In their earlier stages these undeveloped souls cannot feel the intensely rapid and piercing vibrations of the highly-refined matter of their own plane; the strong and coarse but comparatively slow movements of the heavier matter of the physical plane are the only ones that can evoke any response from them. So it is only upon the physical plane that they feel themselves to be alive at all, and this explains their strong craving for birth into earth-life. . . . Their astral bodies . . . gradually become definite vehicles which they can use, and their consciousness begins to be centred rather in their emotions than in mere physical sensations.

At a later stage, but always by the same process of learning to respond to impacts from without, the souls learn to centre their consciousness in the mental body. (Leadbeater 105-106)DPclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

The regular inhabitant of the astral plane . . . is under ordinary circumstances conscious only of the objects of that plane, physical matter being to him as entirely invisible. (Leadbeater 15)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

If we follow the atoms and molecules of (say) the lower in their transformation upwards, these will come to a point where they pass altogether beyond the range of the faculties we are using on the lower plane. In fact, to us the matter of the lower plane there vanishes from our perception into nothing—or rather it passes on to the higher plane. (Blavatsky 69)tSDclairvoyant • Theosophy • Blavatsky

Channeled entities do not perceive physical matter the same way we do except when they are being channeled and have the use of physical eyes. . . .

Those on the astral plane perceive the physical plane in terms of its emotional substance and those on the casual plane NOTE: mental plane, in terms of intellectual substance. (Hoodwin 34)JoYSchanneled • modern • Hoodwin

When we are in coincidence NOTE: not projected, and conscious, we see only those objects which agree in vibration, or are within the range of vibration, to which our eyes are attuned. . . . When we move out of coincidence, and are conscious, the sense of sight does not always restore itself immediately; but when it does, the range of vibration has increased, and we are then able to see not only the material things . . . but astral things as well. . . .

During close-range separation . . . the senses can shift back and forth from one body to the other, or be in both bodies and the cable at the same time. (Muldoon 104-105)PotABOBEr • Spiritualism • Muldoon

Seeing in this world is different than it is in yours. We see through the feelings, and view the essence of people. We don’t see height, weight, color, age, etc. We see the goodness and love in the soul. That is why when love and tenderness are present, if we have a soul connection, then the veil dissolves and visual contact is possible. . . . It is always love that opens the door. But dark feelings close it totally, and no contact is possible. (Starnes 29)LFSchanneled • modern • James

The great yogin (or yogi), possessed of clairvoyant vision, is said to be able to observe the life of micro-organisms in a way impossible for a scientist with a microscope; or to study the nature of suns or planets or nebulae the most distant, which no telescope could ever reveal. Being empowered likewise to observe the physiological processes of his own body, he needs no corpse to dissect in order to study physiology. (Evans-Wentz 23-24)TYSDwisdom • Tibetan • Dvagpo-Lharje

I have my own consciousness at other intervals—intervals that in your terms encompass your own. (Roberts 355)DEVF2channeled • modern • Seth

(speaking for the helpers). . . . We on this dimension are able to pick up rapidly all that happens on the earth plane because we are on a higher vibration than the earth level. Those on the earth level who vibrate on a rate close to that on which we function can tune into our dimension readily. . . .

Those who are able to freely get into the flow of their own existence are able to get into this limitless level of communication that exists outside of what you consider to be time and space. (McKnight 59-60)CJOBEr • modern • McKnight

Jane: “By altering our consciousness in the way I’m learning to do now, though, we can line up our focuses with these other ‘ghostly’ messages, that are quite as real as the neurological validity we usually accept. . . .

“I’m learning to jump in between the recognized pulses and pick up usually inaccessible ones.” (Roberts 235-237)URchanneled • modern • Seth

What I have called “mathematical relations” were continually changing round me and within me, sometimes taking the form of sounds, of music, sometimes the form of a design, sometimes the form of light filling the whole of space, of a kind of visible vibration of light rays, crossing, interweaving with one another, pervading everything. In this connection there was an unmistakable feeling that through these sounds, through the design, through the light, I was learning something I had not known before. (Ouspensky 286)ANMUpsychedelic • Theosophy • Ouspensky

At times when Randall is working on some project or concerned about some personal problem geometrical patterns and symbols flash into his mind. These patterns or symbols are accompanied by a whole body of ideas and concepts which in an instant explain and clarify the problem which he had had on his mind. He calls it symbol-thinking. (Karagulla 88-89)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

Just as we call the revelation of physical things “sensation,” we will call the revelation of spiritual things “intuition.” (Steiner 51)Tclairvoyant • Theosophy • Steiner

The light of Pure Consciousness can see through objects; it is not limited by space or time and can see the entire range of creation. . . .

It is effortless to move [the light of Pure Consciousness] anywhere to know anything at all that there is to be known. (MSI 231-232)

One can hear, touch, see, taste, smell anywhere at any level of existence when one is fully cognizant of the Ascendant. NOTE: pure consciousness (MSI 247)

The body of the Ascendant is the Universe and everything and everyone that is in the Universe. So through mastery of the movements of the mind, one recognizes that one is inside of everyone and everything, automatically. There are not limits to this -- one can look out of anyone’s eyes, hear with anyone’s ears, know what anyone knows. (MSI 250)

The speed of the mind means that the senses can travel throughout creation as quickly as the mind thinks. The speed limit of light does not apply to the mind. (MSI 265)Ewisdom • modern, Hindu • Isham

Just as every portion of a hologram contains the image of the whole, every portion of the universe enfolds the whole. This means that if we knew how to access it we could find the Andromeda galaxy in the thumbnail of our left hand. We could also find Cleopatra meeting Caesar for the first time, for in principle the whole past and implications for the whole future are also enfolded in each small region of space and time. Every cell in our body enfolds the entire cosmos. So does every leaf, every raindrop, and every dust mote. (Talbot 50)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

Not only does a grain of sand describe the universe in which it occurs, but each of our minds also contains the encoded information of a greater intelligence, just waiting for the right reference beam to trigger the image. (Judith 332)WoLiresearcher • modern • Judith

As spiritually developed persons . . . we now feel ourselves as if “united” with the spiritual objects we perceive, as if we were “inside” them NOTE: becoming. (Steiner 157-158)

Our whole being participates in the perception of supersensible things. Our whole being becomes, in a sense, “all ears” or “all eyes.” (Steiner 214)HTKHWclairvoyant • modern • Steiner

Inner vibrational touch is a much more personal experience, more like “becoming a part of” that which you perceive, rather than a reading of an aura. (Roberts 306)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

Because we have learned no other way of dealing with it, all sensory input is translated at first into terms and meanings appreciated by the five physical senses. For example, when one begins to “see” in this unfamiliar shape, the impression is that this “seeing” is much the same as optical reception by the physical eyes. Only later . . . you learn that you can “see” in all directions as once, without turning the head . . . and that when examined objectively, it is more an impression of radiation rather than a reflection of light waves.

The same applies to the other physical senses. You believe at first that you are hearing people “speak” to you. . . . In some other way, you have received the message (thought) and your mind has translated it into understandable words. . . . Smell and taste have been conspicuously absent to date. Most interesting is the evidence that none of these modes of perception works wholly automatically. You seem to be able to turn them “on” or “off” at will. (Monroe 183-184)JOotBOBEr • modern • Monroe

Many of the forms I see when out-of-body are created for my benefit. They are manifested for my comprehension. Our minds are obviously conditioned to react to forms, not to pure energy. (Buhlman 46)ABtBOBEr • modern • Buhlman

You will sometimes automatically translate this reality into physical terms. . . .

There is constant translation of inner reality into objects in the waking state and constant translation of ideas into pseudo-objects NOTE: thought forms in the dream state. Within a certain range of dream reality, ideas and thoughts can be translated into pseudo-objects and transported. This is what happens when you adopt a pseudo-form in projection, though I am simplifying this considerably. (Roberts 376)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

Case 4:

Dr. N: Does this mean our physical senses stay with us after death?

S: Yes, the memory of them. (Newton 21-22)JoShypnosis • modern • Newton

The inner senses represent your true powers of perception. They represent, say, your native nonphysical perceptive “equipment.” The physical senses are relatively easy to distinguish: You know what you see from what you hear. If you close your eyes, you do not see.

The inner senses, though I have in the past described them by separating their functions and characteristics, basically operate together in such a way that in your terms it would be highly difficult to separate one from the others. . . .

The light itself represents that inner universe, and the source of all comprehension. (Roberts 232-233)DEVF1channeled • modern • Seth

All the powers of the senses become one in the higher power of the mind. (unknown 71)PUwisdom • Vedic • unknown

Sri Yukteswar: “The astral spheres are visible to the all-inclusive sixth sense—intuition. By sheer intuitional feeling, all astral beings see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.” (Yogananda 404)AoaYwisdom • Hinduism • Yogananda

The most amazing thing you can do during your OOBEs is use psychic powers. . . . Some of the psychic powers you will find yourself using during an OOBE are the following: seeing visions (or using clairvoyance), reading minds, psychokinesis (moving things with your mind), and even experiencing memories of past (and future) lives. . . .

And also very important is the fact that you use psychic abilities all the time in your dreams. Very often you will mind-read or have memories of past lives in dreams, but, since you are not lucid, it seems like no big deal during the dream. APCOBEr, LDer • modern • DeGracia

The chakra system is used with every psychic ability, no exceptions. Whatever the psychic ability, the method of development or the terminology used to describe it, it is all done . . . through chakra stimulation. . . .

Many people are born with naturally active chakras and hence, natural psychic ability.

Mediums are people who exhibit psychic abilities when aided by a nonphysical spirit entity. This entity stimulates the chakras of the medium directly, by melding with the medium and causing psychic abilities. ToPOBEr • modern • Bruce

Michael: Ideally, a channel has all chakras open and available. . . . The ability to open the seventh chakra is usually most important, especially if channeling verbally. (Hoodwin 61)JoYSchanneled • modern • Hoodwin

When I observe someone channelling, I am able to perceive which chakra they are using to get their information. That chakra is usually very active and has more energy running through it when they are channelling. . . .

