There is no magic involved when it comes to intuition or intuitive gifts. The magic is what we are able to discover when we pay attention to our ESP, or extrasensory perception. We don't always ask for it. In fact, most of the time, we don't set out to use it! However, it shows up in a variety of ways to help us. Some of the most common metaphysical gifts are clairsentience, clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairolfaction, and clairgustance. ClairsentienceThat gut feeling you have when your intuition is trying to get your attention is generally one of the most common forms of intuitive awareness, and it's called clairsentience, or clear feeling. Generally referred to as your ...
If you watch a lot of supernatural horror or read many gothic novels, you've probably encountered your fair share of séance scenes. In modern stories about supernatural terrors or paranormal adventures, a scene with a séance often marks a crucial turning point in the narrative. The séance might result in a terrifying possession, reveal a long-held secret, or unleash an undead evil into the realm of the living. We inherited séances from the Victorians, who, despite their reputation for rigidity and prudishness, also had a voracious appetite for melodrama, mysticism, and the gothic. The Victorians founded modern spiritualism, collected reports of ...
Hello! For those of you who do not know me, my name is Daryl Marston; I'm the former co-lead investigator of the A&E network TV series Ghost Hunters, and the author of The Horrors of the House of Wills. In almost every interview I have done over the years, I was always asked what my most chilling paranormal investigation was; my answer was always The House of Wills in Cleveland, Ohio. For years, I was also asked to write a book about this location and investigation. I have investigated over 400 locations in the almost twenty years that I have been investigating the paranormal, but nothing has come close to being as dark of a location as The House of Wills. When people ask me what it ...
For readers who want to conduct an experiment in Victorian-style spirit communication, I've provided guidelines for a traditional spirit circle. The guidelines are an amalgamation of what I've learned reading countless spiritualist publications, but they draw particularly heavily from Emma Hardinge Britten's wonderful instructional booklet: Rules to Be Observed When Forming Spiritual Circles, which was published in 1887. Note: Modern practitioners of spirit communication advise that anyone attempting a séance begin with a ritual or request for protection (setting the intention that only benevolent spirits will come forth) and finish by bidding the spirit-realm farewell, dismissing ...