psychic hallucination — Also known as psychical hallucination, mental hallucination, conception hallucination, and sensorial hallucination. The term psychic hallucination is indebted to the Greek noun psuchè (life breath, spirit, soul, mind). It was introduced in or… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
psychic blindness — The term psychic blindness is indebted to the Greek noun psuchè (life breath, spirit, soul, mind). It was used by the French internist Hippolyte Bernheim (1840 1919) to denote a perceptual response that may occur during hypnosis, after the… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
psychic income — Non monetary value or satisfaction from a work activity … American business jargon
centrifugal theory of hallucinatory activity — The centrifugal theory is an explanatory model of hallucinatory activity which is traditionally attributed to the German physiologist and zoologist Johannes Peter Müller (1801 1858). The centrifugal theory suggests that subcortical and/or… … Dictionary of Hallucinations
Sleep Wake Activity Inventory — The sleep wake activity inventory (SWAI) is a subjective multidimensional questionnaire intended to measure sleepiness. The instrument The SWAI consists of 59 items that provide six subscale scores: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness, Nocturnal Sleep,… … Wikipedia
Materialism — • As the word itself signifies, Materialism is a philosophical system which regards matter as the only reality in the world, which undertakes to explain every event in the universe as resulting from the conditions and activity of matter, and… … Catholic encyclopedia
Psyker — Psykers are individuals with psychic abilities in the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe. Psykers draw their powers from the Warp, and hence are often in danger of daemonic possession and insanity. Psykers of Different Races Most races in the… … Wikipedia
Buddhism — Buddhist, n., adj. Buddhistic, Buddhistical, adj. Buddhistically, adv. /booh diz euhm, bood iz /, n. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that… … Universalium
Psi Division — (Psionics Division) is a fictional organisation in the Judge Dredd and Anderson, Psi Division comic strips in 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine . It is the branch of Mega City One s Justice Department that deals in supernatural phenomena,… … Wikipedia
Thomas Glendenning Hamilton — (November 27, 1873 1935) was a physician and surgeon, a politician, and a researcher into psychic phenomena. Hamilton was also the first president of the University of Manitoba Alumni Association. Hamilton was born at Agincourt in Scarborough,… … Wikipedia