Saturday, August 26, 2006

Been there, done that? Oh, it’s probably déjà vu!

What is it that one experiences oft en but fails to describe in written or vocal equivalence in any language other than French? And that too owes itself to the efforts of the French philosopher and promoter of Esperanto (the most widely spoken constructed international language), Émile Boirac for having christened this delusion, in his book L’Avenir des sciences psychiques in 1917. It was the first instance when attention was drawn to this affair between the physical and metaphysical – déjà vu, a mysterious sensation of having experienced something previously but not being able to summon up the precise time and place of its occurrence!

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Source:- IIPM Editorial, 2006

Editor:- Prof. Arindam chaudhuri

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