You’re More Psychic Than You Think
In this blog post, I will be talking about common psychic abilities, how they are not rare, supernatural, or reserved gifts for a few. But a natural extension of awareness—one that has simply gone untrained, misunderstood, or dismissed in modern culture.
From intuition and energetic sensitivity to telepathy, lucid dreaming, and conscious alchemy, human perception operates across multiple layers of reality simultaneously. In his article, I will attempt to map out the psychic spectrum, showing how these abilities emerge naturally through self-awareness, emotional clarity, and embodiment.
The Clairs: The Subtle Senses of Consciousness
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The first on the list is the clairs. Essentially, whenever you hear about psychic abilities, the clairs almost always pop up first, rivaled only by telepathy, which is often mistaken for clairaudience, more on this later. The clairs are the foundation of psychic perception.
They are not mystical add-ons, but parallel sensory systems that operate beyond the physical body. Let’s explore them further.
Clairaudience — Clear Hearing
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Clairaudience is the perception of information through sound on a non-physical level. This may appear as inner dialogue, tonal impressions, or symbolic phrases that arrive without deliberate thought.
Clairaudience also happens to have a lot of misconceptions around it, which I hope to clear in this post.
First of all, while Clairaudience is all about hearing things in the non-physical, it is not to be confused with schizophernia which is a medical condition associated with hearing voices, but schizophernia happens to be a condition where people are unable to tell reality apart from their fantasy.
A clairaudient person can easily tell the difference between their inner dialogue, mental chatter, and intrusive thoughts. This is because they have spent hours cultivating self-awareness. They know what’s real from what isn’t, not just with the application of logic and common sense but through emotional intelligence (intuition).
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Clairaudience is closely related to telepathy. I personally do not consider them the same thing for the following reasons;
Clairaudience is hearing clearly things that are happening beyound the 3rd dimension, this means hearing the voices of Akasha, or the collective consciousness of the planet (past, present and future), usually it’s most human thoughts and the emotions that go with thinking them, so the voices and sounds may and can be indirect and they don’t usually stick around for answers. They pop up, leave a message, and fade away.
Telepathy, on the other hand, is a more direct form of psychic perception; one can send and receive thoughts from a person to a group all at the same time. The connection can stay open as long as a party keeps it open, and people usually get responses to their queries and messages. Telepathy can feel like texting or a group chat, more on that later.
Clairaudience is like listening to the radio. A one-way channel is often messy and disorganised, depending on what and who is being picked up on the frequency.
Telepathy is like using a walkie-talkie; two or more people can communicate with each other with great detail if they know what they are doing.
I feel the need to mention that all this information is from my experience, through experimenting with self and consciousness, and by no means to be considered medical advice. Please seek medical help when hearing voices and sounds. Especially intrusive ones that encourage self-harm and doubt.
Claircognizance — Clear Knowing
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Claircognizance is immediate knowing without explanation. Information arrives whole, bypassing emotion and logic. This faculty is closely tied to intuition and becomes stronger as internal noise decreases. This operates very similarly to telepathy, but in this case, words are rarely used, information is passed through knowing, you just know.
To properly explain how this phenomenon happens, I will need to share a few examples from my experience. I hope some will ring a bell or two.
Just today, while I was out hours before writing this post, I was walking, and I thought to myself… what do I need to know right now? And immediately my inner diagloue says to me in my voice, “you will bump into someone you don’t want to, turn left to avoid them”. I stopped in my tracks, I didn’t turn left, just waited, and about 5 seconds later this person came around the corner.
Let’s just say I really didn’t want to meet them.
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I have had this happen to me a bunch of times, where someone was trying to sell me something, and it felt shady, when a person is not being honest, I just know, but just knowing isn’t good enough. So with a bit of study and close obeservation I learned that most people, especially myself, think about stuff before we say or do it. People who are claircognizant can sense these things when they are in contact with your aura (energy field around the body – spirit).
You know how they say, “doubt yourself, and they would doubt you as well”? That kind of how this works, except in this case, if a person next to you wants to order a latte, you might hear the word, see a picture in your mind, or even feel the taste in your mouth.
