This essay looks at the resonances between common cultural models of the mind in the central region of Ghana and patterns of spiritual experience among charismatic evangelical Christians and practitioners of southern Ghana's indigenous religion, known as traditionalists. In particular, I examine the resonance between the model of the mind that construes it as porous, as vulnerable to forcible take‐over by hostile entities, and experiences of divine beings insistently pushing people to do their will. It is also relatively common for people in Ghana to report seeing the divine with their eyes and hearing it with their ears. I argue that this experience resonates with, and is perhaps facilitated by, a tendency of local models of mind in Ghana to blend sense and percept.

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脆弱的思想，身体的思想和感觉的精神：加纳当地的思想理论和精神经验

本文着眼于加纳中部地区常见的心理文化模式与超凡魅力的福音派基督教徒以及加纳南部土著宗教（称为传统主义者）的从业者之间的精神体验模式之间的共鸣。特别是，我考察了认为该模型是多孔的，容易被敌对实体强行接管的思想模型与神圣存在的经历之间的共鸣，这些经历是神灵一直强迫人们去履行自己的意愿的。对于加纳人来说，用眼睛看到神而用耳朵听到神也相对普遍。我认为，这种经验与加纳当地思想模式融合感官和知觉的趋势共鸣，或者可能得到促进。