Muscle Reading: Mystical Experiences
Muscle Reading (See contact mind reading):
Mystic:
A person who has mystical experiences. Used loosely to refer to psychics, mediums or romantics.
Mystical Experience:
ASCs involving experiences of ecstasy, unity, timelessness, loss of self, divine revelation, etc.
Mysticism:
Religious or spiritual doctrines which argue that the human mind or soul can directly experience the divine.
Near Death Experience (NDE):
An experience that is reported by people who clinically die, or come close to actual death and are revived. These events often include encounters with spirit guides, seeing dead relatives or friends, life review, out-of-body experiences (OBE), or a moment of decision where they are able to decide or are told to turn back. Claimed …show more content…
to be a glimpse at life after death, the most common reports are those of a tunnel with a bright light at the end, a place of great beauty, meeting loved ones, or visiting another dimension and sometimes even that of hell. Occasionally NDEs can be frightening and distressing and often have profound effects on the person's later life.
Necromancy:
Black magic practices involving communicating with the dead.
Newspaper Test:
A communication in which the spirit forecasts an item in a future day's newspaper. A conjuring effect in which a magician or mentalist predicts a future newspaper item.
Null hypothesis:
The hypothesis that experimental results are due to chance.
OBE (See out of body experience):
Occam's Razor:
The principle of preferring the simplest explanation of an event, "a person should not increase beyond what is necessary the number of entities required to explain anything".
Occultism:
Esoteric system of practice and belief, which assumes that there is the existence of supernatural, paranormal and mysterious forces.
Old Hag Syndrome:
A nocturnal phenomenon that involves a feeling of immobilization, suffocation, odd smells and feelings and is sometimes accompanied by immense fear (See Sleep Paralysis).
Omen:
A sign that foretells events.
OOBE (See out of body experience):
Open …show more content…
Deck:
A series of cards used in a card guessing test where each card is chosen randomly and independently.
This enables each target to be selected any number of times. Statistical analysis of research data using an open deck differs from statistical analysis of data using a closed deck.
Open Matching (OM):
A card guessing procedure in which key cards are placed face up on the table. The subject then places the unseen target cards in piles in front of each key card, according to their guesses.
Orb:
A photographed anomaly that theoretically represents the ‘spirit’ of a deceased person. It will appear as a ball of light on film though in some cases; they are not seen at the time of the photo. Since there are many explainable circumstances (dust, rain, insects, reflection, lens flare, etc.) orbs still remain a highly controversial subject. Often seen as spherical in nature when in motion, an orb is believed to be the easiest form in which a soul can travel. It can be a variety of colours and appears round in pictures when not in motion. Orgone Energy: A term used by Wilhelm Reich to refer to a universal life force, associated with sexuality.
Ouija Board:
A pre-printed board with letters, numerals, and words used to receive spirit communications. Typically a planchette is employed to spell out words and point out numbers or
letters.
Out of Body Experience (O.O.B.E.):
A form of astral projection when the consciousness leaves the physical body. Many reports of this come from people who have been involved in severe accidents or have been anaesthetised. An example of this is when a patient undergoing an operation can see and hear the operation in progress. A sensation or experience in which ones self or spirit travels to a different location than their physical body (See Astral Projection). A fully conscious experience in which the person's centre of awareness appears to be outside of the physical body.
Paranormal:
Something that is unexplainable scientifically. Referring to something that is beyond the range of normal human experience. Inexplicable in terms of our ordinary
Mystic:
A person who has mystical experiences. Used loosely to refer to psychics, mediums or romantics.
Mystical Experience:
ASCs involving experiences of ecstasy, unity, timelessness, loss of self, divine revelation, etc.
Mysticism:
Religious or spiritual doctrines which argue that the human mind or soul can directly experience the divine.
Near Death Experience (NDE):
An experience that is reported by people who clinically die, or come close to actual death and are revived. These events often include encounters with spirit guides, seeing dead relatives or friends, life review, out-of-body experiences (OBE), or a moment of decision where they are able to decide or are told to turn back. Claimed …show more content…
to be a glimpse at life after death, the most common reports are those of a tunnel with a bright light at the end, a place of great beauty, meeting loved ones, or visiting another dimension and sometimes even that of hell. Occasionally NDEs can be frightening and distressing and often have profound effects on the person's later life.
Necromancy:
Black magic practices involving communicating with the dead.
Newspaper Test:
A communication in which the spirit forecasts an item in a future day's newspaper. A conjuring effect in which a magician or mentalist predicts a future newspaper item.
Null hypothesis:
The hypothesis that experimental results are due to chance.
OBE (See out of body experience):
Occam's Razor:
The principle of preferring the simplest explanation of an event, "a person should not increase beyond what is necessary the number of entities required to explain anything".
Occultism:
Esoteric system of practice and belief, which assumes that there is the existence of supernatural, paranormal and mysterious forces.
Old Hag Syndrome:
A nocturnal phenomenon that involves a feeling of immobilization, suffocation, odd smells and feelings and is sometimes accompanied by immense fear (See Sleep Paralysis).
Omen:
A sign that foretells events.
OOBE (See out of body experience):
Open …show more content…
Deck:
A series of cards used in a card guessing test where each card is chosen randomly and independently.
This enables each target to be selected any number of times. Statistical analysis of research data using an open deck differs from statistical analysis of data using a closed deck.
Open Matching (OM):
A card guessing procedure in which key cards are placed face up on the table. The subject then places the unseen target cards in piles in front of each key card, according to their guesses.
Orb:
A photographed anomaly that theoretically represents the ‘spirit’ of a deceased person. It will appear as a ball of light on film though in some cases; they are not seen at the time of the photo. Since there are many explainable circumstances (dust, rain, insects, reflection, lens flare, etc.) orbs still remain a highly controversial subject. Often seen as spherical in nature when in motion, an orb is believed to be the easiest form in which a soul can travel. It can be a variety of colours and appears round in pictures when not in motion. Orgone Energy: A term used by Wilhelm Reich to refer to a universal life force, associated with sexuality.
Ouija Board:
A pre-printed board with letters, numerals, and words used to receive spirit communications. Typically a planchette is employed to spell out words and point out numbers or
letters.
Out of Body Experience (O.O.B.E.):
A form of astral projection when the consciousness leaves the physical body. Many reports of this come from people who have been involved in severe accidents or have been anaesthetised. An example of this is when a patient undergoing an operation can see and hear the operation in progress. A sensation or experience in which ones self or spirit travels to a different location than their physical body (See Astral Projection). A fully conscious experience in which the person's centre of awareness appears to be outside of the physical body.
Paranormal:
Something that is unexplainable scientifically. Referring to something that is beyond the range of normal human experience. Inexplicable in terms of our ordinary