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Profound NDE like Experience | Spiritual & End of Life Experiences | Russell Ricks 

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Russel Ricks shares many of his personal spiritually transformative experiences he's had throughout his life. First was an NDE like experience he had at the age of 8, an end-of-life experience with his mother, and countless other accounts with the spirit world seeing through the veil that most others couldn't.
Russel was born with a rare condition called ACC, or Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum which is a part of the brain missing after birth. This slowed his social development as a young child which resulted in constant bullying and teasing at school. This event put in motion his NDE-like experience after praying to God for help with the bullying. Although Russell didn't technically die, it shares all the commonalities of the typical NDE experience.
As an LDS, Russel visited the Idaho temple in Idaho Falls. He was astonished that the murals in the temple depicted his experience perfectly. After investigating he was told he wasn't the first person to have had a similar connection to these depictions of the afterlife in the murals.
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@NDEaccounts
@NDEaccounts 6 месяцев назад
We are slowly winding down the NDEACCOUNTS channel and will be putting our efforts into our new channel ► www.youtube.com/@strangeexperiences We will still be covering NDE's, but it will be more broad to cover other topics about the unexplained in general. D will be doing all the narration of the stories that we come across and that our viewers send us, so we hope that you come along and share your stories as well! See you soon! I've really enjoyed the long journey of this channel since the beginning, but it's time to start a new chapter!
@susanmorris6746
@susanmorris6746 2 года назад
I love this man’s honesty and openness, I am dyslexic was bullied at school and work place all my life. I’m a lot stronger now I’m 68 years old but I never forget. Susan from UK god bless this lovely man xx
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Glad my story touched you!😊
@crownhic6827
@crownhic6827 2 года назад
God bless you. God gave you only what you can handle. There is a lesson for you somewhere in there.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Yes. And perhaps it's to make me even stronger in my faith and trust with my Savior and the wisdom and strength in comforting others who had been through similar challenges?
@lucidmonkey3591
@lucidmonkey3591 2 года назад
When I was in second grade I teased a boy at recess as the other kids laughed I remember feeling powerful. Later when the bell rang and I headed back into the building I saw the kid crying with his hands to his face at the side of the building. I paused and felt tremendous quilt and had an epiphany in that moment. I vowed never to do that again. Now I still joked with my friends and was teased myself at times but it never affected me as I understood why one does it ( the power or ones own low self worth ) anyway don’t know why I was compelled to share that Susan but remember…. Even Jesus like a good laugh now and then 😉
@noelhogan7289
@noelhogan7289 2 года назад
What a beautiful soul this man has.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're very kind!😊
@teresamorin465
@teresamorin465 2 года назад
Hello sir. I just finished listening to what happened to you when you were a child up to your age now. I believe every word you said and you have touched my 💖 and soul. My wonderful husband and are stii fostering mentally challenged people for 35yrs now. Now i.m dealing with my 3rd cancer and many sicknesses through out my life. I love God so much at times I feel special that I suffer and suffered through out my life. Why I feel that not sure. I like your mom is scared to die but I also trust our Lord. Thank you Russell for your beautiful words of wisdom you share I needed to hear that. It was not an accident that I seen you on you tube. May God keep on showering you and your family with love. Teresa morin from Manitoba Canada.
@morgansherman1743
@morgansherman1743 2 года назад
Your message is beautiful. Thank you. God bless you in your suffering. You are blessed indeed to see it the way you described.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I'm glad my experience brought you a little comfort. I believe that whatever suffering we may experience here in this life, God makes up for it in the next. In otherworda, when we humbly endure pain and suffering here, there is a great and eternal reward much greater than our suffering waiting for us on the other side.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thanks for taking the time to listen to my story😊.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I believe whatever our suffering in this life, the reward for the same is greater in God's Kingdom. 🙂
@elizabethecarlisle1045
@elizabethecarlisle1045 Год назад
Teresa, To suffer joyfully is an attribute of the very highest order. I can't tell you how much you've touched my heart. God holds you in the hollow of his hand. With warmth, Elizabethe
@lindataylor4819
@lindataylor4819 2 года назад
Russell. I have had a bad day today until I ran across your story. Thank you so much Russell. You are right. We need to hear your story. We need hope. God bless you dear.
@Oldhogleg
@Oldhogleg 2 года назад
I was born in 59 with dyslexia and had similar experiences in public schools as well. Dyslexia was unknown back then, and no one discovered I was nearsighted too until well into my teens,, so could never see what was on the chalk board.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Old Hog Leg, meet Mr. Bum Left Foot!🤣 I had left foot surgery just over a year ago. Just now getting to where I can get around better. I also think I need to see an eye doctor. I've been having lots of migraine headaches.
@natashasproles4608
@natashasproles4608 2 года назад
This is absolutely 100% the sweetest story....I have so much similarity with this man and his life...
@mariagraziasiscar1223
@mariagraziasiscar1223 2 года назад
I also held my mom's hand as she died, until her last breath. Unfortunately i was crying too much to feel divine presences, my mother was very young and she left us shortly after the death of our father, and she left us with a little brother. I have lost the sacredness of the moment because of too much pain, it's a big regret.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
When you meet and embrace each other after your own passing, it will be the most joyous reunion! Words cannot express how you will feel.
@SchoolOfReallyHardKnocks
@SchoolOfReallyHardKnocks 2 года назад
This isn't "NDE-like", it is an NDE. Proximity to physical death is not the only trigger for NDEs. Major emotional trauma can bring them on. Presumably, in this man's case, in one's sleep as well.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
In Holy Writ down through the ages we can read of various recorded spiritual events similar to NDEs and others of all types. Some very remarkably noteworthy spiritual experiences occurred during dreams or appeared to have happen during a dream. However my experience happened, I very clearly felt a separation from my physical body.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thank you🙂. I know someone I hope reads your comment someday!😉. This individual commented, "You didn't have a Near Death Experience! You only had a dream!"
@Valleygirl66
@Valleygirl66 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 have had many experiences myself usually during sleep time other experiences are just everyday things,...it's real.
@miskokinoo
@miskokinoo 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 Hi Russell. Just finished listening to your story here. Loved listening to it, by the way. Anyways, I just wanted to tell you that I too have had a nde without having to die. Too long story to tell in this comment. I just wanted to leave this world. I believed, at the time, that we humans had the potential to leave this plane and get to higher levels. I was almost 19 at the time. It was in july or august of 1985. I too was told I couldn't stay there. I then spent the next months, even a year or so trying to get back there. So, I want to thank you for sharing your experience publically. I didn't know of anyone else who had experienced something like this without going through death. Keep doing what you're doing. I'm sure you have and will keep being of invaluable help to others. 👍
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thank you!😊
@catamazing5631
@catamazing5631 2 года назад
I believe that this is the most beautiful nde that I have ever heard. It is so beautiful that I am not at all afraid of dying now like I used to be. I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions of the flowers and the clouds and the music and the aspen tree. The aspen tree being connected with all other Aspen trees amazed me specifically because when I have read or seen other ndes presented on RU-vid I have heard many people say that there was a connection of everything in heaven like we have never known here. So when you said that all the roots were connected that made me believe in heaven even more. I guess there were only two things that puzzled me. When you began your nde story you said you were 8 years old, afraid to go to school again and that is when you lay down in bed and had this near death experience but the next day when you were awake and sitting at the table with your mother telling her all about it you were not going to get ready for school as your brothers and sisters were that morning. So why if you were 8 years old when you had this nde were you not 8 years old the next day when you told your mother about it? That part of the story confused me. Also, because I was wondering why, if he was 8 years old. Why was he not getting ready for school with the other kids? I loved the part of the near-death experience where Jesus took you to see the city and that the marble walls moved. That was quite spectacular. Everything in heaven seems to be praising God at all times even things that are not alive like we think of alive I thank you so much for sharing this experience that you had and I am very much sorry that you were bullied so much in school. That was wrong. But sometimes we don't understand why things happen the way they do and in your particular case as the scripture goes, all things work together for good for those that love the Lord. And even though you had to suffer what you suffered in school that's suffering turned into good because you love the Lord and had from the time you were very young. I sometimes lie down in bed at night, I am 75 years old without any family to really keep me company ever and I will lay there close my eyes, and try to bring up the tunnel. I don't really know how to explain it but I want to see that tunnel I guess because I want to see God and I want to see heaven I am ready to see heaven. So when I do this when I am lying down in bed with my eyes closed tight I will begin to see a swirl of colors and they go round and round very swiftly and they are beautiful but they never really turn into a tunnel but I keep thinking that they are going to. It's a beautiful sight. Every now and then I can't make it happen but when it does I am just elated and amazed. I know that someday I will see that tunnell and I hope that I will see those beautiful purple swirls color that I see now at times. Once again thank you for sharing that NDA with us because it was just absolutely beautiful. There was so much in it that I have saved it so that I can listen to it over and over again as I want to see those flowers that grass the clouds the music, Jesus, and everything else that you describe one day. God bless you sir. And as I think about this story I bring up in my mind that Jesus loves the little children and he loved you. God bless you
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Sorry about the confusion with the siblings going to school part. I did correct myself right after I said that. School hadn't started yet. It was still late summer.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
😊Thanks so much for your tender words!
@sorayagolzar3390
@sorayagolzar3390 2 года назад
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." Matthew 7:7
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
And that's essentially what I did!🙂
@infpballetswimspa
@infpballetswimspa 2 года назад
CBN can explain death & reincarnation experiences. Everyone is here for the same reason: build the invisible spiritual holographic light body within the physical body, which is only done with a relationship with God. They need to share experiences where people were told specifically how to build their spiritual body. I was told to stop chasing materialism. I can’t take it with me.
@charlotteritchie3338
@charlotteritchie3338 2 года назад
This is so beautiful, and the shared root of the Aspen trees is such a wonderful metaphor for humanity…💗
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Yes it is! It's perfect!
@natashasproles4608
@natashasproles4608 2 года назад
That is how my husband's grandmother went also....she was pretty much unresponsive laying in bed and my husband's father and uncle were sitting with her and they said all of a sudden she opened her eyes full of wonder staring at the ceiling and then she passed....
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Beautiful! The veil was lifted for her eyes!
@evad9752
@evad9752 2 года назад
Wow...what a sincere and meaningful story. All the pain and abuse you suffered and the love of God coming to you in your darkest hour. Thank you for sharing and God bless you!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're very welcome! 😊 I believe perhaps the veil of Heaven is much thinner for us when we are children.
@Geoffr524
@Geoffr524 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 So true that the veil is thinner for children but also for those that are so close to Death's Door. This life has been rough for me too. When I was younger I was warned that LIFE would be quite hard for me, an now I am feeling it these last few years.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I'm so sorry to hear you're going through a rough period. God be with you!
@hollynoelleAbductedUfologist
@hollynoelleAbductedUfologist 2 года назад
Thank You for Sharing this beautiful experience. He Died For Us!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
We can always count on God!
@MrDavenez
@MrDavenez 2 года назад
I would love to give him a hug, what an awful school that he went to, what horrible kids and teachers 😪
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Online hugs accepted!🙂❤
@MrDavenez
@MrDavenez 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 You got one here coming your way My friend 🥰🥰🥰🙏❤
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
@45cobden
@45cobden 2 года назад
Wonderful... What a miraculous reality we are part of.
@sharoncrockett9209
@sharoncrockett9209 2 года назад
I lost my Mom October 7th of this year. Im 64 she was 84. It happened fast .She lived at her home that was my Grandmas her Mom an Dads house. We helped take care of her almost everyday. An her Nurses an therapist in an out.Her memory was better than mine.We went to go pay her bills that morning an she had a mild stroke an it dint get better worce an she could only try say few words an barely understood her. She couldnt eat an they were afraid to give her ice. She would hold my had an i cried an Prayed i didnt want her to go.I believe in God an new she would go be with Jesus but its been hard for me.She did say who is that standing behind me i said dont no but it must be my Angel Mama she asked my husband too cause he helped me with her all the time. I sang to her an with tears as she took her last breath which was peaceful.I just feel so lost like my heart is broken. Pray for me to get better grief is terrible loseing her. I believe what you said.😇✝️
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Touching story😪. Isn't it great to know you'll reunite after you pass away? It will bee a happy and joyful reunion!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
My Mother was just 4 days shy of her 84th birthday when she passed away.
@avonleamontague2469
@avonleamontague2469 2 года назад
This is by far one of the best conversations in the topic. Considering how all of us feel about what he's saying, I take it his mission is definitely meant for him and now for us.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thanks!
@infpballetswimspa
@infpballetswimspa 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 how does he know those supposed diagnoses when the internal body enclosed is 100% invisible light? Who diagnosed these?? Instruments are displaying the changes the instruments make. Cutting the body displays the changes in temperature and pressure of death sliver silver knives
@Terrazona929
@Terrazona929 2 года назад
Thank you Russell, for blessing me and all of us with God’s Love and Light. 💗🙏🏻🥰
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're very welcome! 😊
@deanihendry7967
@deanihendry7967 2 года назад
God Bless you Russel .. thank you so much for sharing . Your story really touched my heart 💜
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thanks😊
@maryanndarr8057
@maryanndarr8057 2 года назад
Russell, your story was so beautiful. Thank you!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thank you! 😊
@keithfrazier8586
@keithfrazier8586 2 года назад
What a tremendous account. Thank you Russell!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thanks very much Keith😊
@natandjoec
@natandjoec 2 года назад
Russel, I watched your video days ago, and I am still thinking about it. It is truly one of my favorite, and I watch a lot of them. One thing that I could not stop thinking about was how you explained that you had a medical condition and it affected your social skills growing up. As I watched your video, and then read the comments you responded to people with, I could not help but feel that you have taken a weakness and turned it into a strength, even to GREATLY exceed that of the "normal" population who were not born with that weakness. You are very enjoyable to listen to, and your video was well thought out, and organized, and your responses to comments, friendly or critical, are kind and charismatic, and very on point and appropriate. I wish we could be friends! If you're ever in Texas, let me know!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thank you. Thanks for your kind response! I now consider you one of my friends. Find me on Facebook and Instagram 🙂.
@natandjoec
@natandjoec 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 I'm not on either of those :'( bummer!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Who have I been conversing with? Nat or Joe? 🤔
@natandjoec
@natandjoec 2 года назад
Natalee Christensen 😊
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Merry Christmas! 🙂
@janinedevilliers510
@janinedevilliers510 2 года назад
Thank you so much for sharing your storey Russel. It's heartbreaking and beautiful. I'm so glad Jesus took you to heaven to show you how loved you are. I'm so sorry for the loss of your mum😭 I see comments here where bullies are always mean. I believe you are one very special child of God who has touched many hearts, especially right now during this pandemic. Sometimes the cruelty of people makes me want to leave this place. I'm feeling very sad and down about all the lies and deceit around covid. I mean, who creates a biological weapon in a laboratory and unleashes it on the world? What kind of monsters are so called humans? Politics crushing people. Jesus really did come to die for our sins because we are rotten. All of us need saving. I'm struggling to live in such a destructive world. I have prayed for Jesus to expose all the liars, for God's justice to prevail and protect all the innocent. Our mother earth, all the creatures, all the innocent. I just want to say thank you again, and thank you to Jesus for dying for us and forgiving us of our sins. Love and light to all. 🙏💞
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Heaven is our real home, but we are here in this world to learn from our experiences, good and bad. We're also here to spread God's love and light. When we have tribulation and trials, we can still call on God for His comfort and His peace. After all, He is the Comforter and the Prince of Peace. Rising above our challenges, we can then comfort and serve with empathy those who are going through difficulty.
@sph798
@sph798 2 года назад
Your experiences are v heart touching.I am sure we shall meet our luved ones especially our mums when we pass over.Great video.Thanks for sharing.
@carlasousa8623
@carlasousa8623 2 года назад
Amazing experience.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
@in-spiritation4217
@in-spiritation4217 2 года назад
Loved listening to this, I can relate but only in the way of my High Functioning Autism. Never want to even think of school, what a nightmare it was. The astral travel, was a beautiful thing. Thank you Russell for sharing your experiences to others
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're welcome 😊
@angiewittman8959
@angiewittman8959 2 года назад
What a beautiful, genuine, loving soul 🤍 Thank you for sharing your story
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're very kind! 😊
@chriskemp1849
@chriskemp1849 2 года назад
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing experiences. Very touching and heart warming. A gift from God. Blessings to you and your family. Chris from Melbourne Australia.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're welcome! 😊
@craigneo
@craigneo 2 года назад
Thank you for this heartwarming story Russell.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're welcome! 😊
@MKKzierhut
@MKKzierhut 2 года назад
Thank you for sharing. Absolutely beautiful and comforting
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I'm happy my story touched you!
@crownhic6827
@crownhic6827 2 года назад
If you’re looking for GOD, look into yourself. Sometimes, it’s the last place you look.
@Cguin
@Cguin 2 года назад
Beautiful, thank you for sharing so much❤️
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're welcome! 😊
@pattyk6739
@pattyk6739 2 года назад
I have also had this type of experience. Of course, I have to be very careful who I share it with because I didn't die. It was the most wonderful experience ever. Too long to tell here, but the main thing was, the amazing love that cannot be described in earthly terms. I am not ready to die, but when my time comes, I will be very ready knowing what awaits me on the other side.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Happy Holidays to all! May the love of God and the Spirit of His Light fill your hears with joy and peace this holiday season!
@187shah
@187shah 2 года назад
God bless you for sharing
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thanks.😊
@charleyarchuleta4932
@charleyarchuleta4932 2 года назад
Thank you for sharing friend.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thanks! Any relation to David Archuleta?
@charleyarchuleta4932
@charleyarchuleta4932 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 no sir. I believe his family is from the Philippines. My family is from Colorado and New Mexico. The name is a proper Northern Spanish basque name. Many Mexican and Navajo peoples carry it , from the Spanish. :)
@lepee5830
@lepee5830 Год назад
What a beautiful testimony. Thank you much for sharing with us. The Lord really loves you. ❤
@sorayagolzar3390
@sorayagolzar3390 2 года назад
Thank you for sharing.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I hope my words brought you some joy today!😊
@kararoberts9625
@kararoberts9625 2 года назад
Thank you so much brother Russell. This has helped me tremendously! 💞
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're welcome 😊
@victorynjesus421
@victorynjesus421 2 года назад
AMAZING experience!!!
@SD-hg6cu
@SD-hg6cu 2 года назад
Your testimony has blessed me. Thank you !
@pastorpresent1
@pastorpresent1 2 года назад
This is absolutely one of the best near death experience stories I have ever heard. As a longtime Lutheran minister, now retired, I have been very doubtful of the Mormon faith. But after hearing this, I am very much at peace with these people, my brothers and sisters. I don’t think I will join that community of faith, but I look forward to seeing Russell and many others in the hereafter. Thank you so much for this sharing.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
There are so many false rumors about those of my LDS Faith and it's doctrine. One fellow, hearing "Mormons" have horns, was surprised to find my Father without horns when Dad took his hat off in front of him. 🤣 Rumors abound steming from those who hate.
@gingerella7934
@gingerella7934 2 года назад
Very beautiful story, thank you for sharing. I believe each encounter we have (as humans in physical bodies) with spirit on the “other side “ is personal to what we believe here on the physical side. God “personalizes” our spirit encounters in the way that is best for us to accept with our human minds.
@12567NoYouCannot
@12567NoYouCannot 2 года назад
SO BEAUTIFUL.
@charleyarchuleta4932
@charleyarchuleta4932 2 года назад
God will say “my son paid your admission, welcome.”
@carbon1479
@carbon1479 2 года назад
I feel this guy's decency and pain both. I grew up on the spectrum and had a similar experience of loving home, torturous outside environment. I feel like I'm finally finding pieces that help bridge the gaps between something like unconditional love on one side vs. the kinds of Darwinian game theory we live under as expressed by people like Scott Alexander in Meditations on Moloch or John Gray's Straw Dogs. It's clearly one battle to figure out how we free ourselves as a species from deterministic predation, at the same time it's another thing to figure out how to keep ourselves from spiraling into despair with every consecutive black pill life forces us to swallow. I do feel as though people like Donald Hoffman, Bernardo Kastrup, and I'd add Andres Gomez Emilsson, are actually coming up with frames through which to view this that stack - that's at least the academic side (which is very much needed). The other side then is the personal, ie. what one's relationship with Source is like when they've been through enough pain that they have to fight a regular battle not to have it turn them into a reflection of their environment. That's where I feel like these kinds of stories are critical for people to remember that if they aren't model psychopaths that they don't simply deserve to be stomped out of existence by their 'betters'.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thanks for your kind comments!😊
@larrymondello8475
@larrymondello8475 2 года назад
Thank you
@dimittenobis
@dimittenobis 2 года назад
I very much enjoyed listening to his account up until he described his experience in a way that it turned into an LDS testimony fireside. I have been hurt very very badly by his religion and his account reminds me how much it still hurts. In any case, Russel, thank you and God bless you for everything you do and your ministry.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I'm so sorry I caused you heartache! For a period of time after my first marriage ended, I was hurt by a few individuals treatment towards me. These individuals are LDS and are full of hypocrisy. In my hurt, I allowed myself to become angry with God and left the Faith for a couple years. After a difficult and very lonely period of not living the standards required by membership, I began to miss and yearn for all the blessings I once enjoyed. I began to humble myself, seek God again in prayer and returned to my bishop, who was very loving in helping me get my life straightened out. I'm now back in full membership, remarried in the LDS temple and enjoying even greater blessings than before! I have a better relationship with a loving spouse and double the size of my family (7 of my own children and 7 step children)!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Henning, Those individuals who hurt you are individuals and do not represent the LDS church's doctrine as a whole. When I returned to the church after becoming inactive, it was hard at first, but I knew God wanted me to return to the fold and I so desired the blessings again which I knew I had lost. Even in my darkest hour, I called out to God and He was there. His promises to me have ALWAYS been kept.
@dimittenobis
@dimittenobis 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 thank you for your reply and your words of encouragement. I know they come from a good place and I believe you are a friend of God and I appreciate your relationship with him is close. Related to my history with the church - no I did not leave because I was offended. I left because LDS theology had left me in a bad place under the law but without grace and without healing. I have stayed close to God in all this, particularly now that my own wife of 27 years divorces me. Some days are hard. I pray every day, I go to mass, I try to help and to love and to stay open to God‘s correcting hand. But no, I didnt leave because I was offended, or because I wanted to sin. Also the saying ‚the church is true but it‘s members aren‘t‘ - I have reflected on that alot. I found the exact opposite to be true. There is light in the church and in the people. But through Christ God can see us as perfect.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I hope you find your pathway that brings you closer to God. The path I've chosen is right for me.
@JG-cx4fs
@JG-cx4fs 2 года назад
I say this with the utmost sincerity. And this isn't to disparage anyone's story. But I purchased a book almost 10 years ago from our churches bookstore that's very similar to his story. I can't help but see so many almost word-for-word expressions from that book, that I had to shut it off... If you appreciate the story and you get something out of it good for you! ...but there is a book very similar and members of this church often use examples of these experiences to give validation and credibility to their super spirituality....
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
What book was it? Name the book. I'd be interested to know what the name of the book is.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
If someone shared a very similar story, I would really like to know. After sharing my experience with a certain LDS temple president and relating it to a specific mural in the temple he was a Stewart over, the president shared there were many others who made the same connection with their Transformative Experience and a specific mural in the temple. From this experience, I learned there were othere who had, had neaarly the same identical experience. Many years later, when I lectured as the speaker for IANDS Utah in Salt Lake Feburary 2018, an individual afterwards shared with me, many years ago, someone shared a nearly identical story with that same IANDS group. So I'm not surprised you'll find a similar story. Please send me the book information you have! Thanks!
@rjsimpkins2911
@rjsimpkins2911 2 года назад
If more than one person had a very similar experience, to me, it exponentially adds validity to each of them and as a group.
@rosalineslon6910
@rosalineslon6910 2 года назад
Amazing and so beautiful thank you 🙏
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
😊
@nomad9338
@nomad9338 2 года назад
Absolutely fascinating, thank you for sharing.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You're welcome! 😊
@jackhenshaw8651
@jackhenshaw8651 2 года назад
Thank you.God is with you.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Thank you! 😊
@lindanorlin826
@lindanorlin826 2 года назад
Good story
@moand7862
@moand7862 2 года назад
Why anyone wants to be here in this existence is beyond me.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I believe we each have a purpose for coming to Mortality and one of those is to suffer things so we're more able to comfort and console others. It's to also to teach us to love and forgive one another. I also believe there is a reward in Heaven waiting for us far greater than the suffering we went through.
@Geoffr524
@Geoffr524 2 года назад
We did plan our Life before coming here to Mortality. We Planned our Life to aid in OUR growth and understanding, for we do need all the experiences we can get. Mortality is SCHOOL.
