Psychic Dictionary

While this is a condensed listing of relevant terms, these definitions may help you to better understand metaphysics, mysticism and psychicism. Some terms will assist you in selecting a psychic, spiritual advisor and healer. Many of these terms have been confused with each other or, in many cases, entirely misunderstood. Most of them will not be found in Webster's Dictionary!

I have tried to include the most common terms used in the English language and metaphysical world. You may find that my interpretations of these terms varies from traditional sources. You may also note that I have added my "personal notes" to several definitions. I hope you find my psychic dictionary helpful.

AKASHIC RECORDS

The Book of Life, is the storehouse of all information for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth, containing every word, deed, feeling, thought and intent that has ever occurred. Introduced to modern man by Edgar Cayce, the Edgar Cayce readings suggest that the Akashic Records teach of us the story of our lives through our thoughts, our deeds and our interactions with the rest of creation. This information has an effect upon us in the here and now. In fact, the Akashic Records have such an impact upon our lives and the potentials and probabilities we draw toward us that any exploration of them cannot help but to provide us with insights into the nature of ourselves and our relationship with the Universe.

ASTRAL PROJECTION

An out-of-body experience often occurring during sleep or a meditative state during which the etheric body separates from the physical body. Also known as an altered state of consciousness or multi-dimensional travel.

ASTROLOGY

An ancient oracle and system based on the belief that planetary, zodiac/constellation cycles influence human and earthly affairs. Modern astrologers will find meaning and purpose in the stars. They recognize the astrological influences on historical events and they have refined their interpretation of individual behavior.

AURA

Known in the spiritual sciences as the egg-shaped, intelligent, electromagnetic and colorful force field encasing human beings and all living creatures, beings and forms. The aura is pure energy, acting like a blueprint and battery for entities.

BIORHYTHMS

The cyclical patterns of change in the body's physical, emotional and intellectual energy based on date of birth. Used to determine the immutable patterns of a person's critical days and periods of high and low energy.

CHAKRA

Chakra (also spelled cakra) means wheel or vortex. The Chakras are invisible centers of spinning energy or psychic energy centers in the etheric body located in various points that range from the base of the spine to the crown of the head. The human Chakra are stations along the central axis of your being. Each one is a point at which energy can be expressed in a certain set of actions, attitudes and emotions. These point. Most mystics perceive 7 chakra, though some perceive 12 including chakra extending from the etheric body.

CHANNELERS

‘Sensitives' who allow spiritual entities to use their bodies and minds as a link between this plane and higher planes of consciousness for the purpose of receiving psychic information or healing energy. Most commonly known as a medium.

CLAIR SENSES

This collective word phrase includes any or all types of psychic sensitivity corresponding to the five senses: seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting. Clair Senses in psychic terms are translated: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairscent and clairsavorance.

CLAIRAUDIENCE

To perceive sounds or words and extrasensory noise in the form of "inner ear" or mental tone which are perceived without the aid of the physical ear and beyond the limitations of ordinary time and space. These tones and vibrations are more easily perceived in an alpha state and during meditation, though many clairaudients can obtain verbal and sound-related information regarding the past, present and future in a variety of environments. Most Channelers (also known as Mediums) work with both clairvoyance and clairaudience.

CLAIRVOYANCE

A clairvoyant is one who receives extrasensory impressions, and symbols in the form of "inner sight" or mental images which are perceived without the aid of the physical eyes and beyond the limitations of ordinary time and space. These impressions are more easily perceived in an alpha state and during meditation, though many clairvoyants can obtain visual information regarding the past, present and future in a variety of environments.

CLAIREMPATHY

An Empath is a person who can psychically tune in to the emotional experience of a person, place or animal. Clairempathy is a type of telepathy to sense or feel within one's self, the attitude, emotion or ailment of another person or entity. Empaths tune into the vibrations and "feel" the tones of the aura.

CLAIRSCENT

To smell a fragrance/odor of substance or food which is not in one's surroundings. These odors are perceived without the aid of the physical nose and beyond the limitations of ordinary time and space.

CLAIRSENTIENCE

To perceive information by a "feeling" within the whole body, without any outer stimuli related to the feeling or information. (Also see clairempathy)

COLOR THERAPY

A healing technique using the spiritual application of color vibrations to the body, often as white light projected through films of various colors. Many color therapist also use crystals and gemstones and their vibrations.

CREATIVE VISUALIZATION

Introduced by Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization is the use the power of the imagination to create what you want in life.

CRYSTAL HEALING

The therapeutic application of crystals and gemstones for healing the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies. Most crystal healers work with and cleanse the Chakras to ease physical ailments.

DIVINATION

The act of foretelling the past, present, future and spiritual truths by using psychic skills or other methods outside of the ordinary senses. The term divination is most often confused with the actual tools used by the psychic: tarot, runes, pendulum and so on. Yet, any psychic reading, regardless of the physical or mental tools is called Divination.

DIMENSION-SHIFTING

To physically disappear at will from the physical world without moving from one's physical space or disrupting the structure of one's existence.

