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* Radiesthesia:
Theories based on the assumption that living organisms emit some kind of radiation or emanation that is capable of being detected using instruments. [Also see "Aura" for more info.]

* Radio Voice Phenomenon (RVP):
Receiving the voice of a deceased human over a regular radio. [For more info on hearing spirit voices see "Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP)".]

* Raps:
The name given to unexplained knocking sounds associated with physical mediumship and poltergeist activity. [Also see "Haunting" for more info.]

* 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. [Also see "Electronic Voice Phenomena" for more info.]

* Reading:
To receive or comprehend.
To attribute a certain interpretation or meaning to.
To have the ability to examine and grasp the meaning of.

Information given to a person by a psychic or medium.

* Rebirth:
In Buddhism, the belief that there is some continuty of mind from one life to the next. Buddhism, however, does not accept the existence of the individual soul and therefore does not view rebirth as the soul's literal re-incarnation. [Also see "Reincarnation" for more info.]

* Receiver:
See "Percipient".

* Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis (RSPK):
A technical term for poltergeist activity. [See "Repressed psychokinetic energy" and "Poltergeist" for more info.]

* Regression:
A statistical technique that enables predictions to be made from a set of data.
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. [Also see "Past-life Regression" for more info.].

* Reincarnation:
A reappearance or revitalization in another form; a new embodiment.

The rebirth of a soul into a new body.

* Remote Viewing:
An ESP procedure in which a percipient attempts to become aware psychically of the experience of a person, event, of other info located at a distant, unknown target location.

* Repressed Psychokinetic Energy:
A psychic force produced, usually unconsciously, by an individual undergoing physical or mental trauma. When released, the power causes paranormal occurrences, which often are thought to be poltergeist activity. [See "Poltergeist" for more info.]

* Retrocognition:
When a person finds themselves in a ‘time warp’ of the past, seeing or experiencing events of which they had no prior knowledge.

* RSPK:
See "Recurrent Spontaneous Psychokinesis".