British journalist Ian Cotton, who had visited Persinger’s lab in order
to find explanations for the growth of Pentecostal Christianity in recent
decades, admitted, “The truth is, I was scared. . . . God knows what might
be down at the bottom of my mind.”28 In the first session, Cotton recalled
only his childhood home. In the second session, however:
A little background sound was added, some vaguely New Age, Eastern
temple bell sounds. Appropriately suggestible, my mind began a whole new
mental tour, this time with a distinctly Eastern, Tibetan feel. It gradually
increased in intensity and conviction, until suddenly, with a kind of booster
rocket of realism, I was actually in a temple, in a line of solemn, Tibetan
monks.
Cotton was sure that that he too was a Tibetan monk.
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