My Brother Back From Heaven example essay topic

Many people state that they have some sort of psychic / paranormal ability to see upcoming events. In my essay, I will attempt to differentiate fact from fiction. The story I found is one told by a woman named Kelly Singer and it goes as followed. "When I was two years old in March 1976, my nine-year-old brother Bobby died of a stroke due to complications from a congenital heart defect. Several years later when I was five, my mother put me to bed one evening at the usual time.

Some time had lapsed and a vision of a lady with a blue and white veil appeared on the ceiling above me. She told me that she was Jesus' mother Mary and she brought my brother back from heaven to talk to me. Immediately, he appeared in the ceiling and floated down to where I lay. He took my hand and told me that he had come to show me what heaven was like so that I could tell mom and she would be comforted.

I felt myself being pulled through the dark room to the ceiling and into a bright mist. I saw many people in this place including grandparents who died before I was born. He showed me things that are mentioned in the bible about heaven, such as a great palace with jewels inlaid right into the walls, the streets of transparent gold, and the beings of light (I believe they were archangels) surrounding God. Just as the bible says we were made into his image, he appeared as a person but not quite the same. The features of his face were softened by the blazing light that surrounded him. When God spoke to me, he told me that I would go home soon, and to remember to tell my mother about what I had seen.

Then I was instantly back in my bed and soon fell asleep. When I awoke the next morning, I remember eating breakfast at the dining room table and telling my mother about my vision. She was telling me who the people I had seen were and that the things I was describing were spoken about in the bible. It was such a vivid and amazing vision that even at 25 years old I remember details very well. In relation to this story, several years ago now, my mother was visiting the grave of my brother to place flowers on it. As she knelt beside the headstone, she asked for a sign that Bobby could hear what she was saying to him.

After a few moments, she climbed into her mini-van to return home. She had the radio tuned to an local "oldies" station, and suddenly, one of my brother's favorite songs, "American Pie" began playing on the radio. Now who says there's no life after death?" (See bibliography.) In this story I found little, even no empirical evidence at all. This woman states that she has a dream about her dead older brother coming down from heaven to see her. And if that isn't enough, he brings her up to "heaven" and she talks to God himself.

Everything in the whole story can be declared false very easily. Kelly not only could have had a relapse of her brothers death, mourning so much as to have a dream about him coming down and taking her to heaven. Also the age of Kelly at the time has a big impact on this story. She was only five years old, she may have heard this representation of "Heaven" and God at a Sunday Missal she had gone to and put two and two together in her sub-conscience and had a vivid dream of exactly that. Many people argue that kids have a more open mind therefor can be closer to God. There's minds are not cluttered, they are pure so they can have a special connection to the "other side".

I see no hard evidence that can prove any of this. The whole "American pie" song could have just been one big coincidence, that is no enough reason to think that that was her brothers "sign". The study I chose is one that shows the precognition of people predicting photographs. "Recent results from our MISTI E Project involving precognition (predicting the Animal, Vegetable or Mineral nature of a target-photo to be chosen in the future) show the importance of conscious intentions to increase or decrease the number of prediction successes as compared to what one would expect by chance alone. One participant submitted 1,000 predictions and achieved the 99.75 percentile level". (See bibliography.) I examined the claim that they gave and I found it to be valid.

The tested people and there intentions had a lot to do with their answers. One person got in the 99.75 percentile, but it also should someone else who only got in the 1.90 percentile. This shows that luck and people certain intentions had a lot to do with their precognition of each photograph. Like I said before, I'm sure luck had a lot to do with the people in the 1.90 percentile, but for some to get in the 99.75 percentile there is no way that is luck.

The odds were completely against him and although it was only one person who got that high, that person must have some sort of skill or precognition. I can't think of any alternate hypothesis for his end result. He did too well for it to be luck, and there was no chance of him having any sort of knowledge of the photos before hand. So I come to the conclusion that this person has a definite ability of precognition..