Psychic Mind: Metaphysical Terms and Psychic Devices

Metaphysical Terms and Psychic Devices by Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A.

Three basic terms indicating psychic abilities or talents are: clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience. In popular media imagery, the clairvoyant is often portrayed as a gypsy fortune teller wearing a bandana on her head and gazing pensively, mysteriously into a crystal ball where supposedly pictures appear and foretell the future. That’s how poorly understood the concept of psychic clairvoyance is to this very day. The Objectivists, the Materialists, the Technologists all are well-understood in popular culture, while subjectivism, mysticism, spirituality and psychic matters are not and often disparaged. Psychics and psychic practices remain part of a fringe culture and are thought to be kooks and self-deluded crazies or cons by mainstream materialists.

Clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience, however, have always been experienced by tuned-in human beings. Maybe even by the Great Ape but we don’t know that for sure. He never said. Clairvoyance or “clear seeing” involves inner pictures that appear, it often seems, in the forehead region where ancient psychic lore tells us the Third Eye resides, that which is connected to the pineal gland. When that opens, it is said, we see images with our inner eye, and those pictures are sometimes MEANING-FULL. They have referents, and may refer to future events, depending on the discussion at hand when such images appear in the head of a clairvoyant type psychic.

Clairaudience is similar, but like clairvoyance, it may be of two types. Our inner hearing may be audible, or it may be impressionistic, an impression of a heard voice. Similarly, a clairvoyant image or picture may be actual or an impression of what is being seen. I have experienced actual or true clairaudience at least twice in my life. The first time, while a passenger in a car that was about to crash, a voice yelled “Wake up!” A split second later I turned and yelled at the driver who had fallen asleep at the wheel, “Wake up!” and we avoided what might have been a tragic auto accident. Many years later, while typing on a book manuscript, the distinct voice of my dying Uncle Frank spoke in my right ear. “I’m goin’ now, Dick,” he told me. He had come to say goodbye. He was back in Michigan, and I was up in the northern Philippines half way around the world. But when I do my psychic channeling from Spirit, the inner voice is impressionistic, not actual or typically auditory.

Clairsentience has to do with our inner feeling or sensing nature. We humans are said to be sentient beings, at the head of the food chain. As carnivores, we are free to eat our way down to the lowest mini-micro-organism. Yum! But seriously, the clairsentient type of psychic person feels his and her way through life. “I have a feeling” such and such is going to happen, and it does. “I sense that” the old maple in the front yard is going to fall on the roof, and it does. Cee-rash! But, if a tree falls in a forest and there is no ear to hear it, clairaudient or not, does it make a sound? But back to my point: clairsentients are like people with extra-sensory radar. They feel their way through life, and if they train themselves to be aware of and interpret their meaningful sensations, they may be called clairsentient.

Psychics come in all forms and combinations, but clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairsentience are the three psychic talents that top the list. Whether a psychic is doing the Ouija Board or reading Tarot Cards or holding a dowsing rod or pendulum, one or more of the above are in operation mentally, psychically. We are MINDS wearing a body. We are SPIRIT-MINDS housed in a seemingly physical body. Are we real, or are we illusory? Only God knows. But we are all, more or less, developed or not, naturally psychic. Even certain objectivist scientists who are often in denial. Being psychic is the nature of the animal. 

 

Richard Lee Van Der Voort, M.A. Please see my website that includes books, blogs and psychic services at http://psychicconsultingbyemail.com. For more information about psychic readings my e-mail my address is psychicmind.vandervoort231@gmail.com