Clairvoyance explained

MANILA, Philippines -- Science has no satisfactory explanation of clairvoyance and several other psychic phenomena.

In fact, science tries so hard to discredit them because these powers are not always duplicable or repeatable under laboratory conditions.

Open-minded investigators, on the other hand, have merely observed and documented the phenomena without trying to explain them.

This is where the ancient and largely misunderstood occult science is helpful. Our explanation will be derived from occult literature.

Although the explanation is entirely unprovable and may even sound “fantastic” and “incredible,” it offers a fresh view, a mental handle with which to grasp such a nebulous power.

Eastern literature explains clairvoyance in relation to the astral plane. All our physical faculties and senses have counterparts in the astral plane.

Vibrations from all objects are received by astral faculties and transmitted to the consciousness of humans. It takes much practice and discipline to do this, i.e. to make it conscious.

But every person possesses such faculty or power. In other words, it is natural to have such powers.

2 ways of seeing

There are two ways to see clairvoyantly. One is by focusing on a distant object and seeing through the “astral tube.” Another is through projection of the astral body and observing a scene through astral vision.

Through astral projection, a clairvoyant can literally observe and hear what is going on anywhere and report this to the physical consciousness. This ability is much more difficult to accomplish consciously compared to the “astral tube” method.

When we are in the astral body in the astral plane, it is possible to travel “to any point within the limits of this planet.”

People often travel in their astral body in their sleep. Some travel consciously in their waking moments, a few have learned to travel consciously and at will in their waking moments.

However, from years of teaching remote viewing (or traveling clairvoyance), I have come to believe that astral projection is not necessarily involved.

It is possible to project one’s consciousness or awareness to a distant place, describing it accurately, without leaving the body.

But at least once in my class, a person doing remote viewing was actually seen in the house he was looking at mentally. He was described accurately by a person in the house though he was not there physically.

Mental process

What is the mental process in clairvoyance? How does a clairvoyant see?

Many psychics cannot explain or describe what happens. Juan Matus tried for years to explain to anthropologist Carlos Castañeda to “see” the world and not to be content with “looking.”

But, after many years of intensive apprenticeship and four bestselling books (beginning with “The Teachings of Don Juan”), Castañeda still could not understand what it meant to “see.”

Clairvoyant Olof Jonsson asked how he could accurately describe what card would come up next during a demonstration of his psychic powers, told Brad Steiger:

“It is very hard to describe. I just see it. I feel it first in my mind, then I try to visualize it. When I begin to search for it, to visualize it, it will materialize in my mind.”

While Bradley was testing Jonsson, Jonsson’s eye suddenly lit up. Asked why, Jonsson replied:

“I just happened to see something. One of the (laughing) girls is talking about her legs. Yes, I see now that it is Betty (his wife). She is stroking her leg and asking Marilyn whether or not her leg is beginning to sunburn.”

Bradley asked, “You mean you could see the girls, just like watching a moving picture of them?”

Jonsson replied, “Ja (yes), I could see them. I just wanted to know what they were doing and if they were all right.”

Betty later confirmed what Jonsson saw.

Many people are clairvoyant to a lesser or greater degree without knowing it. This is one of the most common psychic abilities. Often, it manifests spontaneously or involuntarily.

A person who sees a spirit, whether a departed person, a nature or elemental like a dwarf or fairy, or the astral body of a person, is a clairvoyant.

I am of the opinion that clairvoyant vision need not involve the use of sight. One can see a spirit or non-physical entity with eyes closed. I have seen ghosts on several occasions with my eyes closed. I have also talked to people with a similar experience.

So how does clairvoyance occur? What is its mechanism? No one has explained the phenomenon adequately. We can only speculate.

For me, clairvoyance can be explained by the fact that humans are composed of body and spirit. We have two types or levels of faculties, physical and spiritual.

When we see things in the physical world we use our external or physical sense of sight. When we see non-physical things we are simply using our spiritual or inner faculties.

Some people can shift their focus of attention voluntarily from the physical to the spiritual sense of sight. Neuroscientist Dr. Lawrence Leshan describes this as from “ordinary sensory reality” to “clairvoyant reality.”

Most people do not have such deliberate capacity. It happens spontaneously.

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