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In article <C1813K.F1L@rice.edu> mayer@owlnet.rice.edu (Christopher
Francis Mayer) writes:

   The light simply cannot reach our eyes even if we don't believe
   there's anything there.  Now metephysical believers can argue
   against this by saying that our "spirit" can look beyond the normal
   laws of physics and hypnosis can help us get deeper into touch with
   our "spirit", but I somehow doubt this is the case.  But if these
   stories are true, then there are other senses that we have over
   looked...

I believe that our bodies, our eyes, our body language, our breathing
patterns, etc. all telegraph a near infinite amount of encoded
information.  Sometime early in life, we learned which of these had
meanings.  Those patterns got programmed in at a very low neurological
level as a defense mechanism against the onslaught of sensory
overload.

There are a number of techniques for fine tuning our reception of
these signals.  Some even deal with interpreting past and current
signals in terms of past or future events.  Hence, I find no need to
invent a new set of senses or even a "spiritual realm" in order to
understand how someone under hypnosis might be able to see through a
solid object.

In the cited example, the hypnotist (sic) *was* visible, although the
object was not.  Would the example have been easier to understand if
we'd known that the hypnotist was chosing from a finite collection of
objects?  Say, a box containing two or three?  This would also add
minute audio cues.