Mt. Fuji from around Tokyo, 100 km far
Those Who Believe and Those Who Do Not
A Japanese medical professor came to believe in the afterlife as he experienced a seance to talk with the spirit of his dead mother, while he had felt guilty about his mother's death as he thought that he had not taken care of her enough while she had been alive.
According to a female psychic who used a female medium in whom the spirit came down, the spirit of his dead mother came to communicate spiritually with her, as both the women had been acquainted with each other, asking her whether the psychic helped her communicate with her son. So, the psychic decided to host a seance with a female medium, and then invited the professor to a seance or a meeting with a spirit. And, in the seance the medical professor could really talk with the spirit of his dead mother who told her son that she was sorry to have died so suddenly and he should not feel guilty about her sudden death. The professor believed that he could rally talk with the spirit of his dead mother through the body and mind of the medium.
The professor wrote a book about this experience. As the professor worked in the University of Tokyo Hospital, the book sold well. In the mainstream of academy such as the University of Tokyo, the after life and other spiritualism matters have been neglected. So, the professor must have needed some courage to publicly express his belief in the existence of the afterlife or the spirit world.
After this experience, the professor started his personal study on spiritualism and other supernatural phenomena. In these activities, he talked with a Japanese master of chi or life energy. The master told the professor one special example of effects of chi: A Chinese expert at chi sent his chi to a Japanese young woman in Beijing who was making a phone call to her sick father in a hospital in Tokyo to cure the father. Then, the father over the phone call was healed although his daughter in Beijing felt disturbance in her body. So, chi was sent from Beijing to Tokyo by the Chinese chi mater through the daughter in Beijing talking with her father in Tokyo over the phone line.
Indeed, chi or life energy can work over restrictions of time and space like spiritual energy that can work between this world and the afterlife.
However, another ex-professor of the University of Tokyo who had specialized in anatomical science wrote a book on death where he emphasized that only a dead body remained and existed after man's death; there should be nothing spiritual after death; and the world after one's death means nothing to a dead man.
So, there are two types of scientists: those who believe in supernatural phenomena such as spirits, the afterlife, etc. and others who deny them.
Yet, although human science can handle only materials or physical entities, it cannot deny phenomena beyond the scope where science is effective. Science should keep silence or show its ignorance about the matters that do not belong to the material world.
So, as something beyond the scope of the material world or physical laws, religion, spiritual matters, psychic matters, etc. exist.
Put simply, this material world or the whole universe was created by the God with energy in the spirit world. After God's creation of this material world, the spiritual energy can penetrate into this material world. As the physical laws are in the lower level than the spiritual energy, the spiritual energy can supersede the physical laws. Therefore, communications with spirits of dead men, supernatural phenomena in using chi, or even spoon bending can be possible if you can use the spiritual energy. Those called psychics, chi masters, or men with supernatural power have such ability acquired through hard training, as congenital talent, or in religious faith.
Although our Lord Jesus Christ did not recommend to communicate with spirits of dead men, He did not especially forbid it. It is rather thought that He sometimes communicates with people through spiritual energy. And, prayer should be a method for us to connect our minds to the God in the spirit world.
So, we have to pray to the God for peace in Ukraine and Gaza.
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John 12, King James Version
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.