Clairvoyant Experiences Differential Interview – (CEDI)

The CEDI is a 44-item measure consisting of (8) questions to identify Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (FRS) (e.g. thought insertion, though withdrawal, thought broadcasting, etc.), (11) questions from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), (6) questions from the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), and (2) questions from a mail survey utilized in Grayson, 1977 (MSQ) in combination with various aforementioned question types. In regard to the (FRS) and (MMPI), both of these sets of questions are included because they can assist the clinician in identifying abnormal factors, and these questions have been slightly altered in a manner that negates veridical clairvoyant phenomenology. In addition, the measure includes (17) questions that pertain to veridical clairvoyant phenomena that are labeled as signs of “Possible Clairvoyance” (PC). In private practice, the measure has yielded consistent results and validity. However, further testing of this measure’s reliability and validity are required.

Clairvoyant Experiences Differential Interview – (CEDI)

Do you ever feel your thoughts are being broadcasted or transmitted, so that even strangers know exactly what you are thinking? (FRS: TB)
Do you ever feel other people’s thoughts and feelings are being broadcasted or transmitted, so that you vaguely know what people you know are thinking and feeling? (PC:CC:AD)
Do you often vividly and clearly hear voices without knowing where they came from? (MMPI: AH)
Do peculiar orders come to you at times that have no source or reason to be smelt? (MMPI: PDIS)
Do you ever feel as though you know what is currently going on at a remote location, or what a person is doing at a remote location, and you later find out you were right? (PC:CC:RV)
Do you ever feel like you were looking at the world through a fog so that people or objects appear far away or unclear? (DES)
Do you ever vividly see, hear, or get touched by someone other people cannot see, that seem as real to you as the people others can see? (MSQ: A:/DES/FRS:SP)
Do you feel that evil spirits or ghosts wish to kill you? (MMPI: PD/SO)
Do you see living things, animals, or people clearly in front of you that other people do not see? (MMPI: VH)
Do you occasionally have communications with the dead, such as receiving bits and pieces of different types of information, such as fragmented images or sentences (example: images of objects or people, or names and dates.) that are trying to gain your assistance? (PC:CC:MM)
Do you occasionally touch objects and suddenly know certain aspects of the object’s history that you could not have known, and later find to be accurate? (PC: CC:RC/P)
Do you ever feel that entities or spirits are forceful inserting thoughts into your mind that you know are not your own? (FRS:TI)
Do you ever vividly hear someone talking to you in your own mind, as though they are standing right next to you, or are on the phone with you? (FRS: AH)
Do you occasionally and faintly hear someone friendly talking to you inside your own mind? (PC:CC:SG/MM)
Do you ever vividly and clearly hear someone in your own mind that is continuously commenting negatively on everything that you do in a harsh, threatening, or non-constructively critical manner? (FRS: AH)
Do you feel that your spirit guide often punishes or causes you unnecessary suffering without cause? (MMPI:PI)
Do you ever feel as though you have a guardian angel watching over and protecting you from harm? (PC:CC)
Do you ever feel like people, objects, and the world around you are not real? (DES)
Do you ever feel that an entity or spirit is forcing you do things by hypnotizing you? (MMPI)
Do you ever feel as if your thoughts were being stolen by an evil spirit or entity, so that your mind is a complete blank? (FRS: TW)
Evil spirits possess me at times without my permission. (MMPI:PD)
Have you had attacks where you could not control your movements or speech, but you knew what was going on around you? (MMPI:PDIS)
Do you have blank spells where your activities were interrupted and you did not know what was going on around you? (MMPI:D)
Do you occasionally induce trance states and are able to successfully and constructively communicate with the dead? (PC:TM)
Have you ever induced a trance state and allowed a spirit or ghost to speak through you, while still maintaining control over the situation, and felt that you could end the communication at any time? (PC:TM)
Do you often find writings, drawings, or notes among your belongings that you must have done but cannot remember doing? (DES)
Do you ever feel that an entity or spirit is in complete control of your thoughts, feeling, impulses, or behavior? (FRS:MV/MF/MI)
Do you occasionally gain new information about a person or event through the practice of automatic writing or the Ouija (spirit) Board that turn out to be true? (PC:CI:A)
Do you ever feel like your body does not belong to you? (DES)
Do you ever feel like your thoughts are being deleted and replaced by the thoughts of an evil spirit? (FRS: TW/TI)
Does some external force make you do or say things that you do not intend, as though you were a robot without a will of your own? (FRS: MV)
Have you ever allowed a spirit or ghost to speak through you and accurately spoke with another vocabulary or in another language not known to you at the time? (PC:CI:X)
Have you ever allowed a spirit or ghost to act through you and suddenly obtained a physical skill that the spirit claimed to possess when they were still alive, and in which you lost when the communication was ended (example: the ability to produce exquisite art)? (PC:CI:X)
Have you ever felt you were able to initiate communication with a spirit that resulted in the spirit intelligently replying to your questions by knocking, rapping, making other noises, voices, materialized objects or spirit bodies, or the occurrence of levitation, and of which other persons other than yourself have witnessed? (PC:CI:PM)
Do you frequently hear strange and vivid noises that others do not hear or that you only hear when you are alone? (MMPI:AH)
Do you feel that you somehow have the ability to assist the spirits of the deceased in crossing-over into the afterlife? (PC:CI:PA)
Do you feel like spirits or people have been forcibly trying to take control of your mind? (MMPI:SO/PD)
Do you occasionally have really great ideas or solve very difficult problems, but are unsure how you were able to come to these ideas or solutions? (PC:CS:I)
Do you feel that you have an abundance of good luck and strange, but positive, coincidences in your life? (PC:CS:I)
Do you ever feel that your thoughts or emotions are somewhat influencing events or people you know to accommodate you? (PC:CS:O)
Do you occasionally have dreams about a specific event, and only days after your dream, learn that what you dreamt really just happened? (PC:CC:PD)
Do you often find yourself unsure whether things you remember happening really did happen or whether you just dreamed them? (DES)
Do you occasionally feel as though you are standing next to yourself or watching yourself do something as though you were looking at another person? (DES)
Do you ever have the distinct feeling that your mind or soul is traveling outside of your physical body? (MSQ:OBE/MMPI/PC:OBE)

