DEFINITIONS -
Angels - Benevolent spiritual beings who help people in need.
Anomalous Phenomena - Natural phenomena that cannot be explained in terms of current scientific knowledge.
Automatic Writing - The ability to write intelligible messages without conscious control or knowledge of what is being written.
Banshee - In Gaelic belief, a female entity who heralds a death by groaning and screaming.
Clairvoyant Medium - Or clairvoyant. A person who obtains information paranormally (often by spirit communication) without the need to enter into a trance state.
Collective Apparition - An apparition seen simultaneously by more than one person.
Crisis Apparition - An apparition in which a person is seen within a few hours of an important crisis such as death, accident or sudden illness.
Daemon (Daimon) - A guardian spirit who communicates inspiration and advice.
Demon - a : an evil spirit b : a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin.
Demonic Possession - Possession by evil spirits.
Discarnate Entity - A spirit or non-material entity. Often used to refer to the personality of a deceased individual.
Divining Rod - A forked rod (or sometimes a pair of L-shaped rods) used in dowsing.
Dowsing - The paranormal detection of underground water or mineral deposits (or lost persons and objects) using a divining rod or pendulum.
Ectoplasm - A semi-fluid substance exuded by a physical medium from which materializations may form.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) - 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.
Exorcism - A religious or quasi-religious rite to drive out evil spirits.
Ganzfeld - A technique for investigating ESP in which the person experiences an absence of patterned stimulation. This generally involves the subject wearing halved table-tennis balls over the eyes while listening to hiss (white noise) through headphones.
Ghost - Popular term for an experience believed to indicate the presence of the spirit of a deceased person.
Guardian Angel - An angel believed to protect the individual.
Guide - A spirit who is believed to assist a person's spiritual journey.
Haunting - Paranormal phenomena such as apparitions, unexplained sounds, smells or other sensations that are associated over a lengthy period of time with a specific location. There are four types of hauntings..Residual, Intelligent, Demonic and Poltergeists
Residual Haunting - The easiest way to explain this haunting is to compare it to an old film loop, meaning that it is a scene or image that is played over and over again through the years.
Intelligent Haunting - An intelligent ghost or haunting is the rarest type of haunting. (Residual is far more common.) In this type of haunting, you are dealing with an "intelligent" presence that can communicate with you, and interact with you in a seemingly "intelligent" way.
Demonic Haunting - Demon hauntings usually start in a subtle way. Behaviors are typically the same behaviors displayed by a poltergeist, but more extreme. It's common for one or several entities to exist in one location with a strong evil presence seemingly controlling the others and not allowing them to cross over.It is believed that demons hate humans and think them very lowly and stupid. DEMONS MUST NEVER BE CHALLENGED!!! Most demonic entities like a challenge and are master of trickery and incredibly conniving; they may have you believing they are good spirits or may appear to have gone away, only to confront you again at the least expected and most vulnerable moment.A demon is considered to be a powerful, supernatural being that is generally malevolent (wishing or appearing to wish evil to others) in character. The word demon comes from the Greek word daimon, which means a divine or semi-divine power that determined a person's fate. Demons are evil, supernatural beings of intelligence, wit, and immense power. They have the power to invade our homes, attach themselves to objects, and inflict torture both mentally and emotionally by attacking or even possessing the human body.Demons have the ability to morph into any shape they want. They can change from a human form to an inhuman form before your very eyes. They are neither male nor female, but will change to whatever meets their need at the time. Demons are commonly seen as black masses standing in doorways or in the corner of the room.
Poltergeist Haunting - Poltergeists (noisy ghosts) have commonly been blamed for any violent or destructive activity in a haunting. In the past, researchers believed that all such activity at a haunted location was the work of the spirits, or an outside force, but today, most investigators don’t think so. While interactive spirits may be the culprits in some cases, many of cases have a force behind them that is much closer to home. In a poltergeist case (and in its counterpart) there can be a variety of phenomena taking place. There are reports of knocking and tapping noises, sounds with no visible cause, disturbance of stationary objects like household items and furniture, doors slamming, lights turning on and off, fires breaking out and much, much more.While in some cases, this activity can be connected to ghosts, in most cases it probably isn’t. It certainly remains paranormal though and because of this, it is also unexplained and very controversial. The current theory behind this Poltergeist-like phenomena is that the activity is caused by a person in the household, known as the "human agent". The agent is usually an adolescent or teenage female. It is believed that she unconsciously manipulates physical objects in the house by psychokinesis (PK), the power to move things by energy generated in the brain. This kinetic type of energy remains unexplained, but even some mainstream scientists are starting to explore the idea that it does exist. It is unknown why this energy seems to appear in females around the age of puberty, but documentation of its existence is starting to appear as more and more case studies have become public. It seems that when the activity begins to manifest, the girl is usually in the midst of some emotional or sexual turmoil. The presence of the energy is almost always an unconscious one and it is rare when any of the agents actually realize that they are the source of the destruction around them. They do not realize that they are the reason that objects in the home have become displaced and are usually of the impression that a ghost (or some sort of other supernatural entity) is present instead. The bursts of PK come and go and most poltergeist-like cases will peak early and then slowly fade away. It should be noted that while most cases such as this manifest around young women, it is possible for puberty age boys (and even older adults) to show this same unknowing ability. As with the young women, the vast majority will have no idea that they are causing the activity and will be surprised to find there is even a possibility that strange things are happening because of them.
