By Keyn Camuglia
How do you evolve from a place of hardened, science-led atheism to embracing the channeled teachings of Jesus Christ on Divine Love? It may be surprising, but many of us in the Divine Love community have made that journey. While the Divine Path eventually brings a wealth of subjective (and, occasionally, objective) corroboration of its veracity, for those of us who rely on intellect to discern truth, getting to that point can be a challenge.
I began my academic career as an undergraduate at University College London specializing in cognitive neuroscience. I worked on a project that went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine, and I aspired to be a neurosurgeon. Although I retrained in law as a postgraduate, I stayed up to date with scientific research in my spare time, particularly in the field of neuropharmacology.
As a member of the LGBTQ+ community, I was quick to reject religion. I became a passionate advocate of the Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens schools of antitheism. However, after a period of soul-searching in my 30s, I realized that many of my objections were based on the ethical objections surrounding organized religion and its role in public life. It became apparent that a closer examination of what we know – and crucially, what we do not know – reveals that a spiritual universe is not only a reasonable hypothesis, but a logical extension of current scientific understanding.
After I had an experience that was difficult to explain by conventional means, I decided to explore spirituality using the very instrument that had held me back for so long: my brain.
The Magic of Consciousness
My first step on the journey toward spiritual exploration was acknowledging the mystery of consciousness. Despite extraordinary advances in neuroscience, the fundamental nature of consciousness – our sense of self, sentience, and subjective experience – remains unexplained.
There is no known physical mechanism in the brain that can account for the emergence of self-awareness. Neurons firing in complex patterns explain cognitive processes and, to an extent, personality and behavior, but they fail to explain the spark that makes you you. Some skeptics argue that unconscious states, such as dreamless sleep or anesthesia, prove consciousness is nothing more than a product of brain activity. However, this argument confuses memory with existence.
The absence of remembered experience does not necessarily equate to the absence of consciousness. Divine Love teaches that consciousness exists on multiple levels – the material mind, the spirit mind, and the soul mind – making it plausible that an unintegrated material mind retains no memory of continued awareness in these altered states. Rather than disproving spirituality, unconsciousness may point toward the transference of awareness between planes of existence.
I used to argue that consciousness evolved as a necessary tool for human survival. A personal breakthrough came when I realized the shakiness of that position. In an entirely material world, humans could actually function as highly complex, biological automatons, capable of propagating the species without a shred of true sentience. Advances in artificial intelligence demonstrate the beginnings of creations that emulate all the facets and nuances of human communication but do not demonstrate self-awareness.
Yet here we are, living in a world infused with unnecessary subjective experience. Consciousness is a form of real and existing magic in that it sits entirely outside human understanding but is undeniable to all who possess it. In the end, it became apparent to me that existing as eternal beings on a journey of endless progression, with self-awareness gifted by a higher power, was a highly logical explanation for the presence of consciousness.
The Limits of Material Science
A major step in my mental evolution came when I recognized the inherent limitations of our current scientific methods. Modern science relies on physical observation, measurement, and replication – tools perfectly suited for understanding the material world but insufficient for exploring realms that may exist beyond it.
Imagine two twins conversing in gestation. Their entire world is the womb, and everything they know derives from its boundaries. They occasionally hear muffled sounds from beyond but dismiss these as figments of their imagination. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” they say. Yet their dismissal of these signs does not negate the existence of the greater world awaiting them.
Dark matter offers a literal example. It constitutes approximately 85% of the universe but cannot be directly measured or observed. Its presence is inferred entirely through its gravitational effects on visible matter. Here is a substance we know must exist, but our scientific instruments are incapable of observing it directly. It is not an unfathomable leap to posit that spiritual reality operates in a similar way, existing as an unseen force that shapes our world and experiences but can only be perceived with the faculties of the spirit and soul.
