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Higher Density Living PodcastAuthor: Jason Rigby
Look within and live your life on the edge of two worlds. A reality where you find true understanding of who you are. Take the step into the unknown with Jason Rigby as he explores the thinly veiled world of consciousness, spirit, and the human condition. Join him in embodying the oneness of all. Walk the cliffs edge between the seen and the unseen realities. Welcome to Higher Density Living. Language: en Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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Angel Encounters: A Handprint, a Pump House, and How the Mystics Tested Them
Sunday, 27 September, 2026
At 12 years old, home alone in Brooksville, Florida, Jason Rigby felt someone grab his sunburned shoulder hard. He turned around. No one was there, but a white handprint was fading on his skin. Years later, fresh out of the Marine Corps after Somalia, Bosnia, and Haiti and no longer believing in God, he was replacing a well pump in the pump house of an old white church in Winlock, Washington, when an overwhelming presence filled the room.This episode opens the Higher Density Living series on angels, and it starts with the hardest question: how would you ever know you'd had an angel encounter?The Christian mystics took that question more seriously than almost anyone. Teresa of Ávila distinguished experiences that come through the physical senses from a quieter knowing of presence with no image or voice. John of the Cross warned people not to chase or cling to visions, even ones that might truly come from God. Their test wasn't "was it real?" It was "what did it produce?" Did it make you more humble, more loving, more honest, or did it make you feel spiritually superior?Jason also takes on the skeptic's side: William James's research on mystical states, ecstatic seizures linked to the anterior insula, and why finding where an experience happens in the brain doesn't settle where it came from.In this episode:The handprint experience and the Winlock pump house encounterCombat, PTSD, and losing faith in the God he was raised withTeresa of Ávila's kinds of spiritual visionJohn of the Cross on why you shouldn't worship the doorwayThe brain as instrument: what neuroscience can and can't tell usA simple two-column practice for working with your own unexplained experiencesTimestamps:00:00 Intro01:00 The handprint at 12 years old04:00 Combat, PTSD, and losing faith05:15 The Winlock pump house07:50 Teresa of Ávila and the kinds of vision10:10 John of the Cross: don't cling13:30 William James, the brain, and ecstatic seizures16:50 The mystics' real test20:40 The two-column practice23:00 Next episode: what early Christians believed angels wereLinks:Read the companion article on Substack: https://higherdensityliving.substack.com/p/i-felt-a-hand-on-my-shoulder-nobody
