{"id":4596,"date":"2026-10-29T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:48:59","slug":"inside-the-stigmata-mystery-divine-signs-or-terrain-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/?p=4596","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Stigmata Mystery, divine signs or terrain symbols?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by Enrico Baccarini\u00a9<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/?p=499<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stigmata are one of the most incredible phenomenon human being have experiencedin their history.<\/p>\n

This phenomenology has\u00a0always attracted interest\u00a0of both religious and\u00a0the scientific\u00a0world. Interpretation\u00a0of these\u00a0events,\u00a0believed to be the transposition of Jesus\u00a0Christ’s\u00a0\u00a0wounds \u00a0on the\u00a0cross,\u00a0has alternated\u00a0over time\u00a0of worship\u00a0to other\u00a0moments\u00a0of harsh\u00a0protest. Stigmata has\u00a0passed more than\u00a0eight hundred years\u00a0of existence, faith, doubts, uncertainties\u00a0and confirmations.\u00a0The\u00a0Roman Catholic\u00a0Church itself,\u00a0as in the case\u00a0of the Holy\u00a0Shroud of Turin,\u00a0was nevergiven a final decision\u00a0in the face of\u00a0these events, investigating it separately\u00a0the subjects\u00a0said\u00a0that\u00a0they\u00a0carry.<\/p>\n

\"Historia \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

Historia admiranda de Iesu Christi stigmatibus<\/em> (1607) of the italian bishop Alfonso Paleotti (1531-1610).<\/p>\n

In the light\u00a0of research carried out\u00a0by the\u00a0end of the XIX century to date,\u00a0we can\u00a0bring more\u00a0clarity on the\u00a0possible origins\u00a0of these\u00a0signs.
\nThe will,\u00a0which has always distinguished\u00a0man,\u00a0you want tounderstand God\u00a0and its manifestations,\u00a0has allowed\u00a0in more than\u00a0a century\u00a0of studies of\u00a0a new basis\u00a0for understanding the\u00a0stigmata.What lies\u00a0behind this\u00a0strange\u00a0phenomena?
\nThe rigorous\u00a0and systematic\u00a0manifestations\u00a0of\u00a0stigmatic\u00a0had itsbeginnings\u00a0in the late\u00a0nineteenth\u00a0century when\u00a0several\u00a0researchersbegan\u00a0to examine,\u00a0on a scientific basis,\u00a0the genesis\u00a0of these signs.
\nIn our\u00a0study\u00a0we will\u00a0present to the readers\u00a0of\u00a0Archeomisteri\u00a0the result of over\u00a0a century of research,\u00a0and some\u00a0recent contributionsthat could explain,\u00a0or perhaps\u00a0shed more light\u00a0on these\u00a0events.
\nIn many\u00a0subjects\u00a0these injuries\u00a0occur during\u00a0the Easter period,following the custom\u00a0which\u00a0is established\u00a0annually, and\u00a0this festivalis not\u00a0really\u00a0the\u00a0time when\u00a0Christ\u00a0was crucified.\u00a0In other\u00a0subjectsthe marks\u00a0follow\u00a0a policy\u00a0of continuity\u00a0(even\u00a0lasting\u00a0the whole\u00a0of a life), while\u00a0other\u00a0cases\u00a0present us with\u00a0those\u00a0“intermittent”\u00a0as such events\u00a0are often\u00a0associated\u00a0with\u00a0trance states.<\/p>\n

Curiously,\u00a0the stigmata\u00a0are not just a\u00a0prerogative of the\u00a0Catholic Christian world\u00a0in particular, but\u00a0have been reported\u00a0in recent\u00a0years, Protestant\u00a0and Muslim\u00a0world.
From the thirteenth\u00a0century\u00a0the Church has\u00a0well-documented\u00a0400 cases\u00a0of persons who\u00a0would receive\u00a0the gift\u00a0of the stigmata. Although\u00a0this phenomenology\u00a0signs\u00a0profoundly\u00a0Christian doctrinestill\u00a0remain\u00a0many doubts,\u00a0not yet\u00a0explained\u00a0the genesis\u00a0of their expression.<\/p>\n

