Clairvoyance and Occult Powers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 313 pages of information about Clairvoyance and Occult Powers.

Clairvoyance and Occult Powers eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 313 pages of information about Clairvoyance and Occult Powers.

Another case, related by Stead, the same authority, runs as follows:  “The father of a son who had sailed on the ‘Strathmore,’ an emigrant ship outbound from the Clyde saw one night the ship foundering amid the waves, and saw that his son, with some others, had escaped safely to a desert island near which the wreck had taken place.  He was so much impressed by this vision that he wrote to the owner of the ‘Strathmore’ telling him what he had seen.  His information was scouted; but after a while the ‘Strathmore’ became overdue, and the owner became uneasy.  Day followed day, and still no tidings of the missing ship.  Then like Pharaoh’s butler, the owner remembered his sins one day, and hunted up the letter describing the vision.  It supplied at least a theory to account for the ship’s disappearance.  All outward-bound ships were requested to look out for any survivors on the island indicated in the vision.  These orders were obeyed, and the survivors of the ‘Strathmore’ were found exactly where the father had seen them.”

The Society for Psychical Research mentions another interesting case, as follows:  “Dr. Golinski, a physician of Kremeutchug, Russia, was taking an after-dinner nap in the afternoon, about half-past three o’clock.  He had a vision in which he saw himself called out on a professional visit, which took him to a little room with dark hangings.  To the right of the door he saw a chest of drawers, upon which rested a little paraffine lamp of special pattern, different from anything he had ever seen before.  On the left of the door, he saw a woman suffering from a severe hemorrhage.  He then saw himself giving her professional treatment.  Then he awoke, suddenly, and saw that it was just half-past four o’clock.  Within ten minutes after he awoke, he was called out on a professional visit, and on entering the bedroom he saw all the details that had appeared to him in his vision.  There was the chest of drawers—­there was the peculiar lamp—­there was the woman on the bed, suffering from the hemorrhage.  Upon inquiry, he found that she had grown worse between three and four o’clock, and had anxiously desired that he come to her about that time, finally dispatching a messenger for him at half-past four, the moment at which he awoke.”

Another, and a most peculiar, phase of space clairvoyance is that in which certain persons so awaken the astral senses of other persons that these persons perceive the first person—­usually in the form of seemingly seeing the person present in the immediate vicinity, just as one would see a ghostly visitor.  In some cases there is manifested double-clairvoyance, both persons visioning clairvoyantly; in other cases, only the person “visited” astrally senses the occurrence.  The following cases illustrate this form of space clairvoyance.

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