The kind of information you receive through each of your chakras is different. (Brennan 172)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Specially strong vibrations may at any time galvanize one or other of the chakras into temporary activity. (Leadbeater 80)Cclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

The first chakra yields kinesthetic information—feelings in your body like a feeling of balance or imbalance, shivers running up and down the spine, physical pain in a body part, a feeling of illness or health, safety or danger. . . . [The healer] can distinguish between her body and the body of her patient. . . . There are disadvantages to this method of accessing information. One tires very fast of feeling everyone else’s physical pain. (Brennan 172)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The experiment was arranged in the following way. The percipient being seated blindfolded, and with her back to the rest of the party, all the other persons present inflicted on themselves the same pain on the same part of the body. The percipient throughout was Miss Relph. . . . In 10 out of the 20 cases, the percipient localised the pain with great precision. (Gurney, Myers and Podmore 57-58)PotL1researcher • Society for Psychical Research • Gurney, Myers, & Podmore

The second chakra yields information about emotional states. . . . Again the healer must use her own energy field to distinguish between her own emotional feelings and those of the patient. (Brennan 173)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The third chakra gives vague information such as when someone says, “I thought you were going to call, and you did” or “My intuition tells me that I shouldn’t fly on that plane today; something might happen.” If one is sensing beings from another level, and the third chakra is being used to sense them, the person will get a vague sense of another presence in the room, its location, its general shape and size and its intent, i.e., friendly or unfriendly. . . . In the example of the leg pain, the third chakra will give a vague idea of what deeper meaning the pain has in the client’s life and also some intuition of its causes. (Brennan 173-174)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

When the third centre, that at the navel, comes into activity, the man begins in the physical body to be conscious of all kinds of astral influences, vaguely feeling that some of them are friendly and others hostile, or that some places are pleasant and others unpleasant, without in the least knowing why. (Leadbeater 78)Cclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Stimulation of the fourth, that at the heart, makes the man instinctively aware of the joys and sorrows of others, and sometimes even causes him to reproduce in himself by sympathy their physical aches and pains. (Leadbeater 78)Cclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

The fourth chakra yields feelings of love. Love that reaches out beyond the self, mate or family to humanity and life itself. When you are sensing with the fourth chakra, you can sense another’s love and the quality and quantity of that love, whether they be in a physical body or not. (Brennan 174)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The fifth chakra gives the sense of sounds, music, words, smells and taste. (Brennan 174)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The arousing of the fifth, that at the throat, enables him to hear voices, which sometimes make all kinds of suggestions to him. Also sometimes he hears music, or other less pleasant sounds. When it is fully working it makes the man clairaudient. (Leadbeater 78-79)Cclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Mastery of the fifth chakra creates the ability to hear all sounds and understand all languages including those far removed (e.g., clairaudience; mental telepathy), those of the birds and animals and those which are celestial or inner. . . . All forms of knowledge are contained within the sound of all objects in creation. (MSI 335)Ewisdom • modern, Hindu • Isham

Mr. Guthrie . . . even succeeded in obtaining what appeared to be transferences of smell-impressions. (Gurney, Myers and Podmore 55)PotL1researcher • Society for Psychical Research • Gurney, Myers, & Podmore

Illustrating a special point—namely, the deferment of the percipient’s consciousness of the sensation until a time when the agent had himself ceased to feel it. . . .

“It feels like meal—like a seed loaf—carraway seeds.” (The substance of the seeds seemed to be perceived before their taste.) (Gurney, Myers and Podmore 54)PotL1researcher • Society for Psychical Research • Gurney, Myers, & Podmore

When the sixth, between the eyebrows, becomes vivified, the man begins to see things, to have various sorts of waking visions, sometimes of places, sometimes of people. In its earlier development, when it is only just beginning to be awakened, it often means nothing more than half-seeing landscapes and clouds of colour. The full arousing of this brings about clairvoyance. (Leadbeater 79)Cclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

The sixth chakra reveals pictures. . . . When I say images, I don’t necessarily mean you see them as you do with your eyes, but you do receive a picture in your mind that gives a strong enough impression and allows you to observe it in a way that might allow you to draw or reproduce it if you wished. For example, in the case of the leg pain, the sixth chakra might reveal an image of the blood clot. . . . The image could appear on a screen in the healer’s mind . . . or it could appear to be coming directly from inside the leg, as it would to normal sight. . . . The sixth chakra could also reveal, in picture form, the patient’s past experience that is connected to the leg pain, such as an image of a child falling off a tricycle and bumping her leg right where the pain is now, say twenty years later. This kind or direct access is rather like watching a movie. (Brennan 174)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Ajna NOTE: the sixth chakra is called the third eye because of its potential for celestial perception, clairvoyance, the ability to perceive the subtle energies of non-physical realms, and fully established Exalted Consciousness. Seeing auras, knowing the future, remembering past lives, communicating with celestial beings are some of the abilities that are available to any human with an awakened sixth. (MSI 338)Ewisdom • modern, Hindu • Isham

GABRIEL: Your contact with me is through your third eye NOTE: the sixth chakra. This is also your gateway to intuition and - this may be new to you - also your clairvoyance. Your third eye is now very much opened up, so you can expect to see any time now. (Mason 155)MBchanneled • modern • Mason

In order to perceive on any one of these levels, the chakra through which you wish to perceive must be opened on that level. If you want to see any particular auric layer, then you must open your sixth chakra to that layer. If you want to see the first level of the auric field, you must open your sixth chakra on the first level of you aura. . . . When beginners start to see the aura, they usually see the first layer, because they open their sixth chakra on the first level their aura. (Brennan 175)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The seventh chakra reveals information in the form of a whole concept.. The channeler, after absorbing and deeply understanding the concept, must then use her own words to describe what she understands. Many times, as I start to explain something in my own words, Heyoan NOTE: a spirit guide will come in (from the fifth) and explain it in much clearer words than I can. The whole concept gives a complete sense of knowing. (Brennan 174)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

When the seventh centre is quickened, the man is able by passing through it to leave his body in full consciousness, and also to return to it without the usual break, so that his consciousness will be continuous through night and day. (Leadbeater 80)Cclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

During the healing session, I scanned her energy field, or aura, using my “High Sense Perception” (HSP). I “saw” some abnormal cells inside the uterus on the lower left side. At the same time, I “saw” the circumstances around the miscarriage. The abnormal cells were located where the placenta had been attached. I also “heard” words that described Jenny’s condition and what to do about it. . . .

I received information about her psychological attitude and how that was affecting her inability to heal herself. She blamed herself for the miscarriage. As a result, she was placing undue stress upon herself and was preventing her body from healing itself after the miscarriage. (Brennan 3)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

In what form was the impression flashed on the percipient’s mind? . . . In connection with the partial guessing of cards seem distinctly in favor of the mental eye. A king looks like a knave, but the names have no similarity. So with numbers. 35 is guessed piecemeal, the answers being 45 and 43; so 57 is attempted as 47 and 45. . . . On the other hand, names of approximate sound were often given instead of the true ones; as “Chester” for Leicester, “Biggis” for Billings, “Freemore” for Frogmore. (Gurney, Myers and Podmore 28-29)

In some cases the idea transferred was that of the object itself, and in others, that of its name. . . . Of the two percipients one seemed more susceptible to the visual, and the other to the auditory impressions. (Gurney, Myers and Podmore 49)PotL1researcher • Society for Psychical Research • Gurney, Myers, & Podmore

I blindfolded Joan and placed one picture at a time in front of her. She would place her fingertips on the picture and move around over it, describing a tree here, water there, a boat, a child on the bank, flowers, and in most cases she read the letters and words very clearly. Some of the things that she described in the pictures were so minute that I had to look closely at the picture to see them. She did this with picture after picture. . . .

Joan could still read the pictures with the tip of her elbow, but not quite as well as she did with her fingertips. (Karagulla 102-103)

The second subject, Tara, was not as sensitive and her perception was somewhat different. She sensed “wetness” over water, “stickiness” when she touched a picture of chocolate frosting, “bubbles” when her fingers moved over a glass of foamy beer. Tara seemed to sense the texture and quality of things rather than seeing a visual picture as it would appear to the eye. (Karagulla 102)

I decided to try some experiments of reading pictures blindfolded with Peter. When he passed his finger-tips over a picture he did not describe the exact objects in the picture. However, he was able to tell what the picture was about, or what it stood for, or what it meant. He seemed to get a total impression of the picture rather than awareness of objects in detail. (Karagulla 197)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

Color had a taste for Peter. When he looks at cobalt blue, for example, the color gives him a metallic taste in his mouth. Each color always gives the same characteristic taste. I have tested other sensitives who get similar impressions. Some of them associate color with sound or smell. (Karagulla 198)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

Polk mentioned his acute sensibility to metals and mentioned that if he touched brass in the dark, he immediately got an unpleasant metallic taste in his mouth which he always associated with brass. Apparently he could “taste” other metals when he touched them, and each one had its characteristic taste. . . .

At times [Buchanon] found as many as fifty percent of a group chosen at random who demonstrated this type of ability. (Karagulla 213-214)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

If you are having a dream as yourself from your own perspective, another reincarnational self may be having the same dream from its perspective—in which, of course, you play a minor role. . . . If the dream were to include an idea, say, for a play or an invention, then that play or invention might appear as a physical event in both historic times, to whatever degree it would be possible for the two individuals living in time to interpret that information. (Roberts 279)DEVF1channeled • modern • Seth

Alfred MacPherson: “We can experience things just as spatially as you. We’re not just floating around.

“As I perceive this room, for instance, it has the appearance of a friendly old English pub. The gentlemen are sitting about in clothing appropriate to their consciousness as they would have been in that day. Some of the ladies are sitting about in shamefully low-cut dresses appropriate to whatever daring level of consciousness they had achieved in that day. Other ladies are sitting around buttoned up tighter than a drum. Your attire and appearance is adjusted so I don’t suffer a culture shock in speaking with you. Your lamps are replaced with candles and copper-backed reflectors; fluids and beverages that did not exist in my day adapt to being ale. This perceptual reality assists me in my communication so I can work with you logistically.

“There is another level that I can adjust to rather quickly, where the lot of you are little more than illumination, pure light. Depending on how far into the planes I go, eventually it all becomes white light, with perceptions of movement and greater and lesser luminosity, where all things are accessed instantaneously—rather like when you spin a color wheel with all the colors and it eventually goes to white. NOTE: The cycling all-color! It is light, pure illumination, passing through various tunnels and corridors, but all in states of illumination. Strictly light. Close your eyes once and look toward an illumination and you get a slight perception of what it’s like. Look away from the light and it will get darker. Look toward it, you’ll see more.” (Ryerson and Harolde 141)SCchanneled • modern • Ryerson & Harolde

High Sense Perception is a type of “seeing” in which you perceive a picture in your mind without the use of your normal vision. . . . It is sometimes referred to as clairvoyance. . . . For most of my life I have been in a dance with the living sea of energy in which we exist. . . . We sense each other with it. (Brennan 5)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

To be clairvoyant, we need to look in the spaces that are clear—to look at the fields of energy, not of objects; to look at relationships, not things; to see the world as a whole, and to reach out with our minds directly and clearly for the information we want. (Judith 336)WoLiresearcher • modern • Judith

It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive. (Leadbeater 15)MV&Iclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

This is a crucial point which anyone may test by taking a spectroscope and throwing by its means, or by any succession of prisms, a long spectrum upon a sheet of white paper, and then asking a number of people to mark upon the paper the extreme limits of the spectrum as it appears to them. Their powers of vision differ appreciably. Some will see the violet extending much farther than others; some will perhaps see less violet and more at the red end. . . .

