Clairvoyance : Clear-Seeing
(Singular/Grouped & Ability-Clairvoyant)
Clairvoyance is a form of ESP which involves being able to see objects not actually present to the sense of sight. The psychic ability to see or sense people and things not present to those with ordinary sight. Such perception, which results in a visual image being presented to the conscious mind, may pertain to the past, the present or the future.
Clairvoyant experiences may be spontaneous or experimentally induced - by auto-suggestion or hypnotism. So-called 'X-ray clairvoyance' is the name given to the apparent faculty to see into closed rooms, boxes or envelopes; medical clairvoyance was the early name given to clairvoyant diagnosis of illness (both the clairvoyant's and other people's), but diagnosis was soon followed by the apparent ability to heal and 'medical clairvoyance' is now an accepted part of spirit healing. Traveling clairvoyance, in effect astral travel, consists of the clairvoyant visiting distant places and describing scenes and actions presently being enacted; spontaneous traveling has been reported in addition to induced traveling, freely exercised by the shamans (see shamanism) and medical men of many primitive peoples.
Clairvoyance is often noticed in children, only to disappear at an early age. 11, is possible that clairvoyance can be explained in terms of thought-forms, and it is interesting to note that the taking of alcohol and drugs often enhances clairvoyance. This may be because alcohol and drugs lower inhibitions, reasoning and attention, and thereby increase the power of the subconscious.
Clairvoyance, a supernatural mode of perception, is apparent to many people in such activities as dreams or sleep-walking. Even the instant attraction or dislike of a person on first meeting may be a form of clairvoyance. Certainly it is a faculty that is independent of normal eyesight and is exercised by the mind without the assistance of the senses; placing the hands over the, eyes makes no difference to clairvoyant visions, though turning the head away often causes the pictures to disappear. Often the clairvoyant describes the images as resembling a small card that seems to appear somewhere about the middle of the forehead. In parapsychology the ability is regarded as a part of extrasensory perception.
The well known clairvoyant Bert Reese was arrested for 'disorderly conduct' and offered to demonstrate his powers on the spot. He asked the judge to write something on three pieces of paper, fold them into pellets and mix them up thoroughly; then the judge was asked to press each separately against Reese's forehead. Reese was able to state what was on all three pieces of paper ('You have 15 dollars in that bank account'; 'This contains the name of a former governess of your children'). He was acquitted.
It is worth noting that Reese is a Welsh name, and that clairvoyance is more frequently found in the Celtic races than among Anglo-Saxons. The reason, evolutionarily speaking, could be that the Saxons, with their aggressive and pragmatic temperament, have tended to suppress their 'clairvoyant faculties' in favour of practicality; the Celts are traditionally 'dreamers'. (It follows that the coming of North Sea oil to Scotland and heavy industry to Ireland will probably have the effect of suppressing clairvoyance.) Andrew Lang criticized Frazer's The Golden Bough on anthropological grounds; but he added the important comment that Frazer was also mistaken in his assumption that all 'magic' is crude superstition; as a child in Scotland, Lang had known many people with 'the second sight'-as well as people who had seen *ghosts-and he pointed out that such people are not imaginative hysterics but 'steady, unimaginative, unexcitable people with just one odd experience'.
It seems to follow that clairvoyance is simply a developed form of intuition-the 'right brain faculty'. Probably its commonest manifestation is when someone 'knows' that there will be a letter from Auntie Hilda in the morning's post, or that a distant cousin who has not been seen in years is going to call later in the day. But then it could be argued that the 'jungle sensitiveness' developed by tiger hunter Jim Corbett was a form of clairvoyance: something 'told' him when a tiger was lying in wait for him.
If this theory is correct, then that 'other person' who lives in the right cerebral hemisphere is naturally clairvoyant. But his insights are suppressed by the 'practical' ego of the left, which is obsessed with coping with the present. This also means that, in order to activate the clairvoyant faculty, we need only-in theory-suppress left-brain interference by 'soothing' it into quiescence.
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