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 sense 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.

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