But in the world of pseudo-science, there is now an article allegedly explaining this power.
In the Australian Journal of Parapsychology, June, 2013 issue, there is a paper which deals with the subject matter of Psychological phenomena in dead people: Post- traumatic stress disorder in murdered people and its consequences to public health.
The journal abstract states:
The journal abstract states:
The aims of this
paper are to narrate and analyze some psychological phenomena that I
have perceived in dead people, including evidence of post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD) in murdered people. The methodology adopted was
"projection of consciousness" (i.e., a non-ordinary state of
consciousness), which allowed me to observe, interact, and interview
dead people directly as a social psychologist. This investigation was
based on Cartesian skepticism, which allowed me a more critical analysis
of my experiences during projection of consciousness. There is strong
evidence that a dead person: (i) continues living, thinking, behaving
after death as if he/she still has his/her body because consciousness
continues in an embodied state as 'postmortem embodied experiences';
(ii) may not realize for a considerable time that he/she is already dead
since consciousness continues to be embodied after death (i.e.,
'postmortem perturbation' - the duration of this perturbation can vary
from person to person, in principle according to the type of death, and
the level of conformation), and (iii) does not like to talk, remember,
and/or explain things related to his/her own death because there is
evidence that many events related to death are repressed in his/her
unconscious ('postmortem cognitive repression'). In addition, there is
evidence that dying can be very traumatic to consciousness, especially
to the murdered, and PTSD may even develop.
In order to have a scientific truth, the author's conclusion needs to be repeatable by his peers. I cannot fathom how one could set up an experiment to duplicate these conclusions.
But in an extremely odd way, this paper hits on various science fiction points contained in LOST.
Projected consciousness could relate to Desmond's flash forward premonitions in a time altered world.
One of the ideas I had early on is that no one survived the plane crash, but those lost souls on Flight 815 failed to realize that they were dead. This is the paper's "postmortem embodied experience." Their consciousness continued to live on as each person survived the crash - - - living, breathing, interacting with other consciousness streams united by the same ending experience.
The manner of death, such as a plane crash or murder, would somehow heighten the duration and post-traumatic stress of a dead person's consciousness.
The main characters continued to repress their past actions, but the island projected to them symbols of their pasts (like Christian or Kate's horse) so they could remember that they were dead in order for their souls to move on.
And the author's claim that he can interview the dead by extending his own consciousness could be the method that both Miles and Hurley used in order to communicate with the dead. However, Hurley had the additional strange attribute to physically be with people he knew were dead, and to have physical contact with them (Charlie and Ana Lucia).
