Tablt Tilting or Turning

Table-Tilting : these are the movements which tend to come from the table which is used during a séance.

It normally occurs when there are a group of people with their hands on the surface of the table used in the séance. Some believe that these movements constitute spirit communications and others believe that it is simply the participants moving the table themselves. The phenomenon is also known as table-tipping or table-turning.

Talisman

Talisman : said to be a lucky charm, bringing good fortune and prtection to those who wear or carry them.

Some people use talismen or carry them when going into exams, driving tests or starting new ventures, they believe the talisman will keep them safe on their quests.

Tantra

Tantra ; "weave" denoting continuity, tantricism or tantrism is any of several esoteric traditions rooted in the religions of India. It exists in Hindu, Bönpo, Buddhist, and Jain forms.

Tantra in its various forms has existed in South Asia, China, Japan, Tibet, Korea, Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia and Mongolia. Professor of Religious Studies, David Gordon White - whilst cautioning against attempting a rigorous definition of tantra - offers the following working definition:
Tantra is that Asian body of beliefs and practices which, working from the principle that the universe we experience is nothing other than the concrete manifestation of the divine energy of the Godhead that creates and maintains that universe, seeks to ritually appropriate and channel that energy, within the human microcosm, in creative and emancipatory ways.
According to Tantric practioner Lama Thubten Yeshe:

...each one of us is a union of all universal energy. Everything that we need in order to be complete is within us right at this very moment. It is simply a matter of being able to recognize it. This is the tantric approach.

Tarot Cards

The tarot (also known as tarocchi, tarock or similar names) is typically a set of seventy-eight cards, comprising twenty-one trump cards, one Fool, and four suits of fourteen cards each—ten pip and four face cards (one more face card per suit than in ordinary playing cards). Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play Tarot card games such as Italian Tarocchini and French Tarot.

In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown, Tarot cards are utilized primarily for divinatory purposes, with the trump cards plus the Fool card comprising the twenty-two major arcana cards and the pip and four face cards the fifty-six minor arcana.

Thrixotropy

Thixotropy : is sometimes offered as an explanation as to why the blood of St. Januarius allegedly liquefies twice a year. Thixotropy is actually a property that is exhibited by certain gels (semisoild, jellylike colloids). A thrixopic gel seems at first to maintain its shape and act and behave like a solid. However once subjected to forms of disturbance such as shaking, it then flows freely and takes on the properties of a sol or semifluid colloid.

UFO's

UFO's (Unidentified Flying Objects) n pl : Over many centuries there have been reports of strange objects in the sky that seem to move very quickly or defy all rational explanation. The subject of UFO's is quite a contentious one. Some people believe that were are being visited by aliens in spaceships. Indeed there have been a number of conspiracy theories and ideas relating to the nature of these objects. Some of these ideas range from, alleged Government cover-ups right through to one theory about a strange species of as yet unidentified birds.

Uluru (Ayres Rock)

Uluru, also referred to as Ayers Rock, is a large sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; 450 km (280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) and Uluru are the two major features of the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park. Uluru is sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World Heritage Site.

Unicorns

A unicorn is a mythological creature, though the modern popular image of the unicorn is sometimes that of a horse differing only in the horn on its forehead, the traditional unicorn also has a billy-goat beard, a lion's tail, and cloven hooves—these distinguish it from a horse.

Marianna Mayer has observed (The Unicorn and the Lake), "The unicorn is the only fabulous beast that does not seem to have been conceived out of human fears. In even the earliest references he is fierce yet good, selfless yet solitary, but always mysteriously beautiful. He could be captured only by unfair means, and his single horn was said to neutralize poison."

Up Through Technique

An experimental test for clairvoyance in which the subject guesses the order of a stacked series of target symbols (e.g., cards) from bottom to top.

Vampires

Vampires : are mythical creatures who try to avoid their own deaths and demise by literally sucking out the blood of their victims. The fear of vampires has been around for a very long time. Indeed there are a number of countries such as: Bulgaria, Russia, the Orient, Babylon and Greece that have been cited as being the origins of the vampire lore. Although there is much anecdotal evidence for the existence of vampires, as yet there appears to be no physical evidence of their being.

