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What Is A
Clairvoyant?
Clairvoyance is
a paranormal term originating in the French language. In French, 'clair' means
'clear', and 'voyance' means 'vision', so a 'voyant' is a visionary. Therefore,
'clairvoyance' means 'clear vision' and a 'clairvoyant' is someone who is a
'clear visionary.' Unfortunately, this literal translation is neither helpful
nor really accurate.
Further complicating the definition is that the term 'clairvoyant' has been used
to refer to different things over the years. 'Clairvoyant' gradually emerged as
a term applying to someone who displayed a range of paranormal, or psychic,
abilities. The only all-encompassing definition that really fits is that a
clairvoyant is someone with the ability to know things about a location, object,
person, or event by means others than the five physical senses. In other words,
clairvoyance refers to a form of extra-sensory perception (ESP).
Clairvoyance usually involves a clairvoyant person knowing about something that
is happening right then, but far away or otherwise out of range of their
physical senses. However, there have also been documented cases of a clairvoyant
knowing of something that happened in either the past or the future. Because of
this, clairvoyance is considered by some to be a form of precognition, or
prophecy.
The means through which a clairvoyant learns hidden information varies, but
generally breaks down into one of six categories. Clairvoyance is perhaps most
associated with the first form, the phenomenon of 'remote viewing.' In remote
viewing, a clairvoyant sees a person, object, location, or event hidden from
them. This sometimes takes the form of a visual hallucination, and other times
as the clairvoyant 'seeing' something in their 'mind's eye.'
A second form of clairvoyance is clairaudience. In clairaudience, a clairvoyant
gains their information of the remote event by sound. They may hear voices or
noises that other people (and recording equipment) can not. In some cases, the
clairvoyant may her the voices of the dead, in which case that phenomenon may
cross the line into mediumship.
The third type of clairvoyance is clairsentience. In clairsentience, the person
gains knowledge though touch and feeling. In some cases this may take the form
of feeling actual object that are not there. In other cases, it is more a
feeling or 'vibe' that the clairvoyant feels from particular remote people,
locations, or events.
The fourth type is clairalience. In clairalience, the person gains knowledge of
remote locations and events through their sense of smell. For example, they may
smell the grass and wildflowers of a spring meadow, followed by gunpowder and
the tang of blood. Of course, no one else around can smell these things, and
there is no apparent source for the various scents.
The fifth type of clairvoyance is clairgustance. In clairgustance, a person with
an empty mouth can taste various flavors, despite there being no apparent
source. They can also describe the taste of things from a distance.
The sixth and final form of clairvoyance is claircognizance. This is perhaps the
most hard to define or explain. In claircognizance, a person knows something
about a remote person, object, location, or event, but can't explain how they
gained that knowledge—they just know it. To some extent, claircognizance is a
catch-all category of clairvoyance.
There have been many documented occurrences of people who are clairvoyant
throughout history from different cultures around the globe. Instances of
clairvoyance have also been incorporated into some of the world's most
widespread religions.
In Buddhism for example, clairvoyance is considered of the six special senses
humans are capable of at advanced levels of meditation. In this case, it refers
to being able to feel vibrations put out by other people.
In Catholicism, clairvoyance has often been considered miraculous. Over five
hundred years ago, Saint Claire, a disciple of Saint Francis, had a vision in
which she witnessed Saint Francis's death, despite the fact that she was miles
away at the time. Interestingly, the Catholic Church made Saint Claire the
patron saint of television. 'Television' literally means 'seeing over a
distance.'
There are, of course, many who are sceptical of clairvoyance. It is part of
human nature for people to deny the existence of something just because they do
not understand it. For example, even the existence of magnetism and electricity
was denied by 'scientists' not that long ago historically.
Yet whatever sceptics may say, no one has been able to disprove clairvoyance,
and there is increasing evidence to show that there are many genuine
clairvoyants around. In general, scientists, parapsychologists, and the general
public are becoming more open-minded and more ready to accept that clairvoyance
is real.
Despite the fact that we do not quite understand how it works, this is no reason
to ignore its existence. It has been suggested that in the distant past, all
humans used to be clairvoyant but for some reason lost their powers. It is
thought that everybody could again become clairvoyant if they make the effort
and choose to develop these powers.
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