Precognition/Clairvoyance

[Doodlebug]

Do you have the ability of precognition or clairvoyance? I do but I can't control it. It only comes when it comes. I wish I could control it. Is controlling it possible?

[Tabbykitty]

Yes, you can gain some measure of control over it.

How?

Well, Clairvoyance and precognition and other similar abilities are all related to the mind and mental state, which in turn is affected by the physical state.

When I first found out through a survey conducted by some researchers that I had some psychic abilities in certain areas, I tried my best to figure out how to control and utilise it. It resulted in some terrible migraines and the visions I got were .... well .... extremely erratic and blur.

I had concentrated too much on trying to open up my third eye that I neglected the development of the other energy centres in my body, as well as my general health. Finally, someone whom I bumped into at a new age centre remarked that a person who wishes to cultivate his energy body and related abilities must not just concentrate on the chakra (energy centre) that relates to clairvoyance, but must develop all the charkas in balance with each other. Only when all energy centres are more or less in balance and the person heals himself both body and soul that the abilities manifest themselves almost as a side effect.... (IF, it is within that person's current karma to have those abilities. There are some people with really strong energy centres who see and feel nothing because it is not within their current karma to have that kind of clairvoyance. But it is certainly possible for everyone to have sharpened/heightened intuition. :) )

I found that when I stopped thinking about growing the energy centre related to my 3rd eye and started working on building and balancing the whole person that I was able to control my abilities. In time the chronic pains and ailments that I had lived quietly with for years disappeared and in effect I was healing myself slowly.

How can you develop yourself? Well, first you got to start by learning the 3 basics:

1. Grounding
2. Centering
3. Shielding

URL: http://members.aol.com/redselchie/articles/grounding.html

Then, you might wanna learn how to do proper meditation, preferably one that allows for active visualisation. Focus on developing all your major chakras, cleaning out the psychic debris, opening them, getting them to spin in the right direction. Then work at balancing your entire auric field, so you dont have one side that is stronger than the other side.

In all of this, dont worry about your clairvoyance. Focus instead on building yourself, your energy level and healing your body and soul. Have patience and let it come naturally.

Most importantly, if you are gonna be doing this, you will have to read up quite a lot about the path you are treading and how your abilities function, you will definitely come across a lot of bad info, so dont rush into things and rationally evaluate all the info that you come across...

me two cents. hope it helps you.

PS: At the end of the day, I found that the greatest reward from threading this path was really self healing and self understanding. I now know who I really am and why I do what I do. And that for me was greater than all the magick or psychic abilities found in this universe.

[Moonshine]

Yes, you can gain some measure of control over it.

How?

Well, Clairvoyance and precognition and other similar abilities are all related to the mind and mental state, which in turn is affected by the physical state.

When I first found out through a survey conducted by some researchers that I had some psychic abilities in certain areas, I tried my best to figure out how to control and utilise it. It resulted in some terrible migraines and the visions I got were .... well .... extremely erratic and blur.

I had concentrated too much on trying to open up my third eye that I neglected the development of the other energy centres in my body, as well as my general health. Finally, someone whom I bumped into at a new age centre remarked that a person who wishes to cultivate his energy body and related abilities must not just concentrate on the chakra (energy centre) that relates to clairvoyance, but must develop all the charkas in balance with each other. Only when all energy centres are more or less in balance and the person heals himself both body and soul that the abilities manifest themselves almost as a side effect.... (IF, it is within that person's current karma to have those abilities. There are some people with really strong energy centres who see and feel nothing because it is not within their current karma to have that kind of clairvoyance. But it is certainly possible for everyone to have sharpened/heightened intuition. :) )

I found that when I stopped thinking about growing the energy centre related to my 3rd eye and started working on building and balancing the whole person that I was able to control my abilities. In time the chronic pains and ailments that I had lived quietly with for years disappeared and in effect I was healing myself slowly.