From the analysis\u00a0conducted\u00a0in the population\u00a0of persons with\u00a0thatfrom the thirteenth to\u00a0the nineteenth\u00a0century the\u00a0relationship betweenmen\u00a0and women,\u00a0custodians\u00a0of the stigmata\u00a0(the 400\u00a0documented cases)\u00a0were\u00a0seven\u00a0women for every\u00a0man, while\u00a0the estimate\u00a0falls\u00a0in the 900s\u00a0and\u00a0we are faced with\u00a0three\u00a0women for every\u00a0two\u00a0men. Remains\u00a0clear is\u00a0that since\u00a0such\u00a0phenomena\u00a0began\u00a0to occur, women have been\u00a0the major\u00a0carriers of\u00a0these signs.\u00a0It must be\u00a0veryclear that,\u00a0in most\u00a0cases, the\u00a0subjects carrying\u00a0belonged\u00a0to religious orders\u00a0or groups of\u00a0devout Christians.
\nOn the evening of Friday, May 4, 1990, Anna Maria T., a 65-year-old widow from Milan, Italy, was saying her prayers in bed when she suddenly felt strong, sharp pains in her forehead, as if it was being pierced by thorns. As the woman later recounted to Marco Margnelli, a neurophysiologist for the Center for Study and Research of States of Consciousness in Milan, she looked around her bedroom, and in a corner was startled to see an apparition of Jesus Christ himself. The figure vanished into a black cloud and then reappeared wearing a thorny crown, at which point Anna Maria\u2019s forehead pain disappeared. The apparition then asked her to put out her hands, and touched them. The next morning, she awoke to discover painful round red marks on her hands. She went to the doctor, who ordered x-rays of her hands and prescribed an ointment that seemed to make the wounds go away. But then, almost exactly a month later, the marks on her hands reappeared, lingered for several days, and then disappeared again just as mysteriously. This time, she went to see a Roman Catholic priest, who told her that God had given her a gift.<\/p>\n

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Padre pio of Pietralcina<\/p>\n

Anna Maria had become one of probably only a handful of people on the planet afflicted with stigmata \u2014 painful wounds that seem to spontaneously appear and disappear, mimicking the injuries suffered by Christ during his torture and crucifixion.\u00a0 Stigmata belong to a long list of supernatural phenomena that fervent religious believers have claimed to experience over the centuries \u2014 an otherworldly array that includes weeping statues, apparitions of the Virgin Mary, a vial of dried blood from a 4th Century saint that inexplicably liquefies each year in a Naples church, \u00a0and the Shroud of Turin, a cloth of mysterious origins which is purported to bear the imprint of Christ\u2019s face and body.\u00a0 A 2004 Fox News poll found that 82 percent of Americans believed in miracles of all kinds \u2014 well more than twice the number who believed in UFOs, ghosts or reincarnation.<\/p>\n

But among this paranormal panoply it\u2019s the religious phenomena like stigmata that appear to inspire an intense synergy of fascination, awe and fervor. One reason may be that stigmata, while rare, seem to be more common than other miraculous phenomena.\u00a0 Since St. Francis of Assisi experienced the first recorded case of stigmata during a religious vision in 1224, researchers have documented more than 400 other persons with the affliction, and in the past 30 years alone, more than a dozen cases have been reported in locales ranging from South Korea to Argentina. Beyond that, some believers in the phenomenon view stigmatics as a spiritual elite, whom Christ has rewarded for their extreme piety by allowing them to experience his torment. The Italian stigmatic Padre Pio, a Capuchin monk who died in 1968 and was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 2002, is so revered that when his body was exhumed and put on display at a shrine in April 2008, approximately 750,000 pilgrims made hotel reservations to visit in the first three months alone.\u00a0\u00a0 And it doesn\u2019t hurt that doctors, scientists and skeptical debunkers have yet to come up with an airtight medical or scientific explanation for stigmata, try as they might.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt defies science,\u201d explains psychologist Mario Martinez, who has studied numerous stigmata cases. \u201cAnd it allows people to have hope. There\u2019s an archetype of suffering to gain redemption, and you can\u2019t get more graphic about suffering than replicating the wounds of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stigmata Symptoms<\/span><\/h3>\n

Over the years, many studies on stigmatics have amassed a considerable amount of data, though it doesn\u2019t necessarily lead to any clear-cut conclusions. St. Francis and Padre Pio notwithstanding, about 90 percent of stigmatics are female. They also tend to be Roman Catholics, though there are notable exceptions, such as the alleged case in the mid-1990s of Amyr Amiden, a Brazilian man of Iranian and Syrian descent, who was raised as a Muslim. Up until the beginning of the 20th Century, cases of stigmata seemed to be confined to Europe, though since then they\u2019ve occurred in a variety of countries.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Stigmata of St. Francis, Domenico Ghirlandaio (1482-85)<\/em><\/p>\n

