They found that A large majority 79 per cent said that experiences of auditory spiritual communication were part of their everyday lives, taking place both when they were alone and when they were working as a medium or attending a spiritualist church. Although spirits were primarily heard inside the head When rated on scales of absorption, as well as how strongly they believe in the paranormal, spiritualists scored much more highly than members of the general population. Spiritualists were less likely to care about what others thought of them than people generally, and they also scored more highly for proneness to unusual hallucination-like auditory experiences.
Both high levels of absorption and proneness to such auditory phenomena were linked to reports of more frequent clairaudient communications, according to the findings. For the general population, absorption was associated with levels of belief in the paranormal, but there was no significant corresponding link between belief and hallucination-proneness.
There was also no difference in levels of superstitious belief or proneness to visual hallucinations between spiritualist and non-spiritualist participants. Spiritualists reported first experiencing clairaudience at an average age of However, 18 per cent of spiritualists reported having clairaudient experiences 'for as long as they could remember' and 71 per cent had not encountered Spiritualism as a religious movement prior to their first experiences. The researchers say their findings suggest that it is not giving in to social pressure, learning to have specific expectations, or a level of belief in the paranormal that leads to experiences of spirit communication.
Instead, it seems that some people are uniquely predisposed to absorption and are more likely to report unusual auditory experiences occurring early in life. In the general population, high levels of absorption were also strongly correlated with belief in the paranormal - but little or no susceptibility to auditory hallucinations.
And in both groups, there were no differences in the levels of belief in the paranormal and susceptibility to visual hallucinations. These results, the researchers say, suggest that experiencing the 'voices of the dead' is therefore unlikely to be a result of peer pressure, a positive social context, or suggestibility due to belief in the paranormal.
Instead, these individuals adopt Spiritualism because it aligns with their experience and is personally meaningful to them. For our participants, the tenets of Spiritualism seem to make sense of both extraordinary childhood experiences as well as the frequent auditory phenomena they experience as practising mediums," Powell said.
Future research, they concluded, should explore a variety of cultural context to better understand the relationship between absorption, belief, and the strange, spiritual experience of ghosts whispering in one's ear. The research has been published in Mental Health, Religion and Culture.
Are there children playing around you? Are they laughing or having fun at a game? Listen to the squirrels rustling the branch leaves as they scurry up a tree. Do you hear the wind blowing briskly past you? You get the idea. Become a better listener. This exercise will give you more self-confidence when listening to the sounds that appear inside or outside your mind. You may even hear a knock on the door, only to get up and find there is no one there.
This is spirit trying to let you know they want to come into your life so you can receive the signs. When giving psychic or mediumship messages, being clairaudient is one of the most influential ways of giving a message. Names can be given, or evidence that whom you are trying to reach may be coming in loud and clear.
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