Psychic Abilities

Psychic Powers

This is mostly a continuation of my previous post on Psychic Phenomena. But I figured I would try to add a more extensive list of psychic abilities, with a brief description.  When it comes to human potential, the possibilities could very well be endless, and the list below may only be the beginning.

ESP

As mentioned in my previous post, ESP (Extrasensory Perception) is an umbrella term describing how one with this ability is able to pick up on additional information beyond the average reach of the traditional five human senses. There are many abilities under this category that I at least attribute to ESP.

Telepathy - The ability to pick up on and/or attune oneself to another persons mind and have access to ‘varying degrees’ of another persons thoughts. I stress varying degrees because it’s not like in the movies where you can hear someone else’s thoughts as if they where verbally speaking them. Some are able to perform this ability to a greater extent then others. My own experience of this is more like very strong impressions on what they are thinking, including sometimes pictures and ideas. Telepathy is not something I’m strong with though.

Empathy - The ability to pick up on and/or attune oneself to another persons emotional state, having access to, again ‘varying degrees’ of another persons emotions. Many people experience empathy on a daily basis. One such example would be, if you’ve ever come home to a loved one, who showed no signs of being in an ill mood, but you could feel it, as if you just knew.  An Empath picks up on another’s emotions. It often impacts their own subconsciously, changing their emotional state to more of the one their picking up on.

Precognition - Known for it’s premonitions, is the ability to see into the future. Precognition is the name of the ability, and Premonitions are the associated name for when one gets a vision of the future. In other words, if one has the ability of precognition, then a vision of the future would be the premonition. Most often coming in the form of dreams, they are often depictions of a coming, future event. Though one can have them when awake, it is less often though.

Retrocognition - Also know as Postcognition, is a lesser known ability related to Precognition, but with a twist, it sees visions of the past.

Clairvoyance - Able to see beyond that which is the normal range of sight. Related to Remote Viewing, has the ability to see and pick up on information about a specific location, person or object. Clairvoyance, like Remote Viewing is something most often done while one is awake, and actively tries to direct ones mind and sight, to a specific location, person or object. But, is not strictly so. Some are able to perform this psychic feat without conscious intent to do so, and will gain information from sight spontaneously.

Clairaudience - Like Clairvoyance, but in this way gain information through sound and hearing. Able to hear outside or beyond that which is the normal range of hearing.

Clairsentience - Like Clairaudience, but in this way gains information through touch and feeling. This psychic ability is featured in the show “The Dead Zone”.  Clairsentience also goes by the name of Psychometry.

Psychic Reading - There are many types of psychic reading, a popular method would be the Tarot Card readings. But, a psychic readings main purpose is to try and divine the future of the individual who is interested in the reading. The Psychic will use one of many different methods in which to obtain the information in question. As mentioned above, Tarot Card Readings are very common, Horoscopes are probably the most common, Astrology, Numerology and even Aura readings are widely used as well.

Psychic Medium - Also known as Mediumship and Channeling, is the ability to communicate with the dead. Often acting as a conduit of sort, or a “middle-man” for the dead and the living. In other words, Psychic Mediums take to the living on behalf of the dead. Often for those interested in contacting a loved-one who has passed on.

If you’ve noticed, the above deal with ESP, and the abilities seem to revolve around receiving information. Those with ESP (which I believe us all to have) are more sensitive to the hidden world around us. Psychic abilities seem to be about “Taking in” this otherwise unobtainable information. When you compare it to five senses, which are Seeing, Hearing, Tasting, Touching and Smelling, they all deal with taking in. But, there are other Psychic Abilities that do the opposite…

Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis, related to Telekinesis by scientific terms, has become an umbrella term in the Psionic Community. Since there are so many of these for smaller, individual aspects of psychokinesis, I will keep the description short.

Telekinesis - The ability to move objects at a distance. There is Micro-Telekinesis, the ability to affect change on a small scale undetectable by the human eye, often on Random Number Generators.  And then there is Macro-Telekinesis, which is the ability to affect change in larger scale like objects which are noticeable by the human eye.

Aerokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Air.

Atmokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Atmosphere.

Biokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Biological Systems.

Chronokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Time.

Cryokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Ice.

Electrokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Electricity.

Geokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Earth.

Hydrokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Water.

Lumokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Light.

Pyrokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Fire.

Telekinesis - The psychic ability to affect and move Objects.

Thermokinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Temperature.

Umbrakinesis - The psychic ability to affect and control Darkness.

Vitakinesis - The psychic ability to promote Healing.

Phew, what a list. I won’t endorse all of these, because, seriously, some sound ridiculous. I think that’s sort of why psionics adopted Psychokinesis as a umbrella term for all these. I also want to state, that these aren’t individual disciplines, but more like titles for aspects of the same ability. So in each one of these you would be performing Psychokinesis, but if you where using it to play with fire, it would be Pyrokinesis, so others would understand in which manner you are using it.

Sorry for using the same words over and over, I’m kind of getting a headache, so I wanted to just quickly write it down (Quick! Get me some Vitakinesis! Sounds almost like a medicine).

Anyways, there’s a bigger list for you. All of these you can learn if you wish to. There are other abilities out there, but I think this list is large enough as it is...