One of the most puzzling aspects of the phenomenon is that its symptoms can vary greatly from case to case. As University of Western Ontario sociologist Michael Carroll noted in his 1989 book\u00a0Catholic Cults & Devotions: A Psychological Inquiry<\/em>, while stigmatics generally suffer wounds on their hands or wrists, feet and torso, some develop more extensive Christ-like injuries as well. 19th century French stigmatic Marie-Julie Jahenny exhibited a bruise on her shoulder, as if from carrying a cross, marks on her forehead seemingly caused by a crown of thorns, and stripes on her ankles, legs and forearms as if she had been scourged. \u00a0Some stigmatics bleed regularly every week from Thursday evening to Friday afternoon, the time in which Christ\u2019s torture and execution took place, while others bleed only on particular religious holidays, or after receiving holy communion.<\/p>\n

Skeptics, of course, have long contended that stigmatics fake their injuries. Joe Nickell, a magician-turned-paranormal debunker, attended an exhibition by Canadian stigmatic Lilian Bernas in 2002 and reported that up close, the bleeding stigmata on her hand appeared to be a small slit-like cut, rather than the larger round wound that a Roman nail would have caused.\u00a0\u00a0 (Bernas said in a 2001 newspaper interview that she doesn\u2019t care if detractors don\u2019t believe in her.). Similarly, a 2007 book by Italian historian Sergio Luzzatto caused a stir by changing that Padre Pio secretly used carbolic acid to burn his hands, feet and sides (a scenario doubted by psychologist Martinez, who says that if the monk had used that quantity of the toxic chemical, he would have quickly destroyed his liver).\u00a0 Sociologist Carroll has noted a curious pattern: Whether a stigmatic develops a lance wound on the left or the right side often seems to be determined by the location of the wound on some image of Christ \u2014 such as a crucifix \u2014 to which the person is particularly attached. Additionally, Carroll has written, while early stigmatics had wounds on their hands, some 20th century stigmatics have bled from their wrists, which fits the more recent theory that crucifixion victims actually were nailed through their forearms.<\/p>\n

Some Medical and Scientific Studies<\/span><\/h3>\n

Medical and scientific researchers have offered less duplicitous explanations for stigmata. Some, for example, suspect that stigmata may be the result of some sort of psychosomatic process, triggered by a mental disorder or by the sheer intensity of religious fervor that some sufferers exhibit.\u00a0 In the late 1960s, Dr. Oscar Ratnoff, a Case Western Reserve University hematologist best known for isolating the blood proteins involved in coagulation, pointed out parallels between stigmata and autoerythrocyte sensitization, also known as Gardner-Diamond Syndrome<\/em>, a condition in which patients bled at times of emotional stress, an effect that doctors have been able to induce through hypnosis. \u00a0More recently, in a 2002 article in the journal\u00a0Mind and Society<\/em>, University of California-Los Angeles anthropology professor Daniel M.T. Fessler proposed yet another possibility; he theorized that extreme fasting by fervent believers decreases the level of serotonin in their bodies, which in turn causes an altered state of consciousness in which they mutilate themselves without being aware of their actions.<\/p>\n

But as other researchers have discovered, stigmata cases have other characteristics that can\u2019t be explained by fakery or self-inflicted injury, and don\u2019t easily fit into a disease diagnosis. Unlike normal wounds, for example, stigmata almost never become infected, and they heal with mysterious speed, without leaving scars or inflammation. And stigmatics don\u2019t necessarily show signs of mental instability, or even a desire for attention. Dr. Joseph Klauder, a physician who examined the famous Bavarian stigmatic Theresa Neumann in the 1938, found her to be \u201cemotionally normal, plain and humble,\u201d and noted that she showed her stigmata to him reluctantly.<\/p>\n

