Family reunions: Visionary encounters with the departed in a modern-day psychomanteum |
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Authors: | Raymond A Moody Jr PhD MD |
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Institution: | (1) 1215 Old Downing Mill Road, 36201 Anniston, AL |
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Abstract: | A poignant feature of many near-death experiences is a visionary encounter with deceased loved ones. Over the centuries, researchers have sought safe ways to replicate near-death and related experiences, hoping to induce the powerful aftereffects of these events. The ancient Greeks contructed psychomanteums, or oracles of the dead, where seekers could consult spirits of the deceased. I describe a modern attempt to recreate the psychomanteum. Like near-death experiences, visionary encounters in this modern psychomanteum are experienced as real and not as hallucinatory, and have profound personal aftereffects. This novel experimental technique may permit the scientific study of phenomena that previously occurred only spontaneously and under uncontrolled circumstances. |
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