What is Clairvoyance?

Let's take a look at what Clairvoyance is in more detail.

Clairvoyance is derived from two French words and means literally
"clear seeing."

It means far more, however, in the language of Spiritualism and
psychics, and is now used to cover and classify, if not to explain,
a large number of different phenomena which some day will probably
be explained in other ways. There are various types and kinds of
clairvoyance, different authorities having given somewhat different
definitions of the various sub-divisions. Thus, the Manual of the
National Spiritualists' Association subdivides and defines the
various types of clairvoyance as follows.

Subjective Clairvoyance

1.Subjective Clairvoyance is that psychic condition of a human
being (who thereby becomes a medium) which enables spirit
intelligences, through the manipulation of the nerve centres of
sight, to impress or photograph upon the brain of the medium
pictures and images which ace seen as visions by the medium without
the aid of the physical eye. These pictures and images may be of
things, spiritual or material, past or present, remote or near,
hidden or uncovered, or they may have their existence simply in the
conception or imagination of the medium communicating them.

Objective Clairvoyance

2.Objective Clairvoyance is that psychic power or function of
seeing objectively spiritual beings, objects and things by and
through the spiritual sensorium which pervades the physical
mechanism of vision, without which objective clairvoyance would be
impossible. But few persons are born with this power, in some it is
developed and in others it has but a casual quickening. Its extent
is governed by the rate of vibration under which it operates; thus
one clairvoyant may see objectively spiritual things which to
another may be invisible, because of the degree of difference in
the intensity of the power.

X-Ray Clairvoyance

3.X-ray Clairvoyance is a form of clairvoyance which partakes of
the characteristics of the x-ray and seems to be objective. The
clairvoyant who possesses this power is able to see physical
objects through intervening physical matter, can perceive the
internal parts of the human body, diagnose disease and observe the
operations of healing and decay.

Cataleptic Clairvoyance

4.Cataleptic Clairvoyance occurs when the body is in a trance
state, resembling sleep, induced by hypnotic power, exercised by an
incarnate or discarnate spirit, or it may be self-induced; when in
this state the spirit leaves the body and is able, at its own will
or the suggestion of the hypnotist, to travel to remote places and
to see clearly what is transpiring in the places it visits and to
observe spiritual as well as material things in its environment.
While in this state it sometimes happens that the thoughts of the
spirit in its travels are expressed by the lips of the physical
body and that thought-images are conveyed to it through the
physical body. This is due to the fact that there is a spirit
"cord" which connects the body and the spirit and transmits
vibrations between them. As long as this cord is not severed the,
spirit can return to the body, but should it be severed, then what
we call " death " would at once ensue. Under this form of
clairvoyance there is an interblending of subjective and objective
spiritual sight.

Trance Control Clairvoyance

5.Trance-control Clairvoyance is that psychic state under which
the control of the physical body of the medium is assumed by a
spirit intelligence, and the consciousness of the medium is, for
the time being, dethroned. In this case the controlling spirit is
really the clairvoyant, and simply uses the medium's body as a
means of communicating what the spirit sees, and therefore the
question of subjective and objective spiritual sight, in so far as
the medium is concerned, cannot be raised. To some persons who go
to mediums for readings and who may become witnesses in trials at
law it may not be known that under trance control the medium is to
all intents and purposes absent, therefore in dealing with
definitions of clairvoyance to be used for the enlightenment of
thinking people, judges and juries, it seems necessary for the
protection of such mediums to explain what is here termed
"Trance-Control Clairvoyance."

Telepathic Clairvoyance etc.

6.Telepathic Clairvoyance is the subjective perception in picture
form of thought, transmitted from a distance.

The type of clairvoyance illustrated in class 4 is frequently
called "Travelling Clairvoyance" because the spirit appears to
travel, after leaving its body, and visit distant scenes. According
to the above definitions, this type of clairvoyance is classified
under definition No. 1, but other authorities would give it a
separate class by itself. When the psychic's mind seems to travel
backward along the stream of time, and remembers events which were
beyond its normal recollection, we have cases of so called
"retrocognition." When, on the other hand, the psychic's mind seems
to travel forward into the future and sees scenes and events which,
of course, he was otherwise unable to foretell, we have cases of
prevision, prophecy and precognition. This latter subject will be
dealt with more fully in the chapter devoted to "Prophecy versus
Fortune-Telling."

We also have spontaneous and experimental clairvoyance, these
definitions explaining themselves.

Then, direct and indirect clairvoyance: Direct when no other mind
or agency is involved but the psychic's own; indirect when it goes
through a roundabout channel and involves some other mind,
incarnate or discarnate.

As opposed to "telepathic clairvoyance" we have so-called
"Independent Clairvoyance." Also there are cases of "Reciprocal
Clairvoyance" in which two persons see one another at the same time
and, as it were, exchange their clairvoyant visions.

The type of clairvoyance which is characterized by leaving the body
and visiting the spiritual spheres (afterwards returning to
reanimate the body) is called "ecstasy."

