Clairvoyance
ability to gain information about an object, person, location or physical event through extrasensory perception
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)
