Or nonsense, if you like. As an anthropologist, or as a human in general, you can't judge if peoples beliefs are true or not. Specially not in questions regarding beliefs, philosophy or religion. I can't tell. You can't tell.
Life is a mystery.
M y fieldwork concerned spiritualism in contemporary England. There has not been, as far as I know, any recently anthropological investigation concerning spiritualism in western societies. My choice of anthropological region was England because Britain was the first European country that met this phenomena when it first came from the US to Europe in the late 19.th century. The early and later researchers were all concerned about how to prove or disprove Spiritualistic mediums , the Spiritual world, the eventually afterlife or strange phenomena. T hat's absolutely not my intention.