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CHAPTER III CLAIRVOYANT DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE As we have seen in the previous chapters, the possession of the faculty of positive clairvoyance—not the negative impressionability which popularly passes under that name, and is usually associated with mediumship and trance— enables its possessor to respond to rates of vibration which are beyond the normal human range. Consequently it brings added powers within the seer’s reach, among which the following are of special interest in connection with medical research: 1. X-Ray vision. 2. The power of magnification and of television. 3. The power to see the feelings and the thoughts of others as well as the vehicles or “bodies” in which those aspects of consciousness normally function. 4. To observe the vital or etheric “body”. 5. To transcend, in varying degrees, the limitations of matter, time and space, as far as vision is concerned. Concerning each of these five powers it may be said: 1. X-ray vision enables the clairvoyant to inspect the interior of solid bodies, and therefore to examine the interior organs of the body, and to study their functions. 2. Observation of the emotions and of the emotional body enables him to discover those states of consciousness which the psychologist calls complexes, and of the mental body, to perceive mental errors and limitations. From such observations the healer is able to trace the connection between conditions in these regions and the health or illhealth of the physical body. 3. As the etheric body7 is both the vehicle for the vital forces and the