YouTube certainly has made things interesting. In many ways, it has lifted blinders, spiritual and otherwise, whether about someone like Jeff Epstein and his infamous cohorts or about the supernatural, the type of thing that was excluded from the public domain by secularized and often atheistic overlords when there were just three major networks, PBS, and a handful or less of major cable outlets, plus Time and the local newspaper.

Never would you have seen something like this.

This is a screenshot of security footage called, “The Scariest & Creepy Things Captured In Morgues And Hospitals.” And it seems authentic; it showed a chair sliding across the room and crashing at the wall just before a cabinet drawer opens of its own accord. (Seconds later, a strange form or blotch crossed the screen.)

For your discernment.

The same video (it may be best not to watch it all) has a scene from a hospital room in which furniture moves again in what seems like paranormal or psychokinetic fashion, with an eerie “face” at the middle bottom that may remind some of “aliens.”

If so: the Lord rebuke you Satan! If a spirit of someone deceased: Lord, send them to Your Light! (Remember that when you go to a hospital, Holy Water never hurts.)

Our Lady of Medjugorje has repeatedly asked that we pray frequently (we advise every single day) for souls in purgatory. She also called for three days of fasting this week for her intentions and especially for those in purgatory and in our family lineages.

This is a closeup of one seer, Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti, during an apparition this week.

When we asked A.I. to analyze it, it said, “Because the image is blurry, it is hard to say whether she is moved, tired, anxious, or simply caught mid-expression. But the face does not look casual. It has intensity—almost a pleading or prayerful upward cast. In a more literary description: she has the look of someone suddenly arrested by a presence above eye level, her face loosened by awe, the mouth barely open, the gaze lifted with a strange combination of hope, fragility, and surrender.”

That’s pretty accurate.

Reported the seer: “At the moment of the apparition, when Our Lady came, she was happy and joyful in a special way. I recommended in the name of all of us, all our prayers, all our penance, and all our fasting for her intentions. All our sacrifices for her intentions. Our Lady looked over us and upon us for a very long time. She extended her hands and for a long, long time prayed over all of us. And I asked Our  Lady to intercede before her son Jesus, for peace. For the peace in our hearts, for the peace in our families, and for the peace in the whole world. Our Lady extended her hands again, and then she prayed over us again.

As for discernment of spirits, a viewer from Ireland writes:

“There is a shopping store that I go to sometimes. It is built upon an enormous graveyard and Famine Workhouse-Famine Soup Kitchen-Famine Infirmary dating back to the 1800s Irish Famine (which was actually an Irish genocide, because the British taxed the Irish their food and left them to starve if the Irish potato failed).

“Anyways: thousands of remains were found here and moved to another spot when the shopping centre was being built. While there I often ask the staff is there any paranormal activity in the place. They have all said ‘yes,’ but it’s not evil. Eg: footsteps when no one is there, orbs of light appearing, knocking on the doors and no one is there, voices, someone calling your name and no one is there, all the shoes in the shoe shop knocked to the ground every morning, a few of them have seen ghosts, a lady in white, a woman with a hangman’s noose (only occurring between sunset and sunrise, the night-time hours).

“I have been reading up the history of the place. A lot of injustice happened to the Irish there. Forced labour of women and kids to earn a tiny amount of food. Amputations of the sick that resulted in death.

“Strange thing happened today: I was in that shopping centre. The far corner of it is unused. An empty store is there with a ‘To Let’ sign on it. I could immediately sense the presence of Satan himself whenever I looked at the door of that empty store. (It kept happening repeatedly as I was praying while sitting on an indoor bench in the hallway of that store). The Holy Spirit always confirms a charismatic word or revelation with evidence afterwards.

“So I went back to my car. Grabbed a sachet of exorcised salt, and decided to sprinkle it near that door and pray to discern more.

“When I approached the door of that store, the Holy Spirit confirmed everything. There was an enormous historical plaque on the wall in front of me. It detailed the following: That many of women of the Famine House had resorted to prostitution to get food. That many had kids outside of the sacrament of marriage and these poor kids ended up growing up as orphans slaving in the Famine House to earn food. It had a list of nearly one hundred orphan girls who had left the Famine House and emigrated to the USA  and Australia.”

And so it is: we live forever and do well to always keep eternity (and not becoming too attached to anything of this passing world) in mind.

Another viewer, Henry Ludwick III of Pittsburgh, asked A.I. about Creation versus evolution.

“A rock is complex. A cloud is complex. A snowflake is complex,” it answered. “But a living organism is different because it has replication, heredity, variation, energy processing, boundary control, repair, error correction, feedback loops, and information storage. That is not ordinary complexity. That is functional, integrated, information-directed complexity.

“Reason does not force every person to accept design as a mathematical proof, but reason absolutely permits — and for many people strongly favors — the conclusion that living organisms reflect extraordinary intelligence,” it answered. “The human body is not a random pile of chemistry. It is a self-regulating, self-repairing, self-building, energy-processing, information-guided living system. Calling it a ‘machine’ actually understates it. It is beyond any machine humans have ever made.”

Or ever will or can.

[resources: books on the afterlife]