After Being Dead For Almost An Hour, Priest Says God Is A Woman (errr... sorry folks... it's a hoax)

[rgray222]

A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart has revealed a shocking revelation that will change everything you once believed.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s7Mi4k7TjB0/VOpx_TOhDTI/AAAAAAAAjbs/tZTiXRvlFUc/s1600/Priest.jpg
Father John Micheal O’neal claims he was in heaven and God is a woman

The 71-year-old cleric Father John Micheal O’neal claims he went to heaven and met God, which he describes as a warm and comforting motherly figure.

Father John Micheal O’neal was rushed to the hospital on January 29 after a major heart attack, but was declared clinically dead soon after his arrival.

With the aid of a high-tech machine called LUCAS 2, that kept the blood flowing to his brain, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital managed to unblock vital arteries and return his heart to a normal rhythm.

The doctors were afraid he would have suffered some brain damage from the incident, but he woke up less than 48 minutes later and seems to have perfectly recovered.

The elderly man claims that he has clear and vivid memories of what happened to him while he was dead. He describes a strange out-of-body experience, experiencing an intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance, as well as being surrounded by an overwhelming light.

He claims that at that point in his experience, he went to heaven and encountered God, which he describes as a feminine, mother-like “Being of Light”.

“Her presence was both overwhelming and comforting” states the Catholic priest. “She had a soft and soothing voice and her presence was as reassuring as a mother’s embrace. The fact that God is a Holy Mother instead of a Holy Father doesn’t disturb me, she is everything I hoped she would be and even more!

The declarations of the cleric caused quite a stir in the catholic clergy of the archdiocese over the last few days, causing the Archbishop to summon a press conference to try and calm the rumors.

Despite the disapproval of his superiors, Father O’neal says that he will continue dedicating his life to God and spread the word of the “Holy Mother”.

“I wish to continue preaching” says the elderly cleric. “I would like to share my new knowledge of the Mother, the Son and the Holy Ghost with all catholics and even all Christians. God is great and almighty despite being a woman…”

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has not confirmed however, if they will allow Father O’neal to resume his preaching in his former parish in South Boston.

Source (http://www.shieldspirit.com/2015/02/after-being-dead-for-almost-hour-priest.html)

[Selkie]

How lovely! How sweet and beautiful and wonderful and lovely! Thank you so much for this post!

[meeradas]

... that will change everything...

It didn't.

Nice 'balancing' experience for him.

But still, this ain't IT.

[Selkie]

... that will change everything...

It didn't.

It did for me, even if only temporarily. And believe me, I am no bluebird of happiness. I am much more of a chicken of depression.

http://www.thechickensofdepression.com/images/bluebird.jpg

[joeecho]

"After Being Dead For Almost An Hour, Priest Says God Is A Woman"

Could this explain why the Universe appears so fickle? ;)

http://izquotes.com/quotes-pictures/quote-a-woman-s-mind-is-cleaner-than-a-man-s-she-changes-it-more-often-oliver-herford-83786.jpg

[meeradas]

... that will change everything...

It didn't.

It did for me, even if only temporarily. And believe me, I am no bluebird of happiness. I am much more of a chicken of depression.

http://www.thechickensofdepression.com/images/bluebird.jpg

Happy for you, that it did!

I have my own CoD, so i know what you're talking about.
Doesn't matter, i do like chickens [alive and well]. Plus: They come in handy when one is growing balder.

PS: Gary Larson - still - rules.

[Gatita]

It's an interesting departure from Catholic theology.

Cat

[thunder24]

within christian thought, isn't the holy spirit ...female?!

[joeecho]

It's an interesting departure from Catholic theology.

Cat

The scribes are now scrambling....... ;)

In the beginning She created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of Her was hovering over the waters.....

https://i.vimeocdn.com/video/250790702_640.jpg

(It would be equally funny if the opposite had occurred)

[ghostrider]

So who has he been talking to for 71 years ??? if he thought god was a man , he wasn't paying attention was he ??? bit of humor , no intent to offend anyone ...

