Clairaudience

A form of extrasensory perception, clairaudience (which means “clear hearing”) is the ability to hear things that would be impossible to hear through normal means. Among the best-known people claiming to have this psychic gift are John Edward and James Van Praagh, both of whom say they hear voices from the spirit world.

Other clairaudients hear mysterious sounds, such as music that seems to come from nowhere. No matter what clairaudients claim they have heard, however, sceptics dismiss their reports as the result of mental or physical illness.

SEE ALSO:

• John Edward
• Extrasensory Perception;
• James van Praagh

SOURCE:

The Greenhaven Encyclopedia of Paranormal Phenomena – written by Patricia D. Netzley © 2006 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning