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{{PhenomenonInfobox
|name=Clairaudience
|type=Psychic ability claim
|field=Parapsychology
|also_known_as=Clear hearing
|notable_case=Eileen Garrett (tested by J. B. Rhine, 1933, and Samuel Soal, 1937)
|status=Unverified
}}

'''Clairaudience''' ("clear hearing") is the claimed ability to perceive sounds, voices, or messages by paranormal means, without a physical source audible to others. It is one of "the clairs" alongside [[Clairvoyance]] (clear seeing) and clairsentience (clear feeling), and is closely associated with [[Mediumship]], where a medium may describe clairaudience as the specific sense through which they receive a spirit's communication.

== Historical claims ==
Clairaudience has been claimed since ancient times, most famously in the case of Joan of Arc, who described hearing the voices of saints instructing her. Within Spiritualism, mediums have long distinguished between an "inner voice" understood as a form of internal spiritual communication and a claimed externalised voice, comparable to an ordinary physical sound heard by the ear.

== Testing ==
Clairaudience has proven especially difficult to test under laboratory conditions, since most claimed instances are spontaneous rather than reproducible on demand. One of the best-documented test subjects across multiple claimed abilities, including clairaudience, was British medium Eileen Garrett. J. B. Rhine tested Garrett with Zener cards at Duke University in 1933; she performed at chance level and later argued that the cards themselves lacked what she described as the "energy stimulus" needed for her ability to function outside a natural setting. A further, larger series of over 12,000 trials conducted by parapsychologist Samuel Soal at University College London in 1937 likewise found no result above chance.

== Distinguishing clairaudience from auditory hallucination ==
Proponents distinguish claimed clairaudience from auditory experiences associated with mental health conditions on the basis that clairaudience is said to convey specific, externally verifiable information the person had no ordinary way of knowing — rather than by the character of the auditory experience itself. This is a claim made by proponents rather than a finding accepted by the clinical or scientific community, and mainstream psychology and psychiatry do not treat clairaudience as a distinct or verified phenomenon.

== Scientific perspective ==
As with the other subtypes gathered under [[Psychic Ability]], clairaudience has not been demonstrated to a standard accepted by mainstream science. Its resistance to controlled testing — given its typically spontaneous, non-reproducible nature — has made it one of the harder psychic claims to formally investigate at all, compared to more structured protocols like the ganzfeld experiments used for [[Telepathy]].

== Related concepts ==
* [[Psychic Ability]], the umbrella page for this and related claimed abilities
* [[Mediumship]], with which clairaudience is most closely associated
* [[Clairvoyance]] and [[Telepathy]], the other subtypes documented so far

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