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Seeing the Messiah
An Analysis of the Postmortem Appearances of Jesus Christ and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Against the Backdrop of Apparitional Phenomena
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Seeing the Messiah
An Analysis of the Postmortem Appearances of Jesus Christ and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Against the Backdrop of Apparitional Phenomena
About this book
Apparitions are real. The evidence for their objective nature is immense, and they are frequently not the transparent, non-physical manifestations depicted by Hollywood and popular culture. Moreover, some apparitions demonstrate blatantly physical characteristics to the point that they may be initially mistaken for real people. Seeing the Messiah takes readers on a tour of case studies from eight well-evidenced categories of apparitions that occur in nature. These categories include visions of the bereaved, those that linger in haunted houses, figures that materialize during seances, and apparitions that represent religious icons such as the Blessed Virgin Mary. What exactly are apparitions? Visitations from the supernatural realm? Dramas created through telepathy? Dr. Kendall speculates on how these strange intrusions into our reality might best be interpreted and the implications this has for the nature of reality itself. Having established the characteristics of this phenomenon, Dr. Kendall examines claims that Menachem Mendel Schneerson (i.e., the Lubavitcher Rebbe) was raised from the dead, with special scrutiny of the post-mortem encounters of the Rebbe to his followers. He then evaluates the historical data used to support Jesus' resurrection in light of the same apparitional data. Do those who "see the Messiah" merely experience apparitions?
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The World of Apparitions
- 2. Crisis Apparitions
- 3. Apparitions of the Living
- 4. Haunting Apparitions
- 5. Rescue Apparitions
- 6. Transitional Apparitions
- 7. Reunion Apparitions
- 8. Inducible Apparitions
- 9. Apparitions of Jesus Christ
- 10. The Marian Apparition of Knock, Ireland
- 11. The Marian Apparition of Betania, Venezuela
- 12. The Miracle of the Sun in Fátima, Portugal
- 13. Assessing Apparitions as Subjective Phenomena
- 14. Apparitions and the Fantasy Prone Personality
- 15. Assessing Apparitions as Objective Phenomena
- 16. Apparitions, Super-Psi and the Question of Survival
- 17. Apparitions as Expressions of the Collective Unconscious
- 18. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- 19. Apparitions of the Rebbe
- 20. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- 21. Jesus’ Appearances
- 22. Apparitions as an Alternative Explanation to Jesus’ Resurrection
- 23. Comparing the Postmortem Appearances of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Jesus Christ
- Concluding Reflections
- Appendix A: Statistics on Apparitional Phenomena
- Appendix B: Apparitions and Quantum Entanglement
- Bibliography