Conjuring Up Phillip

American Hauntings Podcast

Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Tv & Film, Spirituality, Film Reviews, History

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

"The Phillip Experiment" has become known as one of the most famous paranormal studies of all time, so it’s not really that surprising that someone decided to use it as inspiration for a film. In 1972, a group of researchers in Canada were not only convinced that something or someone could actually be created by the power of thought alone and that it was absolutely possible to think something into existence, but some believe they finally achieved their goal by conjuring up a ghost that they called PHILLIP.

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1:32.2	Is it possible to think something or someone into existence?
1:40.2	In 1972, a group of researchers in Canada were not only convinced this was possible,
1:47.0	but actually believed they achieved their goal by conjuring up a ghost that they called Philip.
1:55.0	Now, this was not a new idea.
1:59.0	It had been part of Tibetan Buddhism for centuries. They called the process
2:03.2	making a topa. They believed they could create a second consciousness inside their heads,
2:09.9	one that had different thoughts, opinions, and ideas than they had. And it would give them a second
2:14.7	opinion about life questions, philosophies, and beliefs,
2:18.3	but this was just inside of their mind, though.
2:22.8	The Canadian researchers wanted to take things to a whole new level.
2:27.5	They didn't simply want to see if their experiment could be accomplished.
2:30.4	They also wanted to see how that spectral manifestation might be put to use.
2:36.6	The Philip experiment, as it came to be called, not only became the inspiration for a chilling
2:43.0	2014 horror film, but it remains today as one of the strangest instance that ever occurred in the history of the paranormal.
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