Types of Psychic Abilities

The following list of the various types of psychic abilities will never be 100% complete. We humans have a constant desire to place labels upon things and people from various cultures tend to put varying labels on things which often leads to confusion as to what the proper term is for a specific ability.

As time allows and as we have members from various cultures join our group, we hope to grow this list with cross references between names that are more a cultural difference that a physical one.

Of course we will also fine tune our definitions when additional information becomes available.

We urge you to not get hung up on terminology. The name of something rarely matters, it is the ability, the type of psychic abilities itself that should take the fore front.

Astral Projection - Removing one's spirit form from the body and traveling to another location.

Aura Reading - The ability to see/feel the energy field that surrounds all living things.

Automatic Writing - The ability to allow the subconscious mind to communicate via direct control of a writing instrument held in the hand.

Channeling - The ability to allow other being to communicate via your voice.

Clairaudience - Any type of "knowing" that involved the hearing, without physically hearing. In other words, the subject(s) involved in creating the sounds could be on the other side of the earth from the person "hearing" the communication.

Clairvoyance - The abilities to see the unseeable. Can involve seeing the past, present or future events.

Clairsentience - A "knowing" of hidden events. Can involved "knowing" past, present or future events.

Divination - An umbrella term under which all types of "knowing" past, present or future events are housed.

Dowsing - The use of pendulums, rods or sticks to locate water or lost objects.

Empathy - The ability to sense or feel the emotions and needs of others.

E.S.P. - Often used as an umbrella term to cover many forms of psychic abilities.

Intuition - A "knowing" of hidden events, often used interchangeably with the term clairsentience.

Levitation - The ability to cause objects or ones own body to hover above the ground without the use of any type of lifting mechanism.

Precognition - The ability to know the future if those involved stay upon the path they are currently on. It should be noted that the future is not static. Changes can be made today that will change the future that has been forseen.

Psychometry - The ability to sense, read or interpret the energy signal left on an item by someone that has dealt with the item in the past.

Pyrokinesis - The ability to start fires with one's mind.

Scrying - One of the tools used by some persons to bring precognitive abilities to the surface.

Telekinesis - The ability to move objects with your mind. Often used interchangeably with the term psychokinesis, however psychokinesis is actually the umbrella term under which all the various "kinesises" resides.

Telepathy - Often called mind reading. Can be one person reading another's mind or mind to mind communication between two people.

We hope you have enjoyed this overview of some of the types of psychic abilities and hope you will check back with us often as our site continues to grow.