Martinez once taught a Mexican stigmatic deep relaxation and visualization techniques, in which she imagined Christ ascending to heaven without his wounds, in an effort to control her excruciating bleeding. Sure enough, the stigmata eventually vanished—taking with them her apparent ability to heal the sick. \u201cShe gave up the techniques and allowed the wounds to return,\u201d explains Martinez. \u201cNow she\u2019s having healings again all over Mexico City.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case of Anna Maria T. similarly defies a simple explanation. Neurophysiologist Margnelli, who subjected her to extensive medical and psychological testing in the mid-1990s, concluded that although her wounds conceivably could have been created by a hot object or chemicals, the quick healing of her wounds and the absence of permanent damage made that unlikely.<\/p>\n

Margnelli found some curious physiological quirks \u2014 infrared photographs showed, for example, that Anna Maria\u2019s stigmata were warmer than the surrounding skin, and her skin\u2019s electrical activity was higher on the days that she had the wounds. But her hands didn\u2019t sweat excessively, as would have been the case if her stigmata were caused by conscious or unconscious mental manipulation of her autonomic nervous system. She had no history of mental illness, and once her religious visions were factored out, her scores on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory were in the normal range. She seemed happy and content.<\/p>\n

In the end, the researcher was unable to reach a definitive conclusion about Anna Maria T.\u2019s stigmata. \u201cAs far as the hypothesis of a miracle is concerned, it is not within my competence to make any judgment,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

SOME POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The key factor that must be taken into account in this research, and in this article, is how people can “receive” these signs.
\nThe international scientific community now believes that it is no longer necessarily need to call into question the paranormal origin, or due to God himself, for such events, but probably should see if anything in those stigmatized the “answers” to God, and responses\u00a0the idea that they are suffering and wounds suffered by Christ, understood in the Catholic religion which God on the cross.
\nHowever, this is a phenomenon that touches deeply deeply religious devotion of many people.\u00a0You can not talk about fraud, because most of the time these signs appear inexplicably.
\nThe only tangible product of this phenomenon is that the faith encourages, enhances and intensifies it.\u00a0The Church is an expression of faith, but it is a work of man.\u00a0Even the scars are probably a product of man but strengthen their faith.
\nBut how can we explain the fact that before St. Francis there were a few documented cases of stigmatized and after the death of this humble man began to spread throughout Europe such events?
\nIf we do not have irrefutable evidence in our possession to attest that it is true miracles or extraordinary events of our minds, but we can at the same time make use of scientific research in the last century has allowed us to understand ever more\u00a0vast that it can actually hide behind these signs.
\nOf the more than four persons mentioned above who received the stigmata, was canonized less than 62 and all these 90% were women.\u00a0Behind this figure may conceal a meaning?
\nThe reason why the vast majority of patients belongs to the female stigma might perhaps be the fact that the objective of the fair sex is statistically much more prone to neuropsychiatric manifestations of hysterical type-ideoplastic than the male.
\nIn studies, up to now there is a phenomenon which researchers, since the mid-nineteenth century, have always associated with the manifestation of stigmata, namely the ‘”ideoplastic”.
\nThis term now tends to identify the power that our minds would have to act on the body.
\nThis neologism was coined in 1860 by Durand du Groy to indicate the impression of an idea about a subject influenced.
\nIn 1884 Professor Ochorowicz extended the concept by defining it as the physiological action of an idea, suggestion or enhanced by processes of self-suggestion, on the human body.
\nAnother phenomenon documented, similar but different from the same stigma, is the “dermographic”.
\nUnlike the signs the subject of this article, which last for months or years, if not the entire arc of a life, dermographic persists for only a few minutes or few hours after it occurred or has been produced.
