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apparition2 CONSTRUCTSApparition (vision)GURNEY · APPARITIONMarian apparitionCHRISTIAN · MARIAN VISION

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Psychology and psychical research

A perceived figure with no external stimulus

Gurney, Myers, and Podmore's 1886 Phantasms of the Living gathered and classified reports of people who saw or heard a figure, often of someone absent, dying, or dead, when nothing physical was present to produce it, treating such an apparition as an experience to be documented and counted rather than a spirit to be assumed. Tyrrell's 1953 Apparitions refined this into a psychological account of how such a perception is put together by the person who has it. The referent is a perceptual experience reported by an individual and examined empirically, and it is neither a comet's time in the sky nor a religiously interpreted vision assessed by a church.[1][2]

Unit
One reported experience of perceiving a figure that is not physically present
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Collected through case reports and surveys and grouped by census studies of such experiences

Religious studies

A reported vision of the Virgin Mary

Christian's 1981 Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain documented reported appearances of the Virgin Mary and other holy figures as historical events with named seers, specific sites, and messages that shaped local devotion. Zimdars-Swartz's 1991 Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje traced the modern cases and how church authorities weigh and sometimes recognise them. The referent is a claimed encounter with a holy figure, tied to a witness and a place and evaluated within a religious tradition, and it is not an interval when a comet is visible nor a perceptual event studied in the psychology laboratory.[3][4]

Unit
One reported appearance of a holy figure, tied to a seer, a place, and a date
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Reconstructed from testimony, church inquiry records, and the devotional practices that follow

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References

  1. Gurney, E., Myers, F. W. H., & Podmore, F. (1886). Phantasms of the living. London: Trübner.
  2. Tyrrell, G. N. M. (1953). Apparitions (rev. ed.). London: Duckworth, for the Society for Psychical Research.
  3. Christian, W. A., Jr. (1981). Apparitions in late medieval and Renaissance Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  4. Zimdars-Swartz, S. L. (1991). Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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