Could You Possess Another Human? (And More Weird Questions)

Dom Bettinelli (0:00)

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You're listening to episode 436 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, Jimmy will be answering listeners weird questions. I'm Dom Bettinelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hey, Jimmy.

Jimmy Akin (0:31)

Howdy, Dom.

Dom Bettinelli (0:32)

Folks, be sure to stick around to the end of the episode. We'll have your feedback on our recent episode number 425, Voice to Skull Technology. Jimmy, we weren't originally planning to do a weird question show today. So why are we doing one?

Jimmy Akin (0:47)

Well, because of scheduling. As many people may know, my schedule is rather busy, and it's been extra busy lately between travel and getting some major projects completed, some of which I can't even talk about, at least not right now. So the schedule has been really busy, and we originally planned on doing an episode about what demons are. Now, of course, the way the term is used today, they're fallen angels, but the history of the term is more complex than that, and that complex history can shed light on passages in older documents, including the Bible. So I'm very keen on doing that episode, but for scheduling reasons, I just wasn't able to get it ready in time. So this week we're doing a Weird Questions episode, and we'll get back on our regular schedule as quickly as humanly possible.

If in terms of next week, we might have another Weird Questions episode. I really don't want to leave the viewers without some, or the listeners, without something new to view and listen to. I want to make sure that there's something every week, but we will be getting back to the What Are Demons episode in our regular schedule as quickly as possible.

Dom Bettinelli (2:11)

So what topics are you going to be answering questions about today?

Jimmy Akin (2:14)

We're going to look at things like can humans possess one another? What happens to souls in purgatory at the end of the world? Can you ask a ghost to reveal its identity? What are fallen guardian angels, or are there fallen guardian angels?

Brain swaps and the soul? Were lizards once dragons? And more, so a bunch of interesting questions.

Dom Bettinelli (2:39)

So very interesting. So enjoy the questions and answers, folks.

Edgar Lujano (2:51)

Welcome to Catholic Answers Live. Edgar Lujano filling in for SciKell today. When you hear that music, you know what's going to happen. It's Weird Questions with Jimmy Akin today. Truly a pleasure to be here with you.

It's been a bit of an interesting week here at Catholic Answers. There's been a lot of pre-records and I haven't taken a lot of questions. Well, today, we're going to keep that trend going just for this week. And next week, we'll be back to take all of your questions all week long. So like I said, two full hours of Weird Questions with Jimmy Akin. Jimmy, welcome to the show.

Jimmy Akin (3:23)

Thank you. Although today is not a pre-record, we're here live.

Edgar Lujano (3:26)

That's true. It is not, in fact, a pre-record.

So that's one positive thing. So we can actually interact with people a little bit more on the chat. Although we don't actually do that too often for the show, which is all right. Yeah. Well, let me ask you, Jimmy, before we jump into actual questions, if somebody wants to submit a weird question to you, how would one go about doing so?

Jimmy Akin (3:50)

Well, it happens in different ways.

One of the ways it happens is I occasionally post a community note on my YouTube page, asking and saying, Hey, I've got a weird questions show coming up or recording for weird questions coming up. Does anyone have any weird questions? And lots of people post responses to that. That's how I get most of the questions, but it's not the only way.

Some sometimes people will email. They may email me, in which case I take their question and I put it in a log for use on the next or future weird question shows. They also sometimes email like radio at catholic.com. And you guys forward it to me. And then I put it in the log of questions for future weird question shows. And I try to prioritize the ones that are emailed. So if you email me, I try to get it in the very next show that we do.