John W. Martin asked:


Psychology – Intriguing Phenomena of the Mind



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Strictly defined, psychology is the study of mental processes and behaviors. Psychologists study everything from interpersonal relationships to unconscious habits of the mind. They also attempt to relate behaviors and thoughts to neurological processes. While most professionals in this field work within the realm of mainstream science, some have adopted a focus on “paranormal psychology,” commonly referred to as parapsychology.

Parapsychology first developed as a field in the 19th century. In 1882, the Society for Psychical Research was founded in London to promote the critical evaluation of paranormal psychic phenomena. Three years later, psychologists in the United States created the American Society for Psychical Research. Both organizations still exist today and continue to conduct prominent research. They are now joined by other interested institutions, like the Parapsychological Association, and sections of major universities.
Parapsychology focuses on several key phenomena. One of the most heavily studied is extrasensory perception (ESP). ESP refers to the ability to garner information without using any of the known physical senses. This can include precognition, telepathy, and clairvoyance. A key method of ESP study has involved sensory-deprivation. When unable to use other sense, subjects are able to test supposed ESP abilities. Results from these so-called “ganzfeld experiments” seem to prove the existence of some ESP phenomena. However, such findings have not been confirmed by the general scientific community.

Some parapsychologists specifically focus on the survival of consciousness beyond the death of a person’s physical body. Most research in this area involves exploration of near-death experiences. These refer to instances where a person has come close to death or been revived after cited as medically deceased. In many such cases, subjects describe an “out of body experience” in which he or she was able to observe the situation from outside their physical self. Other subjects have reported communicating with deceased loved ones or spiritual figures. Today, this phenomenon is widely studied in universities, such as at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and by the International Association for Near-Death Studies.

A more obscure segment of parapsychology is the study of psychokinesis, or the ability of the mind to influence physical matter. Although claims in this area are numerous, scientific study of such phenomena is difficult. One popular method of studying this phenomenon involves using computers as random number generators. A subject is then asked to try and influence the outcome of the device. Some results from these experiments seem to show that a person can influence a random event. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to determine whether data is accurate or simply the result of chance success.

Despite some empirical findings, most scientists still consider parapsychology to be a pseudoscience. They do not support supposed experimental findings, and continue to debate the credibility of parapsychologists. However, this has not deterred researchers, and parapsychology continues to be studied by scholars around the world. Some projects have even received government funding and media support. However, more experimental findings are necessary before even a single parapsychology claim can be verified.

Michael Smith asked:


The depiction of such an aura in religious art usually connotes a person of particular power or holiness. According to the literature of movements (such as Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Archeosophy, etc.) each color of the aura has a precise meaning, indicating a precise emotional state.

A complete description of the Aura and its colors was provided by Charles Leadbeater, a theosophist of the 19th century. The works of Leadbeater were later developed by Palamidessi and others. Skeptics such as Robert Todd Carroll doubt the evidence presented for the perception of auras, contending that auras may be seen for explainable reasons such as migraines or synaesthesia.

Some people see auras as the result of a migraine, epilepsy, a visual system disorder, or a brain disorder. Eye fatigue can also produce an aura, sometimes to referred to as “eye burn”. (See Aura (symptom) and synesthesia.) W.E. Butler has connected auras with clairvoyance and etheric, mental, and emotional emanations.

He classifies aura into two main types: etheric and spiritual. Robert Bruce classifies auras into three types: etheric, main, and spiritual. Various books have been written that derive various personality traits based upon the specific colors of the different layers of the aura. Auras are thought to be related to the etheric subtle body and to serve as a visual measure of the state of the health of the physical body.

Auras are not thought to be actual light but a translation of other unknown sensory readings that is added to our visual processing. According to Bruce they are not seen in complete darkness and cannot be seen unless some portion of the person or object emitting the aura can also be seen.

Debunkers of paranormal activity deny claims of the existence of auras, labeling them pseudoscience. One test, which was televised, involved an “aura” reader standing on one side of a room with an opaque partition separating her from a number of slots which might contain either actual people or mannequins.