You will readily understand that to those possessing wider sight the world would look very different. Even the very slight extension which X rays give causes many objects which are opaque to our normal sight to become to a considerable extent transparent. Imagine how different everything would look to one who had by nature even that tiny fragment of clairvoyant power, and then imagine that multiplied a hundredfold, and you will begin to have a slight conception of what it is to be really clairvoyant. (Leadbeater 207)GHLcompilation • modern • many

If you are focusing on the person, and you move away from the face, for example to the outline, and you start to see the dull milky aura of the person, you even have to let go more of your watching with the physical eyes. You slip into a trance like (sic) state, but you are fully conscious, your mind is totally passive, observing, a very peaceful state. Slowly the entire surrounding begins glowing by itself, not only the person you [are] looking at, but the wall, and all things standing around.

When I remained in this state, my sight got expanded, not fully spherical 360 degrees, but maybe 240 degrees, as I could see things behind my shoulders glowing, and I felt, how I literally gave up watching with my physical eyes, as I no longer had stereoscopic view, but one intensive looking and feeling of living energy in the entire room I was sitting in.

You will see glowing smoke like (sic) dancing energies, and you will see your own aura or energy flooding your sight, and everything will get brighter and brighter without any need for artificial light. You might be able to see light-beings standing or being present in the room, or maybe just a human-like outline, which becomes a glowing presence of light, who are assisting you and the people who gathered for the session. . . .

A further state of Lucid Sight is, your sight expands to full spherical 360 degrees, and you feel you are in the middle of your head (point of presence), and then, if you are fully centered in your being, you leave your body fully conscious and you feel you’re watching like a bee, you feel very small and the room will getting (sic) huge. TEOBEr • modern • Müller

As we are in the process of acquiring such higher consciousness—we learn not only how to awaken the spiritual force of perception in the organ NOTE: chakra formed in the region of the heart, but also how to control it. . . . This perceptive force consists of an element of higher materiality streaming out from this organ near the heart and flowing in shining beauty through the rotating lotus flowers NOTE: chakras. . . . Thence it flows outward, into the spiritual world around us, making this world spiritually visible to us—just as the sunlight outside, falling upon objects from without, makes them visible to our physical eyes. . . .

Perfect consciousness of an object in the spiritual world can arise only if we ourselves shed spiritual light upon it. (Steiner 155-156)HTKHWclairvoyant • modern • Steiner

When I was about eight years old. . . . I discovered that if I sat very still, with my eyes closed, suddenly a beautiful light would form in the middle of my forehead. It fascinated me and always gave me a great sense of peace and calmness. . . . What I was beholding was the light of the spiritual eye . . . through which one can see into the higher realms of God’s creation. . . . That is the light that some people perceive when they leave the body at the time of physical death. (Mata 128)EtS-DMwisdom • Hinduism • Mata

Light and darkness are caused by the inner level of awareness and not by the environment. In certain energetic states everything presents itself in golden or silver light quality. The perception of [a] world formed of pure light is overwhelming. EEABOBEr • modern • Ballabene

Our minds are using a self-made reference beam to retrieve previously unknown data from the holographic memory bank. That bank theoretically contains all information. Clairvoyance is a matter of systematically being able to call up relevant information on demand. (Judith 339)WoLiresearcher • modern • Judith

[Etheric sight] is absolutely physical. . . . There are seven conditions of physical matter, and our sight is able to distinguish only two of them, the solid and the liquid—for we can very rarely see a true gas, unless, like chlorine, it happens to have a strong color of its own. . . .

What difference will etheric sight make in the appearance of one’s surroundings? Perhaps what would first strike those developing that sight would be the comparative transparency of everything. . . . [Matter] would be like a faint mist, through which they could see to a considerable distance. Then in looking at their friends they would see etheric bodies as well as the denser portion of the physical vehicles; and in this latter part they would be able to observe the structure of the internal organs, and so could diagnose some diseases. (Leadbeater 208)GHLcompilation • modern • many

We have within ourselves etheric physical matter as well as the denser kind, and we may learn how to focus our consciousness in that, and so receive impressions through it as well as through our ordinary senses. A further extension of the same idea would bring the astral matter [fluid super physical matter associated with emotion] into action, and then further on we would be able to receive impressions through even mental matter. (Leadbeater 207)GHLcompilation • modern • many

Some of them perceive only the etheric or life field; others perceive both the field and the etheric centers (chakras) which are a key element in the basic pattern that characterizes man, both as an individual personality and as a member of the human species. Some clairvoyants see the astral or emotional field, rather than the etheric. Such psychics do not usually perceive the chakras within the emotional field unless they have been trained to do so, or have great natural gifts. The mental field and its centers are seen only by those with a highly developed type of specialized clairvoyance. (Karagulla and Kunz 18)C&HEFclairvoyant • modern • Karagulla & Kunz

Many sensitives see the energy field around people but cannot see the vortices of force. These vortices appear to be in a higher frequency band. Those few who can see the vortices can always see the surrounding energy field also. (Karagulla 234)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

The more I expand my consciousness, the more my HSP expands, the more I am able to see a reality that already is there but was earlier outside my perception range. As my HSP expands, more of reality comes into my view. At first I was able to see only the coarser energy fields around things: it reached only about an inch or so beyond the skin. As I became more proficient, I could see that the field reached further out from the skin but was apparently of a finer substance or less intense light. Each time I thought I had found the boundary, I would, at a later date, perceive beyond that line. (Brennan 6)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

The physical brain is forced to give physical interpretations to nonphysical “images.” OBEHWOBEr • modern • Peterson

Clairvoyance is . . . a willed process of visualization. (Judith 336)

The development of visualization is the ability to retrieve, create, and project images onto the mental screen. Once this is done, seeing depends largely on asking the right questions. (Judith 340)

In the exchange with the clairvoyant student, the woman had to break through the boundaries of her mind’s eye by “feeling” the aura instead of seeing it. Yet her report of her impressions was in visual terms. . . .

This is the use of visual metaphor. It is the act of giving visual form to nebulous sense impressions from many different dimensions. It is a convenient way to communicate these things that otherwise defy description. (Judith 343)WoLiresearcher • modern • Judith

The seed seems to be enclosed in a small cloud of light. In a sensory-spiritual way, we sense it as a kind of flame. At its center, we experience a sensation similar to the impression made by the color purple, at its edges a sensation similar to the color blue. (Steiner 57)

We do not see what are here called “colors” in the same way that we see colors with our physical eyes. Rather, through spiritual perception we experience something similar to the impression made by physical colors. (Steiner 59)HTKHWclairvoyant • modern • Steiner

With clairvoyance, I just seemed to “know” things out of the reach of my senses, but with visions I saw clear-as-day pictures in front of me. I had to draw my own conclusions from those visions. OBEHWOBEr • modern • Peterson

As I developed my “seeing” abilities, I discovered that the pictures came in two forms. One is symbolic, the other literal. In the case of the symbolic picture, one simply sees an image that has meaning to the person for whom one is “reading”. . . . In the case of the literal picture, one sees pictures of events or things. One can witness an experience that the patient had in the past. In both the symbolic vision and the “reading” of an event, the healer takes the position of witness. That is, the healer enters into that time frame and witnesses events as they occurred. . . . The healer watches the vision unfold and describes it as it is unfolding. I call this receptive channeling. It is very important that the vision not be interrupted or disturbed by the healer as it unfolds. . . . You may not know if the picture has symbolic meaning or if it is literal (i.e., something that actually happened or may happen) until later. This type of information receiving takes a lot of faith. You may take as long as a half to one hour to build that picture into something that is understandable.

On the other hand, some readers use their own symbols and give readings by interpreting them. This works only with a lot of practice, because the reader must first build a clear set of symbols through which she can receive information. (Brennan 154)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Take a rock as an example. . . . When regarded with trained sight it is no mere inert mass of stone. First of all, the whole of the physical matter of the rock is seen instead of a very small part of it; secondly, the vibrations of its physical particles are perceptible; thirdly, it is seen to possess an astral counterpart composed of various grades of astral matter, whose particles are also in constant motion; fourthly, the . . . universal life is seen to be circulating through it and radiating from it; fifthly, an aura will be seen surrounding it, though this is, of course, much less extended and varied than in the case of the higher kingdoms; sixthly, its appropriate elemental essence is seen permeating it. (Leadbeater 14-15)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Another point that could hardly fail to strike newly developed clairvoyants is the presence of new colors about them—colors to which we can put no name, because they are entirely unlike any that we know. This is quite natural, for after all color is only a rate of vibration, and when one becomes sensitive to new rates of vibration new colors must follow. (Leadbeater 209)GHLcompilation • modern • many

Most people see a haze around the fingers and hands when trying to sense the aura. It looks somewhat like the heat wave over a radiator. It is sometimes seen in various colors, such as a blue tint. Usually, most people see it as colorless in the beginning. (Brennan 55)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself in the astral world, visible to the astral sight.. Persons somewhat more developed than the ordinary clairvoyant can also see the thought-forms, and can see the effects produced by the flashes of colour among the hordes of elementals NOTE: thought forms. (Besant 13)Kclairvoyant • Theosophy • Besant

[Dr. Wadsworth] could see an energy field interpenetrating the body and extending a few inches beyond the periphery of the body. . . . He looked first at the energy field and then at the physical body itself. In the physical body he could see where nerve currents were blocked or not moving in a healthy fashion. Under such conditions he often applied magnetic healing energy and could observe the effect on the nerve currents.

With regard to the endocrine system Dr. Wadsworth could see moving vortices of energy associated with each gland. He looked for certain types of disturbances in function or for pathological conditions, depending upon the type of disturbance in the vortex of energy. He could also see the effects of drugs on the patient by observing the energy field or the vortices of energy associated with the endocrine glands. He could very quickly adjust his treatment according to what he saw. . . .

He often sees incipient conditions in this energy body which have not yet manifested in an actual physical condition. (Karagulla 62)

Dr. Gloria is able to sense or feel in her hands the flow of energy along the nervous system when she touches the patient. She knows immediately where there is a block or any other kind of difficulty. She senses the circulation of the blood and the condition of the organs and tissues of the body in the same way. . . .

