What is Receptive ESP?
Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Clairsentience, Remote Viewing and more
Apr 4, 2007
According to Loyd Auerbach, in his book ESP, Hauntings and Poltergeists, (Warner Books, 1986), receptive ESP consists of precognition, knowledge of the future, retrocognition, knowledge of the past, and the “clairs.”
Types of Receptive ESP
Clairaudience is psychic hearing. Clairvoyance is psychic seeing and not, as many people mistakenly think, the ability to see into the future or into the past. Clairaroma is smelling; Clairgustus, tasting and Clairsentience, a bodily sensation or the sense of touch, not the ability to feels others’ emotions intensely. People who have this ability are called empaths which is also considered as receptive ESP.
What is it like to experience clairaudience and clairvoyance? Things can be heard and seen within the mind or outside of the body as we perceive things that have a stimulus. Clairsentience can be felt as a pat, a poke or other physical manifestations. It can also be a bodily sensation, like a lurch in the stomach in the presence of danger. With clairaroma, a person actually smells and odor or aroma when nothing is present as a stimulus. People have reported smelling flowers shortly after a loved one dies. Clairgustus is a taste in the mouth without having anything in it.
Déjà vu and déjà entendu are the feeling that one has been in the same situation before or that one has heard the information before. Déjà vu can be considered a common psychic experience.
Telepathy is psychic communication which is done without verbalizations or body language. In his book, Between Two Worlds, (Parker Publishing Company Inc. 1964), parapyschologist Nandor Fodor wrote that psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi did experiments with telepathy. They had frequent discussions about the subject. “The Clever Hans” was a horse in Eberfield, Germany who could draw circles, subtract and add. Ferenczi believed that animal demonstrated telepathy, but Freud brushed it off as intelligence. Freud, while working with Ferenczi, had his own telepathic experience. He had not heard from his colleaguefor several days and was going to write and ask why. He felt Ferenczi would write soon and decided to delay his letter. Shortly after, a letter from Ferenczi arrived.
Remote viewing is the ability to perceive objects, events and people by directing the conscious mind to a desired location. Dale Graf was the director for Stargate, a project that involved studying possible uses for remote viewing. He wrote about this in Tracks in the Psychic Wilderness, (Thorsons/Element, 1998). This was done as a project for the CIA.
Ingo Swann was one of the psychics involved in the research into remote viewing as applied to espionage and drug enforcement. Applied PSI is the use of psychic abilities in espionage, archaeology, police investigations, trials and other fields. It is the attorneys who use psychics in picking juries and clients. Psychic information of this type is not admissible as evidence. Remote viewing is primarily used in conjunction with retrocognition and precognition. The major drawback in using psychics is that no one with psychic ability is accurate 100% of the time.
According to Ted Andrews, author of How to Develop and Use Psychometry, (Llewellyn, 1995), psychometry, also called the psychic touch, is the easiest psychic ability to develop. This is reading a place or an object. Andrews gives lectures and workshops about this ability. Psychics do investigations of alleged psychic phenomena using this talent. The book has been reprinted with a new title, using the term, “psychic touch” replacing psychometry.
Dowsing is using a forked branch to locate something underground. Originally, it was used to find water, later, oil and to locate underground mines by the military.
