REINCARNATION:
Theory or belief that man is immortal and his soul returns after physical death
to be reborn in a human body.
RAPS: Sounds of tapping, knocking, or striking; in physical form of mediumship believed to be produced by ectoplasmic rods.
RETROCOGNITION: An awareness or knowledge of past events or persons acquired through means of psychic/mediumistic ability.
SEANCE: An assembly of two or more persons for the sole purpose of communicating with discarnate entities usually through a developed medium.
SENSITIVE: One who is highly responsive to particular agents/stimuli of the universe and thus projects abilities; not necessarily mediumistic.
SPIRIT: The divine influence and indestructible essence of being; "life".
SPIRIT COMMUNICATION: Transmittal of thoughts, ideas, opinions, or information from a discarnate being through the channel of a medium and demonstrated by a mental or physical phenomenon.
SPIRITISM: A philosophy of communication with those here as well as in the hereafter; not necessarily spiritual communication; French philosophy presents a belief in reincarnation.
SPIRITUALISM: Spiritualism is a science, philosophy, and religion of continuous life based upon the demonstrated fact of communication through mediumship.
SUPERNATURAL: the phenomena, which appears to exceed and/or violate
natural law (miracles) and is beyond that which is explainable by the natural
law phenomena.
TELEKINESIS (PSYHOKINESIS-PK): A form of PK-movement or motion of a stationary object without the use of any known force; PK is a direct influence of the mind over matter causing movement without demonstrating physical energy or instrumentation.
TELEPATHY (BIOCOMMUNICATION): Communication of mind to mind; assuming the mental state or thought of another person in the here or hereafter.
THOUGHT FORMS: A build up of mental energy creating physical forms in the visible world (i.e. apparition).
TRANCE: An induced or spontaneous sleep-like condition of an altered state of consciousness, which permits the subject's physical body to be utilized by the discarnate as a means of expression.
UNFOLDMENT: The development or opening of the spiritual and psychic powers of an individual.
