He answered nothing, by explicitly saying that he had no answers.
"...then experiences were verified after the experience."
What pharmacetical was used to generate the same psychedelic experiences?
"The most profound experience was his meeting his natural birth sister who had died, that he never knew he had. ..."
I think that such a significant happening would be more notable, so that it would appear in the posted article. Instead, the notables were on the order of hearing visions and visa versa. BTW, testimony is not verifiable evidence that any such meeting occured. What you claim occurred is impossible to verify.
"I constantly have spirits approach me to pass a message on to the loved ones they left behind. The message is usually, “Tell them that everything is ok.”
Are you a Postal employee?
“Are you a Postal employee?”
I could respond to that with a question such as “Do you belong to the “Flat Earth Society?” but I will not.
All I ask you to do is search for the answers within the facts of known science. And when things don’t fit, look for logical scientific answers that provide more science. I learn far more from investigating the exceptions than I do from the routine events.
Read Thomas Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions.” Understand how the human mind works relating to new scientific insights. The sheep are on both sides of the fence. Use your logic to investigate scientifically.
Science is in the methodology applied, not the subject.
Science is great as it stops the mind from walking in the circles of illogical thought created by denying anything that does not fit your paradigm.
I see this often as I demonstrate much of what I do with MD’s and neuroscientists in a university setting. I’ve had them walk out of my lectures and return over and over, only later to come to me and explain that they were on intellectual overload and couldn’t take it. They saw it with their eyes, but it did not fit their paradigm, even though I was explaining it scientifically. They walked out rather than have a melt down, but kept coming back to resolve their inner conflict.
My personal philosophy is that “miracles” are merely science that we do not understand yet, and that the pathway to knowing and experiencing God is both logical and scientific. That does not mean that I discount everything that I do not understand. I refuse to close my mind. Maybe that is why I can do the things I can do!
Remember, even Jesus said to his disciples as he was sending them out... “The things that I do and more, you too shall do in my name.”