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Clairvoyant Appropriation

I have aphantasia and anauralia - scientific definitions for a blind and silent mind. It is a Clairvoyant world, when only 2-5% have aphantasia - in that, most can 'count sheep' in their minds eye, to various degrees.

I am unable to see images in my mind - I can't 'count sheep' like others - my minds eye is blind. I am just counting, knowing the numbers represent sheep. I lack what may once have been called clairvoyance, which can be defined as; 'clear seeing' or 'minds clarity of vision'.

Etymology of Clairvoyance:
Clarity - the ability to think clearly / brightness of mind (Latin)
Clair - clear (French), Voir - to see (French)
Clairvoyant - clear sighted perspective (French)

First used in 1600, according to the Oxford English Dictionary

Prior to this, the Greeks spoke of oracles, particularly at Delphi, where priestesses could receive divine messages through visions, voices, or bodily sensations. Shamans, from indigenous cultures around the world, often had heightened perceptions. Spiritual teachers or yogis were believed to have powers of clairvoyance and claircognizance as part of their spiritual mastery and in Christian mysticism, saints and visionaries often reported visions (clairvoyance), voices (clairaudience), and physical sensations from divine or angelic entities - gifts of the Holy Spirit. 

Today, such things might be labelled under the heading of ESP, or extra sensory perception. Is this the attempt to define mental sensory perception, in a world where science does not acknowledge 'mystical' experiences? 

Aphantasia and anauralia come under 'voyance' and 'audition' of the mind, some of my thinking senses others don't understand, that I find hard to explain (and that compensate for this lack of mental vision), seem to come under the other Clair's mentioned in history. 

This is how this useful language breaks down for me, and why it might be helpful to those of us who think in ways not yet fully understood by science:

Clairvoyance = Clarity of thought in visions (100%, Hyperphantasia - 0%, Aphantasia)
Claircognizance = Clarity of instant thought (reflex cognition - ah-ha moments, intuition, muscle memory, genetic memory and fight or flight responses)
Clairaudience = Clarity of thought in sound (0% Anauralia)
Clairolfaction / Clairalience = Clarity of thought in smell
Clairgustance = Clarity of thought in taste
Clairtangent / Clairtactile = Clarity of thought in touch
Clairsentience = Clarity of thought in feelings (0%, Alexithymia)

Are there scientific definitions for the lack of these other senses in the mind? Like aphantasia (lack of mental imagery), anauralia (lack of mental sounds), alexithymia (lack of ability to sense your own or others feelings) and dysikonesia (multi-sensory aphantasia - a lack of many mental senses)?

"Because there is currently no English word denoting an absence of auditory imagery, we propose a new term, anauralia, for referring to this, and offer suggestions for further research."

The body has more than just the basic 5 senses, the current research indicates 53, but the Egyptians thought there were as many as 360. It is possible the mind has a version for these others also? 

Could there also be a...

Clairchronoception - Clarity of thought regarding time?
Clairspatial - Clarity of thought regarding spatial awareness?
Clairthermoception - Clarity of thought regarding temperature?
Clairnociception - Clarity of thought regarding pain?
Clairproprioception - Clarity of thought regarding body movement, force and position?

Maybe there are people who can see the past and future at one end of the extreme?

It also makes sense to me now, why some people with Parkinson's can see Machine elves, why patients with PTSD can have visual or emotional flashbacks, how schizophrenia patients hear voices and see visions, how tulpamancers can create tulpas, why dementia patients can mentally 'time hop' uncontrollably, why some people suffer psychopathy and how psychogenic drugs can cause trips. Even why some people can smell colours or taste numbers and maybe why some people get phantom limb pain.

Are our individual minds like a fingerprint, unique to us all? A mixing deck of senses; that we all have different levels and combinations for, in order to achieve balance?

The new and growing understanding of the human mind is fascinating to one that is silent and blind. I look forward to there being accepted language to discuss it all. 








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  1. https://perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/

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  2. Was definately onto something.. https://imaginationspectrum.com/

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  3. "Maybe there are people who can see the past and future at one end of the extreme?"

    Others also wondered, even the Vatican had its rumors of the Chronovisor; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2KtaOjsv_M

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  4. Interdependent Concepts and their Independent Uses: Mental Imagery and Hallucinations

    https://philarchive.org/archive/SMIICA-2

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