The Clair Senses
This collective word phrase includes any or all types of psychic sensitivities that correspond to the physical senses of sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, and sense/intuition.
The first that we’ll discuss is Clairvoyance.
Clairvoyance: 1. A person who has a supernatural ability to perceive events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.
Synonyms: Psychic, fortune teller, medium, telepath, mind-reader, remote viewer
Clairvoyance literally translated means clair, French for “clear”, and voyance meaning “vision”. It is that ability to reach into that psychic frequency and visually perceive “within the minds’ eye” something not physically known. A person with this ability is called ‘a clairvoyant’, or “One who sees clearly”. They generally receive extrasensory impressions, sometimes in symbols, sometimes in ‘moving picture’ form or mental images, but are seen without using the physical eyes. The information is generally outside the limits of time and space.
The clairvoyant may reach the mental space in which to perform this through meditation, or sometimes it can happen spontaneously. Clairvoyance, in a nutshell, is one who receives their psychic/extrasensory information in visual images as opposed to smells or sounds (though these two might also be present in a clairvoyant).
Clairaudience
Noun
From the French, clair (clear) audience (hearing).
The power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
Synonyms: Psychic, telepath, medium, fortune teller.
A clairaudient is someone for whom their ‘knowing’ “comes in the form of sound in the form of ‘inner ear’ or a mental tone perceived without the aid of the physical ear and beyond the limitations
of ordinary time and space. This can be in full sentences or single words, sometimes alone, and sometimes also as clairvoyance, which may or not be present, the ability to also see as well as hear, though they are often both present in a person with this ability. It’s not unusual for an intuitive who is clairaudient to also be clairvoyant, though usually one or the other clair- is the primary ability while the other ability is secondary. Clairaudience is hearing, either internally within ones’ mind, or externally through ones’ ears, something outside of oneself speaking. In other words, the clairaudient hears words spoken either inside or outside of their mind. This gift often first manifests as hearing ones’ name called while sitting in silence. Clairaudience can also be present on a temporary basis, such as when an intuitive or someone sensitive to the ‘other side’ is in a specific location known, though not available to the person at will.
This particular gift comes with most of the “mental instability” baggage. After all, when you’re filling out new patient paperwork at a new doctor’s office and come to the question, “Do you hear voices”, the logical answer is an emphatic “NO”, despite truth to the contrary! An online medium, Amanda Meder, states, “While clairaudience and mental illness can both consist of voices within the head – the similarities stop there. Clairaudient mediums can learn to control these voices. Spirit voices tend to not be constant, but instead, are more brief and to the point. Spirit voices tend to engage in a genuine dialogue with you, answering questions that you have and providing feedback.” She goes on to say that another distinguishing factor that separates the voice of Spirit from an internal mental illness, a true “hearing voices” such as seen in schizophrenia, “…generally do not prevent functionality, nor do they suggest harmful behavior. Spirit voices are gentle, safe, rational (often more rational than your own), and usually quite compassionate”, and we disagree on this point. It is entirely possible to be clairaudient when surrounded by negative entities and is, in fact, a diagnostic process when dealing with these situations. So, yes, it does take some discernment on the part of the hear-er to determine whether one is truly clairaudient, or might possibly require medical diagnosis.
Again, Clairaudience is often present with one or more of the other ‘clair’s, as we will discuss further in the coming days.
Clairsentience
Noun
From the French, clair (clear) sentient (feeling).
The power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.
Synonyms: Empath, empathic ability, psychic, telepathic, medium, sixth sense.
A clairsentient is someone with the ability to feel the past, present, or future physical and emotional
states of others, both living and dead, without the use of the other five senses. In general, clairsentient is the catch-all name for an intuitive. Some call it a ‘gut feeling’ that, over time, proves itself to be far more than just a “feeling” and more accurately described as a “knowing”.
In discussing clairsentience, it’s also useful to describe two types of intuitives: A Physical Medium and a Mental Medium or Psychic Knower.
Mental Medium – The mental medium is the most common type of the two mediumships with hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of mental mediums all over the world. It’s also an innate skill that, if present, most people can develop with practice and discipline, even a little bit. A mental medium is one who is either of the three Clairs we’ve discussed so far: Clairvoyant, Clairaudient, or Clairsentient. Each of these three mediumships is a type of mental medium, wherein the intuitive is SENSING something without using the other five senses. (For example, I am a mental medium.)
