In this episode from our Archives, Fr Spitzer speaks about how the soul can be proven to exist by citing many near-death experiences.
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This is cruel. You are doing great harm to people of faith.
The problem is YouTube has been overwhelmed with clearly fake NDE channels looking to cash in on the phenomenon
It’s become impossible to know what is legitimate and what is merely click bait for cash.
This podcast is an example that Catholicism has NDE practising priests preaching their experience, as well as mystic who communicate/d with souls:
Fr. Robert Spitzer NDE
Fr. Rick Wendell NDE
Fr. Steven Scheirer NDE
Fr Nathan Castle
Fr Stefan Lampe NDE
St Therese of Avila (mystic)
St John of the Cross (mystic)
The course sounds wonderful but the site crediblecatholic is showing as not secure.
Very informative. I just received my 3 Class Relic of St. Gemma Galgani. My Patron Saint.
Another clown with BS info
Catholics can't explain this subject, this priest is relying on data over 3 decades but there is 3 millennia of historical data.
I wouldn't even bother with anything Catholic.
I do hope he's not trying to say that Jesus Christs experience was a NDE
How does this say that we’ll be “judged?” I’m familiar with many studies but none report a judgment.” Perhaps a life review, but not by trial.
@zacharybraganza3747. Who are you to judge that the Catholic Vatican are going to hell ??? Only Jesus Christ can judge us here in this earth …
Love me my Fr. Spitzer. Great episode!
I can tell you why atheism and agnosticism are rising:
1. They are taught from kindergarten to university anti-Christian, materialist, immoral, progressive ideologies.
2. Media is filled with corrupting ideas and beliefs.
3. The internet/phones are addictive and distract one away from Christian spirituality.
4. Parents aren't Christian or if so are poor examples.
I had to smile at the story of a blind boy seeing a train. I’m glad he saw one. One question, though, how do they know what they’re seeing if they’ve never seen things before?
Jesus does not Judge neither does the Father.
Therefore whoever judges redeems that means that the Divine Word is the saviour in the Old Testament and the New Testament.
When you are Judged God the Word is trying to find Himself in you, His words are Life, "This is my Body given for you" again He, speaking in Jesus Christ says "My Body is real flesh"
Speaking in Jesus the Divine Word said "No-one can come to the Father but by me" this is a sacred hurdle because the Word says "You must pass me by in order to see God" and to do so is to be given the Beatific Vision of God glorified in Jesus Christ.
So you must understand that saying Isaiah 53 is about Jesus Christ is to fall into a Docetic heresy, because Israel the person is recorded as living in the Kingdom of God by Isaiah, having been a person in person 1400 years before Jesus, Jesus Christ is a person recorded in the first century with the mandate of Isaiah and his awareness of who he was I know whither I have come and whence i go
The real situation is that it is Isaiah 49:3 that Isaiah was speaking of, "You are my servant Israel in whom I shall be glorified" Israel is the First born Son and the The preserved of Jacob are redeemed in Israel
John's Gospel in the first pages endorses that Jesus is a divine sacrifice "the lamb of God" and that he is mooted by John the Baptist to be Israel redivivus,(John 1:26-28) that is why Jesus confirmed John the Baptist as Elijah redivivus.
Yet if you could see Jesus Christ now you would see him in the Glory of God as the Beatific Vision
Jesus tells us very clearly that Resurrection comes after a thousand years after which immediately is followed by Ascension in a regeneration of their glorified bodies. Prior to the Resurrection and ASCENSION we are angelic beings in Paradise, we are the "Children of God" this existence is not a disembodied spirit, this existence is the culmination of the soul in life being impregnated in a non sexual manner by the action of the Spirit of Truth just as Simeon assured Mary, but we must understand that those people who did not receive this sanctification to be impregnated leave their bodies as the image of what they had in Life, they do not have the sanctification which is that they would become Immaculate conceptions in their own right but must be reborn and reborn until such time as they cannot be reborn again until such time as they must become celestial children not the same image as they had in life.
