Dr. Diego Bohórquez

that they will not perform a certain thing, a certain task, right?

They enter a level of psychosis, so to speak, that could cause death, like the custom spell, right?

And that's why it's called voodoo death.

What Cannon goes and describes is there is an activation of the vagus nerve and the peripheral nervous system that is a hyperactivation that is going through the subterrestrial level of consciousness.

And in some of these tribes, that's what, at least that's what he explains that is happening.

And I believe that he did some experiments in Africa.

in some animals.

But what he was saying is that there's a hypertonic activation of the peripheral nervous system when there are these spells that are casted by a member of the tribe that is in a higher or more superior or more influential position, that if the other member, especially if it is paired with something, right?

Like if you say, like, if you go outside,

And don't listen to what I just told you and you see a black cat.

Those two things match together and now you're hyperactivated, right?

And become superstitious about it.

But it is what Walter Cannon goes to explain is there is a hyperactivation of the peripheral nervous system.

Obviously, there is probably more details in there.

But the paper really highlights an area of exploration that we don't know about.

This threshold of subconsciousness of the nervous system, how it is driving us to have superstition.

to drive instinctively to go and consume certain things or behave in certain ways, right?

Yes.

And right now that I hear you bringing up the humming, for instance, there is a branch of the vagus that innervates the ear, the inner ear.

And