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Psychic reading

Discerning information through heightened perceptive abilities

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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A psychic reading is a specific attempt to discern information through the use of heightened perceptive abilities, or natural extensions of the basic human senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and instinct. These natural extensions are claimed to be clairvoyance (vision), clairsentience (feeling), claircognisance, clairaudience (hearing), clairgustance (taste) and clairgustance (smell) and the resulting statements made during such an attempt.

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“Psychic reading” enters the record as discerning information through heightened perceptive abilities. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Psychic, reading and Discerning can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Psychic, reading and Discerning.
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This entry incorporates text from “Psychic reading” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.