I'm convinced my mom was having a Deathbed Vision when she passed from this life into the next. It was August 6, 2015 (The Feast of the Transfiguratio), and Psrkison's Disease had robbed her of her strength, her ability to eat, and her speech. I'll make a long story short by skipping to the moment of her death. While her in home hospice nurse was getting her stethoscope to check mom's breathing, mom suddenly started staring at the wall, and peacefully smiled. She then nodded yes, and still smiling, turned slightly towards me. Her face became bright, and for about a second or so she looked young; similar to an old photo of her when she was in her early 30s (mom was 88 at the time of her death). When she turned back to look at her vision, she nodded again, as if to signal she was ready, after which she peacefully let out her last breath.

@StuartistStudio1964

4 күн бұрын

I myself was able to sense a peaceful and loving presence the whole time, and am convinced it was Our Dear Sweet Lord coming for her. I wouldn't be surprised if Our Lady was with Him as well, given my mom's devotion to her.

@julieCA58

4 күн бұрын

My Mom had something similar. She had become very weak. Literally could not lift a finger. Could not talk, eat, drink, or lift her head. She suddenly started reciting the 2nd half of the Hail Mary, then the Our Father, but barely able to understand. I sat by her side and held her hand. She then started looking straight ahead, and speaking in another language I do not know. Then she suddenly,and in one smooth strong movement, sat up, looked straight at me, said"I love you", while with one hand forceably pushed me off the bed (I'm a big woman) and was reaching out with her other hand towards whoever she was speaking to at the wall. I feel so blessed to have witnessed this, whatever it was.

Using critical thinking, I deduce that FINAL VIDEO 1 refers to the fact that this is the Final Cut of the editing process. And keeping “final video” in the title was a clerical/ technical error that will probably be corrected later.

@moosekeeto

5 күн бұрын

Phew!

@WayneDrake-uk1gg

5 күн бұрын

I've been saying for years that critical thinking and right reason will lead us to a higher appreciation of Absurdism and irony!

@nightyew2160

4 күн бұрын

Perhaps keeping "final video" in the title would be appropriate considering the subject matter.

this episode reminds me of something Saint Paul once said to the Churchin Corinth, "We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord." I pray that every living soul and those dearly departed will be at home with the Lord after this earthly life.

Its wild that Daisy's family got to just sit there and interview her about the afterlife for 3 days.

@nightyew2160

4 күн бұрын

I also think those three days sound lovely: visiting with friends and family, reading the Bible together, and singing hymns.

The female narrator has some very nice readings. Really elevates the text to another level in some cases. God bless.

It's always nice when Jimmy Akin joins Dom on Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World.

My dad died in 2017… my mom in 2003. My daughter was about to be born (we gave her my mom’s name as her middle name)…. We hoped my dad would be alive to see my daughter’s birth, but that wasn’t in God’s plan. However, 3 days before he died: I was in his bedroom with him and he asked who the little girl in the corner of the room was… there was no one there. I like to think that he got to have a vision of my daughter before he died

Well I certainly was not expecting to cry during this episode but it happened. Thank you for the amazing and beautiful stories!

the best thing to see at work is a new mystery to listen to. thanks jimmy

My father and my grandfather (my mother's father) were good friends in life. When my father died, my grandfahter had spent a anconsiderable amount of time praying over him with my grandmother. A few years later, my grandfather was lying in hospital dying as well, and he said several times that he could see my father in the room, waiting for him to take him home to Heaven. It was very comforting for all of us.

Oh man, what a great episode! And I cannot wait for next week’s episode, it sounds super interesting!

I've always struggled with this topic, but your explanation made everything so clear. Appreciate your thoroughness and passion. 🙏

What a beautiful voice, Ms. Heather has! And I find this subject so interesting! As an RN, I've seen a lot of mysterious things that are hard to wrap my head around. So many people have these types of experiences. Most of them pleasant, but I've seen a couple of scary episodes that really shocked me. Thank you for addressing this subject, Jimmy. I loved this episode!

I'd like to provide a quick correction. When referring to someone with a knighthood, the proper form is to use the person's first name, as in "Sir William", rather than "Sir Barrett". Apart from that, another great episode! Thank you, Jimmy and Dom.

Peace and thanks for compiling the stories. Assume had to use non-copyright song version. My fav are the girls from O Brother Where Art Thou. I hope I would still test the spirits in the Name of Jesus whatever is not of God begone. Eternal rest...to all the souls mentioned. Not a comfort to me to anticipate seeing relatives but pray with hope theyre saved and dont presume and never to despair or envy graces per CCC of St Pius X. These stories reassure yet Jesus said few find the narrow way so am cautious while trust all souls belong to God per Ezekiel. Quote from St Paisos of Mt Athos: "A vision of Christ. It is worth to struggle for a thousand years only to see this beauty just for a moment." (Keeping the memory of God called more attainable goal for monks. Fr Folsom, OSB)😊

Love you Jimmy! Thank you! I think they should rename the Peak in Darean experience. It's a confusing name and explanation. I've heard you explain what it is multiple times now and I still don't think I would be able to explain it to someone else

@nightyew2160

4 күн бұрын

I think of it as if you are on the top of the mountain peak, you can see both sides of the mountain at the same time, both this life and the afterlife. You might see someone on the afterlife side of the mountain that you had thought was still on the life side.

