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Originally Posted by Mike By the way, getting down to bare bones, what do you think is being tested for (or should be being tested for) during a mediumship test, and what is the most appropriate protocol for testing this? From the stanpoint of believers in mediumship, the claim to fame of mediums is that they relay or in some way facilitate the relaying of communications from the dead. Is this what we should be testing for? |
I don't really know what we should test until someone proposes a theory of dead people. Where is my memory? Where does it go upon my death? How is it maintained in a coherent fashion? How does it travel? Can it interact with the material world? Until there is a theory, how can we come up with hypotheses to test?
Now, if someone is just going to claim that they know that dead people are floating about, mumbling vapid single-letter chit-chat with the likes of John Edward, then here's my experiment:
Tell me my grandfather's full name and how he died. Period, full stop.
~~ Paul