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CHAPTER II CLAIRVOYANCE AS AN INSTRUMENT OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (a) Astronomical The first type of clairvoyance to which the reader is introduced is one which has been given the name Magnetic Vision. Investigations are now being made by a group of researchers into the subject of physics and astronomy by means of this type of cognition. Some explanation of the use of this term is due to the reader who is interested in these branches of science. One of the members of the group who is familiar with the latest scientific developments has been kind enough to write the following introductory remarks for this chapter: — “To readers unfamiliar with the supernormal powers of human consciousness, powers latent in all, but developed only in the few, the first effect of reading the contents of this volume will probably be a feeling of incredulity; nevertheless, the development of these powers of consciousness, as disclosed during the last half-century, has been fully as remarkable as the development of scientific knowledge. An understanding of what has been disclosed to the few who have acquired these conscious powers can be satisfactorily obtained only by those who have assimilated the corresponding advance in scientific knowledge; and this applies most particularly to that portion of the physical sciences which has emerged from the mathematical investigations of the last two years. “A primary condition for reliable investigation of the forces of Nature by a developed consciousness, such as used in these researches, is that the observer should have no preconceived notions of the character of the phenomena he is observing, otherwise his observations may be vitiated or distorted. He must be an observer pure and simple, and in no way a theorist. One trained in modern scientific theories, say, of the nature of the atom, or of radiation, who had also these developed powers of consciousness, would be seriously handicapped, and would have to clear Ills mind of all such concepts before his observations would