Dr. Gloria senses rather than sees an energy field interpenetrating the physical body and surrounding it. (Karagulla 76)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

At times, turning my attention upon myself, I distinctly saw my body as a column of living fire . . . in which innumerable currents circled and eddied, causing at places whirlpools and vortices, all forming part of a vast heaving sea of light. . . . Prana, or cosmic vital energy . . . is the first subtle immaterial substance to come within the range of superconscious vision. (Krishna 188)LWKmeditator • Hinduism • Krishna

In another type of literal seeing the healer sees a picture of an internal organ of the patient. The picture either appears on a screen in the healer’s mind, which I call the mind-screen, or appears to be located inside the patient’s body, as if the healer can see through the layers of the body and into the organ like an x-ray machine. This type of seeing I have labeled internal vision. . . . By using internal viewing, I can look wherever in the body I wish to. I can decide where to look, at what depth, at what level of the aura and in what resolution or size, macro to microscopic. (Brennan 154)

Internal vision includes the ability to look into the body at whatever depth and resolution (within a certain range) one wants to see. . . . If I want to see an organ, I focus on it. If I want to see inside the organ or a specific part of it, I focus on that. . . . I receive pictures of these things that look like normal pictures. For example, a good healthy liver looks dark red, just as it does with normal vision. . . . Microorganisms look somewhat the way they look under the microscope. (Brennan 157)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Dr. Philip could see any organ in the patient’s body and observe its function and any pathology that might be present. He knew the complete condition of his patient in the first few minutes as the person sat before him in his office. In order to protect his medical standing he said nothing about this and always put the patient through routine laboratory tests before giving the diagnosis. In addition to this he also had a good deal of precognitive ability and could see the course of the disease or malfunction. Furthermore, out of a number of possible treatments he had an almost instant conviction about which treatment to use. (Karagulla 72-73)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

With the aid of the luminous stuff now filling my nerves, I could, by diverting my attention towards my interior, discern clearly the outlines of the vital organs and the network of nerves spread all over my body. (Krishna 188)LWKmeditator • Hinduism • Krishna

A friend of mine, after having practiced a certain yoga for five days, found his body to be illuminated by an inner light of such penetrating quality that he was able to observe the functioning of his brain, heart, and other bodily organs: and at the same time his sensitivity to sound was so keen that he could hear the beat of his heart and pulse, the circulation of his blood, and the more subtle rhythms of his body, which not even the most efficient instruments of the physiologist can detect simultaneously. A master of yoga can project his consciousness into each of the various organs and parts of his body, and, independently of them, observe their innermost functionings. (Marett xli)TYSDwisdom • Tibetan • Dvagpo-Lharje

Diane: “[Vicky] can also pick up pictures that other people have in their minds when they are describing a place or an event to her. If the individual’s ability to picture things to himself is fuzzy or inadequate, she picks up a fuzzy or vague picture.” (Karagulla 144-145)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

It is possible for someone within the body to perceive someone who is not, but it is not usual. The perceiver must be a person of strong psychic abilities or the projecting personality must be driven by high emotional intensity to make himself known. (Roberts 342)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

As soon as you open your perceptions to layers above the third you also begin to perceive people or beings who exist in those layers who do not have physical bodies. From my observations and those of other clairvoyants, there exist layers of reality or other “frequency bands” of reality beyond the physical. The upper four layers of the auric field correspond to four of those layers of reality. (Brennan 51)

Opening the chakras on levels above the fourth also means that you will start to perceive beings on other planes of existence. This is rather disruptive to your personal life when it first occurs and takes some getting used to. For example, many times you must choose between carrying on the conversation you are having and stopping and listening to the guide who is trying to talk to you at the same time. . . .

In order to hear a being who lives on the astral level you must open your fifth chakra on the astral level. . . . If you want to see an astral guide, then you must open your sixth chakra on the fourth level. (Brennan 175)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

As far back as I can remember, I have been aware of an otherworldly realm, filled with heavenly beings who loved me and were there for me constantly. They were my friends and teachers, comforters and counselors, playmates and helpers. They were with me at night when I slept and walked with me during the day. There was no barrier between hearts, such as the one I very quickly realized existed within most human interactions. They were more real to me than the people of flesh and blood who inhabited my material world. (Fairchilde xiii)VftAchanneled • modern • Fairchilde

I have seen other people coming to greet the dying on a number of occasions. Most of the time it comes like a faint light silhouette of a person coming across the room. Other times I don’t see anything that definite. Rather, I will just see something occupying a space in the room. . . .

She was nearly dead. . . .

Suddenly, she opened her eyes and started breathing faster. At the base of the bed, a yellowish light appeared. Both the husband and I saw it. We watched as it moved toward the woman. As it reached the side of her bed, it slowly disappeared. When it was gone, the woman died. (Brinkley 106-107)APitLNDEr • modern • Brinkley

Stuart Twemlow: “Dr. Jones and I simultaneously had the impression of a heat-wave-like distortion of Monroe’s upper body while the lower part of his body was clearly in focus to us.” (Monroe 279)JOotBOBEr • modern • Monroe

Another time I was with a man and his wife at their home near Atlanta. [Henry] was dying. . . .

Suddenly Henry’s eyes got as big as saucers. “Mother’s coming, Mother’s coming,” he said.

Elisa and I looked across the room. There was an energy forming like heat waves from a blacktop highway during summer. At first it was vague, but as we watched, it developed more substance until it had a silky form. . . .

The form hovered there for a long time before it faded away. (Brinkley 107-108)APitLNDEr • modern • Brinkley

[Charlie] looked in BB’s direction. (You got somebody with you? . . . I can just barely see the edges of something. . . . You will have to teach him to fine-tune a little better, Tito. I can’t get even a clear outline, just something like heat distortion on the desert.) (Monroe 196-197)FJOBEr • modern • Monroe

Traveling clairvoyance seems to be a special form of astral projection—one in which the subject is hypnotized and the released “double” sent on a journey, but with the ability to report back observations made to the hypnotist via the vocal organs. (Crookall 26)CBAPresearcher • modern • Crookall

It is a common occurrence in heaven for persons to appear to be present in a place where their look is fixed or is terminated, even when this place is far away from where they really are. This presence is called the presence of internal sight. (Swedenborg 90)H&HOBEr • Christianity • Swedenborg

[Randall] was clearly aware of being physically present at his desk in his office but also at the same time being present in another place looking at and comprehending some complicated mechanism. . . .

When he wanted to find his way around the large area of several square miles where he worked, he could mentally soar high over the area. As he did this he could see how all the buildings were arranged and spot the best route to take in order to get to his destination in the shortest time. He began to use this faculty as a matter of everyday experience. (Karagulla 87)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

While on the street, I saw the interior of a modern residence at a distance with a clear, telescopic vision, as though I were using a pair of zoom lenses. . . .

I simultaneously saw other parts of the ample house, including a spacious living room where some sort of social reception was being held. (Vieira 64)PotCOBEr • modern • Vieira

Far more often, however, it is clairvoyant vision, and not projection, that [projects the astral body]. . . .

One writer: “In cases of this kind, the clairvoyant does not actually leave his body at all—he simply . . . uses a kind of psychic telescope. Consequently he has the use of his physical powers, while he is examining the distant scene; for example, his voice usually describes what he sees, even while he is in the act of making the observation.” (Muldoon 57, 59)PotABOBEr • Spiritualism • Muldoon

It is through [the sixth chakra] that the power of magnification of minute physical objects is exercised. A tiny flexible tube of etheric matter is projected from the centre of it, resembling a microscopic snake with something like an eye at the end of it. This is the special organ used in that form of clairvoyance, and the eye at the end of it can be expanded or contracted, the effect being to change the power of magnification according to the size of the object which is being examined. . . . This little snake projecting from the centre of the forehead was symbolized upon the head-dress of the Pharaoh of Egypt. (Leadbeater 79)Cclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

One of the most fascinating clairvoyant abilities of this type is found in the individual who can automatically magnify what he sees. In such a case he looks at an organ of the body as it might appear in normal vision. If he needs further detail he can magnify the organ ten or twenty times and look at the minute details. (Karagulla 234)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

The astral vision, when developed, is capable of magnifying any object, material or astral, to an enormous degree—for instance, the trained occultist is able to perceive the whirling atoms and corpuscles of matter. (Panchadasi 78)AWunknown • New Thought (Theosophy) • Atkinson

Brennan can adjust the focus of her vision and even see microscopic structures. (Talbot 186)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

The idea of perceiving minute things that we cannot see with our normal vision is not new. Yogis have described this ability for centuries. The earliest known description of this psychic ability is in Patanjali’s Yoga sutras, which dates back to 500 B.C.. At the turn of the century Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater used this psychic ability, which they called “magnifying clairvoyance”. APCOBEr, LDer • modern • DeGracia

Peter can see events in history so clearly they are almost as real to him as the outside world. He finds himself stepping into a time and place in history and sees the events, hears the footsteps of the people, observes their movements and hears the language of the period. He can repeat to an experimental group present with him the words of languages he does not know. He does not like to perform this kind of experiment unless there are people present with him, because he has a tendency to move so far into the time and feeling and life of a historical scene he loses contact with the outside world. This becomes almost like a trance state if he remains in contact with a historical scene for too long. . . .

Peter simply repeats phonetically as he hears the words spoken. (Karagulla 197-198)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

The few who fell into the apparent past were invisible to the people of the past. (Roberts 103)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

Case 63:

S: Their timelines still exist. We are here to practice intersecting with the old history of this place. . . . We beam out our energy . . . and float through the corridors of their past time. One of the teachers helps us adjust our vibrations to intersect with certain periods of Galathian history. . . . Although the Galathians are gone, everything they did, in a sense, still lives . . . their triumphs . . . their decline . . . we can study their mistakes. (Newton 370)DoShypnosis • modern • Newton

During the sessions I was giving people, I began to see what might be termed past lives. I would see the individual I was working with in a completely different setting in a different time frame. Whatever the scene was, it was relevant in some way to what was going on in the person’s life. For example, a woman who was afraid of the water had drowned in another lifetime. She also had difficulty in asking for help in this lifetime. In the lifetime when she drowned, nobody could hear her screams for help when she fell off a boat. (Brennan 15)

It is easy to “roll backwards” in time; we all do it. Most of us believe we can only do it for ourselves, and not for others. That is just a limited belief. I have discovered that it is this internal process, of rolling backwards in time, that is used to “read” the past history of an illness. . . .

I get a picture of the problem area to describe its present condition. I hold the connection and then roll backwards in time, reading the past and witnessing the history of the body part. As I keep witnessing back into the past, I finally “read” the cause of the problem. (Brennan 167)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

Messages from the other side have been given to me in different ways. Often I’m able to focus on an astral screen, using a form of psychic concentration that allows me to break through the barrier between earth and spirit. When I am looking at this screen, precise pictures of the spirit world and its inhabitants are shown to me. I am aided in this process by my spirit guide. (Browne 2)RotOSclairvoyant • modern • Browne

No sensitive has perfect sensitivity at all times. This in no way invalidates their ability. (Karagulla 175)

Fluorescent lighting disturbs some sensitives to a very marked degree. The presence of certain individuals seems to inhibit the sensitive, who feels that there is some kind of disharmonious energy pattern between him and the inhibiting individual. Some sensitives work better with several people present if such people are open-minded and friendly. . . .

