In a recent study, researchers may have gained new insights into why some people think they can ‘hear the dead’. The research is based on the largest study of its kind by the general population and these specific media.
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Carried out by the researchers at Durham University, the new study is now published in the journal Mental Health, Religion and Culture. The research paper is the result of an eight-year study conducted under the name of the project ‘Hearing the Voice’. ‘
The research involved observing clear communication in subjects, meaning those who say they can “hear” spirits.. In contrast, clairvoyant means “see” and clairsentient means “feel” such spirits around one.
The research concludes that such spiritualists who are prone to hearing spirits “strongly lead to absenteeism,” a message from the University explains. Inclusion is an attraction associated with altered states of consciousness and the practice of immersion in mental or imaginative activity.
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The research also reveals that many who experience hearing such voices are often introduced to spiritual beliefs early in life. This happens in pursuit of the meaning behind the unexplained events.
These media are also less concerned about the opinions of others, the study found. He also noted that the media is more prone to unusual visual and audio experiences than other members of the public.
In the research, the authors recorded that eighteen percent of the participants had clairaudient experiences ‘as long as they could remember’. At the same time, seventy percent had not encountered spirituality before their first experience.
Spirituality was defined in the study as a religious movement based on the idea of souls living in human bodies, which still exist after death and can communicate with the living through the medium. The study explains that such spiritual media are more likely to suppress unusual mental activities and study experiences early in life.
The authors of the study make it clear that understanding these experiences is important to help us deal with anxious or uncontrollable experiences of hearing voices.