[bodosa]

in the level II of Wes Penre papers it is written that the the universe is femininine created by a Mother Goddess. And also how 'Mother Goddess' in ancient times was suppressed and replaced by a 'Father God'.
http://wespenre.com/2/divine-feminine.htm

[TraineeHuman]

On the astral and mental planes, people normally see themselves -- that is, their astral and mental body -- as having the opposite gender to what they are physically.

The glowing white being O'Neal experienced was no doubt his own Higher Self (which isn't God, except that from the body-consciousness's point of view, it's God as far as the body-consciousness is concerned). This is at a plane or level higher than the emotional and mental. But since O'Neal survived, he descended back down, through the mental and emotional planes to the physical. The memory plane is one of the mental planes, so he remembers that part of his journey showed him something female.

But the Higher Self is actually by and large beyond gender, may I suggest. On the other hand, it's caring and nurturing enough not to have the slightest interest in condemning people to be tortured forever in hellfire or whatever -- which may have been part of O'Neal's conception of what God was like until he had the near-death experience. (If you listen to the Catholic Mass, it's packed full, almost from start to finish, with admonitions to God not to punish us.)

[gripreaper]

Here, let me fix it for ya :)

After being suspended into the lower astral planes for almost an hour, father O'Neil projected his beliefs into the dualistic lower astral planes and accentuated a female archetype to bring forth the missing mother aspect lacking in his physicality.

Why else would he be a priest anyway, where the feminine is denied? Probably because his own mother did not love him.


A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart has revealed a shocking revelation that will change everything you once believed.

Sorry, but there was nothing miraculous about this, or shocking or revelatory, and it did not change a darn thing I once believed. Just to be clear about the sensational intro to this story, I disdain this type of gorilla marketing journalism.

[Hym]

Brother got him some real work to do. He got off easy with this first message to himself. However, I'm not surprised Momma's got him by the short and curlies. Can't wear no dresses this time around without a womb to make it worthwhile.
Catholic. Been there, Yelled at that. Stopped that. Not waiting for the others to catch up.
What is a Cath and why are they O'lic(k)-ing it?
Some of the questions in life are not worth answering.

[Snowflower]

Whatever the belief system of the individual experiencing the NDE, that will most likely be upheld. A Moslem sees Mohammed. A Christian sees Christ. Catholics have a very feminine focused culture, so it makes sense that a Priest would see a feminine spirit. Because Catholics also have a concrete definition of spiritual matters, it also makes sense that he had to interpret his experience as talking to God rather than understanding the all-encompassing oneness of spirit and just being able to accept the Presence as Spirit.

[lucidity]

Hello Siblings,

I love this story. I imagine a humble and polite priest having a sublime, or rather divine, experience.
And then sincerely reporting the truth of it.

Probably, in the confrontation between the 'authority' of the church, and this man's simple truth,
this poor priest will be pressured to misrepresent his story.
They will either subtly (or explicitly) tell him to not to say anything that might contradict
a conventional christian understanding.

Because clearly, the church authorities are more concerned with maintaining an
image of orthodoxy, than with the truth. For me at least, it underlies the
propaganda aspects of religion.

be happy

lucidity :-)

[Dawn]

All I'd like to add to all of this is that I got a really good belly laugh out of it and out of most of the posts! It is full of wonderful contradictions. And it is full of images of a creative, yet programmed, mind. What can I do but laugh and laugh. What fun and how very strange this human ride is.

[Maunagarjana]

People often come back from these experiences thinking they met "God" but they just met somebody who was giving off a lot of positive loving energy and unconditional love an acceptance, and then they say, "I just *knew* it was God/Jesus/Whatever." But they didn't know it. They just perceived it as such. After his life is finished for real, he'll probably eventually find out what that was all about. My bet is he'll realize it was just a spirit guide. They can take lots of different forms, and usually opt for something that is comforting or inspiring.

