Abstract
The chapter presents and analyzes the major medical and scientific studies that have been performed on the Medjugorje visionaries and their apparitions. Observing behavioral and psychological studies, neuroscientific studies, ocular and visual functions, auditory and voice functions, sensitivity and imperviousness to pain, the distinctions between a state of hypnosis and the apparition state in the visionaries, the chapter concludes with the results of the scientific studies: eliminating any form of hallucination, psychosis, epilepsy, neurosis, or catalepsy as an explanation for the apparitions. The chapter also considers the philosophical question of whether the visionaries are having a “subjective” or an “objective” experience during their apparitions, seeing a combination of characteristics when they enter the state of ecstasy that does not convey a clear line of delineation between a subjective and objective experience.
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