ABSENT
HEALING: The administering of the healing energies directly from the universal
source or through the direction of a spiritual doctor to the inflicted without
coming in direct contact with a healer or medium.
ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: one's awareness or ordinary pattern of mental functioning changed in character or in its basic nature.
APPARITION: A usually spontaneous and unexpected visual appearance of a presence; normally of one that is deceased or at a distance; ghost.
ASTRAL BODY: Etheric Body or double; an exact replica of the physical body; however, non-physical; the means of out of body experiences (OOBE).
ASTRAL PROJECTION (OOBE) (BIOLOCATION): A spontaneous or induced experience of separating one's center consciousness (or astral body) from the physical body; however, the astral and physical body remain connected by the silver cord.
AURA: A field of energy surrounding and emanating from a physical being, a place or thing, and projecting to the sensitive in a variety of color fields; each color indicating different aspects of the psychological, spiritual, and physical aspects of the being.
AUTOMATIC WRITING: A flow of intelligent writing produced without the control of or in a disassociated state of the conscious being.
BAND:
(a) PSYCHIC BAND is a peculiar sensation often felt as a band or a strap tightening
around the head during development phases of some form of mediumship.
(b)
SPIRIT BAND is a group of spirit entities joining, in one accord, to assist
in the development of a particular mediumistic activity.
BIOFEEDBACK: A monitoring technique of the unconscious involuntary body processes by use of electronic instruments or devices; i.e. heart beat, brain waves, etc.
BIOLOCATION (INTROSCOPY): Russian term for clairvoyance.
CABINET: An enclosure, usually with a curtain draped entrance, for the purpose of housing the medium during sittings of materializations.
CHAKRA: Sanskrit for "wheel". Yoga philosophy describes it as a dormant center of psychic power usually activated by Kundalini, which results in the attainment of psychic power; located in the body from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.
CIRCLE: (a) HOME Circle is the gathering of the same
group congenial people omitting all negativity and uniting in their understanding
of communication with the spirit world; meeting routinely for the purpose of
communicating by a form of mediumship and assisted by the spirit helpers.
(b) DEVELOPMENT Circle is the gathering of the same group of harmonious individuals,
seeking direction and instruction from the spirit world in developing their
tent psychic abilities into some form of mediumship (mental/physical).
(c)
OPEN Circle is a group of individuals usually meeting for the sole purpose of
communication by mental or physical phenomena and allowing anyone who desires
to attend.
COMMUNICATION:
The imparting of thoughts, ideas, opinions, or information from one person to
another; in psychic field, communication may be of mental faculties usually
by telepathy between spirit on various planes of existence transmitted to a
medium; physical phenomena communication is by means of rappings, materializations,
direct voice, etc. or other demonstration where the mind is not directly activated.
CONCENTRATION: Application of one's total attention to a specific; attuning the mind continuously to a focal point; a necessity in the development of psychic abilities and a fore runner of meditation.
CONSCIOUSNESS: The awareness of the waking state or the complete activated state of the mind and senses; basic dimension of existence whereby all physical and mental activity is projected.
CONTACT HEALING: Direction of the universal energy forces of healing by touch; i.e. by laying on of hands.
CONTROL: An apparent discarnate intelligence relaying communication through a medium to a sitter; quite frequently readily apparent while the medium is in a state of trance.
COSMIC
CONSCIOUSNESS: Universal life and order revealed to the mind of man; understood
as the highest state of consciousness providing intellectual as well as spiritual
illumination.
DEMATERIALIZATION: To depart from visual appearance; the destruction of cohesion of matter to change its form and it results in the disappearance of matter.
DIRECT VOICE: A type of phenomena whereby a voice without a visible source is clearly heard; in spiritualistic circles believed to be transmitted through ectoplasm extended from the medium or sitters.
DISCARNATE: One who has been relieved of the physical body; a spirit entity.
ECTOPLASM: An invisible chemical component of living matter in the physical body; capable of appearing in vapor like forms; responsible for all physical phenomena.
ENTERING THE SILENCE: To become still, meditative; a period of total quiet or absence of any sound; i.e. meditation.
ETHERIC BODY: A counter part or double body substance relative to the physical body which continues in being after cessation (death) of activity of the physical body.
EXORCISM: An expulsion of a spirit or malignant influence by solemn or religious rites (i.e. divine appeal).
EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION (ESP): An awareness or experience of spontaneous awareness to conditions of an object, a state of being, influence or event without contact with a known source; occurs without a conscious awareness of people or persons involved therein.
FAITH
HEALING: Activation of the universal healing energies to provide curative
actions by means of a person's belief, loyalty, or allegiance to a Divine Power.
FORTUNE TELLING: A prediction informing one of events to one's life in the future; not associated with spirit communication.
FOURTH DIMENSION: Basically mathematical union as harmony of space and time as a complete framework of all natural phenomena; by science, considered a working hypothesis which developed from Einstein's relativity concept; by Spiritualists, a higher plane of existence in space and time.
GHOST: Apparition of a deceased person that has appeared to the living; a popular and commonly used term.
GLOSSALALIA: Speaking in tongues or languages that are foreign to one and of which one had no previous knowledge; xenoglassisis a closely associated term used sometimes when the psychic is writing in is writing in foreign languages unknown to oneself.
HAUNTING: Disturbances of a supernormal or a paranormal nature; associated activity thought to be brought about by discarnate beings. Tradition states association with two main components-old houses that provide a link to the past and the restlessness or unhappiness which produces remorse, shock, or revenge in the discarnate. Modern day investigators some are due to psychokinesis.
HYPNOTISM: Artificially induced mental state resembling sleep-like condition; rapport established by the hypnotist and subconscious abilities and powers of the hypnotized are released; subject will accept and carry out instructions as long as they do not conflict with individual's personal instincts of morality or self-preservation; subject can carry out instructions after regaining normal state-termed a post hypnotic suggestion; methods of inducement vary; hypnosis ranges in use from medical to entertainment.