[Flash]

I will be nasty for this poor old chap: he projected is life long repressed desires right into his death itself.

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

The ancient Jews honored the New Moon,
and in fact the women offered a special sacrifice during that time,
in honor of the feminine aspect.

For some very stupid reason many religions have done away with the female aspect,
as duality makes sense, and people with sense are harder to control.

[Violet]

After reading William Buhlman's adventures this story makes a bit more sense. He says (or so I understood) that we/our ideas/beliefs have an influence on what meets us after death, it is conform to that. The priest says the she is everything he hoped she would be and more.

There are various places where people of different beliefs live their life after death according to what they believed would meet them there. I don't remember how Buhlmann gathered these data but it's an idea that allows for the variety of NDE's according to one's view of life after death.

[Lifebringer]

Love your big cat avitar. Very assuring that there will be forgiveness and abundance of love. So I guess the end/beginning clock is like a Urth douche to cleanse. LOL (just kidding) What if as they say that Urth is male beautiful planet, like the sea horse that carries the babies/beings to term?

Wow...amazing, who's gonna tell this priest he's a liar, and it also goes against the gender of priest thingy. Maybe the priest were to be chaste women and the males took "her" role? Nothing worse than a woman's scorn, but a wounded bear a arms length away from you.

[Aurvandil]

So we see what we need to see when we die? Reminds me of this:

HVSlKqOXf2k

[Sunny-side-up]

Aren't we in a 'Duality' Universe?
Father God and Mother Goddess

Mr and Miss God


Dawn
All I'd like to add to all of this is that I got a really good belly laugh out of it and out of most of the posts! It is full of wonderful contradictions. And it is full of images of a creative, yet programmed, mind. What can I do but laugh and laugh. What fun and how very strange this human ride is.

Nice ;)

[meeradas]

So we see what we need to see when we die?

So i'll be teaming up with this guy then

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=6693&d=1302046959


Aren't we in a 'Duality' Universe?
Father God and Mother Goddess
Mr and Miss God

Looks like [she's standing on his chest]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=11341&d=1321517549

[Matt P]

The comics will be having fun with this one for a while I bet.
So, that's why every 28,000 years all hell breaks loose and the earth experiences total destruction and chaos... ;)

Matt

[Sunny-side-up]

Quickly buying into shares of Female-Mother-God statues ;)

[WhiteFeather]

Not sure I can trust what priests say anymore. Sorry......My theory of God is a collective super intelligent consciousness. Not male or female. Just pure Intelligence.

[Snoweagle]

A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart has revealed a shocking revelation that will change everything you once believed.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s7Mi4k7TjB0/VOpx_TOhDTI/AAAAAAAAjbs/tZTiXRvlFUc/s1600/Priest.jpg
Father John Micheal O’neal claims he was in heaven and God is a woman

The 71-year-old cleric Father John Micheal O’neal claims he went to heaven and met God, which he describes as a warm and comforting motherly figure.


Does his expression look like a gambler who has finally realised he has been backing the wrong horse? roflmao
A dream, a fantasy dispelled:-)
Absolutely loving it.

[Lifebringer]

Does kind of make sense as the woman also is able to forgive, if sincerity of heart is presented in the repentance. Hmm.. more I think of it, that could be the biggest deceit upon "manKind." Also as God the creator would create life or bring it to a planet through universal forces/heavenly bodies, the woman on the planet gives birth and brings life, aka my name and mission in life on Urth. Help maintain the life that God gave us and the planet's stewardship in repairing what mankind has damaged in the name of greed, and at the expense of our health.

[Lifebringer]

Not sure I can trust what priests say anymore. Sorry......My theory of God is a collective super intelligent consciousness. Not male or female. Just pure Intelligence.

