Psychic Terminology

Animal Telepathy
The ability to communicate with various kinds of creatures.

Astral Projection  
The ability to leave one's body and travel in spirit to another location.

Aura Reading
 The ability to see the energy fields that emanate from living beings.

Automatic Writing
Writing through the subconscious mind without conscious thought, or through the guidance of an outside intelligence.

Channeling  
Associated with mediums, this is the ability to act as a channel or vessel for an outside intelligence.

Clairaudience  
Put simply, this type of ability is used to hear what is "inaudible". For example, someone with this ability could be a thousand miles way and "hear" a loved one's cry of distress.

Clairvoyance
Sometimes confused with Precognition, this ability actually has much more in common with "Remote Viewing", True clairvoyance is not the ability to see into the future, but the psychic ability to see visions of that which is hidden or far away.

Clairsentience
In this instance the psychic has an insight or "knowing" of a hidden or forgotten fact.

Divination
 A broad term that includes fortune telling, precognition, prophesy, and other methods used in an effort to predict the future.

Dowsing
Also known as "water witching", dowsing involves the use of a rod, sticks, or pendulum to locate water or lost objects.

Empathy
The talent to sense the needs, drives, and emotions of another.

E.S.P.
Extra Sensory Perception is the awareness of information about events external to the psychic that are not gained through the senses and not deducible from previous experience. Often used to describe clairvoyance, precognition, telepathy, etc..

Intuition
Similar to clairsentience, this is the power or faculty of attaining direct knowledge or cognition without rational thought or inference.

Psychometry
Also known as "object reading", Psychometry enables a psychic to pick up on psychic impressions (vibrations) left on an object by someone connected with it. Someone with this ability could use an unfamiliar object to reveal much about its owner.

Telekinesis
Also known as psychokinesis, the ability to move objects with one's mind.

Telepathy
The ability to communicate mind-to-mind with another.