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He displayed extraordinary perception of human and spiritual states and claimed the ability to heal, exorcise, and foretell future events.","tiExperienceStartYear":27,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":30,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","hearing_voices","mind_intrusion","telepathy"],"importance":"critical","sourceLinks":["https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+17%3A1-9&version=NIV"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:53:32.413Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:19:16.785Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:55:28.425Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"696a4b3d87e245d494f485bf","fullName":"St. Anthony of Egypt","bio":"St. Anthony the Great (c. 251–356 AD), also known as Anthony of Egypt, was an early Christian monk and a foundational figure of Christian monasticism.\n\nAfter renouncing his wealth, Anthony withdrew into the Egyptian desert to live in solitude, prayer, and strict asceticism. In the accounts written by Athanasius of Alexandria, Anthony is described as enduring prolonged periods of persecution-like experiences: intense psychological pressure, disturbing voices, visions, harassment during isolation, sleep deprivation, and sustained attempts to break his resolve. These were understood in his time as spiritual warfare: assaults by demons meant to test, transform, and strengthen him.\n\nModern readers sometimes note that these descriptions bear resemblance to what today might be described as chronic harassment, intrusive phenomena, and psychological stress under isolation, though interpreted within a very different theological and cultural framework. Anthony did not see these experiences as meaningless suffering, but as part of a structured process of inner transformation and discipline.\n\nDespite seeking solitude, his endurance and perceived clarity attracted followers, and his way of life became the model for early monastic communities. His biography profoundly influenced Christian thought, shaping how suffering, isolation, and inner struggle were understood as paths to spiritual formation.","birthYear":251,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"\" 'Again they are treacherous, and are ready to change themselves into all forms and assume all appearances. Very often also without appearing they imitate the music of harp and voice, and recall the words of Scripture. Sometimes, too, while we are reading they immediately repeat many times, like an echo, what is read. They arouse us from our sleep to prayers; and this constantly, hardly allowing us to sleep at all. At another time they assume the appearance of monks and feign the speech of holy men, that by their similarity they may deceive and thus drag their victims where they will. But no heed must be paid them even if they arouse to prayer, even if they counsel us not to eat at all, even though they seem to accuse and cast shame upon us for those things which once they allowed. For they do this not for the sake of piety or truth, but that they may carry off the simple to despair; and that they may say the discipline is useless, and make men loathe the solitary life as a trouble and burden, and hinder those who in spite of them walk in it.\"","tiExperienceStartYear":300,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":356,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","street_theater","strangers_behaving_oddly","emotions_affected","hearing_voices","mind_intrusion","implanted_thoughts","manipulated_dreams","gangstalking","family_complicit","awareness_surveillance","astral_projections"],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2026-01-16T14:29:17.190Z","updatedAt":"2026-01-16T14:29:21.301Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2026-01-16T14:29:21.300Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"6946bc0587e245d494f4713d","fullName":"Constantine the Great","bio":"Roman Emperor Constantine I reportedly experienced a vision or dream before the pivotal Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 AD.","birthYear":271,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"According to early Christian writers, he saw a cross or Christian symbol in the sky and/or received a dream instructing him to use that symbol on his soldiers’ shields. Interpreting these experiences as divine guidance, he adopted the sign for his army and went on to win the battle, a turning point that preceded his endorsement of Christianity and the Edict of Milan, granting religious tolerance in the empire.\nLactantius (circa 313–320) reports that on the night before battle, Constantine was commanded in a dream to mark the “heavenly sign of God” on his soldiers’ shields. \nEusebius of Caesarea (circa later 4th century) describes Constantine seeing a vision of a cross of light in the sky with the words “In hoc signo vinces” (“In this sign, conquer”), and then receiving further instruction in a dream. \n\nSome traditions combine these into a narrative where daytime vision + nighttime dream together influence his decision and subsequent victory.","tiExperienceStartYear":312,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":336,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["manipulated_dreams"],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Milvian_Bridge","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius","https://www.avvenire.it/agora/cultura/il-sogno-vero-che-cambio-loccidente_9982"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-12-20T15:08:53.236Z","updatedAt":"2025-12-20T15:08:57.280Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-12-20T15:08:57.280Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"692495a14fc9dde06a1fe448","fullName":"Socrates","bio":"Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, perhaps