Are you clairvoyant? Find out with the Zener Cards. Being used by renowned parapsychologists, the zener cards became public knowledge as a tool that makes it possible to identify a person with certain extrasensory gifts, such as clairvoyance.
But to better understand the role of the zener cards You must know the what, how and why of clairvoyance. In human history there have been famous examples of the gift of clairvoyance. The most popular could be Nostradamus. While non-believers in divination call his work a treatise on evil declarations, to others he represents the most celebrated prophet of all time.
In the year 1555, Michael Nostradamus public the prophecies, written in which he mixed languages, anagrams and metaphors that, later, have served as an interpretation of various events in the recent and future world. Events such as the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the September 11 attacks have been just some of the few moments attributed to the ancient book written by Nostradamus.
And how did he manage to find the prophecies? People say that NostradamusIn addition to practicing medicine, he was an astrologer and, it is said, also a clairvoyant. Namely, Nostradamus he had the extrasensory power to receive information about future events. Although clairvoyance is still handled as a hypothetical ability, not supported by traditional science, there are many people who claim to have the same ability as the one allegedly held by Nostradamus. National Geographic. (December 14, 2013)
Along with the constant debate between the esoteric and the scientific, the creation of a method to recognize clairvoyant or not persisted: The Zener Cards. A deck of 25 cards with 5 different types of figures that were created by the parapsychologist, JBRhine and the Dr. Karl Zener, who tried to study cases of extrasensory perception through the scientific method.
The method of clairvoyance consisted of mixing the deck with a machine so that later the person, presumably clairvoyant, would draw on a piece of paper the first card that would come out, being then raised and checked or not his clairvoyant power. Since Zener and Rhine, this particular deck became popular for both skeptics and believers in the esoteric world, curious to know if they had the gift of clairvoyance. However, there are experts in astrology who defend the fact that clairvoyance is a power immersed in all human beings. The difference is in who decides or not to use it.
«There is literally constant communication between everything that exists,» he says. the astrologer, Alberto Acosta. “How many times after going through difficult situations have we not seen messages that warned what was coming? There is the true clairvoyance. He is the one who, in the midst of so much noise, manages to communicate perfectly with his surroundings and understand everything that the universe has to tell us.” Astrology and occult science. (nd)