Many of us just don’t understand the many forms of psychic ability and become confused by the various often unfamiliar words used in describing psychic and paranormal ability. Here are some of the more common and useful terms explained so we can all understand the differences between the forms of extra sensory perception or E.S.P.
Psychic Ability
Psychics have a more acute sharpened sensitivity and consciously or even sometimes unconsciously, open up their senses to receive vibrational information from all manner of states of affairs, objects, pets and people. This sometimes embraces what is termed psychometry, which involves handling and holding something belonging to the person (often a metal object) for whom they intend to deliver a psychic reading. Various vibration can be felt by a psychic in this way. Psychics are also adept at focusing on ‘possible’ futures and can give you predictions of outcomes if you follow a certain path.
Mediumship
Mediums (clairvoyant, clairaudient, clairsentient or more often a mixture) encounter communication from a person who has passed over, a spirit. They’re a receiver of telepathic transmissions, like a telephone exchange. They’re able to connect one person to another via mediumship ability. What they receive comes through to them in a mix of images, feelings and even direct speech.
Clairvoyant Ability
This word simply means “clear seeing or clear sight” and with this psychic gift, mediums can see images of people, animals, places etc. Quite often The term means “clear hearing”. Some mediums are able to receive telepathic thought transmissions than images. They seem to hear a voice from a person who has departed and who is now in spirit, whole sentences or even lots of voices together. They need to focus to be able to deliver the correct message to the correct person.
Clairsentience
The word means “clear feeling” (not unlike empathy- being empathic or sensitive). Many mediums work in this way besides either or both clairvoyance and clairaudience. They’re able to receive feelings sent by a spirit, instead of telepathically receiving images and thoughts.
Trance Mediumship
This is a highly unusual form of mediumship, where the mediums are controlled or allow themselves to be ‘taken over’ and are able to speak freely on specific subjects, that the mediums themselves may know nothing about at all prior. It is felt that deep trance enables the spirit controlling to completely assume the mediums breathing and vocals and use their natural voice.
Materialization Phenomena
This form of psychic ability is highly controversial and a rare sight in any case. It’s thought that energies from the medium and sitters are utilized by spirit to produce a substance called ectoplasm (or spirit energy), which enables a spirits invisible body or part of it to be made visible to the naked eye.
