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What might lie beyond ordinary sight—and how does an occult teacher ask students to look for it?
In Clairvoyance and Occult Powers, William Walker Atkinson introduces a world of claimed perception beyond the ordinary senses. This short instructional work explores what occult teaching calls clairvoyance: seeing or sensing without the eyes, ears, or other familiar means. Plain lessons give readers a vocabulary for approaching these unusual ideas.
The book distinguishes distant sight, sensing another person's thoughts, and reading impressions left on objects. It presents concentration, steady attention, and calm as ways to develop the abilities it describes. Alongside that promise comes a warning: interest in psychic powers can lead toward misuse, fantasy, and false belief.
What you’ll discover
- A vocabulary for hidden perception Explore how the book defines clairvoyance and separates it from the work of ordinary senses.
- Different kinds of psychic sight Follow distinctions between distant events, other people's thoughts, and impressions said to remain on objects.
- The discipline of attention Examine the author's advice on quiet concentration and calm of body and mind.
- Caution alongside curiosity Consider warnings about misuse and the risk of mistaking fantasy for genuine perception.
- An early occult classroom Encounter the plain teaching style of early twentieth-century writing on psychic subjects.
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This book suits readers curious about telepathy, second sight and the early twentieth century occult revival. It also suits anyone who likes case histories and step by step mental exercises.
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- Thought becomes a force across space
- The senses offer a limited view
- The mind both sends and receives
- Practice moves from contact to distance
- Objects serve as points of focus
- Concentration keeps the student in control
- Foresight does not remove human choice
- Desire, picture and focus link the lessons
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Clairvoyance and Occult Powers
by William Walker Atkinson · 1912
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A farmer cannot sleep. Every night between ten and midnight he hears someone pounding iron, and he believes a village blacksmith is behind it.
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Your five senses are only narrow windows
The course opens by attacking a common boast, that a person believes only what the senses report. Atkinson says the senses are imperfect tools. Colour blindness and optical illusions show how easily they mislead. Even the motion of the earth, which every sense denies, is known only through reason.
He asks what a sense really is. The eye is a camera, the ear a receiver, and the nerves are wires that carry messages to the brain. Behind it all sits the real knower, the mind. Touch is the original sense, and the others are its specialised forms. Each sense added to a creature widens its world.
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Atkinson, William Walker. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/clairvoyance-and-occult-powers.
Atkinson, W. W. (2026). Clairvoyance and occult powers. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/clairvoyance-and-occult-powers (Original work published 1912)
Atkinson, William Walker. Clairvoyance and Occult Powers. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/clairvoyance-and-occult-powers.
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What is Clairvoyance and Occult Powers about?
It is a course of twenty lessons on telepathy, mind reading, psychometry, crystal gazing, clairvoyance of distant, past and future events, astral travel, and psychic influence. The course combines explanations of principles, case stories and practical exercises.
Who is Swami Panchadasi?
Swami Panchadasi is the name printed on the course, a pen name of the American writer William Walker Atkinson. The introduction speaks as a teacher who has shaped Hindu occult teaching to suit Western students.
What is psychometry in this book?
Psychometry is the method of reaching the astral plane through an object linked to a person, place or event. The object is described as the loose end of a ball of twine that the psychic can unwind.
The author
William Walker Atkinson
1862–1932 · American New Thought writer
William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) was an American author and lawyer. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and later lived in Chicago, Illinois. He wrote about New Thought, mental training, and occult subjects in the early twentieth century. He published under his own name and several pseudonyms, including Yogi Ramacharaka.
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