Most sensitives cannot work for more than one to three hours without fatigue which affects their accuracy. . . . A few sensitives, and these are well-integrated ones, seem very energized following a session of work. . . .

A number of sensitives are extremely allergic to drugs. . . . In Diane’s case very small dosages of a drug will produce the same effect a normal dose produces in the case of an average patient. Diane has observed that the antihistamine drugs tend to inhibit her clairvoyance. (Karagulla 175-176)

When a sensitive is dealing with one person alone he finds it easy to tune in on the things which concern that one person. Where a number of people are sitting close together in a group or meeting it is not so easy. He may be getting flashes of impressions and pictures which are associated with different people. In such a case it may be difficult to sort out the individual person to whom a picture or impression belongs. (Karagulla 108)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

In the case of Diane . . . there is a history of definite HSP ability for three generations, and at least three members of the family in the third generation show outstanding gifts. (Karagulla 181)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

Subjects with failing sight have sometimes found themselves with their sight apparently “restored” in lucid or pre-lucid dreams, i.e. having fully realistic “visual” experiences. Similar phenomena have been reported in connection with both out-of-the-body experiences (OBEs) and apparitional experiences. (Green and McCreery 27)LDPLDer • modern • Green & McCreery

Our findings revealed that blind persons, including those blind from birth do report classic NDEs of the kind common to sighted persons; that the great preponderance of blind persons claim to see during NDEs and OBEs; and that occasionally claims of visually-based knowledge that could not have been obtained by normal means can be independently corroborated. (Ring and Cooper 101)

Their narratives, in fact, tend to be indistinguishable from those of sighted persons with respect to the elements that serve to define the classic NDE pattern. (Ring and Cooper 108)JoNDE-KRresearcher • modern • Ring

Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has even uncovered examples of visual descriptions recalled by the physically blind—descriptions containing accurate and verifiable facts such as the colour and designs of surgical garments worn by doctors and other medical staff who attended their resuscitation. (Viney 219)SDresearcher • modern • Viney

In another account by a floating experiencer, a woman describes the medical charts at the head of other beds in the room. The truly remarkable feature of this NDE account was that the experiencer was blind. (Rhodes 31)TtEresearcher • modern • Rhodes

From “Orientation to the Existence Between” by Padmasambhava:

“Even if in life you were blind, deaf, crippled, and so on, now in the between NOTE: astral plane, your eyes clearly discern forms, your ears hear sounds, and so forth. Your senses become flawlessly clear and complete.” (Thurman 169)TBotDwisdom • Tibetan • Padmasambhava

After [Vicki] arrived at the emergency room . . . she found herself up on the ceiling watching a male doctor and a woman. . . . She was also aware of seeing her body below her, which she recognized by certain identifying features, such as a distinctive wedding ring she was wearing. (Ring and Cooper 110)

[Brad] saw his apparently lifeless body on the bed. He also saw his blind roommate get up from his bed and leave the room to get help. (His roommate later confirmed this.) . . .

He noticed that the sky was cloudy and dark. There had been a snowstorm the day before, and Brad could see snow everywhere except for the streets, which had been plowed, though they were still slushy. He was able to give us a very detailed description of the way the snow looked. Brad could also see the snowbanks that the plows had created. He saw a street car go by. Finally, he recognized a playground used by the children of his school and a particular hill he used to climb nearby.

When asked if he “knew” or “saw” these things, he said: “I clearly visualized them. I could suddenly notice them and see them. . . . I remember . . . being able to see quite clearly.”

. . . He found himself in a tunnel and emerged from it to find himself in an immense field illuminated by a tremendous, all-encompassing light. Everything was perfect.

Brad could clearly see in this domain, too, though he commented that he was puzzled by the sensation of sight. . . . No shadows were visible. (Ring and Cooper 113)

One man whom we classified as a nonvisualizer told us that he could not explain how he had the perceptions he did because “I don’t know what you mean by ‘seeing’”. He was not the only such person to admit such perplexity. (Ring and Cooper 115)

In the otherwordly domain, seeing is often described as “perfectly natural” or “the way it’s supposed to be.” . . .

Vicki: “I had a hard time relating to it [i.e., seeing]. . . . I’ve never experienced it. And it was something very foreign to me.”

However, after this brief and confusing period of adjustment, the experiencer’s perception quickly seems to become self-organizing and coherent. . . .

Brad: “It was so natural it was almost as if I should have always been able to see like that. . . . I thought to myself I should be able to carry this right back with me.” (Ring and Cooper 116-117)

Vicki: “There’s no visual impression at all in any dream that I have.”(Ring and Cooper 127)JoNDE-KRresearcher • modern • Ring

The following comments were typical. . . .

“It wasn’t visual. . . . It was almost like a tactile thing, except that there was no way I could have touched from up there. But it really wasn’t visual because I just don’t have vision any more. . . . It’s not really like vision is. Vision is more clear, but it’s also more tied down.

“I think what it was that was happening here was a bunch of synesthesia, where all these sensations were being blended into some image in my mind. . . . But I don’t remember detail. . . .

“I was more aware. . . . Somehow I was aware of information or things that were going on that I wouldn’t normally be able to pick up through seeing. . . .”

Brad: “Being born blind, I had no idea whether those images were visual. . . . It was something like a tactual sense, like I could literally feel with the fingers of my mind. . . . I was aware of those images in a way I did not really understand.” (Ring and Cooper 134-135)

Clairaudience is the ability to hear voices of people who are not physically present. Experience would suggest this can happen between two living persons as well as the traditional “spirit voices.” . . . When it’s happened to me, it’s been so loud and clear that I’ve looked around to see who was speaking, but no one was in sight. OBEHWOBEr • modern • Peterson

Smell and taste have been conspicuously absent to date. (Monroe 184)JOotBOBEr • modern • Monroe

My sense of taste appeared to be absent. Later I was to discover that all five senses are available if we focus on them. (Buhlman 33)ABtBOBEr • modern • Buhlman

Examples of different lucid dreams in which various subjects felt the warmth of the sun, tasted wine, ate a plum, sampled ice cream, and smelled the scent coming from a woman’s hair, for the most part in apparently realistic fashion, will be found in McCreery (1973, pp. 15-17, 89-90, 110-11). (Green and McCreery 23)LDPLDer • modern • Green & McCreery

[I] noted with perfect clearness of mind: “Well, we can also have voluntary impressions of taste in this dream-world; this has quite the taste of wine.” (Van Eeden)aSoDLDer, OBEr • Van Eeden

Quite a few persons have commented to me that they were aware of the lack of the physical sensations of body weight, movement, and position sense while in their spiritual bodies. (Moody 49)LALresearcher • modern • Moody

Persons have reported that they had no sensation of temperature, while in most cases feelings of comfortable “warmth” are reported. (Moody 53)LALresearcher • modern • Moody

The sensations of temperature appeared nonexistent. (Buhlman 33)ABtBOBEr • modern • Buhlman

As to the sensations we experience in these [lower] worlds, these are almost material.

During one experience I could just make out, through the dark atmosphere of one of these planes, a deceased person standing on the step of a staircase. The imagery had brought into being the entrance of a cave where absolute darkness reigned. I walked down a few steps, being attracted by this entity who, straightaway, embraced me. Despite the fact that I was fully conscious of my condition, and already long practiced in projection, the material feeling was so strong that, in spite of myself, I opened my eyes, certain that someone had disturbed me during my experiment. I could only remember the feeling of “cold” and “touch.” (Yram 144)PAPOBEr • Yram

Clairsentience is the psychic sense of the second chakra. . . .

Clairsentience is the ability to sense other people’s emotions, also called empathy. . . . Others may recognize the emotions while not understanding that the source was outside of themselves. . . .

Other people experience clairsentience by walking into a party and becoming immediately aware of the expectations and feelings of all their friends that are present. They may suddenly feel expected to act in a certain way. They may also experience abrupt mood changes as they involuntarily “match” moods with one friend or another. Often these people have an aversion to crowds and avoid parties. . . .

If the upper chakras are not open enough to be conscious of this psychism NOTE: psychic ability, the clairsentient is often unpleasantly influenced. Our attention is constantly whisked outside of our central column, and others’ difficulties speak more loudly than our own voices. A confusion about the self ensues. . . .

Clairsentience is a valuable source of information in healing and helpful in the development of psychism. With conscious attention, it is an aid rather than a detriment. Many people get quite abused psychically by the unconscious broadcasting of surrounding difficulties. For these people, grounding is of the utmost importance for it brings our attention into the central line of our body, helping us sort out “whose energy is whose.” . . . Knowing the difference between your own and others’ emotional needs helps to consciously “tune out” unwanted broadcasts. Many clairsentients feel compelled to respond to the needs they psychically pick up from others, and with recognition this can become a choice rather than a duty.

Awareness of the other should be balanced by awareness of the self. The two should never be without a good dose of common sense. (Judith 147-148)WoLiresearcher • modern • Judith

Thousands of people are clairsentient. They tune in on the emotional and mental climate of people around them and suffer unnecessarily. Many people pick up the depression, the anxiety, the fear or the irritation of other people. . . . It is rather like the phenomena of sympathetic vibration which we observe in the physics laboratory. . . . Many people do not know which emotions are their own and which emotional mood they have picked up from people around them. (Karagulla 237-238)

[Diane] is also able to tune in to a patient and sense a physical pain or an emotional mood or a mental state. In such a case she is not “seeing the energy field”. She is using a different type of gift. (Karagulla 185)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

I cannot remember a time when I was not aware of the emotions and true intent, no matter how well hidden, of those around me. I can immediately sense when someone is ill, or out of balance physically or emotionally. (Fairchilde xiii)VftAchanneled • modern • Fairchilde

As I was healing, the abilities leveled off and I could pick up moods. Even if I couldn’t hear what people were thinking, I could always tell how they were going to react. . . . I could feel the sensations that each person was feeling. . . . I could feel one person’s rising elation, while another was sliding into depression. . . . I could feel love in one and greed in another. . . .

I did not always know why they felt this way, but I always knew how they felt. (Brinkley 33)APitLNDEr • modern • Brinkley

The physical senses are the extensions of inner senses that are, in one way or another, a part of each physical species regardless of its degree. The inner senses provide all species with an inner method of communication. (Roberts 156)DEVF1channeled • modern • Seth

Psychic power is simply the ability to step out of your limited experience into a broader view. . . .

