All Outputs (3)

By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind (2021)
Journal Article
Powell, A. J., & Cook, C. C. (2021). By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind. Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 7(1), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1558/jcsr.20092

Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind seeks to bring the theories and discoveries of the Cognitive Science of Religion to broader discussions of mental health. In doing so, the authors introduce auditory verbal hallucinations as one example of... Read More about By-Products or By Design? Considering Hearing Voices and Other Matters of the Mind.

The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep (2021)
Journal Article
Powell, A., & Cook, C. C. (2021). The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep. Journal for the study of religious experience, 6(1), 45-51

Whilst conducting qualitative studies with both Christians who report hearing supernatural voices and Spiritualists who report ‘clairaudience’, we have encountered numerous instances of what appeared to be hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences being... Read More about The etheric place: Notes on finding the supernatural at the boundaries of sleep.

Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy (2020)
Journal Article
Cook, C. C., Powell, A., Alderson-Day, B., & Woods, A. (2022). Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy. Medical Humanities, 48(3), 273-284. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2020-012021

Whereas previous research in the medical humanities has tended to neglect theology and religious studies, these disciplines sometimes have a very important contribution to make. The hearing of spiritually significant voices provides a case in point.... Read More about Hearing spiritually significant voices: A phenomenological survey and taxonomy.