AGENT: A living person at the site of a haunting.   Apparitions: Refers to a ghost, spirit, dead person or whatever term you   call that part of the human personality that survives in the physical   world after the death of the body.    Apport: A physical object that can materialize and appear at will.      Astral Travel: It is quite simply, consciously leaving your body as it   sleeps. It's like being awake while you are dreaming. Near death experiences   are also known as astral projection.   Automatic Writting: A method used by spirit mediums to obtain information from the next world. It is   believed that spirits take control of the medium and cause them to write unconscious information on paper.   Altered State of Concouisness:(ASC) Any state of consciousness that differs from normal waking and sleeping    Amulet: Object that is alleged to have power to scare off ghosts and evil spirits   Angel: Benevolent spiritual entities that help watch over people   Asport: When a solid object is transfered to a different location by the help of spirits, within the presence of a sensitive(medium)   Astral body: spirit or soul of a person projected outside of their physical body   Atmosphere Apparition: Not actually a ghost or spirit but a visual imprint of people or events left behind in an enviroment that continues to replay itself.   Aura: Field of energy that is allegedly believed to surround living creatures   Automatism: An unconscious or spontaneious muscular movement caused by ghosts or spirits   Banshee: A death omen or spirit that attaches itself to certain families           Bio-PK: Psychokinetic effects on biological processes.   Black: eyed Kid-Black eyed children who show up at your door or   car asking for favors.Some think they are in the same relation   to a vampire because they have to have yourpermission to enter.   Bogey: A spirit that is particularly antagonistic toward humans, traveling alone or in groups to cause  trouble   Clairvoyance : A general term that refers to the paranormal   obtaining of information about an object or event. Sometimes called remote viewing   Charms: A spell or object possessing magic power   Cold Reading: psychic reading given to an individual with no prior knowledge   Collective Unconscious: Psychology developed by carl jung. It is the collective memory of all the humanity's past and is held somewhere inside the unconscious mind.   Crisis Apparition: spirit that appears to loved ones or friends just before or atfter death   Cross Correspondence: Information received from the spirit world   Cross Roads: Point where two roads intersect. Alleged point of supernatural energy   Channeling: A modern method of spirit communication in which the spirits pass information directly to the medium, who then repeats the information for the listener.   Clauradience: The experience of receiving paranormal information through auditory impressions, voices and whispers.   Colective Apparition: A type of ghost sighting that occurs w hen one or more people see the same apparition.   Control: A spirit who acts as a medium's connection with the next world. aka spirit guide   Demontirialization: A word used to describe a spirit or specter, literally means without flesh   Doppelganger: Meaning "double image" it is thought to be an exact spirit double of the living person. They are considered to be very negative in nature    Demons: Evil influences which hinder cultivation. These can take an infinite   number of forms, including evil beings or hallucinations. Disease and death,   as well as the three poisons of greed, anger and delusion are also equated   to demons, as they disturb the mind.   Ectoplasm: Ectoplasm is the stuff oozing from ghosts/spirits which makes   it possible for them to materialize and perform feats of telekinesis.   Ectoplasm is said to be the substance involvedin the materialization of   spiritual bodies.     ESP: Paranormal acquisition of information.   Evp: E.V.P stands for Electronic Voice Phenomena. This Phenomena   occurs when the voices of a Spirit interrupt an Electro Magnetic   Field,"E.M.F's", so inturn using audio tape i.e. from a micro   cassette recorder reveals these voices where as before they   could not be heard by a human ear.   Earthbound: Refers to a ghost or spirit that is unable to cross over at the time of death.   Elemetals: A term used by spiritualitst to describe angry or mean spirits. Refered to as "earth spirits"   Exorcism: A ritual used primarily by the catholic church as a way of driving out demons or evil spirits from a living person.   Extras: A shape or a face that is said to have supernaturally appeared on film and cannot be explained away as fraud.   Ghost: Generic term used for a number of different supernatural entities   Ghost Hunting: Various methods of investigating reports of ghosts and hauntings   Ghost Lights: strange balls of lights that appear in a specific locations often for an extended period of time but which have no explaination.   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.        Incubus: A demon; a fiend; a lascivious spirit, supposed to have   sexual intercourse with women by night.   Intellegent Haunting: Activity that takes place around people or locations that is caused by an intelleigent or conscious spirit   Levitation: THe rasing of physical objects without assistance   Live Haunting: The entity actually interacts with the living. This   spirit can manifest in many different forms. It knows of its surroundings   and that it has passed.      Page 2