Clairvoyance is usually associated with precognition, or future seeing. It is actually much more than that. You can use your psychic vision to see distant people and places in real time, as in remote viewing, and in dreams wherein the soul is free to soar. Robert Monroe, the 1950s consciousness explorer who projected his spirit out of his body while asleep, visited many other dimensions around and beyond the earth during astral travel.
Edgar Cayce was a prolific dreamer in the sleep state and a powerful clairvoyant during unconscious trance. The most compelling stories of clairvoyance that I’ve ever heard are recorded in the transcribed readings given by Mr. Cayce, America’s best known psychic and the father of holistic healing.
In giving a physical reading, Cayce suggested that the sick person use a certain medicine, but the person’s family was unable to find it in drug stores. In a follow-up reading, Cayce’s psychic eyes spotted a dusty bottle of this out-of-production medicine on the back shelf of a pharmacy in another state. He gave the client the address of the drug store, but the pharmacists employed there could not find it. In the third reading, Cayce, by then losing patience, told the family to tell the pharmacists to look on the back of that dusty shelf, and sure enough, that’s exactly where they found it. (294-1, Report #4)
Of course, Cayce’s clairvoyance is unparalleled. Lying down, loosening his tie, relaxing, and then tuning in to the client’s name and address, the “sleeping prophet” could describe in fine detail what the client was wearing and the contents of the room. On several occasions, he even commented on the progress of the bus transporting the tardy client to his residence.
A classic remote viewer, Cayce was best known for his psychic ability to look into people’s bodies, describe the status of internal organs, see the cause of illness, and suggest explicit remedies for people who were often beyond medical help. Physicians marveled at his knowledge, which could not have come from medical books, as Cayce attended school through only the eighth grade in rural Kentucky.
While you may not yet be as psychic as Edgar Cayce, whose clairvoyance was so finely tuned that he could see the body’s energy field, the aura, as well as nature spirits and the spirits of the departed, you can certainly develop the natural clairvoyance of your soul. Today, many medical intuitives are able to look at the body’s subtle energy system and diagnose illnesses and cures, even before diseases manifest.
Seeing is believing, and believing is seeing. Belief in the existence of this psychic channel is what allows it to open.
Clairaudience: The Still, Small Voice
In 800 BCE, Jezebel’s Baal priests chased the Hebrew prophet Elijah across ancient Palestine until he took refuge in a cave where he prayed for an end to his life, as he felt that he had failed his God. In the Judeo-Christian Bible, 1 Kings 19:11-13 states that the wind rent the mountains and then came an earthquake and fire. But the voice of God was not found in these forces of nature, as Elijah realized for the first time in Jewish history: God speaks in a “voice of gentle stillness” heard from within, in the silence of loving contemplation.
Elijah’s epiphany marked a radical shift in human consciousness, yet nearly three thousand years later, people are still struggling to believe in the psychic soul that so readily speaks when we slow our thoughts and listen. Believers know that this deeper voice often helps us make positive choices in our lives or protects us from harm.
If you listen to and heed the voice of your soul, its guidance will never fail you or falter. You will find this still, small voice to be your wisest teacher, most loving parent, and dearest friend.
Gifts of Clairaudience
You are primarily clairaudient, or clear hearing, if you process conversations in your head and admire the intricacies of language and music. Preoccupied with language, clairaudients practice conversations that they expect or hope to have with other people; edit their internal dialogue to crystallize what they mean to say; and, due to their love affair with words, gravitate to careers as writers, journalists, and musicians. Their psychic reception center is just above the ears in the temporal lobes that process sound, speech, and various aspects of memory.
When musically inclined, and that is almost always, audients are greatly entertained by an “inner jukebox” which cues up the appropriate song for the moment. From listening to my inner jukebox day and night, I know that it is incredibly original and at times comedic.
For example, I awakened one morning in a bad mood about having been too cold throughout the night. Before I could open my eyes, I heard the sixties’ folk musician Donovan singing, “I’m so mad about Saffron/She’s so mad about me.” I wondered why this song was coming up, when I heard the refrain: “They call her Mellow Yellow.” I got the message. Everything made me laugh that day, which no doubt was my soul’s purpose in selecting that song.
The inner jukebox cues clairaudients to self-reflect. One day, while standing in my clothes closet looking for something to wear, I caught myself humming the beautiful theme from the movie “Titanic.” Wondering why, I remembered that I’d just been balancing my checkbook! While I wasn’t sinking financially, I realized that I must need to address childhood-related issues about money. (Otherwise I might get stuck in that old rhythm and blues song, “You Really Got a Hold on Me.”)
The clairaudient involved in a tempestuous love affair might hear “Stormy Weather,” or, if the relationship has run its course, “Stop Dragging My Heart Around” or “The Thrill is Gone.”
The still, small jukebox of the unconscious mind, while amusing at times, is plugged in to the higher self. Its music calls the clairaudient to listen deeply in order to search the soul for truth and guidance.
Best of all, clairaudients need not insert quarters to hear the inner jukebox. It’s free and it’s always turned on.
Simply close your eyes and play a song in your mind to determine whether you are primarily clairaudient. If this channel is wide open, the music will sing out and you will hear it.
Separating the Signal from the Noise
Clairaudients face unique challenges. Sanders points out that because clairaudients are logical, systematic, and skeptical by nature, they tend to doubt the existence of a psychic inner voice since the only voice they hear is their own. The clairaudient’s verbal brain constantly names, discusses, and edits, so psychic information can easily slip into this stream of dialogue without making much of a splash. (Did you hear that image or see it, or both?)
Even more challenging is the clairaudient’s self-doubt. Here are two ways to distinguish inner dialogue from a psychic insight. If your conscious mind is inactive, as in daydreaming or meditating, the words flowing into your mind may be clairaudient insights. You can also tell the difference by reviewing the quality of the message. Is it random mind chatter or more information than you knew before?
Psychic information is super-ordinary and more than we knew before. The audient can best hear it with a quiet, clear mind that is able to listen deeply.
The Clairaudient Cat
Easily the strangest story of clairaudience that I’ve ever heard involves telepathic communication with an elderly tabby cat, Richie, who was dying from a large, malignant tumor that had formed between his eyes. Richie’s owner took him to a holistic veterinarian who performed acupuncture on him, but the treatments did nothing until they were used to attune the cat to the higher consciousness of the cosmos. Intrigued by this concept, Richie’s owner called in an animal communicator who psychically taught the cat to visualize that his tumor was shrinking. One