There are certain forms of extrasensory abilities that are often called “clairs” (from the French word clair, meaning “clear, bright”). Such abilities can be born with, or they can be acquired during incarnation – through spiritual awakening.
Below is a list of extrasensory abilities and their characteristics.
- Clairvoyance – the ability to perceive images, symbols, and visions concerning the past, present, or future. It manifests, for example, through visions in meditation, prophetic dreams, or sudden images appearing in consciousness.
- Clairsentience – sensing energies, emotions, and states of other people or places in one’s own body. It may manifest as chills, pressure, pleasant warmth, or pain when something energetic is happening.
- Clairaudience – hearing voices, sounds, or words that do not come from the physical world. Often it is an inner voice, music, or words of spiritual guidance.
- Claircognizance – sudden, absolute knowing about a situation or a person, without logical explanation. It appears as an intuitive certainty that “this is exactly how it is”.
- Clairgustance – perceiving tastes that appear without eating anything. It is sometimes connected with spiritual contact, e.g., the taste of wine or bread in a religious context.
- Clairalience – perceiving smells without a physical source, e.g., the scent of roses, perfume, or smoke, which may carry symbolic meaning.
- Clairtangency (psychometry) – the ability to sense energetic information through physical touch of an object. By touching things, one may “see” the owner’s history, emotions imprinted in the object.
- Remote clairvoyance / remote viewing – perceiving places, events, or people located far away in space. It is insight into a distant space without physical presence – like a “consciousness journey.” It can be used to locate missing persons or objects.
- Energetic empathy (a more developed form of clairsentience) – very deep co-feeling of other people’s emotions and intentions, sometimes to the point of experiencing their tension as one’s own.
- Clairtelepathy – perceiving or receiving the thoughts and intentions of other people without words. It may manifest as “I knew what he was going to say” or instantly catching someone else’s mood.
- Clairvoyant dreaming / oneiromancy – receiving messages and visions in dreams. Prophetic, symbolic, or warning dreams. Lucid dreaming in which one can contact guides or the subconscious.
- Aura reading (clairvoyant energy vision) – seeing colors, shapes, and energetic structures around people, places, or plants. Aura colors show emotions, health conditions, and spiritual attitude. It is the ability to perceive the subtle light surrounding living beings.
- Mediumship – the ability to receive messages from non-physical beings (the deceased, spiritual guides). It can combine clairaudience, clairvoyance, and clairsentience.
- Channeling – consciously opening to a spiritual transmission, allowing words, ideas, or the energy of higher consciousness to flow through the mind.
- Clairhealing (healing abilities) – the ability to sense energetic imbalances in another person’s body. The capacity to direct energy to support someone’s emotional, mental, or physical health. It may manifest as warmth in the hands, intuitive touch, or guidance in energy work.
- Precognition – sensing future events. Knowing what will happen before any external signs appear. It may occur in the form of dreams, sudden visions, or an intuitive “I know this will happen.” Often present in pivotal, warning, or life-changing moments.
- Retrocognition – insight into past events. Perceiving happenings that took place in the past – one’s own or another’s. It may manifest as visions, dreams, sudden “memories” that a person could not normally have. It is also linked to insight into past lives.
- Psychokinesis – the influence of the mind on matter. The ability to affect physical objects through consciousness or energy. It may manifest as moving small objects, disrupting electrical devices, or even influencing weather.