Source: “Seeing the Messiah: An Analysis of the Postmortem Appearances of Jesus Christ and the Lubavitcher Rebbe Against the Backdrop of Apparitional Phenomena”, By Jonathan Kendall, MD, 2025.
1. The_World_of_Apparitions.mp4
1. Resurrection Apparitions Super Psi.pdf
1. Super-Psi_Explains_Jesus_and_the_Rebbe.m4a
This topic explores the historical and psychological nature of postmortem appearances, specifically comparing the resurrection accounts of Jesus Christ and Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The author challenges the traditional binary of physical resurrection versus subjective hallucination by proposing that these figures may have manifested as objective apparitions—externally real phenomena that can be perceived by multiple witnesses. By synthesizing historical theology with over a century of psychical research, the source suggests that such encounters are well-documented among healthy individuals and often involve the transfer of veridical information. Ultimately, the work aims to move beyond scientific materialism to offer a "Super-Psi" framework that accounts for the survival of consciousness after death without necessarily confirming specific religious dogmas.
As someone who trusts in scientific data, I’ve always viewed tales of apparitions through a purely skeptical lens. Ghosts, postmortem encounters, visions—these are the products of superstition or psychology, relics of a pre-scientific age. My perspective was much like that of the medical doctor whose meticulous research forms the basis of this article. But what he discovered in over 140 years of documented case files, and what I found in his work, was something else entirely.
Contrary to popular belief, the phenomenon of apparitions has been the subject of careful study by very serious researchers—cautious, thorough investigators who applied rigorous standards to their work. Their cumulative data presents a picture of reality far stranger than most of us imagine. As the doctor who compiled this research warns, the findings are deeply unsettling to conventional worldviews. Whether you are a firm materialist or a traditional theist, "there will be something in what follows that will be disturbing to your worldview."
This article explores five of the most surprising and counter-intuitive findings from this vast body of research. These discoveries don't just challenge what we think we know about ghosts; they challenge what we think we know about history, consciousness, and the very fabric of reality itself.