INDEPENDENT CLAIRVOYANCE

 

Independent clairvoyance is the freedom of the spirit from physical restraint, to that degree that it has the use of its spiritual senses and perceptions. Of course the only absolutely independent clairvoyance is that of the freed spirit. Dependent clairvoyance is the lower form of this state, when the physical body, the surroundings, and the persons near exert an influence more or less perceptible. A magnetizer finds that he is able to control his subject. He makes that subject see and hear whatever he pleases. The subject is in a dependent magnetic or clairvoyant state. If instead of a magnetist, a spirit operated, the subject would depend for his knowledge on the spirit. He could know no more than the spirit impressed on his mind. This is passive or dependent sensitiveness. As this state deepens, a manifestation every experimenter has observed, the subject passes from control, and his perceptions are quickened. He no longer depends on anyone for his knowledge. His spiritual faculties are alert. He sees to great distances, gains knowledge by observation, and this grows stronger, clearer, until the separation from the physical body is completed. This is the independent state. It is a very sensitive condition, and often the subject freely converses with the departed, whom he sees and hears as he would were he like them detached from the body.