Paranormal Glossary
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Qualitative Method:
A research method involving the collection of non-quantitative data (e.g., observations, interviews, subjective reports, case studies). Cf. quantitative method.
Quantitative Method:
A research method involving the collection and statistical analysis of numerical data. Cf. qualitative method.
Radiesthesia:
Theories based on the assumption that living organisms emit some kind of radiation or emanation that is capable of being detected using instruments or by dowsing. See also aura, radionics.
Radionics:
Use of instruments to detect radiation from living organisms.
Raps:
The name given to unexplained knocking sounds associated with physical mediumship and poltergeist activity.
Raudive Voices:
Intelligible voices recorded on magnetic tape under conditions of silence or white noise which are heard only when the tape is played. A phenomenon discovered by Konstantin Raudive.
Regression:
(a) a statistical technique that enables predictions to be made from a set of data. (b) a technique used in hypnosis, involving suggesting to hypnotized persons that they are returning to an earlier time. Sometimes the regression occurs spontaneously, without suggestion. See also past-life regression.
Reincarnation:
The belief that some aspect of a person's being (e.g., consciousness, personality, or soul) survives death and can be reborn in a new body at some future date. Reincarnation is often seen as a repeating cycle of death and rebirth in which future lives are influenced by past and present actions through the law of karma.
Synchronicity:
A term used by C.G. Jung to refer to coincidental events that are meaningfully but not causally connected.