Vanishing Islands

Vanishing Islands & Other Places : these are geographical areas that appear to have vanished without a trace. There existence often lies in legend or documented in scripts centuries old. Some reports are based upon scientific speculation.

Veridical

Veridical : information or experience that is confirmed by facts and events.

Events confirmed by solid evidence gathered, logical and statisticle evidence.

Veridical Dream

Veridical Dream n : a type of dream that corresponds to actual events that can be either past, present, or future, but of which the dreamer is not aware.

Versailles Time Slip

Versailles Time Slip : is a story captured in the book, An Adventure, written by two middle aged spinsters. The ladies in question were; headmistress Eleanor Jourdain and college principal Charlotte "Annie" Moberley.

Their story began one afternoon on the 10th of August 1901, when the two ladies were walking through the gardens of the Palace of Versailles, searching for a building called the Trianon. While they were looking around they suddenly found themselves among people wearing strange clothes, much like those belonging to the period around the eighteenth century and Pre-Revolution France. As well as coming across a man sitting on the steps of a summer house bearing smallpox scars, common in the 1700's: Charlotte "Annie" Moberley saw a woman in an eighteenth century gown near the Petit Trianon who was sketching.

Apparently she bore an uncanny resemblance to Marie Antoinette who was King Louis XVI's consort. It wasn't long before more people came forward to report similar episodes in the Versailles gardens. The conclusion that the women came to about the incident was that they had either traveled back in time or had actually stumbled across ghosts from the period around the 1780's. One lady called Clare M. Burrow helped to add some weight to their story by claiming that she had walked through a gate that had been sealed up years before.

Virgin Visions

Virgin Visons : Virgin visions usually take the form of seeing the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are not an uncommon phenomenon.

Two famous examples of Blessed Virgin Mary Visions are as follows:On 11th February in 1858, a 14 year old shepherdess named Bernadette Soubirous saw what she believed was a shining female figure in front of a grotto, near Lourdes in the south of France. Bernadette saw this vision 18 times during which the figure finally revealed herself as the 'Immaculate Conception'. A local priest said this identified her as the Blessed Virgin Mary.

During her ninth encounter the vision instructed Bernadette to dig into the ground in the grotto. On doing so, she duly discovered an underground spring. The waters from the spring have since been claimed to possess healing powers.

Visions

In spirituality including religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being, and are believed (by followers of certain religions) to come from a deity, sometimes directly or indirectly via prophets, and serve to inspire or prod believers as part of a revelation or an epiphany. Many mystics take the word vision to be synonymous with apparition.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, in addition to the religious visions mentioned above, the term vision (theoria) can refer to the experience of the "Energies" of God, as the result of the purified nous.

Artistic inspiration may provide a special category of the ecstatic vision: traditionally in such cases the semi-divine Muses may transmit the visioning to their loyal followers.
Visions generally have more clarity than dreams, but traditionally fewer psychological connotations. The psychological mechanism to engender visionary perception and trance phenomena is focussed intention and attention.

Entheogens (such as peyote) have traditionally assisted in the generation of visions among diverse cultures, as well as in modern western culture.
Some could consider visions to be a manifestation of the 'aha' (lightbulb going off) type of learning associated with Picture thinking or Visual Spatial thinking.

Vitalism

Vitalism, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is
a doctrine that the functions of a living organism are due to a vital principle distinct from physicochemical forces
a doctrine that the processes of life are not explicable by the laws of physics and chemistry alone and that life is in some part self-determining
Where vitalism explicitly invokes a vital principle, that element is often referred to as the "vital spark," "energy" or "élan vital," which some equate with the "soul."

Vitalism has a long history in medical philosophies: most traditional healing practices posited that disease was the result of some imbalance in the vital energies which distinguish living from non-living matter. In the Western tradition founded by Hippocrates, these vital forces were associated with the four temperaments and humours; Eastern traditions posited similar forces such as qi and prana. Vitalistic thinking has also been identified in the naive biological theories of children.