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The evidence "can all be accommodated by various forms of precognition."</span>--Dean Radin </blockquote> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3">Clairvoyance is an alleged <a href="psychic.html">psychic</a> ability to see things beyond the range of the power of natural vision or vision assisted by technology. Clairvoyance is often associated with <a href="precog.html">precognition</a> (psychically knowing something will happen) or <a href="retrocog.html">retrocognition</a> (psychically "seeing" something that has already happened). Psychically seeing things at a distance is sometimes called <a href="remotevw.html">remote viewing</a>.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3">Since there is no way to distinguish direct communication with another mind from communication with a present or past perception by that or some other mind, there is no way to distinguish clairvoyance from telepathy or <a href="http://skepdic.com/retrocog.html">retrocognition</a>. Since there is no way to distinguish direct communication with another mind from communication with a <i>future</i> perception by that mind, there is no way to distinguish telepathy or clairvoyance from <a href="precog.html">precognition</a>. There is no way to distinguish telepathy, clairvoyance, retrocognition, or precognition from a mind perceiving directly the <a href="http://skepdic.com/akashic.html">akashic record</a>. There is no way to distinguish telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, or perceiving the akashic record from perceiving what is directly placed in the mind by Abraham's god (<a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/occasionalism/">occasionalism</a>). There is no way to distinguish telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, retrocognition, perceiving the akashic record, or having perceptions directly implanted in our minds by Abraham's god from perceiving the hidden record of all perceptions in the eleventh dimension that is vibrating in the intersection between the tenth and twelfth dimensions. I could go on, but it would be too annoying.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3">People can have visions or relate stream of consciousness perceptions or feelings that can be interpreted as descriptions of places or things out of the range of vision. The fact that such visions can be <a href="subjectivevalidation.html">subjectively validated</a> as "accurate" does not imply that any clairvoyance has occurred. If a person could provide accurate and detailed descriptions of remote events on a regular basis, that person would be celebrated as truly clairvoyant. That no such person has ever existed in recorded history is a sign that stories of people with second sight are mythical exaggerations.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3">Anyone can throw out strings of words or sentences or draw pictures that other people can find meaningful and apparently clairvoyant. This fact, however, is irrelevant to establishing that clairvoyance is real. Subjective validation and <a href="http://skepdic.com/selectiv.html">selective thinking</a>, acting in concert with wishful thinking, <a href="hiddenpersuaders.html"> ignorance of cognitive biases</a>, and occasional fraud can account for the widespread belief in the reality of clairvoyance. (Depending on which poll one cites, between 25% and 40% of us believe that clairvoyance is real.)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3">Attempts by scientists to establish the reality of clairvoyance have been going on since the middle of the 19th century. So far, the overwhelming bulk of the evidence indicates that clairvoyance does not exist. (For a short history of the attempt to establish by scientific means the reality of clairvoyance and other psychic abilities, click <a href="http://skepdic.com/essays/psihistory.html">here</a>. See also the entry on the <a href="ganzfeld.html">ganzfeld experiments</a>.) </font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>See also</b> <a href="http://skepdic.com/cayce.html">Edgar Cayce</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/clairaudio.html">clairaudience</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/dop.html">dermo-optical perception</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/dreams.html">dream</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/esp.html">ESP</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/ehf.html">extraordinary human function</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/medium.html">medium</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/mentalist.html">mentalist</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/moody.html">Raymond Moody</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/paranormal.html">paranormal</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/parapsy.html">parapsychology</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/psi.html">psi</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/psimiss.html">psi-missing</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/kinesis.html">psychokinesis</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/telepath.html">telepathy</a>, <a href="http://skepdic.com/zener.html">Zener cards</a>, and <a href="http://skepdic.com/essays/radin.html">"What If Dean Radin is Right?</a>" by Robert T. Carroll.</font></p> <hr width="25%" align="left"> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="comments/psicom.html"><b>reader comments</b></a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"><b>further reading</b> </font> </p> <p style="text-align: left"><strong><font face="Arial" size="3">books and articles</font></strong></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0080257720/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Alcock, James E. (1981)<i>. Parapsychology: Science or Magic?</i> Pergamon Press.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879755482/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Alcock, James E. <i>Science and Supernature: a Critical Appraisal of Parapsychology</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).</a> </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.csicop.org/si/show/belief_engine/">Alcock, J. (1995) "The Belief Engine," <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>. 19(3): 255-263.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.imprint.co.uk/pdf/Alcock-editorial.pdf"> Alcock, James. 2003. "Give the Null Hypothesis a Chance,"</a> in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0907845487/roberttoddcarrolA/"> <i>Psi Wars - Getting To Grips With the Paranormal</i>. ed. James Alcock, Jean Burns and Anthony Freeman. Imprint Academic, pp. 29-50.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.dina.kvl.dk/~abraham/psy1.html"> <font size="3">Bem, Daryl J. and Charles Honorton (1994). "Does Psi Exist?" <i>Psychological Bulletin</i>, Vol. 115, No. 1, 4-18. </font></a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> Blackmore, S. J. (1980). "The extent of selective reporting of ESP ganzfeld studies," <i>European Journal of Parapsychology</i> 3:3 , 213–220.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.csicop.org/si/show/what_can_the_paranormal_teach_us_about_consciousness/"> <font size="3">Blackmore, Susan. (2001.) "What Can the Paranormal Teach Us About Consciousness?" <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>, March/April.