Sometimes people are visited by visions, but it also happens that the same vision is seen by several people at the same time (hundreds and even thousands). People have encountered this anomalous phenomenon more than once. Some believe that the phenomenon of mass hallucination has been fully studied, and parapsychologists believe that there is still a lot of work in this direction.
Mikhail Bekhterev described one religious holiday in the city of Sarov. The pilgrims unexpectedly saw Saint Seraphim at the bottom of an abandoned well. Moreover, they talked to him. This lasted so long, until one woman approached the pilgrims, who did not know about the "miracle" taking place. She said that at the bottom of this well there is nothing but rubbish. And then, the saint instantly disappeared.
In an attempt to explain mass visions, some scientists have put forward the theory of telepathic contact. The theory says that the viewer who is currently experiencing a hallucination is able, by establishing close contact with other people (the crowd), to make them see their vision.
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The trick is that a boy climbs up the rope, followed by a magician with a machete in his hand. After a few seconds, the boy and the magician disappear somewhere above. Spectators hear terrible screams, and then parts of a human body, cut into pieces, fall to the ground.
The magician walks down the rope with a bloody machete and puts the pieces of meat in a large box. A few seconds pass and a boy jumps out of the box safe and sound, with a smile on his face.
The performance is recorded on video. And if you look at the recording, you can see that all this time the boy and the magician are sitting on the ground near the rope. The whole performance is imaginary!
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Parapsychologists believe that a magician has a hallucination, and it is transmitted to hundreds of viewers. This trick was shown three times in London, all sessions were recorded on tape. All the recordings show how the magician and the boy are all the time sitting on the floor near the rope sticking out from above. But the audience saw something completely different.
Commenting on this trick, parapsychologists say that such visual hallucinations are so well reproduced under hypnosis that their reality is beyond doubt. However, for the full success of the suggestion, the audience must be prepared to see a miracle.
However, it should be noted that the most different kinds of attitudes every day direct our behavior in the "right" direction, and make us see not what is really happening. Hello modern media! And who of us unconsciously does not obey the opinion of others, the so-called public opinion? Most of us do not even want to think about how correct this public opinion is. "So accepted," period!
To one degree or another, we are all suggestible. For more than half a century, sociologists have been studying human suggestibility. In children, suggestibility is higher than in adults, and in women it is higher than in the stronger sex.
An example of the highest collective suggestibility is panic, which can simultaneously reach a huge number of people. This happens when people are imbued with one general mood. So, from a small spark, a fire sweeping away everything around can break out. This can be seen especially during mass religious and occult rituals.
In a crowd, a person loses a sense of independence, a primitive reflex of imitation awakens in him. This is how one single emotional state is created, which is transmitted from one person to another by facial expressions, movements of the arms and legs, the expression of the eyes, the rhythm of breathing, and so on.