Percipient
A general term used in parapsychology to denote an individual who possesses or may possess extrasensory perception capabilities. In ESP testing such an individual receives information from the agent or sender.
The percipient may hear footsteps on a path, the opening of a gate, the opening of a front door or even footsteps on the stairs. In Scandinavian countries this phenomenon is common.
Not merely having, but being, consciousness, man is man, and is percipient, according to the measure in which he is pure; perfect purity implying full perception, even to the seeing of God, as the gospels have it.
Homines assidue poenitentes lætitiam merito percipient: iustitiæ operibus Catholicam pietatem adornantes: benignitatis lege~ tenebunt Catholicæ laudem.
and every other color, arises out of the eye meeting the appropriate motion, and that what we term the substance of each color is neither the active nor the passive element, but something which passes between them, and is peculiar to each percipient; ...
That force may have enabled him to materialize himself for a moment, in which case of course no clairvoyance was needed; or more probably it may have acted mesmerically upon the percipient, ...
 See also: Spirit, Spiritual, World, Occult, Phenomena
  
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