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hello everyone welcome to this research

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presentation on after death

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communication cell phones by dora

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kharaga and iman varus

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before we begin i would like to go over

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today's agenda i will first introduce

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our pilot study and define a few terms i

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will then

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go over the characteristics of our

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participants study methods a few quotes

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by respondents detailing their after

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death communication experiences

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and finally we will discuss the results

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by analyzing the data and findings of

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so after death communication is defined

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as the apparent communication with the

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deceased it can occur through different

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ways one of which is via electronic

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devices

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when after death communication occurs on

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cell phones there is an apparent sender

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and a receiver

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the sender is assumed to be a

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non-physical entity communicating with

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the receiver through a device and a

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receiver is a person who is receiving

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the communication from the sender this

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communication can occur in the form of a

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text message phone calls as well as

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other ways which will be further

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discussed in the presentation and

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finally itc which stands for

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instrumental trans communication is

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defined as the ostensible communication

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with the deceased using electronic

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devices

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and on this slide i provided two

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relevant books discussing these

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phenomena so on the left is the book of

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phone calls by uh from the dead by scott

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rogo and raymond bayless and on the

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right is a study by evelyn ilser on

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so to begin with after death

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communication with cell phones can be a

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spontaneous or a deliberate form of

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instrumental transcommunication

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our exploratory study was aimed to

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identify the relevant parameters of

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after death communication with cell

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phones with a focus on individuals and

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their behavioral person and personality

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characteristics rather than the devices

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used for communication with the deceased

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and the end goal of our study is to

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understand how the communication of the

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deceased occurs so that it can possibly

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and now moving on to our study

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participants

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our questionnaire was first sent out to

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the itc collective group on facebook on

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july 10 2020. we received responses from

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21 individuals from both the facebook

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group and our own connections

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and here you can see the breakdown of

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gender and education levels of our

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participants

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most of them were women and they were

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and here we see the religious

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affiliations and frequency of religious

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practice

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as we can see many of them have their

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own beliefs and practice their religion

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our pilot study also included three

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different measures which were the

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demographics measures the after death

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communication questionnaire and the post

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measures

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and it was created using qualtrics on

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western university server

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the first measure was the demographics

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and the after death communication

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questionnaire came after the demographic

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section and included 41 likert type

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items varying from strongly disagree to

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strongly agree regarding the nature of

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after death communication with cell

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phone devices along with the impact of

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these instances on individuals and their

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perception of the sender and experiences

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the psychological measures on the other

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hand consist of the 42 item carol riff

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scales of psychological well-being

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questionnaire it was used as a measure

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of the participant's psychological

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well-being by evaluating the six

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different areas of well-being measured

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by the rif inventory which are autonomy

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environmental mastery personal growth

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positive relations with others purpose

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self-acceptance and now let's just

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discuss the results of the pilot study

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the final results show that our

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participants scored higher on the

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personal growth scale of the rift

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inventory than the norm this is a

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statistically significant finding

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suggesting that our participants have a

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greater interest in self-development and

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openness to new experiences

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it is also important to note that our

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participants did not deviate from the

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norm for other skills which suggests

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that their psychological well-being is

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not any different than the average

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it was also found that there are many

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kinds of after-death communication

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mechanisms the most frequent ones were

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telephone calls photos or videos showing

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during telephone calls or on voicemail

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and based upon the responses that we

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collected we created a higher

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hierarchical cluster analysis which

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produced a solution with nine clusters

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from these nine clusters we will provide

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and discuss the the five most

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the first skill which is a comprehensive

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communication consisted of nine items

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this scale shows that the communication

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from the sender was clear and meaningful

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to the receiver

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please pay attention to the average

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scores on these skills as that will be

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the second skill titled active sender

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consisted of three items this scale

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shows that the sender appeared to be

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actively involved in the communication

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such that the receiver felt their

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presence during the interaction and was

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able to recognize the entity as an

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individual they had a connection with

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skill number three is meaningful

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communication and it consists of six

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items this scale tells us about how the

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communication appeared to be meaningful

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in the eyes of the receiver and that the

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overall experience was positive and

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the fourth scale which is scale number

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six is spiritual impact and it has six

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items this skill tells us that the

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interaction change the receivers lives

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and increase their spirituality despite

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the participants being unfamiliar with

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and finally the last scale is the other

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devices scale indicating that the

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respondents have received messages from

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this table shows a correlation between

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the five different scales and we can see

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that the comprehensive communication

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scale and the meaningful communication

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skill have the strongest correlation out

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and now on to some quotes from our

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participants that we took from their

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answers to question 9 where they were

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asked to describe the most significant

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instance of after death communication on

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cell phones that they experienced in the

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past you will notice the scores of the

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participants and in each case i have

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indicated whether they are higher or

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than the average with plus and minus

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one of our participants explained that

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that he had been in frequent computer

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communication with his deceased wife for

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three and a half years and i will just

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and this is participant number 11's

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and here we have a quote from

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i'll also let you read what participant

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and this quote was from an artist whose

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father passed away who later on

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experienced after death communication on

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the fifth participant detailed a time

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where her deceased son was controlling

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and the participant number eight shared

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participant number nine told us a story

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about an experience of hers which i will

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she also said that later on in the

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evening her sister had asked her to go

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somewhere and it was at this place that

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she ran into glenn's widow and his

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daughter she then realized that glenn

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knew she would see his family and so she

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and this is participant number tense

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and finally we have participant number

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20's after death communication

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now moving on to the conclusion

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so all in all it can be seen through our

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results of the participants scored

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highest on the meaningful communication

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skill and scored high on the spiritual

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impact and active sender skills

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this means that the interaction had a

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strong spiritual impact on the receiver

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and that the sender was actively

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involved in the communication

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it can also be inferred that

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participants were either more open or

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became more

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open to self-development than norms as a

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result of their after-death

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communication experience

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as for the next steps in after death

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communication with cell phones research

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we plan on obtaining information about

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the cell phones and psychological

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conditions under which the after death