Again, this depends on the person; some people are guarded and are hard to read, while others project their thoughts and feelings and are pretty easy to pick up, once you learn to tell your inner voice apart from the other noises in your head.
Cultivating self-awareness is the neat way to do it; your inner voice is the one that rings true, emotionally and logically. This self-awareness practice is not about finding who you are, but deciding who you will be. Pick thoughts that help you grow, and the ones that bring you down will become obvious. Naturally, you will want to avoid charging them with emotions, as that gives them power. Read this to learn more about self-awareness.
Claircognizance is clear knowing, usually the source of the knowing is closeby by, often they are far away, but thoughts can travel as fast as radio or TV signals. You will also find that tug a bit at the info will reveal the source. Energy is hidden from you as words are to those who cannot read. Learn.
Clairvoyance — Clear Seeing
Clairvoyance involves visual perception beyond physical sight. Images, symbols, scenes, and entire environments may appear internally or externally. Remote viewing is an extension of this faculty.
This is one of the most popular amongst psychics, this uses the same faculties used for visualization, the only difference is, when visualizing, you are seeking these “visions,” but when it comes to Clairvoyance, it is a bit of the other way around.
I would be minding my business, and suddenly I would see with my mind’s eye (Third eye/pineal gland) an image, a scene. Usually this has nothing to do with me, and I just let it be, but occasionally they do reveal valuable information.
I watch a lot of tarot reading on YouTube, and those that resonate with me often get visual feedback, and they will describe my experience to nitty-gritty detail. This is such a great tool for manifestation for me because I set intentions for a week, and the following week, I watch a random Pick A Card reading, and this reader is seeing what I sent into the Universe. If she can see it, then the Universe has as well, and it’s already mine, just need to wait for time to slowly catch up.
This was a helpful way of reducing the anxiety I used to get after setting intentions and wondering if I did it right during my baby alchemist days. Anyway, Clairvoyance is like dreaming sometimes with your eyes wide open and your mind fully awake.
Clairsentience — Clear Feeling
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Clairsentience allows one to feel emotional, energetic, or physical impressions that do not originate from the self. This ability is common in empaths and energy healers.
People who call themselves empaths are usually operating with this psychic perception as their default setting. They can clearly feel the emotions of people, animals, and situations around them. Their bodies can read the room before they even enter it.
Clairsentience is very similar to Claircognizance but polarized in the feeling state, while a Claircognizant person will see images and scenes with the mind’s eye, a clairsentient person will feel it, happy, sad, hurt, discomfort, or anger. Like feeling heat on the skin, a clairsentient will feel emotions of their environment within their nervous system.
Most empaths do not know that these emotions are not theirs, and funny enough, they are always equipped with the faculties needed to transmute these heavy emotions, people around the empath subconscious sense this and will tend to project their negative emotions at them while they make it disappear. This doesnt hurt the empath in any way, however can be the most exhausting experience.
Again, cultivating self-awareness allows you to detect which energies are coming from within and without the self, thereby allowing one to know which to respond to and which to let be as well as how to feel through other people’s energy without absorbing it.
In fact, I have learned a technique on how to transmute fear, doubt, and other negative emotions into power that 10x my manifestations. Read it here.
As the clairs stabilize, perception expands into more integrated psychic expressions. Let’s talk about the others.
Channeling
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Channeling occurs when awareness aligns with non-local streams of information. This may express itself through speech, writing, insight, or symbolic downloads. Almost all energy workers online, which is now where they are easily found, know how to channel.
Here are some popular channeling examples to help get the messages across;
If you have ever heard of Esther Hicks, who channels this entity known as Abraham or Kyron, channeled by Lee Carroll, then you have an idea of what I amtalking about, a person sort of opens themselves freely, allowing this other entity to sort of pass through them like a tunnel or a doorway to deliver a message.
While the person is still in charge of their body, the experience is akin to letting someone speak on your microphone as you step aside for them on a podium. It is in no way intrusive and can be shut down easily; channeling operates based on consent.
