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|a Sensed presence without sensory qualities: a phenomenological study of bereavement hallucinations
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|b Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
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|u https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-020-09666-2
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|a This paper addresses the nature of sensed-presence experiences that are commonplace among the bereaved and occur cross-culturally. Although these experiences are often labelled ‘‘bereavement hallucinations’’, it is unclear what they consist of. Some seem to involve sensory experiences in one or more modalities, while others involve a non-specific feeling or sense of presence. I focus on a puzzle concerning the latter: it is unclear how an experience of someone’s presence could arise without a more specific sensory content. I suggest that at least some of these experiences consist in a dynamic and non-localized experience of significant and salient possibilities. This can amount to the sense of currently relating to a particular individual and, by implication, a sense of that person’s presence. Where an experience of this kind also includes sensory qualities, they are inessential to the sense of relatedness and perhaps symptomatic of it. © 2020, The Author(s).
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|a Bereavement
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|a Ratcliffe, M.
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|t Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
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