EXPERIMENT TO KNOW GOD

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Gateway of the Mind

THE STRANGEST
EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED TO KNOW GOD

In 1983, a team of deeply pious scientists
conducted a radical experiment in an
undisclosed facility. The scientists had theorized
that a human without access to any senses or
ways to perceive stimuli would be able to
perceive the presence of God.
An elderly man who claimed to have “nothing
left to live for” was the only test subject to
volunteer. To purge him of all his senses, the
scientists 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 sense
the outside world, he was alone with his
thoughts.
Scientists monitored him as he spoke aloud
about his state of mind in 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 scientists paid little
attention to the man’s 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 were not convinced until the
subject started naming dead relatives of the
scientists. He repeated personal information to
the scientists that only their dead spouses and
parents would have known. At this point, a
sizable portion of scientists left the study.
The hysterical subject now said 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 scientists were convinced that he was close
to establishing contact with God.
Seemingly mad, he started to bite off chunks of
flesh from his arm. The scientists 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 teardrops silently streaked across
his face. For two weeks, the subject had to be
manually rehydrated due to the constant crying.
Eventually, he turned his head and, despite his
blindness, made focused eye contact with a
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.