I think there's a balance of male/female spirit divided within the 26,000 or 36,000 passage of Galactic alignment changes. One for creating and the other for erasing. Look how many deaths in wars the past century and genocidal attempts through unleashed pestulance in under-developed countries. I believe that is the male negative dark side of the 13,000 years which is 6,500. First you get good/positive leaders and then wealth and temptation and ego begin to set in, then the second half of the male spirit time, corruption and negativity prevail, until the female spirit time arrives to balance or change thing to cleanse or recreate life, if the negative energy/beings succeed in destroying the other life forms at critical mass. The cry of souls from this planet/heavenly body have been heard.
Just my inner opinion as I try to understand this thingy.

[WhiteFeather]

If I may interject further. IMO God experiences the richness of its potential through many vast and infinite life forms, because we are the incarnation of God in the physical realm. Therefore we can be a combined part of the super intelligence we know as God. A chip off the old block perhaps. I'm not buying into the male or female theory of God.

[GloriousPoetry]

God is a motherhood.....we have all the evidence we need here on our planet.....nature and the feminine vibration of our planet earth shows us.......the idea of a male god or celestial dictator is nonsense! Our mother who are on earth!

[ceetee9]

I always knew there was a good reason why I liked women. ;)

[lastlegs]

I am now more into God as intelligence beyond my comprehension but I always thought the Bible was written by man and not God inspired because a great creator would be totally bored with the concept of thrones surrounded by continuously praising people. I cannot imagine a God who is focused on praise or the things that are trivial in the Bible.

[Kindred]

My very first posting here on PA was a response to 'Charles', in reference to the statement he made saying that everything to come revolves about the Women... or something to that effect (note; it seems that my first postings are no longer available... I don't know why this is .... Paul???)

Anyway, the item I posted was a writing that I had recently made... something that I was DRIVEN to write... all I can say is that SOMETHING/SOMEONE was 'Directing' me to write this item...

Here it is:

When thinking about The Beginning… it Always had to BE.

No Beginning. No End.

Infinite. All Encompassing.

How IS it to BE?

By OPPOSITES… INFINITE, PURE OPPOSITES…

ZERO (0)… and, ONE (1)

A Most Basic Binary Construct

It is a flow of energy… contained, immaculate.

ZERO… as an INFINITE VOID

ONE (a Singularity)… INFINTE, also… but… there is a bias.

ONE, comprised of TWO components to Create a Flow Of Energy, Within Itself.

LOVE – FEARLESSLY EXPANDING INTO THE VOID, CREATING ALL, EMBRACING ALL, EXPERIENCING ALL…

FEAR – RETREATING, FLOWING BACK INTO LOVE, Comforted Within Love BUT, AT A LESSER DEGREE..

Creating an Offset, a Bias, Towards INFINTE EXISTANCE WITHIN and WITHOUT the VOID.

This Cycle is Most Base… All EXISTENCE is Of This

Each ONE, is the Same as All Others

Each at their own energy state, within this Most Basic Cycle of Energy

FEMININE Energy Defines this Pure LOVE, Radiating Into the VOID, CREATING ALL

MASCULINE Energy, Emanating from the FEMININE, Defines the FEAR of the VOID, circling and seeking Comfort Within the Sphere of the FEMININE

And, Through the Energy of the FEMININE, the MASCULINE finds LOVE, And, TOGETHER, they Merge,

Creating More LOVE - LIFE - THAN EACH INDIVIDUALLY.

Throughout All Eternity
-------------------------
With all this said, the essence of what we call 'female' & 'male', is truly the Energy AT THIS LEVEL OF DUALITY.

In one sense then, the fact that women are the entities that harbor the developing life in this physicality, only serves to support my writing. However, once one moves beyond this corporal 'level', then the energies that form the individual no longer need to be expressed as this arbitrary division.

