Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses. Simple devices such as blindfolds or hoods and earmuffs can cut off sight and hearing, while more complex devices can also cut off the sense of smell, touch, taste, thermoception, and 'gravity'. Sensory deprivation has been used in various alternative medicines and in psychological experiments. Short-term sessions of sensory deprivation are described as relaxing and condu
S imon Magus was a magician working among the people of Samaria. We meet Simon in Acts 8 as one of the converts to Jesus through the preaching of Stephan. We usually speak of Simon the sorcerer or Simon the magician.
By: Crawford Howell Toy, Kaufmann Kohler. A Jewish magician described in Acts xiii. 6-11 as a sorcerer, a false prophet, who, when Paul and Barnabas came to Cyprus, was found in the company of Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul. He also bore the title of Elymas (= sorcerer; perhaps related to, Deut.xiii. 2; explained also from the Arabic alim = wise).e opposed Paul in his attempt to convert the proconsul; whereupon Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and cursed him with temporary blindness, calling him son of the Devil (Ben Belial); and immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he had to be led by the hand.