Could You Possess Another Human? (& More Weird Questions) – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

Can one human being possess another? MKUltra tried. Jimmy Akin answers that and seven more listener questions — purgatory when the world ends, fallen guardian angels, brain swaps, and whether lizards were once dragons.

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Chapters:

0:00:12 – Intro
0:00:42 – Why a weird questions episode
0:02:11 – The topics Jimmy will cover
0:02:51 – Catholic Answers Live: Weird Questions
0:03:44 – How to submit a weird question
0:06:03 – Can humans possess one another? (Mari)
0:07:32 – …MKUltra, LSD and Sidney Gottlieb
0:08:13 – …The death of Frank Olson
0:11:44 – …The Church Committee and the surviving files
0:15:02 – …Telepathy between living people
0:16:59 – …Departed human spirits, and the older meaning of "demon"
0:21:09 – Souls in purgatory at the end of the world (Jocelyn)
0:21:47 – …1 Corinthians 15 and the twinkling of an eye
0:24:27 – …Aeviternity: time in the afterlife
0:25:26 – …Spe Salvi and praying for the dead
0:27:32 – This week on Mysterious World: crisis apparitions
0:31:11 – …Hans Berger and the first EEG
0:32:02 – Can you ask a ghost to reveal its identity? (Rez Kerry)
0:34:08 – …Testing the spirits in 1 John 4
0:37:09 – …Aquinas and his sister’s apparition
0:39:46 – …St. Martin of Tours and the false martyr
0:42:06 – Are there fallen guardian angels? (Severe Famine)
0:42:31 – …The common view: the angels fell before man
0:45:32 – …The staged-fall view: Genesis 6 and the Nephilim
0:46:56 – …Head coverings because of the angels
0:49:22 – …God will not leave you unguarded
0:50:32 – The Jimmy Akin Podcast: Ascension and Pentecost
0:51:50 – Thank you to Patrons
0:52:26 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
0:52:41 – Sponsor: In Time by Robert Young
0:53:53 – Answering the skeptics on near-death experiences (Rafael Figueredo)
0:57:17 – …Susan Blackmore and the tunnel
1:01:25 – …Veridical information: Maria and the tennis shoe
1:02:43 – …The surgeon who flapped his arms
1:05:40 – …Psychopomps and shared death experiences
1:08:36 – …Living agent psi
1:10:33 – Fr. Nathan Castle’s purgatory accounts (F Man)
1:15:46 – …Is the fire of purgatory literal?
1:20:29 – …Gregory the Great and the bath attendant
1:25:47 – Brain swaps and the soul (Roodo)
1:28:11 – …Is the brain a filter for consciousness?
1:30:26 – …Organ transplants and transferred preferences
1:32:02 – …Could a soul animate two bodies?
1:33:53 – Were lizards once dragons? (Caleb Henderson)
1:36:30 – …Wings are named nowhere in Genesis or Revelation
1:39:30 – …Sprawling legs and parasagittal posture
1:41:50 – …Birds are dinosaurs
1:42:23 – Mysterious Feedback: #425 Voice to Skull Technology
1:42:40 – …Hearing voices and schizophrenia
1:46:32 – …Analog phone bandwidth and subliminal messages
1:47:38 – …Bone conduction and Lucille Ball’s fillings
1:50:27 – …DARPA and reverse-engineered technology
1:51:32 – …How voices have been interpreted through history
1:53:37 – Your mysterious feedback
1:54:14 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
1:54:27 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
1:55:11 – Share the show and write a review
1:55:21 – Get your Mysterious merch
1:55:29 – Show notes
1:55:36 – Become a Patron
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1:56:45 – Outro

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