Generally indicates cures that cannot be explained in terms of accepted medical principles. Associated terms include faith healing, psychic healing, and spirit cures.

Remote viewing has been defined by Targ and Katra (2000) as “the acquisition and description by mental means of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance, shielding, or time.” (p.4). Thalbourne (2003) later described remote viewing as “a neutral term for general extrasensory perception... especially in the context of an experimental design in which a percipient [perceiver/receiver] attempts to describe the surroundings of a geographically distant agent [sender]” (p. 107). However, Ingo Swann (1993), who claims to have coined the term in 1971-72 with Janet Mitchell, at the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), in cooperation with Karlis Osis and Gertrude Schmeidler, wrote, “there can be no doubt at all that remote viewing originally referred to a particular kind of experiment, not a particular kind of psi ability... It is very difficult to define a psychic ability. But it is not hard to define an experiment” (p. 75). He explained that an important aspect of remote viewing methodology is that it includes blinding and feedback protocols.

The International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) provides the most current definition on their website:

“Proper RV is done within a strict science-based protocol. As mentioned, the viewer is kept unwitting of the nature identity of the target until after the session is completed. Except in training situations, the monitor (a sort of remote viewing “guide” or facilitator that may assist the viewer during the session) is also unwitting, and external clues or data about the target are carefully excluded. Sessions are conducted in a setting that prevents knowledge of the target “leaking” to the viewer. These measures are important to ensure that the viewer does not receive hints or clues about the target in any way other than what would be considered “psychic.”

IRVA’s description continues:

“Despite the “viewing” part of the term, remote viewing is only partly about experiences associated with what might be visible about a target. It also involves mental impressions pertaining to the other senses, such as sounds, tastes, smells, and textures, as well as limited telepathy-like effects, and in some cases just plain intuitive “knowing.”…In RV, the viewer not only verbalizes what he or she is perceiving, but usually also records in writing, in sketches, and sometimes even in three-dimensional modeling the results of the RV episode, or “session.”

Glossary of Psychic Related Terms

ALCHEMY or ALCHEMIC

ASSOCIATIVE REMOTE VIEWING (ARV)

CLAIRAUDIENCE

CLAIRCOGNIZANCE

CLAIRSENTIENCE

CLAIRVOYANCE

CLAIRVOYANT ENERGY HEALING

CONTROLLED REMOTE VIEWING (CRV)

DREAM ESP

EMPATH

ENERGY HEALING

IDEOGRAMS

MANIFESTATION

OUTBOUNDER EXERCISES

PARAPSYCHOLOGY

PICTOGRAMS

PSIONICS

PSYCHIC HEALING

REMOTE VIEWING

SOMATIC (BODY) INTELLIGENCE

A SPIRIT GUIDE

TARGET

TELEPATHY

TELESEMINAR

TROUBLESOME OR NEGATIVE ENTITIES

WEBINAR

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