Paranormal Terms

Death: The act of dying; termination of life; The termination or extinction of something. Generally understood to be the
extinction of an organism's life, many doctrines assert some form of mental or spiritual survival of physical death.

Deathbed Experience: A dying person's awareness of the presence of dead friends or relatives.

Déjà vu: The feeling of having already experienced something actually being experienced for the first time. An impression of
having seen or experienced something before. Also called a Déjà experience.

Delta: A term used to refer to any kind of anomalous experience.

Dematerialize: To deprive of or lose apparent physical substance; make or become immaterial. To suddenly disappear,
Example: an object or spirit.

Dematerialization: This word is used to describe a spirit or specter meaning to deprive of or lose apparent physical
substance or in simpler terms, without flesh.

Demon: An evil supernatural being; a devil, an evil spirit or being which is said to have not ever lived on earth in human form.

Demonic: Pertaining to or caused by demons

Demonologist: Involved with the study of Demonology.

Demonology: The study of demons.

Deport: The paranormal movement of objects out of a secure enclosed space.

Devil: An upper level evil spirit working for Lucifer.

Diabolical: Pertaining to or caused by a devil.

Direct Writing: occurring most often during a séance, direct writing is a phenomenon in which alleged spirit hand writing
appears on a previously unmarked surface.

Direct Voice Phenomenon (DVP): A Spirit voice, spoken directly to sitters at a séance. The sound usually seems to come
from a point near the medium, or through a spirit horn or trumpet, but not from the mouth of the medium.

Discarnate: Another word for Spirit, ghost or apparition that literally means "out of body".

Discarnate Entity: A spirit or non-material entity, often used to refer to the personality of a deceased individual.

Disembodied Voice: A voice or sound heard or recorded that comes from no physical body or known source.

Dissociation: The act of removing from association; the state of being separate and unconnected. Activity performed outside
of normal conscious awareness, or mental processes that suggest the existence of separate centers of consciousness.

Divining Rod: A forked rod (or sometimes a pair of L-shaped rods) used in dowsing.

DMILS: "Direct Mental Interaction with Living Systems". Psychokinetic influences on physiological processes.

Doppelganger: A spiritual or ghostly double or counterpart; an apparitional double of a living person. A mirror image or
double of a person.

Dowsing: To use a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals. An act which, generally, a 'dowsing rod' or
'divining rod' is employed to locate subterranean water, ore, oil, etc.. or other concealed items by following the direction in
which the rod turns in the users hand.

Dowsing Rods: similar to a Diving rod.

Druid: A Celtic priest of the Bronze or Iron Age, trained in healing, divination and astronomy, whose tradition was passed on
to successors by oral tradition.

Dwarf: A nature spirit that is short and dark. Normally no more than 2 feet tall and as small as 2".