Mental Telepathy And Claircognizance. Are They Related?
Updated 2025.12.20
Claircognizance is the idea that people can receive thoughts, words, and ideas transferred to them from non-physical entities.
Typically considered one of the sixth senses and generally reserved for those who are more mental in their thoughts and ideas, most people believe that a claircognizance is a mental-based form of communication that occurs between the receiver and disincarnate beings such as Spirit Guides, Angels, and/or the Deceased.
Spirit channelers are thought to receive their information through gifts such as claircognizance.
Claircognizance is different from clairaudience, where clairaudience allows the receiver to hear and distinguish single words, and claircognizants often receive entire ideas or concepts in what some refer to as "a mental download" of information.
How is telepathy related to claircognizance?
Telepathy is officially defined as:
From the Greek τῆλε, meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience" is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known sensory channels or physical interaction.
- Wikipedia (source)
And in short:
Telepathy is basically the same concept as claircognizance though rather than referring to someone receiving thoughts, mental communication and mind connection from disincarnate non-physical beings, the person who is telepathic receives the thoughts from someone living, usually another person or animal.
Telepathy = intuitive mental/thought connection with physical beings
Claircognizance = intuitive mental/thought connection with non physical beings
So, the difference is in relation to who the perceived sender of the thought or idea is.
Claircognizant receptions are thought to be those received from non-physical sources, telepathic receptions are thought to be received from living (human, animal or plant, or any being considered capable of conscious thought) sources.
All in all, generally, someone who is claircognizant is also telepathic and vice versa.
Both refer to the same mechanism of reception, transferred mental thought, however, the difference in name comes from where or who the thought or idea received, is considered to be received from.
Remember: the key point of both of these intuitive thought gifts is that they help you increase your connection with others and the Divine.
Telepathic connections are typically strongest with those you love and claircognizant connections are usually strongest with those who trust you - both in the physical and non-physical realms.
What this means is that adversaries and those who don’t have your best interests at heart are often “divinely blocked” from intuitively tuning into your private thoughts, hopes and dreams.
Your Spirit Team protects your inner world.
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