ANOMALY - An irregular or unusual event which does not fit a standard rule or law. An anomaly is something which cannot be explained by currently accepted scientific theories. Anything weird, abnormal, strange, odd, or difficult to classify is considered an anomaly.

APPARITION- a spectral image of a person that materializes even though a physical body is not present.

AUTOMATIC WRITING or AUTOMATIC ART - To freely channel your higher self or another soul's words, music, or art without the interruptive interference of the mind.

CLAIRAUDIENCE - Hearing voices, astral music or discarnate beings.

CLAIROLEOFACTOR - To have an extraordinary sense of smell, as if you could smell flowers before they bloom or smell trouble before it occurs or death before it happens.

CLAIRSENTIENCE - The ability to clearly feel yours and/or another's emotions and sensations.

CLAIRVOYANCE - To have lucid mental perceptions and keen insights about people and life situations and to have clear visual mental images, pictures, to "see" auras and other psychic phenomena.

CRISIS APPARITION - An apparition that is seen when a person is seriously ill, seriously injured or at the point of death.

CROSS-SPECIES COMMUNICATION - To have a special rapport and understanding with animals, plants or alien beings.

CRYSTALOMANCY - The art of gazing into a crystal globe, a pool of water, a mirror, or any transparent object. The person may put him/her self into a hypnotic state to see visions or to summon forth spirits or demons.

DEJĄ VU - Certain events and experiences seem as if you are re-experiencing the event or situation that has happened at another time. As familiar as the experiences are, you cannot recall nor figure out when they happened.

DEMONOLOGY - One who studies and practices the art of demonology. An individual who specializes in the removal of evil or demonic forces from a given environment using the art of demonology. One who brings demonic forces out of their slumber to be cast away. Someone who uses the art of demonology to incantate demons for ones use in battling them.

DIRECT WRITING - Direct writing is when spirits actually write using any means. This can be done by slate writing or by pen and paper.

DIVINATION - The obtain unknown knowledge or future events from omens. Astrology may be considered divination.

DIVINING ROD - A forked rod from a tree said to indicate the presence of water or minerals underground.

DMILS - Abbreviation of Direct Mental Interaction with Living Systems. Used to denote instances where one person is attempting to influence a distant biological system, usually the physiology of another person. As it is unclear whether this represents an influenc, a case of ESP on the part of the influence or an opportunistic selection process, the term 'interaction' has been adopted.

DOPPELGANGER - A spirit of a living person outside of the physical body.

DOWSING - To be able to find underground water and/or underground minerals.

EARTHBOUND - A term referring to a ghost or spirit that was unable to cross over to the other side at the time of death and is therefore stuck on earth.

ECTOPLASM - An immaterial or ethereal substance associated with spirit manifestations.

ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENON (EVP) - Voices and sounds from beyond that are captured and recorded on audio.

EMF - An instrument for measuring the magnitude and direction of a magnetic field typically used by paranormal researchers to detect a ghost's magnetic energy.

EMPATHY - Rarely used in modern parapsychology, the popular usage of this term refers to a low-level form of telepathy wherein the empath appears to be aware of the emotional state of a distant person. An empath may also be able to "broadcast" emotions to others.

ENTITY - Any being or beings with life force of some type, includes spirits, demons and even people.

ESP - Extrasensory perception (ESP) is the knowledge of external objects or events without the aid of the senses.

FAITH HEALING - To know that you and others can heal yourselves by simply believing it.

GANZFIELD - A state of mild sensory deprivation, characterized by the presentation of homogenous sensory fields. Thus, a person in Ganzfeld will have diffusive plastic hemispheres over their eyes while in a dimly red-lit room, be listening to white noise through headphones, and be seated in a comfortable, semi-reclined chair. Its use in parapsychology is based on a noise-reduction model.

GHOST- A generic term referring to a form of apparition or supernatural entity which is typically the visual appearance of a deceased human's spirit soul.

GHOST HUNTING - A carefully controlled research project in which various methods and equipment are used to investigate reports of ghosts and hauntings.

HAUNTING - Reoccurring ghostly phenomena that returns to a location where no one is physically present. Ghosts generally haunt places and not people.

INNER VOICE - Receiving guidance and assistance from inside of you.

INTUITION - Act of knowing without the use of usual rational processes. Based partly on subconscious pattern association of known information, and partly on subconscious impressions.

KNOWINGNESS / INTUITION - To get information without knowing where it came from.

MIST - A Photographed anomaly that appears as a blanket of light. There is no substantial proof that these are related to paranormal phenomenon.