Special Note:

Some of these items have been slightly altered to include inaccurate telepathic phenomenology and elaboration to assist in differentiation. In addition, some of these items have been slightly altered e.g. replacing “people” with “spirits” and some questions are combinations of similar questions from more than one measure.

FRS: Schneider’s First Rank Symptoms of Schizophrenia (AH: Auditory Hallucinations), (TI: Thought Insertion), (TB: Thought Broadcasting), TW: Thought Withdrawal), MV: Made Volition), MF: Made Feeling), MI: Made Impulse), (SP: Somatic Passivity).

PC: Possible Clairvoyance (CC: Clairvoyant Cognition [AD: with anxiety disorder}, {RV: Remote Viewing}, [MM: Mental Mediumship], [RC/P: Retro Cognition/Psychometry], (SG: Spirit Guide], [PD: Precognitive Dream]), (CI: Clairvoyant Interaction [TM: Trance Mediumship or Channeling], [A: Automatism], [X: Xenoglossy [PM: Physical Mediumship], [PA: Psychopompic Activity]), (CS: Clairvoyant Simulation [I: Input], [O: Output], [OBE: Out-of-Body Experience if no other dissociative scoring]).

MMPI: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Items (AH: Auditory Hallucinations), (PDIS: Perceptual Disturbance), (PD: Paranormal Delusion), (SO: Suspicion of Others), (VH: Visual Hallucinations), (PI: Persecutory Ideas), (D: Dissociation).

DES: Dissociative Experiences Scale Items.

MSQ: Mail Survey Questions: (A: Apparition), (OBE: Out-of-Body Experience if no other dissociative scoring).

Scoring and Interpretation

Each item on the measure is answered by a “yes” or a “no” and can include a 5-point scale (0 = none or not at all; 1 = slight or rare, less than a day or two; 2 = mild or several days; 3 = moderate or more than half the days; and 4 = severe or nearly every day). Any questions answered “yes” or that receives a rating of slight (i.e. 1) or greater from the FRS, MMPI, DES, or question number (7) serves as an indication of psychotic features or the presence of experience intensity exaggeration (i.e. vivid quality vs. faint or fragmented quality). Any PC questions answered “yes” should be viewed as the possible sign of veridical clairvoyant experiences and not as psychotic symptoms. However, any PC questions answered “yes” in conjunction with questions answered “yes” from the FRS, MMPI, DES, or question number (7) should be dismissed, at least until treatment has completely resolved psychotic symptoms, if applicable (i.e. acute psychosis). If only PC questions are answered “yes,” then question number (44) should be ignored.

References

Greyson, B. (1977). Telepathy in Mental Illness: Deluge or Delusion? The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 165(3), 184-200.

Citation: Kelly, T.M. (2015). Clinical Parapsychology: Extrasensory Exceptional Experiences (Textbook). University of Alternative Studies. Purchase.
Copyright © 2015 Theresa M. Kelly, MsD. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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Clairvoyant Experiences Differential Interview – (CEDI)

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