Mr. Leadbeater divides Clairvoyance into three subdivisions:
clairvoyance in time, clairvoyance in space, and direct
clairvoyance, in which the astral or spiritual senses are opened up
so as to perceive planes of activity now about us.

Dream Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance may also occur in dreams, crystal visions, etc., and
clairaudience (which corresponds to clairvoyance, save that the
information is obtained by means of the ear rather than the eye)
may be obtained through shell-hearing. In this case the messages
are heard rather than seen. (Another technical name for
clairvoyance which is sometimes used is " Telaesthesia.")

Clairvoyance may manifest itself in a variety of forms as the above
definitions would signify. The most common form is:

Spontaneous Clairvoyance, in which the psychic sees pictures of
absent persons and scenes.

Clairvoyant dreams are fairly common.

Clairvoyant Diagnosis

There is a type of mental clairvoyance which enables the subject to
see, as it were, into the body of another, diagnosing his disease
as though he perceived clearly the conditions present in that
individual's body at the time. This form of psychic vision was
possessed by Andrew Jackson Davis in a remarkable degree, but is
possessed by many psychics of our own day.

Another form of clairvoyance is that in which underground metals
and waters may sometimes be perceived. Usually in this case the
psychic walks over the ground to be explored with a forked twig or
stick in his hands. Suddenly this bends or dips, and where this
happens water or metal is to be found. This is technically known as
"dowsing" and has been proved to exist as a scientific fact by Sir
William F. Barrett, Professor of Physics, in the University of
Dublin.

Of late years a new and peculiar type of clairvoyance has been
developed by Mr. Vincent N. Turvey of London, a friend of Mr. W. T.
Stead. He termed this "Phone-voyance," for the reason that he
receives his impressions and intuitions, etc., when he is
conversing with a distant friend over the telephone, and then only
This is a form of sensitiveness which could be obtained by many
psychics if they developed it.

The Explanation of Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance has been explained in a variety of ways. We may
briefly summarize these theories as follows:

1.The Astral or Spiritual-Sense-Theory. This may be stated as
follows: Corresponding to each physical sense-organ (the eye, ear,
etc.) there is a corresponding spiritual or astral sense-organ. We
see physical objects by means of the physical eye and hear them by
means of the physical ear. When we see clairvoyantly, on the
contrary, we see by means of our spiritual eye and when we hear
clairaudiently we hear by means of the spiritual or astral ear.
These spiritual sense-organs function in a spiritual world (and of
course serve the spiritual body when we die as our physical organs
now serve us) and operate on the spirit plane of activity. If their
use is not cultivated in precisely the right direction, it may lead
to difficulties, for the reason that both the astral and spiritual
sight may be used at the same time, they may become mixed up, and
you may see two worlds at once instead of one, so that you cannot
be sure when you go outside the door whether you are going to step
on the pavement or into a great ditch, both of which you see
equally clearly before you. Many persons have got into this
condition which takes some time to outgrow.

2."The Spiritual Influence Theory." According to this theory
clairvoyance is accomplished not by means of the subjects' own
unaided powers, but always through the instrumentality of a spirit
who sees the distant scenes, etc., and impresses them upon the
subjects' mind telepathically.

Tubes, Thought-Forms and Direct perception

3."The Astral Tube Theory." According to this view, the
clairvoyant constructs a sort of telescope or tube for himself out
of "astral matter," and through this he looks. The figures, in this
ease, always appear small, and far-off.

4."By the Creation of a Thought Form." On this theory, we create a
thought form for ourselves in the locality we desire to visit, and
utilize it for the purpose of observation; we look out of its eyes,
hear with its ears, etc..

5."The Direct-Perception Theory." This theory says that outside
influences play no part in the phenomena, but that we perceive
distant scenes ourselves, by means of some process of
self-projection. But here we are met with the difficulty that if
the psychic is absent, viewing the distant scene, how can he also
be present in the room, animating his own body and speaking through
it as he undoubtedly does in many cases I Most psychics, when they
begin their development, see shapes and figures more frequently
than they experience any other phenomena. They wonder why this
should be. Why should nearly all of us see I (Now and then, it is
true, we come across one who hears more easily than sees, but he is
the exception, not the rule.)

Why and How we "See" in Clairvoyance

The explanation of this fact is probably the following: We use our
eyes more than we do any other one of our senses. We feel that our
active consciousness is more connected with sight than with
anything else. The sight-centres in the brain are more used than
any of the others, and this fact is proved by dreams, in which we
see figures but very seldom hear spoken words. Again our memory
consists mostly of visual symbols. If we think of a person we call
up his image before us, this being a "memory image." Now, as these
parts of the mind and brain are so active, it is only an extension
of this faculty of inducing memory-images, which enables us to see
objects and figures in clairvoyance. We only have to force this
faculty of the mind a little more than usual to carry it beyond the
limitations of physical sense; whereas, with the other senses, much
less used, we have to do a great deal more of this cultivating or
forcing-process, in order to develop the corresponding spiritual
organs. Clairvoyance and similar faculties depend in many eases
upon the partial liberation or freeing of the spirit from the body,
and the stimulation of the corresponding psychic sense-organs into
a higher degree of activity, and so permitting their use.

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