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In American science fiction of the 1950s and '60s, psionics was a proposed discipline that applied principles of engineering (especially electronics) to the study (and employment) of paranormal or psychic phenomena, such as extrasensory perception, telepathy and psychokinesis. [1]
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]
In a test for ESP, the experimenter picks up a card in a shuffled pack, observes the symbol, and records the answer of the person being tested, who would guess which of the five designs is on the card. The experimenter continues until all the cards in the pack are used.
He says psychic abilities aren’t magical but rather our minds at work. ESP experiments, similar to those tested by twins Terry and Sherry Young, seen here in 1961, have tested claims of ...
Artistic ability [9] Emotional closeness with the sender [ 13 ] Critics have pointed out that relying on selection criteria like this can introduce bias in the experimental design, and so generally discussion of any claimed effects has typically included only studies that sample normal populations rather than selecting for "special ...
A psychic reading is a specific attempt to discern information through the use of heightened perceptive abilities; or natural extensions of the basic human senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and instinct.
The book contains over 150 psionic powers, and includes an entire chapter on psychic combat. [1] The book also includes psionic monsters, such as the thought eater and cerebral parasite. [1] The book has a discussion of society's reaction to psionicists, and a section describing the role of psionics in various TSR campaign settings. [1]
A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception (ESP), or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation , cold reading , and hot reading to produce the appearance of such ...