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ARC Research Interests

  • Ethnographic and anthropological methodologies for the exploration of  the afterlife, the spirit world, mediumship, trance, possession, shamanism, healing, and religious experience
  • Mediumistic practices and alternative approaches to wellbeing
  • The effect of afterlife beliefs on spiritual, mental and physical health
  • Spirit mediumship and possession in cross-cultural contexts
  • Spirit mediumship, possession and personhood
  • Cosmologies of the afterlife in non-Western, Western and esoteric traditions
  • Hypnotic regression, past-life and interlife or life between lives (LBL) studies
  • Near death experiences (NDEs) and their impact on individual well-being

Current Research Projects

  • Spirit Mediumship in the Vale do Amanhecer, Brazil (Emily Pierini)
  • Spirit Mediumship in Singapore and Taiwan (Fabian Graham)
  • An Ethnography of the Afterlife (Fiona Bowie)
  • Spirit Mediumship in the UK (Jack Hunter)
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