the first Western moral philosopher, and a major inspiration on his student Plato, who largely founded the tradition of Western philosophy","birthYear":469,"birthEra":"BC","tiExperience":"Socrates was sentenced to death after a trial. He was found guilty of two charges: asebeia (impiety) against the pantheon of Athens, and corruption of the youth of the city-state; the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: \"failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges\" and \"introducing new deities\" \n\nSocrates testified that his inner voice, often called his “daemon,” prevented impious actions. He testified that his daemon was responsible for many of the charges brought against him, as well as instructing Socrates to stay and face the charges rather than flee.\n\nSocrates testified to the importance of his daemonic sign, which he described as an inner voice that prevented certain actions. Socrates said that the daemon was with him since childhood. The daemon would speak through an inner voice, often frequently and in small matters, but always to oppose certain courses of action. Socrates describes the daemon in impersonal terms as a negative voice. \n\nSocrates repeatedly connected his daemonic signs with prophetic power. Socrates testified that his daemon was a small prophetic skill that spoke through daemonic signs, voices, and things.","tiExperienceStartYear":459,"tiExperienceStartEra":"BC","tiExperienceEndYear":399,"tiExperienceEndEra":"BC","tiSymptoms":["hearing_voices"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates","https://www.thecollector.com/what-was-socrates-daemon/"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"69244d96549a30324a904db8","email":"aaabbbccc.def@outlook.com","firstName":"aaabbbccc","lastName":"aaabbbccc"},"createdAt":"2025-11-24T17:28:01.755Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-26T16:08:01.945Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-26T16:07:43.636Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"69233c74549a30324a904bbb","fullName":"Muhammad ibn Abdullah","bio":"Muhammad was an Arab religious, political, and military leader who founded Islam. Born in Mecca, he worked as a merchant before claiming to receive divine revelations, which he preached as guidance from God (Allah). His teachings formed the Quran, and he united the Arabian Peninsula under Islam through both diplomacy and conquest. Muhammad is considered the last prophet in Islam.","birthYear":570,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Muhammad reported intense visionary and auditory experiences beginning in the cave of Hira, where the angel Gabriel conveyed the first verses of the Quran. He described the encounters as overwhelming, with physical and emotional intensity, including fear, trembling, and a heightened sense of divine presence. These revelations continued throughout his life, often accompanied by visions, angelic appearances, and perceived direct guidance from God. He interpreted these experiences as a divine mission to guide humanity.","tiExperienceStartYear":610,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":632,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","hearing_voices","full_visions","visual_hallucinations","mind_intrusion","manipulated_dreams","telepathy","tactile_sensations"],"importance":"critical","sourceLinks":["https://www.britannica.com/biography/Muhammad"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:55:16.925Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:19:24.383Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:55:31.769Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"69233ae2549a30324a904ba6","fullName":"Šubši‑mašrâ‑Šakkan","bio":"Šubši-mašrâ-Šakkan was a high-ranking Babylonian official — wealthy, prominent, with slaves, lands, and influence. \nIn the Ludlul bēl nēmeqi (“I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom”), he narrates how his prosperous life suddenly collapses: he loses his possessions, his standing, his health, and is beset by social alienation and divine silence.","birthYear":1350,"birthEra":"BC","tiExperience":"Šubši-mašrâ-Šakkan suffers long periods of inexplicable affliction: physical illness, loss of favor with the king, and social rejection. He does not understand why the gods punish him, despite his piety and loyalty. Throughout his ordeal, he speculates on the inscrutability of divine will - “what is good to man may be evil to the gods.” \nIn his darkest moments, he languishes in hopelessness, but eventually, with the intervention of a priest (an āšipu) and the favor of Marduk, he is healed. His recovery leads him back to ritual thanksgiving, culminating in a grand praise of “the Lord of Wisdom.”","tiExperienceStartYear":1307,"tiExperienceStartEra":"BC","tiExperienceEndYear":1285,"tiExperienceEndEra":"BC","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","targeted_harassment","tactile_sensations","family_complicit"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/52387/items/1.0438210","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlul_b%C4%93l_n%C4%93meqi"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:48:34.902Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:23:46.475Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:55:23.401Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"6946b7ef87e245d494f470ff","fullName":"Joan of Arc","bio":"Joan of Arc was a French peasant girl who became a national heroine during the Hundred Years’ War, claiming to be guided by divine voices and visions that led her to support Charles VII and lift the siege of Orléans before being captured and executed for heresy in 1431.