It is a spirit which manifests its presence by noises, moving objects, and assaulting people and animals. The term "Poltergeist" comes from the German poltern, "knock" and geist, "spirit." Some poltergeist cases that remain unexplained and may be produced by subconscious psychokinesis (PK) from an individual.
Included in the most common types of Poltergeist activities are the rains of stones, dirt, and other small objects moving or throwing objects, including large pieces of furniture, noises and screams. It seems that the poltergeist are adapted to changing technology. They are known to have caused interference in telephones and electronic equipment, and turning lights and appliances on and off. Some poltergeist is said pinching, biting, hitting, and sexually attack the living.
Poltergeist activity usually starts and stops abruptly.it may take several hours to several months, but some cases have been reported to last several years. The activity almost always occurs at night when someone is present. This is usually the "agent" means a person who seems to serve as a focus or magnet for the activity. In most cases, the agent is a factor, both those that seem paranormal or May be caused by human psychokinesis. The agent is usually female and under the age of twenty years.
Poltergeist disturbances have occurred globally since ancient times. In the late 1970s parapsychologists Alan Gauld and AD Cornell made a computer analysis of these cases, gathered since 1800 at that time. They identified sixty-three general characteristics, which include: 64 percent involved the movement of small objects, 58 percent were most active at night, 48 percent featured raps; 36 percent involved the movement of large objects, 24 per cent had lasted over a year, 16 percent featured communication between the agent and Poltergeist, 12 percent involved the opening and closing doors and windows .
Before the 19th century, Poltergeist activity is due to the devil, demons, witches, ghosts and the dead. The Gauld-Cornell analysis found only 9 percent of cases attributed to demons, 7 percent to witches, and 2 percent to spirits of the dead. Most of the demons and witches attributions occurred in non-Western countries. Poltergeist activity sessions was attributed to the spirits of the dead.
The development and the increase in psychic research during the late 19th and early 20th century has confirmed the belief that Poltergeist activity is genuine. Among the early investigators were two founders of the Society for psychical research, Sir William Barrett and Fredric WH Meyers. Meyers believed in the sincerity of Poltergeist activity and differs from ghost hauntings.
In the 1930s, the psychologist and parapsychologist Nandor Fodor suggested the theory that some Poltergeist disturbances were caused by spirits, but not by the agents of the man suffering from intense repressed anger, hostility and sexual tension . Fodor is proof of his theory in several cases, the most famous "Thormton Heath Poltergeist" in England, where he investigated in 1938. The case involved a woman whose repression led to an outbreak of Poltergeist and apparently a vampire attack. A severely criticized Fodor spiritual, but he won a libel suit against a Spiritualist newspaper.
William Roll, project director of the Foundation for Research psychic Durham, North Carolina, further explored this psychological dysfunction theory. From the years 1960, Roll studied 116 written reports of Poltergeist cases for more than four centuries in more than one hundred countries. Roll identified patterns that he labeled "recurrent spontaneous psychokinesis" (RSPK), which are inexplicable, spontaneous physical effects. In general, he discovered, the most common agent was a child or young person whose involuntary PK was a way of expressing hostility without the fear of punishment. The individual is not aware of being the cause of these disturbances, but at the same time, secretly or openly please that they occurred.
Other researchers have also investigated agents finding that those in poor mental and physical health are vulnerable to stress. Patient having unresolved emotional tensions have been associated with houses where Poltergeist activity has taken place. When studying the personalities of the staff psychologists found anxiety reactions, conversion hysteria, phobia, mania, obsessions, dissociative reactions, and schizophrenia. In some cases therapy eliminated the Poltergeist activity.
However, the psychological dysfunction theory has been challenged by other researchers, including Gauld and Cornell who said the psychological tests employed were invalid. Psychiatrist Ian Stevenson proposed that spirits of the dead May represent more than Poltergeist activity performed. In his study of a number of cases attributed to agents and to the spirits of the dead, Stevenson noted the importance of differences. The phenomena of life has been the case agent, not applicable, and often violent, while cases involving spirits of the dead featured intelligent communication, determined movement of objects, and little violence.
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