This is merely an extension of certain forms of reasoning
that we perform ordinarily. For instance, we see a child playing with a
sharp tool, and we naturally reason that it will cut itself. We see a man
acting in certain ways which generally lead to certain ends, and we
naturally reason that the expected result will occur. The more experience
that the observer has had, and the keener his faculty of perception and
his power of deductive reasoning, the wider will be the range of his power
in the direction of predicting future results from present happenings and
conditions.
In this connection, we must remember that the ordinary clairvoyant has
easier access to his subconscious mentality than has the average person.
The subconscious mind perceives and notes many little things that the
conscious mind overlooks, and therefore has better data from which to
reason. Moreover, as all students of the subconscious know, these
wonderful subconscious mental factulties have a very highly developed
power of reasoning deductively from a given premise or fact. In fact, the
subconscious faculties are almost perfect reasoning machines, providing
they are supplied with correct data in the first place. Much of the
so-called "intuitive reasoning" of persons arises from the operations of
the subconscious mental faculties just mentioned.
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