Science PROVES the Existence of the Soul (Here’s How) 

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I had an NDE in 1980 during a traumatic childbirth. Fr. Spitzer described everything perfectly and even validated a couple of things that I've never told anyone. It's still difficult for me to fully articulate what an absolutely amazing experience it was. It was also the beginning of my long, slow conversion to Catholicism (I was raised Mormon). I was baptized at Easter Vigil 2024 - yep, that feeling of awe is still there!

I had a head-on collision and suffered serious head and other bodily injuries (21+ facial fractures from eyes down), but miraculously no brain injury despite a serious nasal fracture as well. This happened 38 years ago. I almost? died in ICU and experienced a wonderful experience of ‘floating’ peacefully thru a beautiful white crystal-like tunnel holding my 22 week gestation baby toward what I perceived as my grandmother and father who passed away earlier along with another masculine and powerful being I could only identify as Divine. Upon reaching out to show my baby boy to them, they reached out to hold him. I was then told it wasn’t my time and I needed to turn around and go back. I so didn’t want to. However, immediately upon turning around, I became more joyful than I had ever been in my life and despite great struggles in the months ahead, continued to enjoy a sense of peace and joy that was above it all. Life here has brought some painful and difficult experiences which have made maintenance of this joy wain but although no one has ever asked me while under a polygraph I am clear that I am joyfully ready formoving on from this material world. God Be with you both!

CS Lewis put it well in his book Surprised by Joy. He had a moment of infinite desire and realized later in life only the infinite itself can impart an infinite desire within us

Fr. Spitzer is a sweetheart, funny and a genius! I truly enjoy his words (although sometimes I need to rewind a couple of times!). He is so wise and gentle. Thanks Chris for introducing me to him in your podcasts!

Chris - I love your talks with Fr. Spitzer, please keep inviting him on!

Love Father Spitzer and I believe his words. He is a man of God. He can explain even the most complex puzzles and it becomes understandable. Thanks for having him as your guest.

Fr . spitfire Spitzer , simply the best ! Would love to hang out with him , he’s hysterical as well .

over 40 years ago, we had a priest who gave talks at our church about Near Death experiences and it interested me then and this talk was more satisfying to me to hear these words again and Fr. Spitzer was so charming

Love this priest, so genuine!

I loved this video. So uplifting and energetic. Thank you so very much!🙏🏻❤️

We get to watch the happiest guy interview the smartest guy. This should be interesting.

Loved the discussion, but having lost three if my children to suicide, I was saddened by hearing of their place. I feel they were very ill in that moment and God knew that.

I'd hypothesize dogs have a very basic understanding of 'I', or at least of possession. Other mammals too. What is territory, being land or objects (such as a ball, bone, favorite doggy bed or even puppies) but a possession, and one must have a sense of self in order to have ownership over something else. Just hypothesizing.

Such an interesting and enjoyable conversation! Thanks so much!!

Darryl Passow (he is on RU-vid now, has his own channel) has talked about having a negative NDE where he saw Hell, repented and come back to Jesus.

Fr. Spitzer❤️! God bless him and keep him, thank you for the interview 🙏🏻

This was an amazing talk! I would love to dive deeper with Fr. Spitzer on this topic, especially as to how these experiences correlate to Catholic Doctrine, ie, do children who die in utero without baptism go to Heaven or to limbo? Also, Christ himself said many are called, few are chosen, meaning many don't make it to heaven. Wow, there is so much more to talk about in this regard. Thanks, Chris for putting this together, and maybe you could have some deeper discussions with Father on this subject in the future.

My husband had a NDE a few years back after multiple surgeries from a surgical mishap. He did not see anything that he remembers but felt the presence of Jesus and a profound peace. He was told not yet and he came back. He was very agitated when he came out of his anesthesia and couldn't wait to tell me about it. I had been praying the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy daily at his bedside, asking Jesus to please not take him yet. ( P.S. I am an RN and did not think he would survive with the numerous complications he had)These were silent prayers and were never spoken to him. He has no fear of death and told me he didn't want to come back except for me. Praise God for the many blessings he has given us.

