Clear seers Clairvoyance comes from two French words that mean to see clearly.

It is the abili ty or power to have full knowledge or awareness of what has happened or what is happening elsewhere (sometimes in great distances) without using any of the phys ical senses. Clairvoyance can also mean the faculty of seeing with the inner eye or spiritual sight. Documented clairvoyant abilities are numerous. Blind seeress Vanga Dimitrova was called the blind seeress of Bulgaria. She lived near the Gre ek border in the small town of Petrich. Dimitrova found missing people, helped solve crimes, diagnosed disease and read the past. But her greatest gift was prophecy. Her case was thoroughly studied by Dr. Georgi Lozanov, a physician and psychiatr ist, who headed the Institute of Suggestology and Parapsychology in Sofia and Pe trich. Scientists who worked with Dimitrova called her an honorable woman. This example of her ability is taken from the book Psychic Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. When Dimitrova moved to Petrich after marrying Dimitri Georgeyev (a marriage she foresaw), neighbor Boris Gurov, a middle-age farmer, immediately consulted her. His 15-year-old younger brother Nikola disappeared in 1923. The family searched everywhere but did not find any clues. I see him. He s alive! Dimitrova told him. I see your brother Nikola in a great town in Russia. He grew up there. He s a scientist. But he is not there now. He s a slave to the Germans Don t worry, though, he ll come to you early this spring. You can reco gnize him by the gray uniform. He ll be carrying two suitcases. It was too bizarre. Gurov could not buy the idea that his brother was a Soviet s cientist, much less that he was in a concentration camp at that moment. He went home convinced he would never know the truth. But he related Dimitrova s tale to h is family. According to reports, two months later, at dawn of a spring morning, a stranger stopped wearily in front of Gurov s house. He had two suitcases. He did not look f amiliar to anyone in the village, including Gurov. It was Nikola, returning after almost 20 years. He was wearing a gray uniform. A ll that Dimitrova said to Gurov about Nikola was confirmed. According to the book, Vanga says she has no control over the mental images that form in her mind s eye. They have to come naturally and can t be forced. They may be about the past, present or the future. Vanga has no way of knowing which period of time will suddenly light up. Although Dimitrova was not right all the time because her psychic powers did not work occasionally, the percentage of her accuracy was way beyond the statistica l figure attributed to chance. Most studied Olof Jonsson, a Swedish clairvoyant or psychic, was probably one of the most stu

died, aside from the American Eileen Garrett, of all sensitives in the contempor ary world. His psychic feats were so well documented that there was little doubt about his extraordinary powers. Brad Steiger, author of several books on the occult and psychic phenomena, wrote the biography of this Swedish wonder, The Psychic Feats of Olof Jonsson. The foll owing was taken from there: On Oct. 24, 1970, when a television production crew was preparing to film a New Y ear s Eve Special featuring Jonsson and some of Sweden s brightest actors and entert ainers, several Swedish newspapers and magazines sent reporters to interview him for special holiday features. One of the reporters, Oke Winslow, telephones me from a hotel to set up an interv iew with me, Olof smiled. I had never met him before, so he thought he would try t o test me over the telephone and asked me what he looked like. I told him that he had a round face, a beard and that he had started a bad habit of smoking cigars. He asked me how he was dressed, and I said that he had just c ome from the shower, so he wasn t dressed at all. He laughed and told me that I wa s correct. I could see him clearly. Jonsson was also able to solve a brutal multiple murder case without the slighte st clue, located three girls in a famous missing persons case, correctly identif ied an object concealed inside a box as Hitler s ashtray and literally stopped a c lock by merely looking at it and willing it to stop. In this field he shared top billing with better-known Dutch clairvoyant Gerard C roiset, who made crime-busting his specialty. Croiset s amazing story is told by magazine reporter Jack H. Pollack in Croiset, Th e Clairvoyant. He has been called The Man who Mystifies Europe, The Dutchman with th e X-Ray Mind, The Radar Brain, The Wizard of Utrecht. His teacher, professor W. H. C. Tenhaeff, director of the Parapsychology Institu te at the University of Utrecht, refers to Croiset as a paragnoist, a word he coin ed from the Greek words para meaning beyond and gnosis meaning knowledge. http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view_article.php?article _id=82308