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Mysterious Voices! (Medical Diagnosis? Hallucination? Psychosis? Spirits?)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

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The Paranormal Explanations for Annabelle's Experience

Parapsychology is about whether a phenomenon actually requires the spirit of a non-living person, or whether it could be explained by psychic functioning on the part of a living person. Annabelle's subconscious mind knitted together these psychic impressions and produced the voices that she was hearing. On this hypothesis, no actual spirits were involved. Another way that living agent side could be involved would be if there were former employees of the Children's Hospital involved but they were still living. Maybe two former hospital employees psychically diagnosed her at a distance and then psychically contacted her to let her know about the problem. If you hear a disembodied voice speaking in the past tense of what they used

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