Sentences with phrase «trance mediums»

Anja Dreschke is media anthropologist, filmmaker and research fellow at the DFG project Trance Mediums and New Media at the University of Siegen, Regina Barunke is art historian and artistic director of the Temporary Gallery, Cologne.

In Maids of Misfortune, Annie Fuller, a widowed boarding house keeper and pretend clairvoyant, goes undercover as a domestic servant to solve a murder, in Uneasy Spirits, Annie and San Francisco lawyer Nate Dawson investigate fraudulent trance mediums, and in Bloody Lessons, they try to determine who is attacking San Francisco teachers.

He joined the Society for Human and Spiritual Understanding, a pseudo-church that met on Sunday mornings in a small sanctuary - style room to practice meditation and listen to the pronouncements of a trance medium through whom, it was claimed, spoke the voice of an Egyptian priest who had lived 3,500 years be-fore.

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For instance, when these characteristics are perceived as exhibited in an individual enduringly and in a sense in which these are understood to affect the world around in a favorable fashion — either in an objective sense of effecting something concrete outside such a person [like effecting healing, foretelling, acting as medium in a non-rational manner or simply doing good or saying good to help the people selflessly], exhibiting personal traits, conditions and states which are known to be «abnormal» [like going into trances, hearing voices, seeing visions, or just the simple unconventional behavior, which proceed from such an individual's horizon to affect, influence, impact others» horizons]-- or is subjectively perceived to be extra-ordinary — such an individual is said to be godly, god - bearing, pious or saintly.

One of the artists will enter into a state of trance in order to contact the other side, acting as a medium for the audience in the attempt to bridge the gap between the actual room and the space and people that exist in another dimension.