“I’m not trying to say that people’s minds are flawed or their cognitive systems are limited, but I am trying to say that these systems are often weirder than most of us imagine.”
“Magician William S. Marriott stands in the background, ostensibly witnessing the emergence of a female apparition carrying a ‘spirit’ bird and flowers. This was one of many glass lantern slides used by psychic investigator Harry Price in his talks, to demonstrate the methods and equipment regularly used by fraudulent mediums at the time.”
Here, Tompkins shares with BuzzFeed News his expertise on the human mind’s susceptibility to illusion, as well as some curious history of the paranormal.Matthew L. Tompkins: On the other hand, individuals have used illusions to conduct elaborate hoaxes that have tricked researchers into embracing false conclusions. The American spirit medium “Dr.” Henry Slade famously convinced a number of prominent German scientists to try to rewrite fundamental laws of physics to accommodate the concept of intelligent extra-dimensional spirit people.Left: “In this doctored photograph from c.
Hot reading techniques are a lovely example of this idea. Broadly speaking, cold and hot reading methods are used by performers to give the illusion of having access to knowledge or information that they couldn’t possibly have obtained by normal means. The performer might claim that information was obtained telepathically, or they might claim that the information was obtained by spirits whispering in ways only a psychically sensitive person like themselves can hear.
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