Glossary
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Tarot Cards - A set of, usually 72, cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices, death and fortune etc. Often they are used by fortunetellers to help predict future events.
Telekinesis - The paranormal movement of objects by scientifically inexplicable means (Psychokinesis, Levitation).
Telepathy - To know what others are thinking as if communicating from one mind to another through means other than the senses to hear thoughts in your head. Considered by many to be a form of thought transference including the sending and receiving of thoughts.
Teleportation - A method of transportation in which matter or information is dematerialized, usually instantaneously, at one point and recreated at another.
Terrafirm - To be connected with the planet Earth as if one self and the planet are as one.
Thought Form - An apparition produced solely by the power of the human mind.
Time Travel - The ability to project the soul's consciousness out of the body and into a past or future time or event.
Tone Healing - The ability for the tone of ones voice to affect others by disturbing, catalyzing, soothing, lulling, inspiring and quite often healing others.
Touch Healing – The ability to impart through ones hands soothing and healing vibrations of energy.
Trance - A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state in which one becomes detached from their physical surroundings.
Transchanneling - To have a sudden, severe personality shifts.
Transmediumship - Transchanneling
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Voodoo – A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. It is also called vodoun.
Vortex - An anomalous opening into the spirit world that appears as a funnel or rope-like image in photographs. These images are sometimes thought to represent ghosts, collections of orbs or gateways which travel to a wormhole in time-space. There has been no substantial scientific evidence to support any of these theories.
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Warlock - Originally meaning “deceiver” or “one who misleads". More commonly the name given to that of a male witch.
White Noise - An acoustical or electrical noise of which the intensity is the same at all frequencies within a given band.
Wicca - A polytheistic Neo-Pagan nature religion inspired by various Pre-Christian western European beliefs, whose central deity is a mother goddess and which includes the use of herbal magic and benign witchcraft.
Wraith – A shadowy insubstantial apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.
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Xenophobia – An aversion / fear to people or beings of a foreign or unknown origin.
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Zener Cards - A set of 25 cards for use in card-guessing tests of ESP. Each set contains 5 of each of the following cards:
Tarot Cards - A set of, usually 72, cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices, death and fortune etc. Often they are used by fortunetellers to help predict future events.
Telekinesis - The paranormal movement of objects by scientifically inexplicable means (Psychokinesis, Levitation).
Telepathy - To know what others are thinking as if communicating from one mind to another through means other than the senses to hear thoughts in your head. Considered by many to be a form of thought transference including the sending and receiving of thoughts.
Teleportation - A method of transportation in which matter or information is dematerialized, usually instantaneously, at one point and recreated at another.
Terrafirm - To be connected with the planet Earth as if one self and the planet are as one.
Thought Form - An apparition produced solely by the power of the human mind.
Time Travel - The ability to project the soul's consciousness out of the body and into a past or future time or event.
Tone Healing - The ability for the tone of ones voice to affect others by disturbing, catalyzing, soothing, lulling, inspiring and quite often healing others.
Touch Healing – The ability to impart through ones hands soothing and healing vibrations of energy.
Trance - A hypnotic, cataleptic, or ecstatic state in which one becomes detached from their physical surroundings.
Transchanneling - To have a sudden, severe personality shifts.
Transmediumship - Transchanneling
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Voodoo – A religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries, especially Haiti, syncretized from Roman Catholic ritual elements and the animism and magic of slaves from West Africa, in which a supreme God rules a large pantheon of local and tutelary deities, deified ancestors, and saints, who communicate with believers in dreams, trances, and ritual possessions. It is also called vodoun.
Vortex - An anomalous opening into the spirit world that appears as a funnel or rope-like image in photographs. These images are sometimes thought to represent ghosts, collections of orbs or gateways which travel to a wormhole in time-space. There has been no substantial scientific evidence to support any of these theories.
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Warlock - Originally meaning “deceiver” or “one who misleads". More commonly the name given to that of a male witch.
White Noise - An acoustical or electrical noise of which the intensity is the same at all frequencies within a given band.
Wicca - A polytheistic Neo-Pagan nature religion inspired by various Pre-Christian western European beliefs, whose central deity is a mother goddess and which includes the use of herbal magic and benign witchcraft.
Wraith – A shadowy insubstantial apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.
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Xenophobia – An aversion / fear to people or beings of a foreign or unknown origin.
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Zener Cards - A set of 25 cards for use in card-guessing tests of ESP. Each set contains 5 of each of the following cards:
Circle
Square
Greek Cross
Three Wavy Lines
Five-pointed Star
Square
Greek Cross
Three Wavy Lines
Five-pointed Star