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Volume 15: Number 2: Article 7
Are the Apparitions of Medjugorje Real?
James Paul Pandarakalam, Department of Psychiatry Soho House, 362
Soho Road, Handsworth, Birmingham B21 9QL, UK;
6 Fountain Lane, Barming, Maidstone, Kent ME16 9AR, UK
This article presents the history of six young healthy adults experiencing
an apparition on a daily basis over a prolonged period. The medical
tests suggest that there is objective and subjective or nonobjective
visionary experience. There is partial and variable disconnection from
the outside world at the time of apparitional experience, and sensations
travel in a normal manner to the brain of the Medjugorje seers, but
the findings of evoked auditory potential tests and screening tests
show that the cerebral cortex does not perceive the transmission of
the auditory and visual neuronal stimuli received from the immediate
environment. Electro-oculographic recording confirms that their eyes
are converging at the same point. There are both normal and altered
physiological parameters. There is a cluster of synchronisms suggesting
objectivity. Complementary psychological and parapsychological observations
are presented. There is no evidence to suggest the probability of autohypnosis.
The collective percipience, stronger motivation on the part of the apparition,
quasiphysical features of the apparition, integration of the apprearer
to the natural environment, utmost loyalty and obedience of the percipients
to the agent, and controlled "psychokinetic-like" manifestations point
toward a true apparition at Medjugorje. The voice phenomenon observed
at the time of the Medjugorje apparitional experience is reported in
other sites of Marian apparition and not in any other religious or paranormal
phenomenon.
Keywords: apparitional experience, voice phenomenon, dual modes of
perception, superior psychokinetic-like power
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