Category: Mysteries

Prayer is a human universal, but can you pray for something that’s already happened? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at prayer and time and God’s relationship to time, with a big twist in the reason perspective.

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Links for this episode:

• C.S. Lewis’s book Miracles
• Susan Tassone’s book Praying with the Saints for the Holy Souls in Purgatory (Padre Pio information)
• Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska
• Fr. John Nageleisen’s book Charity for the Suffering Souls
• Benedict XVI’s encyclical Spe Salvi
• Leonard Leibovivi’s paper from the British Journal of Medicine
• Astin et al.’s meta-analysis of distant healing in the Annals of Internal Medicine
• Jimmy’s article Praying Across Time
• Jimmy’s article on St. Faustina and Praying Across Time
• Jimmy’s article Praying for the Past: Another View
• Jimmy’s series on the nature of time:
• • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3

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Mysterious Headlines

• Censorship-Resistant Inflation Index
• New Hydrogen Dirigible Planned

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Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

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It’s a fifth Friday so Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live is asking Jimmy Akin more weird questions from listeners, including whether robots are members of the undead; whether vampires go to hell; could vampires receive the Blood of Christ; and whether demons can read our thoughts; and more.

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Questions for this episode:

• 02:42 – Are robots undead?
• 04:35 – Do vampires go to hell?
• 08:57 – If a time traveler dies before the Resurrection, where does he go?
• 11:05 – Can demons read our thoughts?
• 15:48 – Should synthetic beings be treated like human beings?
• 19:42 – Could a vampire subsist on the Blood of Christ?
• 26:22 – Can you trusts priests sent by totalitarians?
• 29:43 – Would a human-animal chimera have a soul?
• 34:06 – Should Catholics join gov’t intelligence agencies?
• 36:55 – What historical figure would Jimmy want to spend a day with?

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Mysterious Headlines

• NASA Solar Sail plan
• What Happens If a Space Elevator Breaks?

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Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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Many people have wondered or hoped that beloved animals that die continue to live on in heaven, but a common opinion is that they don’t. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at that claim and ask if there is any evidence that animals do, in fact, survive death.

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Links for this episode:

• Edward Anderson’s book Evidence of Animal Afterlife
• Ed Okonowicz’s book Haunted Maryland
• Russell & Barnett’s Ghost Dogs of the South
• Russell & Barnett’s Ghost Cats of the South
• C. S. Lewis’s book The Problem of Pain
• Peter Kreeft’s book Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Heaven
• TheBayNet.com story on the Blue Dog
• Blue tick hound
• Mastiff
• The Byrd’s 1965 cover of Turn! Turn! Turn!
• Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae on the Soul
• Joyce Salisbury’s article Do Animals Go to Heaven?
• Robert Sapolsky’s talk on Human Uniqueness
• Theory of Mind
• Theory of Mind in Animals
• Edward Anderson’s website
• Edward Anderson’s post on my search results
• Aquinas on the powers of different types of souls
• Ants Farming Aphids

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Mysterious Headlines

• If You Love Animals, It Is Your Moral Duty to Eat Them
• Article claiming recent brain scan reveals people’s lives flash before their eyes as they are dying
• Article debunking the former article as a bunch of junk

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Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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UFO researchers have often talked about encountering mysterious floating orbs, including at Skinwalker Ranch. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the blue orbs that induce fear and may even be causing harm and what may explain them.

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Links for this episode:

• Hunt for the Skinwalker book
• Skinwalkers at the Pentagon book
• Jeremy Corbell’s documentary Hunt for the Skinwalker
• Secret of Skinwalker Ranch TV show
• Skinwalker Ranch
• Acute Radiation Syndrome
• Robert Bigelow interview
• Will-o-the-Wisps
• Piezoelectric Effect
• Ball Lightning
• Lightning produces X- and Gamma-Rays

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Mysterious Headlines

• A Supernova Any Day Now?
• We’re Not Prepared for Cross-World Contamination

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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In the 1920s, widowed farmer John Seybold sought to end his loneliness by contacting the world of the spirits. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk about how he met a ghost named Sarah and ended up marrying her. But were they able to find happiness together?

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Links for this episode:

• Mark Hartzman’s book Chasing Ghosts
• San Francisco Examiner article July 10, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• Wichita Eagle article Nov. 8, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• Iola Daily Register article Nov. 17, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• San Francisco Examiner article Nov. 27, 1927 (Newspapers.com)
• James Duane’s video Don’t Talk to the Police
• Really Disturbing Video

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Mysterious Headlines

• British Singer Brocarde [“bro-CARD”] to Marry Ghost of Victorian-Era Soldier (Celebrity Ghosts to be Wedding Guests)
• California Woman Marries the Color Pink
• Woman marries the color pink in historic ceremony | Unexplained Mysteries

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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In the second part of his interview with Dr. Edwin May, who has spent more than 40 years doing parapsychological research, Jimmy Akin asks Dr. May about some his most unique views, they discuss the role of precognition, and he asks what an “entropy bomb” is.

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Links for this episode:

• Ed May’s book ESP Wars: East & West
• Ed May author page on Amazon
• Ed May’s paper Informational Psi: Collapsing the Problem Space of Psi
• Ed May’s web page, Laboratories for Fundamental Research (LFR)
• Parapsychological Association website
• Joseph McMoneagle
• Sidereal Time (short video explainer)

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Mysterious Headlines

• Over 700 Stars Mysteriously Vanish in 70 Years (video)
• Help Find Missing Stars!

This Episode is Brought to You By:
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World is brought to you in part through the generous support of Aaron Vurgason Electric and Automation at AaronV.com. Making Connections for Life for your automation and smart home needs in north and central Florida.

Catechism Class, a dynamic weekly podcast journey through the Catechism of the Catholic Church by Greg and Jennifer Willits. It’s the best book club, coffee talk, and faith study group, all rolled into one. Find it in any podcast directory.

Fiorvento Law, PLLC, specializing in adult guardianships and conservatorships, probate and estate planning matters. Accepting clients throughout Michigan. Taking into account your individual, healthcare, financial and religious needs. Visit FiorventoLaw.com

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