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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 08/12/2005 : 22:50:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Storm...
the existing theory that dominates science explains ghosts as hallucinations.. misinterpertations.. all in the mind.. so it is natural that one would find these types of studies in Journals of Psychology..
Now we're getting somewhere. These are pretty well accepted explanations for people perceiving "ghosts". The causes of hallucinations and misinterpretations may not yet be thoroughly understood in every particular instance, but we do have real life, understandable explanations for why misinterpretations and hallucinations happen in millions of other cases. They really do happen. We know it. We don't have to invent ways to explain it.
As a professional magician I have a pretty good handle on the psychology of misinterpreting what one sees. I can make people do it on purpose, pretty much any time and any place I like. I've also had personal experience with mushroom poisoning and other chemically induced hallucinations. Tangible, known explanations, because these things really happen in provable ways to real people all the time, would be good places to look when trying to understand the causes of hallucinations and misperceptions.
Fanciful explanations like residual human energy forces that waft in the air in the vicinity of ghostly experiences are intriguing and exciting, but have no verifiable basis in the realms of the psychological or physical sciences. Even Wiseman continues to say that, although the specific causes are not always completely known, his research has not offered any indication that there are such things as ghosts.
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| Edited by - GeeMack on 08/12/2005 22:58:04 |
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