Psychics are people who have opened themselves to the experiences these phenomena produce: vibrations. Sometimes formed as pictures in the mind. Sometimes a thought in the form of a word. . . .

These energies are very light, very fleeting, very subtle. Like the slightest breeze on a summer night that you think you felt rustle your hair—but maybe didn’t. Like the faintest sound in the farthest distance that you think you heard, but can’t be sure. . . .

The soul is the only instrument sensitive enough to “pick up” life’s faintest vibrations, to “feel” these energies, to sense these waves in the field, and to interpret them. . . .

Every time you have a thought, it sends off an energy. It is energy. The soul of the psychic picks up that energy. (Walsch 113-115)CWG3channeled • modern • Walsch

We cannot perceive anything with [these lotus flowers] NOTE: chakras in our waking state because the impressions made upon them in that state are very weak. The reason for this is similar to why we do not see the stars by day. . . .

We must be able to carry this consciousness of dream observations into our ordinary waking state. In other words, our attention for spiritual impressions must be so developed that these impressions no longer vanish in the presence of physical impressions. (Steiner 153-154)HTKHWclairvoyant • modern • Steiner

God says [to the soul at death], “We have now unveiled from you your covering and your sight today is piercing.” In other words, at death man sees the actual situation. (Arabi 354)SPoKwisdom • Sufism • Arabi

As inhabitants of the third dimension, we are able to see every linear contour of every hypothetical two-dimensional figure . . . all in a single glance. (Greene 178)JoNDE-GGresearcher • modern • Greene

Astral vision sees behind, before and around; it sees every side of an object and pierces through it. The senses acquire fresh subtlety, acuteness and refinement, and from every direction wider knowledge pours in through these wider windows of the soul. (Besant 152)SLwisdom • Theosophy • Besant

We usually see objects . . . from one side only—the one facing us—and in perspective. Our eye is an extremely imperfect instrument; it gives us an utterly incorrect picture of the world. What we call perspective is in reality a distortion of visible objects. (Ouspensky 70)ANMUpsychedelic • Theosophy • Ouspensky

In physical experience, you are dealing with an environment with which you are familiar. You have completely forgotten the chaos and unpredictable nature it presented before learning processes were channeled into its specific directions. You learned to perceive reality in a highly specified fashion. . . .

Your physical mechanisms are equipped to function in such a way that reality is perceived through the lens of particular root assumptions, then. Using the physical senses, it is almost impossible for you to perceive reality in any other way. . . .

The organization however is, biologically speaking, artificial and learned. . . . This organizational structure of perception can be broken up, as recent LSD experiments certainly show. (Roberts 369, 371-372)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

For the spiritual eye, matter itself is no longer an obstacle at all. (Elahi 5)PoPwisdom • Iranian • Elahi

You will discover that you have 360 degree vision, that your body has limited your vision. (Kubis and Macy 65)CBtLITC, OBEr • modern (Theosophy) • Kubis & Macy

These nonphysical senses are further hampered by the constraints our own self-limiting beliefs place upon them. A number of talented OB travelers have noted that once they became more at home in their second body, they discovered that they could “see” in all directions at once without turning their heads. (Talbot 236)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

You can see in all directions at the same time. Some describe this as seeing the 8 corners of the room. . . . Your astral vision is not limited by direction. It takes a while to get used to this. . . .

Right, left, up, down? It gets confusing. . . . OBE vision is often reversed, inverted or inside-out -- but not always. ASOBEr • modern • Goodin

In the physical body we have 220 degrees of vision. . . . In the Astral body we have MORE than 360 degrees of vision and can see on all sides at once. This is Spherical vision. During projection, habit forces us to focus our attention in one direction only, where we feel the forward part of our vision is. The view behind, above, below, left and right is still there, and seen all at once, but it can not be assimilated by the brain, all at once. This goes against the brains lifelong habit of frontal vision. . . .

It is important to understand spherical vision, if you are to operate competently in the astral. This is especially so when you project, in real time, close to the physical dimension. Spherical vision will often cause you to think you are in a mirror image dimension, or a reversed copy of reality. . . . This is caused by you losing your original natural viewpoint during projection. . . . You have become disoriented and taken a different viewpoint from normal, i.e., you have rotated or turned upside down or inside without thinking. This reverses your natural left right, up down viewpoint. This tricks the subconscious mind into reversing the place you are in so your conscious mind can function properly.

As you don’t have a physical body in the astral, if you want to look behind yourself you don’t have to turn around, or move at all. You just change your viewpoint to the rear. This, when done without moving, causes the mirror image effect, in a way its like looking in a mirror to see behind. . . .

The diagram below illustrates this reversal of viewpoint without turning, note left and right do not change:

i.e. If viewpoint (A) becomes viewpoint (B) without turning, then Left and Right are not reversed. This causes the subconscious mind to use its creative power to correct the view by reversing it, or parts of it. This is easier and causes fewer problems for the conscious mind than if it had to try and accept a reversal of left and right. . . .

Your brain is unable to assimilate this reversal and thus gives you a new perspective according to what it feels is left and right at the time. Once you consciously notice this anomaly it is too late to reverse it. The brain cannot accept a conscious change of left and right. ToPOBEr • modern • Bruce

An object is seen, as it were, from all sides at once, the inside of a solid being as plainly open to the view as the outside. . . . A good example of the sort of mistake that is likely to occur is the frequent reversal of any number which the seer has to read from the astral light. (Leadbeater 3-4)APclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

Many novices report seeing a black or gray mist. Just give your astral eyes some time. ASOBEr • modern • Goodin

Acharya: At the moment of death, when the heart ceases to beat, the etheric double registers extreme fear and wraps itself round the outside of the astral body in which the man is standing. . . . The clinging etheric matter makes it impossible for him either to see or hear properly. (Richelieu 18)ASJOBEr • modern (Theosophy) • Richelieu

You are overhead one hundred feet, floating in the air, this time with no physical body. It is a bright sunny day, but your “seeing” is somewhat impaired. You still are not fully accustomed to the technique of “how” you are seeing. As a result, your vision is distorted in one way or another. (Monroe 62)

The next step in familiarization is to separate to a slightly farther distance. . . . After you have become accustomed to the feeling of being more “apart,” mentally tell yourself that you can see. Do not think of the act of opening your eyes, as this may well transmit you to the physical and diminish the vibrational state. Instead, think of seeing, that you can see—and you will see. . . . At first, your seeing may be dim, as if in half-light, indistinct or myopic. . . . With use, your vision will become more sharp. (Monroe 222)JOotBOBEr • modern • Monroe

However, very often the astral visual perception is not yet established when starting etheric OBE. Therefore no vision exists. The lack of visual perception for me was very annoying. Wrapped in deepest darkness, I stepped forward into the black night, having nevertheless a good orientation by a kind of inner space sensing. In a certain distance from my physical body I always was able to see. This kind of vision was astral. EEABOBEr • modern • Ballabene

Astral mind-sensing is the type of eyesight that I’ve experienced most often during my OBEs. This isn’t much like true eyesight at all. You can’t actually “see” things, but you can “feel” with your mind where everything is. This type of sight isn’t centered around astral eyes. Objects are “felt” in all directions simultaneously, by the whole focus of consciousness. This type of sight is very hard to interpret or describe in physical terms. With this type of sight, you can flawlessly navigate a cluttered room but not “see” any particular object in the room. OBEHWOBEr • modern • Peterson

I became aware of a humanoid figure lying in the bed next to my body. . . .

I began probing the figure with a part of my consciousness. . . . I was not using my astral hands to identify this reclining intruder, I was using pure thought. I could mentally touch this being from head to toe all at the same time. (Taylor 104)STOBEr • modern • Taylor

It is interesting when possible to determine the inconsistencies of observation of Locale I NOTE: the physical/etheric plane activities while in the Second State NOTE: out of body. Except in unusual instances, most “visual” input registers in shadings of black and white. This seems true under any lighting conditions. However, strong light and shadow create wrong perceptions. For example, a strong light reflecting from the dark hair of a man brings the impression that he is blond rather than dark. (Monroe 66-67)JOotBOBEr • modern • Monroe

Precognition could also be classified as clairvoyance, but instead of the ability to “know” the present, this is the ability to “know” the future. OBEHWOBEr • modern • Peterson

There is an enormous body of evidence that proves at least some future events are as easy to see as past events. . . .

Without telling Croiset the name or location of the hall, or the nature of the event, the experimenter would ask the Dutch psychic to describe who would be sitting in the seat during the evening in question. . . .

Numerous investigators in both Europe and America put Croiset through the rigors of the chair test and found that he was almost always capable of giving an accurate and detailed description of the person who would be sitting in the chair, including describing their gender, facial features, dress, occupation, and even incidents from their past. (Talbot 205, 207)

Studies also show that precognitive visions tend to be of tragedies, with premonitions of unhappy events outnumbering happy ones by a ratio of four to one. Presentiments of death predominate, with accidents coming in second and illnesses third. They only spill over into our conscious minds during times of crisis. (Talbot 209)

Coming events cast their shadows in the present. (Talbot 212)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

Every occurrence sends off a wave of energy, prints an indelible picture on the cosmic photographic plate. The psychic sees, or feels, the picture of “tomorrow” as if it is happening right now—which it is. That is how some psychics tell the “future.” . . .

The psychic has not “predicted the future,” merely offered a glimpse of one of the “possible possibilities” observed in the Eternal Moment of Now. (Walsch 116-117)CWG3channeled • modern • Walsch

When an individual clairvoyantly “sees” an event, this is what happens: First he forgets the concept of continual moments that usually hampers perception. His perception changes focus so that he is aware of an event that otherwise would seem to be in the future. Unconsciously, as always, he constructs material objects in line with the available data.

It goes without saying, then, that he helps to form the clairvoyantly perceived event. (Roberts 277)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

We remember not only past lives but the future. When someone prognosticates events, he isn’t really “seeing,” or even creating, his future—he’s remembering it. . . .

The memory mechanism is the same whether we’re recalling childhood events, past lives, or future events. (Ryerson and Harolde 63)SCchanneled • modern • Ryerson & Harolde

Features I have noticed with the future memory phenomenon are . . . content typically include mundane activity but sometimes covers significant events, feels like a “rehearsal” of some kind. (Atwater 217)JoNDE-PAresearcher • modern • Atwater

As an adolescent, I started having vivid and detailed dreams about events that would later happen. I often knew things about people I had no right knowing. (Talbot 157)

Further evidence that we have relegated our innate precognitive abilities to the hinterlands of the unconscious can be found in the close association between premonitions and dreams. Studies show that from 60 to 68 percent of all precognitions occur during dreaming. . . .