\n","birthYear":1412,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Joan of Arc reported hearing voices and seeing visions of saints that she believed were sent by God to guide her actions in support of France’s cause during the Hundred Years’ War.\n","tiExperienceStartYear":1425,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1431,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["hearing_voices","visual_hallucinations","full_visions"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://www.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_life_summary_visions.html","https://www.historyprime.com/articles/15th-century/Joan-of-Arc-Between-History-and-Legend-Exploring-the-Truth-Behind-the-Myth.html","https://www.livescience.com/55597-joan-of-arc-voices-epilepsy.html"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-12-20T14:51:27.102Z","updatedAt":"2025-12-20T14:51:31.101Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-12-20T14:51:31.101Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"692335d3549a30324a904b41","fullName":"John Dee","bio":"John Dee was a 16th-century English polymath: mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, alchemist, and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, who combined science with deep occult interests. He studied at Cambridge, traveled in Europe, and built one of the largest private libraries in England. Later in life, he turned increasingly toward mystical practices, devoting himself to communicating with angels and uncovering divine knowledge through scrying and Hermetic philosophy.","birthYear":1527,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Dee believed he was in regular contact with spiritual beings and angels through \"spiritual conferences\" held with his medium, Edward Kelley, using crystal balls, mirrors, and intense ritual preparation. He documented many of these sessions in diaries, claiming that angels gave him esoteric knowledge, a special crystal for scrying, and even a new “angelic” language (later called Enochian).","tiExperienceStartYear":1581,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1609,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["hearing_voices","visual_hallucinations","full_visions","telepathy","manipulated_dreams"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dee"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:27:00.001Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:23:28.802Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:27:04.502Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"69232677549a30324a904aeb","fullName":"Emanuel Swedenborg","bio":"Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) was a Swedish scientist, inventor, statesman, and later a prolific mystic and theologian. Initially known for contributions to engineering, anatomy, and mineralogy, he shifted in mid-life toward spiritual study, producing vast writings on the afterlife, the nature of the soul, and the inner meaning of Scripture. His works influenced later religious movements, philosophy, and literature.","birthYear":1688,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"In his mid-50s, Swedenborg reported a dramatic awakening in which he believed the spiritual world opened to his perception. He claimed to converse with angels and spirits, witness the structure of heaven and hell, and receive direct instruction from the divine. These experiences, occurring both in waking visions and lucid states, convinced him that the material and spiritual realms coexist closely and that humans constantly interact with unseen influences. They became the foundation for his later theological writings, which sought to describe this hidden dimension with methodical detail.","tiExperienceStartYear":1744,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1772,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["full_visions","hearing_voices","visual_hallucinations","telepathy"],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T15:21:27.392Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:24:07.303Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T15:21:40.992Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"692333da549a30324a904b1c","fullName":"James Tilly Matthews","bio":"James Tilly Matthews (1770–10 January 1815) was a British tea merchant and political activist, best known today for his prolonged confinement in Bethlem Royal Hospital (“Bedlam”) under a diagnosis of insanity. In his younger years he traveled to France during the Revolutionary period, mingling with Girondin figures, and was even imprisoned there during the Reign of Terror. After returning to England, he grew convinced that powerful conspirators were working to manipulate both his mind and the politics of his time, which ultimately led to his commitment in 1797.","birthYear":1770,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Matthews’s experience centers on a machine he called the Air Loom: he believed that a clandestine gang operated in a cellar near London Wall, using this device to emit magnetic “rays” and toxic gases capable of controlling thoughts and bodies. \n\nThe machine, as he described it, combined the latest science of gases (pneumatic chemistry) with mesmerism; Matthews claimed it was powered by foul substances like “effluvia of dogs” and “spermatic-animal-seminal rays,” and that its levers and barrels could force sensations and ideas directly into his brain. \n\nHe said his persecutors implanted a magnet in his skull, and they carried out “event-workings” -  torturous episodes he called lobster-cracking, brain-saying, dream-workings, and