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[4] [page needed] Materialization — The creation of objects and material or the appearance of matter from unknown sources. [5] Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits. [6] Mind Control – The ability to control someone's mind. Petrification — The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye.
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.
The parapsychology experiments at Duke evoked criticism from academics and others who challenged the concepts and evidence of ESP. A number of psychological departments attempted, unsuccessfully, to repeat Rhine's experiments. W. S. Cox (1936) from Princeton University with 132 subjects produced 25,064 trials in a playing card ESP experiment ...
Telepathy: Reading someone’s mind. Clairvoyance: Seeing things that are hidden or far away. Precognition: Knowing future events through gut feelings or with visions. Retrocognition: Seeing past ...
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
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.
Mark Edward (born Mark Edward Wilson, May 19, 1951 – August 4, 2024) was an American mentalist and author. He wrote books on mentalism and séance theory and production, including Psychic Blues (2009), where he discussed working for the Psychic Friends Network.
Dark Visions is a trilogy of young adult fiction by L. J. Smith written in the mid-1990s. The story follows the protagonist, Kaitlyn Fairchild, as she attends, uncovers a plot, and ultimately defeats the Zetes Institute, a place where she went to learn about her own psychic powers.