What are the Gifts of the Spirit?
Definitions
Clairaudience
(clear seeing) is hearing sounds with the inner ear or mind that another human cannot detect. Sounds from the physical world register on the eardrum, and signals travel to the brain for interpretation. Clairaudient sounds, which can be messages or music, register directly in a specific brain center.
Clairvoyance
(clear hearing) is being able to see, utilizing the psychic eye instead of the physical eyes. Spirit people send pictures to the clairvoyant, which registers directly in a brain center rather than on the retina of the eyes. A clairvoyant can see into many different timefrmes, even if s/he is blindfolded.
Clairsentience
(clear feeling/sensing) occurs when a person receives clear sensing or knowingness. Mental pictures suddenly appear in the medium’s mind. Often, the person thinks a thought just popped into their mind. However, the thought actually originated from a person in the World of Spirit, who transmitted it to the physical medium.
Claircognizance
(clear knowing), the psychic ability of "clear knowing," where a person receives information, insights, or understanding without conscious reasoning or prior evidence. It feels like a sudden knowing or a strong gut feeling, often appearing as a "flash of information" or a unique solution that pops into mind. It's considered a form of extrasensory perception (ESP) rooted in intuition.
Clairgustance
(clear tasting), is the psychic ability to taste a substance without any physical food or drink being present in the mouth. This ability allows individuals to perceive tastes from spiritual or ethereal realms, often experienced as flavors, scents, or even the taste of a specific person or object associated with a Spirit.
Clairalience
also known as clairolfaction, is the ability to perceive psychic knowledge or impressions through the sense of smell, receiving spiritual information from a non-physical scent that has no apparent source.
Prophecy
occurs when the prophet or medium is given a vision of another time period from the Spirit World. The prophet sees beyond the present and describes future events. In many cases, s/he utilizes the gifts of clairaudience and clairvoyance to prophecy.
Dreams
Not all dreams are considered a Gift of the Spirit, but many are. Spirit people can project images or visions onto the subconscious mind when the physical body is asleep. We call these visions dreams. When the dream experiences spill over from the subconscious mind into our conscious mind, we can remember our dreams.
Automatic Writing
occurs when a medium produces writing of a Spirit person. The medium holds a pen or pencil, which suddenly begins to move on its own to write a message or draw a picture. Spirit controls the medium’s hand just as a teacher places her hand over a student’s hand to teach the student how to form letters. Automatic writing can also be produced on a typewriter or computer keyboard.
Automatic Drawing
Automatic Drawing or Painting is an artistic expression without the medium’s conscious volition, sometimes at great speed. It is similar to Automatic Writing. Spirit controls the hand of the artist to draw or paint. Often, the results are in the exact style the artist demonstrated during his lifetime.
Spirit Artist
Some Spirit Artists are under less control by the Spirit, and this artwork is considered Inspired Spirit Art. Frequently, an inspired Spirit Art medium has artistic abilities. The medium would see the Spirit Clairvoyantly, and draw and paint its image, while providing the sitter with the information the Spirit is communicating.
Materialization
is the appearance of temporary solidification of ectoplasm. All living things are made up of individual cells. Ectoplasm is the outer, stiffer portion of the cytoplasm, which is in every cell of the physical human body. Under suitable conditions, Spirit can withdraw the ectoplasm from the cells of the medium, mix it with spiritual energy, and then sculpt it into the shape of a hand or an entire human body. The materialized form would be an exact replica of the Spirit's physical body. Spirit can then animate this ectoplasmic body and then speak directly to a physical person witnessing this phenomenon.
Direct Voice
occurs when people in the Spirit World directly communicate with people in the physical world. A medium is needed, but the medium’s vocal cords and voice box are not used. The Spirit people extract ectoplasm from the medium’s body and mold it to form a voice box, which they then use to speak. There are two forms of direct voice
[1.] Trumpet Mediumship
A trumpet is a conical device similar to a megaphone. Spirit places the ectoplasmic voice box inside the trumpet, which is used to amplify the voice.
[2.] Independent Voice
Spirit uses an ectoplasmic voice box without the use of the trumpet. The voice will sound exactly as it did when the person lived in the physical body.
Psychography
occurs when Spirit produces writing or images without visible contact with the medium. It can happen through two methods.
[1.] Receiving written spirit messages through a medium: spirit writing.
