Psychic powers

thumb|right|The Ganzfeld experiments that aimed to demonstrate telepathy have been criticized for lack of replication and poor controls.

thumb|right|An artist's conception of spontaneous telekinesis from a 1911 issue of the French magazine La Vie Mysterieuse

reception of information via extra senses

thumb|300px|Diagram by the French esotericist Paul Sédir to explain clairvoyance

Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.

controversial interpretation of out-of-body experiences

thumb|right|Gautama Buddha depicted in Greco-Buddhist style, demonstrating control over the fire and water elements. 3rd century CE, [[Gandhara (modern eastern Afghanistan).]]

thumb|The medium Daniel Dunglas Home was an alleged practitioner of pyrokinesis.

"sensing" a distant or unseen target, purportedly with the mind

Retrocognition (also known as postcognition or hindsight), from the Latin retro meaning "backward, behind" and cognition meaning "knowing," describes "knowledge of a past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means." The term was coined by Frederic W. H. Myers.

Extrasensory perception associated with supernaturally knowing the history of an object

thumb|upright=1.35|Captain Science reading an alien's brain

thumb|right|220x220px|An alleged "thought photograph" obtained by Tomokichi Fukurai. Thoughtography, also called projected thermography, psychic photography, nengraphy, and nensha , is the claimed ability to "burn" images from one's mind onto surfaces such as photographic film by parapsychic means. While the term "thoughtography" has been in the English lexicon since 1913, the more recent term "projected thermography" is a neologism popularized in the 2002 American film The Ring, a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring.

person who claims to communicate by psychic means with animals, either living or dead

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