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Well, we have to start somewhere. Here's a list of "abilities" and their definitions. Got more? Got theological names for them? Feel free to ad.


*Clairvoyance--'seeing' what can't be seen with the naked eye
*Clairaudience--'hearing' the inaudible
*Prophecy/Precognition--Seeing the future
*Postcognition--Seeing the past
*Empathic--Feeling
*Telekinesis--Moving objects with the 'mind'
*Telepathy--Mental communication with the mind only
*Mediums--Talking to spirits
*Channeling--Spirits speak THROUGH the person
*Healing--Self explanatory
*Pyrokinetic--controlling fire
*Astral Projection--Leaving ones body and travelling
*Aura reading--reading the light a person sheds
*Automatic Writing--Writing through the subconcious/from spirits
*Remote Viewing--seeing things at great distances
*Divination--blanket term for predicting the future
*Clairsentience--'knowing' things
*Dowsing--using a rod to locate water or lost objects
*Psychometry--picking up on psychic 'imprints'

This list taken from psionguild.org <-- add to refrences please.

Channeling:
Relaying information from a spirit entity, or allowing a spirit to "possess" oneself in order to facilitate communication. Alternatively, refers to moving energy from one place to another either in or out of the body.

Clairaudience:
Refers to energy perception translated into sound by the brain ("hearing" psychic energy, spirit communications, etc).

Clairsentience:
Refers to energy perception translated into tactile sensation by the brain ("feeling" psychic energy).

Clairvoyance:
Refers to energy perception translated by the brain into visual images ("seeing" psychic energy, auras, spirits, etc). Also used to refer to "seeing" visions of future events or events occurring at a distance.

Divination:
Using a physical focus (such as a crystal ball, or tea leaves) to trigger future-sensing ability.

Dowsing:
Using a rod, pendulum, or similar tool to access subconscious psychic perception in order to locate something (such as water, an object, or internal injury, etc). Can be done either at the site, or using a map.

Dreamwalking:
Using telepathy to enter another person's dreams and interact with them.

Empathy:
Using psi to sense others' emotions. Also used to describe sensing others' physical sensations and nervous system activity, and primal reactions. Can also refer to projecting these things (projective empathy).

ESP:
Extra-sensory perception. Used to refer to any receptive psi ability.

Esper:
A person who has ESP.
Frontloading:
A remote-viewing term, meaning to give a person information on something they are trying to detect psychically, before they try to detect it. This can cause them to imagine they see what they think they should, rather than seeing what is actually there.

Natural:
Roughly, a born-psi.

Outbounding:
A type of remote viewing done by psychically connecting with a person who is at the site you wish to view.

Ping:
A term used to describe a short burst of energy to get someone's attention, or a short, forceful telepathic message or suggestion to get on the phone or internet for further conversation.

Precognition:
Refers to the ability to perceive future events before they occur.

Psi-Vamp:
Outside of the Guild, this is often used as an alternative term for any sort of psychic vampire.

Psychokinesis:
Using psi to move physical matter--moving objects with the mind.

Psychometry:
Gaining information from energy patterns left on an object, allowing a person to determine things about those who handled it, and where it has been. Can also allow a person to gain a pattern lock on another person from the object, thus determining where they currently are and what they are doing. Utilizing a variety of abilities, what a person who held the object has done, or will do, can also be determined.

Remote Viewing:
Refers to the ability to perceive places, people, and events at a distance or beyond the range of the other 5 senses.

Retrocognition:
Refers to the ability to perceive past events.

Sensitive:
This refers to a person who is input-oriented. This means that they are better at using the input functions of abilities, which deal with sensing things rather than affecting them, than they are at using the output functions of abilities.

Sight:
Energy sensing ability that a person interprets as visual images--ie, the ability to 'see' psychic energy, auras, spirits, etc. Always capitalized.
Skelpting:
This seems to refer to simply a very strong linking. Origin unknown.
Teek:
A person who has psychokinetic ability.
Teep:
A person who has telepathic ability.
Telekinesis:
Outdated term for psychokinesis.

Telepathy:
Receiving thoughts from another person or animal, or sending thoughts to them.

Tendency:
A person who is output-oriented. This means that they are better at using the output functions of abilities, which involve affecting things, than they are at using input-functions.

I wouldn't be suprised if it was.

I get the same feeling sometimes.

Also, to the list, there is an ability known as electrokinesis.

Okay. I would like some VERY in-depth info on Aura related powers, and on astral projection, please.

I've also heard of Quantumkinesis and Umbrakinesis. Respectively, the ability to manipulate light and shadow.

Does anyone have any information on them?

So, what I call "silent information" or a strong intuition is called clairsentience.

I might also be empathic.

*Psychometry--picking up on psychic 'imprints'

Does this mean picking up psychic imprints from objects?
Something like the material "remembers" what has happened around it?

I no longer buy used objects because sometimes they just start "feeling so weird" that I can't use them and I have to throw them away.

I ended up picking up on psychometric energy from a used bicycle that I have, and I got a strong sense of how some damage had occured that I had to repair when I got it. I could sense the previouse owner trying to shift the gears, and nearly ripping the gear shift lever right off the frame.