List of psychic abilities

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 – The ability to undergo materialization, disappearance or teleportation of an object.^[1]
• Aura reading – The ability to perceive energy fields surrounding people, places and things.^[2]
• Automatic writing – The ability to write without conscious thought.^[3]
• Astral projection or mental projection – 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).^[4]
• Aerokinesis - The ability to create, control and manipulate the air.
• Omnipresence – The ability to be present in multiple places at the same time.^[5]
• Omniscience - The ability to know everything.
• Omnipotence - The ability to have unlimited power.
• Clairvoyance – The ability to perceive person, object, location, and physical events through extrasensory perception.^[2]
• Clairsentience - The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by feeling.
• Clairaudience - The ability to acquire information by paranormal auditory means.
• Clairolfactance - The ability to access spiritual or mediumistic knowledge through smell.
• Claircognizance - The ability to acquire psychic knowledge by means of intrinsic knowledge.
• Clairgustance - The ability to taste or perceive the essence of a substance from the ethereal realms without contact.
• Death-warning – The ability to undergo sensation of impending death associated with near-death experience.^[6]
• Divination – The ability of gaining insight into a situation by way of an occultic standardized process.^[7]
• Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.^[8]
• Eidetic memory or photographic memory - It is the ability to vividly recall images from memory after only a few instances of exposure, with high precision for a brief time after exposure, without using a mnemonic device.
• Electrokinesis - The ability of generating and controlling lightning and electricity.
• Energy manipulation - The ability of summoning and manipulating elemental energy.
• Energy medicine – The ability to heal with one's own empathic astral energy.^[9]
• Empathy - The ability to feel others' emotional feelings or soul karmic energy feelings.
• Exorcism - The ability to make rid of evil entities performed by a shaman.
• Faith healing – The ability of diagnosing or curing diseases using religious devotion.
• Foresight or Prediction - The ability to predict what will happen in the future.
• Hypnosis - The ability to control one's mind to allow another to go into a trance or dream like state of awake awareness.
• Intuition - The ability to acquire knowledge without proof, evidence, or conscious reasoning, or without understanding how the knowledge was acquired, but instead having direct access to unconscious knowledge, unconscious cognition, inner sensing, inner insight to unconscious pattern-recognition and the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. [1][2] [3][4]
• Levitation or transvection – The ability to undergo bodily upliftment and flying by mystical means.^[10]
• Lucid dreaming or dream manipulation - The ability to remain lucid during voluntary dreaming and/or to control one's dreams.
• Mind Control or thought control - The ability to undergo involuntary reeducation of basic beliefs and values to the individual whilst impairing one's autonomy and independent thinking and also disrupting one's affiliations.
• Hydrokinesis - The ability to manipulate and control water and change it into desired shapes and forms.
• Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.^[11]
• Postdiction or retroactive clairvoyance - It is the ability due to effect of hindsight bias that encompassess predictions of significant events and explanation of the causes.
• Precognition or premonition – It is the ability to perceive future events.^[12]
• Psychic shield - The ability to aid in warding off entities or shadow roamers of the living.
• Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an energetic incision that heals immediately afterwards.^[13]
• Psychokinesis or telekinesis – The ability to manipulate objects by way of extrasensory perception.^[14]
• Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability of obtaining information about a person or object, usually by touching or concentrating on the object or a related object performed by an advanced empath.^[15]
• Pyrokinesis – The ability to manipulate fire.^[16]
• Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to seek for impressions about a distant and unseen target from the third eye using extrasensory perception.^[17]
• Retrocognition or postcognition – It is the ability to perceive past events.^[18]
• Second Sight - It is the ability to undergo paranormal seeing of future and past events or to perceive information that are not present to the senses, in the form of a vision, encompassing both about future events before they happen (precognition), or about things or events at remote locations (remote viewing).
• Scrying – The ability to look into a suitable medium with a view to detect significant information .^[19]
• Technopathy - The ability to undergo a direct communication pathway between an enhanced or wired brain and an external device.
• Telepathy – The ability to transfer thoughts mentally through extrasensory perception.^[20]

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