| In the swirl of misconceptions, misunderstandings, and | | | | obtain a psychic reading of another entity and |
| general confusion surrounding the fields of | | | | consciously channel that entity but professional |
| parapsychology and psychic activity, most people | | | | parapsychologists don't recommend trying it until |
| have no idea how to make distinctions between | | | | you've been well-trained and prepared. |
| different types of psychic abilities. Wait a minute, you | | | | Three more (related) types of psychic ability are |
| say, I didn't even know there were different types! | | | | clairaudience, clairsentience, and clairvoyance. |
| You're in the same boat as most everyone else who | | | | Clairaudience is generally defined as the ability to hear |
| has a basic understanding of psychic reading and | | | | or sense sounds that cannot be perceived by a |
| activity. Little does the general public know, it's not all | | | | non-psychic person. Clairsentience is another type of |
| tarot cards and psychic phone reading -- There are | | | | extrasensory perception in that clairsentient people can |
| sharply defined distinctions between everything from | | | | sense past, present, or future events through sensing |
| the obvious (tarot reading and telepathy) to the | | | | them, though non-clairsentient people cannot perceive |
| surprising (clairaudience, clairsentience, and | | | | them. Clairvoyance is a synonym for extrasensory |
| clairvoyance). | | | | perception any knowledge or consciousness of an |
| First, let's discuss what defines psychic ability in the first | | | | event outside of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, or |
| place! Extra-sensory perception (ESP), prophesies of | | | | smelling it. |
| the future, and a sixth sense could all be defined under | | | | Divination is another often-misunderstood type of |
| the blanket term psychic ability. But where does | | | | psychic ability. Divination is the act of making |
| psychic ability come from? Actually, no one really | | | | prophesies or predictions through the practice of occult |
| knows not even psychic readers. People who claim to | | | | arts. Contrary to popular belief, this is different from |
| have psychic abilities describe a sense of just having it | | | | intuition which is defined as the ability to perceive or |
| without having any conception of how it got there. | | | | act based on just knowing that it's the right thing to do. |
| Most say that it is part of their regular consciousness, | | | | Tarot Cards and tarot reading is a form of divination. |
| and that they simply know or feel things before, during, | | | | Although the mainstream ideas of divination and |
| or after they happen despite being unable to explain | | | | intuition have been tweaked to seem like anyone can |
| how. Though parapsychology has been heavily | | | | tap into this psychic energy field, the truth is that only a |
| criticized, scrutinized, and stigmatized, the truth is that | | | | few people take the time to hone and develop their |
| as much evidence points towards its veracity as | | | | extrasensory perception skills. |
| against it. | | | | What's the difference between psychometry and |
| So what are some of the different types of psychic | | | | psychokinesis? Well, psychometry is defined as the |
| abilities? To begin with, there is the art of channeling, | | | | ability to glean information about an object by obtaining |
| which is defined as the ability to receive and transmit | | | | physical contact with the object. Good examples of |
| information from another external consciousness while | | | | this are seen in countless movies. Envision it: The hero |
| in a decidedly altered state of mind. Though each | | | | touches a book and, upon contact, is filled with images |
| incident varies in intensity and resulting activity, many | | | | of its previous user and the fate that befell him or her. |
| share the same basic traits: a semi-trance like state | | | | Psychokinesis is the ability to move objects through |
| and the appearance of an outer entity expressing itself | | | | willing it or thinking it. |
| through the channeler. Many people have been able to | | | | |