The aura reader failed to identify which partitions had which behind them, claiming that all were concealing people. According to Bruce’s criteria for the visibility of the aura, this test would have been impossible.

Rachel Beavan asked:

onal Psychic Clairvoyant Medium

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What is a Medium?

A medium communicates with a personality that endures beyond death.

Can anyone become a Medium?

All of us are part of the same spirit therefore we all have within the divine potential for service of communication with souls that cross over to the other side.   Yet from knowledge mediums have a certain make-up in order for the gifts to be unfolded & developed to the point where the spirit world can utilize them to there greatest potential.  We all have this ability yet may not have chosen in this life-time to work in this form, so therefore this is where you would have heard the term, ‘mediums are born & not created’.

What are Evidential Medium-ship sittings?

Evidential sittings are where the medium will communicate with a past loved one who will bring forth evidence of the existence of the after life.

Mental Medium-ship

What are Psychic Clairvoyant Medium-ship Sittings?

Psychic Clairvoyant Mediumship Sittings are where a medium will use all the below abilities to help bring guidance from the world of spirit.

Clairsentience (feeling)

Clairsentience is a form of extra sensory perception where a medium acquires knowledge by means of feeling.  It is an ability that can be obtained at advanced meditation levels. Clairsentience, empath & sensitive is a reference to a person who can feel the vibration of other people or the people in the spirit world. There are many different degrees of clairsentience ranging from the perception of diseases through sensing of others or the person we are communicating with in the world of spirit. To thoughts or emotions of other people again also relating to the souls that have passed over.  Slightly different from Clairvoyance but you get a very vivid feeling that can form into an image or picture.  Psychometry can also be related to clairsentience, which is a form of picking up psychic energy through feelings of a past event.

Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

Clairvoyance (from 17th century French with clair meaning “clear” and voyance meaning ” vision”) is used for the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses Visions may also be in the future, future and some times in the past.   a form of extra sensorty persception. A Medium will the ability is know to have the ability of clear seeing.   The process of clairvoyance involves attuning to the waves or vibrations of the universe & becoming part of it.  When a medium attunes themselves into this light trance of the waves of energy vibration, they see the visions and senses the situations humans do when they tune into a radio or TV station. A medium will then read and interpret them with the help of there clairsentience & clairaudiance.

Clairaudience (hearing)

Clairaudience is essentially the ability to hear in a paranormal manner, as opposed to paranormal seeing (clairvoyance) and feeling (clairsentience). Clairaudient people have psi-mediated hearing. Clairaudience may refer not to actual perception of sound, but may instead indicate impressions of the “inner mental ear” similar to the way many people think words without having auditory impressions this is a form of telepathy. But it may also refer to actual perception of sounds such as voices, tones, or noises which are not apparent to other humans or to recording equipment.

Clairalience (smelling)

Also known as Clairescence. Clairalience clairalienc is clear smelling which is a form of extra sensory perception wherein a person acquires knowledge by means of smelling.

Claircognizance (knowing)

Claircognizance is a clear knowing & is a form of extra sensory perception of intrinsic knowledge without physical explaination why you know it.

What is an aura reading?

An aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation that surrounds a person or object    Each color of the aura has a precise meaning, indicating the emotional state & mental state of a person. A complete description of the Aura and its colors can be provided with the form of objective clairvoyance.

What is Trance Communication?

Trance medium-ship is where a companion/guide/mentor/teacher/guardian angel whichever term you wish to use will link with the medium very closely & come into the auric field.  The medium will lift vibrations & the companion will lower vibrations.  This creates an attunement activating a link mind to mind. You may also experience a past loved one who will with the assistance of the companions also use the voice box of the medium to bring forth love & guidance.

Mental Medium-ship.

What are Trance Communication Sittings?

Teaching from the spirit world offering words of wisdom to life’s questions.

What is Physical Medium-ship?