I feel that what we call 'magnetism', is the essence of these basic energies that form our astral (and other) bodies. There is always a South pole, combined with a North pole. To listen to Tesla, one discerns that what we call 'current', is Not 'electrons' flowing, but rather, Magnetic Current, that then produces an Electric field surrounding this flow. This is what Birkeland Currents are all about, and are the essence of energy flow between the stars, and throughout the universe.

In Unity, Peace and LOVE

Throughout All Eternity

[RunningDeer]

My very first posting here on PA was a response to 'Charles', in reference to the statement he made saying that everything to come revolves about the Women... or something to that effect (note; it seems that my first postings are no longer available... I don't know why this is .... Paul???)
Hi Kindred,

In case Paul misses your post this may help clarify. I found one dated August 28, 2012 in the thread called, "The Sacred Feminine (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49105-The-Sacred-Feminine&p=545694&viewfull=1#post545694)" that matches your post above. There's a link you included but I don't have access to it.

This was your post in a Charles thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14048-A-call-to-all-Avalon-members&p=137748&viewfull=1#post137748):

I don't have much more to add - I had just posited my opinion to Icecold that many of these threads seem to have become more about the Individual, rather than the Community. I believe this whole excersize is about the Creation of a Community. In this vein, Please Accept my Unconditional Love to ALL. You are All my brothers and sisters...

I repeat
PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL

And according to the search engine this was your first post which was on February 14, 2011 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?13289-What-is-Love&p=140074&viewfull=1#post140074).


I've written this before, but it bears repeating.

LOVE is the Desire, the Willingness and the Action of:
GIVING ALL THAT YOU ARE, ALL THAT YOU EVER WILL BE,
And expecting Nothing in return...

Paula <3

[Cardillac]

as far as I believe, any "theologian" (regardless of religion) is nothing more than a pawn of his mind-programming (source: ALL religious dogma) and cannot be taken seriously; even at the point of 'near death' it's all a pre-programmed psy-op;

so where is the proof that 'God' has a physical being/certain gender?- there is none (gosh)-

I tend to agree with Hermeticism: the entire universe is interconnected and we are not separate from the creator but all a part of the creator (just my own humble, cheap opinion)-

Larry

[Kindred]

[QUOTE=RunningDeer;936111In case, Paul misses your post this may help clarify. I found one dated August 28, 2012 in the thread called, "The Sacred Feminine (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?49105-The-Sacred-Feminine&p=545694&viewfull=1#post545694)" that matches your post above. There's a link you included but I don't have access to it.

This was your post in a Charles thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14048-A-call-to-all-Avalon-members&p=137748&viewfull=1#post137748):
And according to the search engine this was your first post which was on February 14, 2011 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?13289-What-is-Love&p=140074&viewfull=1#post140074).
Paula <3[/QUOTE]

Paula... thank you so much for taking the time. Just the same, the item I'm referring to was sometime in early February, 2011, just after I joined. I was able to find a few posts from late February (the 13th & 14th), but my very first posting, in response to one of the 'Charles' threads, doesn't seem to exist. Perhaps these items associated with 'Charles' were 'archived' somewhere?

Again, Thanks for your effort!

In Unity, Peace and Love

[Hervé]

[...]
.... Perhaps these items associated with 'Charles' were 'archived' somewhere?
[...]
Hi Kindred,

Indeed, the thread you replied to at the time is now archived and is accessible by Mods and Admins only.

I'll sent you the content of that first post of yours via PM :)

Cheers!

Hervé

PS: Thanks Paula!

[Calz]

Here, let me fix it for ya :)

After being suspended into the lower astral planes for almost an hour, father O'Neil projected his beliefs into the dualistic lower astral planes and accentuated a female archetype to bring forth the missing mother aspect lacking in his physicality.

Why else would he be a priest anyway, where the feminine is denied? Probably because his own mother did not love him.


A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart has revealed a shocking revelation that will change everything you once believed.

