Getting to the Inside First Person Perspectives on Mediumship (original) (raw)

The fundamental aim of this paper is to explore three important areas of research: First, the ways in which a first-person science may be conceived of within anthropological and experimental research mainly using existential-phenomenological approaches. Second, how an existentialphenomenological approach may illuminate some of the key aspects of mediumship with respect to state of consciousness and state of being change as well as questions concerning the place of agency and ownership in human experience and behavior. Third, an exploration of the ways in which first-person 'data' may be presented in relation to the consciousness-psi relationship. The overall analysis moves from the 'exterior' to the 'interior' of human life-worlds, to the phenomenology of doing first-person science.