\nMany experiments have been conducted to determine the nature of the phenomenon, the investigators write or draw with a finger or a stick on the skin of a subject in a trance, and after a few moments, the word (or that plan) appeared on the skin of the subject (probably due to a dilation of blood vessels caused by the hypnotic suggestion).
\nDr. L\u00e9beault, noted scholar of the time, brought some very interesting experiments in the field dermographic.\u00a0After touching the skin with a cold iron of some subjects that are in a hypnotic trance, and told them it was a hot iron, it was possible within a short time to see the same points in the formation of blisters from burns.
\nThere are several medical phenomena that could help us more fully understand the phenomenon of stigmatization.
\nIn the case of Cloretta Robertson, now a few people still believe that it was a true manifestation stigmatic, it is still rather common opinion that the child has had a disease called “sweating blood<\/em>“, or “hematohydrosis<\/em>“.
\nIt has been identified as a strong emotional stress can cause significant vasodilation associated with a significant increase in the permeability of the capillaries, and these two situations un’extravasazione promote blood sweat glands secrete sweat that this mixed with blood, a fact that\u00a0can easily mislead even the expert eye of a physician, thus, may misinterpret this as a genuine and copious bleeding.
\nA striking example of this is reflected in hematohydrosis most important text of Christianity, the New Testament.
\nIn a passage of the Gospels in which Jesus goes to the garden of Gethsemane to pray to the Father before he was killed on the cross (“… he withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, and knelt and prayed: ‘Father, if you like, away from\u00a0this cup! nevertheless not my will but Your will ‘. And there appeared to him an angel from heaven. In his anguish he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was like drops of blood falling down to Earth\u00a0… “), during prayer, especially long and intense, then Jesus began to sweat blood.
\nIn fact, this reaction may be associated with a likely case of hematohydrosis determined by the strong emotional involvement, and psychological, which was a factor in high-stress (defined as “stressors”), in the agony of Jesus
\nThe hematohydrosis, in this vast field of study, may help us understand this strange phenomenon which for more than eight centuries manifested itself openly.\u00a0Have been called into question several explanations to understand the stigmata, but the only missing piece in these studies is the understanding of the mechanism by which a psychological state may allow the expression of these signs in a physiological state.
\nHow can the human mind able to create a physical injury on the body?
\nWhat mechanisms come into play?
\nAre we all plausibly stigmatized potential level?
\nThese questions are just some of the ones that you put the first researchers to figure out what the mechanism behind the onset of these strange wounds.
\nOver the centuries, man has always believed that his mind could be used as an extremely powerful tool, and a demonstration are some religious sects or cults, some of their principles based on these assumptions.
\nCurrently, science is equally agrees that the potential (and not the powers) of our mind are very large and important.
\nMainly due to psychological and psychiatric studies have been investigated unexplored areas of our minds for millennia.\u00a0Although these two disciplines have a little more than a century and a half of life, the progress achieved in this short period of time are very interesting.
\nThrough the innumerable ways granted by the current science, we can now also play in some cases of stigmata phenomena similar to those in subjects subjected to laboratory experiments.
\nAmong these is interesting to point out a phenomenon little known but widely studied since the nineteenth century, “hypnotic vesiculation<\/em>“. This term now tends to describe a range of phenomena that the researchers were able to appear on the skin of subjects in experiments, very similar to the signs present in the stigma.\u00a0The vesiculation\u00a0occurs through a simple hypnotic induction hypnotic after which the experimenter uses any object, at room temperature, subjecting it to different areas of the skin of a subject into believing that this is hot.<\/p>\n

