Ghosts in the Machine: Why Moaning Spirits Are Probably Just in Our Heads - Brain World Magazine

Researchers in Switzerland have taken ghost hunting in a new and unexpected direction. Their studies indicate that spectral experiences may be the result of haywire neurology, which in turn may cause body schema issues. In other words, if a brain can't track the position of its body, stimuli might be interpreted as mysterious. But does this finding explain the entire ghost experience? In From Parlor Tricks to Primetime: Fame, Gender, and the History of Ghost Hunting, Sam Wall examines our changing perceptions of The Ghost Hunter in all its infamy and glory over the years. As food for thought, we are cautioned about the tidy boxes in which we put such subjects. "If the only stories we have reinforce the status quo, we end up erasing the experiences of marginalized people in the past and the present." For one final history lesson, we present Paranoid or Paranormal?: A Brief History of Spirit Photography. Part of our paranormal landscape for more than 200 years, the desire to photograph spirits isn't so much a desire to seek fame or prove the existence of ghosts, but to somehow understand what happens after we die. And in spite of centuries of research, we continue to reach out for answers within our cultures and their art forms. There now, that's enough to absorb in one sitting. Class dismissed. (CM)

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