Paranormal Terms

Macro-PK: Psychokinetic effects that can be directly observed rather than only inferred from statistical analysis.

Magic: the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation or various other techniques that presumably
assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature

Magnetometer: A device used to measure the presence of a magnetic field along with its strength, direction and fluctuation.

Mantra: A sacred sound or sacred syllables used in meditation.

Materialization: To cause to become real or actual; To cause to become materialistic. The appearance of spirits in material form.

Matrixing: The natural tendency for the human mind to interpret sensory input, what is perceived visually, audibly or tactilely, as
something familiar or more easily understood and accepted, in effect mentally "filling in the blanks."

Medicine Man/Medicine Woman: A witchdoctor or shaman.

Meditation: A devotional exercise of or leading to contemplation. Meditation is the process of relaxing, emptying your mind of all
thought or reaching a different state of consciousness. Meditation can aid in spiritual development and/or inner peace. There are
many types of meditation.

Medium: A person who professes to be able to communicate with spirits. A person thought to have the power to communicate with
spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension.

Mediumship: Activity of a medium.

Mentalism: A branch of conjuring involving the simulation of psi.

Mental Mediumship: The paranormal obtaining of information by a medium.

Mesmerism: The act of inducing hypnosis. The induction of a sleep or trance state, discovered during the work of Friedrich Anton
Mesmer, from whose name the word is derived. Also known as hypnotism.

Metal Bending: Psychokinetic ability to bend metal objects.

Metamorphosis: A transformation. See "Shape-shifting".

Metempsychosis: Another term for reincarnation.

Metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter,
substance and attribute, fact and value

Micro-PK: Psychokinetic effects that cannot be directly observed, but only inferred from the statistical analysis of data.

Miracle: an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a
supernatural cause

Mist: An anomaly (not usually seen at the time with the naked eye) that appears on photos/videos as a "cloud of smoke" thought to
be Spirit energy, also called Ecto

Mnemonist: A person who has learned techniques that enable extraordinary feats of memory.

Moon Phase: Current status of the moon. Different phases are believed to affect spiritual activity.

Morphic Resonance: A term coined by Rupert Sheldrake to refer to the way in which the "morphogenetic field" (underlying form) of
an object or organism may influence distant fields.

Multiple Personality: A psychiatric condition in which the person manifests two or more distinct and separate personalities at
different times.

Mumiai: Native American Indian spirit which behaves in the manner of a Poltergeist.

Mystic: A person who has mystical experiences. Used loosely to refer to psychics, mediums or romantics.

Mystical Experience: Altered State of Consciousness 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.