Clairsentience (From the French clair, “clear,” + sentience, “feeling,” ultimately derived from the Latin clarus, “clear,” + sentiens, derived from sentire, “to feel”) is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person acquires psychic knowledge primarily by means of feeling. Clairsentience is often considered to be a form of clairvoyance.^[1] Extra-sensory perception (ESP), is defined in parapsychology as the paranormal ability to acquire information by means such as telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. ... A psychic is a person who is able to experience extra-sensory perception, such as clairvoyance, psychometry, and precognition, or who has other paranormal abilities such as psychokinesis. ... In parapsychology, clairvoyance [from late 17th century French clair (clear) & voyant (seeing)] denotes a form of extra-sensory perception in which a psychic acquires knowledge about a contemporary object, situation, or event via paranormal means. ...

Psychometry is related to clairsentience. The word stems from psyche and metric, which means "to measure with the mind". Psychometry is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a psychic holds an object in his or her hands in order to obtain information about the object or its owner. ... Psyche can refer to: In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person. ... See: International System of Units, colloquially called the Metric System, and also metrication. ...

The paradigm of clairsentience

Unlike empirical science, which hopes to measure the material world, and then to gradually reach understandings of its workings through repeated testing, the mind and its contents appears to be a somewhat more difficult thing to decribe and quantify. Descartes, after many years of dedicated reasoning, came to the conclusion that no one could prove beyond a doubt that anything coming into the self via the senses could be proved to objectively exist, including measurements and graphs; other people's research; indeed, the whole external world. As ethnobotanist Terence McKenna put it, "you are at the centre of the only universe you will ever know."^[2] René Descartes René Descartes (IPA: , March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650), also known as Cartesius, worked as a philosopher and mathematician. ... In philosophy, the self is the idea of a unified being which is the source of an idiosyncratic conciousness. ... Senses Senses are a UK based alternative rock band from Coventry. ... Ethnobotany is the study of the relationship between plants and people: Fromethno - study of people and botany - study of plants. ... Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was a writer and philosopher. ... Universe is a word derived from the Old French univers, which in turn comes from the Latin roots unus (one) and versus (a form of vertere, to turn). Based on observations of the observable universe, physicists attempt to describe the whole of space-time, including all matter and energy and...

The word "clairsentience" itself pre-supposes a self,and new senses and sense organs. Barbara Brennan, an ex-NASA scientist, developed clairsentience to a very advanced level.^[3] Her work in this area gives a broader and deeper understanding on the relationships of higher sense perception, including clairaudience, clairvoyance, claircognisance, and clairsentience, as well as their relationships to higher worlds or dimensions of the universe and self. Barbara Brennan is an author, educator, public speaker, and spiritual healer and has been doing metaphysical healing for 30 years. ... The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an agency of the United States Government, responsible for that nations public space program. ... Clairaudience is the ability to hear things not audible within normal hearing ranges. ... In parapsychology, clairvoyance [from late 17th century French clair (clear) & voyant (seeing)] denotes a form of extra-sensory perception in which a psychic acquires knowledge about a contemporary object, situation, or event via paranormal means. ...

Her approach contextualises these newly discovered layers of reality within the framework of the holographic theory of the universe suggested by physicist David Bohm in his book The Implicate Order, in which he calls the manifest reality "the explicate enfolded order," in which "parts are seen to be in immediate connection, in which their dynamical relationships depend in an irreducible way on the state of the whole system... Thus, one is led to a new notion of unbroken wholeness which denies the classical idea of analyzability of the world into separately and independently existent parts."^[4] Holography (from the Greek, Όλος-holos whole + γραφή-graphe writing) is the science of producing holograms; it is an advanced form of photography that allows an image to be recorded in three dimensions. ... David Bohm. ...

The Morphogenic field hypothesis of Rupert Sheldrake is explored in his book A New Science of Life. The action of this field involves "action at a distance" in both space and time. Rather than form being determined by physical laws outside of time, it depends on morphic resonance across time. This means that morphic fields can propagate across space and time and that past events could influence other events everywhere else.^[5] An example of this is shown by Lyall Watson in his book Lifetide: The Biology of Consciousness in which he describes what is now popularly called the Hundredth Monkey effect. Watson found that after a group of monkeys learned a new behaviour, other monkeys on other islands with no possible "normal" means of communication learned that behaviour as well.^[6] A morphic field (a term introduced by Rupert Sheldrake, the major proponent of this concept, through his Hypothesis of Formative Causation) is described as consisting of patterns that govern the development of forms, structures and arrangements. ... Rupert Sheldrake Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, born 28th June 1942 [1] is a British biologist and author. ... In physics, spacetime is a mathematical model that combines three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time into a single construct called the space-time continuum, in which time plays the role of the 4th dimension. ... Dr. Lyall Watson (born April 12, 1939) is a botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist, ethologist, and author of many new age books, among the most popular of which is the best seller Supernature. ... The Hundredth Monkey Effect is the name for a supposed phenomenon in which a particular learned behaviour spread instantaneously from one group of animals, once a critical number was reached, to all related animals in the region or perhaps throughout the world. ...

