The term ‘psychic’ refers to people possessing a special gift of extra sensory perception or rather a sixth sense which results in them being able to perceive certain things that are otherwise hidden from the normal senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.
My grand mom used to tell stories about this milkman who always had visions of his own mother being sick even from a thousand miles away. My grand mom remembered many such incidents of the stated person leaving for home suddenly giving notice that his mother was ill which almost all the time turned accurate. This milkman was a clairvoyant having specific psychic powers.
Thus clairvoyants are people who have the psychic power to ‘see’ things which otherwise cannot be seen by other people with the normal human sense of sight. Originating from the word ‘Clair voyance’ or ‘clear viewing’, clairvoyants have an extra sensory perception that results in them seeing visions of another individual’s personal aspects or his/her events in the past or future.
It can then be said that clairvoyants happen to be a subset of psychics but not vice versa. That is, all clairvoyants are said to possess psychic abilities but all psychics are not clairvoyants. In the usual parlance, the term clairvoyant is many a time carelessly used to refer to psychics as a whole. But the truth remains that apart from clairvoyants, there are numerous other types of psychics that are found all over the world.
According to Parapsychology, which the study of the existence and causes of psychic abilities, clairvoyants are people experiencing transfer of information which are immediate and direct from an external or hidden source. This is an important aspect which distinguishes it from other psychic powers such as telepathy where the information transfer happens from another individual’s mind.
Again, clairvoyants can be differentiated from psychics having the abilities of retro-cognition and precognition. While retro-cognition involves knowing about another’s past, precognitions refers to foreseeing the future. In both these instances, the psychics ‘know’ the past or the future and they don’t necessarily ‘see’ it. If a person has vision about the future and sees the events, only then he can be called a clairvoyant.
Another type of psychic, who frequently sees himself being called a clairvoyant, is one who is a medium. Mediumship, often confused with clairvoyance basically involves communicating with spirits. This communication can be done primarily via four channels. These are trance, healing, clairsensing and physical. While trance refers to communicating with other entities, healing involves receiving health benefits from a source in the higher plane. Physical channel on the other hand involves person acting as a medium in activities like turntables, etc. Only the clairsensing channel of mediumship uses the power of clairvoyance or clairaudience to see or hear respectively.
As a conclusion it can be stated that what all psychics and clairvoyants have in common is that of a special power, a gift of the sixth sense which other people do not possess. Many a times, psychics think of these abilities as a curse which prevents them from living normal lives. But one should always remember that these powers are gifted to only a chosen few amongst millions, hence it should be considered a blessing and used for the benefit of others.
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