| The ability to look into the future or some other | | | | and smell are usually not used in clairvoyance. One |
| place where we are not present are powers which all | | | | who possesses the power of clairvoyance is called |
| of us would love to possess. Unfortunately all of us | | | | clairvoyant. |
| don’t have such special abilities. But a few people | | | | There have been a number of clairvoyants all through |
| have been blessed with the ability to sense what we | | | | human history. Probably the first one to be accorded |
| cannot with our limited human senses. These people | | | | the status of a clairvoyant was the Marquis de |
| are called clairvoyant and their special power is | | | | Puységur, a follower of Mesmer. He performed |
| known as clairvoyance. | | | | some feats of clairvoyance in 1784. The most well |
| The word clairvoyance is derived from the French | | | | known clairvoyant was the American psychic Edgar |
| phrases ‘clair’ which means ‘clear’ | | | | Cayce. Clairvoyance has been studied extensively by |
| and ‘voyance’ which can be translated into | | | | various agencies around the world and especially by |
| ‘visibility’. It is a form of extra sensory | | | | the Society for Psychical Research. Today, |
| perception which is used to gain information about a | | | | parapsychologists club clairvoyance together with |
| person, object, physical event or location. The | | | | telepathy, precognition and other related phenomena. |
| ordinary human senses of sight, sound, taste, feel | | | | |