The term clairvoyance is derived from the 17th century French term where ‘clair’ refers to ‘clear’ and ‘voyance’ is literally translated to mean visibility. Then and now the term clairvoyance refers to an individual’s ability to get information about a specific object, event, or location through means that are considered to be above and beyond the standard five senses. In fact, being clairvoyant is often referred to as the ‘sixth sense’ where an individual is said to ‘see clear’ or see things in a way that nobody else does.

From a general standpoint, clairvoyance refers to psychic gifts or experiences where an individual can see clearly many things. It is the essence of psychic gifts or tendencies, and allows the individual to see and connect with things of another world, the paranormal. In the psychic world, a clairvoyant can experience telepathy, second sight, dreams or visions of a prophetic nature, or experience mediumship. A good example of this would be when a medium or psychic can describe to an individual pictures or visions that have been given to them by a spirit or guide. The words or names the medium will hear are a result of clear hearing, and the sensations that come with this experience (such as sensing pain or how an individual died) a clear sensing.

Clairvoyance was originally referred to as simply seeing clearly, but in today’s psychic circles it covers a wide range of activities. As mentioned, it covers clear hearing and clear sensing as well, and can occur in a wide range of situations. Dreams are a large part of the psychic world where clairvoyance can occur, and happens often with mediums. Clairvoyance in a dream would occur when an individual dreams about something that isn’t known by anybody else. Sometimes locations are visited or something unusual can be spotted that later proves to be true. Visions that psychics or mediums receive are also an example of clairvoyance, where an individual sees something ‘out of the blue’ that also later proves to be true.

The world of clairvoyance is an extensive one and covers a wide range of gifts and activities for the individual. In fact in today’s psychic world, there is no ‘wrong’ essence of clairvoyance so long as the individual believes it to be true, and events or situations are confirmed or validated after the fact.