• Amulet - An object charged with personal energies through ritual or meditation. Often used to ward off unwanted forces or individuals.
  
  
• Astrology - An ancient system of divination that uses the position of the planets, moon and sun in the twelve Zodiac positions at the moment of one’s birth to gain knowledge of the future.
  

• Biofeedback - A scientific technique to tune into and consciously control bodily functions through the use of EEG (electroencephalographic) feedback instruments to monitor brain waves and skin resistance with the goal of modification of brain waves and feeds that information back to the user. Participants can learn to control heart rates or generate brain wave activity (alpha, beta, and delta) at will to induce altered states of consciousness. Enhances the capacity for relaxation and/or inducing meditative states and physiological control similar to that in yoga and Zen.
  

• Buddha - (Sanskrit - Enlightened One) There are many who have attained Buddhahood, or supreme enlightenment. The best-known is Siddhartha Gautama Buddha (586-511 BC). He was born a in northeastern India and received spiritual enlightenment through meditation. During his lifetime, his spiritual insights and teachings became a major alternative to Hinduism throughout India. Diverse versions of his teachings can be found worldwide today
  

• Centering - Grounding one's energy through meditation or massage, often before rituals to help harness and direct the balanced energy.
  

• Channeling - A New Age form of mediumship. The channeler yields control of his/her perceptual and cognitive capacities to another entity. Unlike mediumship, living beings can be channeled, as can animals and alien beings.
  

• Clairvoyance - The paranormal ability to “see” psychic information, including historical or future events or other phenomena, that cannot be discerned naturally through the five material senses. Also called ESP or "Double Sight".
  

• Déjà vu - The feeling of having already experienced an event or place that is being encountered for the very first time.
  

• Empowerment - The state or condition of having received power, energy, force, and strength in any fields - spiritual, physical, mental or magickal.
  

• Enchantment  - A method of spellcasting which involves, generally, spoken words of power. An enchantment can be put on something to gain control or authority over it. Enchanted objects generally "carry" the magick put upon them with them, so it does not cease to work but is continually having its effect.  
  

• Energy Blockage - A general term referring to the interruption of the natural flow of subtle energy through the human (or animal) energetic system, often due to abnormal function in one or more of the chakras.
  

• Energy Healing/Balancing - Healing technique which involves working in the body's energy field to promote mental, emotional, physical, or spiritual healing.  
  

• Fate - Kismet, Karma. Destiny.
  

• Grounding - 1) The act of ritually, psychically imbuing someone or something with a calming and stabilizing energy to overcome flightiness and intability. 2).Sending excess energy generated during a ritual into the earth, symbolically, back to the God or the Goddess from which it came.
  

• Guru - (Sanskrit - weighty) Literally a teacher or spiritual advisor. However, in India and Tibet it means one at a very high level of consciousness. In fact, worship of Guru is done to develop devotion or adoration, because the teacher is the highest expression of God we know on Earth in our personal experience. There may be many high Gurus even beyond those we know personally, but we must take the reality we know of and not accept anything on mere hearsay. Guru is a real manifestation through which we can directly experience our own capacities and inadequacies.
  

• Handwriting Analysis - The study of a person's handwriting to discover personal information such as health, character, personality and life circumstances.
  

• I Ching - (Yi King or The Book of Changes) Traditional Chinese divination method that involves tossing three identical coins or objects six times and using the patterns they form to receive answers to personal questions from the I Ching or Book of Changes.
  

• Karma - (Sanskrit "deed," "action," "ritual," "result")  A central Indian term with various meanings. 1) Any mental, verbal, or physical action or intention, especially a morally correct or textually prescribed activity. 2) The results or consequences of actions or intentions.  3)The Hindu principle of cause and effect,  originally developed in South Asian religions, that determines one's past, current, and future existences. Everything we do produces some effect, now or later, on the physical or astral planes. Representing neither good nor evil, all actions and events cause corresponding actions and events in the past or future (including past and future lives through reincarnation). 4)Ritual activity, particularly the ancient Indian rites propitiating a pantheon of gods as prescribed in the Vedic texts. Ritual performance might be done to meet religious obligations, such as initiation into the community, to honor one's ancestors, or to fulfill individual desires such as wealth, progeny, or immortality. The results of ritual, which are also called karma, were sometimes interpreted as "unseen" (apurva), that is, postponed or not yet noticeable in order to explain apparently delayed consequences. While all could admit that actions would eventually bear consequences, the doctrine of unseen results provoked lively debate and reconsideration of the importance of ritual. 
  

• Labyrinth - A tool for creating sacred space, journeying inward and reconnecting with the Earth and sky.  Made as a single winding path, folding back on itself, leading to the center. Unlike a maze which has multiple paths and dead ends, in a labyrinth you leave by the same path which you enter. Many cultures create labyrinths such as the centuries old design from the cathedral in Chartres, France.
  

• Magick - Real or ritual magic, as opposed to fake or stage magic. Willful use of psychic skills to activate subtle forces to obey; use of ceremony, ritual, incantations, natural and human-made objects of correct vibrational frequency for desired outcome.
  

• Mandala - Mandala is the sanskrit word for sacred circle.  The circle is a symbol of wholeness and harmony, a connection to the source of all life which is held sacred in many cultures and faith traditions.  Mandalas offer a path to healing and transformative powers through art, light and sound.  Mandalas move beyond limitation into the world of possibility, awakening the inner realm of peace, discovering your creative potential, illuminating your soul intuition and sense of self to experience the love of uncovering your inner radiance.
  