Slate Writing
occurs when Spirit writes or draws a picture on a slate. Two slates that had been washed clean were often tied together, and a piece of chalk was between the slates. This phenomenon can occur in daylight, but some mediums prefer the slates to be in darkness. Placing the sealed slates in a light-proof box often achieved this. Spirit either writes messages, sometimes in several languages, or draws pictures on the slate, or a combination of both.
Precipitated Art
occurs when Spirit creates a picture in the Spirit World and drops its vibration seven levels into our world. Years ago, canvases were used, and the picture would "precipitate" or form spontaneously on the canvas. Today, colored pencils, felt-tipped markers, crayons, and 3 x 5 cards are put into an opaque box. The image “magnetizes the essence of the colors” to produce the picture on the card, which was not drawn by human hands.
[2.] Receiving images of spirits on film without a camera is believed to be caused by spiritualistic forces.
Skotograph
is from the Greek meaning "writing in the dark." Also known as Spirit Photography, it occurred before digital photography when Spirit caused images to form on the film's negative. Often, the photographer was not clairvoyant and did not know of the Spirit's presence when taking the picture, nor see these images with his physical eyes when taking the photograph.
Precipitation
on Silk
This dark room séance technique allows Spirit to print pictures on cloth, using minute droplets of India Ink.
Spirit Orbs
is an unexpected circle that appears in a digital photograph that was not seen by the photographer when taking the picture. Sometimes, it is caused by dust. However, Spirit can produce orbs in photographs, especially when unusual patterns or a face can be seen in the orb.
Dowsing
is the ability of a person to find water under the earth's surface. Using a divining rod, forked stick, or wire, the dowser walks across the ground, holding the rod upward with both hands. The stick will automatically turn downward at the point directly above the water. Then, the dowser receives a psychic impression indicating the water’s depth.
Voice Vibration
can occur instantaneously when a medium hears a physical person’s voice. A communication link is connected between the medium and the person’s Spirit Guide. The medium receives clairaudient or clairvoyant information and may be able to answer a person’s question even before the question is asked.
Trance
occurs when a medium allows their spiritual body to leave their physical body temporarily. Spirit doctors and chemists control and guard the medium’s physical body. These chemists put the medium’s physical body into a deep state of sleep, similar to how an anesthesiologist puts a person to sleep before surgery. Once in a trance, the Spirit body of the medium leaves his physical body. A Spirit Control then allows another Spirit to enter the body and use the medium's vocal cords to convey a message. The Spirit gives a lesson, lecture, medical diagnosis, or personal reading.
Healing
occurs when the healer is a receiver and transmitter of healing energy. The healer receives the healing energy from the Spirit doctors and teachers, who are knowledgeable in the laws of communication. A healer goes into a meditative state, attuning themself to Spirit, as s/he asks to be used as an instrument of this healing energy. Healing will take place when the energy flows from the Spirit doctors through the healer, who places their hands on the patient’s body. This is known as “laying on of the hands.”
Apports
is a type of materialization in which physical objects appear where they did not exist before. Under suitable conditions, Spirit people can perform this phenomenon. Spirit chemists can dematerialize objects from the Spirit World and materialize them in our physical world. When the object materializes, it is very hot. It is similar to an object that enters our atmosphere from outer space. One Spirit control, White Hawk, was asked, "How do you bring these objects here?" He replied: "I can only explain it by telling you that I speed up the atomic vibrations until the stones are disintegrated. Then they are brought here, and I slow down the vibrations until they become solid again."[1]
Levitation
occurs when Spirit creates energy that can lift people, or objects, off the ground, defying the laws of gravity. When levitation is demonstrated, tables, furniture, and even people can rise in the air without any physical means of support.
Thought Transformation
occurs when the medium uses the power of their mind to transform the chemistry of an object's atoms. All matter is solidified energy. Certain mediums can change the energy around molecules and transform the substance into something else.
Psychometry
is the ability to detect vibrations remaining on an object. All objects are similar to a tape recorder. When a person holds, handles, or wears an object, a great deal of the owner’s pattern of life is recorded in the object’s vibrations. Remember, everything in the Earth plane operates on vibrations, regardless of what it is. Therefore, the item picks up the vibrations of its owner. When a medium, a person sensitive to vibrations, holds an object that belongs to another person, the medium can pick up the vibrations of past, present, and future events concerning the object’s owner.
[1] Barbanell, Maurice. This is Spiritualism. London: Spiritualist Press, 1959. p. 142.