The Complete Guide to Psychic Abilities (In Progress)

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This guide isn't here to convince anyone that psychic, paranormal or extrasensory perception abilities are real.

I've experienced these abilities firsthand. Not in some dramatic Hollywood way. Just small moments that added up over time - until I couldn't ignore them anymore. I know they exist. Despite being a logical guy.

If you are reading this, you might feel the same — or at least you're curious enough to explore.

This guide gathers the most well-known psychic abilities in one place, explains how they might work, adds a healthy dose of skepticism, and shows you how to develop them.

My worldview is based on a few principles:

• The human mind, psyche, and body are highly adaptable.

• Most psychic abilities can be developed — just like physical or cognitive skills.

• Belief (or “faith”) affects results more than most people want to admit.

• Knowledge and experience compound, which is why consistent practice matters. Once you find your own solid proof, there’s no turning back.

Eugene, Founder of VEREVIO

Are Psychic Abilities Real? 5 Studies to Share With a Skeptical Friend

We gathered a few well-known studies below. In case you ever need to share them with a skeptical friend — easy to copy and paste.

1. Remote viewing of Jupiter “rings” (SRI era; later in CIA FOIA collections) — session recorded Apr 27, 1973; Jupiter’s rings photographed by Voyager 1 on Mar 4, 1979.

2. Telephone telepathy — caller-guessing experiments reported as unlikely to be random.

3. Twin telepathy — effects reported in multiple experiments.

4. Micro-psychokinesis — recorded during the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory tests.

5. Precognition — effects reported under controlled laboratory conditions.

Why Healthy Skepticism Matters

Roughly speaking, nowadays we see a world of 3 camps.

Camp 1: The Hardcore Materialists

These people refuse to believe in anything psychic, even when they see evidence right in front of them.

Convincing them is nearly impossible. Accepting a new reality would cause ontological shock — their entire worldview would collapse. And they'd have to rebuild it from scratch.

That kind of shift creates real, heavy psychological stress. So they defend what they know.

Camp 2: The Pink Pony Believers

These people live in a dimension of pink ponies and unicorns. They trust everything they see online. A TikTok video about manifesting money? They believe it without question.

Scammers love this group.

Camp 3: The Open-Minded Skeptics

This group is still the minority — but it's growing.

These people stay open but think critically. They ask for evidence. They test things themselves. They don't believe everything, but they don't dismiss everything either.

They're a mix of both camps: curious like the believers, but questioning like the materialists.

As you might notice, we're interested in expanding Camp 3.

The Verification Problem

Here's the reality: not everyone who claims to be psychic actually is.

Think about how other professionals prove their abilities:

• Designers show portfolios

• Developers share their GitHub code

• Boxers have win-loss records

• Traders can show audited statements or track records

• Pilots have logged flight hours and certifications

• Lawyers have bar admission and case history.

But when you ask most mediums, "How did you verify who you're talking to?" or "Have you tried validating any information objectively?" — you usually hear:

"Trust your intuition."
"If you have doubts, go your way."
"Angels never lie."
"You just need to believe."

That's a problem. This can block a lot of people from more accelerated vertical evolution.

Because in fact, almost all psychic abilities can be verified in some way.

Why Psychics Avoid Verification

There are four main reasons people with psychic abilities resist testing:

1. They're scammers

Let's be honest: some people are just con artists. They exist in every field. The good news? They're not as hard to spot as most people might think. As usual you need some applied practice.

2. Stress factor

Verification changes the environment. It adds stress. An untrained person often can't perform reliably under pressure. 

3. They're protecting their belief system

Testing their abilities means risking doubt. And doubt can block psychic abilities from working. If someone has built their entire identity around being psychic, verification feels threatening.

We understand this. 

4. They're beginners 

Some people are genuinely developing abilities, but they're still early in the process. They can feel it working sometimes, and make an elephant from a fly.

But it's also why you should learn from people who can demonstrate their abilities, not just explain them.

5. They genuinely don't know how to verify

Not everyone understands how to test their own abilities systematically. This is where training and methodology matter.

Research Design

Psychic abilities aren't constant, especially without consistent, systematic training.

Think about athletes. A soccer player doesn't score 100% of their shots. A boxer doesn't land every punch as a knockout. Performance varies — even for pros.

Psychic abilities work the same way. They're not constant. They get stronger with training and weaker without it. Stress, fatigue, and environment all play a role.

This is why testing psychic abilities is complicated.

A lot of paranormal studies are poorly designed. They deserve healthy skepticism.

But mainstream science has the same problem.

Here are some examples:

• Psychology: Researchers tried to replicate 100 studies from top journals. Only 39% could be reproduced (Open Science Collaboration, 2015)

• Medicine: Scientists at Amgen attempted to replicate 53 landmark cancer biology studies. Only 6 succeeded — an 11% replication rate (Begley & Ellis, 2012, Nature)

• Chemistry: Analysis of materials chemistry papers found approximately 20% contain data outliers that can't be verified (Park, Howe & Sholl, 2017)

• Physics: The 2011 OPERA experiment reported faster-than-light neutrinos at six-sigma confidence. The result was traced to a loose fiber-optic cable.

