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With bata It Hot (4): Dr. Crawford Tillinghast

" was a mistake that Crawford Tillinghast be devoted to the study of science and philosophy. These matters should be reserved for the researcher cold and impersonal, offering two roads equally tragic and sensitive man of action: despair if he fails in his studies, and the most outrageous and unimaginable horror if he wins. "

So reads one of the paragraphs in the fantastic short story entitled teacher From HP Lovecraft the afterlife ( From Beyond, 1934) and was brought to the big screen many years later under the odd title Resonator ( From Beyond, 1986). By the way, do not miss the unforgettable and exciting scene in which Barbara Crampton neumatiquísima wears black leather and latex. Well, back to the topic at hand and that is none other than the story of the famous American writer, it will have the terrible misfortune of Dr. Crawford Tillinghast, author of "organic and metaphysical investigations." Tillinghast claims that the five human senses are weak and limited and that there are "other stocks equipped with a series of broader meanings, powerful and different. "

In order to prove his theories, manages to create a wave generating machine" acting on some sensory organs that live within us in a rudimentary state of atrophy. "By connecting and following relevant crackling and whirring rigor, appeared a strange color. Addressing his assistant, Dr. Tillinghast says

- " You know what that is? She whispered. They are UV! [...] You thought they were invisible, and so is ... but now you can see, like many other things invisible. "

Apparently, the strange created by Tillinghast device stimulates the pineal gland of living creatures, " the largest sensory organ." A little later:

- " Do not move, because with these rays can see us as well as we see them. "

It is somewhat debatable waves (whatever they are) cause stimulation pineal gland, the gland to which René Descartes same mystical properties attributed some connection between body and soul. But Lovecraft's story is rather inspired by the belief in the energy centers or chakras of certain cultures Asia, as the Hindu. Indeed, one of these, known as Agna Chakra relates to the pineal gland, and is symbolized by a lotus with two petals indigo. The Agna Chakra is the time, perception and light, attributing the properties of a "third eye " attribute that has not at all from an organic point of view, although it bears some relation to the role fotosensorial.

On the other hand, it is true that the human organ of vision has no ownership capture the electromagnetic radiation corresponding to the wavelength of the ultraviolet it turns out that the lens, the lens responsible for focusing on the retina the light rays reaching our eyes is the ability to absorb just in that particular range of wavelengths. Only some people have claimed operated for cataract surgery purchase after a certain sensitivity to these colors, closed to other mortals.

" A little later, I felt a huge passing animate beings and rubbing me, or walked or glided through my supposedly solid body ... "