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* Macro-PK:
Psychokinetic effects that can be directly observed rather than only inferred from statistical analysis. [Also see "Psychokinesis" and "Micro-PK" for more info.]

* Mantra:
A sacred sound or sacred syllables used in meditation. [Also see "Meditation" and "Transcendental Meditation" for more info.]

* Materialization:
To cause to become real or actual; To cause to become materialistic.

The appearance of spirits in material form.

* Matrixing:
The natural tendancy for the human mind to interpret sensory input, what is perceived visually, audibly or tactiley, as something familiar or more easily understood and accepted, in effect mentally "filling in the blanks."

* Medicine Man/Medicine Woman:
A witchdoctor or shaman. [Also see "Shaman" for more info.]

* Meditation:
A devotional exercise of or leading to contemplation.

Meditation is the process of relaxing, emptying your mind of all thought or reaching a different state of consciousness. Meditation can aid in spiritual development and/or inner peace. There are many types of meditation.

* Medium:
A person who professes to be able to communicate with spirits.

A person thought to have the power to communicate with spirits of the dead or with agents of another world or dimension.

* Mediumship:
Activity of a medium.

* Mentalism:
A branch of conjuring involving the simulation of psi. [Also see "Psi" for more info.]

* Mental Mediumship:
The paranormal obtaining of information by a medium. [Also see "Physical Mediumship" for more info.]

* Mesmerism:
The act of inducing hypnosis.

The induction of a sleep or trance state, discovered during the work of Friedrich Anton Mesmer, from whose name the word is derived. Also known as hypnotism.

* Metal Bending:
Psychokinetic ability to bend metal objects. [Also see "Psychokinesis" for more info.]

* Metamorphosis:
A transformation.

See "Shape-shifting".

* Metempsychosis:
Another term for reincarnation. [Also see "Reincarnation" for more info.]

* Micro-PK:
Psychokinetic effects that cannot be directly observed, but only inferred from the statistical analysis of data. [Also see "Psychokinesis" and "Macro-PK" for more info.]

* Mind Reading:
See "Telepathy".

* Mist:
An anomaly (not usually seen at the time with the naked eye) that appears on photos/videos as a "cloud of smoke" thought to be Spirit energy, also called Ecto [See Ecto/Ectoplasm for more info.]

* Mnemonist:
A person who has learned techniques that enable extraordinary feats of memory.

* Morphic Resonance:
A term coined by Rupert Sheldrake to refer to the way in which the "morphogenetic field" (underlying form) of an object or organism may influence distant fields.

* Motor Automatism:
See "Automatism".

* Multiple Personality:
A psychiatric condition in which the person manifests two or more distinct and separate personalities at different times. [Also see "Possession" for more info.]

* Muscle Reading:
See "Contact Mind Reading".

* Mystic:
A person who has mystical experiences. Used loosely to refer to psychics, mediums or romantics.

* Mystical Experience:
Altered State of Consciousness involving experiences of ecstasy, unity, timelessness, loss of self, divine revelation, etc. [Also see "Altered State of Consciousness (ASC)" for more info.]

* Mysticism:
Religious or spiritual doctrines which argue that the human mind or soul can directly experience the divine. [Also see "Mystical Experience" for more info.]