A Physical Medium is a medium that will go into a state of trance, whereby the group circle of spiritual companions in the spirit world that work alongside the medium will link into the mediums aura & mind to create physical phenomena through an abundance of etheric energy that surrounds the mediums physical body.    It is objective by nature & everyone is able to see or hear.  Certain elements of etheric matter should be present within the etheric vehicle of the medium to be able to produce physical phenomena.

What are Physical Medium-ship Demonstrations?

Very rare in mediums today but a form of ectoplasm is used for movement of objects, direct voice, transfiguration or full materialization.

Also other forms of physical medium-ship are raps & taps.

Physical Medium-ship

Christine Gray Flynn asked:


Remote viewing is the unexplained, but scientifically acknowledged ability to see something that is hidden from physical view, something that is usually separated by some distance. Known as PSI, it is classified as a paranormal ability and is sometimes thought of as ESP, clairvoyance, precognition, or telepathy.

Used extensively as an intelligence gathering tool, the US government funded PSI research for over twenty years from the end of world war two through to the 1970s and used it to train ‘psychic spies’ during the Cold War. Known as part of the Star Gate project, the results were irrefutable: remote viewing is not only possible, but as an innate ability that everyone possesses, anyone can learn how to do it, and for those who become good at it, it is possible for them to achieve a positive result eighty percent of the time — eighty percent being the threshold replicated across multiple laboratories and cultures.

Up until recently remote viewing has largely been a tool used by the military, the CIA and other related branches of law enforcement. A common practice of the police, it has been used to solve crimes and find missing people. But having caught the imagination of the public, the application of remote viewing is gaining momentum in the mainstream, and is being used by some to predict all kinds of future events including the rise and fall of the stock market.

The idea that remote viewing can be used to successfully predict the outcome of the financial market eighty percent of the time might seem fanciful, if not a dream, but what about using it to see the future state of your health and well being. To use it in this way would in effect enable a person to change their future and maybe even postpone their death.

The ramifications of remote viewing for our daily lives are huge, but more than this, the fact that it is a proven phenomenon that requires our consciousness to transcend time and space, remote viewing is also a way of glimpsing the “universal mind” the “sea of consciousness” that all mystical experiences elude to — the all knowing that is everywhere, and that we can, through learning how to remote view, tap into whenever we want.

Surprisingly, learning how to remote view is not as difficult as one might imagine. In fact, it can be a deeply relaxing experience because it requires a temporary shift in brainwave frequencies from the beta range to the alpha range. The alpha brainwave frequency range is a dreamy relaxed, non judgemental, non analytical state and is the brainwave states most commonly associated with paranormal experiences. When one develops the ability to enter this state while remaining alert, they are in optimum state not only for remote viewing but for a whole host of experiences that transcend the barriers of the time space continuum.

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Angelys Groshong asked:


The history of the paranormal tarot cards is something that is masked by time. There’s some testimonials and researchers that join the source of the Tarot with that of old egyptian times, while additional teachers and researchers suggest that the fortune telling apportions sources with very oldbohemian refinement. Nonetheless, there are additional researchers that append an Italiansource to the Tarot cards, and it is believed that the Tarot Cards became a tool of clairvoyance near the 1400s. Since that experience, plenty of distinct types have evolved and are just now employed. One of the much well-liked decks being the Rider-Waite deck.

A typical tarot deck contains 78 cards consisting of the four suits seen in regular card games, which are hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs. The Latin version of the tarot deck has a different set of suits. They are swords, batons, cups, and coins. Like a regular deck, tarot cards are numbered from one to ten plus the four court cards; jack, queen, king, and ace.

The difference between a tarot deck and the regular deck is the twenty-one divinity cards known as Major Arcana. A joker equivalent in the tarot deck is called the Fool, or the excuse. The Fool can take all four suits and acts as the strongest trump card.

Reading a tarot card is easy, as each trump card has a distinct meaning. However, careful interpretation is needed if one wants to read the meaning from the collection of cards. These cards have astrological connections with readings placed under the context of the Octavian Calendar. Tarot cards are believed to readily describe the physical and emotional characteristics of the subject.