As celestial children they cannot procreate as they procreated in life, fertility is withheld, but in the Resurrection and ASCENSION they may very well be fertile and to be of God is to take part in Creation.
Jesus teaches that Resurrection and ASCENSION is applied to the People of Israel and to non Judaic religions as well.
I have spoken to Bishop Barren regarding his denunciation of the Celestial children as being disembodied spirits, he is plain wrong in this respect, and he should not be taking scripture out of context to suit Catholic culture and false doctrines.
Luke 20:34-38 explains those set to become Celestial children and Angelic beings as opposed to those who must be reborn into the world they have known.
1:52 Trans Physical
The soul of a person unfit for the kingdom of God is a ghost, it is a copy of the mortal body. It can be redeemed by rebirth which is the usual method.
The soul can be transformed into a Child of God by Judgement which is Revelation Simeon spoke to Mary in the Temple regarding her own Transformation which occurred during her life as it was the precursor to her own Immaculate Conception just as had happened in Isaiah 9 with the knowledge of Immanuel.
Not everyone is saved into the Kingdom of Heaven, that is, Paradise, among those not saved as Jesus outlined in Luke 20:34-38 those saved into Paradise, are saved by judgement there are Christians and Catholics who are saved FROM judgement and they can be reborn (again) these people are those who persecuted Jesus Christ causing him to say Where I am going you cannot come Reincarnation is appropriate. Just being a nominal Christian is not good enough. The Catholic Church says it promises Eternal life it does not recognise Reincarnation but for some there is only rebirth and that is reincarnation. This is the normal way, only by judgement can we become the children of God
The pathway back into the world is Embryonica a place where every ovulating woman is represented by her spiritual ova which is present in the mind of God. Embryonica is a place of deep darkness lit by the ova attached in perfect unison on concentric circles moving inexorably as golden bands surrounded by darkness but this darkness is not darkness it is Memory, and it is understanding, and it is knowledge, each single ova is represented by a human head interminably aged, of which a golden light emanates, a head which is conceived has its eyes open it can see many heads all with their eyes closed and a vista of concentric circles with heads arranged in symmetric order to his right and left, the space before him is dark and as he looks on a hand begins to wipe away the darkness revealing more darkness behind it, then golden symbols and characters scroll past his eyes, after which he exclaims "PERFECT" realising he has been assessed by God who has taken everything needed into account to ensure that a tariff exists in which (Should he choose) his soul can become "PERFECT"
Immediately he is snatched out of the orbit he had occupied and is borne down this descent is noisy but he is content to see other worlds and to desire to enter those worlds, but he then sees the Earth and immediately pulls up, the journey is stopped and he remarks "The Great Tribulation? But I have been here before! He said,
Then one of the angels who had snatched him from the orbit he had been occupying, above spoke saying " So long as you live you shall not see War, the second one then said "You shall not live long",
They, the angels were distinguishable by their light, as one was transparently dark and one was transparently light,
These statements seemed reasonable to the newly conceived soul so without further ado their descent continued, the Earth growing ever larger accepted the three messengers!
Jesus Christ's understanding of Resurrection
Resurrection is a very big subject but applies chiefly to the resurrection on the 3rd day, when the children of God will be enveloped in a new and glorified body, (a body which will resemble the body of the one they had in the prime of their lives during the 1st day which is today), these resurrections into a glorified body can be witnessed by the children of God, as they are angelic witnesses and Christ's in their own right from the 2nd day. The reign of these Christ's is up to a thousand years, they also witness the children of men as well as angels as they transition in the 1st day to the 2nd days.
We also have an explanation of resurrection and its counterpart which is reincarnation, from Our Lord when He discussed with Nicodemus the fact that there were two dichotomies regarding salvation, the physical return of a person unfit for the 'Kingdom of God' and the spiritual exit of a person who is fit for it. Our lord consolidates this teaching when He spoke to the 'Rich young Ruler' stating his salvation was assured because of his following the law of Moses but this salvation was secondary as it involved merely reincarnation. So one is locked into the 1st day, (Hodie ), and the other released from matter into the 'Kingdom of God' as an angelic child, to begin the 2nd day.
