List of Psychic Abilities and Powers

A list of psychic abilities is needed in order to understand the different types of psychic powers and how they work. Some people believe that psychic abilities is something that anyone can develop over time, while others believe that extrasensory perception (ESP) is a psychic gift that you’re born with.

With so many different kinds of spiritual abilities, it can be overwhelming trying to understand them all. In this guide, we’re going to provide a list of psychic abilities and explain how each one works.

1. Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance means “clear seeing”. With the ability of clairvoyance, it is possible to see things like animals, people or objects that are not present physically. This sight is said to occur  “in the mind’s eye”. For some clairvoyants, this is their normal state of vision. Others have had to train their minds to be able to achieve this state, either through practices like meditation or with the assistance of a spiritual helper. Some clairvoyants see this spirit as if it were a physical being, while others are said to see the spirit as if it were a movie or photograph visible in their mind’s eye.

2. Clairaudience

Clairaudience, or clear-hearing, is a psychic power that is defined as being able to hear the thoughts and voices of spirits.  Clairaudience can either take the form of a medium hearing the spirit as though it were a person speaking beside them, while others state the voice they hear in their mind is more like a verbal thought. The sounds from clairaudience can also come from inanimate objects like crystals or personal possessions. The sounds heard by clairaudients are not only voices, but can be the sounds of nature or music as well.

3. Clairsentience

Clairsentience, or clear-feeling, is a supernatural ability that allows a psychic to receive intuitive messages via emotions, feelings, or physical sensations. Being an empath is a form of clairsentience, as they both can feel the emotions of others. However, people with clairsentience can feel the past and future emotions of other people, while empaths only feel emotions in the present time.

4. Clairalience

Clairalience, or “clear smelling”, is the power to gain psychic information through the sense of smell. For example, you may smell tobacco despite being in a non-smoking environment because the spirit present was a smoker while they were alive. Clairalience usually manifests itself with clairgustance, or “clear tasting”, due to the physical senses of smell and taste going hand in hand with one another.

5. Clairgustance

Clairgustance (clear tasting) is a type of psychic ability that allows you to receive information through the sense of taste. This type of ESP is often experienced by psychic mediums during a reading. For example, if a medium is communicating with a spirit that used to enjoy eating cheesecake, the medium might get the same taste in their mouth during the reading.

6. Claircognizance

Claircognizance, often referred to as clear knowing or clear recognition, is a form of extrasensory perception where the psychic knows something to be true without any prior knowledge on the topic. The knowledge received by a claircognizant is always unexplained, but many people believe that it’s imparted on them by spirit guides or a higher self. An example of claircognizance would be refusing to get in a car because you have a strong gut-feeling that something bad is going to happen. Claircognizance manifests itself as a strong gut-instinct that just can’t be ignored.

7. Astral Projection

Next on our list of psychic powers is Astral Projection.   Astral projection refers to an out of body experience using the assumption that a consciousness, or soul, exists. This “astral body” is able to travel throughout the universe while outside of our separate physical body. This concept has occurred in many cultures for millennia, but the modern idea was popularized in the 19th century by Theosophists.

Some individuals claim to have perceived similar out-of-body experiences under the influence of hallucinogens or while under hypnosis. Due to the difficulty in proving the existence of a soul, astral projection is considered by many in the scientific community to be a pseudoscience.

8. Automatic Writing

Automatic writing is a psychic ability that allows individuals to create written documents while not being conscious of actually writing. The words arise out of the subconscious from a source that is supernatural or spiritual. Automatic writing is a form of mediumship and is sometimes used by mediums during a seance or trance.

9. Channeling

What is a medium or channeler?  A channeler is someone that uses psychic powers to communicate with the deceased. Mediums either stay in control of their body or allow the spirit to take over their body, putting them into a cataleptic state.  The main purpose of channeling is to allow spirits to communicate with people in the physical world. Many people seek out channeling psychics so that they can have closure after the loss of a loved one. While most spirits that are channeled are from the past, some mediums claim to be able to speak to spirits from future dimensions.

10. Divination

Divination is a type of psychic power that is used to gain insight into questions or a situation in ritualized way. Diviners often use divination tools such as tarot cards, crystal balls, pendulums, spirit boards, or runes to assist them. There are many methods of divination, with some of them being very ancient. An example of the different types of divination include bibliomancy, cartomancy, palmistry, cleromancy, and I-Ching.

11. Psychic Healing

Psychic healing is a branch of alternative medicine that stimulates the body’s natural ability to heal. There are several methods of this form of healing, including hands-off, hands-on, and distant healing, where the patient is healed by a psychic in another location.

There are many schools of energy healing. The most well-known are:

• Crystal healing
• Acupuncture
• Qigong
• Reiki
• Tai Chi

While these unique psychic powers have shown amazing benefits, that does not mean that it’s safe to completely abandon your physician and write off traditional medicine. Energy healing should be used as a way to improve your overall wellness, not as a magic disease cure.

13. Precognition

Precognition, also known as prescience, is the ability to see events taking place in the future. Have you ever had a dream about something that actually came true? You might have future sight. In addition to dreams, precognition may also present itself in waking visions, flashes of thought, or simply a feeling of knowing. What is seen in these visions tends to be random and difficult to control.

14. Psychic Surgery

Having first appeared in Spiritualist communities in Brazil and the Philippines during the mid 20th century, psychic surgery is a controversial practice. Psychic surgeons claim to have the ability to treat problems as small as cysts and conditions as deadly as cancer by calling on a spiritual guide to heal their patients. This type of healing should only be sought out as a last resort when all other medical options have been exhausted.

15. Psychometry

Many people on this website ask: “What Is Psychometry?” Have you ever picked up a piece of jewelry, held an article of clothing, or touched a piece of furniture and instantly got a strong impression of who the previous owner was? That’s psychometry. This psychic ability is based on the idea that the objects we use and wear every day become infused with our spiritual energy. By touching these objects, a psychic might get impressions of certain words, colors, or feelings that reveal more about the last person who used it.

16. Remote Viewing

Remote viewing is the ability to gather information about a person, place, or event happening in a distant place without using any of your physical senses. Like many other types of psychic abilities, remote viewing ability is a skill that can be learned, trained, and improved. Most people do not see a clear picture of what’s going on in their heads. Instead, information comes in sensory bursts that the viewer pieces together and interprets.  For more information, check out our guide on how to remote view.

17. Retrocognition

Also known as postcognition, retrocognition refers to the ability to infer knowledge of past events that could not have been learned through normal means. Like precognition, this commonly occurs in dreams and in waking visions.

18. Telekinesis

Telekinesis is defined as the ability to move physical objects without physically interacting with them. We often see these psychic powers used in films like “Carrie” and comics like the X-Men series, but can people really have telekinetic powers in real life? While no one is bending spoons or making things float with their mind, more subtle instances of telekinesis have been reported. Examples include the ability to influence the numbers on a dice roll or which side a coin lands on.

19. Telepathy

Telepathy occurs when an individual psychically imparts information to another person. It could be described as someone having the power to put thoughts into someone else’s head from a distance. It can also be used to read someone’s mind. You often hear about “twin telepathy” because twins tend to be on the same wavelength, making it easier to communicate through psychic means.

With so many types of psychic powers, it is easy to see why society is so fascinated with the subject. Whether you believe you may have one or several of these supernatural abilities or you’re just curious to learn about them, we hope that you were able to learn something new from our list of psychic abilities!

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