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2 Qualities Predispose People To Sense Gods or Spirits
Two attributes, porosity and absorption, make people more likely to have vivid experiences of gods or spirits, report researchers.
Human history has been shaped by these experiences from Augustine’s conversion to Christianity after hearing a disembodied voice to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision, after hearing God’s voice, to move ahead with the Montgomery bus boycotts.
February 9, 2021
Felicity Aulino
Human history has been shaped by vivid experiences of gods and spirits, from Augustine’s conversion to Christianity after hearing a disembodied voice to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision, after hearing God’s voice, to move ahead with the Montgomery bus boycotts.
Now an international, multi-disciplinary team of researchers including Felicity Aulino, assistant Five College professor of anthropology, has identified two attributes, porosity and absorption, that make individuals more likely to have these kinds of experiences. Over the course of four studies of more than 2,000 participants from many different religious traditions in the United States, Ghana, Thailand, China and Vanuatu, Aulino and her team demonstrate the power of culture in combination with individual differences to shape something that we normally think of as a given – what feels real. Their findings are detailed in a study recently published in the journal
Two attributes, porosity and absorption, make people more likely to have vivid experiences of gods or spirits, report researchers. Human history has been shaped by these experiences from Augustine’s conversion to Christianity after hearing a disembodied voice to Dr Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision, after hearing God’s voice, to move ahead with the Montgomery bus boycotts.
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