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October 2026

October 06, 2026

From up above . . .

We drove up to Lauterbrunnen today, past Trümmelbach and all the way to Stechelberg...

March 2026

March 02, 2026

Difficult to explain away

I'm pleased to announce that Episode 6 of our Becoming Brigham series is now...

November 2025

November 08, 2025

Some out-of-body experiences

I am, to put it mildly, no particular admirer of Zohran Mamdani, and I'm...

September 2025

September 13, 2025

She couldn’t have done it. Impossible. But she did it.

Having been on the road much of the day and having spoken at a...

May 2025

May 31, 2025

On “the recalled experience of death”

Very recently, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued three new sets...

January 2025

January 05, 2025

“We all have the same thing in common . . . we are dead.”

I was out of the house for a substantial part of Saturday, and the...

June 2023

June 29, 2023

“Hey, we do go on!”

Dr. Lynn Johnson has kindly called my attention to an article that appeared...

January 2023

January 09, 2023

“At that time I was no longer in my body.”

Many years ago, there was a period when my speaking engagements on behalf...

September 2022

September 15, 2022

“Evidence of the Afterlife”

Conference Talks: "The Ark and the Tent: Temple Symbolism in the Story of...

September 11, 2022

“That’s me!”

A couple of days ago, I finished reading William J. Peters (with Michael...

September 03, 2022

At IANDS

A new item went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation:...

August 2022

August 09, 2022

“Do Book of Mormon Names Have Ancient Origins?”

More than a few of you, I think, will find this interview of...

August 06, 2022

Proper Names and Foreign Words in the Book of Mormon, and, Oh Yes, Sexual Abuse in Arizona

We had a very productive meeting of the Interpreter Foundation board of trustees...

May 2022

May 29, 2022

Better, in fact, than he had ever felt before

*** Episode Six in the Interpreter Foundation's series of short video "reels"...

May 10, 2022

Remembrance

*** If you're at all interested in the topic of life before...

April 2022

April 03, 2022

“So strange and unusual appearances”

*** I've been pleased to see short thirty-second ads running on KSL-Television...

April 01, 2022

“The Messenger of Salvation”

*** A new article by the indefatigable Matthew L. Bowen has just...

March 2022

March 29, 2022

“Testimonials like this one helped convince him they were real”

*** Far and away the best prize that life has to offer...

March 13, 2021

“It is real in I am now no make believe”

It started off as a pretty busy Saturday. We had a meeting --...

March 06, 2021

“You heard that hundreds of years ago, in the pre-existence!”

*** I spent part of this morning and this afternoon involved in the...

January 2021

January 13, 2021

“A far more beautiful, more perfect place”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004) was a Swiss-American physician and psychiatrist and the author of,...

July 2020

July 25, 2020

“Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.”

The birth of contemporary interest in near-death experiences is often credited to Raymond...

July 20, 2020

A note on Joseph Smith, death, and out-of-body experiences

Back in 2018, I shared the platform for a moderately small meeting at...

May 2020

May 09, 2020

Two Reports from Paradise?

It's time, perhaps, for some additional notes drawn from a couple of the...

April 2020

April 26, 2020

“He found himself standing next to his own body.”

I share here a few brief notes that I've extracted from Marlene Bateman...

April 05, 2020

“I can make your job easy.”

New temples: Syracuse, Utah Bahia Blanca, Argentina Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Tallahassee, Florida Benin...

January 2020

January 13, 2020

“Am I dead or what?” (continued)

Continuing with some notes taken from Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science...

January 12, 2020

“Am I dead or what?”

Some notes taken from Pim van Lommel, Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the...

January 04, 2020

“Somewhere in Time,” its Utah connection, and that out-of-body experience

I posted a blog entry a couple of days ago about the film...

January 02, 2020

Out of a severely broken body

Some of you may be at least vaguely familiar with the painfully sad...