Taken from Newsletter Issue 28 - August 2005

Clairaudience is the ability to hear voices and sounds from spirit. The word comes from the French meaning ‘clear hearing’. There are two main ways of experiencing Clairaudience. One is internal, like having a thought. These are often loud and can overlap your own thoughts, just like someone interrupting you when you are talking. The other is external. This is like hearing a physical voice when someone is talking next to you or in the same room. A lot of people are thought to have Clairaudience experiences but do not recognise that they are having them, they just put it down to having a sudden odd thought. Have you ever had a thought and said to yourself ‘What made me think of that?’ or in Where did I get that from?’ There are theories that suggest that spirit can place these thoughts and even sounds/music in to our conscious minds. I decided to write this article because of my own experiences with Clairaudience. When I began meditating I would feel a lot of pressure on the top of my head and it tingled excessively, like someone was running their fingers over the top of my head close to my scalp. Reading up on these sensations, I discovered that at the top of the head is the Crown Chakra. This is said to be liked to spiritual connection. I had my first encounter about two years ago. This was a voice and was external as described as above. It happened about one minute after I had woken up one morning. At the time I was taken aback by it. It was as if someone had said it right next to my ear. I put it down to still being in some sort of semi-sleep state.

I do not recognise any of the voices that I hear and they come in all ages and are a mixture of female and male. One in particular that I remember quite well is that of a little girl. I remember this one as I have heard her more than once. One morning I slept through my alarm, which resulted in me being late to pick up my friend for work. Two days later I was awoken by the sound of an alarm clock but it wasn’t my alarm clock I heard. What I heard was one of the old style ones, with the two bells and the little hammer in between and the little girl saying ‘time to get up!’ I’m still not sure whether she was trying to help me out or taking the mick! This brings me to hearing sounds rather than a voice. I have had a few experiences of this from loud bangs/ thumps to hearing doors slamming. I have once experienced hearing what sounded like collective voices and faint music. I thought this must have been a radio or TV on in the house somewhere but upon checking there were none on. Other experiences include hearing whispering, humming tunes and hearing my name being called. There are certain methods that are said to help develop Clairaudience. Listening to white noise or classical music for example is supposed to help you tune your hearing in to higher frequencies. Personally I find meditation is the most effective way to tune your sixth sense. Now two years on, I am still experiencing this phenomenon. They are very gradually becoming more frequent and clear. What comes through rarely has any significance to me personally. It seems they are just popping in to say their bit or see what’s going on and then they are off again. If some of the things I have experienced are truly spirit then it is indeed remarkable. Until then I will continue to build on my experiences in an effort to discover the source of Clairaudience.