Mediumship

Around half of bereaved adults report sense-of-presence experiences. Common, meaningful, hard to verify.

Stage mentalists reproduce 'mediumship' on demand. Cold and hot reading are well-documented techniques.

Reports stretch back centuries and across every culture. Most well-investigated cases reduce to pareidolia, infrasound, expectation, or fraud; the broader 'soul of the dead' reading is essentially unverifiable.

Most claimed mediumship is reproducible by cold reading. Some controlled lab studies (Beischel and others) report small but anomalous effects.

Evidence around dying, near-death experience, and what (if anything) continues.

Whether anything of mind continues.

Reports of contact with the deceased.

Cryptomnesia, anoxia models, cold reading. Counter-anchors.

Telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, PK.

A comparative guide to the strongest survival-adjacent evidence: NDEs, terminal lucidity, deathbed visions, past-life memories, mediumship, and after-death communication.

A careful guide to spiritual claims that are popular but weakly supported, including astrology, reiki, auras, crystals, manifestation, numerology, and predictive tarot.

Reasonable general reference for after-death communication language; the term itself is relatively recent in the academic literature.

Direct reference for the 'cold reading explains mediumship' skeptical hypothesis.

The single most-cited cognitive mechanism behind subjectively-convincing astrology, tarot, cold-reading, and 'this happened for a reason' inferences.

Catch-all reference for the broad ghost claim; pair with apparitional-experience and parapsychology entries for the specific phenomenology and lab-history strands.

Covers both the anomalistic-psychology framing and the survival-research framing, making it useful context for separating experiences from spirit interpretations.

Useful general-audience anchor for psi-related claims; gives both the field's self-description and the standard sceptical critique.