Clear seers

Clairvoyance comes from two French words that mean “to see clearly.” It is the ability or power to have full knowledge or awareness of what has happened or what is happening elsewhere (sometimes in great distances) without using any of the physical senses.

Clairvoyance can also mean “the faculty of seeing with the inner eye or spiritual sight.”

Documented clairvoyant abilities are numerous.

Blind seeress

Vanga Dimitrova was called the blind seeress of Bulgaria. She lived near the Greek border in the small town of Petrich.

Dimitrova found missing people, helped solve crimes, diagnosed disease and read the past. But her greatest gift was prophecy.

Her case was thoroughly studied by Dr. Georgi Lozanov, a physician and psychiatrist, who headed the Institute of Suggestology and Parapsychology in Sofia and Petrich. Scientists who worked with Dimitrova called her an honorable woman.

This example of her ability is taken from the book “Psychic Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain” by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder.

When Dimitrova moved to Petrich after marrying Dimitri Georgeyev (a marriage she foresaw), neighbor Boris Gurov, a middle-age farmer, immediately consulted her. His 15-year-old younger brother Nikola disappeared in 1923. The family searched everywhere but did not find any clues.

“I see him. He’s alive!” Dimitrova told him. “I see your brother Nikola in a great town in Russia. He grew up there. He’s a scientist. But… he is not there now. He’s a slave to the Germans… Don’t worry, though, he’ll come to you early this spring. You can recognize him by the gray uniform. He’ll be carrying two suitcases.”

It was too bizarre. Gurov could not buy the idea that his brother was a Soviet scientist, much less that he was in a concentration camp at that moment. He went home convinced he would never know the truth. But he related Dimitrova’s tale to his family.

According to reports, two months later, at dawn of a spring morning, a stranger stopped wearily in front of Gurov’s house. He had two suitcases. He did not look familiar to anyone in the village, including Gurov.

It was Nikola, returning after almost 20 years. He was wearing a gray uniform. All that Dimitrova said to Gurov about Nikola was confirmed.

According to the book, “Vanga says she has no control over the mental images that form in her mind’s eye. They have to come naturally and can’t be forced. They may be about the past, present or the future. Vanga has no way of knowing which period of time will suddenly light up.”

Although Dimitrova was not right all the time because her psychic powers did not work occasionally, the percentage of her accuracy was way beyond the statistical figure attributed to chance.

Most studied

Olof Jonsson, a Swedish clairvoyant or psychic, was probably one of the most studied, aside from the American Eileen Garrett, of all sensitives in the contemporary world.

His psychic feats were so well documented that there was little doubt about his extraordinary powers.

Brad Steiger, author of several books on the occult and psychic phenomena, wrote the biography of this Swedish wonder, “The Psychic Feats of Olof Jonsson.” The following was taken from there:

“On Oct. 24, 1970, when a television production crew was preparing to film a New Year’s Eve Special featuring Jonsson and some of Sweden’s brightest actors and entertainers, several Swedish newspapers and magazines sent reporters to interview him for special holiday features.

‘One of the reporters, Oke Winslow, telephones me from a hotel to set up an interview with me,’ Olof smiled. ‘I had never met him before, so he thought he would try to test me over the telephone and asked me what he looked like.

‘I told him that he had a round face, a beard and that he had started a bad habit of smoking cigars. He asked me how he was dressed, and I said that he had just come from the shower, so he wasn’t dressed at all. He laughed and told me that I was correct. I could see him clearly.’”

Jonsson was also able to solve a brutal multiple murder case without the slightest clue, located three girls in a famous missing persons case, correctly identified an object concealed inside a box as Hitler’s ashtray and literally stopped a clock by merely looking at it and willing it to stop.

In this field he shared top billing with better-known Dutch clairvoyant Gerard Croiset, who made crime-busting his specialty.
Croiset’s amazing story is told by magazine reporter Jack H. Pollack in “Croiset, The Clairvoyant.” He has been called “The Man who Mystifies Europe,” “The Dutchman with the X-Ray Mind,” “The Radar Brain,” “The Wizard of Utrecht.”

His teacher, professor W. H. C. Tenhaeff, director of the Parapsychology Institute at the University of Utrecht, refers to Croiset as a “paragnoist,” a word he coined from the Greek words para meaning “beyond’ and gnosis meaning “knowledge.”

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