Have you ever witnessed any supernatural or unfamiliar thing like guosts or miracles?

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Yes, a couple of times. I also used to experience sleep paralysis at a time in my life when I was having a lot of stress and emotional issues. It was scary, I felt something sitting on my chest, choking me; other times I thought my husband was walking around. I tried to scream or talk, but I could not move. However, I knew about sleep paralysis and knew what it was, so I didn’t think it was supernatural.

I did witness what I considered a miraculous healing, although there was medical intervention. I found my husband on the floor one morning, completely paralyzed on his right side, and having difficulty talking. He had a major stroke. He had a blood clot in an artery in his brain that completely paralyzed the right side of his body. They gave him a clot-busting drug (TPA), but it did not work. There happened to be a priest in the ER who came and anointed him . So they intubated him and sedated and paralyzed him and took him to radiology where they inserted a catheter into his groin and up into his brain where the radiologist shot the TPA directly into the clot and it dissolved. The Dr. then spoke with me and told me that the artery was clear now, but my husband was without oxygen to the left side of his brain for almost 3 hours and the prognosis was very poor, and if he recovered, he would have severe deficits.

In the recovery room they took off the sedation and paralyzing drugs and we waited for him to start breathing on his own to see if he could be taken off the ventilator. After about 15 min or so he began to move his arms and fingers (both of them!) and breathing on his own. Then he began to move his legs. They took out the breathing tube and he began to talk, although his speech was garbled at first, but he followed commands with all of his extremities. They took him to the ICU where he continued this recovery and was taken to the rehab floor 2 days later. He went to rehab, but didn’t need much and was sent home 3 days later without the need for further therapy of any type–physical, occupational, or speech.

The radiologist who did this was astounded,as was the neurologist and staff. They had never had a patient recover like this from that therapy, they all were left with deficits. It was a Catholic hospital, and most everyone was calling it a _miracle". Now I realize that he did have medical intervention, but I am an RN with many years of critical care experience and neurointensive experience, and I know full well the severity of my husband’s stroke and was anticipating long-term care and severe deficits, even with treatment, but that man walked out of the hospital totally normal and 6 years later he still has no neurological problems. I attribute this remarkable recovery to his receiving the Sacrament of the Sick while in ER by my little Byzantine priest friend who just “happened” to be in the ER at 7:30 in the morning, and of course the medical intervention. It just so happened that at that time this hospital which is a designated stroke center, was one of only 2 hospitals in the state that had the equipment used, which also had the ability to extract a blood clot from the brain, and a DR. who was trained to use it. I consider the whole thing an actual miracle. It certainly was beyond the normal.
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Thank you for sharing that wonderful happening! That was quite a God-incidence.
 
Using Kreeft to analyse the afterlife might be erroneous if one is doing so without approaching the subject from a solid Catholic perspective in tune with what exorcists have told us.

Reason being, that the example of the passage cited in Samson is not particularly informative in this subject-context other than letting us know that ancient Jews believed in the supernatural, because, ancient Jews had a very different idea of the afterlife. They might have believed in a kind of Hades. Yet, we have a more complete understanding.

As Catholics, we know that under the demonic, falls a category of diabolic infiltration, known as infestation.

This is what most people experience as ‘ghosts’ in the popular mainstream culture - ghosts that go bump in the night etc…An infestation can occur in a house or to an object. Such an infestation requires a blessing from a priest.

In terms of ghostly (popular mainstream versions) experiences, most are demonic, as demons wish to cause the person experiencing its activity, to be affected by its presence. Follow reasons being:
  1. Distraction in order to wear people out and put them into a state of fear.
  2. Distraction from God and to redirect a person’s focus away from Heaven.
  3. To cause problems - if you talk about it then people might think strangely of you.
  4. To spread stories of evil by people making boasts of ‘ghostly’ experiences.
  5. To bring Catholics into lesser understanding of a Church perspective.
As Catholics, we understand the reality of visions. Visions can happen with Angels and saintly souls from Heaven. To term ‘visions’ as ‘ghostly’ experiences is not only an error but is also dramatically disrespectful. Visions are not ‘ghostly’ experiences.

Souls in Purgatory live on a different dimension and are not bound to this earth in that way; however, the idea that the dimensions might overlap, and that some people might see souls suffering on some level of Purgatory, roaming this earth, largely depends on what we understand of Purgatory. Purgatory is a spiritual place for holy souls. Believing anything else simply complicates our understanding.

It is certainly not a requirement of faith to believe that ‘ghosts’ are souls who have cleaved to this earth and don’t wish to leave as this puts doubt into the hearts of people that when faced with light, people wouldn’t wish to go straight to Heaven. When faced with such Heavenly light, the soul would long with all her heart to go there.

The last two notions for ‘ghosts’ are not required of Catholics.

It is simpler to believe that there are Saints and Angels in Heaven who can visit us in visions and holy dreams. That there are Holy Souls in Purgatory who sometimes require prayers of us. And there are demons of various strengths that do what they can to cause us problems - relevant blessings necessary.
 
friardchips said:
Using Kreeft to analyse the afterlife might be erroneous if one is doing so without approaching the subject from a solid Catholic perspective in tune with what exorcists have told us.
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You are incorrect and unqualifed. Kreeft is 100% in tune with the Catholic Church, so is St Aquinas. And this information is informed by what exorcist tells us. I teach courses on what the exorcists tell us. But I will not argue. If I say blue, you will argue orange.
 
Every time I dare to visit social networking, which, by the way, will likely be significant in bringing down our culture and humanity, I always say a short prayer to St. Ignora.

I have seen the effects on myself and on others of demonic attacks associated with social networks. Most attacks are not going to be visible, but we can discern them by the effects.
 
BroIgnatius said:
You are incorrect and unqualifed. Kreeft is 100% in tune with the Catholic Church, so is St Aquinas. And this information is informed by what exorcist tells us. I teach courses on what the exorcists tell us. But I will not argue. If I say blue, you will argue orange.
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Unless you are a Priest sanctioned by your Bishop, you have no business ‘teaching’ courses on what exorcists tell us.

Exorcists tell us to reject all new age, ouiji etc.

Pope Francis, our Holy Father says

DO NOT DIALOGUE WITH THE DEVIL.

Jesus says beware of False Prophets and their teachings. In fact, this was today’s Homily.

You will know them by the fruits they bear.

The good fruits are joy, peace , love , forgiveness.
 
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