Meanings
- uncountableparapsychologyVocal communication with the dead or with spirits.
The third is the message of one or more spirits, which in psychophony is identified only as a spiritual friend.
2011, Group of Ethics Studies, The Ethics of Jesus Christ, →ISBN3 more examples
Their motives are perhaps not entirely laudable and probably they are being fooled; but even if they are not getting authentic messages from the dead, yet some queer things have happened and are happening as a result of psychophony.
1922, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 145, page 679In this way the ancient knowledge of Pythagoras is applied in the most modern form of psychophony, and in this way, for the first time in the existence of the present world, the special mind-power vibrations which you require are reproduced on the invisible ether, at your command, by the use of the psychophonic records.
1996, C. De Radwan, The Secret of Mind Power and How to Use It, →ISBN, page 48Not uncommonly, the vibrations produce a sensation of inflation common in psychophony (vocal channeling) with the apparent expansion and swelling of the hands, feet, lips, cheeks, chin and solar plexus area.
2011, Sandie Gustus, Less Incomplete: A Guide to Experiencing the Human Condition beyond the Physical Body - uncountableThe appearance of voices or meaningful sounds in the white noise on electronic recordings; electronic voice phenomenon (EVP).
Then there was the EVP (Psychophony), that, as I checked on the Internet, is still practised now.
2014, Enrico Catalucci, The book of Hanni, →ISBN3 more examples
They started their own research at the beginning of the seventies, after hearing of Jürgenson's voices, and since then they have indefatigably dedicated a lot of their time and energy to research, particularly in the field of psychophony, as the phenomenon is known in Spain.
2010, Anabela Cardoso, Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension?, →ISBN, pages 45–46The technician looked at the people in the living room, feeling unsure how to proceed. His shy nature made him feel uncomfortable in this situation, but he knew he had to share his intuition, however mad they'd be. "That psychophony we recorded from Laura's mother, I've been thinking about it a lot..."
2015, Enrique Laso, Hell Calling II, →ISBNLike a sort of ghostly psychophony, Dylan in Between collects the 'residual sound' some people claim to perceive in the short breaks separating the songs on a Bob Dylan vinyl record.
This is Not A Love Song
2015, F. Javier Panera Cuevas, Bu Bir Aşk Şarkısı Değil [This is Not A Love Song], →ISBN, page 145
Origin
From psycho- (“mind”) + -phony (“voice”).
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