ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Constantine the Great claimed a divine sign appeared before one of the most important battles in Roman history.
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, became convinced that the dead could communicate through mediums.
Victor Hugo spent years taking part in séances where the supposed speakers included his dead daughter, Shakespeare, Jesus, Death, and even the Ocean.
John Dee, mathematician and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, recorded hundreds of attempts to communicate with angels. Emanuel Swedenborg went even further, claiming that for decades he could speak directly with spirits, angels, the dead, and beings connected with other worlds.
In this episode of Idiot Mystic, we look at five historically important people who believed they had made contact with intelligence beyond the ordinary human mind.
What did Constantine actually see before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge?
Why did one of the most famous detective writers in history become such a devoted believer in Spiritualism?
Who, or what, was speaking through Victor Hugo's table?
Were John Dee's angels genuine beings, the work of Edward Kelley, or something stranger?
And what happened to Emanuel Swedenborg when a respected scientist suddenly began claiming that heaven itself had opened to him?
As usual, we look at the original claims, the historical records, the skeptical explanations, and the parts that remain difficult to explain.
These stories include religious visions, communication with the dead, automatic writing, angelic languages, séances, altered states, possible fraud, grief, intuition, and some of the most elaborate claims of non-human intelligence ever made by respected historical figures.
Maybe these people encountered God, spirits, angels, unconscious parts of their own minds, or something we still do not have a good name for.
Whatever the answer, they listened.
And what they heard changed their lives.
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