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.

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Chapters:

• 00:00:17 – Intro
• 00:00:32 – A bonus episode for our patrons
• 00:00:57 – Telekinesis: is it real, is it demonic?
• 00:06:40 – Does Skinwalker Ranch have skinwalkers?
• 00:07:51 – Codependency vs. Christian love
• 00:11:19 – The Kensington Runestone
• 00:13:33 – The Mary Celeste
• 00:17:19 – Living reliquaries: a saint’s donated organs
• 00:19:15 – Occam’s razor out the Overton window
• 00:21:14 – Do your belongings come with you?
• 00:25:46 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 00:26:46 – Sponsor: Robert Young’s In Time
• 00:27:43 – Sponsor a StarQuest show
• 00:28:27 – The Salem witch trials
• 00:31:46 – Melchizedek, king of Salem
• 00:38:59 – Semite or Hamite? How genealogies worked
• 00:42:34 – Klingon Jesus and Time Lord Jesus
• 00:47:32 – Would the incarnations know each other?
• 00:50:45 – Ley lines
• 00:54:00 – Apophenia: patterns in random data
• 00:54:32 – Is Satan the ruler of this world?
• 00:58:20 – Thank you to our patrons
• 00:58:37 – Show notes
• 00:59:02 – Mysterious Feedback: #422 The Ark of the Covenant
• 00:59:19 – Why weren’t the Babylonians struck down?
• 01:01:53 – The Jeremiah letter in 2 Maccabees
• 01:03:26 – The Hancock hypothesis
• 01:04:36 – The Lemba and the Ngoma Lungundu
• 01:06:55 – Coming up: the Holy Grail and Crystal Skulls
• 01:07:22 – Sponsor: Grave Tending Solutions
• 01:08:01 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
• 01:08:24 – Your mysterious feedback
• 01:08:55 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 01:09:12 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 01:09:45 – Outro

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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.

https://youtu.be/UMsuQFcv_b8

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Links for this episode:

• Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, Thought-Forms (Amazon)
• Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (Amazon)
• Walter J. Kilner, The Human Atmosphere (Internet Archive)
• Karl von Reichenbach, Letters on Od and Magnetism (Etheronics)
• Milán et al., “Auras in mysticism and synaesthesia: A comparison,” Consciousness and Cognition (2012)
• Zingrone, Alvarado, and Agee, “Psychological Correlates of Aura Vision,” Australian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (2009)
• Pehek, Kyler, and Faust, “Image Modulation in Corona Discharge Photography,” Science (1976)
• Robert W. Loftin, “Auras: Searching for the Light,” Skeptical Inquirer (1990)
• Bertram R. Forer, “The Fallacy of Personal Validation,” Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (1949)
• “Aura” (Psi-Encyclopedia, Society for Psychical Research)
• “Kirlian Photography” (Psi-Encyclopedia, Society for Psychical Research)
• Mysteries from Beyond the Earth (1975 documentary)
• The Conversation of Saint Seraphim of Sarov with Nicholas Motovilov
• Society for Psychical Research
• Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, Episode 288: The Mystery of Synesthesia

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• Send your feedback or comments to feedback@mysterious.fm or send a tweet to @mys_world
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Chapters:

• 0:00:12 – Intro
• 0:00:43 – Cold open: an aura reading at the shop
• 0:01:40 – What an aura is supposed to be
• 0:02:36 – Layers, chakras, and prana
• 0:04:16 – What the colors are said to mean
• 0:05:21 – Rare gift or learned skill?
• 0:05:57 – Color and emotion across cultures
• 0:07:14 – Light around holy figures in scripture
• 0:09:31 – Halos, the nimbus, and the mandorla
• 0:11:06 – Franz Anton Mesmer and animal magnetism
• 0:12:41 – Mesmerism in Paris
• 0:13:49 – The Franklin Commission of 1784
• 0:17:18 – Karl von Reichenbach and the odic force
• 0:19:50 – The Society for Psychical Research
• 0:20:56 – Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky
• 0:23:21 – Besant, Leadbeater, and the color code
• 0:25:50 – Dr. Walter Kilner and the dicyanin screens
• 0:29:09 – Wilhelm Reich and orgone
• 0:30:39 – The FDA, the book burnings, and Reich’s death
• 0:31:56 – Kirlian photography
• 0:33:26 – Clip: Mysteries from Beyond Earth (Thelma Moss)
• 0:39:39 – The modern aura camera
• 0:40:30 – How aura cameras actually work
• 0:41:56 – Auras today: apps and selfies
• 0:42:42 – Thank you to Patrons
• 0:43:13 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
• 0:43:35 – Sponsorship opportunities
• 0:44:40 – Reason Perspective: the seven theories
• 0:46:14 – Theory 1: Do aura cameras photograph a real field?
• 0:47:48 – Theory 2: Do the colors carry universal meanings?
• 0:50:54 – Theory 3: A literal electromagnetic field?
• 0:52:52 – What Kirlian photography actually captures
• 0:54:21 – Theory 4: An undiscovered subtle energy
• 0:56:51 – The screen tests
• 0:59:21 – Why negative results from parapsychologists matter
• 1:00:11 – Theory 5: Biophotons
• 1:02:55 – Theory 6: Synesthesia
• 1:06:57 – Theory 7: Ordinary perception and suggestion
• 1:11:06 – Faith Perspective
• 1:13:47 – Halos as symbol, not photograph
• 1:14:38 – Bottom Line
• 1:15:39 – Further Resources
• 1:16:21 – Mysterious Feedback: #420 Pre-Sputnik Transients
• 1:22:06 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:22:46 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:22:51 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:23:52 – Next Time: The Shepherd of Hermas
• 1:24:23 – Share the show, write a review
• 1:24:34 – Get your Mysterious merch
• 1:24:45 – Show notes
• 1:24:52 – Become a Patron
• 1:25:04 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 1:25:20 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