Indirect Voice - Mediumistic phenomenon in which the discarnate entity appears to speak using the vocal apparatus of the medium. Often the voice will sound very different from the medium's normal voice.
Invocation - Summoning benevolent spiritual beings. *Please note, we do not recommend this practice. As the dark energies are capable of demonic posession.
Levitation - The paranormal raising or suspension of an object or person.
Luminous Phenomena - The experience of strange lights or glows, often around objects or people.
Medium - A person believed to act as an intermediary between discarnate entities and the living.
Ouija Board - A board with letters and numbers on which messages are spelled out by unconsciously moving (with the fingers) a glass or planchette. *Please note that we very seriously regard this item as a doorway to allow spirits and a lot of the time evill forces to enter and cause harm or death. We recommend that anyone thinking about using one to talk to a minister or priest.
Paranormal - Beside or beyond the normal. Inexplicable in terms of our ordinary understanding or current scientific knowledge.
Parapsychology - Term coined by J.B. Rhine to refer to the experimental and quantitative study of paranormal phenomena. Now generally used instead of "psychical research" to refer to all scientific investigation of the paranormal.
Pendulum - An object suspended by a thread. Movements of a pendulum are often used by dowsers to locate objects or answer questions.
Phantasm - An apparition.
Possession - Refers to cases in which a person's body is apparently taken over by another personality or entity.
Presence - A subjective feeling that a person, animal or discarnate entity is present.
Psychic Photography - General term used to refer to paranormal photographic images.
Raps - The name given to unexplained knocking sounds associated with physical mediumship and poltergeist activity.
Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK) -A technical term for poltergeist activity.
Response - An action made by a subject in an experiment.
Skeptic - A person inclined to discount the reality of the paranormal and to be critical of parapsychological research. Generally seeks rational or scientific explanations for the phenomena studied by parapsychologists.
Shape-Shifting - Paranormal ability to assume the form of another person, an animal or other entity.
Spectre - A ghost or apparition.
Spirit - (a) a discarnate entity.(b) soul(c) Divine essence.
Angels - Benevolent spiritual beings who help people in need.
Anomalous Phenomena - Natural phenomena that cannot be explained in terms of current scientific knowledge.
Automatic Writing - The ability to write intelligible messages without conscious control or knowledge of what is being written.
Banshee - In Gaelic belief, a female entity who heralds a death by groaning and screaming.
Clairvoyant Medium - Or clairvoyant. A person who obtains information paranormally (often by spirit communication) without the need to enter into a trance state.
Collective Apparition - An apparition seen simultaneously by more than one person.
Crisis Apparition - An apparition in which a person is seen within a few hours of an important crisis such as death, accident or sudden illness.
Daemon (Daimon) - A guardian spirit who communicates inspiration and advice.
Demon - a : an evil spirit b : a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin.
Demonic Possession - Possession by evil spirits.
Discarnate Entity - A spirit or non-material entity. Often used to refer to the personality of a deceased individual.
Divining Rod - A forked rod (or sometimes a pair of L-shaped rods) used in dowsing.
Dowsing - The paranormal detection of underground water or mineral deposits (or lost persons and objects) using a divining rod or pendulum.
Ectoplasm - A semi-fluid substance exuded by a physical medium from which materializations may form.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) - 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.
Exorcism - A religious or quasi-religious rite to drive out evil spirits.
Ganzfeld - A technique for investigating ESP in which the person experiences an absence of patterned stimulation. This generally involves the subject wearing halved table-tennis balls over the eyes while listening to hiss (white noise) through headphones.
Ghost - Popular term for an experience believed to indicate the presence of the spirit of a deceased person.
Guardian Angel - An angel believed to protect the individual.
Guide - A spirit who is believed to assist a person's spiritual journey.
Haunting - Paranormal phenomena such as apparitions, unexplained sounds, smells or other sensations that are associated over a lengthy period of time with a specific location. There are four types of hauntings..Residual, Intelligent, Demonic and Poltergeists
Residual Haunting - The easiest way to explain this haunting is to compare it to an old film loop, meaning that it is a scene or image that is played over and over again through the years.
Intelligent Haunting - An intelligent ghost or haunting is the rarest type of haunting. (Residual is far more common.) In this type of haunting, you are dealing with an "intelligent" presence that can communicate with you, and interact with you in a seemingly "intelligent" way.
