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Arnaud Delorme 1,2*, Julie Beischel 3,
Leena Michel 1, Mark Boccuzzi 3,
Dean Radin1 and Paul J. Mills
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> Electrocortical activity associated with subjective
communication with the deceased
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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