PDF-(BOOS)-Manifesting Spirits: An Anthropological Study of Mediumship and the Paranormal

Manifesting Spirits is an exploration of contemporary trance and physical mediumship at a private spiritualist homecircle called the Bristol Spirit Lodge Located in a garden on the outskirts of Bristol the Lodge is a wooden shed specially constructed for the purposes of mediumship development and spirit communication Through a combination of ethnographic observations in séances including his own experiences of mediumship development and interviews with spirits and their mediums Hunter delves into a suburban world of trance states ectoplasm spirit lights and discarnate entities Issues relating to altered states of consciousness personhood performance and the efficacy of ritual are examined in order to make sense of the processes by which spirits become manifest in social reality A large part of Manifesting Spirits is given over to a broader discussion of anthropologys evolving attitudes toward the paranormal as a component of the lifeworlds of many people across the globe and argues for the development of a nonreductive anthropological approach to the paranormal and mediumship in particular This emerging framework referred to as ontological flooding does not attempt to explain away the existence of spirits in terms of functional cognitive or pathological theories as most mainstream theorists tend to do but rather embraces a processual perspective that emphasizes complexity and multiple interconnected processes underlying spirit possession performances and experiences. © . 2010-2016. “Master Ethnographic Texts” . “Classics” in the . 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CESQG . “A major empirical contribution to the debate about antirepresentationalism and posthumanism that has been agitating the entire discipline of anthropology in recent years.”—Stephan Palmié, author of The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion   “The most provocative and complete portrayal of contemporary Cuban espiritismo available. It underscores the embodied character of espiritista practices and offers a dynamic portrayal of espiritista mediums’ crucial roles within a complex of Afro-Cuban religions that includes ocha, palo monte, and other faiths.”—Reinaldo L. Román, author of Governing Spirits: Religion, Miracles, and Spectacles in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1898–1956   “To read this book is to enter into an apparently alien world and yet find that it makes complete sense, and for that reason Developing the Dead is a model of the anthropological enterprise.”—Charles Stewart, author of Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece   Based on extensive fieldwork among espiritistas and their patrons in Havana, this book makes the surprising claim that Spiritist practices are fundamentally a project of developing the self.             When mediums cultivate relationships between the living and the dead, argues Diana Espírito Santo, they develop, learn, sense, dream, and connect to multiple spirits (muertos), expanding the borders of the self. This understanding of selfhood is radically different from Enlightenment ideas of an autonomous, bounded self and holds fascinating implications for prophecy, healing, and self-consciousness. Developing the Dead shows how Espiritismo’s self-making process permeates all aspects of life, not only for its own practitioners but also for those of other Afro-Cuban religions. At the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century people in the United States live in a scary and confusing post-truth era of disinformation, fake news, counter-knowledge, weaponized lies, conspiracy theories, magical thinking and sheer irrationalism. In this intellectual climate where many people lack the rudimentary skills to distinguish between contending claims to knowledge or differentiate between fact and opinion, there is a proliferation of purveyors of supernaturalism, pseudoscience and alternative forms of knowledge whose ideas are an affront to the intelligence and sensibilities of rational people. At the same time, here and around the world oppressive religious fundamentalism and violence are on the rise. The merchants of superstition and paranormalism almost in unison are broadcasting with bluster and hubris that science is now defunct and are offering their own truths and ways of knowing as better substitutes. Even our highest government officials are flagrantly declaring that it is impossible to distinguish between fact and opinion, that for every fact there is an alternative fact, and that truth is whatever people want it to be.By posing a direct challenge to science and rationality, the advocates of supernatural and paranormal modes of thought have made their own central epistemological and ontological premises legitimate subjects for critical scrutiny in accordance with the tradition of systematic skepticism. Religion, Supernaturalism, the Paranormal and Pseudoscience provides a comprehensive rejoinder to the challenges posed to science, scientific anthropology, evolutionary theory and rationality. Moreover, scientific anthropological answers are offered for several important questions: Why do humans have the proclivity for the supernatural and the paranormal thinking? Why has humanity remained shackled to sets of ideas inherited from a violent past that have no basis in reality, bestow an illusionary solace, inspire endless cruelties and fervent hatreds, and have come at a high cost? Why have ancient superstitions been maintained as sacred, inviolate truths while other aspects of the archaic belief systems of which they were a part have long been discarded? Why have not humans outgrown religion and paranormal beliefs?This study draws upon the author\'s scientific anthropological background and ethnographic field research of supernatural and paranormal beliefs and practices in several cultures over the course of the last 30 years. It also relies upon the works of numerous skeptics critical historians scientific anthropologists cognitive, evolutionary, experimental and anomalistic psychologists philosophers of science scientists in various fields and many theologians.