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Psychic Science - Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology Category: People and society > Parapsychology Date & country: 17/09/2007, UK Words: 415

Decline Effect
A decrease in performance on a psi test when the test is repeated. Cf. incline effect.

Death
Generally understood to be the extinction of an organism's life. Many doctrines assert some form of mental or spiritual survival of physical death. See also deathbed experience, haunting, mediumship, near-death experience, reincarnation.

Daemon (Daimon)
A guardian spirit who communicates inspiration and advice. See also guardian angel.

Crystal Gazing
Staring into a reflecting surface (e.g., mirror, glass, crystal, liquid) in order to obtain paranormal information. Also known as scrying. See also divination.

Cumberlandism
See contact mind reading.

Curse
Words spoken or written in order to influence others paranormally, causing them harm. See also spell, hex.

Cryptomnesia
Knowledge (acquired in normal ways) that may be revealed without the person remembering its source. Such memories may falsely appear to be paranormal revelations. Sometimes cryptomnesia is used as an explanation for apparently paranormal experiences such as xenoglossy or past-life memories.

Cross-correspondence
(a) Separate items of information, received independently by two or more mediums, which make sense only when pieced together. (b) THE cross-correspondences is a classic case of highly complex cross-correspondences which continued from 1901 to 1932 among a group of automatists associated with the Society for Psychical Research.

Coven
A group of witches

Crisis Apparition
An apparition in which a person is seen within a few hours of an important crisis such as death, accident or sudden illness.

Cosmic Consciousness
A blissful experience in which the person becomes aware of the whole universe as a living being. See also altered state of consciousness, mystical experience.

Correlation Coefficient
A mathematical index of the degree of association between two or more measures.

Correlation
An association between two or more events or variables.

Corn Circle
Circular (or more elaborate) formations found in growing crops, most commonly in Southern Britain. Sometimes they are associated with UFO sightings. Many formations appear to have been intelligently created and to have some symbolic meaning. Despite several 'confessions' made by various individuals and groups, the crop circle mystery remains unsolved.

Control Group
A group of people whose performance is compared with that of experimental subjects. Cf. experimental group.