Apparitional experience  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search  In psychology[1] and
parapsychology, an apparitional experience is an anomalous,
quasi-perceptual experience.   In scientific or academic
discussion, the term apparitional experience is to be preferred
to the term ghost in respect of the following points:    1. The
term ghost implies that some element of the human being survives
death and, at least under certain circumstances, can make itself
perceptible to living human beings. There are other competing
explanations of apparitional experiences.   2. Firsthand
accounts of apparitional experiences differ in many respects
from their fictional counterparts in literary or traditional
ghost stories (see below).   3. The content of apparitional
experiences includes living beings, both human and animal, and
even inanimate objects.[2]  History of the concept[edit]
Attempts to apply modern scientific or investigative standards
to the study of apparitional experiences began with