Near-Death Experiences: Corroborating the Soul’s Journey
Near-death experiences (NDEs) offer some of the most compelling evidence for a reality beyond the material world. I spent many hours online absorbing the stories of hundreds of individuals who have been declared clinically dead. They report remarkably consistent experiences when resuscitated.
These include:
- A sense of leaving the body and observing the surrounding environment.
- Moving through a tunnel toward a source of light.
- Encounters with deceased loved ones or benevolent beings.
- An overwhelming sense of peace, love, and interconnectedness.
- Reliving significant moments and memories with profound emotional clarity.
What makes NDEs especially remarkable is the corroboration of events taking place on Earth. Many individuals describe events or conversations occurring while they were clinically dead, including those taking place in other rooms. These details were later confirmed by doctors or family members. Patients have reported floating above their bodies and accurately describing medical procedures being performed in operating rooms.
While skeptics often dismiss NDEs as the result of oxygen deprivation or neurological activity, no scientific model has satisfactorily explained their consistency, depth, or transformative impact. Indeed, some who have tried to replicate these experiences using hallucinogenic substances like DMT have reported them as dissimilar to their NDEs. Even discrepancies among NDEs have been addressed in our own messages, which confirm their veracity but indicate that the material brain can influence how these experiences are interpreted.
Most avenues of scientific discovery begin with anecdotal experience. Nobody disputes that dreams are real, even though they cannot be proven to exist objectively. After a certain point, it became irrational for me to discount the reported experiences of thousands of individuals simply because they were at odds with the existing scientific consensus.
Scientific Validation of Mediumship
Accepting the potential validity of NDEs led me to a source of information that irrevocably changed my life forever: mediumship. If NDEs provided convincing evidence of spirits inhabiting an afterlife, did this mean that those claiming to communicate with them were telling the truth?
It turns out that one of the most compelling intersections of science and spirituality is the growing body of research on mediumship. Well-designed studies conducted by organizations like the Windbridge Research Center have demonstrated that some mediums can provide accurate information about deceased individuals under controlled conditions. These experiments are exiting the field of parapsychology and entering the mainstream.
Once I accepted that credible evidence for mediumship exists, it became natural to explore the messages received through these channels. Numerous channeled works describing the afterlife, produced by authors unrelated to one another, paint a vividly similar picture of what awaits us on the other side. These include James Padgett, Robert James Lees, Anthony Borgia, and Rev George Vale Owen.
Soon, I discovered thousands of messages were continuing to be received by a contemporary community of mediums and fellow seekers following the teachings of James Padgett. These messages demonstrated remarkable complexity and consistency with these prior communications. Like any scientist, I was intrigued by the obvious replication of results, and I began to read.
Toward Divine Love
Once I attended Divine Love online prayer circles and experienced the channeling of these messages in person, prevailing theories of self-delusion or fabrication soon failed to explain what I was seeing. The messages being channeled had none of the hallmarks of improvisation. They had a clear beginning, middle, and end. They had long, complex sentences. They had structured arguments. They had distinct styles and voices.
Eventually, not only was I able to ask questions of the angels being channeled – answers for which the mediums could not have possibly pre-prepared – but I was feeling the blessings and sensing veracity on a fundamental level. I had begun to transcend the limitations of my brain. I knew what I was hearing was the truth, even if my mind was unable to fully understand why. I was on the Divine Love path, never to return to the confines of mainstream science. All this time, God was simply waiting for me to give it a chance.
For those willing to take the smallest step back from rigid materialism, setting your feet upon the Divine Love path requires a much smaller leap of faith than you might expect. Contrary to the conception of many, logic can indeed take us far enough to crack open the door to spirituality.
Of course, what lies beyond that door cannot be understood with the intellect alone. It is only through the soul’s awakening, fostered by prayer for Divine Love, that we come to know the ultimate truths of existence. To walk this path is not to abandon reason but to follow it to the very end of its limitations and beyond, opening oneself to the profound transformation that only the soul can experience.
This unconvinced skeptic gave it a chance. All we ask is that you do the same.