Researchers have investigated what characterizes people who say that they can hear the voices of the dead.
Spiritualism is
a movement whose adherents believe that the spirits of deceased people continue
to live on after physical death.
Mediums
claim that they have the ability to communicate with the spirits through seeing
(“clairvoyant”), feeling (“clairsentient”), or hearing (“clairaudient”) them.
Studies
from the Universities of Cardiff, Northampton, and Lancaster — all of which are in the
United Kingdom — have argued that religious and spiritual experiences (RSEs),
such as clairaudience, can be useful as a comparison to auditory
hallucinations of
people with certain mental health conditions.
A new
study, which appears in the journal Mental Health, Religion &
Culture, examined links
between auditory spiritual communications experienced by mediums, beliefs, and
personality.
The study
was part of the Hearing the Voice project. Dr. Adam J. Powell, of the Department of
Theology and Religion at the University of Durham in the U.K, and Dr. Peter
Moseley, of the Department of Psychology at Northumbria University, also in the
U.K., carried out the study.
“Spiritualists
tend to report unusual auditory experiences [that] are positive, start early in
life, and [that] they are often then able to control,” explains Dr. Moseley.
“Understanding how these develop is important because it could help us
understand more about distressing or non-controllable experiences of hearing voices
too.”
Source: Medical News Today
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