The term ‘psychic’ refers to people possessing a special gift of extra sensory perception or rather a sixth sense which results in them being able to perceive certain things that are otherwise hidden from the normal senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste.

My grand mom used to tell stories about this milkman who always had visions of his own mother being sick even from a thousand miles away. My grand mom remembered many such incidents of the stated person leaving for home suddenly giving notice that his mother was ill which almost all the time turned accurate. This milkman was a clairvoyant having specific psychic powers.

Hence, Clairvoyants are people who have the psychic power of seeing things which are hidden from the normal senses. Thus, a person having a vision of the someone’s past or future, or of someone who is a long distance away, etc, are all types of common clairvoyant experiences. The term clairvoyant means ‘clear’ ‘viewing’.

It can then be said that clairvoyants happen to be a subset of psychics but not vice versa. That is, all clairvoyants are said to possess psychic abilities but all psychics are not clairvoyants. In the usual parlance, the term clairvoyant is many a time carelessly used to refer to psychics as a whole. But the truth remains that apart from clairvoyants, there are numerous other types of psychics that are found all over the world.

Telepathy is also one of the most common psychic powers witnessed in the world and something which clairvoyance is confused with. According to parapsychology, which is the science that studies the presence and causes of psychic powers, clairvoyants are involved in direct and immediate information transfer with another external source whereas telepathy involves reading another person’s thoughts and hence involves information transfer from another individual’s mind.

In contrasting clairvoyants with psychics that have the ability to predict someone’s past and future, it may be said that if the person having these special abilities of retro-cognition and precognition, actually has visions about them, then they are of course clairvoyants. But, if they perceive or come to ‘know’ these without actually seeing then they cannot be termed clairvoyants.

Mediumship is also something that is frequently confused with clairvoyance. A medium is another type of psychic who has the ability to communicate with spirits. This communication happens through four channels. It can be that the psychic communicates with other entities through trance or receives health benefits or healing from higher sources, interacts with them physically by participating in activities such as turntables, etc or through Clairsensing, which is the combined ability of clairvoyance and clairaudience, the ability to see and hear them respectively. Thus, we see that clairvoyance is only one part of mediumship.

Thus it can be concluded that all clairvoyants are psychics but all psychics are not clairvoyants. However, the core similarity between them is the presence of an extra sensory perception power with the help of which they perceive hidden messages from our environment. One should always remember that having such a gift of sixth sense is extremely rare and thus should be considered a blessing and used for the betterment of others.

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