When Statues Cry Real Tears

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When Statues Cry Real Tears

by Michael Grosso
https://consciousnessunbound.blogspot.ca...tears.html

What to make of this materialization of tears? Facts of this type are fairly abundant and extant today. They taunt us as we gape with befuddlement.  Poe’s imp of the perverse is chuckling behind our backs.  But the tears must be explained, lest we invoke Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason!

Many embrace the official story—if ratified by church authorities—that these are tears of the ghost of the Virgin Mary who decided to make one of her plastic images weep profusely on a street in Syracuse, in somebody’s bedroom who in fact was at that moment very sick and distressed.  Antonina was healed of toxemia and hysterical blindness, and thousands of people could see how the Virgin was crying.   

For those who find this incredible, there is another way to explain the tears.  It is possible that Antonina herself unconsciously caused them to appear on the Madonna’s plastic eyes.  In poltergeist cases, strange physical effects occur in the presence of emotionally labile persons, often but not always children.  Antonina was in a labile state, prone to hysterical blindness, itself a bizarre symptom.  It was  a known syndrome—a state between hysteria and ecstasy—often with effects we want to call surreal.  

When Statues Cry Real Tears

by Michael Grosso
https://consciousnessunbound.blogspot.ca...tears.html

"What is needed is a hollow statue made of a porous material such as plaster or ceramic.  The icon must be glazed or painted with some sort of impermeable coating.  If the statue is then filled up with a liquid (surreptitiously, through a tiny hole in the head, for example), the porous material will absorb it, but the glazing will stop it from flowing out.  If the glazing, however, is imperceptibly scratched away on or around the eyes, tear-like drops will leak out, as if materialising from thin air.  If the cavity behind the eyes is small enough, once all the liquid has dripped out there are virtually no traces left in the icon.  When I put it to the test, this trick proved to be very satisfactory, baffling all onlookers."  -Dr. Luigi Garlaschelli, Pavia University, responding to the 1953 case mentioned in the OP.

Jesus, for once, why can't Mary The Ever Loving Virgin begin her menstrual cycle or something more original than tears. Tears are so old school.

I dont know if i should laugh or cry at the above, perhaps both.