Sentences with phrase «religious apparitions»

The Miracle Detective by Randall Sullivan Atlantic Monthly, 448 pages, $ 25 Few things rankle the modern mind more than religious apparitions.

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I refer to those obscure and exceptional phenomena reported at all times throughout human history, which the «psychical - researchers,» with Mr. Frederic Myers at their head, are doing so much to rehabilitate; 7 such phenomena, namely, as religious conversions, providential leadings in answer to prayer, instantaneous healings, premonitions, apparitions at time of death, clairvoyant visions or impressions, and the whole range of mediumistic capacities, to say nothing of still more exceptional and incomprehensible things.

Some patients, when their temporal lobes were stimulated, reported hearing voices and seeing apparitions — not overtly religious experiences, necessarily, but certainly mysterious ones.

And almost since that first in a series of 18 appearances to the young peasant girl, religious pilgrims have been making their way to Lourdes to pray at the spot of the apparition and to drink or even bathe in the waters from an underground spring that some believe have miraculous healing powers.

Religious people, on the other hand, believe that technology is an enabler of evil necessary for apparition of the beast and the creation of the apocalypse.