Jack Hunter
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol
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Contemporary Physical Mediumship: Is It Part of
a Continuous Tradition?
“It is prodigiously strange, prodigiously
unusual,
and it would seem so unlikely as to be incredible;
but we must give in to the facts...Yes, it is absurd;
but no matter – it is true.”
- Prof. Charles Richet on Ectoplasm
To many, physical mediumship seances
are a social phenomenon relegated to the history books: rising to
prominence in the mid-nineteenth century and eventually petering out
amidst high profile exposures of fraud in the first decades of the
twentieth century. In recent years, however, physical mediumship has
made something of a comeback with new circles working towards the
manifestation of physical phenomena being established in private homes
across the UK, Europe and the United Sates. This resurgence has been
facilitated by the development of internet forums promoting the subject,
enabling private circles to disseminate their experiences and to exchange
tips and procedures for the production of physical phenomena.
This paper will aim to explore the issue of whether the forms of physical
mediumship popular today are part of a continuous tradition beginning
in the nineteenth century, or essentially modern phenomena with roots
in the 1990s. The main point of the discussion will be to ascertain
the extent to which the phenomena of contemporary physical mediumship
resemble those documented in the early literature of psychical research.
pology, and in so doing will hopefully suggest some interesting directions
for possible future research on contemporary entity encounters.
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Fonte: Hunter, J. (2010). 'Talking
With the Spirits: More Than a Social Reality?' Paranormal Review, Issue
54, pp. 9-13.
- https://www.academia.edu/3990839/Talking_With_the_Spirits_More_Than_a_Social_Reality
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Anthropology & the Supernatural: From Spirits to Consciousness
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Beyond Castaneda: A Brief History of Psychedelics in Anthropology
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"Between Realness and Unrealness": Anthropology, Parapsychology and
the Ontology of Non-Ordinary Realities
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Can Science See Spirits?
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Definitions, Origins, Functions and Experiences: Trends in the Anthropology
of the Supernatural from Tylor to Turner
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Music and Altered States of Consciousness in Shamanism and Spirit Possession:
An Overview of the Literature
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Numinous Conversations: Performance and the Manifestation of Spirits in Spirit
Possession Practices
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"Spirits are the Problem": Anthropology and Conceptualising Spiritual
Beings
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Talking With the Spirits: Anthropology and Interpreting Spirit Communicator
Leiam de Jack Hunter; Joey M. Caswell, Lucas W.E. Tessaro :
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Phenomenological Convergence between Major Paradigms of Classic Parapsychology
and Cross-Cultural Practices: An Exploration of Paranthropology
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