Abilites explained
Psychic abilities tabulated and discussed
To give you a better understanding of Psychic
Abilities I assembled this page with some definitions and explanations.
Psychic ability is not just one single
thing. There are actually several different types of
ability and different psychics will have various levels of skill in these different areas. For
example:
One reader may be skillfull in "seeing" things (clairvoyance) while
another derives most of their information from "feelings" (clairsentience). One psychic may be
excellent with numbers, dates and details while another may be better with feelings or nuances of
realtionships. One may be better at reading conditions in your physical body while another may be
more accurate with future predictions. Some psychics feel they look and see with their own ability
while others feel they are being given the information from some outside source or spiritual
entity.
To give you a better understanding of the various talents and skills
involved I've listed many of them and then I discuss each one.
Reading through these paragraphs will give you much better idea of how
psychics work, and how different psychics work differently. By giving you an idea of what to look
for, this information may even help you uncover some of your own talent in these areas.
Some are singular abilities, others are practices which involve
combinations of the various skills or talents.
Types of
Psychic Abilities:
Here is a list and then I describe each one below:
Clairvoyance Clairaudience Clairsentience Psychometry Channeling Reading Auras
Mediumship Astral Travel Past Life Reading Healing
Clairvoyance
Taken literally, clairvoyance means: "clear-vision" or "clear-seeing."
Likewise, clairaudience means "clear-hearing" and clairsentience means "clear-sensing" or
"clear-feeling." These terms are used to indicate a level of ability beyond normal physical
perception. They refer to the "psychic" level of ability related to that sense. They mean
psychic-vision, psychic-hearing and psychic-feeling, respectively.
A clairvoyant is a one who has this clear-vision or psychic-vision.
They see things that others do not. They may perceive the energetic aura surrounding the physical
body or they may see apparitions or spirits which inhabit another dimension of existence. They may
see visions of future or past events. These could be premonitions, prophetic visions or scenes from
past-lives. Or they may see abstract energy patterns which represent tendencies, probabilities, or
the energies and feelings exchanged between people in their relationships.
In this discussion the word 'clear' may be a misnomer. In clairvoyance
the idea of "clear" does not necessarily mean sharp, detailed or focused as it would mean with
normal vision. Psychic or clairvoyant perceptions are sometimes vague, unfocused or symbolic. In
the meaning of the term clairvoyance, "clear" simply means a special kind of seeing that others are
not capable of or have not developed.
With psychic perception, unfocused or symbolic does not mean
meaningless or inaccurate. The perception is slightly different than normal seeing and must be used
or interpreted in different ways. Sometimes clairvoyant vision gives accurate and specific pictures
of persons, scenes or events. At other times it may give symbolic pictures, shapes or patterns
which need to be interpreted. In practice, clairvoyant ability is a mixture of these things and the
skilled psychic knows how to explain or interpret them. With experience they know which clairvoyant
visions or pictures are literal and which are symbolic.
Some psychic abilities (though not all) come in the form of the senses
(seeing, hearing or feeling things which others cannot detect). Each of these is a specific
ability. A person may have one of these abilities and not the others. The more developed often have
all of these (plus others). A psychic may received randomly through any of these senses or they may
tune into a specific sense for certain types of information. For instance, if I am looking to the
future or past for events and timing, it is visual input. If I am listening for messages from
departed loved ones or spirit guides the input is auditory (hearing). For information about the
body I get feelings in various areas of my own body plus pictures. Sometimes sensitives (another
term for psychics) smell things, which are not actually present in the physical, and the smell has
great meaning (I do not know of a specific word for this phenomenon).
In general usage, the term clairvoyant is often used to mean general
psychic ability including input from any of the senses. It is the most common term of the three
(clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience). Discussing each of these terms and abilities
separately takes us deeper into specific areas of psychic ability and gives us a better
understanding of how it all works.
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Clairaudience
Clairaudience means
"clear-hearing". This is the ability to hear things from the spiritual dimensions. This type of
information usually comes through in voices and words.
In the early stages, this phenomenon may seem like the voice in your
head that is talking to you, as if you are talking to yourself in your mind. As the ability
develops, the voices will come to have different qualities and clearly come from different sources.
The clairaudient person, when asking spiritual sources for guidance, will receive responses in
words and sentences. For some of you this may seem strange, for others it is a very common
experience.
The voices can be quite clear, speak in clear sentences or paragraphs,
or carry on a conversation with you. At this level the activity could be called telepathy.
