1 - Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma,
CA, USA
2 - Institute of Neural Computation, SCCN, University of California,
San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
3 - Windbridge Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA
4 - Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego,
La Jolla, CA, USA
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During advanced meditative practices,
unusual perceptions can arise including the sense of receiving information
about unknown people who are deceased. As with meditation, this mental
state of communication with the deceased involves calming mental chatter
and becoming receptive to subtle feelings and sensations. Psychometric
and brain electrophysiology data were collected from six individuals
who had previously reported accurate information about deceased individuals
under double-blind conditions. Each experimental participant performed
two tasks with eyes closed. In the first task, the participant was given
only the first name of a deceased person and asked 25 questions. After
each question, the participant was asked to silently perceive information
relevant to the question for 20 s and then respond verbally. Responses
were transcribed and then scored for accuracy by individuals who knew
the deceased persons. Of the four mediums whose accuracy could be evaluated,
three scored significantly above chance (p < 0.03). The correlation
between accuracy and brain activity during the 20 s of silent mediumship
communication was significant in frontal theta for one participant (p
< 0.01). In the second task, participants were asked to experience
four mental states for 1 min each: (1) thinking about a known living
person, (2) listening to a biography, (3) thinking about an imaginary
person, and (4) interacting mentally with a known deceased person. Each
mental state was repeated three times. Statistically significant differences
at p < 0.01 after correction for multiple comparisons in electrocortical
activity among the four conditions were obtained in all six participants,
primarily in the gamma band (which might be due to muscular activity).
These differences suggest that the impression of communicating with
the deceased may be a distinct mental state distinct from ordinary thinking
or imagination.
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Fonte:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00834/full
Citation: Delorme A, Beischel J, Michel L, Boccuzzi M, Radin
D and Mills PJ (2013) Electrocortical activity associated with subjective
communication with the deceased.
Front. Psychol. 4:834. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00834
Received: 02 September 2013; Accepted: 21 October 2013;
Published online: 20 November 2013.
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