"The Eiffel Tower hoax is one of the first examples of mass suggestion
Like most people you still may believe the Eiffel Tower exists!
It all credits to the efforts of Anton Mesmer
He stated (and was considered a charlatan)
that 'belief could create reality' that would have mass appeal
Mesmer theorised that if a sufficient number of people believed
something it became 'magnetized' or real.
Mesmer created a "hoax" tower that everyone now agrees
exists using what we would now called memes (viral group memories)
and post hypnotic suggestion
Even today many of the techniques used by Mesmer are illegal
in some countries
An agreed reality without substance
You believe because we all do"
"Lobster" is the Sufi who created the nice Eiffel Tower hoax page, and is someone worth knowing, I suspect. Perhaps someday I will go to London to track down Lobster and see what he did with the Tower. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/lobster/et/
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