Clairvoyance: Literally, clear sight. The psychic ability or power to acquire information, or to see objects, animals or people, in spite of any distance involved, and, in the case of a person or animal, to judge its present condition or emotional state. The clairvoyant can also pick up on past or future events. Clairvoyance is often used as a general term encompassing phenomena such as telepathy, second sight, prophetic visions, and dreams.

Channeler: A person who acts as an intermediary and through whom communication from the Spirit World is passed to those in the physical world. This is usually a sensitive and often very psychic person who has been chosen by a specific otherworldly entity to take that entity’s message to other living human beings.

Clairaudience: A form of channeling. Usually clairaudience is defined as the perception of messages in thought forms from an entity that exists in another realm. The person receiving these messages hears the messages in their mind. Though words or songs may actually be heard the same way one hears a phrase or song running through their heads, the thought itself may be all that’s transmitted. For the budding clairaudient: Be sure you share the messages obtained through clairaudience only with people who understand. Clairaudience is often confused with schizophrenia.

Clairaugustine: The spiritual ability that corresponds most similarly to the physical senses of both smell and taste. A sense experienced in the mouth or nose. For example, the taste or smell of a favorite food associated with a deceased entity.

Clairsentience: Sometimes called impressional mediumship, this ability relies on the distinct feelings that the medium has when giving a message. It often involves the medium being overcome by an unrelenting sense of what needs to be said, but the message doesn’t come to the mind in any distinct way. It is more of a gut reaction, a clear and undeniable feeling that the medium has to speak about certain issues, give a particular name, or go to a specific person when giving messages to a larger group. Clairsentience is a very common way for many mediums to work; if you asked them how they received their messages from Spirit, they wouldn’t be able to define the process for you more then saying it is a knowing.

Empathic: Empaths have the ability to sense and feel the emotions and energies of people, animals or objects. Empathy is aligned with the entire nervous system. Everything has an energetic vibration or frequency; an Empath is able to sense these vibrations that are often not recognizable to the eye or the five senses. An Empath has the ability to scan another’s psyche to gain a deeper understanding of his or her thoughts and feelings.

Healer: A person who is psychic who can transfer healing energy to those in need. Healing energy is usually given primarily to balance and encourage the positive aspects and energies of a person. This is the most common practice of healing, though there are several techniques used to heal which is usually distinct to each individual healer.

Intuitive: A person who can pick up on thoughts and feelings of other life forms, as well as signals of nature. While all psychics are intuitives, not all intuitives are psychics. Psychics tend to get more specific detail, while intuitives work primarily with emotions. Intuitives are also often healers. They can prove invaluable in cases where there’s no discernible cause for pain or discomfort because they can sense what exactly is going on and thus are in a better position to know what the healer should focus on.

Spirit Guides: Spirits who have passed on and have attained a high degree of wisdom and spiritual awareness, yet remain close to the earthly plane and its people so as to guide certain individuals along the path to having a broader awareness of a universal consciousness. Spirit guides, however, are still evolving, and thus should not be regarded as infallible. The best of them know this and make sure that those they guide know it as well.

Shamanism: refers to a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world. There are many variations of shamanism throughout the world, though there are some beliefs that are shared by all forms of shamanism:

• The spirits can play important roles in human lives.
• The shaman can control and/or cooperate with the spirits for the community's benefit.
• The spirits can be either good or bad.
• Shamans engage various processes and techniques to incite trance; such as: singing, dancing, taking entheogens, meditating and drumming.
• Animals play an important role, acting as omens and message-bearers, as well as representations of animal spirit guides.
• The shaman's spirit leaves the body and enters into the supernatural world during certain tasks.
• The shamans can treat illnesses or sickness.
• Shamans are healers, gurus and magicians.

Angels: Messengers from God. Angels were created at the beginning of time. They don’t die, and never will until the end of the present Universe. Angels are ageless and sexless, although they can take male or female forms when necessary or they can take the forms of animals. Their purpose on earth is to bring messages from the Absolute to all earthly life forms, and provide aid and assistance when necessary. Contrary to popular belief, human beings do NOT become angels when they die. They become transcendent human beings. Angels are a totally different life form.

Ghost: (1) The spirit of a person, who has died on the material plane, yet does not move on to the higher realms. Ghosts sometimes stay behind because (a) they have died suddenly and/or violently and don’t know they’re dead; (b) feel too attached to places where they were happy; and/or (c) are still looking or waiting for people who have also died, but have moved on. (2) An image or imprint on the ethers of a traumatic and violent event, which keeps repeating itself again and again, like a video tape.(memory energy) (3) A person who has died and moved on to the higher planes, yet comes back to warn or otherwise look after someone whom they loved who is now in trouble.

Psychic: From Greek psyche, meaning soul. An individual with exceptional gifts for telepathy, clairvoyance, mediumship or prophecy. A sensitive who can intuit and reveal the future, or facts, thoughts, and feelings unknown to him or her.

Oracle : The word oracle in Greek can mean several related things. It means a god who predicts the future, like Apollo. It also means the priest who hears the message, and the message itself, and the place where the priest hears the message.

Shaman : Shamans are the spiritual leaders of their tribes and clans. They communicate with spirits, have visions of the future, and guide their people through the darkest of times.

Medicine Man: is an English term used to describe Native American spiritual figures; such individuals are often viewed by scholars concerned with these matters as being analogous to shamans. The primary function of these "medicine elders" (who are not always male) is to secure the help of the spirit world, including the Great Spirit, for the benefit of the community.