Something happens at the moment of death. Sometimes the living sense it from miles away — a vision, a voice, a presence, a touch. These are crisis apparitions, and they've been scientifically documented since 1882.

Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine 140 years of research into crisis apparitions: the Society for Psychical Research's landmark Census of Hallucinations, modern studies on deathbed phenomena, six categories of crisis impressions, and remarkable historical cases that shaped how scientists think about consciousness and death. They also look at what the Catholic tradition says about these encounters and why the Church never found them troubling.

Further Resources:
• Daniel Bourke’s book Apparitions at the Moment of Death: https://amzn.to/435miWY
• Phantasms of the Living, vol. 1: https://amzn.to/42rEASf
• Phantasms of the Living, vol. 2: https://amzn.to/4uL8ZXH
• Proceedings of the SPR (1st Literary Committee report): https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofsoc01soci_0/page/146/mode/2up?q=telepathy
• Census of Hallucinations: https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofsoc10soci/mode/2up
• Pearson, Mossbridge, and Beischel’s paper Crisis Impressions: A Historical and Conceptual Review: https://www.windbridge.org/papers/TJICS-Crisis-Impressions-2023.pdf
• Phenomena Related to Danger, Death, and Bereavement (Psi Encyclopedia): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/phenomena-relating-danger-death-bereavement/
• Society for Psychical Research (Psi Encyclopedia): https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/society-psychical-research/
• Hans Berger (Grokipedia): https://grokipedia.com/page/Hans_Berger

Chapters:
0:00 - MYS417
0:13 - Intro
1:28 - What is a crisis apparition?
5:26 - Reorts of crisis apparitions
10:02 - Mrs. Birkbeck
13:31 - Captain Colt
17:43 - J.G. Keulemans
21:30 - Sarah Jardine
23:18 - Multiple percipients
23:48 - C. Colchester
26:06 - Liston and Creigh
28:51 - Silence in apparitions
29:18 - Miss H.
32:46 - Apparitions without death
33:27 - Bishop Wilberforce
34:49 - Auditory apparitions
35:05 - R. Fryer
37:08 - Frederick Corder
44:13 - Apparitions in dreams
45:03 - Dr. A
48:44 - Origin of telepathy
51:21 - Census of Hallucinations
53:33 - Hans Berger
58:01 - Thank you to Patrons
58:30 - Sponsor: The Secret of the Goldfish
59:24 - Sponsor: The Grady Group
59:41 - Reason Perspective
1:00:14 - Crisis impressions
1:02:35 - How common?
1:06:51 - Six categories
1:07:51 - Visual or auditory hallucinations
1:13:07 - Dreams or borderland visions
1:14:38 - Mental impressions
1:19:59 - Physical impressions
1:22:03 - Deathbed visions
1:23:36 - Sensed-presence experiences
1:24:59 - Components of crisis impressions
1:25:50 - Genders of the agents and the experients
1:27:23 - Relationship between experient and agent
1:31:07 - State of consciousness of experient
1:33:08 - Geographic occurrence
1:34:47 - Frequency of experience
1:35:48 - Telepathy? Paranormal?
1:38:27 - Faith Perspective
1:44:40 - Bottom Line
1:45:28 - Further Resources
1:46:34 - Mysterious Feedback: #406 Exposing the Myth of the Zodiac Killer
1:52:31 - Your mysterious feedback
1:53:12 - Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
1:53:16 - Jimmy’s YouTube channel
1:53:58 - Next Time: Skeleton Lake
1:54:09 - Share the show
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1:54:26 - Show notes
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1:55:53 - Outro

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