Paranormal, Psychic, Numinous, Reincarnation, Telekinesis

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What Is Paranormal?

paranormal :

1. at its root : Greek para- (beyond) + Eng normal (that which is normative or that which follows the general rule).
2. that which doesn't happen within the normal limits of material living or which can't be explained by the laws of nature or physics.
3. A catch-all category of popular thought, designed to mix together all that is weird, whether fairly or unfairly, related or unrelated. Very much the rage on the Web. Are there paranormal occurences? Christianity says yes, constantly, but not most of what you usually think of as paranormal. Put your faith not in the paranormal, but the God who is at the root of whatever real stuff there is, whether with us or beyond us.

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What Is a Psychic?

psychic [ Greek psukhikos (soul-ish, of the soul) ]

1. As a noun : a medium or channeler, one through whom the dead or the other inhabitants of the spirit world are supposed to speak. As to its value, why is so much of what the supposed spirit beings say so shallow, trivial, and forgettable?
2. Also as a noun, colloquially : a mind-reader or mentalist entertainer.
3. As an adjective : paranormal matters of the mind are described as 'psychic' phenomena.
4. Also used for those dial-up psychic services seen on TV. Those are (according to the fine print legal disclaimer) for entertainment purposes.

Found on line :
>>>> I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.

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What Is Numinous?

numinous [ Latin numen (spiritual force of a place/object/being < a head-nod) ] filled with the sense of the presence of spirit or divinity.

In Christianity, God is everywhere, but there are certain places at certain times where the sense of God's presence, and its mystical special-ness, is stronger than at other times and places. Those times are numinous. (There is also the sense of God's deliberate absence, which the Lord sometimes does to remind people of God's usual presence.) Numinous moments are felt instead of figured out.

You can also look up 'numinous' in the .

psychokinesis : mind over matter. It's when someone wastes their mental effort and time on bending forks instead of helping provide food for people who have no forks and have nothing to put on them if they did.

What Is Reincarnation?

reincarnation: In this belief, the soul is a vagabond. It gets dis-embodied and re-embodied again and again in various sorts of creatureliness, until it is finally blown into the Absolute, whatever that is (which may indeed be nothing at all). The Asian idea of 'soul' (as distinct from Greek, Jewish, and African ideas) has some of the attributes of what in other ways of speaking would be called 'spirit' or 'personality'. But like the Greek idea (and not like Jewish or African or New Testament Christian), it is separate, the core of what makes someone a person.

Qoheleth ('the Teacher', in Ecclesiastes) teaches that life is brief, and then comes to an end. Ezekiel (chap.18) teaches that it is a sad loss when the wicked die, for that robs then of the chance of ever changing to follow God -- that's because there is no other field of play for one's faith in God than life. The scriptural picture of both Sheol and Hades are without return; they are cut off by a great vault and the door is locked. Resurrection is different from reincarnation in that there is only one death; Jesus opened the vault door to rescue His own, never to die again. Thus, there is no cycling of the soul, just a permanent death, and a permanent rescue followed by permanent life.

(You might come back as a , so you can hold within you the meaning of 'reincarnation'.)

telekinesis: mind over matter. The moving or altering of some object solely by use of concentration of thought. See psychokinesis (above).