Clairvoyance (By Mike Burton)

Article by: Lauren C. Dole

The term clairvoyance from French clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "vision" is used to refer to the ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through means other than the known human senses a form of extra-sensory perception. A person said to have the ability of clairvoyance is referred to as a clairvoyant.

Clairvoyance is related to remote viewing although the term "remote viewing" itself is not as widely applicable to clairvoyance because it refers to a specific controlled process . Clairvoyance is often used to refer to other forms of anomalous cognition , most commonly the perception of events that have occurred in the past, or which will occur in the future (known as reconciliation and precognition specially), or to refer to communications with the dead.