Family reunions: Visionary encounters with the departed in a modern-day psychomanteum.
Raymond A. Moody
Journal of Near-Death Studies 1992 DOI: 10.17514/jnds-1992-11-2-p83-121. (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that a modern recreation of the psychomanteum can produce visionary encounters experienced as real rather than hallucinatory, with profound personal aftereffects, and proposes that this technique may permit scientific study of phenomena previously observed only spontaneously and under uncontrolled circumstances. |
Abstract
Article describing 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.