What does paranormal mean?

What does paranormal mean?

Chris French (Anomalistic Psychologist) gives expert video advice on: What does paranormal mean?; What does psychic mean?; What is psychic healing? and more...

When parapsychologists refer to paranormal they are using a fairly strict definition, and that covers three things. It covers evidence relating to the possibility of life after death, it refers to psychokinesis or PK which is the alleged ability to influence the outside world by using willpower alone, and it refers to ESP- Extra Sensory Perception, and that can be subdivided into telepathy- direct mind to mind contact. Clairvoyance-the illegibility to pick up information from remote locations other than by the known sensory channels, and pre-cognition-the illegibility to be able to foretell future events. Now other people use the term paranormal in a much wider, looser sense, so in particular books that you'll buy in your local bookstore, the tabloid press and even anomalistic psychologists So when you have this wider definition; essentially anything that is weird and wonderful and can't be explained by science as currently understood so that could include things like fire walking, astrology, alien abduction claims, zombies, you name it- anything that is weird and and wonderful.