Because our dreaming self is deeper in the psyche than our conscious self—and thus closer to the primal ocean in which past, present, and future become one—it may be easier for it to access information about the future. (Talbot 209-210)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

It frequently happens that a future-contemplating dream takes place in which the astral body does participate. . . . When one does have a future-contemplating projection-dream, it nearly always begins with some routine action . . . and runs off into another channel; or the dreamer enacts something which he is in the habit of doing every day, and then certain novel aspects of the action which have not yet happened are dreamed about.

Usually, after I have experienced such a dream, it “materializes” during the day following the dream. . . . In the cases just given, the action did not happen in reality until several weeks after the astral body had enacted it. (Muldoon 299, 301)

Harary has also made occasional OB journeys into the future. . . . “OBEs to future time and space differ from regular precognitive dreams in that I am definitely ‘out’ and moving through a black, dark area that ends at some lighted future scene.” . . . He has sometimes even seen a silhouette of his future self in the scene, and this is not all. When the events he has witnessed eventually come to pass, he can also sense his time-traveling OB self in the actual scene with him. He describes this eerie sensation as “meeting myself ‘behind’ myself as if I were two beings.” (Talbot 238)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

It is possible for you to project to a future event in which you will be involved and by an act that you make in the projection, alter the course that this future will take. Such an action would therefore appear to happen twice, once in your present and once in your future. . . .

Let us take an example: While asleep, you project into 1982 NOTE: the future, at the time this was written. There you see yourself considering various courses of action. For a moment you are aware of a sense of duality as you view this older self. You communicate with this other self. . . . Your future self heeds what you say. Now in the actual future you are the self who hears the voice of a past self, perhaps in a dream, or perhaps in a projection into the past. (Roberts 322)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

There is a strange phenomenon you will come across, from time to time, while you are projecting. I call this “Future Wind.”

You will be OOBE’ing somewhere, minding your own business, when all of a sudden you will feel an irresistible force. You will feel yourself being moved against your will, usually backwards, by this force. You can fight it for a while but it will grow steadily stronger until you are blown away; over the roof tops, up into the sky and . . . into the future.

Then, after a while, you will come down in a different place . . . and time. Often it will be somewhere mundane, maybe a domestic setting of some sort. You will be released there and left to wander about . . . confused. You may even meet people you do not know, yet, and they will be just as confused as you are.

This may be an actual scene out of your future life, it may be a symbolic vision, or a mixture of both. You may be an invisible spectator to this scene, or you may merge with your future self, and see out of your future eyes for a while.

This can also be a scene of an important future event. It could be a disaster, natural or otherwise, or something unusual or exciting on the world scene. These type of events usually have a lot of energy surrounding them, and this may be part of the reason for the vision.

The only explanations I can give for this are:

1. The intervention of your higher self: For some reason it decides that now is the time to show you something from your future.
2. Clairvoyant interference: Your Brow chakra has become clairvoyantly active and has tuned into a future setting. Your point of consciousness is caught up by this vision and projected into the vision.
3. A combination of both of the above - this is the most logical.

Karlis Osis and hypnotist J. Fahler found that hypnotized subjects scored significantly higher on precognition tests than nonhypnotized subjects. Other studies have also confirmed the ESP-enhancing effects of hypnosis. (Talbot 210)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

Features I have noticed with the future memory phenomenon are physical sensations at start and finish, akin to a chill, rush, lift, tickle, or “high.” (Atwater 217)JoNDE-PAresearcher • modern • Atwater

As with retrocognition, psychics report that precognitive information often appears to them in the form of three-dimensional images. Cuban-born psychic Tony Cordero says that when he sees the future it’s like watching a movie in his mind. . . . “I feel like I’m in the situation. I can hear people talking, but they cannot hear or see me.” (Talbot 208)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

A side effect began to manifest itself. It was not an out-of-body activity as such, but took place in states of deep relaxation prior to any separation. . . .

There would be a hissing sound, localized in the forebrain, and I would get the sensation of a small rectangular door, hinged at one end, swinging downward to an angle of about 45°. This exposed a perfectly round hole. Immediately thereafter, I would see and semiexperience an event or incident like a dream, except that I retained all of my consciousness and sense awareness. . . . I could not and cannot produce the effect at will. . . .

Each time the vision presented fitted exactly with events that occurred days, months, or years later. (Monroe 145, 151)JOotBOBEr • modern • Monroe

For the most part, the perceptions I had, and still have, are not full of drama. What I see is ordinary stuff. I see how people go through their days, or things that are meaningful in their lives. (Brinkley 76)APitLNDEr • modern • Brinkley

An example of precognition, or warning from the spirit teachers, happened one day when I was going to visit a friend. I was three blocks from her office when I was told that she wouldn’t be there, that she might have had a heart attack and that I was needed to give her a healing. I found the office locked, so I went to her apartment where I found her in a state of physical pain, holding her left arm to her body. (Brennan 161)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

One day when [Peter] was about fourteen years old he and his sister were sitting in the living room when he suddenly jumped from this seat and reached out, bending down to the floor as if to catch someone who was falling. As he did so he said to his sister, “Mrs. S. just fell. I saw her fall on the floor in her house. She has broken her hip on the left side. They will take her to St. Tara’s Hospital and she will be in room 218.” . . .

Peter had seen Mrs. S. fall at the time it happened. But he saw the hospital room and number before she was taken to the hospital. (Karagulla 195-196)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

[The symbolic dream], too, is the work of the ego, and, indeed, it might almost be defined as a less successful variant [of the prophetic dream]. . . .

A good example of this kind of dream was described by Sir Noel Paton in a letter to Mrs Crowe, published by the latter in The Night Side of Nature (p. 54) . . .

Ingo Swann, a gifted psychic . . . speaks of the future as composed of “crystallizing possibilities.” The Hawaiian kahunas . . . speak of the future as fluid, but in the process “crystallizing,” and believe that great world events are crystallized furthest in advance, as are the most important events in a person’s life, such as marriage, accidents, and death. (Talbot 212)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

Another result which follows from the ego’s super-normal method of time-measurement is that in some degree prevision is possible to him. . . .

Man . . . undoubtedly does possess free-will; and therefore, as remarked above, prevision is possible only to a certain extent. In the affairs of the average man it is probably possible to a very large extent, since he has developed no will of his own worth speaking of, and is consequently very largely the creature of circumstances. . . .

When we consider the vast number of events which can be but little affected by human action . . . a very large portion of the future may be foretold with considerable accuracy even as to detail. . . .

But when we come to deal with a developed individual—a man with knowledge and will—then prophecy fails us, for he is no longer the creature of circumstances but to a great extent their master. True, the main events of his life are arranged beforehand by his past karma NOTE: habits of thought; but the way in which he will allow them to affect him, the method by which he will deal with them, and perhaps triumph over them— these are his own. . . .

It is clear that at any given moment a body of causes is in action which, if not interfered with, will inevitably produce certain results. . . . A man of strong will can, by setting up new forces, largely modify these results; and these modifications could not be foreseen by any ordinary clairvoyance until after the new forces had been set in motion.(Leadbeater 38-41)Dclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

The theory of absolute determinism for everyone is false, and the theory of complete free will is equally erroneous. The truth lies between those two extremes. (Elahi 58)

The unchangeable destiny of each being is recorded . . . before it is brought into existence. . . .

The greatest part of our destiny . . . can be constantly modified according to these different influences—the most important of them being our will, our choices, our intentions, and our good and bad actions. (Elahi 60-61)PoPwisdom • Iranian • Elahi

Personal flashforwards NOTE: PFs usually occur within the context of an assessment of one’s life during an NDE (i.e., during a life review . . . ), although occasionally the PF is experienced as a subsequent vision. . . . To the NDEr they represent events of a conditional future—i.e., if he chooses to return to life, these events will ensue. . . . It is seemingly a part of his “life design” that will unfold if he returns to physical life. . . .

In some instances, the knowledge will manifest itself shortly after an NDE; in other cases, the individual will recall the knowledge only when the actual event happens. (Ring 183-184)

[Janis’s] PFs seem to have shown her a possible, contingent future, not her inevitable and fixed destiny. (Ring 189)

I learned that there is a time for me to die, and that particular time when I was giving birth was not it. Those beings showed me that if I continued down the path I was on at that time (it seems that I have complete freedom of choice) I would later be living HERE, and DOING THIS. I found myself in a place that was not [the town I expected to move to] and all three of our children were grown up. (Ring 184)HTOresearcher • modern • Ring

Without words, [the Being of Light] told me that everything I had just seen was in the future, but not necessarily cast in stone. “The flow of human events can be changed, but first people have to know what they are.” (Brinkley 58)SBtLNDEr • modern • Brinkley

The literature is filled with examples of people who were able to use their precognitive glimpses of the future to avoid disasters, instances in which individuals correctly foresaw the crash of a plane and avoided death by not getting on, or had a vision of their children being drowned in a flood and moved them out of harm’s way just in the nick of time. There are nineteen documented cases of people who had precognitive glimpses of the sinking of the Titanic—some were experienced by passengers who paid attention to their premonitions and survived. (Talbot 211)HUscientific, researcher • modern • Talbot

The key to growth is understanding we are given the ability to make mid-course corrections in our life and having the courage to make necessary changes when what we are doing is not working for us. By conquering fear and taking risks, our karmic pattern adjusts to the effects of new choices. (Newton 51)JoShypnosis • modern • Newton

Sometimes precognitive information will appear to be wrong. In some cases, this is because a different probable event has been chosen by the self for physical materialization. (Roberts 274)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

You can tune in to certain probabilities and predict “that they will occur,” but free will always operates. (Roberts 411)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

You do not form events alone. You are involved in a cooperative venture. . . .

You cooperate together to form the physical reality that you know, telepathically, through ways and means that are unknown to you. You weave webs of psychic reality that then coalesce into physical reality. (Roberts 411-412)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

Jane: “COMMENT: The next day a friend, Peter James, visited us. He had been having back trouble. As he sat on the couch, he suddenly buckled over with a spasm. We gave him aspirin. When he recovered, he offered to drive us to the garage to pick up our car.

“On the way, Peter suddenly went through a traffic light. We ended up in the wrong line of traffic, with cars coming at us from all directions. Vehicles in both other lanes had the green light, and we were right in their path. There was a squeal of brakes as the first car stopped less than two feet away. Yet, miraculously enough, there was no accident. Peter told us later that he just hadn’t seen the light.

“I didn’t even connect the dream and the physical event until I checked my dream records as usual that night.” (Roberts 251-252)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

Jane: “COMMENT: On July 10 NOTE: 7 days later, we visited Rob’s parents. In the course of conversation, my father-in-law told us that on July 3, from his window, he had watched a near-accident involving a motorcycle. Then he proceeded to outline my dream precisely, ending up with the remark: ‘Motorcycles are dangerous on a wet road’—the exact words I had spoken in the dream.