Demonic Haunting - Demon hauntings usually start in a subtle way. Behaviors are typically the same behaviors displayed by a poltergeist, but more extreme. It's common for one or several entities to exist in one location with a strong evil presence seemingly controlling the others and not allowing them to cross over.It is believed that demons hate humans and think them very lowly and stupid. DEMONS MUST NEVER BE CHALLENGED!!! Most demonic entities like a challenge and are master of trickery and incredibly conniving; they may have you believing they are good spirits or may appear to have gone away, only to confront you again at the least expected and most vulnerable moment.A demon is considered to be a powerful, supernatural being that is generally malevolent (wishing or appearing to wish evil to others) in character. The word demon comes from the Greek word daimon, which means a divine or semi-divine power that determined a person's fate. Demons are evil, supernatural beings of intelligence, wit, and immense power. They have the power to invade our homes, attach themselves to objects, and inflict torture both mentally and emotionally by attacking or even possessing the human body.Demons have the ability to morph into any shape they want. They can change from a human form to an inhuman form before your very eyes. They are neither male nor female, but will change to whatever meets their need at the time. Demons are commonly seen as black masses standing in doorways or in the corner of the room.
Poltergeist Haunting - Poltergeists (noisy ghosts) have commonly been blamed for any violent or destructive activity in a haunting. In the past, researchers believed that all such activity at a haunted location was the work of the spirits, or an outside force, but today, most investigators don’t think so. While interactive spirits may be the culprits in some cases, many of cases have a force behind them that is much closer to home. In a poltergeist case (and in its counterpart) there can be a variety of phenomena taking place. There are reports of knocking and tapping noises, sounds with no visible cause, disturbance of stationary objects like household items and furniture, doors slamming, lights turning on and off, fires breaking out and much, much more.While in some cases, this activity can be connected to ghosts, in most cases it probably isn’t. It certainly remains paranormal though and because of this, it is also unexplained and very controversial. The current theory behind this Poltergeist-like phenomena is that the activity is caused by a person in the household, known as the "human agent". The agent is usually an adolescent or teenage female. It is believed that she unconsciously manipulates physical objects in the house by psychokinesis (PK), the power to move things by energy generated in the brain. This kinetic type of energy remains unexplained, but even some mainstream scientists are starting to explore the idea that it does exist. It is unknown why this energy seems to appear in females around the age of puberty, but documentation of its existence is starting to appear as more and more case studies have become public. It seems that when the activity begins to manifest, the girl is usually in the midst of some emotional or sexual turmoil. The presence of the energy is almost always an unconscious one and it is rare when any of the agents actually realize that they are the source of the destruction around them. They do not realize that they are the reason that objects in the home have become displaced and are usually of the impression that a ghost (or some sort of other supernatural entity) is present instead. The bursts of PK come and go and most poltergeist-like cases will peak early and then slowly fade away. It should be noted that while most cases such as this manifest around young women, it is possible for puberty age boys (and even older adults) to show this same unknowing ability. As with the young women, the vast majority will have no idea that they are causing the activity and will be surprised to find there is even a possibility that strange things are happening because of them.
Indirect Voice - Mediumistic phenomenon in which the discarnate entity appears to speak using the vocal apparatus of the medium. Often the voice will sound very different from the medium's normal voice.
Invocation - Summoning benevolent spiritual beings. *Please note, we do not recommend this practice. As the dark energies are capable of demonic posession.
Levitation - The paranormal raising or suspension of an object or person.
Luminous Phenomena - The experience of strange lights or glows, often around objects or people.
Medium - A person believed to act as an intermediary between discarnate entities and the living.
Ouija Board - A board with letters and numbers on which messages are spelled out by unconsciously moving (with the fingers) a glass or planchette. *Please note that we very seriously regard this item as a doorway to allow spirits and a lot of the time evill forces to enter and cause harm or death. We recommend that anyone thinking about using one to talk to a minister or priest.
Paranormal - Beside or beyond the normal. Inexplicable in terms of our ordinary understanding or current scientific knowledge.
Parapsychology - Term coined by J.B. Rhine to refer to the experimental and quantitative study of paranormal phenomena. Now generally used instead of "psychical research" to refer to all scientific investigation of the paranormal.
Pendulum - An object suspended by a thread. Movements of a pendulum are often used by dowsers to locate objects or answer questions.
Phantasm - An apparition.
Possession - Refers to cases in which a person's body is apparently taken over by another personality or entity.
Presence - A subjective feeling that a person, animal or discarnate entity is present.
Psychic Photography - General term used to refer to paranormal photographic images.
Raps - The name given to unexplained knocking sounds associated with physical mediumship and poltergeist activity.
Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK) -A technical term for poltergeist activity.
Response - An action made by a subject in an experiment.
Skeptic - A person inclined to discount the reality of the paranormal and to be critical of parapsychological research. Generally seeks rational or scientific explanations for the phenomena studied by parapsychologists.
Shape-Shifting - Paranormal ability to assume the form of another person, an animal or other entity.
Spectre - A ghost or apparition.
Spirit - (a) a discarnate entity.(b) soul(c) Divine essence.