The rich and age-old tradition of tarot reading is constantly evolving through time. The methods of interpreting tarot cards continue to change to catch up with the culture it is living in. The change in meaning can also contribute to the evolution of the card itself. The elements of a tarot card today are far different from what it was before.

Many tarot readings are done face to face. You can find someone who reads tarot cards in your local area by searching online, checking local listings or asking at an occult bookshop. You should come prepared with a question or query much of the time, and may find that while you can gain some useful insights from a reading, it is more a perceptive tool than a truly esoteric one. Each tarot reader has their own preferences with regard to how they lay out cards and read them; however, you can reasonable expect that a more complex and time consuming reading will be more costly.

You can also have a tarot reading done over the phone. If you cannot find a local person who does tarot readings or would prefer additional discretion, this can be a good choice. While you should expect a tarot reading over the phone to be rather expensive, do avoid questionable services charging by the minute. There are reputable tarot card readers who provide readings over the phone for a reasonable flat fee. Some may also offer online readings for a small sum, and provide their interpretation of the cards via email.

Tarot cards have been around for centuries and have been used in many cultures for the purposes of divination. There are a variety of card layouts, and there are several different card reading methods that card readers use. The interpretation of Tarot Cards is based on the card position and the various symbols in each card.

Janine Cruzet asked:


There is no exact connection between religion and paranormal beliefs . There are people who are religious but don’t believe in things like Bigfoot or UFOs while others believe in many paranormal events but who are not part of any religious tradition. Then, one does not anything to do with the other.

Those people who show obedience to religious traditions may often be eager to renounce any correspondence since paranormal beliefs are often portrayed as less sane and reliable than religious beliefs. In some cases, conservative and other religious believer often regard paranormal beliefs as evil actions of evil forces in the universe and not the sort of thing they would like to believe.

On the other hand, religious and paranormal beliefs share lots of important things in common. Both paranormal and traditional religions are in the same nature which they are not considered as part of the world as a place controlled by sequences of cause and effect between matter and energy. Instead, they believe that the added presence of immaterial forces influences or controls the path of our lives.

By paranormal beliefs, we tend to search for our desire to find logical meaning to some chaotic events that come our way. If we are suddenly aware of a distant event we shouldn’t neglect, it might be credited to psychic powers, clairvoyance, spirits, angels, or God. There seems to be a real scale between what we tend to call “paranormal” and the ideas in many religious faiths

Paranormal beliefs are more than superstitions and religious beliefs. Since paranormal beliefs are commonly part of an integrated beliefs system about the very nature and substance of the universe whereas superstitions are often isolated ideas at times related to cultural traditions irreligious beliefs. The paranormal beliefs which are integrated to belief system are very similar to religion .they can provide meaning to our lives as well as the events in our lives. They can also provide social structure, and give comfort in difficult times.

However, paranormal beliefs system lacks some of the critical characteristics of religions. They don’t typically engage ritual acts, because it’s unusual for them to make a distinction between the sacred and the sacrilegious. It is also rare for people to base a moral code upon those beliefs. Even though paranormal beliefs means that they are not the same as religion, the strong similarities do suggest that they stem from some of the same needs and desires as religious beliefs.

Research shows that religion and paranormal beliefs are separated phenomena. There are some studies that try to correlate religion to paranormal beliefs but there have been varied results. For an instance, one study concluded that there is a strong chance that belief in the paranormal is a substitute for religious beliefs, and that both religious belief and paranormal belief serve to lower death anxiety. However, some researchers found that paranormal belief was commonly not associated to religiosity. There were some events and specific beliefs such as E.S.P and Astrology had a minor opposite relationship with religiosity, which the study concluded that belief in the paranormal may substitute for traditional religious beliefs.