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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.

https://youtu.be/iP2GwjYOUfk

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• Buck Nelson, My Trip to Mars, the Moon, and Venus (modern paperback): https://amzn.to/3SygFit
• My Trip to Mars, the Moon, and Venus (free PDF of the 1956 booklet): http://gratisenergi.se/buck1956.pdf
• “The Ozarks Spaceman: Buck Nelson in 10 Facts,” Springfield-Greene County Library: https://thelibrary.org/post/the-ozarks-spaceman-buck-nelson-in-10-facts
• Ozarks Alive feature on Buck Nelson: https://www.ozarksalive.com/stories/2iepyyzyl2rk6jkohdpf633ftjaaoc
• Buck Nelson (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Nelson
• Sue Hubbell, “Buck Nelson and the Little Men,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 29, 1977: https://www.newspapers.com/search/?query=Buck+Nelson+Little+Men&dr_year=1977-1977
• Dale Freeman, “Out of This World,” Springfield News-Leader, February 26, 1956: https://www.newspapers.com/search/?query=Buck+Nelson+Out+of+This+World&dr_year=1956-1956
• “Trip to Venus Talk Packs Sunday School,” The Spokesman-Review, March 23, 1956: https://www.newspapers.com/image/568434786/

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Chapters:

• 0:00:12 – Intro
• 0:00:47 – Cold open: The Ozark Spaceman
• 0:01:50 – Today’s Mystery: The UFO Contactees
• 0:02:58 – Mountain View, Missouri
• 0:04:57 – Ozark Caves and Karst Country
• 0:06:00 – Who Was Buck Nelson?
• 0:08:11 – July 1954: Three Discs and a Flashlight
• 0:09:44 – The Healing Ray
• 0:10:28 – The Saucers Come Back
• 0:11:54 – Bucky, Bob Solomon, and Big Bo
• 0:14:04 – The Spacemen Tour the House
• 0:18:01 – The Twelve Laws of God
• 0:19:53 – At the Controls
• 0:22:03 – Mars
• 0:24:10 – The Moon
• 0:27:00 – Venus
• 0:29:21 – Home After Three Days
• 0:29:37 – What the Space People Were Like
• 0:33:26 – Atlantis and the Pyramids
• 0:35:01 – Christmas with Bucky
• 0:37:24 – Thank you to Patrons
• 0:37:56 – Sponsor: Rosary Army and School of Mary
• 0:38:38 – Sponsorship opportunities
• 0:39:26 – The Lecture Circuit and the Booklet
• 0:41:46 – The Spacecraft Conventions
• 0:45:16 – The Men in Black
• 0:47:50 – Trouble With the Government
• 0:48:49 – How the Story Ended
• 0:50:44 – Reason Perspective
• 0:52:46 – Faith Perspective
• 0:53:50 – The Twist
• 0:57:18 – The Civil Rights Backdrop
• 0:58:53 – Racism Is Evil
• 1:03:02 – Bottom Line
• 1:04:11 – Further Resources
• 1:04:43 – Mysterious Feedback: #419 Zombie Marriage, Holy Roman Emperors, Jesus’ DNA, and More Weird Questions
• 1:11:10 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:11:46 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:11:51 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:13:13 – Thank you to Craig Hart
• 1:13:18 – Next Time: Auras
• 1:13:38 – Share the show, write a review
• 1:13:50 – Get your Mysterious merch
• 1:13:58 – Show notes
• 1:14:05 – Become a Patron
• 1:14:12 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 1:15:03 – After the Credits: 1956 School Lunch Menus
• 1:17:15 – Outro

This Episode is Brought to You By:

Rosary Army. Featuring award-winning Catholic podcasts, Rosary resources, videos, and the School of Mary online community, prayer, and learning platform. Learn how to make them, pray them, and give them away while growing in your faith at RosaryArmy.com and SchoolOfMary.com

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