Definitions of the Paranormal
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First Sense: Smell
Second Sense: Touch
Third Sense: Sight
Fourth Sense: Hearing
Sixth Sense: Intuition
Definitions
Medium (Sensitive): A medium is a person who obtains and relays information by physical or mental means from the deceased. A medium is the mediator between spirit and the person being read. A medium is a person who is able to feel and/or hear thoughts, voices, or mental impressions from the spirit world. Spirits also use telepathy. In other words mediumship is involved in communication with spirit.
Psychic: A psychic is a person who has the ability to receive and transmit information through ESP and Telepathy; many are able to see into the past, present, and future. Most are very good at Psychometry (handling objects). Psychic is often used as a catchall phrase for anyone who works in the paranormal. Everyone is psychic to some degree or another, but not everyone is a medium. In other words, mediums are psychic, but not all psychics are mediums. Psychics and mediums use the same mechanics of the mind but mediumship differs from psychic. Being psychic is using telepathy. Telepathy is another word for mind- to-mind communication. A person who is psychic is able to read an inanimate object or a person by tuning into the energy that emanates from the object or person.
Mental Mediumship: One who receives communications from the spirit world through purely mental transmissions. The medium may be completely conscious at the time, partly conscious, or in a completely unaware, trance state. Mental mediumship encompasses the following: Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Prophecy, Scrying, Healing, Psychometry, Trance, Automatic Writing and Drawing.
Physical Mediumship: Generally while in trance, produces physical phenomena such as raps and tablelifting, moving objects, voices and music, levitation of objects and living persons or animals, and materializations of spirit forms and objects. Physical mediumship encompasses the following: Ectoplasm, Telekinesis, Psychokinesis, Spirit Raps, Apports, Levitation, Materialization, Voices, Spirit Lights, Breezes and Drafts, Musical Instruments and Singing, Table Tipping, Odors, Spirit Photography, Telephone, Radio, Television or Tape Recorder Voices.
Trance: A deep hypnotic condition in which a medium is controlled by a spirit guide, but not possessed.
Clairvoyance can refer to any of three forms of phenomena, which are known as Clairvoyance, Clairaudience or Clairsentience.
Clairvoyance: (Clear Seeing) the medium may see symbols or pictures of the past, the present or of the future events. The Medium may see these events taking place in any of these time periods.
Clairaudience: (Clear Hearing) is the ability to hear clearly the voice of spirit people through the spiritual organs of hearing. The voice of a spirit person is heard as an impression made upon the brain of the Medium.
Clairsentience: (Clear Feeling or Sensing) is the ability to sense the presence of spirit people with enough accuracy to be able through youRemote Viewing: This is the ability of the medium who in a deep trance is able to travel through obstacles or to remote places and see clearly what is happening at another location.r impressions, to give a description of the people or to relay their message. This is often the first phase of Clairvoyance and is also one of the hardest for any student to realize.
Clairalience or Clairscent: (Clear Smelling) is the ability to smell a cigar, perfume, or scent that is associated with the person on the other side.
Clairsavorance or clairgustance: (Clear Tasting) is the ability to taste something that is connected to the person on the other side.
Clairempathy closely related to clairsentience: clear emotion, to sense or feel within ones self the attitude or emotion of another person and recognize it as not belonging to ones self.
Clairtangency: clear touching, commonly known as Psychometry.
There are two forms of clairvoyance which are subjective and objective.
X-Ray Clairvoyance: is the ability of a medium to be able to see into an envelope, through a wall, into the ground etc. This ability is used many times by healers who, if they possess this ability, are able to see into the body of a patient and watch as the diseased area responds to treatment.
Remote Viewing: This is the ability of the medium who in a deep trance is able to travel through obstacles or to remote places and see clearly what is happening at another location.
Meditation: a disciplined mind technique for a set time to achieve a high state of consciousness. The objective is to quiet the emotions, control the mind, and relax the physical body. Benefits of meditation are as follows: improves your health, mental clarity/alertness, optimistic attitude toward life, problem solving, and creativity.
Natural Law: an unchangeable principle of the universes that was set in motion to govern all that has been created since the beginning. (Both physical and spiritual law) A few examples of natural law are as follows: The golden rule/the law of desire/law of balance/law of continuity/law of harmony/law of love/law of compensation/law of retribution/law of truth/law of freedom/law of attraction/law of cause and effect/law of vibration/law of prosperity/law of thought/law of association.
Aura: an invisible, electromagnetic, intelligent energy field completely surrounding an entity, living and non-living, functioning as a blueprint and battery.
Bodies of man: (etheric, emotional, mental, astral, etheric template, celestial, ketheric template) seven states of consciousness that man functions in, simultaneously; while in the physical body, man has six ethereal bodies that interpenetrate and protrude from him with their own set of functions, shapes, density, and vibrational frequency.
Silver Cord: an ethereal cobweb-like cable which contains an abundance of intelligence and energy and has the properties of elasticity; serves as a persons connecting link to the universe making both all one unit.
Being Spiritual: spiritual progression, following ones spiritual or chosen path, having an appreciation for life, sensitivity to all things, respect for all life here and here after. Living within the natural laws of nature.
Platform clairvoyance: a psychic or medium who gives messages on a platform at a public gathering or church service. Messages last around four to five minutes.
Karma: (put in simplistic terms) for every action there is a reaction.
Color: powerful cosmic energy named white. When white is broken down by a prism to various intensities, each new frequency has its own different color. (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)
Etheric: pertains to the invisible world, the etheric world.
Extrasensory perception: (E.S.P.) the ability of a person to transfer and receive thought and emotions from one mind to the other over any distance without physical means.