• Mantra - A spell, a word or phrase that is to be chanted repetitively in an effort to attain mental peace, empty the mind and raise one's consciousness toward the Self or God; often called "names of God.” Mantra is a sound or set of sounds, which are believed to have the unique power to restore us to a state of pristine harmony. Mantra Yoga is traditionally regarded as a complete and perfect yoga path. 
  

• Mythology - Age old stories of humanity's concepts about the universe, including their relationships to their deities. They differ from legends in that they convey a deeper truth.
  

• New Age - A term coined by Alice Bailey in the first part of the 20th Century to describe the age to follow the Piscean - The Age of Aquarius, beginning between Jan 1, 1981 and May 5 2012. Also, the philosophical and/or religious systems arising form or believing in the coming of a new age. 
  

• Nirvana - Hindu state of enlightenment or liberation from earthly things; bliss, freedom of the personal soul from the physical world..
  

• Numerology - The divination art of numbers based upon qualitative values given to letters of the alphabet which are interpreted in shaping one's destiny as well as offering guidance in daily living. Often associated with the Kabbalah,
  

• Occult - Study and science of things esoteric, secret, unseen and supernatural. From the Latin word, hidden.
  

• Om - (Sanskrit) A mantram used in meditation. Aum
  

• Out-of-Body Experience - Experience which occurs when the astral body or etheric body leaving the physical body while the individual is at rest, asleep, near death, or temporarily dead.
  

• Palmistry - The divination practice of psychically reading an individual's past, present and future, as well as health and character, by studying the lines, shape and texture of the individual's hands, fingers and wrists. The technique was very popular in the Middle Ages, practitioners believing that the lines in the hand were stamped by occult forces and would reveal character and destiny. The lines, digits and bumps on the hands all have supposedly astrological correspondences, which indicate such factors as longevity, general health, intellect, love, money, and so on. In the fifteenth century, the church banned the practice, and after the Enlightenment palmistry became little more than a parlor trick. Modern palmistry differs from ancient methods in concentrating on Chirognomy at the expense of Chiromancy. The later was much interested in prediction, attempting to determine future events in the life of the individual concerned, and the former is generally interested in determining the general character, the psychological type and the inclinations of the person. (Chiromancy, Palmomancy, Chirognomy,  Chirology, Hand Reading, and Hand Analysis) 
  

• Past-Life Regression/Future Progression - The recall of past-life, including reincarnation, information through the subconscious mind by the use of techniques such as hypnosis. Also obtaining information regarding simultaneously existing future lives through the same methods.
  

• Pendulum - Heavy object on a string, used for dowsing or fortune telling.
  

• Pentacle - A disc containing a five-pointed star used in magical ceremonies. Also called a pentagram. A pentagram with a circle around it.
  

• Power spots - are places on the planet that have extra special energy. New Age people are fascinated by Power Spots because New Age people think energy is, like, wow. Power Spots include places like Stonehenge, the Great Pyramid, Machu Picchu and Mt. Shasta.
  

• Psychic - A general term describing a person with one or more paranormal abilities such as extrasensory perception, clairvoyance or telepathy.
  

• Psychic Massage - A New Age healing system that uses touch to harmonize or balance the physical, etheric or astral vehicles. It was developed almost simultaneously in three locations - California, Australia and Arizona.
  

• Rebirthing/Integrative Breathing - Precisely defined breathing technique to cleanse, clear and heal the body, mind and spirit; its purpose is to relive the moment of your first breath and release the trauma associated with it
  

• Spirit - The true, non-physical part of an individual.
  

• Subconscious - That part of the personality which dwells below the surface of waking consciousness and which controls automatic human functions. It is subliminally affected by all information taken in by our senses, and is conditioned or programmed by rewards, punishments, and messages (such as positive or negative affirmations) that subtly affect our internal belief system of our worthiness and self-esteem.
  

• Subliminal Messages - Words or messages communicated at a level below the conscious mind’s ability to perceive. Allegedly, messages can enter directly into the subconscious mind, thus bypassing the rational/logical center of the individual’s brain.
  

• Super conscious - That part of the higher soul structure, of which we are not usually conscious, that nevertheless makes up part of our personality. It is here that we possess our higher wisdom.
  

• Tarot Cards - Deck of seventy-eight cards used in divination. Divided into the Major Arcana (twenty-two cards with archetypal significance) and the Minor Arcana (fifty-six cards of four suits: wands, swords, cups, and pentacles).
  

• Telekinesis - The ability to move physical objects by force of will or mental energy alone; also called psychokinesis.
  

• Telepathy - Communication between minds by extrasensory means.
  

• Trance - A mental state resembling sleep during which the conscious mind rests while the spirit entity takes over the medium's body.
  

• Vibes - are energy vibrations that people send out.
  

• Zen - (Japanese- "meditation"} A branch of Mahayana Buddhism believed to have originated in India from the teachings of a Buddhist master, Bodhidharma, about 600 BC, but traced back by advocates to the Buddha himself. Practitioners seek satori (sudden illumination enabling bliss and harmony), which cannot be explained but only experienced. Techniques include zazen (sitting meditation techniques) and koans, which are short riddles or sayings. The koans (which number about 1700) are not designed to have cognitive answers but to promote the experience of Zen.