more.","tiExperienceStartYear":1797,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1815,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","neighbors_spying","street_theater","targeted_harassment","directed_conversations","olfactory_sensations","bodily_functions","tactile_sensations","awareness_surveillance","hearing_voices","mind_intrusion","implanted_thoughts"],"importance":"critical","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tilly_Matthews"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:18:34.628Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:24:16.819Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:18:40.032Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"69233d06549a30324a904bea","fullName":"Joseph Smith Jr.","bio":"Joseph Smith Jr. was an American religious leader and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Born in Vermont, he grew up in a frontier region and reported mystical experiences from a young age. He claimed to have received visions and angelic visitations that guided him to translate the Book of Mormon and establish a new religious movement. His leadership included organizing communities, missionary work, and navigating persecution, which ultimately led to his death by mob violence.","birthYear":1805,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Smith reported a series of supernatural encounters starting with the First Vision, in which he claimed to see God the Father and Jesus Christ. Over the following years, he described visitations from the angel Moroni, who revealed the location of the golden plates, and received ongoing revelations that he dictated as scripture (Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants). These experiences included visions, auditory messages, and internal commands that guided his religious, social, and political actions. Smith interpreted these as divine instruction and believed his mission was divinely mandated.","tiExperienceStartYear":1820,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1844,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["hearing_voices","full_visions","visual_hallucinations","mind_intrusion","manipulated_dreams","astral_projections","telepathy"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics/first-vision?lang=eng"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:57:42.648Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:24:23.654Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:57:45.837Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"692466837fac11b570cbf190","fullName":"Richard Dadd","bio":"Richard Dadd is best known as a Victorian Orientalist painter","birthYear":1817,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"At the age of 25 he was employed to travel with Sir Thomas Phillips through Europe and the Middle East, and make drawings of the places they visited. Towards the end of the 10 month journey he developed symptoms of severe mental disturbance, and was suffering from paranoid delusions by the time he reached home. He believed that he was persecuted by devils, and that he received messages from the Egyptian gods like Osiris. He also thought the Pope was after him.\n\nOn 28 August 1843 he stabbed his father to death in Cobham Park, near Rochester in Kent, believing him to be the devil in disguise.\n\nDadd fled to France intending to commit more murders, but was arrested after trying to cut the throat of a stranger with whom he was travelling in a coach\n\nFor many years he was unpredictable and occasionally violent, and never completely lost his delusions\n\nWhen interviewed, Dadd said that he was\"the son and envoy of God, sent to exterminate the men most possessed with the demon\". On his return to England, amid huge press interest, he was declared a \"criminal lunatic\" and committed to the Hospital of St Mary of Bethlehem","tiExperienceStartYear":1842,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1886,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":[],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/artist-in-focus-i-richard-dadd","https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/jun/17/richard-dadd-victorian-artist-bedlam-mental-illness-fairies","https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/richard-dadd-jailed-for-life-for-the-murder-of-his-father-also-a-great-artist-20150727-gilhhy"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"69244d96549a30324a904db8","email":"aaabbbccc.def@outlook.com","firstName":"aaabbbccc","lastName":"aaabbbccc"},"createdAt":"2025-11-24T14:06:59.711Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:40:56.431Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-24T14:40:56.431Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"6923285b549a30324a904b08","fullName":"Dmitry Perevalov","bio":"Perevalov was a patient of Russian psychiatrist Victor Khrisanovich Kandinsky in the 1880s.\n\nAccording to the case reports, he was involved in business - notably with the Obukhov plant - and believed he was being persecuted by powerful officials. \n\nHe described himself as suffering from strong mental and perceptual attacks carried out by a group he called “tokists” (from “tok,” meaning electric current), who allegedly used electric devices to influence or control him.","birthYear":1842,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Perevalov claimed that about thirty “tokists” were organized in shifts, secretly surveilling him and manipulating his thoughts, sensations, and emotions by means of a “galvanic” (electric) connection. \nHe believed this connection allowed all his thoughts and feelings to be “transmitted” to the tokists, and that they could, conversely, inject thoughts, sensations, and even hallucinations into him. \n\nSpecifically, he reported a variety of induced experiences:\nDirect