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What is clairvoyance Clairvoyance, from 17th century French medical clairvoyant and psychic Edgar Clair meaning "clear" and voyant meaning Cayce. It is reported that although "seeing", is a term used to describe the Puységur used the term 'clairvoyance', transference of information about an he did not think of these phenomena as object, location or physical event "paranormal," since he accepted through means other than the 5 mesmerism as one of the natural traditional senses. A person said is to sciences. have Clairvoyance abilities is referred Clairvoyance was a reported ability of to as a clairvoyant. some mediums during the spiritualist Usage period of the late 19th and early 20th Within Parapsychology, clairvoyance is centuries and was one of the phenomena used exclusively to refer to the studied by members of the Society for transfer of information that is both Psychical Research (SPR). Psychics of contemporary to, and hidden from, the many descriptions have claimed individual said to be receiving it. It clairvoyant ability up to the present is differentiated from Telepathy in that day. the information is said to be gained While experimental research into directly from an external physical clairvoyance began with SPR researchers, source, rather than being transfered experimental studies became more from the mind of one individual to systematic with the efforts of J. B. another. Rhine and his associates at Duke Outside of parapsychology, Clairvoyance University, and such research efforts is sometimes mistakenly used to refer to continue to the present day. Perhaps the other forms of Anomalous cognition, most best-known study of clairvoyance in commonly the perception of events that recent times was the US have occurred in the past, or which will government-funded remote viewing project occur in the future (known as at SRI/SAIC during the 1970s through the retrocognition and precognition mid-1990s. respectively), or to refer to Some parapsychologists have proposed communications with the dead (see that our different functional labels Mediumship). (clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, In some circles, clairvoyance is also etc.) all refer to one basic underlying known as remote viewing, although the mechanism, although there is not yet any term "remote viewing" itself is not as satisfactory theory for what that widely applicable as clairvoyance as it mechanism may be. refers to a specific controlled process. Developing clairvoyant abilities Status of clairvoyance Current thinking among proponents of Within the field of Parapsychology, clairvoyance posits that most people are there is a consensus that some instances born with clairvoyant abilities but then of clairvoyance are verifiable. There is start to subliminate them as their also a measured level of belief from childhood training compels them to amongst the general public, with the adhere to acceptable social norms. portion of the US population who believe Numerous institutes offer training in clairvoyance varying between 1/4 and courses attempt to revive the 1/3 over the last 15 years. clairvoyant abilities present in those Year Belief early years. 1990 26% Another school of thought says that our 2000 32% "sixth sense" grows when we do spiritual 2005 26% practice. With regular spiritual The notion of clairvoyance also gained practice done according to basic some support from the US and Russian spiritual principles we increase our government during and after the Cold "spiritual level" and are able to War, and both governments made several perceive and experience the "subtle attempts to harness clairvoyance as an world" to greater degrees. Clairvoyance intelligence gathering tool. is one of the abilities that may be According to skeptics, clairvoyance is gained by such discipline. the result of fraud or self-delusion. According to many Taoist- and Clairvoyance and related phenomena Buddhist-related practices, abilities through history such as clairvoyance and many other There have been anecdotal reports of 'supernormal' abilities are by-products clairvoyance and 'clear' abilities of spiritual awakening and the throughout history in most cultures. realisation of divine consciousness. These episodes are often reported as Integral to spiritual and mind expansion being experienced through early is breathwork and meditation. The vast adulthood.[citation needed] Often majority of people only normally use clairvoyance has been associated with one-third of their brains and one-third religious or shamanic figures, offices of their lungs. In Taoist and Buddhist and practices. For example, ancient thought this is not a coincidence. By Hindu religious texts list clairvoyance expanding lung capacity and learning to amongst other forms of 'clear' use the lungs as a 'bellows' to direct experiencing, as siddhis, or qi around the body and open the subtle 'perfections', skills that are yielded energy channels we also naturally expand through appropriate meditation and the mind and refine consciousness. This personal discipline. But a large number is how these seemingly miraculous powers of anecdotal accounts of clairvoyance develop, though they are not truly are of the spontaneous variety among the miraculous. They are considered to be general populace. For example, many latent abilities that everyone possesses people report seeing a loved one who has but need 'waking up.' recently died before they have learned Such abilities in some schools of by other means that their loved one is thought are considered distractions from deceased. While anecdotal accounts do the true path of Enlightenment and can not provide scientific proof of lead to the practitioner falling off the clairvoyance, such common experiences true path. The re-discovery of these continue to motivate research into such energetic abilities relies on the phenomena. activation of the 'Dan Tien' that is Clairvoyance was one of the phenomena the central energy reservoir just below reportedly observed in the behavior of the navel. When the practitioner learns somnambulists, people who were to 'turn' it and move it as if it were a mesmerized and in a trance state fifth limb then qi can begin to be (nowadays equated with hypnosis by most pushed around the body. The Dan Tien is people) in the time of Franz Anton strong as a baby but quickly slows to a Mesmer. The earliest record of crawl as one ages. A major part of somnambulistic clairvoyance is credited Taoist and Chinese Buddhist practice is to the Marquis de Puységur, a follower learning to activate the Dan Tien once of Mesmer, who in 1784 was treating a again. This may also explain why such local dull-witted peasant named Victor abilities are a bit stronger as a child Race. During treatment, Race reportedly and quickly disappear as one ages but would go into trance and undergo a can be awakened again at any time by the personality change, becoming fluent and proper practice of arts such as Nei Gong articulate, and giving diagnosis and and Qi Gong to expand the mindstream and prescription for his own disease as well spirit. There are many abilities that as those of others. When he came out of can be developed in this way — the trance state he would be unaware of telepathy, prediction, astral travel, anything he had said or done. This pyrokinesis, telekinesis, levitation and behavior is somewhat reminiscent of the energetic healing. reported behaviors of the 20th century 1 A B C 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85