| Scanning |
Observing information of the physical and metaphysical through the use of all senses. See: Scanning - passive, Scanning - active, Scanning - targeted, Scanning -deep.
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| Scanning - active |
To intentionally scan an area or person in search of information.
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| Scanning - passive |
To passively allow whatever information is available from the ambient surroundings of the area, or person to be absorbed.
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| Scanning - targeted |
Also known as a hard scan. To target an individual with the intent of retrieving any and all information possible. Generally considered rude or an attack if permission is not requested first.
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| Scanning -deep |
Slang: To intentionally run an internally invasive scan, to gather information on the others psychological or physiological structure. If not requested, will be considered an attack.
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| Schrödinger's cat |
Schrödinger's cat, often described as a paradox, is a thought experiment devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics being applied to everyday objects, by considering the example of a cat that may be either alive or dead, according to an earlier random event.
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| Schrödinger, Erwin |
Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (IPA: [ˈɛrviːn ˈʃrøːdɪŋɐ]; August 12, 1887 – January 4, 1961) was an Austrian - Irish physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933. In 1935, after extensive correspondence with personal friend Albert Einstein, he proposed the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.
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| Sender |
Person designated as the transmitter in telepathy; also known as the agent.
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| Sensdep |
Shorthand abbreviation for sensory deprivation.
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| Sensitive |
- A person who frequently experiences extrasensory perception and who can sometimes induce it at will 2. A person who is naturally aware (willingly or not) to psi activity.
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| Sensitivity |
The level or degree to which one is affected by psi activity, not simply the awareness of its occurrence.
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| Sensory Deprivation |
The deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the physical senses, usually done to heighten another sense, relaxation, or observation.
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| Sheep |
Term to describe a subject who does not reject the possibility that extrasensory perception could occur under the conditions of the given experimental situation; sometimes informally to refer to persons who believe that ESP exists as a genuine phenomenon. [Term originally used by Gertrude Schmeidler 1943)] Compare to Goat. See also Sheep-Goat Effect.
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| Sheep-Goat Effect |
Term to describe the relationship between acceptance of the possibility of extrasensory perception occurring under the given experimental conditions, and the level of scoring actually achieved on that ESP test: subjects who do not reject the possibility (“sheep”) tend to score above chance, those rejecting the possibility (“goats”) at or below chance; the terms “sheep” and “goat” are nowadays often used in a more extended sense, and “sheep-goat effect” may thus refer to any significant scoring difference between these two groups as defined by the experimenter. [Term first used by Gertrude Schmeidler]
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| Shift |
Slang: The sensation encountered by experienced practioners of psi or meditation, indicating a change in the state of conscious.
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| Shifting |
Slang: minor change of state of consciousness, usually to one of heightened awareness or greater calm. A refocusing of the location of one's awareness.
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| Shutdown |
Slang: when a practitioner specifically chooses to block all psi activity, refusing to engage in it in any manner, or acknowledge it.
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| Sigel |
The 16th rune of the Elder Futhark, representing the letter s.
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| Slide |
Slang: Smooth, gentle transition from one state of consciousness to another.
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| Slip/Slipping |
Slang: Unintentional, usually unwanted return to beta state during practice involving altered states of consciousness, meditation or trance.
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| Sowulo |
The 16th rune of the Elder Futhark, representing the letter s.
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| Special Relativity |
Special relativity is a theory of the structure of spacetime. It was introduced in Albert Einstein's 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies". Special relativity is based on two postulates which are contradictory in classical mechanics:
1. The laws of physics are the same for all observers in uniform motion relative to one another (Galileo's principle of relativity),
2. The speed of light in a vacuum is the same for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or of the motion of the source of the light.
The resultant theory has many surprising consequences. Some of these are:
* Time dilation: Moving clocks are measured to tick more slowly than an observer's "stationary" clock.
* Length contraction: Objects are measured to be shortened in the direction that they are moving with respect to the observer.
* Relativity of simultaneity: two events that appear simultaneous to an observer A will not be simultaneous to an observer B if B is moving with respect to A.
* Mass-energy equivalence: E = mc2, energy and mass are equivalent and transmutable.
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| Split Focus |
Maintaining a state of awareness (in variable degrees) on multiple planes simultaneously. Practitioner is lucid and is aware of input from all locations. Not common for this practice to be inherent, but can be learned.
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| Subliminal |
Thoughts or activity that occurs beneath the threshold of conscious awareness. Term coined by Frederic Myers.
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| Super Sheep (or White Sheep) |
Term to describe a subject who is positive that their score on a test of extrasensory perception will be high due to confidence in their own psychic ability [introduced by John Beloff and David Bate (1970)]
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| Synchronicity |
The occurrence of acausal but meaningful coincidences;the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related. In order to be 'synchronistic', the events must be related to one another temporally, and the chance that they would occur together by random chance must be very small. Term coined by Carl Jung (with Wolfgang Pauli, 1955)
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