The results of these experiments are extremely interesting.\u00a0Within a few minutes, until a few hours, the subjects underwent this procedure reported more or less severe burns at the point (or points) chosen by the researcher specific.\u00a0Most interesting factor is that if, as has been done in some experiments, we put a precise shaped object on the arm of a subject, we will see that the burn will be created that will correspond fully to the email form on the skin of the same.\u00a0These experiments aroused strong debate and intense academic debate since the mid-800 when it began to publish the first results.
\nThanks to the studies conducted in diverse phenomena of the stigmata today we can not exclude a priori the contribution of psychodynamic unconscious or mechanisms that can be activated by forms of self-induced hysteria or hypnosis.\u00a0In this sense, the explanation that psychology and psychiatry stigmata of damage is due to its two variants mentioned above, even if these explanations do not seem to be now able to explain all the complexity of the phenomenon.
\nUsually distinguishes between different types of trance: hypnotic, mystical, psychic, psychedelic.
\nThe trance state can then be induced by a variety of ways.\u00a0If during the trance the attention of the person persists long enough in a monoideism (5), then it is highly likely the manifestation of forms “ideoplastic”.\u00a0In this case the mind applies a physiological process, unknown for now and just suggested, that would implement the transfiguration of an idea, and its contents in an outward form, tangible and material.
\nIn this regard, the scholar Alfonso Siani writes in his book: “If a person who participates in a very moving liturgical function in a well-known sanctuary where she traveled with an expectation of recovery from an illness, and at some point enters\u00a0in a trance in one of the ways before seen (even without knowing it) and his attention is focused on the idea of \u200b\u200bhealing, if properly linger on that idea makes a ideoplastic, in other words to initiate a healing process that can be more\u00a0or faster (6).
\nSomehow, well, mind materialize a physiological process, still unknown and hardly conceivable, in practice that would allow the transformation of an idea, with all its contents, in a form external, objective and visible.
\nThis psicosomatizzazione, if we interpret it, could lead to the manifestation of stigmata.\u00a0Today the possibility of a feedback mechanism between mind and body is studied from psychoneuroimmunology (7).
\nThese are just some of the assumptions that currently may allow us to understand this strange phenomena.\u00a0The psychology and psychiatry, psychosomatic have made in their process of research, very interesting discoveries of what may be the mechanisms behind these events.
\nToday we know that is no longer unthinkable to consider the mind, and our brain as an extremely powerful and extraordinary potential.This potential could unfold, according to the study, through the manifestation of a phenomenology of purely religious.
\nIt should be stressed as the phenomenology we have taken into consideration has not occurred during its centuries of presence in the correct anatomical locations.
\nIn fact we have been accustomed to imagine the ecstatic stigma as a phenomenon which is localized anatomically on the palms and \/ or on the backs of the hands of those carriers.\u00a0The anatomical position is historically and religiously, never incorrect since the crucifixions were conducted in which subjects were nailed through the palms and backs of hands.\u00a0Crucify a person to see her in such locations would mean falling within a few minutes as a result of a real tear, and crushing the bones of the hand.
\nThese bones are not able to bear the weight of the human body for the laws of physics teaches us that.
\nProbably (true or false) even in the Holy Shroud kept in Turin, the crucified person was wounded just below the wrists, between the ulna and radius.\u00a0These two bones that form our forearms, are in fact arranged so as to create a natural cavity through which the nails were driven into the crucifixions.\u00a0Any human remains recovered and subjected to this inhumane punishment of antiquity has in fact injuries and just chipping at these bones, and never in the hands.
\nAs proof of this hypothesis, we see at the end of the radius and ulna in the cavity that connects to the hand, there is a small space, defined as “Destot”, through which it would be easy to insert a nail.
\nThe historical records show us that in Roman Palestine that was the only location through which the nails were made to pass this horrible death sentence.\u00a0The mechanical stimulation on the nerve done in space instead of Destot would also lead to a bending of the thumb in an unnatural and the same figure we can significantly recover the image etched in the Holy Shroud.
\nThese data could lead to dramatically negative considerations about the real meaning hidden behind the marks “historic”.
\nChristian iconography, and kindred, has always shown for a simple mistake and historical iconography, the wounds of Christ in a completely wrong location and not real, that could, if we were to find in front of a phenomenon of the matrix\u00a0land, have led to a later transmission in the wrong location of these iconographic signs.
\nThe aura of mystery that has pervaded this phenomenology, like others, has been reduced by studies and research conducted to date.
\nThe desire of mystery inherent in every individual must, however, clash with the rationality and the scientific nature of our own nature.The presence of events that transcend our normal leads us on a path of study and research that does not necessarily imply higher or unfathomable mysteries sources as their origin.
\nWhat in a given period could be attributed to a “insurmountable\u00a0mystery\u00a0” today, with the progress of our knowledge, can find more explanations by the intervention of science.\u00a0Of course this does not mean that all the mysteries to be in the proper sense, must necessarily have an explanation, or that you will come to the understanding of many of these any time soon.<\/p>\n

