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Pendulum
An object suspended by a thread. Movements of a pendulum are often used by dowsers to locate objects or answer questions.Percipient
Person who receives impressions in an ESP test. Also view: agent, subject.Phantasm
An apparition.Phenomenology
An approach to research that aims to describe and clarify a person's own experience and understanding of an event or phenomenon.Phrenology
The reading of character and mental ability from the shape of a person's skull.Physical Mediumship
The production of paranormal physical phenomena (lights, sounds, materialization, elongation, levitation, etc.) by a medium. Physical mediumship often (but not always) involves a state of trance. Also view: mental mediumship.Picture Drawing
A free-response ESP test in which the subject attempts to draw impressions of the target.Pilot Study
A preliminary study, generally of modest scale.PK
See psychokinesisPlacebo
An inactive treatment often given to a control group.Placement Test
A test for PK in which the subject attempts to influence the place in which dice or other objects land. Also view: dice test.Planchette
A small platform on casters generally used with a ouija board. Sometimes used with an attached pencil to produce automatic writing.Plant Psi
ESP exhibited by plants.PMIR
See psi-mediated instrumental response.Pocomania
A Jamaican spiritist religion. Also view: Voodoo.
