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This is frequently defined as the ability to sense psychical manifestations that cannot be perceived by any of our five senses. It is the power to sense the atmosphere of a house or place; to know that there is a psychic manifestation. This ability is akin to psychometry and can show itself as a general uneasiness, a distinct feeling of coldness, negativity, even the prickling of hairs on the back of the neck or down the arm.

The majority of clairsentience experiences are spontaneous as it is often dependent on the way we tune into places and into the essences of people’s personalities. The most common example of tuning into a place is an ability to sense a strange atmosphere in a house as soon as one enters it. It is also common to discover a scent that comes from the spirit world. This is the first entry point into clairsentience and indeed is often the way people sense either the deceased or the history of a place. For example, smelling a deceased grandmother’s favourite perfume or baking or a grandfather’s tobacco is a universal paranormal phenomena. A few years ago I had a spirit guide from India and when he came to visit there was always a strong smell of jasmine in the room.

Clairsentience is the first opening from being intuitive or sensitive to describing yourself as psychic. We have all experienced times when our intuition is acute and we are able to listen to it and respond accordingly. Your intuition tells you that it would be a good time to telephone a friend; you have a ‘gut feeling’ she is in need of support and it turns out she is. Clairsentience is particularly common in women and children, who are still generally more emotionally biased than men. As children we are all quite open intuitively and emotionally; if you watch small children react to people and situations that they feel uncomfortable with or do not like, they are reacting to a feeling that they receive from that situation or person. However, as we grow we may learn to shut out these aspects of our awareness. To be clairsentient is to be as sensitive to situations and people as a small child, and to listen to those feelings and trust them.

Clairsentience is a very important skill because it offers protection, not only against bad vibrations from a haunted place, but also against present dangers or potential hostility.

I have never questioned my sensitivity to atmospheres since an event that happened when I was 19. One Saturday night I had gone to a party with a small group of friends. We were sitting in the living room when I experienced a terrible cold feeling in my stomach and insisted to my friends that we had to leave (this is before I trained in psychic development!). Reluctantly, my friends left with me and as we were walking out we came across a group of rough-looking youths waiting to come in. The next day I discovered that one of the youths had stabbed a guest who had been sitting where we had been. I sensed danger and thank God I listened to my feelings.

Intuitive responses tell us that a stranger is untrustworthy, even though their outer appearance or actions offer no apparent justification for this distrust. This automatic response is in-built in us all, but too often we don’t recognize our natural warning system. Dogs will growl at some apparently friendly strangers but not at others, while a normally confident child will sometimes instinctively back away from a smile and outstretched hand. In both cases, the person usually proves to be unreliable or to have negative intentions behind the smile and soft words. This is the same intuitive ability that makes us instantly like or dislike a place, a person or a situation.

This skill is more open in some people than others, particularly if they have more of an emotional outlook on life. Those who approach life with a more mental and visual outlook will lean more towards clairvoyance.