The photo shows Dr. James Rogers. In 1965, he was sentenced to execution in the electric chair for the so-called "Massachusetts experiment", but two days before the execution, while in a cell, he committed suicide by poisoning himself with potassium cyanide, an ampoule of which was brought to him by one of his patients.
Recently, the University of Massachusetts Psychology and Neuropathology, where Dr. Rogers worked, officially announced that this experiment is of great scientific importance, and its effectiveness is undeniable. In this regard, the rector of the university, Dr. Phill Rosentern, apologized to the remaining relatives of James.
And the thing is that Dr. James Rogers used a unique methodology developed by him to cure seemingly hopeless patients. He intensified their paranoia so much that a new round corrected the previous one. In other words, if a person believed that bugs were crawling all around him, Dr. Rogers told him that this was so. The whole world is covered in beetles. Some especially sensitive people see them, while others are so used to it that they simply do not notice them. The state knows everything, but keeps it secret in order to prevent panic.
The man left completely confident that everything was all right with him, resigned himself and tried not to notice the bugs. After some time, he most often stopped seeing them. A certain Aaron Platnovsky, who suffered from cognitive-enphasic disorder, spoke at the trial. He believed he was a giraffe. Neither logical reasoning nor comparison of his photograph with the image of a giraffe helped. He was absolutely sure of this. He stopped talking, refused to take ordinary food, except for leaves.
Dr. Rogers asked a friend of the biologist to write a short article in which to more or less scientifically describe the recent stunning discovery of scientists: there are giraffes in nature, which practically do not differ from humans. That is, there are differences - a little more heart, a little less spleen, but behavior and appearance and even a way of thinking completely coincide. Scientists do not disclose this information in order to prevent panic, and this article should be burned by anyone who reads it.
The patient calmed down and socialized. At the time of the trial, he was working as an auditor for a large firm in Colorado. Alas, the state court found Dr. Rogers a charlatan, and the experiment was inhuman. He was sentenced to death. He refused the last word, but handed the judge a letter, which he asked to be published in some newspaper. The letter was published by The Massachusetts Daily Collegian. The letter ended with the words:
“You are too used to the idea that everyone perceives the world the same. But this is not the case. If you get together and try to retell to each other the simplest and most obvious concepts for you, you will understand that you all live in completely different worlds. And only your comfort determines your mental calmness. In this case, a person who believes that he is a giraffe and lives in peace with this knowledge is as normal as a person who believes that the grass is green and the sky is blue.
Some of you believe in UFOs, some in God, some in your morning breakfast and a cup of coffee. Living in harmony with your faith - you are completely healthy, but as soon as you begin to defend your point of view - how faith in God will make you kill, faith in UFOs - to fear being abducted, faith in a cup of coffee in the morning - will become the center of your universe and destroy your life … The physicist will begin to give you arguments that the sky is not blue, and the biologist will prove that the grass is not green. In the end, you will be left alone with an empty, cold and completely unknown world, which our world most likely is.
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So it doesn't matter what kind of ghosts you inhabit your world. As long as you believe in them - they exist, as long as you do not fight with them - they are not dangerous."