What a great video! Thank you for this!

Thank you for this Chris!

Wow, I mean wow!!! Thank you for this Chris. Makes me very proud to be a MOJ.

I agree with all these points, and I loved this talk!

Thank you for the excellent discussion.

Thank you for this wonderful discourse. I believe it is only a matter of time before science proves the existence of the soul, undeniably.

Fr. Spitzer is the best! Well, somewhere after The Trinity anyhow.

Before we begin the interview we need to ask Chris, “who makes your t-shirts?” We all want t shirts that fit like that.

Brilliant!

Good for science, For proving something that they couldn’t before. They’ve come a long way.

Amen! When I think of birthdays I think of our quickening. On a biological level, when you are experiencing the quickening of your child, that traditionally means you are feeling your child's first movement in your womb. But the real quickening is THIS bright flash 0:14 at the moment of conception. The bright flash occurs when sperm enters an egg and it leads to a surge of calcium which, triggers the release of zinc from the egg. As the zinc shoots out, it binds to small molecules which emit a fluorescence which can be picked up by camera microscopes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BJ2x_5MSuyg.html In a theological sense, regardless of whether we are male or female, we are experiencing the quickening of the Holy Spirit when we feel the movement of the Holy Ghost in our soul. When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He “quickens” us, that is to say, enlightens and enlivens the inner man or woman. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 5, Paul admonished the members to act in a manner as becometh Saints. I pray the Holy Spirit quickens our love together in the Holy Ghost. ❤

Does anyone have a link to the peer reviewed studies he cited in medical journals? I can’t understand the names he mentioned when he said them. Thank you all 👏👏👏

Daniel Dennett He just passed two weeks ago. I been reading all his books since 1989. To be honest , before he passed. he said,Science would have never existed if it wasn’t for religion ….. He passed, He was free will guy which think he did believe in God. He wasn’t a determinist…. Free will was that elbow room to believe in something outside of us.. He was an undercover guy. Frank 😅

Thank you!

So good

Wow... you know I'd really love for you to talk with Dr. Hugh Ross from Reasons to Believe. He is an Astrophysicist that explains evidence for Gods Creation.

Excuse me? “No one is happy” thinking we are made up of chemicals? As a biochemist let me tell you, I’m thrilled! Understanding exactly how electron & atoms move to make life work is fascinating! To see the exact chemical reactions that cause life, is to face the amazing capacity of energy to transform into wildly different forms. To say humans are merely “a bag of chemicals” is the wrong attitude. The wondrous chemistry of life is structured & consistent & knowable, all things that a god is not. Which makes it infinitely more satisfying to understand. Without chemistry, there would be no life! I think humans longing for god is a longing for both knowledge (now available thru science) and emotional acceptance, which we have to create in our life by forming family & friends. As for perfection, no such thing exists. Ideals are merely thoughts generated by electrons.

On his deathbed, my uncle aroused and said he could see “the city,” and if he could get to it, he was not coming back. He had lived a very holy Protestant life. My great grandmother said she could hear the angels singing as she lay dying. I hoped my mother would say something in indication of the beatific vision as she was dying. She was a holy soul, and she was graced with falling asleep as she entered eternal life.

I find this disappointing. Where is the physics? Where is the science? The title is misleading.

