What is a Psychic?
Define: PSYCHIC Definition of the word: PSYCHIC Adjective: psychic refers to extra sensory perception and forces of a paranormal nature. Noun: psychic refers to a person who has extra sensory perception or paranormal powers. The term PSYCHIC was first used by renowned chemist William Crookes to describe Spiritualist medium Daniel Dunglas Home (1833-1886).
A psychic as strictly defined is a person who is able to sense things that are not available through ordinary sensory perceptions. Such perception might include being able to divine things about a person not present through use of an object or article belonging to the person, called psychometry. A psychic might also be clairvoyant, seeing things or perceiving things others can’t, as the boy in the film The Sixth Sense does. Alternately, a psychic might be able to see or predict events in the future, called precognition. Not all psychics claim to have equal gifts. A person who claims clairvoyance might work as a medium, connecting the dead to relatives or helping them pass onto the next world. This psychic ability is used in popular television shows like Medium and Ghost Whisperer Often people associate psychic ability with precognition, or being able to predict the future. Stephen King’s novel The Dead Zone is an interesting development of this psychic ability, which he claims is cause
