Julie
Beischel and Adam J. Rock
> Adressing the Survival versus PSI debate through
Process-Focused Mediumship Research
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ABSTRACT (resumo):
Over a century of mediumship research
concludes that skilled mediums are able to report accurate and speci?c
information about the deceased loved ones (termed discarnates) of living
people (termed sitters) during anomalous information reception (AIR);
that is, without any prior knowledge about the discarnates or sitters,
in the absence of sensory feedback, and without using deceptive means.
However, this historical body of proof-focused research does not directly
address which parapsychological mechanisms are involved in AIR by mediums.
The data, in and of themselves, support multiple hypotheses including
the super-psi and psychic reservoir (collectively “psi”)
models as well as the survival of consciousness hypothesis (or simply
“survival”). However, by restricting research to proof-focused
studies, investigators neglect important phenomenological mediumship
processes underlying AIR and how those processes might address the survival
hypothesis. This process-focused investigation of mediums’ experiences
may lead to a better understanding of the source of the information
mediums report during AIR.
This paper briefly summarizes the results from recent process-focused
studies of modern-day, American mental mediums’ experiences during
ostensible communication with discarnates.
We also suggest areas for future process-focused mediumship studies
to more fully address the question at the root of mediumship research:
Is there life after death?
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Although parapsychological research most often involves the Big Four
- telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis - with only
“an occasional nod toward survival and afterlife topics”
(Braud, 2005, p. 40), the continued investigation of the latter issues
is pivotal for our understanding of consciousness, the potential of
the mind, and the nature of life in general. One of the main methods
for scientifically addressing life after death involves studying mediums
- individuals who report regular communication with the deceased.
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topo
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Beyond
Reasonable: Scientific Evidence for Survival
Contemporary
methods used in Laboratory-based mediumship research
Julie Beischel; Mark
Boccuzzi
Objective
Analyses of Reported Real-Time Audio Instrumental Transcommunication
and Matched Control Sessions: A Pilot Study
Julie Beischel; Adam
J. Rock
Adressing
the Survival versus PSI debate through Process-Focused Mediumship
Quantitative
Analysis of Research Mediums’ Conscious Experiences during a Discarnate
Reading versus a Control Task: A Pilot Study
Julie Beischel; Adam J. Rock;
Christopher C. Cott
A
qualitative investigation of mediums’ phenomenology comparing
psychic readings and ostensible communication with the deceased
Julie Beischel; Adam J. Rock;
Gary E. Schwartz
Thematic
Analysis of Research Mediums' Experiences of Discarnate Communication
Julie Beischel; Arnaud Delorme; Leena Michel;
Mark Boccuzzi; Dean Radin; Paul J. Mills
Electrocortical
activity associated with subjective communication with the deceased
Julie Beischel; Gary
E. Schwartz
Recepção
Anômala de Informação Demonstrada por Médiuns
de Pesquisa Usando um Protocolo Triplo-Cego Singular