Sorry, but there was nothing miraculous about this, or shocking or revelatory, and it did not change a darn thing I once believed. Just to be clear about the sensational intro to this story, I disdain this type of gorilla marketing journalism.


All I'd like to add to all of this is that I got a really good belly laugh out of it and out of most of the posts! It is full of wonderful contradictions. And it is full of images of a creative, yet programmed, mind. What can I do but laugh and laugh. What fun and how very strange this human ride is.


I am completely with Grip ... yet had the same response as Dawn.

Amazing Universe we live (and die) in eh???

[Wind]

Whatever the belief system of the individual experiencing the NDE, that will most likely be upheld. A Moslem sees Mohammed. A Christian sees Christ. Catholics have a very feminine focused culture, so it makes sense that a Priest would see a feminine spirit. Because Catholics also have a concrete definition of spiritual matters, it also makes sense that he had to interpret his experience as talking to God rather than understanding the all-encompassing oneness of spirit and just being able to accept the Presence as Spirit.

Hence the saying: "My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?"

[Natalia]

hehehehehe :)

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[meeradas]

giggle

how about this version, in all seriousness
yPDaz6uO9Ps

[ghostrider]

People often come back from these experiences thinking they met "God" but they just met somebody who was giving off a lot of positive loving energy and unconditional love an acceptance, and then they say, "I just *knew* it was God/Jesus/Whatever." But they didn't know it. They just perceived it as such. After his life is finished for real, he'll probably eventually find out what that was all about. My bet it he'll realize it was just a spirit guide. They can take lots of different forms, and usually opt for something that is comforting or inspiring.

exactly , humans always say god to anything they can't explain ... shows how spiritually starved mankind is ...

[Jules]

O14AoSAQ4mc

[BF88]

During a chemically induced exploration, at one point towards the end of the experience I came across a big beam of light coming from the planet as far as I could see into space with souls twirling around it, I instantly knew this was dead people (their souls perhaps) going to wherever they go so I followed them to have a look but a female voice said that it isn't your time yet and sent me back down to my body. This is a very simplified version of events but for me it gives credibility to the story and the idea that 'god is a woman' or what people believe is god when they are having such an experience takes the form of a female human or has the feeling of one.

To be sure of what you are experiencing is god one would first have to understand the nature of god, it is possible to have a feeling of pure love/bliss etc induced by other beings or in different circumstances and to mistakenly interpret this as god. People who experience this, me included, would say "no, the feeling is undeniable, it was definitely god that connected with me" but without accepting other possibilities for it. What I am saying is all theories must be explored in order to be certain, do not simply believe anything.

That was my 'logical approach', the emotional one would be I am happy for this person to have had such an experience. I personally believe if everybody on the planet had such a connection / experience it would solve a lot of problems (until they start recording it and make it into a new religion then fight over which version of events is true!).

[betoobig]

Nothing wrong with a feminine godess either with a feminine Universe.
Right place for this to honor all the great womans in my life
http://wespenre.com/2/PDF/IndividualPapers/01-TheFeminineUniverse.pdf
and for this inspirational Morningsky
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, A PRIMITIVE WARLORD LEARNED OF A GROUP OF SHAMANESS WOMEN WHO HAD EXTRAORDINARY SUPERNATURAL POWERS. TO HIS DISMAY, HE LEARNED THEIR SOURCE OF POWER WAS THE ‘FEMININE DIVINE’, THE GREAT MOTHER GODDESS. UNABLE TO FIND OR CAPTURE A SHAMANESS AND LEARN HER POWER, THE WARLORD FABRICATED HIS OWN PROTO-RELIGION, ONE IN WHICH HE WOULD PROCLAIM HIMSELF THE ONE AND ONLY LORD, THE TRUE SON OF AN OMNIPOTENT GOD.
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, HUMANKIND HAS LIVED IN THE CLUTCHES OF A MALE-GOD RELIGION BASED ON THE RITUALS AND SYMBOLS CREATED BY A PRIMITIVE WARLORD OBSESSED WITH SEX. TO THIS DAY, THE VALUE OF WOMEN IS BASED ON THEIR SEXUALITY. THE EVIDENCE WE WILL PRESENT YOU ON THIS SITE WILL SPEAK FOR ITSELF...

