These five series of experiments confirmed him in his opinion that there is a "paroptic" perception which is sui generis, and he decided to examine this in greater detail rather than establish further instances of its existence.
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These five series of experiments confirmed him in his opinion that there is a "paroptic" perception which is sui generis, and he decided to examine this in greater detail rather than establish further instances of its existence.
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The paroptic vision—that of seeing with the fingertips—could be a bridge between physical and psychic vision.
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Experiments with paroptic vision were carried out in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by the scientists Cesare Lombroso and Jules Romains, with startling results. (See Colin Wilson's Poltergeist [1981] and Afterlife [1987] for an account of Lombroso's work.)
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In the Farbenlehre Goethe had classified color phenomena into the subjective physiological colors, the objective chemical colors, and the subjective-objective phsyical colors. he identified entoptics as subjective-objective, to be added to his earlier discussion of dioptric, catoptric, paroptic, and epoptic.
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