"Deathbed Visions (Afterlife Research) - Jimmy Akin's Mysterious WorldE318 *Final Video 1* ", what an ominous title...

@jamesalewis

5 күн бұрын

The real mystery is whether this is truly the final video. Does this video being published cause all future potential videos to be impossible? What does faith and reason have to say about it? We'll all learn more of that on next week's ... wait...

@Sousabird

5 күн бұрын

@@jamesalewis Well from the reason perspective, I think its most likely that it was the final draft of the video and someone forgot to edit the file name before uploading it to KZread.

Both of my grandmothers had experiences like this. My one grandmother was cognizant basically telling/ asking my mother “ you can’t see them can you?”

This is so fascinating. God is good.

Mom, on her deathbed, promised to come get me when it's my time. "Though it seems I'll have to pull you out of a animal pile for a hug when I do ."

@jillmamma

5 күн бұрын

My mother was at my grandfather’s side when he died. My grandmother had died a few years before. My mother said his last words were, “I see your mother.” They had celebrated 70 years of marriage just before she died and were very close. I am glad my grandmother was able to be one to greet him to heaven.

@nightyew2160

4 күн бұрын

I would avoid piles of animals if I were you.

@erincarter1469

4 күн бұрын

@@nightyew2160 Nope, Mom's taking care of my darlings who pass on. She's well aware I'll be dog and cat piled once I get home. Then I'll hug my family.

Great show as always.

Jimmy, talk to hospice nurses. There are people who have horrible deathbed visions, and terrible deaths. Whether these people were horrible in life, I don’t know. But some people get tremendously agitated and are afraid to die, and they are dying - they can’t prevent it. It’s awful to see, and you can give them anti-anxiety meds but you can’t prevent the death. And you often can’t drug the agitation away.

@Ragnar-Lothbrok967

3 күн бұрын

That sounds awful

good stuff Jimmy. stretching those cells with a nice work out in the brain.

Commenting for algorithm. Another great episode!

My grandpa before he died I was with him and I remember every day he was being visited for someone who was died and he also said they always showed up for someone who is going to die and give a beautiful smile 😢and finally he died.

JIMMY! (sorry to shout)...have you considered posting a reflection/meditation video on how your engagement with parapsychology has colored your understanding of theology, and the extent to which it's been a hill or a valley in your overall spiritual formation?

I have heard this song numerous times... a popular bluegrass piece 😁

My mom just passed a week ago. I spoke on the phone with her on Wednesday. She was VERY lucid and only ever had slight short term memory issues. I told her I'd call her on my break the next day which I did. I called at 10am and my sister answered the phone. I heard my mom in the background talking with a weary voice completely different from the night before. My sister said, "listen to her..." I said, "what is she saying?" ...She said, trying not to break down, "She's talking to Mickey (our grandma) and grandpa...."Mamma, please help me....Mamma....."" Then, I heard her say something and my sister wihispered sorrowfully, "oh God" ....I said, "what?" ...She said, "She just reached forward and asked mimaw to take her to church" my sister then began to cry. I left work, got my wife, and we caught a plane to Midway in Chicago from Alabama. My sister later told me while she was begging her mom, my sister asked her, "is Mickey here?" She said, "no, she was but not now." She then returned back to her discomfort. When my wife and I got there later that night she was sick but, lucid and her voice was stronger. She passed Saturday morning around 2 am.

Perhaps another useful paradigm for understanding the relationship between Here and Hereafter is the sacrament of Baptism. In some sense, there is a literal time when the ceremony is "completed". But most of us couldn't possibly remember it happening, unless we were somehow supergenius infants, and most of us never seriously reflect on it and it's potential effects on our souls until we're 20, 30, 40, etc years old. And with adult baptism, there's usually no hard and fast "experiential consequences" that would clearly distinguish a man in the weeks after baptism from who he was in the weeks leading up to baptism. Whatever combination of Sinner vs Saint he happened to be at the moment of baptism was likely more or less the same in the surrounding months. Now, it certainly takes no stretch of language to agree that death is, indeed, one Hell of a baptism. And though there is, indeed, only One baptism, most of us would agree that the relationship between the sign and the thing signified is not just a dry de facto legal matter, but rather something much more mysterious and mystical that "echos" within us throughout life, and presumably afterwards

Another good version of that song by the Hillbilly Thomists: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fGGCo5uzZbanqto.html

I think one of the Saints who wrote something about preparing for death wrote down some accounts of people who had negative DBV. It was about demons dragging them/torturing them.

Final video, end of the world confirmed.

