psychism
Americannoun
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psychic abilities or phenomena, such as telekinesis or extrasensory perception, or the belief in such abilities or phenomena.
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the belief that all things, including plants and inanimate objects, possess a soul. Compare panpsychism.
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the belief in an immaterial substance that animates all living beings.
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One fears lest sooner or later a reaction against the contortions of this empiricism and psychism should lead to a modern rehabilitation of mysticism or occultism.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
These practices tend to develop very dangerous phases of abnormal and subjective psychism, such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, mediumship and obsession.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
It leaves us free to regard all natural causation as a direct exhibition of psychism.
From Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes
There is intelligence, thought, psychism, mind, in these phenomena.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion
Next to the hypnotic or mediumistic process, there is nothing that induces abnormal psychism so quickly as fasting.
From Nature Cure by Henry Lindlahr
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