Human life is limited, and whether it is birth or death, it is a process that everyone must go through. But human beings are creatures with rich feelings, so whether it is a family or a close friend, when someone close to us dies, it is inevitable that they will be sad and nostalgic. There have been many people who, in order to see the deceased again, have hired people who claim to be able to communicate with the undead, hoping to cross the yin and yang worlds to get in touch with them again.
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But with the development of science, more and more people realize that this is actually unrealistic. But throughout the ages, countless people have spent a lot of money to hire psychics in order to re-communicate with the deceased. Why are so many people still convinced of the abilities of these psychics? Could they really hear the voices of those who died?
Psychics who can hear the voices of the deceased
For centuries, experiences as gruesome as horror movies have often been talked about. For those who claim to be able to communicate with the deceased, some people think it is a special ability and respect them very much, while others think they are lying and will laugh at them. But studies have shown that psychics and mystics are more likely than the general population to exhibit certain abnormal auditory phenomena, which may be related to their ability to claim to be able to communicate with the dead.
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Among psychics, there is an ability called "clairvoyance" or "tailwind ear," which means that without external stimuli, they can see or hear something that appears unrelated to the current environment. As a result, many people see this phenomenon as evidence of successful docking signals between the psychic and the soul.
Psychologist Peter Mosley of Northumbria University in the United Kingdom and Adam Powell, a psychologist at Durham University in the United Kingdom, recruited 65 psychics from the National Union of Psychics in the United Kingdom, in addition to recruiting 143 ordinary people through social media, hoping to analyze and determine the difference between psychics and the general public through experiments.
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However, the results of this investigation surprised everyone. Of those surveyed, 79 percent said they had become accustomed to hearing the voice of the deceased or seeing someone who had passed away. Moreover, almost 68% of people said that they often "heard" the voice of the deceased appear in their minds, feeling as if another person had appeared in their body and that person was talking to them.
Based on the survey's data, the researchers found that a large percentage of those with peculiar experiences were not yet 22 years old when they found themselves able to "communicate" with the deceased. These people say they actually feel fear when they first experience this kind of thing, but when it becomes the norm in life, it is as normal for them to hear the voice of the deceased as to see the deceased as to eat and drink.
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However, such an experience still brought a lot of inconvenience to their lives, and a considerable number of people felt that such an experience made them feel very painful, and even had different degrees of mental problems. Of these, 44.6 percent of psychics said they could hear it every day. Of all those who said they had heard the voice of the deceased, 31.7% still insisted that the voice they heard came from the outside, not in their own minds.
However, all these experiences can only rely on the interviewee's own account, and its authenticity is debatable. Moreover, the psychic himself will be more willing to believe than the average person that he can hear those different voices. But for those who think the voice is coming from the outside, it doesn't seem necessary for them to lie about it.
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A psychologist named Kurt Gray had heard the voice of the deceased, but he was not a psychic, and such an experience almost determined the trajectory of his life. When he was very young, he once heard his deceased grandfather tell him that he should become a doctor. However, Gray did not become a doctor according to his grandfather's words, but began to study psychology under the impetus of this factor when choosing a profession.
Does the soul really exist?
The ancient Greeks understood the soul as an invisible thing, and in Greek the word "breath" and "soul" are the same word because they understood that both were closely related to life. Plato and Socrates seem to see the soul as the essence of living things, including everyone, who believed that the soul and the body could be separated, and that the soul could continue to exist even if the body ceased to exist. Aristotle believed that the soul was essential for understanding the body.
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In fact, Aristotle believed that different kinds of creatures have different kinds of souls. The plant has a pure soul, which is only responsible for growth and reproduction. Animals, on the other hand, have a soul with desires, which means it pursues what it needs. Aristotle believed that man also has a rational soul, which makes us eager to understand the nature of all things, including the soul. Influenced by his teachers Socrates and Plato, Aristotle may have also believed that the soul was eternal.
Thomas Aquinas further deepened Aristotle's argument that the soul must be non-physical because it can be perceived by humans. He believed that since the soul was not made of matter, it would not be physically harmed. Therefore, he also believed that the soul was immortal and eternal, never to arise or perish.
