Clairvoyance

This means 'clear-seeing' in French, and is the faculty of supranormal sight, the ability to perceive objects or people that cannot be discerned through the normal senses. It overlaps with other psychic abilities such as clairaudience, clairsentience, telepathy, psychometry and remote viewing.

Clairvoyance normally requires some form of communication with the spirits or other nonphysical essences who give, or pretend to give, the desired knowledge. The ability has been acknowledged and used in all cultures throughout history — by prophets, fortune-tellers, shamans, wizards, witches and seers of all kinds. Western science began to investigate the phenomena in the nineteenth century, when subjects treated by mesmerism displayed clairvoyance and other psychic abilities. Since then a substantial body of evidence has been accumulated to support the existence of clairvoyance. As well as appearing to be a general ability among humans, it also appears to exist in animals. See animal PSI.