Telepathy itself has many forms and levels as well but that is a discussion for a separate article.
True clairaudient ability is not psychosis, it is not pathological. Information coming through in
this way can be very positive, accurate and beneficial.
There are various types of beings who may be heard through
clairaudient perception. These include departed loved ones, spirit guides, angles, Ascended Masters
or ET's. (See article on "Types of Spiritual Entities").
Clairaudience can certainly bring voice tone, inflection, male/female
voice types and anything else we would normally receive through hearing. It is less common, though
quite possible, to hear sounds which are not voices such as background sounds (wind, water,
animals) or even stranger things. Some clairaudient experiences have been referred to as the
"voices of angles," the "angelic choir" or the "trumpets of Gabrielle." These are sounds that
sensitive people actually hear, they are not metaphors.
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Clairsentience
Clairsentience
means "clear-sensing" or clear-feeling. Psychics pick up information through feeling. Focusing on a
question present by a client may immediately bring certain feelings. For the clairsentient these
instant feelings have great meaning and can be highly accurate.
Such a feeling could be in a specific part of ones body. This may draw
the psychic's or healer's attention to that part for further exploration, or it may represent what
the other person (client) is actually feeling. Empathy and empathic ability are forms of
clairsentience. (Empathy is actually feeling another persons feelings, as distinct from
sympathy.)
I have heard it said that you cannot feel another persons feelings. I
know from experience this is not correct. You CAN feel anther's feelings. It is called empathic
ability. It has also been said that you cannot see through another's eyes. I know this to be untrue
as well. You can. It is a particular clairvoyant ability and one can see exactly what another sees
under the proper circumstances. One can also see exactly what an animal sees. This is a little
known ability used by gifted Native Americans and other Shamans for certain purposes.
Empathic ability enables one to resonate with another or with a group
so as to feel their feelings within your own body. When taken to the extreme this can have
drawbacks. There are times when I am so sensitive that if I am in the same room with a sick person
I feel their symptoms in my own body (This can certainly be disconcerting and requires shielding
and protection). If someone comes up next to me in a waiting line or a group who is badly troubled,
conflicted or ill, I may feel it immediately and will sometimes move or even choose to get out of
line. This is a high degree of empathic ability and sometimes requires precautions.
On the positive side, clairsentience gives an expanded ability to
understand another person or to tune into physical conditions to gain psychic information. Hands-on
energetic healers use this ability in many ways, not only passively, to sense things about
another's body, but also actively, to balance and change conditions.
A clairsentient experience may be the touch of someone who is not
there (in the physical), the touch of an angel or the healing energy from a source beyond the
physical. Many of us have prayed to Christ and felt an immediate change in our bodies, elimination
of pain or conditions or a shift in muscles or bones. This is a dramatic clairsentient
experience.
From these explanations you can begin to understand that psychic
ability is not just one single thing. It is many abilities and can be very extensive.
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Psychometry
Psychometry is the
practice of holding an object in one's hand and getting impressions from it. These can come in the
form of pictures, visions, feelings, etc. If the object has been with a person for some time such
as a ring, watch, wallet or clothing, certain predominant thoughts or feelings are somehow stored
in the object. This can also occur if the object is worn for only a brief time but through a period
of intense feelings or thought.
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Channeling
Channeling is the
practice of allowing a spirit or entity from a non-physical dimension speak through the psychic or
channeler. Sometimes the entity takes over the body of the channeler. This is not the same thing as
possession. With possession, the subject is out of control and the entity has negative intent.
Channeling is done intentionally to allow a non-physical entity to communicate with us embodied
humans. Usually higher wisdom and knowledge comes through that is inspiring or helps people solve
problems.
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Reading
Auras
There is an energy field around the human body
and clairvoyants can see this. It is commonly referred to as the Aura. It can also be
photographed by Kirlian Photography although I am not sure that what is recorded by this
method is what clairvoyants actually see. The aura, by it's shapes and colors, can represent
various states of the body and personality. Often illnesses can be seen in the aura before
they become physical. Moods can show up in the aura as various colors. Aspects of personality
can be seen in the shapes of the this energy field, how far it extends, whether it folds back
on itself (introverted) or extends outward to connect with others (extraverted). Whether the
person is clear minded or confused can show up as shapes being clear, well defined with
bright colors or dull and cloudy with faded colors. There are endless possibilities to the
various aspects of the aura and these all have meaning to the clairvoyant.
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