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Gateway of the Mind.
In 1983, deeply pious scientists conducted a radical experiment in an undisclosed facility.
The scientists that theorized that a human without access to any senses or ways to perceive stimuli
would be able to perceive the presence of God.
They believed that the five senses clouded our awareness of eternity, and without them,
a human could actually establish contact with God by thought.
An elderly man who claimed to have nothing left to live for
was the only test subject to volunteer.
To purge himself of all of his senses,
the scientist performed a complex operation
in which every sensory nerve connection to the brain
was surgically severed.
Although the test subject retained full muscular function,
he could not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel.
With no possible way to communicate with
or even since the outside world.
He was alone with his thoughts.
Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud
about his state of mind and jumbled, slurred sentences
that he couldn't even hear.
After four days, the man claimed to be hearing hushed,
unintelligible voices in his head.
Assuming it was an onset of psychosis,
the scientist paid little attention to his concerns.
Two days later, the man cried
that he could hear his dead wife speaking with him.
And even more, he could communicate back.
The scientists were intrigued, but not convinced,
until the subject started naming their dead relatives.
He repeated personal information to them
that only their dead spouses and parents would have known.
At this point, a sizable portion of scientists left the study.
After a week of conversing with the deceased through his thoughts,
the subject became distressed, saying the voices were overwhelming.
Apparently, in every waking moment, his consciousness was being bombarded by hundreds of voices
that refused to leave him alone.
He frequently threw himself against the wall, trying to elicit a pain response, and begged
to the scientists for sedatives so he could escape the voices by sleeping.
This tactic worked for three days, until he started having severe night terrors.
He repeatedly said that he could see and hear the deceased in his dream.
screams. Only a day later, the subject began to scream and clawed his non-functional eyes,
hoping to sense something in the physical world. Now hysterical, he said that the voices of the
dead were deafening and hostile, speaking of hell and the end of the world. At one point he yelled,
No heaven, no forgiveness for five hours straight. He continually begged to be killed, but the science
scientists were convinced that he was close to establish in contact with God.
After another day, the subject could no longer form coherent sentences.
Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of flesh from his arm.
The scientist rushed into the test chamber and restrained him to a table so he could not kill himself.
After a few hours of being tied down, the subject halted his struggling and screaming.
He stared blankly at the ceiling as he stared blankly at the ceiling as he said,
tear drop silently streaked across his face.
For two weeks, he had been manually rehydrated due to the constant crying.
Eventually, he turned to his head and, despite his blindness, made focused eye contact
with the scientist for the first time in the study, he whispered,
I have spoken with God, and he has abandoned us, and his vital signs stopped.
There was no apparent cause of death.
Follow-up study, 2000.
Dr. G.F. Department of Neurology.
Hospital name withheld.
San Francisco, California.
Recent study of a degenerative disease which targets the motor function,
resulting cognitive decline often leads to hallucinations of the deceased.
Death of targeted cells and chemicals in the brain by this disease also leads to loss of smell,
among other senses.
Cause of the disease is unknown.
Hallucinations present in 39.8% of patients,
falling into three categories.
A sensation of presence, a person,
a sideways passage,
commonly of an animal,
or illusions.
Illusions were present in 25.5% of patients,
an isolated occurrence of 14.3%.
Visual hallucinations were present in 20%,
in 22.2% isolated in 9.3%
and auditory hallucinations were present in 9.7%
isolated in 2.3%.
Continuing study in San Francisco, California,
2003 to present.
And with God, and he has abandoned us.
Sard naabes he.
Nah, I have spoken with God,
and he has abandoned us.
I have spoken with God and he has abandoned us.
I have spoken with God and he has rewarded us.