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* Cartomancy:
The art of telling fortunes with cards. [Also see "Tarot" and "Fortune Telling" for more info.]

* Case Study:
An in-depth investigation of an individual subject.

* Channeling:
When a medium apparently allows a spirit to communicate through them.

* Circle:
To make or form a circle around; enclose.

A group of people who hold séances. [Also see "Séance" and "Mediumship".]

* Clairaudience:
The supposed power to hear things outside the range of normal perception.

Auditory form of ESP (compare with Clairvoyance).

* Clairsentience:
The supposed power to feel or smell things outside the range normally perceived by the senses.

Physical sensations (or smell) form of ESP. (compare with Clairvoyance).

* Clairvoyance:
The supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses.
Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness.

A subset of ESP. The viewing of distant scenes not apparent to the eye, may appear externally - either replacing the normal visual scene (visions) or being incorporated into it (as could be the case with apparitions) - or internally, in the form of mental imagery and intuition.

* Clearing/Cleansing:
The act of eliminating ghostly phenomena from a location.

* Coincidence:
A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged.

An occurrence, within a short space of time, of two or more meaningfully related events and without any apparent causal connection between them. Coincidences are sometimes bizarre and extraordinarily improbable.

* Cold Spot:
An area or place that for an unknown reason seems to be cooler than the surrounding areas. Paranormal investigators usually use thermometers to detect the fluctuations of temperature in a location. [See "Thermometer/Thermoscanner" for more info.]

* Collective Apparition:
This is when more then one person sees a phenomenon at the same time & location. Collective apparitions are good in proving that what was seen was really there, and wasn't just the person's mind playing tricks on them, since more then one person saw it.

* Collective Unconscious:
Concept put forward by C.G. Jung to refer to a level of unconscious thought and experience shared collectively by humans.

* Contact Mind Reading:
A technique simulating telepathy, in which the "mind reader" (who generally holds a hand or arm) responds to slight muscle movements produced unconsciously by the person whose mind is apparently being read. Also known as muscle reading, Cumberlandism or Hellstromism.

* Control:
To verify or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or by comparing with another standard.
To verify (an account, for example) by using a duplicate register for comparison.

In experimental parapsychology a procedure undertaken in order to ensure that the experiment is conducted in a standard fashion and so that results are not unduly influenced by extraneous factors.

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

* Correlation:
The simultaneous change in value of two numerically valued random variables.

An association between two or more events or variables.

* Cosmic Consciousness:
A blissful experience in which the person becomes aware of the whole universe as a living being. [Also see "Altered State of Consciousness" for more info.]

* Crisis Apparition:
An apparition that's usually seen by a person when he/she is at the point of death or is the victim of a serious illness or injury. Also apparitions that are seen in places of traumatic events (Like battlefields) are known to be called Crisis Apparitions.

* Cross-Correspondences:
Interrelated bits of information received from ‘the spirit world’ by different mediums at different times and locations. The communications must be joined together to form a complete message from Spirit.

* Crossroads:
Like when talking about city crossroads, this is where 2 or more things meet/intersect. But when mentioned in paranormal research, we're usually not talking about streets (unless we get lost on the way to an investigation). Crossroads usually mean where two or more lines of earth energy intersect. There is thought to be a good deal of paranormal activity in these locations.

* 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.

* Crystal Gazing:
Staring into a reflecting surface (e.g., mirror, glass, crystal, liquid) in order to obtain paranormal information. Also known as scrying. [See "Scrying" for more info.]