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Clairvoyance
Meaning
'clear-seeing' in French, this term is used to denote the faculty of supranormal sight, the ability to perceive
objects or people that cannot be discerned through the normal senses.
Clairvoyance overlaps with
other psychic
abilities such as
Clairaudience,
Clairsentience,
Telepathy,
Psychometry,
Metagnomy,
Precognition and
Remote Viewing.
Clairvoyance normally
requires some form of communication with the spirits or other nonphysical essences who
give, or pretend to give, the desired knowledge. The ability has been acknowledged and
used in all cultures throughout history — by prophets,
fortune-tellers, shamans, wizards, witches
and seers of all kinds.
Western science began to investigate the phenomena in the
19th century, when subjects treated by mesmerism
displayed clairvoyance and other psychic abilities. Since then a substantial
body of evidence has been accumulated to support the existence of
clairvoyance. As well as appearing to be a general ability among humans, it
also appears to exist in animals.
See
Animal PSI,
Seance,
Materialization,
Asport,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
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Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing; (2) Spence, Lewis,
An Encyclopedia of
Occultism, Carol Publishing Group.
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