Meanings
- not comparableBeing or pertaining to something (for example, telepathy) that is outside the realm of orthodox psychology, or (more broadly) beyond scientifically-explainable psychic (mental) abilities (compare metaphysical, supernatural).
Research in these matters is of special concern for a Christian, because metapsychic phenomena have often been lumped together with Christian miracles by those who have studied them.
1959, New Problems in Medical Ethics2 more examples
REALITY AND TRUTH by Professor T. D. A. [...] Reality may be conceived of as having three aspects, the know- able or scientific, the imaginable or metaphysic, and the unimaginable or metapsychic.
1911, Popular Science Monthly and World's Advance, page 371Such a development would be a metapsychic phenomenon. On my asking Stella for the name of one of the women who tended my infancy, she replied, “Melanie.” I was not thinking of Melanie, and I am most positively sure that this name [...] has never been uttered by me. In this case I am obliged to infer a metapsychic phenomenon.
2017, Charles Richet, Thirty Years of Psychical Research, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 52
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