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Mediums claim to be able to report accurate
and specific information about the deceased loved ones (termed discarnates)
of living people (termed sitters) even without any prior knowledge about
the sitters or the discarnates and in the complete absence of any sensory
feedback. Despite recent proof-focused experimental research investigating
this phenomenon (e.g., Beischel & Schwartz,
2007), no published studies have attempted to quantify the phenomenological
effects of discarnate readings.
The aim of the present study was, thus, to investigate experimentally
the phenomenological differences that arose psychologically in accordance
with the demands of a discarnate reading task versus a control task.
Seven mediums were administered counter-balanced sequences of a discarnate
reading and control condition. The discarnate reading condition consisted
of a phone reading including questions about a discarnate where only
a blinded medium and a blinded experimenter were on the phone.
The control condition consisted of a phone conversation between the
medium and the same experimenter in which the medium was asked similar
questions regarding a living person s/he (i.e., the medium) knew. Mediums’
phenomenology during each condition was retrospectively assessed using
the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory (PCI).
Phenomenology associated with the discarnate reading condition appeared
to be significantly different from phenomenology associated with the
control condition. Future research might use the PCI to address whether
the phenomenology reported by mediums during discarnate readings is
quantitatively different from their experiences during psychic telepathy
readings for the living.
INTRODUCTION
The public’s increasing interest in the phenomenon of mediumship
is visibly evident in the current rise of this topic in numerous aspects
of popular culture. Various books, television shows, and movies featuring
mediums—individuals who experience regular communication with
the deceased - have moved beyond the obscure and taboo realm of the
occult into the recognizable mainstream. The traditional scientific
community has only recently begun to recognize mediumship as a topic
worth investigating when, in fact, the scientific study of mediums is
over a century old.
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