</font></a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=019515343X/roberttoddcarrolA/"> <font size="3">Blackmore, Susan (2003). <i>Consciousness: An Introduction</i>. Oxford University Press.</font></a></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0690268157/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Christopher, Milbourne. <i>ESP, Seers & Psychics </i>(Thomas Y. Crowell Co. 1970).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0690004761/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Christopher, Milbourne. (1975). <i>Mediums, Mystics & the Occult</i>. Thomas Y. Crowell Company.</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> Cole, Richard. "U.S. didn't foresee faults in psychic spies program," Associated Press, <i>Sacramento Bee</i>, Nov. 29, 1995, A2. </font> </p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879753145/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Frazier, Kendrick. editor, <i>Science Confronts the Paranormal </i>(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986).</a> </font></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879756551/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Frazier, Kendrick. editor. </a></font><font face="Arial" size="3"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879756551/roberttoddcarrolA/"><em>The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal</em>,</a></font><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879756551/roberttoddcarrolA/"><font color="#800000"> </font>(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991).</a></font></p> <p align="left"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0486203948/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Gardner, Martin. <i>Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science</i> (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879755733/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Gardner, Martin. <i>Science: Good, Bad and Bogus</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981).</a> </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879755121/roberttoddcarrolA/">Gardner, Martin. <i>How Not To Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).</a> </font> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879757132/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Gardner, Martin. <i>On the Wild Side</i> (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1992).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879754079/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Gordon, Henry. <i>Extrasensory Deception: ESP, Psychics, Shirley MacLaine, Ghosts, Ufos </i>(Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1987).</a> </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879755334/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Hansel, C. E. M. <i>The Search for Psychic Power: ESP and Parapsychology Revisited </i>(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).</a> </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1401000827/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Hansen, George P. (2001). <i>The Trickster and the Paranormal</i>. Xlibris Corporation.</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573929794/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Hines, Terence. <i>Pseudoscience and the Paranormal</i> (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003).</a> </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879755040/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Hyman, Ray. <i>The Elusive Quarry : a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).</a> </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.mceagle.com/remote-viewing/refs/science/air/hyman.html">Hyman, Ray. (1995). "Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena,"</a> <em>Journal of Scientific Exploration</em>, Volume 10 Number 1.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573921610/roberttoddcarrolA/">Keene, M. Lamar. <em>The Psychic Mafia</em> (Prometheus, 1997).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial" size="3"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0199249628/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Luckhurst, Roger. 2002<i>. The Invention of Telepathy: 1870-1901.</i> Oxford University Press.</a></font><p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1573927988/roberttoddcarrolA/"> <font size="3">Marks, David. <i>The Psychology of the Psychic</i> (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2000).</font></a></font><p style="text-align: left;"> <font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0900458747/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Milton, Julie and Richard Wiseman. (1997). <i>Guidelines for Extrasensory Perception Research.</i> University of Hertfordshire Press. </a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> <font size="3" face="Arial">Neher, Andrew <i>The Psychology of Transcendence</i> (1980). This Prentice-Hall book is out of print. Used copies may be available from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0137366450/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Amazon.com</a>. It was reissued in 1990 by Dover Books as <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0486261670/roberttoddcarrolA/"> <i>Paranormal and Transcendental Experience</i></a>.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> <font face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0062515020/roberttoddcarrolA/"> <font size="3">Radin, Dean (1997). <i>The Conscious Universe - The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena</i>. HarperCollins.</font></a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"> <font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=1416516778/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Radin, Dean. (2006). <i>Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality</i>. Paraview Pocket Books.</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879751983/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Randi, James. <i>Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions</i> (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982), </a> especially chapter 13, "Put Up or Shut Up," where he gives accounts of tests done on several psychics who have tried to collect the $10,000 Randi used to offer to anyone who can demonstrate any psychic power. So far, no one has collected, even though the offer is now <a href="randi.html">$1,000,000!</a> </font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0879754354/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Reed, Graham. <em>The Psychology of Anomalous Experience : A Cognitive Approach </em>(Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988).</a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345409469/roberttoddcarrolA/">Sagan, Carl. <i>The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark</i> (New York: Random House, 1995).</a> </font> </p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3">Scott, Christopher. (1988). Remote viewing. <i>Experientia</i>, 44, 322–326.</font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0962347302/roberttoddcarrolA/"> Steiner, Robert A. (1989)<i>. 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"Meta-Analysis and the File-Drawer Effect." </font><i><font size="3">Skeptical Briefs.</font></i></a></font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font face="Arial" size="3">Vistica, Gregory. 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