ORB - A photographed anomaly that theoretically represents the "spirit" of a deceased person. It will appear as a ball of light on film though is some cases; they are not seen at the time of the photo. Since there are many reasonable circumstances (dust, snow, rain, insects, reflection, lens flare, etc.) orbs still remain a highly controversial subject.

OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE or ASTRAL PROJECTION - To be able to leave your physical body and project your soul, consciousness or what appears to be your mind to another place and return via a silver cord.

PARANORMAL - Referring to something that is beyond the range of normal human experience or scientific explanation.

PARAPSYCHOLOGY - Literally beyond psychology. The study of apparent new means of communication, or interaction, between organisms and their environment (commonly referred to as psychic ability), beyond those presently understood by the scientific community.

PAST LIFE RECALL - To remember or have mental flashes about living in another century.

POLTERGEIST - A general term applied to a variety of site-, or sometimes person-, specific physical phenomena. These can include temperature variations, anomalous sounds, and movement of physical objects. The word 'poltergeist' literally means 'noisy spirit' and was coined back when such phenomena were thought to be due to the presence of some sort of mischievous entity. Currently, poltergeist phenomena are usually considered to be related either to unusual physical conditions at the affected site or pk. Anecdotal reports suggest that many poltergeist focus on an individual under some form of emotional stress.

PRECOGNITION - Pre-knowing; where nondeductible information about a future event is acquired.

PRECOGNITIVE DREAMS - To have dreams of events or incidents before they happen.

PREDICTION - To be able to predict future events before they occur.

PSI - A general term for parapsychological phenomena that includes informational and energetic effects. Psi, or Y, is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet.

PSYCHIC - Popular term used to denote a person who regularly uses, or who appears to be especially gifted with abilities. Also refers to general phenomena related to the mind (from Greek psyche).

PSYCHIC SURGERY - The supposed ability to paranormally perform invasive surgery using no conventional medical tools. The psychic surgeon uses either an unsterilized knife, or his bare hands, to appear to make an incision and remove some internal matter. Once the operation is finished, there is no sign of an incision, nor are there any unpleasant aftereffects (e.g. infection). Many of the investigated cases have turned out to be fraudulent, involving sleight of hand tricks to make the operation appear convincing. However, it is possible that, in some circumstances, the ritual nature of the "surgery" could help effect a cure through the equally mysterious placebo effect.

PSYCHOMETRY - To touch an object with your hands and get information about the object, it's creator, its owner, or it's history.

RECIPROCAL APPARITION - An extremely rare type of spirit phenomenon in which both the agent and percipient are able to see and respond to each other.

REMOTE VIEWING (RV) - Ability to access distant or shielded information primarily of visual character, such as natural or structural features, via an unknown mental process. RV can include other sensory modes, such as feelings, motion, or sound. Some individuals associate specific approaches, or protocols, with RV. Other similar terms: remote perception, enhanced perception, extrasensory perception (ESP).

SCRYING - A term used to cover a wide range of divination techniques which parapsychology would tend to classify as esp. Most scrying techniques involve some degree of fixation on a surface with a clear optical depth (e.g. a crystal ball, a pool of ink or deep water) or on an area which shows random patterns (e.g. flames in a fire, smoke), the idea being that subconscious information available to the scrying will be manifested in their interpretation of the imagery or random patterns they see. Techniques using a clear optical depth are actually very similar to the idea behind the homogenous visual field used in ESP research.

SUBLIMINAL PERCEPTION - Sensory impressions below the threshold of conscious awareness.

SYNCHRONICITY - Meaningful coincidences that often are mediated by subconscious psi activity. Our intuitive faculty nudges our paths into  meaningful intersections in times of need.

 PSYCHOKINESIS, LEVITATION, TELEKINESIS- To move an object or your body without physical means.

TELEPATHY - To know what others are thinking as if to hear thoughts in your head. Thought transference including the sending and receiving of thoughts.

TERRAFIRM - To be connected with the planet Earth as if it were a part of you.

TIME TRAVEL - To project your soul's consciousness out of your body and into a past or future time.

TONE HEALING - Your tone of voice affects others by disturbing, catalyzing, soothing, lulling, inspiring and quite often healing them.

TOUCH HEALING - To impart through your hands soothing and healing vibrations of energy.

TRANSMEDIUMSHIP, TRANSCHANNELING - To have severe personality shifts.

VORTEX - An anomaly that appears as a funnel or rope-like image in photographs. These images are sometimes thought to represent ghosts, collections of orbs or gateways which travel to a wormhole in time-space. There has been no substantial scientific evidence to support any of these theories.

WHITE NOISE - An Acoustical or electrical noise of which the intensity is the same at all frequencies within a given band.