PSYCHIC GIFTS & THE CLAIR’S
So, it’s not completely accurate to call these gifts because we are all born with these capabilities. As we grow up most of us lose our connection and forget. Well-meaning parents tell us to stop making things up; that we are just imagining things and we are socialized into disbelieving in our own senses! Some of us spend the rest of our lives trying to remember. Others with spiritual ‘gifts’ are born “open” with the ability to see behind the veil or into other dimensions. I have also heard that a traumatic event can activate a psychic ability like a serious illness or near-death experience. For example, Edgar Cayce lost his voice, and no one could help him, so he finally put himself into a trance state and healed himself. Dr. Eben Alexander, a Neurologist contracted bacterial meningitis having an NDE that changed his life forever. These gifts are known as the ‘Clair’s’ and there are different types of clairs, for example one can be clairvoyant (seeing), clairaudient (hearing), clairsentient (feeling), or claircognizant (knowing). Typically, one is more adept at one sense over another. For example, I am strongly claircognizant and clairsentient but almost never clairaudient or clairvoyant. I did see a ghost once but that’s a whole other story.
There is something I learned from Veronica Drake that I never understood before. There’s a difference between being Psychic and being a Medium. The way I understand it is we are all connected via the collective unconscious or “the collective”. This is common knowledge shared by every human. Karl Jung understood this too; this is where archetypes come from. We all know certain things to be true. One who can see into the spirit realm can see spirits as real as you and me in front of them or their mind’s eye (third eye) like a movie screen inside the mind.
Folks who are clairaudient can hear spirits. Being clairsentient is when a feeling comes over you. You can feel your hair stand on end known as ‘Angel bumps’ or ‘Truth bumps’ (not goosebumps). Some folks feel warmth or like a wall of energy on certain areas of their body, typically ears, back of neck, top of head or feel our Chakras become activated. One who is claircognizant simply knows something to be true. We also call this a “download” from spirit. It is a thought simply put in your head and you have a certainty that it is true. I have this gift and it sounds cool, but it can be a bummer sometimes when you ‘know’ stuff you may not want to know! This is where discernment comes into play. Do I share this information or keep it to myself? What is the purpose for being given this insight? Mostly I keep shit to myself. Most people can’t handle the truth.