channeling spirits
Contacting the dead
Channeling spirits is the practice of serving as a conduit for communication with the dead or supernatural entities.
A medium or channeler purportedly allows a spirit to speak through them, either entering a trance state or relaying messages consciously.
The practice appears in spiritualist traditions, New Age beliefs, and various religious contexts: She claimed to be channeling spirits of the departed.
Skeptics view it as performance or self-deception.
- séanceSpirit communication ritual
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- psychic mediumAlleged communicator with deceased
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- automatic writingText produced unconsciously
animism · ancestor worship · the other side · angels · demons · pagan rituals · hypnosis · third eye · parapsychology · ghostly presence · trance · possession · mysticism · voice · hush · occultism · poltergeists · deities
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Address to deity
supplication · meditation · worship · contemplative prayer · praying
channeling spiritsscientific method
Structured process for investigation
empiricism · skeptical inquiry · materialism · evidence-based reasoning · physicalism
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