How can you develop yourself? Well, first you got to start by learning the 3 basics:

1. Grounding
2. Centering
3. Shielding

URL: http://members.aol.com/redselchie/articles/grounding.html

Then, you might wanna learn how to do proper meditation, preferably one that allows for active visualisation. Focus on developing all your major chakras, cleaning out the psychic debris, opening them, getting them to spin in the right direction. Then work at balancing your entire auric field, so you dont have one side that is stronger than the other side.

In all of this, dont worry about your clairvoyance. Focus instead on building yourself, your energy level and healing your body and soul. Have patience and let it come naturally.

Most importantly, if you are gonna be doing this, you will have to read up quite a lot about the path you are treading and how your abilities function, you will definitely come across a lot of bad info, so dont rush into things and rationally evaluate all the info that you come across...

me two cents. hope it helps you.

PS: At the end of the day, I found that the greatest reward from threading this path was really self healing and self understanding. I now know who I really am and why I do what I do. And that for me was greater than all the magick or psychic abilities found in this universe.

Very useful post, TabbyKitty! :) Thanks.
Best wishes,
Moonshine :broomride

[Aidron]

Precognition is not an area of expertiese for me, I tend to do better when it comes to obtaining information about the present, the past, invisible entities to the naked eye (the deceased and others). I am extremely clairvoyant (I've even been told, as of late, that I am far more clairvoyant than some who state they have been clairvoyant for 20 years and practicing faithfully). I've always been clairvoyant, with a particular emphasis on certain aspects over the years (empathy in the beginning, then moving on to telepathy, for example), however.

The trick with any psychic ability is that altering your state of consciousness is a necessity. You can do it with your eyes closed, and generally that is how you should start off if you wish to actively control it. We do lower and raise our brain waves throughout the day unintentionally, though how much varies from person to person. If you spend a lot of time driving, for example such as a trucker, the chances are you enter alpha more often than most as it is very common to do so while driving. Regardless, once you can learn to master the skill of altering your brain wave frequency on command, your psychic abilities will be magnified almost tenfold and you will seem to almost master them at the drop of a hat. Once you learn how to do it well enough, you can do it with your eyes closed in a matter of moments without the need to enter a meditative state and take time to lower yourself slowly into alpha.

Keep in mind, however, this requires a great deal of practice. I'm the first to admit that I am extremely talented (and it has been confirmed my entire life by other sources) with the occult and psychic abilities, but it took me years to be able to enter a very deep alpha state on command in under 10 seconds, about three years total of determination and practice.

[mooneyes]

Yes when I am in the right mindset. I find when I am into my Craft - doing rituals, meditating, keeping the Goddess in my thoughts - my psychic abilities become uncluttered. I have these thoughts or dreams and I can see what someone has done or something that is going to happen, or someone far away needs us to call or even an action that should be taken to come to a particular end. I knew I could always do this, but since I started studying to become Wiccan, it became more frequent and upfront. So, yes, i think you can control it to a point.

When I am running amuck, and my brain is scattered and trying to do too many different things; I notice I have no "sights".

[MoonDragn]

I have found the future to be mutable. It changes every single moment that even if you see a possible future, it may never come true. So your ability is as only as useful as a possibility, and not a certainty.

I have learned that when I trust my instincts, they are always correct.

[2-G]

I've been psychic since I was little. I can't control when it comes. I've found that alot of the signs(visions, omens, feeling, clairaudience) I receive are for warning of something that's about to change. Whether it be extreme grief or happiness of any sort, it'll affect me somehow.

[Kaliel]

It is possible, but you'll have to realize that they're two completely different abilities.

Precognition deals with events that happened in the past, and the ability to perceive them.

Clairvoyance deals with that which cannot be seen by the physical eye. This could be current events, or it could narrow down to simply ghosts and images on the astral plane.

Once you're comfortable with the abilities, they'll simply become second nature, and it won't seem odd to perceive something all of a sudden out of the blue. You'll be able to roll with it, just get comfy with them first!

Kaliel

[Tabbykitty]

actually.... precognition is ...according to the definition on dictionary.com and other sources....

pre·cog·ni·tion
Knowledge of something in advance of its occurrence, especially by extrasensory perception; clairvoyance

and clair·voy·ance is...
1. The power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses.
2. Acute intuitive insight or perceptiveness.


