Shared Death Experiences

Announcing Holy Troublemakers, a new podcast from StarQuest. In this weekly podcast host Dom Bettinelli will introduce you to the difficult people who built the Catholic Church. From mystics who argued with popes to missionaries who walked into places nobody sane would go, every episode tells one of their stories. The post Announcing Holy Troublemakers appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Could Jesus have incarnated on a Klingon world while he walked in Galilee? Jimmy Akin takes that question and eleven more from patrons — telekinesis, the Mary Celeste, Salem, ley lines — with Dom Bettinelli. The post Klingon or Time Lord Jesus? Mary Celeste? Salem Witch Trials? And More Patron Questions appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Early Christians read it in church beside the Gospels; a fourth-century Bible bound it in after Revelation. Then it vanished. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli open the Shepherd of Hermas — a tower, a beast, and a question about forgiveness. The post The 100-Foot Beast an Early Christian Saw in Visions (Shepherd of Hermas) appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Colored light around every living thing, readable by anyone with the right training — or by a camera at the mall. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow the aura from Mesmer to the selfie app, and weigh what happened under controlled testing. The post Are Auras Real? Aura Colors, Cameras, and the Tests appeared first on StarQuest Media.

A flashlight, three discs over a Missouri ranch, and a ray that cured fifteen years of back pain. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli follow Buck Nelson from Ozark farmer to saucer celebrity — and to a twist that isn't funny at all. The post Buck Nelson, the Ozark Spaceman appeared first on StarQuest Media.

You are sitting with someone as they die, and the room fills with a light that is not from this earth. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine shared death experiences — the cases where a perfectly healthy bystander sees it too. The post Shared Death Experiences appeared first on StarQuest Media.

A monk who sold his soul to write a book in one night, the naked man fleeing Jesus' arrest, and whether Jesus was just an alien with good technology: Jimmy Akin takes on eleven listener weird questions with Cy Kellett and Dom Bettinelli. The post The Devil’s Bible, Jesus Was an Alien?, Psychic Powers in Heaven, and Weird Questions appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Join Jimmy Akin this August for a four-week course on Psi and Christianity. The post Investigating the Paranormal for 2,000 Years appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Dozens of unrelated children said shining, winged figures stood over them as an EF5 tornado destroyed Joplin. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli weigh cryptids, trauma, folklore, and guardian angels behind the butterfly people. The post The Butterfly People of Joplin, Missouri appeared first on StarQuest Media.

He spent his career debunking fake mesmerists and mediums — then dreamed his brother's funeral weeks before it happened. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace Mark Twain's strange turn toward telepathy and ask what the Catholic has to say about it. The post Mark Twain Super-Psychic: His Shocking Telepathy & Death Dream appeared first on StarQuest Media.