Clairvoyant Reading and Healing as a Therapeutic Practice Draft Book Chapter by Debra Lynne Katz

Author: Debra Lynne Katz, Ph.D

Unpublished Draft

ABSTRACT

This study is a novel attempt to assess the efficacy of teaching mind/body, metaphysical, transpersonal, and intuitive development oriented classes via tele-seminar and webinar using technology that allows for synchronous learning.

Synchronous learning can be defined as that which takes place when students and instructor(s) are present together in real time, and are able to communicate without delay.

Distant training is defined as classes where students and instructor’s bodies are not physically in the same room, but rather they share the same virtual space, with the use of telecommunication technologies, involving both hardware (computers, telephones, etc.) and online accessible software programs.

Intuitive development is defined as the process by which a person goes through to discover and gain conscious awareness and control over their innate perceptual abilities related to non-local, anomalous perception and cognition.

The following paper includes a write-up of results mostly from multiple choice questions of a self-administered survey that was sent to approximately 300 graduates via email, using blinding procedures and randomization techniques. 64 former students responded. The survey was originally administered specifically for and in advance of a presentation given by the present author and therapist Lisa Watts, given at the Conference for Meaningful Living in a digital world, held in Savannah, Georgia during the spring of 2018.

All student participants had completed at least one 12 week teleseminar or webinar program offered through the International School of Clairvoyance (ISC). Most of these classes were taught by the present researcher. These classes involve discussion, meditations, visualizations, and a number of direct practice opportunities within class and outside of class designed to help students develop and make use of their intuitive perceptual abilities.

One aim of the present study was to find out from students if the course goals were being met, especially in light of many people’s beliefs that “distant” training via technology (or technology itself) is oppositional to these qualities (Heidegger, 1977). The purpose was not to assess student’s performance, although some questions were asked about this. The focus instead was to learn about students experiences, beliefs, and perceptions as to whether the intuitive oriented classes, taught via synchronous learning platforms through the ISC, were found to be personally and socially meaningful, productive, informative, and worth their time and money.

Keywords: Teleseminars, Webinars, synchronous webinar platforms, distant learning, clairvoyant training, intuitive development programs; psychic development, remote viewing; online surveys, case study method.