List of psychic abilities

• Aerokinesis – The ability to control air and wind.
• Astral projection or mental projection – The ability to voluntarily project an astral body or mental body, being associated with the out-of-body experience, in which one's consciousness is felt to separate from the physical body temporarily.{{cite book|last1=Bruce|first1=Robert|title=Astral Dynamics: A New Approach to Out-of-body Experience|date=1999|publisher=Hampton Roads Pub.|location=Charlottesville, VA|isbn=1571741437}}{{Page needed|date=December 2015}}
• Atmokinesis – The ability to control the weather by calling for rainfall or storms.
• Automatic writing – The ability to draw or write without conscious intent.{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Sukie|title=After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life|date=1998|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=9780684838694|edition=1st Touchstone}}{{Page needed|date=December 2015}}

• Bilocation – The ability to be present in two different places at the same time, usually attributed to a saint.
• Biokinesis - The ability to control any form of life from a single nucleotide to an entire ecosystem simultaneously.

• Chlorokinesis – The ability to mentally and/or physically summon, control and manipulate plants and vegetation.
• Cryokinesis – The ability to control ice or cold with one's mind.
• Curse – Any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object.

• Electrokinesis – The ability to control all form of electricity.
• Energy medicine – The ability to heal with empathic, etheric, astral, mental or spiritual energy.{{cite journal|author=Edzard Ernst |url=http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/174_02_150101/ernst/ernst.html#suba10 |title=A primer of complementary and alternative medicine commonly used by cancer patients | Medical Journal of Australia |journal=Medical Journal of Australia |date=15 January 2001 |volume=174 |issue=2 |publisher=Mja.com.au |access-date=2013-11-09}}
• Ergokinesis – The ability to influence the movement of energy, such as electricity, without direct interaction.

• Geokinesis – The ability to control all form of earthly materials.

• Hydrokinesis – The ability to control water with one's mind.

• Iddhi – Psychic abilities gained through Buddhist meditation.
• Illusions – The ability to conjure up illusions from one's mind.
• Inedia – The purported ability to survive without eating or drinking.
• Invisibility – The ability to turn oneself invisible.

• Levitation or transvection – The ability to float or fly by mystical means.{{cite book| last=Oldridge | first=Darren |title=Strange Histories: The Trial of the Pig, the Walking Dead, and Other Matters of Fact from the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds | date=2007 | publisher=Routledge | location=London | isbn=9780415404921}}{{Page needed|date=December 2015}}

• Materialization – The creation of objects and material or the appearance of matter from unknown sources.{{cite book|last1=Roach|first1=Mary|author-link=Mary Roach|title=Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife|date=2008|publisher=Canongate|location=Edinburgh|isbn=9781847670809|pages=122–130}}
• Mediumship or channeling – The ability to communicate with spirits.{{cite web|url=http://skepdic.com/medium.html |title=medium - The Skeptic's Dictionary |publisher=Skepdic.com |access-date=2013-11-09}}
• Mind control – The ability to control someone's mind.

• Petrification – The power to turn a living being to stone by looking them in the eye.
• Photokinesis – The ability to control lights.
• Phytokinesis – The ability to control plants with one's mind.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}
• Prophecy (also prediction, premonition, or prognostication) – the ability to foretell events without using induction or deduction from known facts.{{cite Encyclopedia of Claims |title=Prophecy |first-letter=p |access-date=26 January 2022}}
• Psychic surgery – The ability to remove disease or disorder within or over the body tissue via an "energetic" disruption that heals immediately afterward.{{cite book|last=Spence|first=Lewis|title=Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology|date=2007|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|location=[Whitefish, Mont.]|isbn=978-0-7661-2817-0|page=750|edition=3rd}}
• Pyrokinesis – The ability to control flames, fire, or heat using one's mind.
• Psychic hold – The ability to throw an electric current like a rope.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

• Shapeshifting or transformation – The ability to physically transform the user's body into anything.

• Telekinesis or Psychokinesis – The ability to influence a physical system without physical interaction, typically manifesting as being able to exert force, control objects and move matter with one's mind.{{cite book|last=Braude|first=Stephen E.|title=ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical Examination|date=2002|publisher=Brown Walker Press|location=Parkland, Fla.|isbn=1-58112-407-4|page=21|edition=Rev.}}
• Teleportation – The ability is the hypothetical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
• Thoughtography – The ability to impress an image by 'burning' it on a surface using one's mind only.
• Time travel – The ability to escape the flow of time by jumping to either the past or the future.

• Umbrakinesis – The ability to shape, create, and control shadows and darkness.

• Witnessing – The gift of being visited by high-profile spiritual beings such as Mary, Jesus or Fudosama (Acala).

• Xenoglossy – The ability of a person to suddenly learn to write and speak a foreign language without any natural means such as studying or research, but that is often rather bestowed by divine agents.

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Extrasensory perception, or sixth sense, is an ability in itself and comprises a set of abilities.

• Clairvoyance – The ability to see things and events that are happening far away and locate objects, places, and people using a sixth sense.

• Dermo-optical perception – The ability to perceive unusual sensory stimuli through the skin.
• Dowsing – The ability to locate water, sometimes using a tool called a dowsing rod.{{cite book |last=Miller |first=Sukie|title=After Death: How People Around the World Map the Journey After Life |date=1998 |publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=Ulan Batar |isbn=9780684838694|pages=167–192|edition=1st Touchstone}}
• Dream telepathy – The ability to telepathically communicate with another person through dreams.

• Precognition (including psychic premonitions) – The ability to perceive or gain knowledge about future events without using induction or deduction from known facts.{{cite Encyclopedia of Claims |title=Precognition |first-letter=p |access-date=26 January 2022}}
• Psychometry or psychoscopy – The ability to obtain information about a person or an object by touch.{{cite book|last=Beloff|first=John|title=Parapsychology: a Concise empathy History|date=1997|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-312-17376-0|page=97|edition=1st paperback}}

• Remote viewing, telesthesia or remote sensing – The ability to see a distant or unseen target using extrasensory perception.{{cite book|last=Zusne|first=Leonard|title=Anomalistic Psychology: A Study of Magical Thinking|date=1989|publisher=L. Erlbaum|location=Hillsdale, N.J. |isbn=0-8058-0508-7|page=167|edition=2nd}}
• Retrocognition or postcognition – The ability to supernaturally perceive past events.{{cite book|last=Wolman|first=Benjamin B.|title=Handbook of Parapsychology|date=1986|publisher=McFarland|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=9780899501864|pages=921–936|edition=Repr.}}

• Telepathy – The ability to transmit or receive thoughts supernaturally.{{cite book|last=Hamilton|first=Trevor|title=Immortal Longings: FWH Myers and the Victorian Search for Life after Death|date=2009|publisher=Imprint Academic|location=Exeter, UK|isbn=978-1-84540-248-8|page=121}}

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