Clairvoyance
literally means “clear seeing”
(see here
for more on this). In the context I and others have used it, it can be a
generic term for all forms of
ESP,
or, more specifically, those forms of ESP associated with a sensation of sight –
i.e., “seeing in one’s inner eye, or mind’s eye”, or having an impression of an
image, as opposed to intuitively knowing, or having a sensation of sound, scent
or some other sense. In some cases, the impression of a vision may come from a
person
(hopefully a BPLF Guide!),
rather than one’s innate psychic ability: what has been used then is a
combination of telepathy and clairvoyance, as the faculty to register an image
is still clairvoyance, notwithstanding that it has been placed in one’s aura by
a person.
Now, the description
I have given of seeing by means of one’s inner perception, or mind’s eye, is a
definition of
‘subjective’ clairvoyance. Some people report seeing things as
clearly, or very nearly as clearly, as if they were looking at a scene, person
or some other part of physical reality seen by our physical eyes, which is termed
'objective' clairvoyance. At this stage
of the world’s evolution, this is extremely rare – I’ve only had two such
instances in over half a century of life
(see here
for a description of one of those times; the other was when I rolled after a
crystal was taken off me [we had been doing spirit rescue with crystals on top
of us] and I saw the feel of my Tibetan [BPLF] Guide sticking out beneath his
robe – which is an interesting way to meet one of one’s Guides … ). I
consider that most clairvoyance these days is subjective, whereas I suspect
that in the era when Charles W. Leadbetter wrote his book
“Clairvoyance” (which I reviewed here) there
was more objective clairvoyance – which may be why modern descriptions of
chakras are different to those that Leadbetter gave … which I prefer, and
consider more accurate. Some of the problem may also be an unquestionable association between
some objective clairaudience and mental health problems, which I wrote about
here.
My 1960s school
dictionary defines this as “abnormal faculty of seeing what is out of sight;
deep insight or penetration.” Well, there is NOTHING abnormal about it – almost
everyone has the potential to be psychic in some way, if they are prepared to
work objectively (i.e. don’t be too
gullible or willing to believe or see results when they are not there!) and
persistently.
The attribute of
clairvoyance is often credited to the proper functioning of the ‘Third Eye”
chakra in the centre of the forehead
(there
is a bit of debate about exactly where the centre is, incidentally, with some
descriptions placing it effectively in the lower centre, between and just above
the eye brows, or … stating it is connected* to the location of the pineal gland).
* I'm wary of the embedded video, but Lobsang Rampa described, in "The Third Eye", a DANGEROUS ceremony aimed at stimulating this gland for the purpose of improving clairvoyance ...
PS - for more on this, also see http://www.aspects.org.au/clairvoy.htm
As of the time this
definition was written, I’ve touched on this topic in the following posts: