The Night Wanderer wanders rivers, crosses swamps, glides on wet and tall grass. He passes through walls on which no mortal can help but leave his mark. People see him in the light of smoking lanterns. At midnight, lonely travelers see him walking through the graves. The night is dark, but the Nightstrider is even darker. The chimneys are high and festive, but even higher, his hat is even more festive, casting a shadow on a face that a person cannot see. L. Barton. Shadow Man
Spiritualists and Shadow People
Today esotericists, psychics and just historians of occult knowledge celebrate an unusual anniversary. Exactly four centuries ago, the belief in magic spells that could summon ghosts and spirits collapsed. In 1614, the Swiss philologist Isaacde Cazaubon completed his many years of work on the study of various magical texts. So he came to the sensational conclusion that all the mystical rituals that give power over the world of spirits and attributed to the ancient Egyptian magician Hermes Trismegistus were falsified by medieval monks …
There are different opinions about people who supposedly have experience of communicating with ghosts or paranormal phenomena. Many believe that belief in spirits and other supernatural beings is just a form of religious mysticism, but the church itself is very wary of such superstitions. In turn, psychologists argue that belief in the afterlife helps to get rid of the age-old fear of the inevitable end of life.
On the one hand, most people around them are incredibly afraid of ghosts in any form. On the other hand, there are people who experience a real surge of adrenaline already when discussing the paranormal. It is they who form all sorts of sects and persistently strive to get into the world of spirits with the help of certain passes, pentagrams, spells and other magical rituals.
Otherworldly specialists - spiritists have no consensus on whether an ordinary person can see a ghost or only select contactees are able to somehow feel its presence. Nevertheless, psychics have even compiled extensive catalogs with many "spirit forms" and other supernatural beings.
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Cutting and invisibility
The main tool for communicating with spirits is traditionally considered to be a magic ouija board, or Ouija board. It was created in 1871 in the form of a medium-sized table top with the alphabet, numbers from 0 to 9 and the words "yes", "no", "goodbye". The spirits put their hands on the tablet, and after calling the spirits, it began its spinning in all directions, transmitting messages from the afterlife. Today, a virtual tablet can be easily downloaded to your computer or mobile phone along with detailed instructions for calling the spirits.
A popular urban spiritual legend tells us about mysterious shadow people who fill our world, but remain practically invisible. It is believed that these mysterious ethereal entities can be both compassionate guardians and malevolent entities. The very name "shadow people" is somehow connected with the observation of blurry shadow silhouettes with a peripheral vision.
Modern spiritualists - psychics believe that shadow people are one of the forms of harmless ghosts, among which there are guardian angels. Other mediums are convinced that these are the real demons-destroyers responsible for the poltergeist. Third independent researchers are trying to attract modern physical theories about other spaces and times, from which their inhabitants come to us. Well, numerous ufologists confidently refute everyone, believing that shadow people are ordinary aliens.
Psychics and contactees often argue over a fundamental question: are shadow people the spirits of the dead? Both provide many arguments regarding the behavior and appearance of ghosts. So, shadow people are seen as faceless spots, slowly flowing from place to place. Sometimes they take the form of black creatures with red eyes, wearing cloaks and hats.
Some eyewitnesses claim that encounters with these mysterious creatures are preceded by a strange ominous feeling of someone else's gaze. And when you manage to focus your eyes on them, they seem to dissolve in the air or disappear among the surrounding objects. They are most often described as gray, faceless silhouettes against a darker background.
Sometimes these ephemeral entities appear directly curious and good-natured, playing childish cat and mouse with observers. In other cases, people feel horror at their neighborhood, perceiving it as the presence of pure evil.
Where do they come from?
There are many legends and scary stories about the nature and origin of shadow people. Scientists-mystics believe that these are some kind of interdimensional entities that live in a parallel dimension. They are thrown into our world by waves of energy accompanying some natural phenomena, such as super-powerful lightning discharges or ball lightning.
Since the end of the century before last, artificial sources of "punctures of the space-time continuum" have appeared. They are compared with the Colorado experiments of Nikola Tesla, as well as subsequent experiments on the Wardencliff tower and the destroyer Eldridge (Philadelphia experiment).
In turn, parapsychologists are deeply convinced that these are forms of negative psychic energy that accumulates in places where extraordinary emotions surge. Some situations resemble sleep paralysis, with shadow ghosts appearing just before falling asleep or immediately after waking up.
Psychologists call this self-hypnotic stress, which often occurs during REM sleep, when a person is immersed in a world of their own fantasies. In this state, a person can fully perceive the environment, but is not able to move. At the same time, vivid hallucinations are subconsciously superimposed on the surrounding reality, including sensory perceptions of taste, smell, sounds, physical and visual phenomena.
Observers often see shadow people with peripheral vision. Peripheral vision, meanwhile, is associated with an area of the brain that distinguishes between familiar patterns.
And in a condition known as pareidolia, the brain can misinterpret random patterns of light and shadow as familiar patterns such as faces or bodies. In addition, some electromagnetic radiation can affect the function of the temporal lobe of the brain, creating altered states of perception of reality.
alternative reality
Some scientists believe that many mysterious effects, such as telepathy, may be electromagnetic in nature. In general, this is confirmed by the promising developments of thought scanners, which are still science fiction. It is possible that in the distant future technologies will appear that will make the sixth sense a reality in everyday life, which gives a completely new meaning to the phrase "wireless communication". Today people take radio waves for granted, and someday they will take telepathy the same way.
Could some paranormal phenomena have quantum explanations? In any case, some scientists do not exclude such a possibility, even hypothetically. The outstanding scientist-popularizer Michio Kaku called one of the chapters of his book "Physics of the Future" - "Telekinesis and Divine Power."
M. Kaku believes that at certain moments human consciousness can control the world in a quantum way. In his book "Parallel Worlds," Professor Kaku writes that anyone who can control the higher dimensions of the universe can really become invisible, manifesting himself as a supernatural entity.
According to him, physicists and astronomers all over the world are building hypotheses about how these "dimensions" - parallel worlds may look like, what laws operate in them, where they came from and how they will eventually die. Perhaps the parallel worlds are deserted and do not contain some vital components.
Or perhaps they practically do not differ from our Universe and are separated from it by just one significant event (occurred or did not occur), which became the reason for their difference.
According to the assumptions of some physicists, if someday life in the existing Universe becomes impossible due to its aging and cooling, it may happen that we will have to leave it and seek refuge in another universe.
Perhaps, Kaku suggests, the world is born many times in the eternal Ocean of nirvana. Then our Universe could be compared with an air bubble floating freely in the space of other dimensions, where new bubbles are constantly being formed. According to this theory, universes form continuously, like bubbles in boiling water, and scatter across infinite space, hypercosmic nirvana, which has many dimensions.
At the same time, our Universe appeared as a result of some monstrous cataclysm called the Big Bang, and before that its quantum embryo coexisted in the eternal Ocean with other universes. If so, then Big Bangs are happening even now as you read this sentence.
This original hypothesis fits well with the concept of alternative universes included in the many-worlds interpretation. It also fits perfectly with a number of religious doctrines, such as Buddhism with its reincarnations, and also does not contradict some aspects of the afterlife found in monotheistic religions - Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Although this concept is essentially scientific speculation based only on logic and mental constructions, its adherents persistently seek mystical confirmation in religious doctrines. In particular, they try to interpret in every possible way the various facts of "life after life" obtained from witnesses who survived clinical death.
Neural networks
Many parapsychologists believe that the technologies of the future, which allow reading minds, will help to finally clarify the mysteries of shadow people, ghosts and all sorts of other mystical creatures. On the one hand, this will allow us to weed out "unscrupulous observers", and on the other hand, to restore the full picture of psychic psi-phenomena. The main direction of such research is associated with the creation of various neuroelectronic devices that make it possible to very accurately measure the bioelectric potentials of the brain. In addition, computer models of neural circuits responsible for the functioning of the cerebral cortex and playing an important role in the neurocomputers of the future are being created.
Many years from now, neurosurgeons will implant microscopic telepathic communication devices right at birth. Then you can transfer your thoughts from the implant to the module or another implant in a matter of seconds.
Another point of view on the miracles of telepathy, telekinesis and clairvoyance is associated with the concept of a universal extraterrestrial experiment. In this case, we could be inside some kind of computer superprogram.
If our universe is an artificial phenomenon, then the famous process of reincarnation, found in many religious and mystical doctrines, could be thought of as a software data reload. Then versions of this program could make people experience different versions of their lives.
These options can be picked at random using some fantastic random number generator. Otherwise, the artificial virtual universe can include an almost infinite number of alternative subroutines working simultaneously. Here we are faced with the concept of many worlds, well known as the many worlds interpretation.
And if we agree with the fact that virtual reality is present in our world, then it can be argued that many phenomena are activated at the very moment when a failure occurs in our reality. And then the phenomena of ghostly shadows, deja vu (false memories), the sixth sense and other unexplained cases can be explained by the error of "universal software". This idea became widely known after the release of the Hollywood blockbuster "The Matrix".
Quantum Consciousness
The phenomenon of ghostly spirits and people-shadows can also be explained by the highly scientific theory of non-local quantum consciousness. According to this crazy hypothesis, human consciousness spreads throughout the entire visible Universe - the Metagalaxy, which allows him to solve truly fabulous problems.
This interpretation was developed in detail by the modern Russian scientist SI Doronin in his book "Quantum Magic". Sergei Ivanovich believes that quantum consciousness penetrates into the most distant corners of the Metagalaxy and allows not only building potential connections with each other, but also, possibly, manipulating material objects, and also perceiving someone else's mind at the quantum level as ghostly visions.
Professor Rich Terrell of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory believes that higher intelligence is quite real, and our reality is based on imaginary perceptions - like virtual games. Extraterrestrial intelligence here acts as an interdimensional programmer on a metagalactic platform. As in the Hollywood Matrix, we are all in a virtual program. From a scientific point of view, this can be evidenced by some aspects of quantum physics. This is somewhat reminiscent of the search for a mythical formula for managing the world, allegedly once derived by Hermes Trismegistus himself.
So we unexpectedly come to a paradoxical conclusion - the ghosts of shadow people and other esoteric entities must be sought … in the wilds of theoretical physics!