@ragingloli There’s a problem with this critique though. The current secular-based hypothesis on what’s termed as ‘spirit’ is not the straw men sceptics keep using to justify their arguments. According to secular researchers and Spiritualists the spirit world is just as real to these inhabitants as our world is to us. When brain death occurs the mind (not confined to any body or being) this mind would register reality through another brain in what’s called an etheric copy of the previous.
These dimensions would be out of the reach of being detected by most people by our biological senses, and by our instruments. Apparently nobody becomes a transcendental spirit when they pass on, but still remain human, but their minds reside in a different body made to perceive their reality in a different dimension. According to some quantum physicists this is possible via quantum theory. These ‘spirits’ would need to lower their vibrations (as in spiritualist jargon) in order to materialize in our world where the vibrations are lower. As a result their bodies become dense enough again to physically interact with matter in what’s termed as the physical universe.
I know you’re going to say this is all nonsense with no evidence to support it, but this is irrelevant because most physical mediums expect and hope to have their materialized etheric humans have the ability to physically interact with their surroundings. I don’t think most critics understand what they’re critiquing concerning the nature of both mental and physical mediumship. It’s not perfect, and it can be difficult to obtain the results many would expect due to a various list of reasons, and this includes the difficulty with direct-voice mediumship and getting the desired tone for the voice. It’s not a linear process according to Spiritualist theory, not at least as we think we should expect things to be.
Personally I don’t know what to say since I had never attended a seance myself, so I’m relying on the testimony of others. I’d like to see these demonstrations done in lighted conditions.