Physical Medium – A physical medium is completely different than a mental medium, and the ability is quite rare, and isn’t something that can be learned or taught. One is generally born with the ability. A physical medium is when a person has the ability to allow external entities to act through their physical body, and can also be called a spirit communicator. Rather than a ‘knowing’ that involves only the mind as in mental mediumship, the physical medium will actually experience the memories of whomever is being channeled, oftentimes taking on their death state, the pain of their death (or life, for that matter), and the physical symptoms of the person being channeled. A Physical Medium actually experiences the experience of what they ‘know’ rather than just knowing it. Physical mediums tend to have much shorter lifespans than mental mediums due to the punishment the body undergoes with this gift. (For example, Amy Allen, the intuitive from the Travel Channel show The Dead Files, is a physical medium).
Clairsentience also encompasses one who is empathic, who feels the emotions of others either spontaneously (without control) or on purpose (with control). Emotions are a huge part of clairsentience. Sudden inspiration, insight, or instinct that just pops in out of the blue is oftentimes clairsentience. A sudden ‘gut feeling’ which often allows one to get the sense of a situation or event very quickly, almost like a computer download. Clairsentience can also manifest as an almost physical feeling that some describe as “being pulled towards”, or a nudging towards.
Clairtangency, Clairolifaction, and Clairgustant
Today, we’ll discuss three other kinds of Clair- that aren’t as well known as those we’ve discussed previously.
Clairtangency (more commonly known as Psychometry)
Noun
From the French, clair (clear) tangent (touching).
The ability touch an object or area and perceive through the palms of ones’ hands information about the article or its owner or history that was not previously known to the person.
Synonyms: Psychometry.
The ability of being able to see the history of an object through touch isn’t as common as other forms
Clairolifaction
Noun
From the French clair (clear) olifact (smell).
The ability to smell a fragrance or scent that isn’t physically present in ones’ surroundings. The odors are perceived without the aid of the physical nose and beyond the limitations of ordinary time or space.
Synonyms: Clairscent (not to be confused with Clairsentient).
Again, this is a Clair that can be experienced in conjunction with any of the other Clairs. One may smell the scent of their mother’s perfume who passed. The smell of pipe tobacco that they remember from their grandfather. Generally, one with the ability of clairolifact perceive information from smell which most often manifests while using one of the other Clairs. For example, one might be giving a reading to another person and suddenly have a very strong smell of fresh-cut wood. In sharing this with the person for whom the reading is being performed, it might trigger a memory or other event in which trees played a large role (i.e., a father who was a lumberjack). Often, clairolifact comes into play in the presence of a loved one who’s crossed, a way of letting us know that they’re present and visiting us.
Clairgustant
Noun
From the French clair (clear) gustance (taste).
The ability to taste a substance without putting anything in the mouth. It is claimed that those who possess this ability are able to perceive the essence of a substance from the spiritual or ethereal realms through taste.
Synonyms: None.
The example is given of a death-scene investigation in which the intuitive person suddenly has a very strong taste of chemicals in their mouth, later to find that the person died of a drug overdose, poison, or was gassed. As with Clairolifaction, this Clair is less common and can be present in conjunction with any of the other Clairs, particularly with Clairscent, the ability to smell scents not physically present in ones’ surroundings.
Help For The Haunted
On a Tuesday afternoon in September 2014, I created a Facebook page called 'Help For the Haunted'. This was a means by which people could find help they needed if they were experiencing signs of a haunting or possession. Having been through similar in my early 20s, and having finally learned how to deal with the terror of that situation, I then needed a way for people find that help when they need it without actually advertising, though I suppose if one were to pay enough, they could talk the Phone Company (do they still make paper phone books?!) into letting them have a listing for Ghost Buster.
A few of my close friends and some recent clients were agreeable to being the first members of the group.
It's now 2017, and the page that started as a tiny little space to help people help themselves, is now close to 200 members strong. And, I don't think it's unreasonable or self-aggrandizing to say that this is the very most supportive space on social media. Each person, each member, has brought with them their own gifts and experiences, and their openness and willingness to share those sometimes very personal parts of themselves have made this space what it is today.
Having now grown so big, this blog will serve as the depository for our combined knowledge, searchable by anyone, and available to all. ~Melissa
CONTRIBUTORS
Melissa ChatwellUncommonShaman.org
Melissa works in close proximity to doctors providing complimentary therapies to assist in whole-body healing usually in tandem with talk therapy and Western medicine as she finishes her Reiki master certification. She works with realtors in the US & abroad, clearing space for sale or healing, & helping new home and business owners ensure the best start in their new location. She loves doing readings for people, whether in person locally, or over the phone internationally. She hasn't met a haunting challenge yet that her Guides weren't capable of fixing. She lives in Colorado with her husband & their two dogs. You may contact her here.
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Tara Joanna is a certified Ambassador of Divine Love, certified in numerology, Reiki Level 2, certified Crystal Healer, Realm Reader, and Tarot Reader. She can help with angel healing, energy healing, crystal healing, and only promotes love and light. You may contact her here.
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