Do you think you can predict future events? Do you believe you have some special ability to connect with other peoples spirit or sole through sensory contact like Spiritualism. What about the paranormal and being able to talk to supernatural beings. There are many who believe they have a form of extrasensory perception that gives them these abilities, what about you?
The earliest known instance of clairvoyance was around 1784 when a self described psychic Marquis de Puységur who was a French aristocrat from one of the most well known families of the French nobility was trying to treat a local peasant named Victor Race. During treatment, Race reportedly would go into a trance and undergo a personality change, becoming fluent and articulate, and giving diagnosis and prescription for his own disease as well as those of others.
There is actually a difference between clairvoyance and being a psychic, though they are often considered the same. Clairvoyant is defined as the ability to see beyond that of ordinary perception, the word itself means, clear vision. Where as a psychic is more about the mind and rely on things like astrology as a means to predict future events. The art of fortune telling goes back thousands of years, with well recorded predictions from both.
There are people to this day that make life altering decisions based on the persuasive information they are given, but most people believe it to be all fun and games, however, there are many who believe it to be sinful and demonic. The Bible is unequivocal in condemning the use of clairvoyants, psychics, horoscopes, tarot cards, or any other aspect of the occult.
Many cultures and religions believe that if you want knowledge beyond what your senses can tell you, you must seek that information from God, and from God alone. The bible has clear references to Satan the Devil and Demons, which are said to be fallen angels, but if you were to try and talk to them through clairvoyants or psychics the Bible calls this an abomination. In other words Clairvoyants, psychics, and occult practitioners have no part in conveying the revelation of God.
The reality is, if you proclaim to have the ability to speak to god, Jesus the devil or any of a number of other demons, then you must have either a psychic ability or clairvoyance. it would be impossible to convey any message from any supernatural being without it.
With modern science we have different terms for determining the existence of a spiritual realm inhabited by gods, angels and demons, we call it “paranormal psychology” or “clairvoyance phenomenon. Paranormal beliefs began from simple story telling by our ancestors and now have become wide spread belief systems and superstitions, most of which can be explained logically as being made up and hoaxes.
There has been a long standing offer by magician James Randi, offering $1 million—“to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions”. French, Australian, and Indian groups have parallel offers of up to 200,000 euros to anyone with demonstrable paranormal abilities. Large as these sums are, the scientific seal of approval would be worth far more to anyone whose claims could be authenticated.
So far, no such person has ever come forward.
"People's desire to believe in the paranormal is stronger than all the evidence that it does not exist." Susan Blackmore, "Blackmore's first law".
“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” – David Stevens
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” - Carl Sagan
There is actually a difference between clairvoyance and being a psychic, though they are often considered the same. Clairvoyant is defined as the ability to see beyond that of ordinary perception, the word itself means, clear vision. Where as a psychic is more about the mind and rely on things like astrology as a means to predict future events. The art of fortune telling goes back thousands of years, with well recorded predictions from both.
There are people to this day that make life altering decisions based on the persuasive information they are given, but most people believe it to be all fun and games, however, there are many who believe it to be sinful and demonic. The Bible is unequivocal in condemning the use of clairvoyants, psychics, horoscopes, tarot cards, or any other aspect of the occult.
Many cultures and religions believe that if you want knowledge beyond what your senses can tell you, you must seek that information from God, and from God alone. The bible has clear references to Satan the Devil and Demons, which are said to be fallen angels, but if you were to try and talk to them through clairvoyants or psychics the Bible calls this an abomination. In other words Clairvoyants, psychics, and occult practitioners have no part in conveying the revelation of God.
The reality is, if you proclaim to have the ability to speak to god, Jesus the devil or any of a number of other demons, then you must have either a psychic ability or clairvoyance. it would be impossible to convey any message from any supernatural being without it.
With modern science we have different terms for determining the existence of a spiritual realm inhabited by gods, angels and demons, we call it “paranormal psychology” or “clairvoyance phenomenon. Paranormal beliefs began from simple story telling by our ancestors and now have become wide spread belief systems and superstitions, most of which can be explained logically as being made up and hoaxes.
There has been a long standing offer by magician James Randi, offering $1 million—“to anyone who proves a genuine psychic power under proper observing conditions”. French, Australian, and Indian groups have parallel offers of up to 200,000 euros to anyone with demonstrable paranormal abilities. Large as these sums are, the scientific seal of approval would be worth far more to anyone whose claims could be authenticated.
So far, no such person has ever come forward.
"People's desire to believe in the paranormal is stronger than all the evidence that it does not exist." Susan Blackmore, "Blackmore's first law".
“A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it.” – David Stevens
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” - Carl Sagan