“Here, however, I think the precognitive event was actually the discussion with my father-in-law, rather than the incident itself.” (Roberts 253)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

Jane: “COMMENT: . . . Two days later, I was called to teach. This was only my second time out as a substitute. . . . Since I’d never been to this particular school, I left early.

“In the hallway, I was surprised to run into Anna Taylor. She lives in an apartment right at the corner of Walnut and Water Streets, but she was . . . barely an acquaintance—and we saw her rarely. I knew she was a teacher, but hadn’t the foggiest idea in what school. When she saw me, she burst out laughing, and said, “What? What?” in tones of great mock disbelief—as the woman had used in the dream. She didn’t know I was teaching. . . .

“Immediately she told me that her husband had called her two days previously to tell her that they must move. He was out of town and had just learned that he was to be transferred to another area. Anna said that she was terribly embarrassed since they had to move quickly, and she wouldn’t have time to give the proper notice.

“We met at lunch in the teacher’s room where we ate with a group of women, including one lovely, black girl. . . . Later, in a free period, she showed me her first-grade classroom, specifically pointing out the closet and mentioning the difficulty involved in helping the children hang up their clothes.

“After school I went home and sat down for a cup of coffee when the phone rang. It was Anna, calling to tell me that her husband had just called to say he had definitely rented a house in Albany.” (Roberts 254-256)SD&Pchanneled • modern • Seth

In the lower devachanic regions NOTE: mid-astral plane time is beginning to yield, and past, present, and future begin to melt into the now, though not yet wholly so. But we feel there the beginning of the blending which is perfected in loftier spheres. . . .

When the devachanic NOTE: upper astral plane is reached, humanity will have vision reaching forward into the future, creating causes which will be worked out in following centuries. . . . Then progress will be enormously swifter. (Besant 161-162)SLwisdom • Theosophy • Besant

If they are able to stand upon the higher levels of the plane, the long line of their past lives unrolls itself before them like a scroll; they see the karmic causes NOTE: habits of thought which have made them what they are; they see what karma still lies in front to be worked out. (Leadbeater 17)

If it be asked whether they can see the future as clearly as the past, the answer must be in the negative, for that faculty belongs to a still higher plane, and though in this mental plane prevision is to a great extent possible to them, yet it is not perfect. (Leadbeater 18)DPclairvoyant • Theosophy • Leadbeater

By necessity, we interpret our perceptions of higher planes through the perceptions of the physical plane, since that is where we are. By the same token, when Michael is not being channeled, they see us energetically, almost as though we were causal ourselves.

Michael: We see the causal energy of physical-plane action. That is primarily how we know you. This energy is more real and prominent to us than your physical body. It provides much information to our direct vision, telling us what is fundamentally going on. However, we cannot read the New York Times, for instance, unless we are being channeled. (Hoodwin 344)JoYSchanneled • modern • Hoodwin

Dr. Peebles: I don’t visually see you as you see each other. I see energy patterns and waves, like heat off hot tar, but with color and change and movement. (Pendleton 28)

Don: When you have been counseling an individual . . . often they will be across the room from you, while Thomas’s eyes are closed—and they are . . . preparing to break in, to speak while you are speaking, and we have seen you pause, evidently aware of their desire, and give them permission to speak.

Dr. Peebles: Yes. It is not because of any physical vision. It’s because between all life there is connection, there is synchronicity, there is a field of energy that is disturbed or affected by every movement and every thought—and . . . the thoughts and emotions have a much more dramatic effect on the field of energy than physical movements. (Pendleton 29)TDAchanneled • modern • Pendleton

If there existed a community of blind people—people who had no idea of what was meant by sight, and had never even heard of such a faculty—how would they be likely to feel with regard to one who claimed that he could see? (Leadbeater 205)GHLcompilation • modern • many

[Elizabeth Denton] could see objects as well in total darkness as in daylight. She could pick up an object and hold it quietly in her hand and immediately a moving picture of scenes and places, often totally unknown to her, would go through her mind. These pictures had peculiar clarity and focus. She decided that she must have a very vivid imagination. From time to time she saw in these moving pictures scenes and places which she had not previously visited. Later on when she saw these places and they looked exactly like her precognitive pictures she passed it off as some kind of strange coincidence. (Karagulla 216)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

My first internal vision experience happened early one morning as I was lying in bed observing the interesting muscle and bone structure on the back of my husband’s neck as he lay asleep on his side beside me. I thought it was very interesting the way the muscles connected into the cervical vertebrae. Suddenly I became aware of what I was doing and quickly cut off such seeing. I would not “return” to that level of reality for some time, saying that I had made it all up. Of course, eventually, it came back. (Brennan 157)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan

As I met more and more people with Higher Sense Perception I found many individuals holding responsible positions, highly respected in their work or their profession. They were very reticent about any HSP abilities and usually carefully concealed such abilities. (Karagulla 78)

I was continually surprised to find how many members of the medical profession had HSP abilities and were using them. . . . Most of them felt a little uneasy about their gifts, but finding them of value in their work they used them. Almost without exception they kept quiet about their unusual talents because they feared any mention of such things might hurt their professional standing. In most cases each had felt that perhaps he was alone and peculiar in this regard. (Karagulla 78)

It was fortunate that [Vicky] did not try to suppress the ability and was not troubled by the fact that grown-ups could not accept such things. She simply learned to screen what she said and did not doubt that some of the things she saw in this way were true. (Karagulla 189)

Most of the time, [Peter] said nothing about these things because he had been reprimanded for saying things he could not possibly know. (Karagulla 195)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

In a great many of the case history studies of such individuals I found that they were not clearly aware of the gifts they were using. In some cases as in that of Mr. Nigel they did not know where the usual sense perceptions ended and another type of perception began. (Karagulla 116)

Phoebe Payne was not aware until she reached adult life that other people could not see the things she saw. From very early life she saw a field of force around human beings that changed in color and intensity with their emotions and attitudes or their state of health. She learned to judge the quality of people’s character by the color and condition of this energy field which she saw around them. She was frequently puzzled that other people did not know when some individual was lying. It seemed strange to her that others could not spot a dishonest person. It was so obvious to her. (Karagulla 228-229)

Early in my conversation with him I asked him point blank if he were clairvoyant. He was astonished and assured me he was not.

We proceeded to talk for several hours about some of his discoveries. I had just about come to the conclusion that he had no particular Higher Sense Perception when I asked one more leading question. How did he make his discoveries? He replied in his quaint idiom, “Oh, I see me do it.”

“What do you mean, ‘I see me do it?” I inquired, puzzled.

“I see me do it, like TV, like the movies,” he said.

“Do you mean you see it in your mind?” I asked.

“No, no. Like on the wall in front of me. Just like a moving picture on the wall.”

Apparently he thought this was nothing unusual, so I proceeded cautiously. “How long have you been able to do this?” I asked.

“Since I was very small, in the Canary Islands. Long before there is TV I have my own TV. I see things in many places, things happening in the world like the newscast. I tell my brothers and sisters like stories, many things happening in the world, things that really are happening.” He went on to explain that when he was working on some experiment he saw himself in moving pictures on the wall in front of him doing things in a laboratory that solves the problem on which he was working.

Here was a man who had told me he was not clairvoyant. It was just one of those things and as far as he was concerned it wasn’t unusual. (Karagulla 118)BtCresearcher • modern • Karagulla

“In parapsychological experiments generally, positive disposition toward the experimental situation and toward all persons involved in the study are found to be psi-conducive. . . .

Other sets of laboratory findings, especially those that emphasize the psi-facilitating qualities of spontaneity, absence of striving, and release of effort, are consistent with spiritual teachings of the importance and power of “grace.” (Braud 145)

Laboratory research has demonstrated that too much rational, analytical, interpretive thought can indeed interfere with accurate psychic functioning. . . . Overly structured, linear thinking has been shown to be psi-antagonistic, whereas a more fluid, spontaneous, creative mode of mental functioning (typically, one that is also rich in imagery) is psi-favorable. . . . Psychic access improves when the drunken monkey of the mind is tranquilized and calmed through meditation and meditation-like techniques familiar to all spiritual seekers. (Braud 147-148)BMSresearchers • modern • Tart

“Psychics . . . tend to be extraverted and spontaneous in their behavior. Studies also show that people who believe they will perform well at a given psi task do tend to “score significantly.” Likewise, nonbelievers tend not to score well and sometimes even deviate from chance in their negative performances. . . . NOTE: Just as psychic but using it negatively!

Kenneth Batcheldor (1984), who studied the psychology of psychokinesis, wrote of “unwavering conviction,” conviction so calm and self-assured that it does not become astonished (or frightened) by success. . . .

In the group dynamic of psi experimentation, it is sometimes the experimenter’s charisma and enthusiasm that generates the psi. . . .

A psi-favorable group dynamic involved a gamelike attitude, marked by good humor, song, spontaneity, and camaraderie. (Grosso 109-111)BMSresearchers • modern • Tart

Individuals allow the impingement of doubts and fears to rush in and overwhelm them when it comes to the recognition of these Great Faculties, which are free for their use at any time. You see, they are but submerged as it were, by the outer, like a cork that has been pushed beneath the water, which when released by a little effort, pops up to the surface into use. (King 68)IADchanneled • Theosophy • Germain

In general there needn’t be anything about psychic experiences that—like a marker or label—distinguishes them from ordinary subjective experiences. . . . There may be no way in principle to distinguish ordinary sorts of thoughts and feelings from those that have an underlying paranormal causal history. . . .

The non-experimental evidence also buttresses laboratory data suggesting that telepathy and clairvoyance are at least two-stage processes. The initial interaction might occur unconsciously, and then later the information received might bubble up to the surface in a form that is both convenient and appropriate. Similarly, telepathic influence needn’t manifest immediately. Like post-hypnotic suggestions, the effects of such influence might be delayed until an appropriate time. . . .

For all we know, psi influence might have been biasing the results of centuries of scientific experimentation. (Braude 121-122)BMSresearchers • modern • Tart

We find ourselves using new language to communicate our new experiences. Terms like “bad vibes” or “the energy there was great” are becoming household phrases. . . . We can tell when someone is staring at us, and we look up to see who it is. We may have a feeling that something is going to happen, and then it does. . . . We “know” things, but we don’t always know how we know. . . . Sometimes during an argument with someone we may feel as if something is being pulled out of our solar plexus, or we may feel “stabbed.” We may feel as if we have been punched in the stomach. . . . On the other hand, we sometimes feel surrounded by love, caressed by it, bathed in a sea of sweetness, blessings and light. All these experiences have a reality in the energy fields. Our old world of solid concrete objects is surrounded by and permeated with a fluid world of radiating energy, constantly moving, constantly changing like the sea. (Brennan 19)HoLclairvoyant • modern • Brennan