We tend only to emphasize how many events can, over time, and thanks to scientific advances, to find some plausible explanation (although, in some cases, without fail safe).
\nThe stigma still has the same phenomenology of the still obscured shadows of factors and criteria that are not explainable by known or known scientific explanations.
\nTherefore we can assume, as a very general, which could be the genesis of these events but we can not, nor should we, a priori biased and give certainty to it.
\nThe physiological and biochemical processes that appear to be implicated in the processes of formation of these strange signs and intervention of a mind more powerful than you might believe, are without doubt two of the key factors for the manifestation of these symptoms, but can not\u00a0yet to fully respond to many of our questions.<\/p>\n

C<\/span><\/strong>ONCLUSIONS<\/strong><\/span>
\nBy reading the various works of the Catholic Church devoted to exorcisms, we run into a meaningful phrase that seems to do the trick: “It easy to demon credas aliquam obsessum them” (8), (translated, “It is not easy to believe that someone\u00a0is haunted by the devil “).\u00a0Significant thought and a way of acting that should be scrupulous and careful against a phenomenon, demonic possession, which can be easily exchanged with other psychopathologies.
\nSimilarly, the stigmatic events must be studied and controlled through the tools and the knowledge that science provides us.
\nToday, researchers consider, almost unanimously, the stigma as a phenomenon on the borderline between psychophysiology and psychopathology, between the psychosomatic and autosuggestion.
\nA precise interpretation of this anomaly is linked to the action of several contributing causes attributable to factors both internal and external to our minds.
\nIt has been observed (9) as the scars are more likely to occur in subjects defined as “contemplative”, prone to hysteria, with a strong internal determination.
\nAn objective view and rationalist shows us that the possibility that a dominant idea (conscious or unconscious) can actually impress the body, creating skin lesions also of considerable impressivit\u00e0, is today far from unlikely.
\nUnfortunately it is easier to study phenomena that are deeply ingrained with the religion and common faith, but the natural tendency of man to explain the world around him and to rationalize the phenomena that can not understand us toward a fundamental reassessment of these events,\u00a0in the light of studies and research for over a century and a half that have led us to hypothesize, and today almost understand, one of the greatest mysteries of the origins of faith.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/channel.nationalgeographic.com\/episode\/the-girl-who-cries-blood-4450\/Overview13#tab-stigmata-phemomena-3#ixzz1RddSd7aT<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.skepticssa.org.au\/html\/stigmata.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Enrico Baccarini\u00a9 http:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/?p=499 Stigmata are one of the most incredible phenomenon human being have experiencedin their history. This phenomenology has\u00a0always attracted interest\u00a0of both religious and\u00a0the scientific\u00a0world. Interpretation\u00a0of these\u00a0events,\u00a0believed to be the transposition of Jesus\u00a0Christ’s\u00a0\u00a0wounds \u00a0on the\u00a0cross,\u00a0has alternated\u00a0over time\u00a0of worship\u00a0to other\u00a0moments\u00a0of harsh\u00a0protest. Stigmata has\u00a0passed more than\u00a0eight hundred years\u00a0of existence, faith, doubts, uncertainties\u00a0and confirmations.\u00a0The\u00a0Roman Catholic\u00a0Church itself,\u00a0as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,413,855,9,6699],"tags":[4250,4253,2463,4217,4228,4241,4214,4239,40,4233,2041,4235,4244,4225,4242,4254,3910,4246,4245,4243,4223,4237,4229,2641,4218,4221,4231,4215,4236,4238,4227,4247,4234,517,4249,4240,4226,4248,4252,2368,2369,4251,4232,4224,4219,4230,4213,522,516,4220,521,520,4255,4216,4222],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antropologia","category-fenomeni-mistici-strordinari","category-religione","category-psicologia","category-religiosi","tag-alfonso-siani","tag-biochemical-processes","tag-blood","tag-catholic-cults-devotions-a-psychological-inquiry","tag-center-for-study-and-research-of-states-of-consciousnes","tag-cloretta-robertson","tag-domenico-ghirlandaio","tag-durand-du-groy","tag-enrico-baccarini","tag-explanations-for-stigmata","tag-fox-news","tag-gardner-diamond-syndrome","tag-gethsemane","tag-god","tag-gospels","tag-hematohydrosis","tag-holy-shroud","tag-hypnotic","tag-hypnotic-vesciculation","tag-jesus","tag-jesus-christ","tag-joseph-klauder","tag-lilian-bernas","tag-marco-margnelli","tag-marie-julie-jahenny","tag-mario-martinez","tag-medical-and-scientific-studies","tag-michael-carroll","tag-mind-and-society","tag-minnesota-multiphasic-personality-inventory","tag-muslim","tag-mystical","tag-oscar-ratnoff","tag-padre-pio","tag-physiological-process","tag-professor-ochorowicz","tag-protestant","tag-psychedelic","tag-psychiatry","tag-psychic","tag-psychology","tag-psychoneuroimmunology","tag-psychosomatic-process","tag-roman-catholic-church","tag-roman-catholics","tag-scientific-studies","tag-st-francis","tag-stigmata","tag-stigmate","tag-stigmatic","tag-stimmata","tag-stimmate","tag-sweating-blood","tag-university-of-western-ontario","tag-virgin-mary","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10835,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/10835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enricobaccarini.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}