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The physician William Barrett, author of the book Death-Bed Visions (1926), collected anecdotes of people who had claimed to have experienced visions of deceased friends and relatives, the sound of music and other deathbed phenomena. [8] Barrett was a Christian spiritualist and believed the visions were evidence for spirit communication. [9]
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People only die when we forget them,’ my mother explained shortly before she left me. ‘If you can remember me, I will be with you always.’” — Isabel Allende, "Eva Luna"
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Crystal ball. Crystal gazing or crystallomancy is a method for seeing visions achieved through trance induction by means of gazing at a crystal. [1] Traditionally, it has been seen as a form of divination or scrying, with visions of the future and of the divine, though research into the content of crystal-visions suggest the visions are related to the expectations and thoughts of the seer.
Indeed, such visions meant precisely, as people in the ancient and modern worlds have discovered, that the person was dead, not that they were alive." [53] Similarly, Wright calls the cognitive dissonance theory "widely discredited" and criticizes it on the basis that "nobody was expecting anyone, least of all a Messiah, to rise from the dead ...
Those with a constrained vision favor empirical evidence and time-tested structures and processes over intervention and personal experience. Ultimately, the constrained vision demands checks and balances and refuses to accept that all people could put aside their innate self-interest. [4]