speech: hearing phrases, insults, or mocking remarks in his mind, as if spoken by these agents. \nTactile sensations: e.g. itching, burning, prickling - he believed these were artificially induced by the tokists, via their own sensations being “sent” to him. \nEmotional manipulation: he described artificial evocation of malaise, fear, anger, or “unreasonable” sexual desires. \nVisual “pseudo-hallucinations”: grotesque or obscene images appeared in his “inner spiritual eyes.” \nHe also reported that these “agents” arranged to induce sexual imagery in his mind, including images of female genitalia.","tiExperienceStartYear":1876,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1900,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","street_theater","strangers_behaving_oddly","targeted_harassment","olfactory_sensations","tactile_sensations","bodily_functions","emotions_affected","awareness_surveillance","hearing_voices","visual_hallucinations","mind_intrusion","full_visions","implanted_thoughts"],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://otir.org/research/publications/memos/memo-04","https://www.ncpz.ru/lib/1/book/8/chapter/5"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T15:29:31.643Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:24:47.076Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T15:29:36.479Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"692336a3549a30324a904b5e","fullName":"Victor Kandinsky","bio":"Victor Khrisanovich Kandinsky was a Russian psychiatrist and neurologist famous for his pioneering work on hallucinations and what he called “pseudohallucinations.” Born in Siberia into a wealthy merchant family, he studied medicine at Moscow Imperial University and later served as a military physician. He worked at the St. Nicholas Asylum in Saint Petersburg, where he conducted both clinical work and research. Kandinsky published influential writings on perception, responsibility, and psychopathology, and his insights laid the groundwork for what later became known as the Kandinsky–Clérambault syndrome.","birthYear":1849,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Kandinsky experienced his own psychotic symptoms, including vivid pseudohallucinations across sensory modalities. He self-diagnosed what he called “primary paranoid psychosis” and documented these subjective perceptual disturbances in detail. He distinguished between hallucinations and pseudohallucinations, noting that although the latter are experienced as real, they lack an external objective referent. Through self-observation, he described how these perceptions originated internally, even while feeling alienated from them, and how they influenced his thoughts, mood, and behavior.","tiExperienceStartYear":1877,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1889,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","visual_hallucinations","mind_intrusion","manipulated_dreams","forced_actions","awareness_surveillance","emotions_affected","hearing_voices","implanted_thoughts"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kandinsky"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:30:27.832Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:24:53.062Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:33:16.775Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"69233863549a30324a904b82","fullName":"Vincent Willem van Gogh","bio":"Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose emotionally intense and vividly colored works helped shape modern art. Born in the Netherlands, he spent much of his adult life in France, producing more than 2,000 artworks in just over a decade. Although he struggled with poverty, mental illness, and instability, he remained deeply dedicated to his craft. He admitted himself to a psychiatric asylum in Saint‑Rémy in 1889, and died in 1890 at age 37.","birthYear":1853,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Van Gogh experienced recurring episodes of hallucinations (both visual and possibly auditory), stupor states, and delusional or spiritually tinged thinking, especially during his time in Arles and later at the Saint-Paul‑de-Mausole asylum. \nHe wrote in his letters about horrifying nightmares, sensory distortions, and a “storm within” his mind that felt beyond his control. \nHis hallucinations and altered mental states may have influenced some of his most famous paintings: for instance, “The Starry Night” has been interpreted as a kind of visionary or apocalyptic sky, reflecting his internal emotional and spiritual turmoil.\nVaung Gog believed that Paul Gaugin was stalking him as part of a broader, targeted harassment campaign. He interpreted Gaugin’s actions - such as following him, showing up unexpectedly, or behaving in ways that seemed deliberately intrusive - as personal surveillance and manipulation. In Vaung’s view, Gaugin’s behavior wasn’t random but orchestrated to observe, pressure, or provoke him, fitting into a pattern of persecution that Vaung associated with gangstalking or occultly motivated targeting. 