psychic ability
Supernatural mental power
Psychic ability is the supposed capacity to perceive information through means beyond the ordinary senses—reading minds, seeing the future, sensing distant events.
The term appears in discussions of the paranormal and parapsychology: She claimed psychic ability ran in her family.
Whether such abilities exist remains scientifically unverified, though belief in them is widespread.
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- mind readingPerceiving others' thoughts directly
- psychokinesisMind-powered object manipulation
- tarot readingFortune-telling via symbolic cards
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
automatic writing · spirit guide · psychometry · telekinesis · clairvoyance · third eye · mediumship · astral projection · out of body · trance states · crystal ball · astrology · cold reading · scrying · remote viewing · palmistry · aura reading · dream interpretation
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- New Agecrystals, auras, reiki, tarot, astrology
- psychic phenomenatelepathy, clairvoyance, ESP, precognition, extrasensory
- hidden powerssixth sense, mind reading, telepathy, telekinesis, clairvoyance
- parapsychologyESP, ghosts, psi, mediums, telepathy
- instinctsinstinct, survival instinct, survival instincts, maternal instinct, gut instinct
psychic abilityfive senses
Basic perceptual capacities
sensory perception · empirical observation · logical reasoning · direct observation · scientific method
psychic abilityscientific method
Structured process for investigation
empirical evidence · critical thinking · skepticism · logical reasoning · materialism
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