霊感の諸層

「想起」と「身構え」を手掛かりに

抄録

This paper aims to elucidate how people who ordinarily sense spiritual beings experience our seemingly shared lifeworld and ultimately argues that the psychic sense is the ability to tune in to the potential movements empathetically and to comprehend multi-sensory fragments of information.

This paper deals with the interview data of two Japanese non-occupational psychics, showing that there are two types of narrating: ‘posture,’ characterized by the gaze direction turning, gesture, onomatopoeia and citation, and ‘remembering,’ including interpretations to the perceived objects. Talking by ‘posture’ directly conveys the speakers' emotion or the position in the past event to the listeners and makes them possible to feel empathy for the (speakers') body in certain situation.

Likewise, the perception brought by psychic sense is divided into at least two levels (i.e., at which fluctuations and emotions are immediately shared and at which they are integrated and interpreted). What is seen or heard can exist prior to the culturally or socially constructed frame of interpretation.