ROBERT MORNING SKY
http://robertmorningsky.com/
Love to all

[huyi82]

i will leave this here and show you how the archons are the king of deceivers.
v79lVNKthCw

[Nick Matkin]

God is not a woman after all.

A very good example of not being swept along wit a story without doing some basic checks.

http://digg.com/2015/fake-priest-viral-story

You see, I wanted to believe that us lot, the alternative media crowd, were a bit more discerning about what we take on board and mindlessly circulate and comment upon.

Seems some of us are not...

:(

Nick

[Hervé]

Some excerpts from the article linked above by Nick Matkin:


How The False Priest Became True
World News Daily Report’s "About Us (http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/about-us/)" page describes it as an “American Jewish Zionist newspaper based in Tel Aviv” that is “dedicated on covering biblical archeology news and other mysteries around the Globe.” It says it has a team of “award winning christian, muslim and jewish journalists, retired Mossad agents and veterans of the Israeli Armed Forces [sic].” WNDR also claims to publish a daily print edition with a circulation of more than 200,000.

All of the above is easily checked and proven false. So too was the story of the priest and his reawakening. First, the image of the priest on WNDR is a stock photo (http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-143133889/stoc). Second, the Archdiocese of Boston lists no Father John Micheal O’neal in its online directory of priests (http://www.bostoncatholic.org/Parish).

But after Uganda's Daily Monitor gave the story exposure and credibility by publishing it as true, other sites in Africa, the U.S., U.K. and India piled on. The fake story became a real force.One can also check World News Daily Report’s disclaimer (http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/disclaimer/):


Disclaimer
[...]

WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.

Added (errr... sorry folks... it's a hoax) to the thread title...

[Nick Matkin]

The photo in the link in the OP isn't even one of a priest, let alone "Father John Micheal O’neal".

It's a stock photo "Elderly 80 plus year old man recovering from surgery in a hospital bed" from here. (http://www.123rf.com/photo_20412240_elderly-80-plus-year-old-man-recovering-from-surgery-in-a-hospital-bed.html)

C'mon folks, we complain loudly enough about the MSM not fact checking, and look what we do to ourselves.

Nick

[Selkie]

I fell for it. As hoaxes go, it was pretty harmless.

Still, it is interesting to wonder: what if the hoax had been true? What if an old priest, who had a NDE, really had seen a vast, comforting Feminine being, the Goddess? What a sweet thing, for him!

p.s. I really liked the story, hoax or not, because I was feeling down when I read it, and it helped raise my spirits temporarily. I felt happy for the old man in the story, and I still do, even if it now turns out that he was a fictional character (but then, aren't we all fictional characters, at the end of the day?). Who has not been cheered by a fictional story? Does it really make any difference that it was an internet hoax? Not to me, it doesn't, because it was harmless, unless someone tried to bilk someone out of their hard-earned money with it (I say that because I didn't read the whole thread).

[Atlas]

Does it really make any difference that it was an internet hoax?
It does make a difference because some people actually study "life after death" (aka near-death experiences).

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/near-death-experience-3.jpg

It is like asking: does it really make a difference if Roswell happened ? For some people it does make a difference, and for some other people not.

Mainstream media headlines are like UFO sightings, only 1% are real, lol. ;)

[Selkie]

Does it really make any difference that it was an internet hoax?
It does make a difference because some people actually study "life after death" (aka near-death experiences).

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/near-death-experience-3.jpg

It is like asking: does it really make a difference if Roswell happened ? For some people it does make a difference, and for some other people not.

