Clairsentience means, in essence, "to know." Many say that it is "clear sensing." This can also be called empathy. Clairsentience is when we feel the feelings of others and sometimes these feelings might be so prominent that they may seem as if they are our own feelings. Very often, healers who work with people who are ill feel their physical symptoms as they open themselves up to higher frequencies in order to channel healing energy. This is a process of clairsentience at a concentrated level. A person who is clairsentient "knows" without knowing how they know.

The scientific process of assessing ESP has been an interest in the West since the Society of Psychical Research was founded in 1882 in England. An American society was established a few years later, with similar groups now in other countries, and what is known today as parapsychology has come to be regarded by some as an accepted field of scientific study.

One of the most well-known modern researchers was Dr. Joseph Banks Rhine of Duke University in North Carolina (who coined the term ESP). Hansel reported in his book ESP: A Scientific Evaluation (1966), "In 1934, [Rhine] published Extra Sensory Perception, in which he gave details of research at Duke University and claimed to have found overwhelming evidence for the existence of extrasensory perception. Further research followed, and in 1940 the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory was formed with Rhine as its director."

Perhaps one of the best contributions to the study of telepathy, or being able to read the minds of others, came out of Duke with the invention of the Zener cards as an experimental instrument. These cards, invented by Duke’s colleague K.E. Zener, were symbols that have come to be associated with ESP testing, and they consist of a circle, a rectangle, a plus sign, wavy lines, and a five-pointed star (known as ESP cards). In the experiments there was usually a "sender" who would pick a card, visualize the object on it, and a "receiver" in another room or behind a barrier who would be instructed to guess the object.

The process of telepathy has actual electrical impulses involved. When you have an idea or a thought, an electrical impulse is created in the brain on etheric levels. Thought waves throw off tiny particles of themselves as they travel, and they can travel great distances. Thought waves are not affected by solid objects, so thoughts disregard the physical laws of space and time. They pass through walls, cross cities, and traverse mountains. Eventually, they do lose their potency and can no longer be picked up by a "receiver." This is much the way that a sound wave or radio wave loses its potency after it has had a chance to bounce around for a while.

The process of "receiving" through telepathy comes in through the unconscious, or subconscious, and then is filtered to the conscious mind. The sending process goes through the conscious mind. The receiving process is rooted in the etheric connections the unconscious has to the universal mind. Because the receiving process comes in through the unconscious, there are many ways the conscious mind can become aware of what the unconscious picks up. These include receiving vague images, feelings, sensations, fragmented thoughts, etc. When telepathy is utilized by a trained sender and a trained receiver, amazing results can be documented, and they have been time and time again in many labs.

Telepathy is most potent between people who have an emotional bond. It is not unusual for a mother to know when a child of hers is in danger, has been harmed, or has been injured. She knows when something is wrong. It is not unusual for lovers to know what is happening with each other even though they may be on opposite sides of the world. Stress, of course, also brings about spontaneous telepathy. When there is great need, it is not unusual for a person who has never worked on being telepathic to suddenly "know."