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The Reality of Psychic Powers · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The well known actress Shirley MacLaine described in her book
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  Out on a Limb and included in the film version under the same
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  name, her experiences with various psychic mediums who were
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  able to actually relate to her details from her life that were
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  not possibly known by them. She began from a sceptical
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  mindset, normal for the modern Western mentality, but soon
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  became aware that there were indeed individuals who could
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  sense, experience and describe events in her life that had not
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  been publicized and which were private occurrences in nature.
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  They proved to her sceptical mindset their bona fides.
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  Many people have had such experiences one way or another,
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  which they, however, failed to understand, appreciate, or value
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  for their real significance. One individual reported having
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  seen several people in a dream state that he would years later
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  meet in the physical world. He recognized them, understood
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  by that experience the role they would play in his life, and in
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  fact, the limits that that role would have and the time of
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  separation. When that role was completed, he
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  navigated through certain decisions.
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  Based on this knowledge, certain law enforcement agencies have
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  consulted psychics with mixed results.
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  In some cases, the psychics were able to provide information and
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  clues that helped solve the case with facts that were otherwise
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  unknown to the police at the time.
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  In other cases, the agencies determined that the information
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  was accurate but too general to be of specific benefit, and in
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  some other cases reviewed there was little if any benefit.
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  It is clear that not all psychics are of equal caliber
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  and capability in these matters, and that not all circumstances
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  can be equally amenable to psychic view of the matter.
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  But it is clear that between reviews done by certain US
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  agencies, including the Department of Justice, DOJCIA,
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  the FBI and various local law enforcement agencies, the
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  activity of qualified and competent psychics has indeed
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  proven to be valuable and extremely useful in solving
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  cases, Sri Orwindo writes. Quote.
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  The true and direct knowledge of vision of past, present and
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  future begins with the opening of the psychical consciousness
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  and the psychical faculties. The psychical consciousness is
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  that of what is now often called the subliminal self.
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  The subtle or dream self of Indian psychology and its range
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  of potential knowledge almost infinite, includes a very large
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  power and many forms of insight into both the possibilities and
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  the definite actualities of past, present and future.
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  Its first faculty, that which most readily attracts attention,
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  is its power of seeing by the psychical sense, images of all
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  things in time and space, as exercised by clairvoyance
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  mediums and others. This is often, and indeed
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  usually, the specialized faculty, limited, though often
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  precise and accurate in action, and implies no development of
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  the inner soul or the spiritual being or the higher
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  intelligence. It is a door opened by chance or
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  by an innate gift, or by some kind of pressure between the
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  waking and the subliminal mind, and admitting only to the
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  surface or the outskirts of the latter.
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  All things in a certain power and action of the secret
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  universal mind are represented by images, not only visual, but
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  if one may use the phrase, auditory and other images, and a
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  certain development of the subtle or psychical senses makes
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  it possible. If there is no interference of
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  the constructing mind and its imaginations.
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  If, that is to say, artificial or falsifying mental images, do
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  not intervene if the psychical sense is free, sincere, and
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  passive to receive these representations or
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  transcriptions with a perfect accuracy, and not so much
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  predict as to see in its correct images the present beyond the
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  range of the physical sense, the past and the future.
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  The accuracy of this kind of seeing depends on its being
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  confined to a statement of the thing seen, and the attempt to
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  infer, interpret, or otherwise go beyond the visual knowledge
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  may lead to much error, unless there is at the same time a
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  strong psychical intuition, fine, subtle, and pure, or a
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  high development of the luminous intuitive intelligence.
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  End Quote. Reference.
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  Srioro, Bindu and the Mother. Powers within, Chapter 19.
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  Occult Powers of the Subliminal Pages, 1:44 to 1:45.