He actually describes seeing “his wife,” a “dead prophet,” angels, and so on. I knew some things about them, but not their identity or history….They seemed to be able to change their shape to morph into some other shape if they desired… who never receive a physical body had the ability to appear any way they choose….n the image of a grandfather, a dead prophet, or someone’s wife if it helped in their deception.” Well, that pretty much throws the rest of the book into suspicion. He writes of evil spirits loitering in the hospital, “evil spirits were not readable to me. Let’s say, everything he said really happened in a manner like unto his description in the book.Ĭan he still be completely wrong about what he saw in Visions of Glory? Yeah, even on his own terms. Yet he persists beyond the first chapter to report commonplace feelings of spiritual presences, dreams and visions, and so on. That’s the high point of the tale told by Spencer. The father who abandoned his mother before his birth he understands with the same perspective, without anger, resentment or malice, for “I saw Christ’s love and Heavenly Father’s love for him, no matter what mistakes he had made.” An internal conflict follows, by his own admission where his old self wrestles the new man, love amid score-settling and pain. He observes his birth, some family dramas, and so on, all from this compassionate, comprehending, perspective. I felt no emotion about it, except increased compassion for my mother.” He sees his mother from God’s Point-of-View, apparently, and “experienced the love I had for her before I was born,” a sense that softened his heart. Spencer sees and comprehends his mother, her plans to abort or adopt him, and yet, “there was no judgment from God. While dead, his whole life passes before him, from conception (yeah!) onward. If you want to write a near-death best seller, head to your local hospital. Pontius (whose Accidental Satanism I’ve already written about).įirst, Spencer reports dying on the operating table, and leaving his body. Spencer, based on the stories told to Mr.

If the sales data are to be believed, we are indeed in the End Times.

In the stories, Spencer relates a few NDEs, and some visionary would-be futures of the world. The other night I read Visions of Glory, a collection of stories told to the late John Pontius by “spencer,” apparently still living and breathing as some sort of high-ranking authority in the corporation.

Who is spencer in visions of glory