The Neural Correlates of Channeling the Dead

November 2nd is theDay of the Dead, a Mexican holiday to honor the memory of lost loved ones. If you subscribe to certain paranormal belief systems, the ability to communicate with the dearly departed is possible via s éance, which is conducted by a Medium who channels the spirit of the dead.Since I do not subscribe to a paranormal belief system, I do not think it ' s possible to communicate with my dead wife. Nor am I especially knowledgeable about the differences betweenmediumship vs. channeling:Mediumship is mostly about receiving and interpreting messages from other worlds.Mediums often deliver messages from loved ones and spirit guides during readings.. . ....channeling is often about receiving messages from other types of entities, such as nature spirits, spirit guides, or even angels.In short,Channels can communicate with a broader class of non-corporeal entities, for instance Mahatma Ghandi or Cleopatra (not only the dead relatives of paying clients).What seems to be uncontroversial, however, is that Channels who enter into a trance state to convey the wisdom of Gandhi may experience an altered or “expanded” state of consciousness (regardless of the veracity of their communications). This permuted state of arousal should be manifest in the electroencephalogram (EEG) as an alteration inspectral power across the range of frequency bands (e.g., theta, alpha, beta etc.) that have been associat...
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