| Absorption |
An antipsi talent for absorbing the power out of psychic energy fields, including those around other beings. See Tapping and Vampire, Psychic. |
| Achromatics |
The "colors" black, grey and white; used occasionally to refer to moralistic schools of occultism. |
| Active Ritual |
One in which those persons raising and focussing the psychic energies are not the main targets intended to be changed. |
| Active Talent |
A psychic talent that involves the discharge of energy or data from the agent to the target. |
| Adept |
One who is very skilled in magic or mysticism. |
| Agent |
The person or animal exercising a psychic talent. |
| Air |
One of the main "elements" in occultism; associated in the West with thought, knowledge, yellow, blue, swords, activity, daring, light, communication, heat, dampness, etc. |
| Akasa or Akasha |
One of the "elements" in Indian and Tantric occultism, equivalent in most ways to the "ether" concept and/or that of "astral" matter. |
| Akasic Records |
A concept in Indian metaphysics, of a gigantic repository of all the memories of every incarnation of every being; some gifted ones are said to be able to "read" these records (possibly through retrocognition or the clair senses) and to gain data about past events. See Switchboard. |
| Amplification |
A psi or antipsi talent for boosting the power levels of psychic energy fields. |
| Anachronism |
Something that appears to be from a time period other than the one in which it is perceived; as in medieval knights and ladies in modern America or astronomical computers in the Stone Age. |
| Angel |
A personification of what we consider good or pleasant. In theoilogy, a being just below the main god(s) in power for good. In some magical systems, a sort of "psychic robot." |
| Angelology | Medieval science of studying angels. Question: how many angels can dance on the head of a photon? Answer: give the physicists who are working on quantizing consciousness another decade or two. |
| Animal-Psi or Anpsi |
A little-used term for psychic phenomena involving the interactions of animals with humans, each other and the environment. |
| Animism |
The belief that everything is alive. The Law of Personification taken as a statement of universal reality rather than as one of psychic convenience. |
| Anthropomancy |
Divination from human entrails. |
| Anti-Psi or Antipsi |
A categorical term for several genuine psychic talents that (for the most part) serve to frustrate, avoid, confuse, destroy or otherwise interfere with the operation of normal psi; they can affect the power and/or information content and/or vector of psi fields within range. |
| APK |
See Atomic Psychokinesis. |
| Apopsi or Avoidance |
An antipsi power that appears to generate an energy field into which no external psi field can penetrate; may work through transmutation, retuning or aportation; may interfere with internal psi fields as well. |
| Aportation |
a PK talent involving the seemingly instantaneous movement of an object from one location in space-time to another, apparently without going through the normal space-time in between. See Teleportation. |
| Archetype |
(1) Original astral form of a phenomenon; (2) In the psychology of C. G. Jung, an inherited idea or mode of thought derived from the experiences of the species and present in the unconscious of the individual who picks it up from the collective unconscious of the species. |
| Asceticism |
A method of altering the state of one's consciousness through the avoidance of comfort and pleasure; when extreme, may become masochism. |
| Aspect, Astrological |
Angle formed between two items on an astrological chart. |
| Assimilation |
A technique of psychic healing involving the picking up of a patient's pain and/or illness by the healer, who experiences it personally for a short time, after which it is supposed to vanish in both patient and healer; may also be done accidentally. |
| Association |
Connection or correlation between two or more objects, ideas or beings; thus forming a pattern. |