Respectfully something kinda bothers me re: suffering & self of nonhuman creatures. With a half degree of water temperature change (or maybe less), a mass migration of a sea insect can happen; while these water bugs were once fed to prisoners due to their sheer abundance, today they're a delicacy sought after by the wealthy, and we call them lobsters. With a farmer's sheep, and given enough time, don't those sheep eventually give that farmer a hard time when it comes to that truck? The sheep might be off to slaughter right away (that tends to happen in a handful of religions 🤭🤣), so it's suffering never got enough Time to develop and be displayed. i could easily be wrong though since... i'm nuts, not a sheep 🤣😭 This is a great talk! (David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" was here because Kilroy has the day off) // Is it the duty of the higher species to look upon the lower ones, and maybe recognize that their ability to demonstrate life-preserving preferences are something that we, too, perform, amd and it deserves better respect? We ruthlessly extract FROM them ... Heck to the Horse-shoe crab, WE ARE the vampire!! (Their blue blood is useful in our own medical therapies, they're tossed back into the sea after their involuntary donation)

Anyone who tries to take a toy away from a dog and give it to another dog knows the first dog has a sense of self and ownership.

how long does the soul remain with the body when the body dies?

Science: we are molecules. These guys: we are molecules + something we can’t define or detect.

Remember who said if ye LOVE ME? Remember my Comforter dwelling within thee all! Remember carry thy comfort with Thee! As HE carries HIS COMFORT WITH HIMSELF. Sharing His comfort unto all will receive.

is it that Catholic is right about the Existence of the Soul or is it that Aristotle talked about it?

wow, when people get in groups to believe a lie

If you're alive you have a soul including animals!

I have a little bit of a problem with near-death experiences. Some of the near-death experiences that I have heard are completely heretical to our faith. I'm not sure what to make about that.

‘No offense, Nim.’ 😂

Don't you know the soul conects to the body through the pineal gland?

I don’t have a soul. I am a soul. I have a body. Eternal soul. Temporary body.

Near

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Is like a little Child "i" putting back clarity to its RIGHTFUL PLACE! Is like putting back coherence its RIGHTFUL PLACE! Is like putting back adequacy to its RIGHTFUL PLACE! Is like putting back evidence to its RIGHTFUL PLACE! And bringing witnesses in front! Witnesses with sincere tears I will wiped! Love you too!

I don't know about denigrating the animals

This all sounds nice but the problem is the Bible does not say anything about a separate soul of man but the Bible does say that man is a soul. No part of man is immortal when the body dies your soul dies. The Bible does not say that your soul lives forever but it does say in 1 Timothy 6:16, “who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power, Amen.” God give man immortality we are not born with an immortal soul, we are a soul. I did not hear any science proving the existence of a soul i did hear a lot about consciousness. I like all of what was said and I agree with all except the soul, we are a soul we dont have a soul, that’s what the Bible teaches. It will not hurt anyone who believes that they have a soul it brings comfort like Santa Claus is for children it doesn’t hurt them.

So, the soul has a beginning, but it never dies?

I was 3 in 1953. I was a military kid in El Paso, Texas that came down with Polio. I was in a military hospital until I wasn't contagious then was transferred to Catholic Nurses also nuns. Their loving care and GOD's healing saved my life. I wore braces on my legs ~ 7 years. A fortunate child indeed!

waiting for NDE in a purgatory setting.

I’m a “SOUL MAN”

Having a ‘brilliant mind’ doesn’t mean you’re always right.

Hey Chris, dust unto dust and repent and believe in the gospel, we are that dust from the body and the soul and the body are composite.

You don’t know if animals have a conciseness; nobody does.

