Michael Grosso, PhD, is author of The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation. He also edited and wrote commentary for Wings of Ecstasy: Dominico Bernini’s Vita of St. Joseph of Copertino (1772). His other books include The Millennium Myth: Love and Death and the End of Time, Final Choice: Death or Transcendence?, Soulmaking: Uncommon Paths to Self Understanding and Smile of the Universe: Miracles in an Age of Disbelief.

Here he describes a variety of paranormal events that have been reported to occur in a religious context. These include statues or images that weep or bleed, instantaneous healings, apparitions of the madonna, levitation, and Hindu puja offerings of milk that disappear. He argues that such events are often so well-attested, often with photographs and scientific corroboration, that it is reasonable to assume that they actually did occur. They are on the same spectrum as paranormal events that occur outside of a religious context.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).

(Recorded on August 26, 2020)

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Michael Grosso, The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation – https://amzn.to/2RyCsFh

Michael Grosso, Wings of Ecstasy: Dominico Bernini’s Vita of St. Joseph of Copertino (1772) –

Michael Grosso, The Final Choice: Death or Transcendence? – https://amzn.to/3jRG2or

Michael Grosso, Experiencing the Next World Now – https://amzn.to/3bAJcda

Michael Grosso, Frontiers of the Soul – https://amzn.to/2R31Ykg

Michael Grosso, The Millennium Myth: Love and Death and the End of Time – https://amzn.to/3h7aLw7

Michael Grosso, Soulmaking: Uncommon Paths to Self Understanding – https://amzn.to/2ZgsuLw

Michael Grosso, Soulmaker: True Stories From the Far Side of the Psyche –

Michael Grosso (and others), Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century – https://amzn.to/3i9eGK3

Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter – https://amzn.to/2F9mxbW

Dean Brown, The Upanishads – https://amzn.to/338u6I6

Larry Dossey, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters – https://amzn.to/3bzQe22

Francis J. Beckwith, David Hume’s Argument Against Miracles: A Critical Analysis – https://amzn.to/321tjcO

Pearl Zaki, Our Lord’s Mother Visits Egypt 1968 & 1969 –

Rizwan Virk, The Simulation Hypothesis – https://amzn.to/2Dyx93Q

Noam Chomsky, Internationalism or Extinction – https://amzn.to/337d0dR

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