Parapsychology
Date : June, 2022
Source : Science Alert
A 2021 research on anomalous sensory experiences – clairaudience (auditory hallucinations), using mediums and members of religious communities, concluded that absorption (a trait linked to one’s tendency to become immersed in experience or thought) is a strongly correlated factor in Spiritualists reporting clairaudience. It also noticed that « For many who report anomalous experiences, belief in the spiritual or paranormal may result from a years-long search for personal meaning ».
Ravi Ravindra wrote in Science and the Sacred : « A large number of aphorisms in the Yoga Sutra (3:16-53) describe the knowledeg and the powers gained by attending to various objects in the state of samyama. For example, we are told that, through samyama on the sun, one gains insight into the solar system… Similarly, many occult and extraordinary powers (siddhis) accrue to the yogi by bringing the state of samyama to bear upon various aspects of oneself : for example, by samyama on the relation between the ear and space, one acquire the divine ear by which one can hear at a distance or hear extremely subtle and usually inaudible sounds.
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