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He spent parts of his youth in an orphanage where he was beaten regularly, developed severe psychological disturbances in adolescence, and later worked as a house painter while drifting across the country. Fish was eventually arrested in 1934, confessed to multiple crimes, and was executed in 1936 at Sing Sing prison.","birthYear":1870,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Fish claimed throughout adulthood that a supernatural or external force directed his actions. He stated that voices, often attributed to God, angels, or a dominating presence, commanded him to harm himself or others. He described impulses and sensations that he believed were inserted or transmitted into him by an external agent, guiding his behavior and overriding his own will. These experiences, combining auditory commands, intrusive impulses, and strong belief in external control, formed a continuous inner narrative that he interpreted as outside influence.","tiExperienceStartYear":1900,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1936,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["hearing_voices","emotions_affected","mind_intrusion","awareness_surveillance"],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:25:14.361Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:25:14.622Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:27:07.752Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"69233748549a30324a904b65","fullName":"Carl Gustav Jung","bio":"Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He developed key psychological concepts such as archetypes, the collective unconscious, psychological types (introversion and extraversion), and individuation. Jung was deeply interested in spirituality, alchemy, dreams, and mythology throughout his life, and he integrated these interests into his psychological theories.","birthYear":1875,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Jung reported many profound internal and visionary experiences across his life. As a child, he had visions and sensed another “personality” alongside him. \nLater, in 1944, after a heart attack and near-death state in hospital, he described floating high above the Earth, seeing continents and oceans from a cosmic vantage point, and feeling a stripping away of all earthly identity until only his “universal self” remained.\nHe also reported the presence of ghostly entities around his family home, and other paranormal phenomena throughout his life.","tiExperienceStartYear":1885,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1961,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","street_theater","astral_projections","manipulated_dreams","mind_intrusion"],"importance":"critical","sourceLinks":["https://regressionjournal.org/jrt_article/jungs-self-reports-of-his-paranormal-experiences-athanasios-komianos-is-35/","https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/sites/default/files/ebook/article/jung_carl-569.pdf","https://www.biography.com/scientists/carl-jung"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:33:12.184Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:25:23.444Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:33:20.053Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"692339a8549a30324a904b89","fullName":"Adolf Hitler","bio":"Adolf Hitler was the German politician, leader of the Nazi Party, and Führer of Nazi Germany. He rose to power as Chancellor in 1933 and later Führer in 1934, implementing totalitarian rule, aggressively pursuing expansionist ideology, and orchestrating the Holocaust. His leadership plunged Europe into World War II. He died by suicide in his Berlin bunker in 1945.","birthYear":1889,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"During World War I Hitler heard a mysterious “voice” or sudden inner command telling him to move away from a dugout moments before it was destroyed by shellfire.\nHitler claimed he was resting or eating in a trench bunker. He suddenly felt or “heard” a compelling inner command urging him to get up and leave. Seconds after stepping out, the bunker was hit by an artillery shell, killing everyone still inside.\nIn 1918, after being blinded by a gas attack, Hitler was hospitalized in Pasewalk. While in a state of deep despair over Germany’s defeat, he reportedly began seeing vivid visions of Germany rising from ruin and saw himself at the center of its revival. These visionary experiences gave him a sudden, overwhelming sense of purpose, which he later described as a calling to lead the nation, transforming his fear and hopelessness into a fanatical conviction of destiny.","tiExperienceStartYear":1917,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1945,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["emotions_affected","hearing_voices","visual_hallucinations","full_visions"],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler","https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18645928/","https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0038-1630017.pdf"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:43:20.115Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:25:30.820Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:43:31.164Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"6946bb4287e245d494f47127","fullName":"Philip Kindred Dick","bio":"Philip K. 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These experiences persisted for years and directly shaped his later novels, essays, and his massive personal journal (The Exegesis), making his case unusually well-documented and self-analyzed.\nUnlike many historical figures, Dick openly questioned his own experiences, oscillating between neurological, psychological, theological, and metaphysical explanations, which is why his case is frequently cited in academic, psychiatric, and philosophical discussions.","tiExperienceStartYear":1974,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1982,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["hearing_voices","full_visions","synchronicities","mind_intrusion","visual_hallucinations","awareness_surveillance","lost_time","telepathy","implanted_thoughts"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exegesis_of_Philip_K._Dick","https://www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reappraisal-philip-k-dick"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-12-20T15:05:38.020Z","updatedAt":"2025-12-20T15:05:43.834Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-12-20T15:05:43.833Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"6a9f8ee32c9a201b0cd19874","fullName":"John Nash","bio":"John Nash was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize winner. He made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. ","birthYear":1928,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"Nash heard voices that he described as hostile and confusing. He believed that he was receiving secret messages through newspapers, magazines and television. And persecutory delusions — for example, Nash believed that all men who wore red ties were conspiring against him. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia during a hospital commitment; however, he never took medication and recovered gradually from his experience. ","tiExperienceStartYear":1959,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":1970,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["media_manipulation","hearing_voices"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.",""],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"69bd6c25b3f1c4334e2e5a04","email":"pensethe@proton.me"},"createdAt":"2026-09-08T04:28:19.109Z","updatedAt":"2026-09-16T18:11:02.707Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2026-09-16T18:11:02.707Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"69239558549a30324a904cc8","fullName":"Aaron Alexis","bio":"He was an American former Navy reservist and IT contractor. After serving in the Naval Reserve from 2007-2011, he worked for defense-related companies and held a security clearance. In the years before his death, he experienced growing psychological and behavioral instability while moving between different states for work.","birthYear":1979,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"He reported being targeted by individuals using “microwave machines” to disrupt his sleep, torment him, or control his behavior. He described hearing voices transmitted into his body, claimed he was followed, and believed unknown groups were manipulating his thoughts through technology. Shortly before his death, he left written messages on his belongings stating that “ultra low frequency” attacks were influencing him.","tiExperienceStartYear":2012,"tiExperienceStartEra":"AD","tiExperienceEndYear":2013,"tiExperienceEndEra":"AD","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","lost_time","hearing_voices","street_theater","strangers_behaving_oddly","targeted_harassment","directed_conversations","tactile_sensations","manipulated_dreams","awareness_surveillance","bodily_functions","emotions_affected"],"importance":"notable","sourceLinks":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T23:14:32.222Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:25:37.563Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T23:14:53.223Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"692394ca549a30324a904cb3","fullName":"Myron DeShawn May","bio":"Myron May was an American lawyer and former prosecutor. He graduated from Florida State University and later worked in New Mexico. Despite a promising career, he became increasingly convinced he was being persecuted by unseen forces. He ultimately carried out a shooting at his alma mater, Florida State University, in November 2014, where he was killed by police.","birthYear":1983,"birthEra":"AD","tiExperience":"May believed he was subject to an elaborate, covert harassment campaign orchestrated by powerful actors. He wrote and spoke about mind control technology, conspiracies involving surveillance, and invisible forces working against him. He reported hearing voices, being watched, and suffering emotionally, financially, and professionally as part of this persecution. In his final communications, he framed his actions as a dramatic attempt to expose his perceived torment. 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He is described as “blameless and upright,” wealthy, and highly respected, with large livestock, many servants, and a devoted family. The story centers on the testing of his faith through extreme suffering, exploring themes of righteousness, divine justice, and human endurance.","birthYear":2000,"birthEra":"BC","tiExperience":"Job experiences catastrophic loss and affliction, which he interprets as being inflicted by an external, controlling force - in this case, Satan under divine permission. His experience includes intense physical pain, loss of social standing, and the deaths of his children, all while maintaining awareness of his own innocence. Throughout, he engages in dialogues with friends and with God, questioning the reasons for his suffering and struggling with the apparent injustice of his condition. His ordeal ends with divine restoration.","tiExperienceStartYear":2000,"tiExperienceStartEra":"BC","tiExperienceEndYear":1960,"tiExperienceEndEra":"BC","tiSymptoms":["synchronicities","targeted_harassment","bodily_functions","hearing_voices","mind_intrusion","awareness_surveillance"],"importance":"important","sourceLinks":["https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+42&version=NIV"],"status":"approved","submittedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"},"createdAt":"2025-11-23T16:51:22.034Z","updatedAt":"2025-11-24T14:25:50.698Z","__v":0,"approvedAt":"2025-11-23T16:55:19.221Z","approvedBy":{"_id":"68f68b674b55fd25303b7aa9","email":"admin@otir.org","firstName":"Peter P.","lastName":"Reborn"}},{"_id":"6946b8cd87e245d494f47113","fullName":"Abraham (Abram)","bio":"Abraham is a patriarchal figure in the Hebrew Bible and is regarded as the founding ancestor of the Israelites. 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