I think Kaliel the one you are refering to is Retrocognition .....
Retrecognition is a type of clairvoyance involving knowledge of something after its occurrence through psychic means. (definition from skepdic.com ..... "Retrocognition" a fairly new and niche term so its not been included in the normal dictionaries. Howeve, the skeptic dictionaries have it on their lists.)

[Kaliel]

Oops, I got them mixed up . . . I'm so used to using the term Premonition when dealing with future events.

[Iris]

Precognition...intermittently. Like the rest of you said, I have no control over it. But I have experienced knowing things about the present or future that I have absolutely no way of knowing. It's not clairvoyance...I don't SEE anything. It's just like a piece of knowledge is somehow placed in my head from outside...it's a very strange sensation when it happens, it's like it FEELS different to your own thoughts...you know it's not just something you've come up with yourself...kinda creepy... :lookaroun

[nighthawk3425]

yes,
Though i am new to this site and more into the philosophical side of the craft, i believe tabby-kitty was pretty well right on. In my experience i have found that the best way to realize your potential is to first do what tabby suggested and then with a little twist don't overly concentrate on the ability but the desired outcome. more or less give into it. Let it work through you instead of forcing it to do your will. Or for giggles "just do it " like the nike commercials say. With time and patience you'll acheive your desired goal.

nighthawk

[Lunacie]

My precog is stronger when the situation involves people I love or places I have been. I sensed something very wrong with Waco Texas and OK City Oklahoma, but not a twitch about 9-11 in New York or the Pentagon.

I haven't tried anything clairvoyant for awhile but when I did I was seeing people and places I had never been and events I had no prior knowledge of.

[Agaliha]

I voted "No" because it is not something I can do all the time like say writing poetry-- which I do do all the time.

I have my moments where I have precognitive dreams and just know things that will happen in the future, usually the next day. I never seemed to be able to control it, it just happens.

[KEishin]

I've been precognitive as long as I can remember. But it's never been like : puts hands on forehead in mystic gesture: the lottery numbers are *this*.

I should be so lucky.

More often it's twinges and thoughts that run through my head that are totally unrelated to what I'm thinking at the time. But *deciphering* them is the real trick. I often never know what they're about far in advance. And it's not al lthe time - one of the hardest things I had to learn was discrimination.

Sometimes a random thought is just a random thought.

Then again I'm a horrible person to try to surprise with something - often I know they are planning somthing before they do. Example: Last time my bf tried to surprise me with dinner out, he emailed me at work, knowing I'd not have time to run home and change. (He thought he'd have a chance to stop, see me, and be social first. ;)) That morning, not knowing why, I'd put my spare outfit in the car. I realized why after he sent me the email - much to his chagrin he ended up meeting me at the restaurant. :lol:

[LadyCelt]

I think I have it. But, I don't always ahve dreams or visions either. I jsut feel it sometimes, hard to explain.

[zilith]

Everybody has it to an extent. A lot of people just shrug it off as coincedence.

[indigo rain]

i have it but can't control it... i have dreams about stupid stuff, like i'm going to cut my toe the next day or something. and then i do... a lot of good THAT did me.

[StarCraftLia]

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[Lunacie]

When babies are learning to walk, they are learning to control their muscles. But we don't think of basic things like walking as being in control. I think our psychic abilities should be learned and thought of the same way as learning to walk or use the toilet, the focus isn't on "control", it's on learning how and when to use them. Control is a natural byproduct of that self-knowledge.

[Meadhbh]

Yes, but I can't really help the kind of information I get. Sometimes its visions/ dreams other times it comes from somewhere else and thats harder to explain. I've found its easier to control when I'm in the right mind frame for it. Some days I'm really in the mood and reflective and because I'm expecting it to an extent its easier to control. Then other days I'll be walking down the street and it'll hit and those are times when I have no control at all. I hear mediation can help a person to up their focus and control.