Glossary of Terms
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Sensitive - refers to a person who can feel the presence of paranormal energy without the use of their five senses.
Sixth Sense - to have the power of perception in addition to the five senses. It is also a popular term for ESP.
Sleep Paralysis - An often frightening state of seeming to being awake but unable to move.
Smudging - a form of cleansing or clearing a spirit from an area by using incense to purify the area.
Spirit - A spirit is a surviving personality who has passed through the door of death in a normal way. It is fully able of continuing
a full existence in the next dimension. A spirit can come and go at his/her own will.
Spiritualism - is a belief structure that spirits and ghosts can communicate with the living.
Supernatural - is when an unexplained occurrence takes place out of the realm of the known forces of nature. The experience usually involves spirits.
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Telekinesis - is where a person can move an object through the power of thought without physical means to move the object.
Telepathy - is a method of communication from mind to mind. Dr. Rhine of Duke University proved that the mind could communicate with other minds and successfully transmit information.
Teleportation - happens when an object can be transported from one location to another by disappearing and then reappearing in a different place. They can even go through solid objects.
Temporal Lobe Activity - Electrical activity in the temporal lobes of the brain. Often associated with strange sensations, time distortions and hallucinations. Sometimes used as an explanation for seemingly paranormal experiences such as apparitions and alien abduction experiences.
Time Slips - occur when the past and present collide at a location.
Transpersonal Psychology - The study of experiences, beliefs and practices that suggest that the sense of self can extend beyond our personal or individual reality. The subject matter of transpersonal psychology overlaps to some extent with parapsychology, but the two disciplines tend to have different approaches and emphases. Parapsychology is primarily concerned to investigate evidence for and against the reality of paranormal phenomena. Transpersonal psychology, on the other hand, is more interested in investigating the transpersonal significance of such phenomena the ways in which they may give people a sense of connectedness with a larger, more universal or spiritual reality.