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originally posted by: pheonix358
a reply to: Aelfrede
It is not like a computer screen.
Don't believe what you see on the TV. They do not work that way. They are used to focus the mind. What you manage to perceive will be in your mind's eye.
It is also useless to set up a video camera aimed at the ball.
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originally posted by: Blastoff
I gazed into a crystal ball once, just for the heck of it.
I am not the mystic type, it was pure curiosity.
It was a small one, about 1 to 1.5" in diameter.
After a while I started feeling somewhat hypnotized by the ball.
Finally I became exhausted and gave up, never seeing any image in it.
I felt drained by the experience.
The ball probably had nothing to do with my feeling drained, who knows, but I never went near a crystal ball again.
Hope you have better luck with yours.
originally posted by: pheonix358
a reply to: Aelfrede
It is not like a computer screen.
Don't believe what you see on the TV. They do not work that way. They are used to focus the mind. What you manage to perceive will be in your mind's eye.
It is also useless to set up a video camera aimed at the ball.
P
Born Edward Alexander Crowley in 1875, Crowley was a pansexual, mystic, occultist, ceremonial magician, deviant, recreational drug experimenter, poet and accomplished mountaineer who was also known as Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast 666. He founded the religious philosophy of Thelema which enforced an idealist, libertine rule of “Do what thou wilt.” The British press named him “The Wickedest Man in the World.”
To trigger the illusion you need to stare at your own reflection in a dimly lit room. The author, Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo, describes his set up which seems to reliably trigger the illusion: you need a room lit only by a dim lamp (he suggests a 25W bulb) that is placed behind the sitter, while the participant stares into a large mirror placed about 40 cm in front.
The participant just has to gaze at his or her reflected face within the mirror and usually “after less than a minute, the observer began to perceive the strange-face illusion”.
At the end of a 10 min session of mirror gazing, the participant was asked to write what he or she saw in the mirror. The descriptions differed greatly across individuals and included: (a) huge deformations of one’s own face (reported by 66% of the fifty participants); (b) a parent’s face with traits changed (18%), of whom 8% were still alive and 10% were deceased; (c) an unknown person (28%); (d) an archetypal face, such as that of an old woman, a child, or a portrait of an ancestor (28%); (e) an animal face such as that of a cat, pig, or lion (18%); (f ) fantastical and monstrous beings (48%).