Category: Paranormal
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AI and Demons
You may remember our 'demonic' discussion from last summer. See Reading Now: Demonic Foes. The comment thread runs to 61 entries, some of them excellent. Bro Joe now wants us to read: Satanic AI: ChatGPT gives instructions. Another topic we ought to explore is the possibility of demonic possession of AI systems. According to Richard…
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The Dangers of Psychic Phenomena on the Spiritual Quest
The thoughts of Paul Brunton well presented in a short video. I have been reading him for years. Like Thomas Merton, the man is at his best in his journals. I have read and re-read all sixteen volumes. For some extracts see my Brunton category.
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ghosts and Death
Leslie Kean's Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife (Three Rivers Press, 2017) just arrived via Amazon. HT to Vito for recommending it. It looks good. Have book, will blog. Pressed for time this evening. But not so pressed that I can't scrounge up three tunes. Highwaymen, Ghost Riders in the Sky Spiderbait…
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A Strange Experience
A Substack tale haunting but true.
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Rod Dreher on Fr. Carlos Martins, Spiritual Warrior
Dreher quotes Martins: Between these two goals—tempting man and gaining him for eternity—there is another evil desire that the Devil aims to satisfy: the possession of his victim. Possession is the state where the victim is under demonic control from the inside. The demon takes over the body of the one he possesses. During possession, a…
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Is Heaven Real?
A neurosurgeon's near-death experience. Top o' the Stack.
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Jeffrey Long, M. D. on Near-Death Experiences (NDEs)
Here (under 5 minutes). 'Coded' as used by Dr. Long in this video clip is medical jargon. For a patient to 'code' is for the patient to suffer cardiac arrest. It is a mistake to think that if an episode of experiencing is real, then the intentional object of that episode of experiencing is also…
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Near-Death Experiences
Do they prove anything? The case of Richard Neuhaus. Substack latest.
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Reading Now: Demonic Foes
By Richard Gallagher, M. D. Available via Amazon. It arrived yesterday and I'm already 60 pages into its 247 pages. A page-turner for sure. I did, however, refrain from reading any of it in bed last night before drifting off — for obvious reasons. Experiences of my own incline me to take very seriously "Unseen…
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Intimations of Elsewhere Dismissed
Stack topper. Good and short, short and good.
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Intimations of Elsewhere: Sensible Reminders of Hidden Beauty
Salzburg, Austria, December 1971. A young Austrian girl, radiant and beautiful, walked into the kitchen. I lost all desire for the food I had prepared. My soul sprouted wings. The visible beauty triggered a memory of a timeless Beauty. Anamnesis pierced for a moment the amnesia induced by the bodily senses. Dayton, Ohio, 1978. Gripped…
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Contemplating Suicide?
Are you quite sure that there is a way out? It may be that there is no exit. You can of course destroy your body, and that might do the trick. But then again it might not. Or is it perfectly obvious that you are either identical to your body or necessarily dependent for your…
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Mortalism
According to Peter Heinegg, mortalism is "the belief that the soul – or spark of life, or animating principle, or whatever — dies with the body. . . ." (Mortalism: Readings on the Meaning of Life, Prometheus, 2003, p. 9). Heinegg was raised Catholic and indeed was a member of the Jesuit order for seven years.…
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Can the Existence of God be Proven?
A reader inquires, I was wondering whether you had any direction you could offer for rational arguments for God's existence? If you are looking for arguments that are not merely rational, but rationally compelling, I don't believe that there are any. I also believe that there aren't any such arguments for the nonexistence of God. …
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Mary Neal’s Out-of-Body Experiences: Do They Prove Anything?
A repost from 16 December 2012 with minor edits. ……………………………………….. The personable Dr. Neal recounts her experiences during this 13 and a half minute video clip. The following from an interview with her: The easy explanations—dreams or hallucinations—I could discount quickly, because my experience—and the experience described by anyone who's had a near death experience or other experiences that…