It seems to be a very general phenomenon, first noticed by Christiaan Huygens. E.g. "32 Metronome Synchronization" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8

It seems to be a very general phenomenon, first noticed by Christiaan Huygens. E.g. "32 Metronome Synchronization" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v5eBf2KwF8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens See also "entrainment": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave_entrainment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwave_entrainment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(biomusicology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(biomusicology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(chronobiology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(chronobiology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(physics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_(physics) etc. There also seems (to some people) to be some form of "energetic" aspect to mesmerism/charisma but this has been contested going right back to Mesmer and Ben Franklin (in the West.) It's been rediscovered (and "debunked") several times in the last couple of centuries, for example Baron Von Reichenbach's "Odic force" and Wilhelm Reich's "Orgone". I should not fail to mention "chi" or "qi" in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odic_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odic_force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi Gurdjieff called it "being-Hanbledzoïn" and said: > “Hanbledzoïn is nothing else than the ‘blood’ of the Kesdjan body of the being; just as the cosmic substances called in totality blood serve for nourishing and renewing the planetary body of the being, so also Hanbledzoïn serves in the same way for nourishing and perfecting the body Kesdjan. https://gurdjieff.work/ae/terms/en50/0238.htm https://gurdjieff.work/ae/terms/en50/0238.htm To the scientific skeptic this is all nonsense, of course.