As a little Puzzle/Theological Game, let's see if we can explain Deathbed Visions using the "vibrational frequency" paradigm of New Age religion in a way that's harmonious with Catholicism. First, we contrast "God's Perfect Universe" with "Adam's Fallen Universe" by way of analogy with a tuning fork, as follows: We can clearly perceive the shape and details of a tuning fork when it's at rest, but once we strike it, it becomes distorted and blurry. But if we were vibrating at the exact same rate as the fork, we would see it "as is". Therefore, our analogy is, we perceive a Fallen Adamic Universe (a blurry distorted tuning fork) because our sin and fallenness prevents us from seeing God's Perfect Universe (the "true fork), by putting our "vibrational frequency" out of synch with God. However, when we're on our deathbed, we perhaps become separated somewhat from sinful/fleshy attachments, which "raises our frequency" to the levels of deceased relatives who are at a more advanced stage of purification than us. Perhaps the Communion of Saints might in some sense be literally all around us, but our "spiritual eyes" are too encumbered by fleshy/devilish/worldly scales "dampening their vibrations"

Final video?! 😳

@nightyew2160

4 күн бұрын

Don't worry, it's only final video 1. I bet that means there will be many more final videos to follow. 😉

@RebeccaLynne2046

Күн бұрын

​@@nightyew2160😂

Also, there is a syory of Allister Crowley having had a deathbed vision that was...less than pleasant. Though that seems to be more of a folktale than an actual event.

Wait, final? Is Jimmy Akin going off the air?

What does "Final Video 1" mean?

@nightyew2160

4 күн бұрын

Well, he said this first video is only about the earliest research done on deathbed visions and that he plans to do another episode on more recent research later. Maybe that will be Final Video 2. Hopefully, as more research is done, they can continue the series even beyond that. I hope the final Final Video won't be until Jimmy is describing his own deathbed visions, and he and Dom are examining them from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. Peace and long life!

Maybe it's just the topic or my decreasing attention span (though no one has ever accused me of a low one), but sometimes hard to stay focused with the reading of many long book passages. Took me a little while to finish this video. Looking forward to next week!

@RebeccaLynne2046

Күн бұрын

You can adjust the playback speed in the settings. 1.5x or 1.75x helps me to not "wonder off." :)

@tonyl3762

Күн бұрын

@@RebeccaLynne2046 Thanks. I do typically watch videos sped up, if I can get away with it. I think there were just competing videos that captured more of my interest this week.

I don't think it's at all reasonable to write off as "hallucination" or "delirium" the frightening visions of some of the dying. Given the existence of negative NDEs and "wide is the road that leadeth to destruction", I expect there are no small number of negative DBVs, but such stories are much less likely to be recorded and passed on. I won't be surprised to see demons coming for me as I pass from this life, and I sure hope the people around me don't assume I'm just seeing things if I say so.

@Ragnar-Lothbrok967

3 күн бұрын

Why would you care what people around you are assuming at that point, wouldn’t you have far bigger things to worry about? Like, where you’re headed?

@leoncaruthers

3 күн бұрын

@@Ragnar-Lothbrok967 I'm a lost cause, I'd want any bystanders warned so they don't share my fate.

@ChungGuss

3 күн бұрын

No one is a lost cause while they are still alive. Pray the Jesus prayer if you ever find yourself in that situation. “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

@leoncaruthers

3 күн бұрын

@@ChungGuss I have a real problem begging for mercy from anyone who threatens me with eternal conscious torment for failing to pass a test designed to be impossible.

@ChungGuss

3 күн бұрын

@@leoncaruthers God doesn’t give anyone an impossible test. Despite all of your failings, he is merciful and loving. I’m sorry for whatever you are dealing with right now.

An old bearded man coming through the door to retrieve his child? Sounds like Brahma. And what the dying little girl said about the afterlife strikes me as more consistent with Platonism and Hinduism than Christianity. The material body is created for this life, and when we leave it, we leave it in an astral body.

@tafazziReadChannelDescription

2 күн бұрын

Dude hinduism teaches reincarnation... nothing about these visions hints at that. Do you find inconsistencies between these visions and the christian teachinfs on heaven?

I hate to say this, but listening to this episode has been an absolute ordeal. Sorry, but you have spent 3/4 of it reading from a 19th century book lenghthy passages one after another, which you could have summarized each, and dwelled on analysis. I've been bored to death by this episode, honestly. The only positive thing I pulled out of it is that I kept falling asleep listening to it over and over again, which is not bad for an insomniac

I wish Jimmy would revert to standard English, instead of his folksy accent. It will be easier for ESL people to understand him. When I worked with a Philipina in Los Angeles, she couldn't understand my slight Pittsburgh, PA accent, unless I made an effort to speak standard English. Jimmy's accent will lose ESL listeners. And it sounds like he doesn't have enough respect for his listeners to make the effort to present in standard English for them. (Thumbs down on the accent).

@ante3979

4 күн бұрын

I am an ESL listener and I did not even notice that Jimmy has a particular accent that differs much from an usual american accent, nor does his accent make his speach less intelligible...