Has anyone here ever experienced the so-called Third Man Factor?
The Third Man Factor: How those in dire peril have felt a sudden presence at their side, inspiring them to survive. Religious people obviously attribute the Third Man Factor to the presence of God. Others attribute the Third Man Factor to a trick of the subconscious.
John Geiger writes in his book The Third Man Factor:
In situations where success appears to be impossible, or death imminent -- something happens. There, amid the anxiety, fear, blood, sadness, exhaustion, torment, isolation, and fatigue, is an outstretched hand -- another existence, proffering a "transfusion of energy, encouragement and instinctual wisdom from a seemngly external source." A presence appears, a Third Man, who, in the words of the legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner, "leads you out of the impossible."
Have you ever experienced this phenomenon?
http://www.thirdmanfactor.com
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112746464
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197394/The-Third-Man-Factor-How-dire-peril-felt-sudden-presence-inspiring-survive.html