On the opposite side of the scale, some studies completed in Canada, found that people who chose “none” as their religious preference were not any more likely to believe in the paranormal than participants who had a religious preference (in this study, only the data from those participants who chose “other religion organization ,” like “Protestant,” or “Catholic” were utilized. Study also found that there was a considerable positive relationship between religious beliefs, which were measured by a 6-question scale asking how much, if any, the participant believed in God, angels and others.

Paranormal beliefs, which were also measured by a separate 6-item scale, asking how much participants believed in ESP, astrology, found that participants who stated that they attend church regularly were slightly less likely to have paranormal beliefs. Constant held of religious belief gives an impression of more significant negative correlations between church attendance and paranormal beliefs.

So, in this case, finding the relationship of religion and paranormal beliefs were an endless journey. But as long as you have faith in the Supreme Being it will not alter the truth that every individual seek for some meaning in their lives regardless if it is under the religious beliefs or paranormal beliefs. Somehow and the other way around religion and paranormal beliefs will meet halfway. They have their own distinct characteristic far different from each other.

IC asked:


Psychic readings have been around for a very long time and there are many techniques used by people who have psychic abilities in order to interpret someone’s fortune. The abilities these individuals have are often referred to as extra sensory perception, this is basically the gift of being able to perceive things that a normal person would not be able to using only the five senses.

This information may be hard to believe to some, however recent studies performed by the Gallup organization have shown that over 41% of the random American population sampled do in fact believe in some sort of extra sensory perception, an additional 26% of those interviewed said to believe in clairvoyance and furthermore a whopping 31% of those interviewed believed in psychic communication and even telepathy; these numbers leave out a 2% of those interviewed were skeptical to the whole concept in the first place.

Some people may argue that those who believe in psychics or paranormal ideas may not be very well educated however, such an argument can be easily thrown into question if we take in consideration a 2006 study conducted by researchers from the University of Oklahoma, who used a total of 439 college students on a poll in order to find out what was a percentage of students who believed in psychic phenomena. According to the results, seniors (who are usually consider more educated) were more likely to believe such concepts than the average freshman, these poll shows that over 31% of the college seniors who participated in the poll believe in psychics or paranormal ideas just as 34% of graduate students.

These numbers lead us to believe that the lack of education and general knowledge doesn’t necessarily explain the very popular belief in extra sensory perception or the world of the paranormal.

Taking these ideas, studies and concepts in consideration and can see why online psychic readings have become more popular over the years as technology changes the way we communicate with each other, the people are obviously more educated as time goes by, new concepts and technological advances are taught to us as well as information about the spiritual realm, this combination has obviously opened the doors for people who have questions regarding their lives and future to come into contact with those who can provide an answer to their concerns, and as we have previously stated these are known as the psychics.

Today, just about anyone is able to get in touch with a psychic used in the web, this activity is referred to as psychic chat online, this way of consultation turns out to be quite convenient to the great amount of people who believe in this concepts because they are able to get more information about the background, knowledge and specialties of the person they are talking to instead of being redirected for the first-person who becomes available on a phone consultation.

Malcolm Moorhouse asked:


The direct translation of the word “clairvoyance” is “clear sight”.It is defined as the ability to perceive or even see with the “mind’s eye” something that is going on in a remote location without any previous knowledge of the event. Most paranormal professionals and enthusiasts believe that psychic ability resides (albeit unlocked) within every human being. Their belief is that most people do not tap into their clairvoyance because they are either too unaware or unwilling to unveil it, and that it takes perseverance to develop one’s own personal psychic abilities. In other words, everyone has a second sight but it has to be awakened. Don’t worry – you don’t have to obtain a tarot reading or call a psychic phone reading line. It just takes some introspection.

There are two basic types of clairvoyant abilities – voluntary and involuntary. Voluntary clairvoyance is generally seen as a good, positive thing whereas involuntary is usually considered dark, negative, and possibly even dangerous. Most psychics maintain that voluntary clairvoyance is obtained through good, healthy, and generous living, plus the willingness to reach deep within one’s own psyche and see invisible things. Involuntary clairvoyance is forced upon its victim, and the person has no control over when and where it happens. In this state, the involuntarily clairvoyant person is generally believed to be open to malevolent spiritual influences and may face the danger of being totally possessed by a malicious being.

