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.
Assuming that you are that individual from above who has visions about your near and dear ones who stay thousands of mile away or you can see the colour of the aura emanating from an individual and then have visions about his/her future, you can be safely termed as an clairvoyant.
Thus, clairvoyants are people who can ’see’ or ‘visualize’ things which cannot be seen by other people. These are hidden messages of the environment which the human sense organs are not equipped to pick up or it may be the vision of a person or an event happening thousands of miles away. The word clairvoyant refers to people having the psychic power of clairvoyance which literary means ‘clear viewing’.
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.
The scientific study of the existence and reasons behind psychic abilities is called Parapsychology. In the scientific language of parapsychology, a clairvoyant is one who experiences transfer of contemporary information directly from an external source which is unknown or hidden to that person. Hence, it is quite different from telepathy, where the psychic experiences information transfer 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.
Moreover, clairvoyants are different from mediums. Mediums are those psychics who have the ability to communicate with spirits. This is generally done through any of the four channels of trance, healing, physical and Clairsensing. In the first case the medium communicates with the spirit while in a trance while in case of healing, the medium receives health benefits from an external and higher source. Physical mediumship on the other hand involves participation in activities such as turntables, etc. Clairsensing is the only channel where clairvoyants can function. Clairsensing typically involves seeing spirits or hearing them through clairvoyance or clairaudience respectively.
Thus it can be concluded that all clairvoyants are psychics but all psychics are not clairvoyants. However, the core similarity between them is the presence of an extra sensory perception power with the help of which they perceive hidden messages from our environment. One should always remember that having such a gift of sixth sense is extremely rare and thus should be considered a blessing and used for the betterment of others.
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