Clairvoyance

Any operation that relies on skills doesn t need a procedure. However, the operator will not be clairvoyant - you may need to provide procedures for straightforward tasks to convey special safety, handling, packaging, and recording requirements. You need to ensure that you don t make your processes so complex that bottlenecks arise when the slightest variation to plan occurs. The setting up of equipment, other than equipment typical of the industry, should be specified to ensure consistent results (see later in this chapter under Verification of job set-ups). In fact any operation that requires tasks to be... 

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater.Occult chemistry investigations by clairvoyant magnification into the structure of the atoms of the periodic table and of some compounds edited by C. Jinarajadasa, assisted by Elizabeth W. 

Besant, Annie Wood and Charles Webster Leadbeater.Occult chemistry clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements Revised ed., edited by A. P. Sinnett. Edited by Alfred Percy Sinnett. London Theosophical Publishing House, 1919. iv, p., 1 1., 109, x p. 

His name has become a synonym for clairvoyance Nostradamus, astrologer to the king of France, the most famous seer in Western history. But the real meaning of his prophecies has gone undetected, hidden in a secret alchemical code. Known as the Green Language, it was understood by only a handful of medieval occult scholars, and has been lost for centuries — until now... 

Plots of boiling points, hunts for data, corrections, slide rules, log paper, eraser dirt, pencil shavings, and all the rest of the paraphernalia that takes the place of tea leaves and crystal spheres in the life of the scientific clairvoyant, were brought into play, he joked. 

As the new atomic science, through ever more sophisticated detectors, opened a realm that could not be directly perceived by the physical senses, occult chemistry offered an alternative, a mode of scientific experimentation that could attempt to claim legitimacy through its scientific writing, charts, and visual illustrations of data while it also connected the human psyche to the subatomic world through a direct form of perception—that is, clairvoyance. (Theosophists argued that clairvoyance was indeed a sense faculty.) The conception of alchemy that supported such a vision was the spiritual alchemy we... 

The direct experience account, that of the clairvoyant investigator changing his or her perspective to the micro-size of the atom and experiencing it as if... 

There were a few disagreeable facts to sidestep. Leadbeater had developed his clairvoyance in only forty-two days (Phillips 1999, 5) rather than in a lifetime of study and discipline, and, as Washington puts it, Besant s hitherto limited psychic gifts had expanded overnight as a result of meeting Leadbeater ... 

Yet it is on the issues of reproducibility and instrumentation that Occult Chemistry failed to persuade, at least outside of Theosophical circles and the small group of scientists in recent years who have been willing to work entirely at the level of theory. Besant and Leadbeater could move beyond older models of science, which based themselves upon deductions from revealed principles (alchemical or scientific deductions from the writings of the Hermetic tradition, for instance, or from the revelations of H. P. Blavatsky), by turning to experimentation. Not surprisingly, their form of experimentation did not admit of reproducibility. In spite of efforts by Stephen Phillips to conduct blind trials using a Buddhist clairvoyant to confirm Besant and Lead-beater s micro-psi visions (1996,48), direct experience is neither convincingly verifiable nor falsifiable. 

Of course Phillips is correct to point out, as he does here, that even decorated scientists can unscientifically foreclose areas of investigation simply because of their own prejudices. Yet what explains the reluctance of scientists to affirm clairvoyant chemistry What Phillips fails to take into account is the rhetorical persuasiveness of the mass spectroscope. Science persuades on the basis of instruments and the visual displays they help create and on the reproducibility of experimental data from one similarly equipped laboratory to another. Individualized direct perception simply cannot match the rhetorical power of the modern laboratory. 

Besant, Annie, and Charles W. Leadbeater. 1908. Occult Chemistry A Series of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements. London Theosophical Publishing Society. 

Occult Chemistry A Series of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical... 

Leadbeater, C. W. 1899. Clairvoyance. London The Theosophical Publishing Society. 

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