Paranormal Terms

Radiesthesia: Theories based on the assumption that living organisms emit some kind of radiation or emanation that is capable of
being detected using instruments.

Radio Voice Phenomenon (RVP): Receiving the voice of a deceased human over a regular radio.

Raps: The name given to unexplained knocking sounds associated with physical mediumship and poltergeist activity.

Raudive Voices: Intelligible voices recorded on magnetic tape under conditions of silence or white noise which are heard only when
the tape is played. A phenomenon discovered by Konstantin Raudive.

Reading: To receive or comprehend. To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to. To have the ability to examine and grasp
the meaning of. Information given to a person by a psychic or medium.

Reality: The term reality, in its widest sense, includes everything that is, whether it is observable, comprehensible, or apparently
self-contradictory by science, philosophy, or any other system of analysis. Reality in this sense may include both being and
nothingness, whereas existence is often restricted to being (compare with nature).

Rebirth: In Buddhism, the belief that there is some continuity of mind from one life to the next. Buddhism, however, does not
accept the existence of the individual soul and therefore does not view rebirth as the soul's literal re-incarnation.

Reciprocal Apparition: A rare type of spirit phenomenon in which both the agent and the percipient see and respond to each other

Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK): A technical term for poltergeist activity.

Regression: A statistical technique that enables predictions to be made from a set of data. A technique used in hypnosis,
involving suggesting to hypnotized persons that they are returning to an earlier time. Sometimes the regression occurs
spontaneously, without suggestion.

Reincarnation: A reappearance or revitalization in another form; a new embodiment.
The rebirth of a soul into a new body.

Reike: A type of healing in which the healer is a channel for universal force and energy.

Religion: A religion is a set of beliefs and practices generally held by a community, involving adherence to codified beliefs and
rituals and study of ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic
experience.

Remote Viewing: An ESP procedure in which a percipient attempts to become aware psychically of the experience of a person,
event, of other info located at a distant, unknown target location.

Repressed Psychokinetic Energy: A psychic force produced, usually unconsciously, by an individual undergoing physical or
mental trauma. When released, the power causes paranormal occurrences, which often are thought to be poltergeist activity.

Residual haunting: Same time, same place and same thing, each and every time. All buildings, especially older ones are made up
of materials that contain iron. What is a tape recording or a video tape made of? That's right, Oxidized iron.

Retro cognition: When a person finds them selves in a 'time warp' of the past, seeing or experiencing events of which they had no
prior knowledge.

Revenant: An entity which projects an appearance of being distressed or misplaced.

Ritual: A prescribed event or a particular form or ceremony that is built up by tradition, and with it, a great amount of energy.

Rune: An archaic character inscribed upon a stone or clay tablet, signifying some virtue or property, as with the Norse Runes, and
used for divination and as a talisman.