Are the Apparitions of Medjugorje Real?

Abstract—This article presents the history of six young healthy adults expe-riencing 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 nor-mal 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 re-ceived from the immediate environment. Electro-oculographic recording confirms that their eyes are converging at the same point. There are both nor-mal 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 ap-prearer to the natural environment, utmost loyalty and obedience of the per-cipients to the agent, and controlled “psychokinetic-like ” manifestations point toward a true apparition at Medjugorje. The voice phenomenon ob-served 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