So for example, in my case and that of
other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit
medium as well as
other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and
psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic,
psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?
More recent pieces have involved dance, notably her series Scrying — a magic term for using some sort of
medium for
psychic divination — which consisted of ballet performances at MoMA, where the dancers engaged in a mirror - based production in the museum's towering atrium, and
other sites.
In her 2005 photogravure Disappearing Act Screen Test, Rafferty can be seen juggling several large hoops, mimicking late 19th and early 20th century documentary photos of
psychic mediums and
other performers, wherein their actions are stylistically captured several times in a single image to convey their motion and wonder.