Psychic
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A psychic is a person who claims or who is believed to possess extra-sensory abilities, including: clairvoyance, psychometry and precognition. These claims are widely disputed by mainstream science, and are regularly attacked by skeptics. However supporters exist within the field of parapsychology, including Cornell University's Daryl Bem who argues for a mild but significant phenomena based upon his ganzfeld experiments.
The ability to affect or move objects through the power of the mind alone is known as psychokinesis.
Mediums, like psychics, also claim to have extra-sensory abilities but claim to obtain their information through spirits or dead people. Some mediums also claim to possess psychic abilities.
James Randi has offered a million dollar prize to anyone who could prove themselves to possess paranormal abilities. No one has yet claimed this prize.
See also
External links
- [The Society for Psychical Research] — Founded in 1882 to examine paranormal phenomena in a scientific and unbiased way
- [James Randi Educational Foundation] — An Educational Resource on the Paranormal, Pseudoscientific, and the Supernatural
- [Alternative Science] - Criticisms of James Randi's $1 million challenge
- [Skeptic's Dictionary] — Psychic
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