Mainstream media headlines are like UFO sightings, only 1% are real, lol. ;)

I prefer to take this hoax as a joke, and let it go at that.

[Selkie]

Does it really make any difference that it was an internet hoax?
It does make a difference because some people actually study "life after death" (aka near-death experiences).

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/near-death-experience-3.jpg

It is like asking: does it really make a difference if Roswell happened ? For some people it does make a difference, and for some other people not.

Mainstream media headlines are like UFO sightings, only 1% are real, lol. ;)

I prefer to take this hoax as a joke, and let it go at that.

p.s. you raise an interesting point, though. I said to John Lash one time that the Trickster only becomes dangerous when we stop laughing at him. If something doesn't pass the "laugh test", and I fail to see that it is a prank and I get fooled, then the joke is on me...I have been fooled by my own self-importance...and I should not get angry at the prankster. Makes me think of how Lash fooled me out of my life savings...

[Jules]

Let this be an example that the Catholic Church does not want us to know truth. Not about life, not about death, not about anything, but the fact is they want to control people and use them. God is neither male, nor female, yet the so called church will not tell you that. They have their reasons, but the truth is not one of them.

[sirdipswitch]

I do not believe in God. God is a total construct by religeon to control the masses.

That's not to say there isn't a Supreme Being at the center of all that is.

The Tibetan Buddhists have the best term for it. "The Ever Unknowable Source Of All Creation."

Which is the reason that I just call it "Source". It's simple and says it all. (much easier to type, also. cc)

Source is neither Male nor Female. IT, just is. And yet IT is everything. Nothing exists without Source. Simple!

Looks like religeon has done its job well. Y'all have just typed up three pages of thread, in a feeble attempt to explain... sompthin so simple.

And I did it in just five lines. simple...

ever tell ya I like simple? ccc.:wizard:

[jack]

Ive done extensive research on near death experiences and after having studied literally thousands of reports one thing I've grown to understand is that the soul is sexless and so is "God" (all the souls combined). All those who are stuck on the wheel of karma here on earth will come into different bodies and for each lifetime will take on a different identity and sex. Sex seems to be a construct of this particular reality we are experiencing as the world we choose to create and explore this time is finite and everything has a beginning and an end, everything is birthed and will eventually die. For an infinite being there is no birthing, there is no beginning and there is no end therefore the combination of two sexes coming together to create a new entity is not necessary once one transcends beyond the physical "finite" existence.

One aspect that also seems constant is a persons experience is influenced a great deal by their expectations and beliefs at the moment of death. This is because we are powerful creator beings and create our experience based on what we believe and expect. Most who are on earth do not ever come to realize this because they vibrate at such a low level that the time between the thought and manifestation can sometime span many years. For those who have raised their level of consciousness to a high degree it becomes very obvious, this "ability" we each possess, because the time between thought and manifestation gets shorter and shorter the higher we go, to the point of becoming instant (Instant manifestation. Refer to the many miracles attributed to the great Saints and Enlightened Masters who have walked this earth through the passage of time and if in doubt concentrate on your own spiritual development so that you may see this phenomena for yourself firsthand).


Just an extra couple of cents to add to the conversation :)

[Troy Martin]

God is technically both male and female together just as we are (soulmates) two separate functionality halves operating in unison. Many meet their spirit guides and assume it's god. God is a soul and god does not have a spirit body. The soul is not made of light nor does it speak or have human form.

[AwakeInADream]

Fascinating story :) Just to depart from the spiritual aspect a moment, I think I should point out a slight deception in the reporting. This is what I understand as happened: His heart stopped, so he was kept alive for 48 mins by a machine that pumped blood to his brain. During that time he had a subjective spiritual experience which surprised his sensibilities. Possibly he needed a motherly form of God at the time, so that's what he got. :)

My own experience of God didn't give me any notion of gender at all, just reassurance that life was worth the candle. Still, I know better now that to claim the absolute truth in anything I think I know or knew.