The fact that this realm has existed to our knowledge for thousands of years suggests that no one is lost and are in familial groups. Further we can set as a biblical fact that the first millennial people who followed Our Lord are arisen bodily in their 3rd day, and that the Old Testament people who followed the Law of Moses are as well, as recorded in Exodus 20:6. The teaching of Our Lord is not about reincarnation but how to overcome reincarnation yet he does not deny reincarnation. Consider the teaching of the 'sermon on the mount' when He said "The meek shall inherit the earth" this is a clear reference to returning to another body ( earth or matter) after one life has been spent, and contrasts with the terms required for one to "enter into the Kingdom of God" who has the burden of his own cross. Therefore the meek can inherit only material life, (because of their disposition) but they may not enter the kingdom of God, because it requires great and determined faith.
We must also consider St John the Baptist and his role as Elijah redivivus, and in so doing call to mind the words used by Jesus to the Jews of is day, "where I am going you cannot come" because those Jews would only achieve reincarnation but Jesus Christ is Lord of the resurrection so His own resurrection on the 3rd day was witnessed on the 1st day and is still being witnessed on this Ist day.
Yet we must keep in mind the instant generosity by which the Good Thief was accepted into Paradise.
John 8:21
Again he said to them, "I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come."
Hebrews 6:6-8
Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience, again he sets a certain day, "Today," saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,
"Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts." 8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not speak later of another day.
The Queen Of Sheba
The life of the human aeon.
The Ante-Deluvian aeon for the first generation was up to a thousand years for each person Methuselah being an exception.
I have to believe this is true though to a modern mind it is laughable, but we need to understand the perception and beliefs of these ancient people because it is an important concept which sets boundaries.
In relation to this longevity Jesus states Matthew 24:22
And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would be saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened
Jesus therefore clearly means that resurrection included reincarnation, but there is a distinct difference between The Resurrection and resurrection The former being an end to the Aeon and the latter just the souls coming and going to gain nourishment for its being.
John 10:9 I am the door; if anyone enters by me he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture
The importance of Luke 20:34-36
34 And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage; 35 but those who are accounted worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage, 36 for they cannot die any more, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection
Based upon the Bible truth that judgement does not occur until the soul has completed multiple resurrections (reincarnations) and can no longer attain rebirth in the physical world, that passage, relies on Jesus understanding of what he revealed about the unbelieving Jews in relation to the Queen of Sheba’s Resurrection. Note capital R
Matthew 12:41 The queen of the South will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here
Jesus teaches here the boundaries of aeons as a thousand years from one Resurrection to another, so those Jews who railed against him would be able to live out their lives until such time as they could no longer be reborn and then be judged, and at that judgement the Queen of the South would Arise and condemn them, this is the same meaning as Resurrection. Her life was recorded as being 9th century B.C. a thousand years accurarately places her Resurrection in the 1st century A.D.
Therefore Jesus had a meticulous understanding of resurrections reincarnation, and Resurrection, as he states “I AM the Resurrection and the Life” And guess what, the Queen of the South wasn’t even a Catholic.
I too have reached the stage where I have already been judged, and my future in Paradise will be among those people whose earthly lives ended in the last thousand years I will be particularly friendly to King Peter I of Portugal and his wife Inez de Castro who died in the 12th century, I am destined to watch them as they resurrect from dust in their sarcophagus, He will arise first and he will go to his wife’s regenerated body and help her from her sarcophagus, then both of them will walk over to a beam of light and ascend into the world of the 3rd day.
This is not Catholic teaching this is Biblical teaching Catholic teaching has been unable to comprehend what has been written because it understands through a very narrow prism.
