Leadbeater Clairvoyance

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. 

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. 

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

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

A. Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, Occult Chemistry—Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements, revised edition, Theosophical Publishing House, London, 1919, pp. 1-2. 

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