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<\/a><\/p>\nIf we look at the Laterna Magica as a model it might be a possibility how to understand some \u201creal\u201d supernatural phenomena. Some apparitions and phenomena are often reported in a way as if it were recordings from another dimension. And yes, if we read reports of sightings or close encounters it is like these people have seen kind of a video clip. Apparitions are often repetitive in a way.<\/p>\n
Perhaps we are in the same situation like the early viewers of the laterna magica spectacles or people who witnessed the first projection of motion pictures who didn\u2019t understand the mechanism. They didn\u2019t understand what\u2019s really going on. <\/p>\n
The other way around the invention of the laterna magica and all its successors \u2013 in some way IMAX is the contemporary version of the laterna magica \u2013 makes not only use of a natural phenomenon – it could be in some way a human made imitation of a secret mechanism used in another plane of reality beyond our everyday world but affecting our world:<\/p>\n
Jacques Valle\u00e9 suspected that we are like viewers in a movie theatre and that there is somewhere a projector (It\u2019s a bit like saying that we are the actors in the \u201cTruman Show” where the poor protagonist is confronted with effects created behind the studio set he never could understand). <\/p>\n
This projector generates some of the Ufo phenomena and more. Valle\u00e9 also raised the most interesting question: if there is somewhere a projector showing us strange things we only can interpret as supernatural – who is the projectionist? <\/p>\n
It would be good if we could meet some day in the future the projectionist who is behind this laterna magica.<\/p>\n
Particularly if we look into the history of the laterna magica in the 17th and 18th century some very interesting questions come up:<\/p>\n
If we think of a show or a contemporary movie we see it as entertainment but early reports of lantern projections indicate that they were intended to scare the audience. Wikipedia mentions one of its inventors, Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit scholar. \u201eAccording to legend Kircher secretly used the lantern at night to project the image of Death on windows of apostates to scare them back into church\u201c (Wikipedia: Magic Lantern).<\/p>\n
However, there is evidence that the Magic Lantern was used for all kind of subjects. Later there were traveling lanternists called “Savoyards\u201c, and it certainly was a more sophisticated entertainment when the Lantern Shows inspired the dark romanticism with its Gothic Novels.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless it\u2019s interesting to come back to Kircher \u2013 why would an educated man want to scare his audience with some fake supernatural effects? \u201eScare them back into church\u201c means to do something to people to put them back to some proper behavior.<\/p>\n
What about our projectionist safely hidden in a different plane of reality uses his \u201elantern of fear\u201c to scare us from time to time? We can only speculate what he wants us to do, but mostly it seems it\u2019s always about our belief system.<\/a>
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