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Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" disruption that heals immediately afterward. [8] 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]
Rhine's experiments were discredited due to the discovery that sensory leakage or cheating could account for all his results such as the subject being able to read the symbols from the back of the cards and being able to see and hear the experimenter to note subtle clues.
Mind reading may refer to: Telepathy, the transfer of information between individuals by means other than the five senses; The illusion of telepathy in the performing art of mentalism. Cold reading, a set of techniques used by mentalists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does
The psychic eventually gave her a “comforting” reading, leading to a breakthrough. “I started to think, well, what’s the difference between me and the millions of people around the world ...
Cumberland claimed to possess no genuine psychic ability and his thought-reading performances could only be demonstrated by holding the hand of his subject to read their muscular movements. He came into dispute with psychical researchers associated with the Society for Psychical Research who were searching for genuine cases of telepathy.
This can happen when an external event follows, and is congruent with, a thought in someone's mind, without an actual causal link. [35] As evidence, Wegner cites a series of experiments on magical thinking in which subjects were induced to think they had influenced external events.
Diagram by the French esotericist Paul Sédir to explain clairvoyance [1]. Clairvoyance (/ k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ. ə n s /; from French clair 'clear' and voyance 'vision') is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense".
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