INDICATIONS OF AWAKENING
CLAIRVOYANCE
While sitting at seances, a mistiness
appears before the eyes, colored rings and flashes of light, bouquets of
flowers, or a succession of passing forms as of animals, persons or
scenes.
The appearance of successive scenes
and images may be
incipient clairvoyance, the efforts of
spirit friends attempting to impress
the mind, or it may be purely
reproduction of past images, real or pictured, of a vivid imagination.
Thus on closing the eyes, a procession as though coming out of a building,
or a crowded thoroughfare, passes in rapid march, or changes into
grotesque forms, or things monstrous and horrible.
The more these processions are watched,
the more vivid they become. They are especially vivid in childhood, and
not being able to distinguish them from reality, the child cries out in
terror, is afraid of the dark in
which they appear, and is punished by
the parents who do not comprehend
its mental condition. They should be
taught a lesson by these observations, and when their children cry out in
fear of the dark, know that the forms they see are real to them. Perhaps they have been told
ghost stories, and of the Devil,
and their vivid fancy gives these terrors form and
substance.
It is thus seen that the real "clear
seeing" or true spiritual perception is mingled with many other causes and
must be distinctly separated from
them by the student in his study of
the phenomena.
As clairvoyance is a higher state than
the hypnotic, it is essential to carry the subject beyond suggestion, and
have him independent in his spiritual perception. This may be accomplished
by successive steps. The subject should be hypnotized or magnetized at
stated times, each time the impression must be left that the next trial will go further.
A sensitive in this condition will
develop in clairvoyance more rapidly by sitting in a circle, where a
strong spiritual influence will be exerted, to
carry him beyond the control of
physical conditions.
If the magnetizer, however, depends on
himself, he must patiently await
the awakening of the spiritual
perceptions. No formula of passes is of the
least value, except as concentrating
the mind and sustaining attention. The
state cannot be forced.
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