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Nowadays, the soul has been given many different meanings, which at first means something that does not exist in material form, and later it can also refer to the spirit and thoughts and emotions of the generation, and the main meaning we will explore is the first meaning. The authenticity of the soul is one of the most important questions in human life, and although in many cultures it is considered to exist, how do we know if the soul really exists? Scientists have conducted a series of new scientific experiments on this ancient problem.
In 1901, a Massachusetts physician conducted one of the most famous metaphysical experiments of the 20th century. His name was Duncan McDougall, and he believed that if the soul were real, it should have a measurable weight. So he tried to compare the patient's pre- and post-mortem weights. After testing 6 patients who died of tuberculosis, he concluded that death would result in a weight reduction of about 21 grams in the human body, which is also the origin of the saying that the weight of the soul is 21 grams.
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At the same time, McDougall argues that the soul should exist only in humans and not in other animals. So he conducted similar experiments on dogs and found that the animals did not lose weight when they died. He believes this confirms his belief that the soul exists only in living human beings, and that when a person dies, the soul leaves the body.
In fact, McDougall's investigation is flawed on many levels. When his findings were first published, critics argued that weight loss could be explained by physiological factors, such as water evaporation in the human body. In addition, several patients who did not experience weight loss were deliberately avoided in his report. Finally, someone tried to repeat his experiment and found no weight loss.
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However, physical attributes such as weight, color, size, position, and speed are not representative of everything we think is true. For example, the ideas of these scientists themselves do not exhibit these characteristics, but no one would say that they are untrue. So, although we can't find a soul in the human body through CT scans, we can't deny its existence. Thus, the existence of the soul becomes a proposition that cannot be verified or falsified.
Can the phenomenon of hearing the voices of deceased people be explained scientifically?
The earliest origins of psychicism can be traced back to 1848, when fox sisters Maggie and Kate, who live in New York, claim to have heard a soul knocking on the walls of their home. The incident then caused a national sensation, but much later, the Fox sisters admitted that it was just a man-made prank. Nevertheless, psychicism at that time had developed, so it has continued to this day.
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In The Mosley and Powell study, most of those who claimed to be able to hear the voices of the dead were highly sensitive to sounds, or had unusual auditory experiences in childhood, or were very attentive. They are more prone to hallucinations than ordinary people, and at first they do not believe in the existence of souls, but it is strange to hear such sounds all the time, so they have to find a reasonable explanation, and eventually have to attribute it to supernatural phenomena.
The results of the study showed that those psychics were more likely to be fully immersed in their own spiritual world, and their behavior and state would change. Psychics are able to devote their attention entirely to external stimuli, such as movies, music, etc., and are able to incorporate these stimuli into their own spiritual world. In other general populations, the extent to which they can immerse themselves in the spiritual world also has to do with whether they believe in the supernatural, but this has little effect on them hearing the voices of those who have passed away.
Tips: Hallucination refers to perceptual experiences that occur without corresponding objective stimuli. Hallucination is a subjective experience, and the subject's feelings are similar to perceptions.
The researchers believe that this suggests that they were able to hear the voices of the deceased not because the external environment put pressure on them, nor because they had a strong belief in the supernatural. They choose to believe that this is the voice of the soul because such a statement can find a suitable reason for what they are encountering, and such a reason is consistent with their self-identification.
In fact, most of the so-called psychics and spiritual forces are aided by the Barnum effect, which is somewhat similar to today's horoscope. Most of what they say is not specifically pointed and described, but gives a very vague and general concept, which is in line with the psychological expectations of the masses, so it is easier for people to believe and accept.
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Beyond that, because we have no way of knowing what will happen in the future, we also cannot confirm that the psychic's prediction is correct until the future comes. And human beings are always accustomed to remembering the more coincidental and inconceivable things, and perhaps these psychics have made a hundred predictions, only one of which is true, but it will still be passed on to people.
In our daily lives, there are actually some people who have the ability to simulate the voices of others in their minds. Especially those who are close to each other, they are already very familiar with their words and deeds, and naturally they can easily distinguish the characteristics of their voices.
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Therefore, people are unconsciously stimulated by the outside world, which may lead to auditory hallucinations.
brief summary
At present, researchers have not been able to prove the existence of the soul through scientific means, and the experiments of Mosley and Powell have certain subjective factors, but it is certain that someone can "hear" the voice of the deceased. This situation may be related to the experiencer's own life experience and mental condition, but to further explore the real reasons behind this, more research and exploration is needed in the future.