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Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious world is an exploration of the weird, the strange, the unusual, and the fascinating phenomena in the physical world around us—and beyond—from a Catholic perspective. Join Jimmy Akin and his co-host Domenico Bettinelli as they examine ancient mysteries, folk tales, urban legends, and miraculous stories with a methodical, logical, well-reasoned but not entirely skeptical eye.



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Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious world is an exploration of the weird, the strange, the unusual, and the fascinating phenomena in the physical world around us—and beyond—from a Catholic perspective. Join Jimmy Akin and his co-host Domenico Bettinelli as they examine ancient mysteries, folk tales, urban legends, and miraculous stories with a methodical, logical, well-reasoned but not entirely skeptical eye.



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    New Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)

    New Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)

    MYS322: The Vatican has released new rules for evaluating reports of supernatural phenomena. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli conclude their two-part discussion by looking at the rules themselves; the possible categories; and how the investigations are to be carried out.



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    * Joseph Ratzinger interview book God and the World



    * 2024 Vatican Norms



    * 1978 Vatican Norms



    * Mysterious World 84: Visions, Prophecies, Revelations?



    * Miracle Hunter on Our Lady of All Nations



    * Pope Francis confirms rejection of “Co-redemptrix” (news story)



    * Pope Francis official text



    * Pope Francis 2017 statement on Medjugorje



    * Cardinal Fernandez story on Medjugorje



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    Why the Vatican Changed Its Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)

    Why the Vatican Changed Its Rules for Evaluating Supernatural Phenomena (Apparitions, Visions, Eucharistic Miracles, Catholic, Vatican, Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith)

    MYS321: In May 2024, the Vatican issued new norms for how to evaluate reports of supernatural phenomena. In the first of a two-part discussion, Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine how the new rules radically change the way these phenomena are classified.



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    * Joseph Ratzinger interview book God and the World: https://amzn.to/466iYM5



    * 2024 Vatican Norms: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20240517_norme-fenomeni-soprannaturali_en.html



    * 1978 Vatican Norms: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_19780225_norme-apparizioni_en.html



    * Mysterious World 84: Visions, Prophecies, Revelations?: https://Mysterious.fm/84



    * Miracle Hunter on Our Lady of All Nations: https://www.miraclehunter.com/marian_apparitions/approved_apparitions/amsterdam/



    * Pope Francis confirms rejection of “Co-redemptrix” (news story): https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/12/pope-calls-idea-of-declaring-mary-co-redemptrix-foolishness



    * Pope Francis official text: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/homilies/2019/documents/papa-francesco_20191212_omelia-guadalupe.html





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    New Course with Jimmy Akin: Christianity and Parapsychology

    New Course with Jimmy Akin: Christianity and Parapsychology

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    Whitley Strieber’s Communion (Aliens, UFOs, Visitors, Abduction)

    Whitley Strieber’s Communion (Aliens, UFOs, Visitors, Abduction)

    MYS320: Whitley Strieber’s 1987 book Communion told his story of alien abductions and became a bestselling book and movie. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine Strieber’s claims about the Visitors he describes and ask what really happened.



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    * Whitley Strieber’s book Communion



    * Whitley Strieber



    * Budd Hopkins



    * Donald Klein



    * Screen memories



    * “Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar” (Quote)



    * 17.1-second lightning flash



    * Sleep paralysis



    * Sleep paralysis (WebMD)





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    • 1 hr 55 min
    Lost Scripture? Jubilees (Missing Book of the Bible?)

    Lost Scripture? Jubilees (Missing Book of the Bible?)

    MYS319: Throughout history, there have been books some people considered scripture and others didn’t. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss one of those books, Jubilees. What was does it say? Could any of it be true? What should Christians today think of it?

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    * James VanderKam’s translation of Jubilees

    * James Charlesworth’s Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (2 vol.s)

    * James VanderKam’s large (2 vol.) commentary on Jubilees

    * James VanderKam’s small commentary on Jubilees

    * James VanderKam’s book The Dead Sea Scrolls Today





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    Deathbed Visions (Afterlife Research)

    Deathbed Visions (Afterlife Research)

    MYS318: A deathbed vision is a vision that someone has just before they die and they’ve been reported throughout history. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss how they’re just being scientifically studied only recently, what they are, what happens in them, and what they might tell us about the afterlife.

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    * Sir William Barrett’s book Deathbed Visions

    * Frances Power Cobb’s essay Peak in Darien: The Riddle of Death

    * Society for Psychical Research

    * Sir William Barrett (Psi Encyclopedia)

    * Sir William Barrett

    * Frances Power Cobbe

    * John Keats’s poem

    * Darien Gap

    * Hymn “Oh Come, Angel Band” by YouTuber Heather Berry-Mabe





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