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Helping Stuck Souls! (Purgatory, Fr. Nathan Castle, OP)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Metaphysics of the Spirit

There have been parapsychological studies on the sense of being stared at where people seem to suddenly be aware that someone's watching them. Well, I sometimes wonder if in the metaphysics of it, if the spirit can touch that spot without need of any of the five senses providing the data. And then sometimes if people's names get mentioned in a conversation in this context, that's all it takes for them to be alert. They haven't exactly been asked to show up, but we're talking about them. And they know it and they show up. That happens a lot.

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