Does that mean these fields are fake? No. It means replication is hard, even in "normal" science.

The same applies to psychic research.

For example, you can't grab a random person off the street and expect them to demonstrate clairvoyance.

That's like asking someone who's never run before to complete an Ironman triathlon in the same time as a professional athlete.

It doesn't work that way.

So as you read this guide, keep an open mind. Question things. Look for evidence. But don't dismiss something just because it can't be proven in a laboratory setting.

Real psychic abilities exist. But they require practice, patience, and the right conditions to develop.

What Are Psychic Abilities?

Psychic abilities (also called paranormal abilities) are mental skills that let you perceive information or energy — and influence outcomes or matter — beyond the normal channels.

Perception means getting information without the usual sensory pipeline. No sight. No hearing. No touch. No obvious signal path.

Influence means shifting an outcome in a way that goes beyond ordinary physical explanation.

Sometimes that’s hands-off. Sometimes it involves touch — like energy healing or fa qi — but the claim is that the effect isn’t just pressure, heat, suggestion, or placebo.

A psychic is a person who claims they can do this on purpose, not just by accident.

A Quick Note on the Word Psychic

It originally meant “of the mind” or “of the soul.” In English it came through French (psychique), and before that from Greek (psychikos, ψυχικός). The Greek root psyche (ψυχή) meant “soul,” “mind,” or even “breath of life.”

And in Greek mythology, Psyche was also the name of a goddess of the soul.

That “breath” part matters as well.

Breath is one of the most powerful tools for developing psychic abilities.

When you control your breath, you bridge your mental and physical body. You create a state of calm focus. And that’s exactly the state where psychic abilities often work best.

Ancient practitioners knew this thousands of years ago. 

For most of history, breathing was the clearest sign you were alive. So we can say “soul” and “breath” are linked.

All Psychic Abilities Fall Into 3 Groups

1. Perception — getting information.

2. Influence — shifting outcomes.

3. Mediation — acting as a bridge (between people, entities, or phenomena).

In simple words, every psychic ability follows the same basic schema:

1. Enter the right state.

2. Sync with the target(s).

3. Do the job.

From time to time, we’ll come back to this three-step schema as we review different abilities.

1. Perception Abilities

In Taoist terms, perception abilities come from the Yin aspect — passive, receptive, inward.

Yang is the opposite. Active. Projecting. Outgoing.

A good Yin metaphor is a black hole.
It doesn’t “broadcast.” It pulls in.

Perception abilities work the same way.
You enter a receptive state where you draw information into yourself.

There are three ways this shows up:

1. Spontaneous — it happens randomly.
   This is the beginner's problem: you get flashes, but you can’t control them.

2. Background — it runs all the time.
   This is the “born sensitive” problem: constant noise, weak boundaries, hard to turn off.

3. Deliberate — you do it on command.
   This is the skill problem: it takes training to enter the state, connect to the target, and stay stable.

Enter the Right State of Consciousness

To work deliberately, an operator (psychic) needs to reach an “empty state” — a blank-sheet mind.

Different traditions call it different names: non-duality, stillness, quiet mind, emptiness, stopping the internal dialogue.

The core requirement is the same. 

You slow the analytical mind as much as possible and enter a calm, neutral state. Tranquility matters. Less internal noise. Less mental chatter. You begin to dissolve into the general field of all that exists.

This state makes it easier to “blend” with the whole universe. You become the same element as others. That’s why empathy matters.

In that state, you can connect to an information field.

Sometimes it’s a local field — an egregore.
A shared layer created by a group, tradition, place, or idea.

Sometimes it’s the global field — what many call the Akashic Records.
Think of it as the whole collective “information layer” of humanity (and maybe more).

Call it what you want. The practical point is simple:
the quieter your inner noise, the easier it is to connect. 

Important! This information should not come from your analytical mind. You act like a radio receiver or like a clean tube.

Sync with the target(s)

This is a tricky part. 

Most people assume connecting with a target is easy.
In reality, some first random touch is easy. Harder is to keep the contact.

In reality, the first touch is easy. The hard part is keeping the contact stable.

We should emphasize how important this stage is. Weirdly, not many coaches talk about it.

Here’s a simple experiment.

Count how many times you got distracted while reading this guide. Be honest.

Here’s a simple experiment.

Count how many times you got distracted while reading this guide. Be honest. If your mind can’t stay locked while reading, why would it stay locked in a perception session?

The same thing happens in any perception session — tarot, remote viewing, telepathy, whatever. You can miss the target. Or you can lock onto something nearby that feels more interesting to your subconscious.

Experienced practitioners build workarounds:

• Remote viewers use ideograms to bring focus back to the target again and again.

• Tarot readers often do multiple passes for one person, repeating the intent from different angles.

• Occultists use sacred symbols and sigils to create fixation on the object and hold attention there.

• And so on.

If you want to train this stage directly, here are simple drills:

• Focus-dot meditation — keep attention on one point for 5–10 min.

• Optical illusion meditation — hold the image without “snapping” to interpretation for 5–10 min.

• One-minute object study — pick any object, observe it deeply, and describe it for 60 seconds.

• Multi-object concentration — hold 2–3 objects in attention without drifting for 1–5 min.

To be continued...