List of psychic abilities

{{Short description|Extrasensory phenomena}} {{Dynamic list}} This is a list of psychic abilities attributed to real-world people. Many of these abilities pertain to variations of extrasensory perception or the ''sixth sense''. Superhuman abilities from fiction are not included.

==Psychic abilities==  * Aerokinesis – The ability to control air and wind. * Astral projection or ''mental projection'' – The ability to voluntarily project an astral body or mental body, being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which one's consciousness or a state of day dream-like experience imagines an imaginary or future state of one's being.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bruce|first1=Robert|title=Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience|date=1999|publisher=Hampton Roads Pub.|location=Charlottesville, VA|isbn=1571741437}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=December 2015}} * Atmokinesis – The ability to regulate the weather by "calling" for snow, rain, or sunshine. *Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Sukie|title=After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life|date=1998|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=9780684838694|edition=1st Touchstone}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=December 2015}}  * Bilocation – The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint. * Biokinesis - The ability to control any form of life from a single nucleotide to an entire ecosystem simultaneously.  * Chlorokinesis – The ability to mentally and/or physically summon, control and manipulate plants and vegetation. * Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind. *Curse – Any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.   * Electrokinesis – The ability to control all form of electricity. * Energy medicine – The ability to heal with empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Edzard Ernst |url=http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/174_02_150101/ernst/ernst.html#suba10 |title=A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | Medical Journal of Australia |journal=Medical Journal of Australia |date=15 January 2001 |volume=174 |issue=2 |publisher=Mja.com.au |access-date=2013-11-09}}</ref> * Ergokinesis – The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction.   * Geokinesis – The ability to control all form of earthly materials.  * Hydrokinesis – The ability to control water with one's mind.  * Iddhi – Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation. * Illusions – The ability to conjure up illusions from one's mind. * Inedia – The purported ability to survive without eating or drinking. * Invisibility – The ability to turn oneself invisible.    * Levitation or ''transvection'' – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.<ref>{{cite book| last=Oldridge | first=Darren |title=Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds | date=2007 | publisher=Routledge | location=London | isbn=9780415404921}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=December 2015}}  * Materialization – The creation of objects and material or the appearance of matter from unknown sources derived from deep enlightenment and thought.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Roach|first1=Mary|author-link=Mary Roach|title=Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife|date=2008|publisher=Canongate|location=Edinburgh|isbn=9781847670809|pages=122–130}}</ref> * Mediumship or ''channeling'' – The ability to communicate with spirits of those passed on to the afterlife.<ref name='Skepdic'>{{cite web|url=http://skepdic.com/medium.html |title=medium - The Skeptic's Dictionary |publisher=Skepdic.com |access-date=2013-11-09}}</ref> *Mind control – The ability to control someone's mind. * Memory librarian - the ability to access and store the spirit's memories    * Petrification – The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye. * Photokinesis – The ability to control lights. * Phytokinesis – The ability to control plants with one's mind.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} * Prophecy (also ''prediction'', ''premonition'', or ''prognostication'') – the ability to foretell events without using induction or deduction from known facts.<ref>{{cite Encyclopedia of Claims |title=Prophecy |first-letter=p |access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> * Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" disruption that heals immediately afterward.<ref>{{cite book|last=Spence|first=Lewis|title=Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology|date=2007|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|location=[Whitefish, Mont.]|isbn=978-0-7661-2817-0|page=750|edition=3rd}}</ref> * Pyrokinesis – The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind. * Psychic hold – The ability to throw an electric current like a rope.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}     * Telekinesis or ''Psychokinesis'' – The ability to influence a physical system without physical interaction, typically manifesting as being able to exert force, control objects and move matter with one's mind.<ref>{{cite book|last=Braude|first=Stephen E.|title=ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination|date=2002|publisher=Brown Walker Press|location=Parkland, Fla.|isbn=1-58112-407-4|page=21|edition=Rev.}}</ref> * Teleportation – The ability is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. * Thoughtography – The ability to impress an image by 'burning' it on a surface using one's mind only.  * Umbrakinesis – The ability to shape, create, and control shadows and darkness.   * Witnessing – The gift of being visited by high-profile spiritual beings such as Mary, Jesus or Fudosama (Acala).  * Xenoglossy – The ability of a person to suddenly learn to write and speak a foreign language without any natural means such as studying or research, but that is often rather bestowed by divine agents.

=== Extrasensory perception === {{main|Extrasensory perception}} Extrasensory perception, or ''sixth sense'', isn't an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities.    * Remote viewing, ''telesthesia'' or ''remote sensing'' – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.<ref>{{cite book|last=Zusne|first=Leonard|title=Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking|date=1989|publisher=L. Erlbaum|location=Hillsdale, N.J. |isbn=0-8058-0508-7|page=167|edition=2nd}}</ref> * Echo location - the ability to locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense.  * Dermo-optical perception – The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through the skin. * Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a ''dowsing rod''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Sukie|title=After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life |date=1998 |publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=Ulan Batar |isbn=9780684838694|pages=167–192|edition=1st Touchstone}}</ref>             * Precognition (including psychic premonitions) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events without using induction or deduction from known facts.<ref>{{cite Encyclopedia of Claims |title=Precognition |first-letter=p |access-date=26 January 2022}}</ref> * Psychometry or ''psychoscopy'' – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beloff|first=John|title=Parapsychology: a Concise empathy History|date=1997|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-312-17376-0|page=97|edition=1st paperback}}</ref>   * Retrocognition or ''postcognition'' – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wolman|first=Benjamin B.|title=Handbook of Parapsychology|date=1986|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=9780899501864|pages=921–936|edition=Repr.}}</ref>   * Telepathy – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.<ref name=hamilton121>{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Trevor|title=Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death|date=2009|publisher=Imprint Academic|location=Exeter, UK|isbn=978-1-84540-248-8|page=121}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}} {{Parapsychology|state=expanded}}

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