Western Kansas world., 1908-04-25
SPLRITISM.
cIairvoyance and cIairaudience.


There Is quite a question among in
vestigators of psychic phenomena
as to the existence of what is known
as independent elairvoyance.' DIR
| Hudson was 1oath to believe in it, He
frankly stated that he did not be
lieve in the genuineness of the power;
that he had never been able to 10
cate the boundary line between te1ep-
athy and clairvoyance; that they are
| divided only by their names; that
| he had looked in vain for indubitable
evidence of the reality of the power
| of independent clairyoyance." This
was his conclusion at the close of his
| Investigations as recorded in his
| Law of Psychic Phenomena" 1S93)
| but in talking the matter over with
him in 1889 he modified his statement
| by saying that 'in almost every case
| that had come to his notice he found
| that telepathy offered a satisfactory
| explanation.
We fully agreed on this point, but
| it is that almost that causes us to
seek elsewhere for an explanation.
1t is readily accepted that telepathy
| is the means of communication be-
| tween subjective minds. but we should
not lose sight of the fact that telepa-
thy deals and can deal only with
past and present occurrences, while
.'clairvoyance'' is the clear seeing
of that which has not yet occurred;
therefore cannot be telepathically re-
ceived by anyones else mind.
am slow, however, to believe that
tclairvoyance" is the proper word to
use. 1t has long been a question in
my mind if anything is ever actually
seen subjectively. The subjective
mind perceives, but perception is not
seeing Some persons see things
and are ever ready to say: 'I see,
see, but they do not always perceive
This distinction is we'll made by
Locke, as follows: IT'LL we ourselves
see it with our own eyes, and per-
ceive it by our own understanding
we are still in the dark
The subjective mind perceives intu-
itively. Our knowledge Collectively
of what is perceived comes to us in
one of three ways, viz: % by i'm
preston Ito those of US who are i'm
pressionists); (2) by dreams (to
those who are not susceptible to i'm
pressions); CD by psychics (to those
who receive neither by impressions
nor dreams, but depend upon others
for their admonition).
The psychic may think it comes
from the spirit, but that does not
make it so. The message is subjec-
lively received from your subjective
mind, which, of itself, failed to reach
your objective consciousness. The
phychic, in that case, merely gives
back to you that which you yourself
do know, subjectively.
II.
cases of premonition, the subjective
mind possesses the power to see that
which is not within the range of
the objective vision.
Search the wide world over, you
would fail to find a better definition
of that faculty = clairvoyance. II
would, however, suggest the substitu-
ton of the word perceive for that
of ''see" as used by DIR. Hudson
CIairaudience.
The word "clairaudience'' signifies
'clear-hearing." These sounds or
words are not supposed to be audible
to the ear in the natural, waking con-
ditfon; at least the sounds, so-called,
do not cause atmospheric vibrations
They are never heard by ANYONE but
the psychic or the one for whom they
are intended. The Bible records
many instances of most important
messages being conveyed in this man.
ner- There are also many persons
living to-day that claim. like Socra-
tes, to be clairaudiently warned from
impending danger
Thus clairvoyance and clairaudi- |
ence are of the most practical benefit. |
In fact, among the most useful in ALL
the range of spirit phenomena" This |
shall endeavor to prove from INV
own experience when treating of the |
subject of premonition''
Examples of CIairvoyance.
The illustrations given herewith are |
first experiences of the use of this |
wonderful faculty; experiences of /
my own pupils who never dreamed of |
the latent power possessed by them. I
While all clairvoyance is preceded by
hypnotism (either self-induced or in
duced by another), all hypnotism does
not produce clairvoyance These /
two cases are more interesting be- T
cause nonprofessional
Cd In one of my classes in TEXAS
a lady was very desirous of being hyp-f
Noticed for the purpose of ascertain
ing If she possessed clairvoyant now
er. She fmportuned so persistentIv
that complied with her request in
order to give a practical demonstra- 4;
ton to the class
The fact of her persistency led me
TO believe that she was impeIled in /
the matter, and subsequent davol,,, |