Homework

1. PARANORMAL
PHENOMENA
By: Caleb Howard

2. Paranormal Phenomena:
Paranormal is a general term (coined ca. 1915–1920) that
designates experiences that lie outside the range of ‘normal’
experience

4. Top Ten Paranormal
Phenomena's
o Déjà vu o Reincarnations
o Premonitions o Poltergeist
o Apparitions o Auras
o Telepathy o Medium ship
o Out-Of-Body Experience o Near-Death Episode

5. Déjà Vu
 French word meaning already seen
 The experience of having that feeling
of knowing a situation in which you are
experiencing something totally new

6. Premonitions
 An intuition of an future event or occurrence
 Usually warning of something bad or
negative that’s going to happen
 Meditation opens a door to premonitions

7. Apparitions
 A supernatural appearance of a person or thing

8. Telepathy
 Communication between minds by some
means other that sensory perception
 Such as thought
transfers, feelings, desires, and fears
 First recorded in 1884

9. Out-of-body Experiences
 Sensation of floating
outside ones body, and
in some
cases, perceiving ones
physical body outside
ones body
 35 out of every 100
people have out-of-body
experiences at least
once in their life

10. Reincarnation
 Religious or Philosophical Concept
 The soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new
life in a new body that may be human, animal or
spiritual depending on the moral quality of the
previous life’s actions

11. Poltergeist
 Manifestation of an invisible but noisy, disruptive or
destructive entity
 Including inanimate objects being picked up and thrown
as if by an invisible person; noises such as
knocking, rapping, or even human voices; and petty
physical attacks on human beings, such as
pinching, biting, hitting and tripping

12. Auras
 A field of
subtle, luminous, radiati
on surrounding a
person or object
 No scientific definition
or explanation

13. Mediumship
 Form of
communication
between the living
and the dead
 First came about in
the early 1900’s

14. Near-Death Episode
 Person who either has been close to clinical death or have
recovered after having been declared dead

16. Out Of 3000 People That Were
Randomly Surveyed Online
o 90% Reported Experiencing At Least One Type Of
Paranormal Phenomena
o One In Ten Having Experiences Occurring Before The Age
Of 6 Years Old
o 70% Stating That The Encounter Has Permanently
Changed Their Life

18. Works Cited
Definitions. The Free Dictionary. By Farlex 2013
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Paranormal+phenomena
Dr. Larry Dossey. 2009 Premonitions and Spirituality. Healthy
Living. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-larry-dossey/premonitions-
and-spiritua_b_193830.html
Judith Orloff, M.D. The Meaning of déjà vu. Psychology Today
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/emotional-
freedom/201004/the-meaning-deja-vu
Kenneth Chang. Do Paranormal Phenomena's Exist? 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/11/science/do-paranormal-
phenomena-exist.html

19. Lynn Levitan, Ph.D. Out of Body Experiences and Lucid Dreams
http://www.lucidity.com/NL32.OBEandLD.html
Paranormal Experts. May 14, 2008.
http://www.ghostvillage.com/links/links_experts.shtml
Rosemary Breen. 2011 Paranormal Survey Report.
http://psychicrevolution.com/wp-
content/uploads/downloads/2011/10/2011-Paranormal-Activity-
Analysis-Survey.pdf
Stephanie Pappas. 2011. What's Really Behind Paranormal
Experiences. http://www.livescience.com/14904-paranormal-
experiences-hint-ghosts.html
Stephen Wagner. 2013 Top Paranormal Experts: A Call for
Professionalism.
http://paranormal.about.com/od/paranormalgeneralinfo/a/aa073106
.htm
The Waverly Hills Sanatorium. 2013
http://therealwaverlyhills.com/newsite/