Barbara Brennan's work in this area gives a broad and highly detailed context for understanding unusually developed senses and perhaps a new understanding of other mechanisms in the universe whereby knowledge, feelings, thoughts and other objects in time and space might travel across boundaries; for example, between a bird and a tree; between a monkey and another monkey; or between a human and another human through a connectedness previously thought not to exist.

As Robert Anton Wilson put it, Quoting Arthur C. Clarke,^[7], "any technology or science sufficiently far removed from one's own will be percieved as magic".^[8] The idea of a new, higher state of consciousness is being discussed by integrated philosophers such as Ken Wilber, whereby the next stage of human evolution is not to be a physical innovation, but will be one of the mind.^[9] Just as roaming homonids, with a culture that didn't change much for millenia, were replaced by homo sapiens, and their art, religion, language, etc., so the next leap of human development will perhaps be just as huge and qualitatively different. It has been suggested that Timothy F.X. Finnegan be merged into this article or section. ... Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (born December 16, 1917) is a British author and inventor, most famous for his science-fiction novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. ... Ken Wilber Kenneth Earl Wilber Jr. ... Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man) is the scientific name for the human species. ...

altered states matereal

There are perhaps three other contexts in which clarsentience might be understood.

• 1.Altered state of consciousness which may be achieved by the use of a sensory deprivation tank ; mind-control techniques, hypnosis, meditation, prayer ; disciplines such as Mantra Meditation, Yoga, Sufism, Shamanic Drumming (see Shamanism), repetative dancing (like the shakers or the british acid house movement (see The Shamen ) or spinning and whilrling of the Sufi whirling Dervish, the Mevlevi or Surat Shabda Yoga. It is also sometimes attained through the ingestion of psychoactive drugs such as alcohol or opiates; psychoactive plants and chemicals such as LSD (see Timothy Leary) ; for DMT research see Rick Strassman "DMT the SPirit Molecule " ; DXM, 2C-I, ; marijuana (see Rastafari movement for the sacred use of cannabis); mescaline, Salvia divinorum, MDMA, or datura (Jimson weed).See also List of notable people who have taken psychedelic drugs.

• 2.Shamanic use of plants ,Sacred Weeds etc ; peyote,Psychedelic mushroom (see R. Gordon Wasson and Terence McKenna),Psilocybe cubensis, Salvia divinorum to attain visionary states and altered realities . The work of 60`s anthropologist Carlos Castaneda.See also The Chalice and the Blade : Our History, Our Future ISBN 0-06-250289-1 by Riane Eisler and Terence McKenna`s "Food Of The Gods", for The Tassilli mushroom cult civilisation of north africa , a speculative look at Eden and the emergence and awakening of Homo Sapiens self reflective Consciousness in symbiotic Gestalt with psylocybin mushrooms and environment.

• 3.Mental health context wherin many medical diagnostic conclusions are reached based on a symptom list including altered states , voice hearing ( clairaudience)  ; ( note- see Hearing Voices Network ; seeing auras and angels ( clairvoyance ) ;Messianic and Messiah complexes ( christ conscousness / raising vibrations to higher levels/frequencies ). etc , SeeSchizophrenia ,Hallucination,Hallucinations may occur in any sensory modality - visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, or proprioceptive (sense of balance and position in space).See R.D.Laing who took the expressions or communications of the individual patient or client as representing valid descriptions of lived experience or reality rather than as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder.

• The questions being raised here are questions of a broader context and alternative aproaches which try to understand extrasensory experience from their own very particular belief system or culturally embedded mode of describing reality from amazonian tribes to catholoc priests, shamans, biologists , psychologists , mental health workers , psychiatrists , physicists , meditators , chemists , rock musicians , social workers , film makers , aborigine dreamers, new age workshop leaders, anthropologists , farmers , plumbers , electricians , artists , poets , visionaries , leaders , thinkers etc..... reality is in the eye / mind of the beholder.

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Cultural References

• The X-Men make several references to clairsentience.
• The character Phoebie from the television series Charmed uses clairsentience to get "visions" from people and objects.
• Jeff Goldblume plays a clairsentient (psychometrist) in the movie Vibes.
• Deanna Troi, of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, is an empath, which is someone with capabilities similar to clairsentience.

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See also

• Extra-sensory perception
• Parapsychology

Extra-sensory perception (ESP), is defined in parapsychology as the paranormal ability to acquire information by means such as telepathy, clairvoyance and precognition. ... Parapsychology is the study of certain types of paranormal phenomena (parapsychology comes from the Greek para, “beside, beyond,” + psychology, derived from the Greek psyche, “soul, mind,” + logos “rational discussion”). The term was coined by Max Dessoir (1889). ...

References

1. ^ Parapsychological Association historical terms glossary - retrieved December 17, 2006
2. ^ Terence Mckenna, True Hallucinations, Invisible Landscape, and Food of The Gods
3. ^ Barbara Brennan home page
4. ^ Dr. David Bohm, The Implicate Order
5. ^ Rupert Sheldrake, "A New Science Of Life"
6. ^ Lyall Watson, Lifetide: The Biology of Consciousness
7. ^ In his book about altered states, Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati
8. ^ Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
9. ^ Ken Wilbur home page

David Horrobin, The Madness Of Adam and Eve

External links

• Jad Alexander - Web site and Empath training school