Clairvoyance
Appearance
Clairvoyance (from French clair meaning "clear" and voyance meaning "vision") is the claimed ability to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through extrasensory perception. A clairvoyant is one who sees clearly.
Quotes
[edit]- What is light to us is darkness to certain insects, and the eye of the clairvoyant sees illumination where the normal eye perceives only blackness. p. 41
- H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine Volume I — Cosmogenesis (1888)
- Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante,
Had a bad cold, nevertheless
Is known to be the wisest woman in Europe,
With a wicked pack of cards.- T. S. Elliot, The Waste Land (December 1922)