Many people trying to develop their clairvoyant abilities tend to assume that once they have had a breakthrough, they will now know everything that is going to happen for the rest of their lives. Learned psychics urge: This is not the truth! It takes caution and proper cultivation of the psychic abilities to have a healthy connection to the unseen world. It is also important not to push your limits or the limits of the unseen energy surrounding you. People who study the paranormal insist that to do so is to play with fire and possibly invite dark influences into your life. These people usually put it something like this: In the physical world, things are not as subject to change as they are in the unseen world or – as some call it – the world of desires. Because of this, professional clairvoyants and studiers of the paranormal world insist that people serious about developing their clairvoyance be trained before they try anything too advanced.

Many parapsychologists suggest that human beings are born clairvoyant and most remain so at least for the first year of life. Dependent on his or her environment and his or her own development of personal spirituality, the child may maintain this increased level of sensitivity or see it diminish, if not disappear entirely. These psychics suggest that it takes positive clairvoyance to truly and accurately interpret the unseen world, and warn against the accidental cultivation of negative energy and involuntary or negative clairvoyance that invite negativity and evil influences into the lives of everyone involved.

Clairaudience is a similar type of psychic ability, except that it entails hearing things that are otherwise invisible or inaudible to other people. Considered by many psychics to be the voices of spirits in another world, most people claim to hear the voices in their minds or “inside” their heads, rather than through their physical ears – although some claim to hear as though it were from the physical world, despite the lack of a sensory source.

Keith Ward asked:


Psi is the collective term for various hypothetical mental abilities (called extrasensory perception or E.S.P.), along with other paranormal phenomena.

If you have thought seriously about E.S.P, and developing it, you must know that it is a prerogative of your subconscious mind and for it to develop; your conscious, waking mind should take a backseat.

The common way to initiate this is to relax your mind to the extent of pushing it beyond waking consciousness, so it reaches to a floating, dreamlike state. When this is completed, your subconscious will automatically begin perceiving your suggestions and E.S.P. will set in. Look up audio files on the net which can help you reach this state of mind, the altered state that favours E.S.P.

These are the major types of E.S.P.:-

Telepathy: The ability to read the minds of other people.

Clairvoyance: The ability to “see” events or objects happening somewhere else.

Precognition: Similar to Divination, the ability to see the future.

Retrocognition: The ability to see the distant past.

Mediumship: The ability to channel and connect with dead spirits.

Psychometry: the ability to read information about a person or place by touching a physical object

Telekinesis: the ability to affect the material world with the mind alone is a psi phenomenon too, though not strictly E.SP.

The idea behind E.S.P has been around for centuries, only in different forms. The modern concept began to take shape only recently, the beginning of 20th century onwards. The bottom-line behind this is that the human mind can perceive matters beyond the scope of known bodily senses.

1934 saw the coinage of the term E.S.P by Duke University professor J. B. Rhine, one of the most eminent researchers in the field of paranormal psychology.

The possession of Extra Sensory abilities is a widely debated topic. Some people are of the opinion that everybody possesses them and experiences involuntary moments of manifestation.

Others will say that only a handful of psychics, shamans or mediums are blessed by it. The widely agreed upon belief though, is that all of us have the potential for E.S.P, only some of us are more in tune to our subconscious and hence to our Extra Sensory Perceptions than others are.

Debates also run about how this actually works. One theory says that, like our ordinary senses, ESP is energy moving from one point to another point. This energy is then electromagnetic wave-like in nature, similar to light, radio and X-rays, which have not been physically detected, but are just streams of packets of energy.

Like other other-worldly concepts, even E.S.P has no concrete scientific basis. Believing in it is a bit like believing in God. It needs faith more than facts. But once you begin believing, it can work wonders. The existence and reach of this has been proven the world over time and again and it is truly wonderful once it begins to manifest.