DOWSING

The skill of divining for underground sources of water, items, objects or answers both practical and spiritual by means of a divining rod or an item such as the pendulum, or even by deviceless techniques.

EPHEMERIS

The documented daily positions of the sun, moon and planets in longitudes and latitudes including eclipses, nodes, stations, times, and zodiacal position.

EMPATH (See clairempathy)

ESP

Extra Sensory Perception, as coined by J.B. Rhine of Duke University; to experience a response to, or to be influenced by a target, object, state or event without using the five senses. The transmission of thought and feeling from one mind to another over a distance, without physical means. (Also see telepathy.

FENG SHUI

A Geomancy called feng-shui (wind and water and pronounced Fung Sh-Way) in China, is the art of healthful arrangement of rooms, furniture and buildings to effect spiritual, psychological and physical well-being. Working with the vibrations and energies all elements, including fire, earth, air and water and all directions, north, south, east and west, Feng Shui brings harmony into the mundane physical world by means of spiritual and esoteric vibrations.

HOLISTIC HEALING

A type of healing that treats the whole person and acknowledges the inter relatedness of the body, mind and spirit in the total health of a person. Holistic healers use only nature, earth-based energies, including colors, gemstones, herbs.

HOMEOPATHY

A school of medicine based on the theory of "like cures like." Minute quantities of natural earth-based substance stimulate the body's own self-healing ability.

HYPNOSIS/HYPNOTHERAPY

A state of mind in which one's focus of attention is narrow and a higher level of awareness of the focal point is attained than is normal when one is awake. The power of conscious criticism is suppressed and suggestions move directly into the unconscious mind. Suggestions are acted upon more powerfully than is possible in the normal waking state.

I CHING

An ancient Chinese divination tool that involves tossing three identical coins or objects six times and using the patterns they form to receive answers to personal questions from the Book of Changes. I Ching in a more modern setting currently includes the use of tarot-like cards, sticks and rune-like stones.

INCENSE

Aromatic herb or wood made into a fine powder to be burned for enjoyment of its pleasant fragrance; used as an offering at rituals or during religious ceremonies.

KABBALAH (QABALA)

The Hebrew word "Kabbalah" means in its literal sense "to receive" and this refers to the communication between God and Moses. In Judaism many mystics believe there are two versions of the bible, the written Bible, (The Torah and 5 books of Moses) and the verbal Bible, the Kabbalah. Jewish mystics believe that both versions were related to Moses on his visit to Mt. Sinai. The Kabbalah is the ancient Hebrew esoteric philosophy based on a mystical interpretation of the Bible - not the mundane. Jewish mystics believe the Bible is also a book within a book and that the Bible is actually telling humanity about the circuitry of the universe. The Kabbalah, in modern times, has also become merged with the numerological layers of the Hebrew alphabet and our Bible - more commonly known as The Bible code. It presents a symbolic explanation of the origin of the universe and relates all things to their supreme archetypes.

KARMA

The word karma is a Sanskrit term that means work, dead or act. It can also be interpreted to mean "cause and effect." Although agreeing with this concept, the Edgar Cayce readings make perhaps one of the most intriguing and unique philosophical contributions: the idea that karma can be defined as memory. It is not really a debt that must be paid, nor is it necessarily a set of specific circumstances and lessons that must be experienced because of deeds or misdeeds from the past. Karma is simply patterns of memory. It is a pool of information stored in the Akashic Records that the subconscious draws upon in the present.

KINESIOLOGY

Knowledge of techniques for obtaining and using information from the position, movement, and tension of parts of the body, especially from the nerves, muscles, tendons, and joints. Kinesilogy is a diagnosis of physical ailments that may be obtained from the subconscious level by naming and conversing with the ailment.

MACROBIOTICS

Literally meaning "The Great Life". A healthful way to live abiding by the natural order of the universe. The application of this order to daily life is through a diet which affects the whole person and which is based primarily on whole grains, vegetables, beans and sea vegetables, with moderate amounts of fish, seeds and nuts.

MAGICK

Willful use of psychic skills to activate subtle forces to obey; use of ceremony, ritual, incantations, natural and human-made objects of correct vibrational frequency for desired outcome.

MEDITATION

A technique of mind control that leads to inner feelings of calm and peacefulness and may result in experiences of transcendental awareness and self-realization. The two main types of meditation are: (1) the focusing type, similar to self-hypnosis, in which the meditator focuses on a repetitive sound or chant, an image, or pattern of breathing; (2) the "opening-up" type which emphasizes the detached observation of mental events as they occur.

MEDICINE WHEEL

Native American sacred circle representing the Universe and the balance of all creation. It is cast to contain, project and raise energy to transform, balance and heal.

MEDIUMS

Sensitive people through whom communications are sent to the living from the spirit world. (See Channelers.)

NATUROPATHY

A healing system acknowledging the body's natural healing power. Fosters health through education and the use of natural substances such as herbs, foods, air and sunshine.