Doctors of arts, medicine, law and philosophy can be made by the pope, the emperor and the universities; but be quite sure that no-one can make a doctor of Holy Scripture save only the Holy Ghost from heaven, as Christ says in John vi ‘They must all be taught by God himself’. Now the Holy Ghost does not ask after red or brown robes, or what is showy, whether a man is young or old , clerical or lay, monastic or secular, virgin married. Indeed , he once spake by an ass against the prophet that rode on it, would that we were worthy that such doctors be given us…” (Luther, An d. chr. Adel deutch. Nation v. d.v.d. chr. Standes Besserung. 1520, W.A. ,. 6. pg 460, 1, 28 from Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth vol 1.1 pg 19
This is fascinating. Thank you, Father.
As a hemodialysis nurse I had a blind and double amputee patient who suffered a respiratory arrest while being dialyzied. The other nurse and I decided to rinse back her blood, as she had signed a DNR order. As a result of the sudden increase of volume she was stimulated to breathe and recovered. She told us everything we did. She knew that I was the one who performed the rinseback and told both of us what we had each done during the rinsback and physician exam. She had wanted to discontinue dialysis but her children did not permit her wishes. From that day forward she begged us to put air in the lines so that she could die. Of course we did not do that. During a treatment some months later, she sat up in her bed, stretched out her arms and said “mother” and then collapsed back onto her bed. She indeed passed away. She was a beautiful lady who was very lonely because her family rarely visited her and she lived in a nursing home. She was Catholic and a gentle lady. I definitely believe in out of body / after death experiences. Over the years I have been associated with two other patients who testified to me about their out of body experiences.
Fr Spitzer I met you in N California in the early 2000s. You had just been diagnosed with Macular Degeneration. I am so grateful for the internet that I can hear you again and in my area of interest! I’m grateful as well for technology to help you in continuing your work with your serious disability. Prayers for you to continue!
Unfortunately the credible catholic link doesn't seem to be working right. I get a certificate warning and if press onward, redirected elsewhere.
Fortunately I was able to find the modules by searching on Fr. Spitzer's name and then to the Magis Center's resources.
The NDE is Satan's dirty trick on the traumatized, emotional mind.
AND NO WONDER! For Satan himself can manifest as an angel of light! 2nd Cor 11:14
Anyone with an NDE, is often a narcissist and not a Christian in the first place.
Is Fr. Spritzer sure these books are being used in Ireland?? We seem to be going the other way with our schoolbooks, several genders and partnerships etc, and Christianity is only one of many different religions in our latest religious schoolbooks!
Mother of harlots mystery Babylon
Beautiful
Thanks
From Ireland
The stories of passing through walls is fascinating. On the surface, it seems like a Hollywood movie. But in the New Testament Jesus goes into a locked room where the Apostles are. They didn't see any Hollywood movies two thousand years ago. In the light of these more recent documented experiences, I think it adds to the authenticity of the Bible.
Thanks Father, I had NDE and my I know there was witnesses because I was in prison when it happened many witnesses lot of guys even said I was dead watched it happen I saw my body from outside of my body and my whole life played like a slide show fast but I could still understand and many emotions it was crazy. Never planned on becoming religious especially Catholic but that's what happened. God is good. I went from career criminal to Catholic. I'm very thankful for the suffering I've endured because it led me to Christ and his Church
I'm on my second cup of coffee….
My former philosophy professor! Father Spitzer! 1990, Seattle University, Philosophy, I cried during class one day because I was so frustrated, my name is Melissa!
I had a NDE also about 50 years ago ago I was going down a rabbit river and I went under and was did not come out of the water for 10:00 minutes. My whole life went like a tv screen then I was in this beautiful white light, then I looked around and next thing I knew I was out of the water and I could not swim to shore,something my gardingen angle took me to shore I felt something carrying me.
Who are these folks who experience heaven or God? What faith(s)?
I may be brought misery for expiation. Jesus is Lord and Savior.
Yes their very true .
What about laying in bed you're seeing your spirit or soul leaving through the top of your head Then being hit hard with and invisable electric paddle which was nothing but the Lord because it happened in my home with no humans around and I also have tons of proof on my phone that the Lord JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth is Real ……. The best way to explain it would be one giant electrical chest compression…….
Great stuff father 👏👏
How would the blind people even describe what they saw during their NDE if they’ve never seen anything?