I have been in study and practice of Buddhist meditation since my teens.
I have obtained a slight bit of clairvoyance.
What I wanted to know is what are your thoughts about such mental powers?
As I understand the Theravada consider them a hindrance.
No, the Theravadans do not consider them a hindrance.
They consider them to be byproducts, good things that are not necessary for the path.
It's not necessary to become clairvoyant.
to become enlightened.
They are a byproduct, a fruit of the holy life or the spiritual life.
They are a fruit, recognizable, realizable, verifiable in the here and now.
So those are my thoughts about them.
I think they're neat things that have a great potential for creating right view and helping us to realize the
importance of the mind, the vastness of reality beyond the material realm and so on and so on, but certainly not necessary and not to be caught up, not to be caught up in, not to be the object of obsession or not something to let yourself get caught up in.