Absent sitting: to receive a message from a psychic or a medium for someone else who is
not present.
Ghost: an energy field that makes its presence known periodically in the same area, giving the awareness of a living presence, brings a drop in temperature with its presence. It is a troubled spirit floating around the etheric world dazed and confused, held down by: 1.) something tragic happened when they passed over or something left undone. (left unsettled) 2..) they may not know they are dead 3.) someone on the earth plane wont let go of them emotionally.
Guide: a highly evolved etheric world intelligence who administers guidance, protection, assistance, psychic information, and hidden knowledge to us.
Angel: messenger of God. Manipulates earth matter when necessary. Serves humanity through protection, and karma.
Psychometry: All things, animate or inanimate, have an aura or energy field, which surrounds them. This aura is a field of energy, which contains within it the principles of vibratory attraction and repulsion. In this field of energy is impressed of all the occurrences which happen during the life of the object, person or thing. A Psychometrist is a medium who has unfolded the ability to perceive the vibrational rates of these recorded emanations, is able to determine its history or present state and to relate that message to another individual.
Inspirational Writing: The mind of the medium is inspired as to what to put down on paper and thoughts flow in a constant stream of hearing and writing.
Ectoplasm: This is the substance, which is composed of mater from the physical and spiritual universe. The physical contribution to ectoplasm is mainly a substance called Protoplasm, the outermost covering of every cell of the human body. This Protoplasm is withdrawn mainly from the body of the medium and sometimes those who compose the circle. This is then blended with substance from spirit by the spirit chemist to create what has been termed ectoplasm. Ectoplasm is then utilized in three distinct forms for the production of phenomena:
1)A gaseous state utilized for the production of mental phenomena
2)A liquid state, which has been observed on the hands of the Healer while in the service of the healing ministry.
3)A solid state which is utilized for the production of physical phenomena and the formation of the rods of energy which are used in all cases of the phenomena of levitation, trumpet, and apport séances.
Spirit Raps: electrical sounds much like the sound of a rubber band snapping but magnified hundreds of times. It is a specific snapping sound, which is created by spirit from the explosion of tiny amounts of ectoplasm. (Fox Sisters)
Telepathy: is the transmission of thought from one mind to another between two people who are both on the earth plane. Thought transmissions from spirit people to the earth living, and the reception of such messages is called Mediumship.
Apport: Physical objects are moved by spirit entities or unknown forces of energy. The object is dematerialized by spirit in one place and re-materialized by spirit in another.
Transfiguration: Ectoplasm is used by spirit people, to drape over the form of the Medium who acts as a base structure. The communicating spirit then molds the ectoplasm until it takes on the appearance of that person when they were on the earth plane.
Glossolalia: The Medium speaks in tongues or languages, which are unknown to them. These are, or must be able to be interpreted by someone in the congregation who understands that language to be of any value.
Akashic Record: The master records the cosmos holds for all of us, of everything that has or will ever happen to every person, place, or thing in the universe. It is believed to be the universal truth. These chronicles hold the total record of every action, thought, emotion, light, movement, sound, and vibration. Some people who are psychically sensitive, like Edgar Cayce- who frequently visited this library-are able to receive infinite information. These records also hold every persons past, present, and future incarnations.
Rescue Mediumship: Some people who pass over are confused because of the abrupt exit, or because of something unfinished on the earth plane, or a loved one wont let go of them. A Medium in a development circle will be aware of the spirit person. The medium gently speaks to the spirit person to hear their dilemma, and to ask them to look for a bright light. The
Medium will explain that the light is of love and that family and friends who have departed will be there when they enter.
Esp (Extra Sensory Perception): includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.
Automatic Writing and Drawing: When a psychic or medium holds an object and gets impressions of the person, and the hand writes without any conscious effort or thought by the writer.
Prophecy: Information received from the spirit world that usually concerns future events. (personal, or worldly events)
Healing: When positive spirit energy is sent through the medium to heal and cure.
Telekinesis: Objects move through mind power.
Psychokinesis: Objects move and float because of mind control.
Levitation: Person, furniture, and objects float or rise.
Materialization: Spirit produces ectoplasm from the working physical medium.
Direct Voice or Independent Voice: A voice heard in a circle, which does not seem to emanate from any person. The voice may seem to come out of thin air, or from a trumpet used specifically for this purpose.
In-Direct Voice or Dependent Voice: Mediumistic phenomenon in which the spirit appears to speak using the vocal apparatus of the medium. Often the voice will sound very different from the mediums normal voice.
Spirit Lights: Singular or hundreds of twinkling lights, all shapes and colors that emanate from spirit.
Premonitions: The unpleasant side of precognition, sensing deaths, assassinations, catastrophes, etc.
Teleportation: The ability of a person to transport his body instantaneously from one location to another.
Astral Projection: a preplanned journey where a persons astral body and travels to distant locations.
Out of Body Experience (OBE): to leave ones physical body and sail invisibly through the air in an etheric coating that is a replica of the physical body. (Occurs randomly during sleep to replenish ones vitality or to conduct business in the higher planes.
Poltergeists: (Noisy Spirit) phenomena, a spirit manifests its presence by rappings and other noises and also by acts of mischief, such as throwing furniture about.
There appears to be two distinct types of poltergeist:
1.)A classic haunting where the poltergeist activity is simply part of the haunting. The spirit will cause objects move, spontaneous fires, writing on walls, and banging/noises.
2.)Where the activity is connected to a person or place and does not display any classic haunting elements.
References:
Bletzer, June G. Ph.D. The Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary. Lithia, Georgia. 1986.
