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- Scientific research on crisis apparitions is scant, but theories abound. One theory: A person in crisis – someone who is critically ill or dying – telepathically transmits an image of themselves to someone they have a close relationship with, but they’re usually unaware they’re sending a message.
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Apr 29, 2022 · A "crisis apparition," as first defined by 19th-century paranormal researchers, is the vision or sense of a loved one around their time of death. Some psi researchers suggest that crisis...
Sep 23, 2011 · Scientific research on crisis apparitions is scant, but theories abound. One theory: A person in crisis – someone who is critically ill or dying – telepathically transmits an image of...
- Crisis Impressions
- Deathbed Visions
- Sensed Presence Phenomena
- Nearing-Death Awareness
- Numinous Experiences in Crisis and Near Death
- Literature
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Crisis impressions are marked by the abrupt awareness that another person is in urgent danger or has died. These are also referred to as ‘crisis apparitions,’ a term used by late nineteenth century psychical researchers, although visual manifestation is not necessarily a defining characteristic. Studies by Gurney et al1, Green,2 Stevenson,3 Fenwick...
A growing body of research explores a distinct category of both visual and auditory phenomena perceived by dying patients in the last days of their life. This research has garnered attention as Westerners move in ever greater numbers into hospice care, an environment in which they are often observed by family and caregivers when their pain is well-...
The presence that is visualized, sensed or heard in both crisis impressions and deathbed visions has been reported in other environments also: where percipients are themselves in danger or psychological distress, or where they have been bereaved. The categories can overlap, as in the case of World War I soldier William Bird, who was awoken in the t...
In 1993, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelly coined the phrase ‘nearing-death awareness’ to describe anomalous characteristics that palliative care staff sometimes observe in their patients in the days preceding death.39One such is the ‘deathbed vision' cited above, in which the patient communicates with deceased figures in the room, ...
Certain conditions appear to give rise to a state of consciousness that might be characterized as numinous. In this state, percipients feel themselves to be immersed in extremely brilliant light that they experience as loving, and possessed of a sentient quality, indicating that it is no merely visual perception. Feelings of profound peacefulness o...
Alvarado, C. (2014). An introduction to “Visions of the Dying” by James Hyslop. History of Psychiatry25, 237. Barbato, M. (1999). Parapsychological phenomena at the time of the death. Journal of Palliative Care15. Barrett, Sir W. (19262012). Deathbed Visions: How the Dead Talk to the Dying. Hove, UK: White Crow Books. Bell, V. (2008). Ghost Stories...
Apr 29, 2022 · A "crisis apparition," as first defined by 19th-century paranormal researchers, is the vision or sense of a loved one around their time of death. Some psi researchers suggest that crisis...
There are actually several known types of apparitions that have been documented by psychical researchers and parapsychologists since the late 19th century.1 They include: crisis apparitions, post-mortem apparitions, deathbed visions, haunting apparitions, and apparitions of the bystander-type.
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Describes the scientific research into reports of ghosts and apparitions, covering different types of phenomena, their characteristics, research methods and theories of causation.
Apr 8, 2023 · "Crisis apparitions" may occur when a person is not even aware that a relative or friend is close to death. Studies show that three-quarters of people have sensed the presence of a deceased...
