"Verses four and five are a bold attempt to describe the indescribable, to shadow forth that strange state of clairvoyance when the soul shakes itself free from all external impressions, which Vogel tells us was the case with Schubert, and which is true of all great composers -- `whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot say'.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Nevertheless, Jane might almost have been gifted with clairvoyance, her preposterous idea came so close to the actual fact, for at that very moment William was barking. He was not barking directly at Mr. Parcher, it is true, but within a short distance of him and all too well within his hearing.英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
[When my father was at the Water-cure Establishment at Malvern he was brought into contact with clairvoyance, of which he writes in the following extract from a letter to Fox, September, 1850.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
M--, one of the best mediums mentioned by Dr. Osty, is given an object which belonged to or which has been touched and handled by a person about whom it is proposed to question her. M-- operates in a state of trance; but there are other noted psychometers, such as Mme. F-- and M. de F--, who retain all their normal consciousness, so that hypnotism or the somnambulistic state is in no way indispensable to the awakening of this extraordinary faculty of clairvoyance.英文原著 · 《The Unknown Guest》
"The only class of experiment that could be of value from this point of view, would be that in which confirmation would come subsequently from documents whose contents remained unknown to any living person until after the clairvoyance sitting. It might then be proved that the object can latently register the human personalities which have touched it and that it is sufficient in itself to allow of a mental reconstruction of those personalities through the interpretation of the register by a clairvoyant or psychometer."英文原著 · 《The Unknown Guest》
I don't mean to be rude or discourteous, But before we begin, I'd just like to say There is absolutely no scientific evidence To support clairvoyance of any kind.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》