Tarot readers will only read you if you click on the video, or in some cases, leave a comment; it requires mutual energetic exchange.
Automatic writing and embodiment are also forms of channeling as they allow the flow of information through a person without the use of the conscious mind.
Precognition
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Precognition is the perception of probability across time. It does not predict fixed futures, but senses energetic trajectories before they manifest physically.
Time is not linear; all that will happen to us in this timeline is already written in the cosmos, like a never-ending play. With focus and training of the mind, a person can tune in to any time and mentally download information.
For others, these faculties develop a mind of their own, either through training it till it becomes automatic or sometimes it just kicks in on its own. Usually, in my case, it shows up when I am asleep in a dream state. The message is often symbolic but easy to decode and tells with good accuracy what will happen that day.
It’s mostly highlights for now. Until I see those lotto winning numbers, haha.
Embodiment & Energy Healing
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True psychic development is grounded in the body. Embodiment integrates awareness into physical form, allowing intuition to translate into action. Energy healing emerges naturally from this integration.
Reiki or enegetic healers have learned to harness this energy with the use of intention and can direct and remove energy around themselves and within others. Energy healers who know what they are doing can not only heal others from mental and emotional wounds but also from physical wounds.
Though I am afraid this art is very quickly going extinct.
Astral Projection, Remote Viewing, and Lucid Dreaming
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These abilities are reflections of consciousness operating independently of physical location. This section of psychic perception allows consciousness to experience itself without the human waking form within a 3rd-dimensional-like reality. I am talking about the dream state.
Astral projection reveals that awareness is not bound to the body. A person can leave their body and ascend to higher layers of reality and yet still retain echoes of their physical form. I do recall having legs and arms and even a reflection in the water during my astral projections.
Remote viewing extends perception across distance while remaining embodied in the physical body and usually conscious (fully awake) while at it. Lucid dreaming trains multidimensional awareness in a safe, internal environment. Realizing you are dreaming without waking up and breaking the dream narrative, thereby giving the dreamer supernatural abilities.
Telepathy and the Unified Field
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Telepathy arises through resonance rather than effort. When internal dialogue quiets and emotional clarity increases, thought-forms become perceptible across shared fields of awareness.
This means it operates in a similar way to echolocation of dolphins and bats, but between human minds. Simply thinking about something and pairing that thought with a particular person will send that thought to the person. If this person is psychically tuned, they will usually receive it in real time.
An example, you keep thinking about wearing a particular outfit all morning, and when you show up at work, your work buddy is like, “I knew you were going to wear that outfit.” That’s just their thoughts you were picking up the whole time.
Telepathy can be tricky and intrusive to those who do not understand it. When my telepathy activate I was living with some very toxic people and would get angry vibes and thought off nasty people, and I thought I was schizophrenic and going nuts, but I sought help, and they said I was just paranoid. I got therapy and moved out. Now I only get nasty vibes when I think of said people.
Alchemy: Integration of the Psychic Spectrum
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Alchemy is the integration of all psychic faculties into conscious living. It transforms perception, emotion, and intention into alignment with reality itself.
Psychic abilities are not meant to escape reality, but to refine participation within it. I remember someone once told me during my baby alchemist days that my abilities are not always to help others but often to protect myself.
I can tell if a person means well simply by standing next to them. I know when a situation is icky and when to leave right before things go south. I can sense a person throwing shade at me or others and deflect or transmute it. I can pick it up and put the bad vibes in an imaginary jar, and the tension in the room will fade away.
Alchemy is not about turning lead to gold, but about the transformation of energy. Energy from a less valuable form like hate, envy, anger, fear, despair, or doubt (i.e., lead) to joy, happiness, gratitude, grace, abundance, and inner peace (i.e., gold). Read more about Alchemy 101 here.
Summary
- Psychic abilities exist on a spectrum, not as isolated gifts.
- The clairs form the sensory foundation of subtle perception.
- Advanced faculties emerge through embodiment and emotional clarity.
- Telepathy and astral perception reflect unified consciousness.
- Alchemy integrates awareness into lived reality.