NUMEROLOGY

The science of numbers based upon qualitative values given to letters of the alphabet which are interpreted in shaping one's destiny as well as offering guidance in daily living.

PAGAN

According to Webster's if you are a pagan, you are a non-Christian, non-Moslem, non-Jew - heathen. If you were to look up the word heathen in the dictionary you would discover that you are an uncivilized, unenlightened or irreligious person. (Which is exactly what my mother considers me to be, only in not so many words!)

PALMISTRY

The practice of psychically reading an individual's past, present and future, as well as health and character, by studying the lines, shape and texture of the individual's hands, fingers and wrists.

PARAPSYCHOLOGY

The scientific investigation and, in some cases, treatment of supernormal phenomena such as telepathy, clairvoyance and extrasensory perception.

Past-Life Regression/Future Progression: The recall of past-life, including reincarnation, information through the subconscious mind by the use of techniques such as hypnosis. Also obtaining information regarding simultaneously existing future lives through the same methods.

PSYCHIC COUNSELOR/CONSULTANT

A psychic practitioner who uses his or her psychic abilities during private or group sessions to psychically tune into a client's life in order to help the client deal with problems. Current forms of "new physics" emphasize the interconnectedness and inseparability of everything in the universe on a progressive scale from microcosm to macrocosm. At the quantum level, the new physics contends that objective reality may not exist and that it is meaningless to view things or objects as having any reality above and beyond the mind of the observer.

PSYCHOMETRY

The process of holding an object and reading from it psychic impressions concerning the article or its owner.

PSYCHOSYNTHESIS

A developmental psychological and educational process formulated by Roberto Assagioli. Its goals are the integration of personality and awareness of the Self.

READING

Information given to a person by an intuitive or psychic in response to questions asked. May involve past, present and future events.

RUNE & RUNE CASTING

An ancient Nordic and Germanic oracle dating to around 800 A.D., involving the use of twenty-five ceramic tiles, each inscribed with a letter from the Viking alphabet; divination technique allowing one to tap into answers in the subconscious or higher self for insight and advice.

SHAMANISM/SHAMANIC THERAPY

Belief in psychic healing techniques and mediumship skills as practiced by tribal "medicine men" such as those among the Native Americans and in various parts of the Orient; the practices of mediumship and healing techniques of a Shamanic priest.

SPIRITUAL COUNSELOR/CONSULTANT

A practitioner who uses one or more spiritual and/or psychological techniques in order to assist another human being or animal.

TAROT

The word "Tarot" is a French word for a card game known also as "Tarocchi" or "Tarock." Nobody really knows the Tarot's origin. Many people have put forth theories, some of them mundane, others esoteric or frankly legendary. Tarot is a deck of seventy-eight picture cards used in divination. Divided into the Major Arcana (twenty-two cards with archetypal significance) and the Minor Arcana (fifty-six cards of four suits: wands, swords, cups, and pentacles).

UFO AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL

Unidentified flying objects or spacecraft with no known human-made origin; thought to be piloted by intelligent beings from outer space or another dimension.

WICCA & WICCAN

Wicca, also called Witta, is a neo-pagan religion based on belief in the Goddess, the Mother of Earth and Creator, or the God, Goddess and Horned God, the trinity -- a correlation between male and female energies. Periodically, you will notice a reference to the Mother, Madden and Crone -- as many Wiccans identify with this ethereal trio, which is largely connected to moon lore. Wicca, as it was several thousands of years ago, in Europe was a very simple, "homespun" religion, a faith for those who were spiritually connected to the earth and felt the gentle pulse of her ebb and flow. In general, most Wiccans of that time were solitary practitioners, who chose to do their worship and magick work within the private compounds of their home. Others worked within their close-knit family groups, oftentimes called covens, which crudely means a gathering of witches.

A religion is simply a belief system binding a human being to a super natural being. Just as Protestant, Mormon, and Catholic are religions so too is Wicca. Much to my chagrin, Satanism is deemed a religion as well, and if you're trying to locate Wicca on the internet you'll discover that over fifty percent of the Wiccan sites host Satanic rituals. Yet, true Wicca has nothing to do with Satan. To believe in Satan, one must subscribe to the Christian philosophy. True Wiccans, as with Jews, do not, nor do they worship the concept of an evil incarnate. Thanks again to the small minds of the world the general public seems to believe that Satanism and Wicca are one.)

WALK-IN

A term used for a highly developed entity from the spiritual dimension who, with permission of the channel or subject, enters an adult human body to either begin its humanitarian work at once by avoiding the childhood years or to teach humanity Universal Truths.

YOGA

Sanskrit for yoke or union. An Eastern philosophy involving spiritual discipline using various techniques to experience union with a Supreme Being. Many yogic paths exist and include work on the physical body as in Hatha yoga, which uses breathing exercises and sustained physical postures to gain physical and mental control over the body; Bhakti, the yoga of devotion and love using the heart as a vehicle for transcendence; and other types of yoga specific to a path or teacher including Iyengar, Jnana, Karma, Kripalu, Kriya, Kundalini, Raja and Siddha yoga.

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