Philippine Parapsychology
•The Filipino worldview is non-dualistic and highly contextual. The dynamics of their relationship with the world and other people manifest through various folk beliefs and paranormal phenomena. The cultural meaning-making of unexplainable experiences are worthy of study, thus expanding the scope of...
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| Published in: | Explore (New York, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2023-10 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | •The Filipino worldview is non-dualistic and highly contextual. The dynamics of their relationship with the world and other people manifest through various folk beliefs and paranormal phenomena. The cultural meaning-making of unexplainable experiences are worthy of study, thus expanding the scope of parapsychology as a discipline and adding more nuance and humanity to its findings.•Most of the current academic literature on local paranormal phenomena seem to focus more on qualitative studies (that is, documenting anecdotes and conducting philosophical interpretation) rather than objective investigation. Foreign researchers, on the other hand, tend to apply foreign frameworks, which may be blind to subtle cultural experiences.•Objective methods can be used to study paranormal phenomena, but the scientist's approach must be culturally-appropriate, and the data must always be placed in its proper context. This paper suggests a framework to better understand this context.
The many well-documented cases of paranormal phenomena in the Philippines may be interpreted as manifestations of the intuitive and deeply empathic interpersonal dynamics of Filipinos and the seemingly transpersonal nature of their individual psyches. A heightened sense of cultural empathy may explain various telepathic or prophetic experiences that are very common to the point of being an ordinary experience. The spirits of folklore, which are said to have observable effects in the physical world, indicate a continuum from material to spiritual, and implies that the individual mind goes beyond the self and recognizes separate, sentient expressions of their own psyche in nature. This paper aims to be a general overview of Philippine parapsychology. A novel framework is suggested, and represented via the Sarili-Mundo model, which may be applied to future research on any variation of paranormal phenomena across the thousands of islands belonging to the multi-ethnic Philippine archipelago. |
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| ISSN: | 1550-8307 1878-7541 |