Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Clairvoyance

Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than "clear-seeing," and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety show. Even in its more restricted sense it covers a wide range of phe...

Chapters

7. Chapter 7

Clairvoyance in time--that is to say, the power of reading the past and the future--is, like all the other varieties, possessed by different people in very varying degrees, rang...

8. Chapter 8

Even if, in a dim sort of way, we feel ourselves able to grasp the idea that the whole of the past may be simultaneously and actively present in a sufficiently exalted conscious...

4. Chapter 4

We have defined this as the capacity to see events or scenes removed from the seer in space and too far distant for ordinary observation. The instances of this are so numerous a...

1. Chapter 1

Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than "clear-seeing," and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the tricker...

9. Chapter 9

When a man becomes convinced of the reality of the valuable power of clairvoyance, his first question usually is, "How can I develop in my own case this faculty which is said to...

2. Chapter 2

We have defined this as a mere opening of etheric or astral sight, which enables the possessor to see whatever may be present around him on corresponding levels, but is not usua...

6. Chapter 6

Under this heading we may group together all those cases in which visions of some event which is taking place at a distance are seen quite unexpectedly and without any kind of p...

3. Chapter 3

The experiences of the untrained clairvoyant--and be it remembered that that class includes all European clairvoyants except a very few--will, however, usually fall very far sho...

5. Chapter 5

Under this rather curious title I am grouping together the cases of all those people who definitely set themselves to see something, but have no idea what the something will be,...