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Psychic Abilities
The following is a list of the psychic abilities you can choose from for your character. Please note that 'powers' such as pyrokinesis, levitation, teleportation, etc. will not be accepted. If you have an idea for an ability not listed here, please feel free to contact the mods about it.

Aura reading
The perception of energy fields surrounding people, places and things.
Automatic writing
Writing produced without conscious thought.
Astral projection
An out-of-body experience in which an astral body becomes separate from the physical body.
Clairvoyance
The ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through extrasensory perception.
Death Warning
A vision of a living person prior to their death. Note: Your character should not have constant death-visions. Nobody wants to be forever seeing death. Also, seeing the death of another character in the community, or their family members, would count as godmodding.
Energy healing
Healing by channeling a form of energy into the patient.
Mediumship or channeling
Communicating with spirits.
Precognition
Perception of events before they happen, either through visions or dreams.
Psychokinesis or telekinesis
The ability to manipulate objects by the power of thought.
Psychometry or psychoscopy
Obtaining information about a person or object, usually by touching or concentrating on the object or a related object, or making skin-to-skin contact with the person.
Remote viewing
Gathering of information at a distance.
Retro-cognition
Perception of past events.
Telepathy
Transfer of thoughts, words or emotions in either direction.