The soul is NOT something that we possess and lives on after death, that is "breathed into us", for how many have read what Genesis 2:7 says ? It reads according to the Catholic Douay Version: "And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became ("become", Hebrew hayah, meaning "to exist, i.e. be or become", and NOT put within) a living soul." So, Genesis 2:7 shows that until the first man Adam was "breathed into his face the breath of life" by God, he was a DEAD soul, or a non-breathing soul, for the word soul in Hebrew is nephesh, that literally means "breather, a breathing creature", so that anything that breathes IS a soul and NOT has a soul. For example, at Numbers 31:28, it reads according to the Catholic Douay Version: "And thou shalt separate a portion to the Lord from them that fought and were in the battle, one soul of five hundred as well of persons as of oxen and asses and sheep", in which the plunder that the Israelites acquired from them taking vengeance on the Midianites and Moabites for their women seducing Israelite men to worship Baal of Peor in exchange for sex, included people and animals who ARE souls and does NOT possess a soul. At Deuteronomy 12:20, the Catholic Douay Version reads: "When the Lord thy God shall have enlarged thy borders, as he hath spoken to thee, and thou wilt eat the flesh that thy soul desireth", showing the soul is a person desiring to eat "flesh" or meat. At Leviticus 23:29, 30, it reads according to the Catholic Douay Version: "Every soul that is not afflicted on this day, shall perish ("perish", Hebrew karath, meaning "to cut off or down, to destroy or consume") from among his people: And every soul that shall do any work, the same will I destroy ("destroy", Hebrew ' abad, meaning "to perish, causative, destroy") from among his people." And at Jeremiah 2:34, it reads according to the Catholic Douay Version: "And in thy skirts (of the nation of Israel that is described as a wicked woman) is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before." Thus, after Peter had healed a man lame from birth, he told the Jewish crowd in the temple that it was through Jesus Christ as "God's Servant......the righteous one" that this man was healed (Acts 3:13), with Peter saying at Acts 3:22, 23 according to the Catholic Douay Version: "For Moses said (at Deut 18:15, 18, 19):" "A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all things whatsoever he shall speak to you. And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed ("destroyed" Greek exolothreuo, meaning "root out and destroy completely") from among the people." So, what has been learned here ? That (1), the soul breathes, (2) that the soul desires to eat meat, (3) that the soul can be destroyed, and (4) that the soul has blood. So, what is the proper conclusion of what the soul is ? Anything that breathes, such as animals, including insects and arachnids, and it is us as humans, us as a living person with all our desires, so that as long as we are breathing, we are "a living soul", but upon death we become a dead soul. And it need be understood that there is NO purgatory, for when a person dies, they cease to exist, as Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6 states according to the Catholic Douay Version: "For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know NOTHING MORE, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished ("perished", Hebrew ' abad, meaning "to perish, causative, destroy"), neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun."

Although I am a devout Catholic, I also have a science degree, and I do think this interview is mistitled, because no actual science is presented here. Fr. Spitzer recalls a couple of specific NDE’s, but gives no reference where those specific examples can be found, and there are no links provided to confirm the data that he presents. The rest of Fr. Spitzer’s commentary about NDE’s is non-specific, anecdotal reference. As far as “science proving the existence of the soul,” that is not indicative of the content. The discusssion seems to actualize philosophy as proving the existence of the soul. I don’t need to be convinced as to the existence of the soul, but for those who understand what scientific proof is, and who do need it to prove the existence of the soul, this discussion doesn’t pass scientific muster. I’m a fan of Chris, but this title was a disappointing mislead.

What’s wrong with quoting scripture, and using a Hebrew and Greek Concordance called Strongs Exhaustive Dictionary. The first chapters of Genesis talk about the soul and spirit. A soul is a person, life or body. A soul does everything a person does. The Greek philosophers twisted the meaning of the word soul. Genesis 2:7 (KJV) And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath (spirit) of life; and man became a living soul. (person). The reverse happens at death. A we use the word soul correctly all the time. That poor pitiful soul. The problem started with a lie. Everyone wants to believe the lie. Genesis 3:4 (KJV) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: Notice it says God made the serpent. Genesis 3:1 (KJV) Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? The meaning of serpent is snake, whispering, to perceive by observation. He looked, assumed and he came to a conclusion without knowledge or truth. Souls eat Leviticus 22:6 (KJV) The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. Deuteronomy 12:20 (KJV) When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Psalm 22:29 (KJV) All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. Micah 7:1 (KJV) Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. Luke 12:19 (KJV) And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry. Leviticus 22:6 (KJV) The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water. Deuteronomy 12:20 (KJV) When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after. Psalm 22:29 (KJV) All [they that be] fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. Micah 7:1 (KJV) Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. Luke 12:19 (KJV) And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, [and] be merry.

