Types of Psychics

When you hear the word "psychic," do you think of someone who sells tarot card readings out of the back of her home? Do you think of those commercials late at night for psychic hotlines claiming to tell you what will happen to your love life in the future while you much Cheetoes for $3.99 a minute? Different people will have different ideas and stereotypes regarding psychic abilities, but the term psychic serves as an umbrella term for many different types of abilities and phenomena.

Literally, the word psychic is connected to ESP, or extrasensory perception. This could manifest in many different forms. Because of the broad nature of the term, many people make the mistake of assuming that if someone is said to be a psychic, then there is this vault of information in the psychic's mind that can be opened to reveal anything and everything from the past, present, or future. However, this is rarely ever the case.

Most people with ESP, or psychic abilities have limitations to their powers. Sometimes they can see something that is not in their presence, while others can get a feeling or impression of something that cannot be seen literally. There are psychics called mediums who can communicate with people who have passed on in death to the other side. There are even psychics who can communicate with animals in a way that most people cannot.

Some of these forms include clairvoyance, channeling, clairaudience, clairsentience, and many more. What does this mean? You may be throwing your hands up and crying out Clair who?! Take a deep breath and calm down, if this is the case because even though this seems confusing, it really doesn't have to be. People who have an awareness of something that they cannot perceive with the five senses are able to recognize what they are aware of through some sense other than directly seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, or touching what is actually in front of them. This ability will show up in a variety of ways. So, instead of expecting one of these people with special senses to know everything in some omniscient way, ask what it is that the psychic is able to sense and how they are able to sense it.