[2]
• Death-warning – A vision of a living person prior to their death.^[6]
• Divination – Gaining insight into a situation, most commonly through a ritual.^[7]
• Dowsing – Ability to locate objects, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.^[8]
• Energy medicine – Healing by channeling a form of energy.^[9]
• Empathy: The ability to feel others' emotional or physical feelings.^[10]
• Faith healing – Diagnosing or curing diseases using religious devotion.^[11]
• Levitation – Bodily levitation and flying.^[12]
• Mediumship or channeling – Communicating with spirits.^[13]
• Precognition, premonition and precognitive dreams – Perception of events before they happen.^[14]
• Psychic surgery – Removal of diseased body tissue via an incision that heals immediately afterwards.^[15]
• Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects by the power of thought.^[16]
• Psychometry or psychoscopy – Obtaining information about a person or object, usually by touching or concentrating on the object or a related object.^[17]
• Pyrokinesis – Manipulation of fire.^[18]
• Remote viewing – Gathering of information at a distance.^[19]
• Retrocognition or post-cognition – Perception of past events.^[20]
• Scrying – Use of an item to view events at a distance or in the future.^[21]
• Telepathy – Transfer of thoughts, words or emotions in either direction.^[22]

References

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8. Miller, Sukie (1998). After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life (1st Touchstone ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 167–192. ISBN 9780684838694.
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11. Loewenthal, Kate (2009). Religion, Culture and Mental Health. Cambridge. pp. 97–107. ISBN 9780521107778.
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15. Spence, Lewis (2007). Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (3rd ed.). [Whitefish, Mont.]: Kessinger Publishing. p. 750. ISBN 978-0-7661-2817-0.
16. Braude, Stephen E. (2002). ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination (Rev. ed.). Parkland, Fla.: Brown Walker Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-58112-407-4.
17. 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.
18. Genzmer, Herbert (2007). Mysteries of the World: Unexplained Wonders and Mysterious Phenomena (American ed.). Bath: Parragon. p. 194. ISBN 1405490225.
19. Zusne, Leonard (1989). Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, N.J.: L. Erlbaum. p. 167. ISBN 0-8058-0508-7.
20. Wolman, Benjamin B. (1986). Handbook of Parapsychology (Repr. ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. pp. 921–936. ISBN 9780899501864.
21. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: A postgraduate conference
22. 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.