A person doesnt have a soul, the ARE a soul. Your soul is your Light or Bio Electricity which is inside the material vessel of your flesh. The body is a container.

Kerry Packer Australian media millionaire died: Do you want the good or bad news Good news no hell when you die. Bad news no heaven when you die. Just as the Bible says you are asleep waiting a resurrection.

The body, soul and the spirit. The soul is the life and thinking conscience for the body and the spirit. The spirit lives on after the body dies and your soul goes on with the spirit. The soul is 'you' but inhabits the body while it is alive and the spirit when the body is dead.. Or is it the other way around? The brain is the tool used by the body to keep you alive.

This guy is using a vague populist understanding of what the soul is. He confuses the spirit and the soul. Watchman Nee wrote with the best clarity on the tripartite nature of man, being comprised of Body, Soul and Spirit. This tripartite nature is specifically attested in the New Testament. Our Spirit is what we use to communicate with God: Our Conscience, , sense of communion, yearning , worship, quest for God. Our Soul is the linkage or intermediate part of us that gives expression to the body and spirit. It is comprised of emotions, mind and will. Many animals share rudimentary elements of soulish qualities. This can be seen with the rudimentary puzzle solving ability of crows and the NZ Kea Parrot. P.S> The fake apostle, Bishop of Rome might give Mr Spitzer permission to call himself (spiritual) Father, but Jesus specifically forbids this.

Had to come here and down vote this. The bible says god breathed into the clay and man became A LIVING SOUL. There is no separate everlasting souls. That satans philosophy!😂

A freier man of God who knows what animals feel or experience while absolutely no one has ever been able to harvest evidence of the inner exeprience of any animal? How does he 'know'? Hallelujah... what a man and what a man of God in awe with a philosoher (existed or not) like Plato? And convinced 'a PhD' is 'no dummy' as what... opposed to someone with NO PhD? Right. Lets move on.

This video discussion is sadly so inaccurate with historical references completely erroneous, scientific references are mostly inaccurate, illogical conclusions leaped several times, ...and btw... Sheep are self aware...they would choose the better if allowed ...(and so much more evidence). Im chagrined that the "soul" would need these fallacious references that if people fact checked every minute of this video, they'd be saddened with chagrin. Fortunately, the Soul as concept and experience have other detailing that would indicate its presence ..but not this folly.

These two talk about God’s greatness and love and all, and reveal themselves to be hopelessly deaf and blind to one of the most mysterious and amazing of God’s creations - non-human animals. The arrogance to affirm that they know what animals think or don’t think is astounding. Anthropocentrism at its worst. Those who miss animals’ depth and complexity are like colour-blind who can never see the richness of colour (no offence to the colour-blind).

This is too funny. He admits this idea is pagan😊😂

Sorry, I won't raise my leg in front of people older than me. Because it's rude

Being Catholic is NOT the answer, JESUS is the answer - "You must be born again." John 3:3 (in Christ only, HIS work alone on the Cross, extra works beyond is complete blasphemy). Additionally, we don't know "for sure" about near death experiences, they could be filled with deception to make us feel okay about death and not pay attention to what Christ did on the Cross for each of us. So I wouldn't put faith in those experiences. More reliable is the Word of God (the Bible).

It's all just your brain.

Science PROVES the Existence of the Stupidity (Here’s How)

What a joke.

Absolutely tribal crap… of course the pastor has evidence… unfalsifiable…Three definitions of a soul…😂😂😂Just can’t test it of course…

" I AM THE IMMACULATE DECEPTION"

So having no evidence of something gives you meaning? Must be nice. Funny I am a meat suit and love life free of a made up soul.

🤣😂 Wow! This was hilariously stupid and misleading… It’s a well known fact that love is just chemistry and NDE is very well explained without a ”soul”. There is nothing pointing to a God and a soul more than peoples imagination.

I’m a “SOUL MAN”