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Journal of Anomalous Experience and Cognition, 2022 Annotated bibliography.
Etzel Cardeña
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British Journal of Psychology, Volume 114, Issue 4, Page 797-818, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Night‐time is a period of great significance for many people who report paranormal experiences. However, there is limited understanding of the associations between sleep variables and seemingly paranormal experiences and/or beliefs. The aim of this review is to improve our understanding of these associations while unifying a currently ...
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“Dancing with Spirits”—Spirit art and spirit‐guided experiential ethnographic techniques
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 552-585, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract Spiritualist mediums are sought out from a variety of cultures for their advanced spirit communication healing techniques. Otherworldly spirits use mediums to create spirit art, which guides an individual to discover their authentic self and work through self‐limiting beliefs.
Gary Moody
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A feminist anthropological study on women's mediumship in Florida [PDF]
, 2023 Throughout history women have faced (and continue to face) marginalization in religious settings, exhibited through such power plays as control over their bodies (rules for dress and behavior in church and home) and prohibitions from formal leadership ...
Porch-Lee, Sarah
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Intuition in counseling: Implications for humanistic practice
The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Volume 62, Issue 2, Page 112-129, July 2023., 2023 Abstract This phenomenological study focused on how counselors experienced instances of intuition in their practice. Four counseling psychologists were interviewed about their intuitive experiences and four main themes emerged. The findings are discussed along with ethical and humanistic considerations regarding counselors accessing and using intuition.
Krystal Bryant, Toupey Luft
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Adventures in “belief”: Hearing an old concept in a new key
American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 2, Page 322-333, June 2023., 2023 Abstract The well‐worn critique of “belief” as inadequate for understanding ritual motivation and practice has become a truism in need of reevaluation. For groups who foreground the establishment of truth in ritual practice, “belief” is a useful analytic term that brings together propositions and commitment to the relationships and systems articulating
Matt Tomlinson
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Learning from Stoke‐on‐Trent: Multiple ontologies, ontological alterity and the city
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 149-164, March 2023., 2023 Short Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show that it is possible to theorize from ‘unfashionable’ places, in this case to learn from Stoke‐on‐Trent: a collection of six towns in England's midlands that are assembled together to form a single city, notorious for the decline of its once world‐famous pottery industry.
Steve Pile
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Personal beginnings and institutional endings in spiritualism
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 396-411, December 2022., 2022 Abstract In the religious movement known as Spiritualism, a medium's task is to provide evidence that there is no such thing as death. Human existence is defined by Spiritualists in terms of continual spiritual progress rather than stark beginnings and endings, although converts do tell vivid stories of the moment they realised Spiritualism's truth ...
Matt Tomlinson
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Exploring academic reading: Mediumship, intuition and the academy [PDF]
, 2021 The thesis is concerned with experiences of reading academically, and explores ways in which intuitive techniques, including ones derived from practices of mediumship, can be used as tools to experience reading.
Julia Moore
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Anthropology‐as‐theology: Violent endings and the permanence of new beginnings
American Anthropologist, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 333-344, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines the temporality of dispensationalist imaginings of the apocalypse, with a particular focus on why such imaginings often have an acutely violent character. For the Brethren and for Jehovah's Witnesses, the most convincing signs of the imminent apocalypse are violent ones.
Joseph Webster
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