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Article: "Seeing and feeling ghosts": absorption, fantasy proneness, and healthy schizotypy as predictors of crisis apparition experiences.(Report)
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- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Most of the apparitional research on the survival hypothesis has involved determining whether apparitions are subjective (purely created within the mind) or objectively real (existing independently of the mind of the witness). A review of over 100 papers on hallucinations in the professional psychological literature reveals only two (Smythies, 1956; Sarbin & Juhasz, 1967) that display any familiarity with the parapsychological literature on hallucinations. Several researchers (Bennett, 1987; Davidson & Russell, 1981; Emmons, 1982; Finucane, 1984) have pointed to ostensible variations in the experience across historical periods and across societies in accordance with the ...