2. What is parapsychology
• Definition: It is the field that explores and examines the
parapsychological phenomena that cannot be explained on the
basis of physical laws nor of the current scientific knowledge. They
are phenomena beyond our scenes and they include
telepathy, intuition. These are phenomena during which a human
being gets to know facts or thoughts other people or of incidents
without using his natural senses nor skills. There are also
phenomena, of physical type, like telelocation or pyrokinisis.
• Psychologists describe these phenomena with the Greek letter Ψ.
This term is not bussed on hypotheses or facts. Such phenomena
have existed since the ancient times and people used to explained
them that their causes were phantoms, magicians, devils or
mythological creatures. Nowadays in many universities
parapsychology is taught according to methodology and
experiments and the results are publish in newspapers and
journals.
3. Parapsychologists study a number of ostensible paranormal
phenomena, including but not limited to:
• Telepathy: Transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between
individuals by means other than the five classical senses.
• Precognition: Perception of information about future places or
events before they occur.
• Clairvoyance: Obtaining information about places or events at
remote locations, by means unknown to current science.
• Psychokinesis: The ability of the mind to influence matter, time,
space, or energy by means unknown to current science.
• Near-death experiences: An experience reported by a person who
nearly died, or who experienced clinical death and then revived.
• Reincarnation: The rebirth of a soul or other non-physical aspect of
human consciousness in a new physical body after death.
• Apparitional experiences: Phenomena often attributed to ghosts
and encountered in places a deceased individual is thought to have
frequented, or in association with the person's former belongings.
4. PYROKINESIS
• Pyrokinesis, derived from the Greek words πυρ
(pûr, meaning "fire, lightning") and κίνηςισ
(kinesis, meaning "motion"), was the name
coined by horror novelist Stephen King for
protagonist Charlie McGee's ability to create or to
control fire strictly by thought in King's 1980
novel, Firestarter.
• Pyrokinesis Video
5. HYPNOSIS
• Hypnosis is "a special psychological state with
certain physiological attributes, resembling
sleep only superficially and marked by a
functioning of the individual at a level of
awareness other than the ordinary conscious
state.“ According to "state theory", it is a
mental state, while, according to "non-state
theory", it is imaginative role-enactment.
6. TELEPORTATION
• Teleportation is the transfer of matter from
one point to another without traversing the
physical space between them, similar to the
concept apport, an earlier word used in the
context of spiritualism.
• Teleportation Video