@sandrapieterse5017
@sandrapieterse5017 2 года назад
Wow. I had to watch it twice to be sure. I have a similar story. I am epeleptic and have died a few times through my life. My experience hasnt been while I was dead but I had been woken up. My story a bit humerous I think. I also know we have aeeting before we are born I just knew it as a child beyond reasonable dought. I struggle still but before i was born i did say bring it. Cause the ask what u would like to learn. Love? Anger? Loss? Tradegy? What would u like to see and do. I also knew what my strenghts and weakeness were so I got to choose what i would lile to improve on. So weird. Its not nearly the whole story. Id live to share it one day to give others hope. Well done on being an example of courage. Which I am sure was high on my list of the things I wanted to learn not just get through my life is courage. You ask to get it or learn it. Its complex and i dont think about it 2 much as that would spoil the mystery and ruin the lessons. Anyway thank u. Be well, Mr Ricky till we meet again..
@janicestone9058
@janicestone9058 2 года назад
This has helped me so much.it sounds like my poor hisband..thank you for helping me
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Glad to give you a little hope!
@bellaflora.
@bellaflora. 2 года назад
❤️
@warrenrodgers7544
@warrenrodgers7544 2 года назад
Jesus is the only way humbly ask he will answer,
@razony
@razony 2 года назад
As you have heard. Jesus is NOT the only way. Love is!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I believe God has a place or mansion for all His children. I also believe Christ "is the way, the truth and the life and no man can come unto the Father" except through Jesus Chist. In other words, if you want to live in the part of God the Father's kingdom with Him, in His Mansion (or His highest degree in the Celestial Kingdom...compare Swedenborg's belief in the highest portion of the highest kingdom), it is only through accepting a d living by Christ's teachings, ordinances and Atonement.
@warrenrodgers7544
@warrenrodgers7544 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 amen
@tessmcfadden9707
@tessmcfadden9707 2 года назад
It's a tad muffled in spot's though what I did hear is 😍🌹
@cody8513
@cody8513 2 года назад
i thought this was going to be a video like the trailer?
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I'm sorry. I currently don't have a laptop, so we just did the interview via phone conversation.
@ByGraceIGo
@ByGraceIGo 2 года назад
Great story. But with the channel like this it should not be monetized because the ads interrupt some very important things that people are trying to say. Just saying. I don't mind if it's at the end but when it's right in the middle and they're saying something important it's a really nerve-racking.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I hear ya man! 👍
@Jan-wd1is
@Jan-wd1is 2 года назад
Sounds like your Christian tradition Is LDS! Thank you for sharing!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Yes it is.
@iamessence6268
@iamessence6268 2 года назад
I don't know why he is crying. They were just spirits with white clothes on. Everything is just energy and is connected.
@charlotteritchie3338
@charlotteritchie3338 2 года назад
He seems to be deeply moved when he relives his experiences - understandably…
@Joselinema100
@Joselinema100 2 года назад
Everything is energy. No big deal :)
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
The memory of that moment was a very sacred moment for me and my Mother past away just 5 years ago. See.s only yesterday.. I'm still tender about it.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
...seems only yesterday.
@iamessence6268
@iamessence6268 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 Sorry I understand. I also lost my mom as a little girl. 😞 I just want people to realized who we really are.
@noumenonjohn6136
@noumenonjohn6136 2 года назад
So Gods a Mormon? Hallelujah!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
🤣Praise the Lord! God loves all His children and communicates with each one in the way He sees fit. He knows what we each need and how best to teach us and touch our hearts. God looks at our hearts more than our religious tradition.
@razony
@razony 2 года назад
Don't upset the guy!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Very funny Razonby. 🤪
@rjsimpkins2911
@rjsimpkins2911 2 года назад
I didn't hear that, but he is certainly over them, as well as most other religions.
@harrybowlby1293
@harrybowlby1293 2 года назад
Glad your story was so wonderful. Not sure why God allows such horrible diseases to happen to people and let them suffer horribly. I am more of a spiritual person then a religious person. I am upset with God that he allows such horrible suffering on this earth he created. I never asked to be created as a spirit or a soul and I don't believe I asked to be born into this horrible world that God created. God allows such horrible suffering all over this horrible world. If I never existed I would never suffer or know anything. But thank you for your story.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Our purpose here in this fallen world is to have experiences Good and Bad. The way we handle that which we're given, can either make us stronger or we call wallow in the pitty of our own suffering. The bad comes from the Evil one, not God. What every difficulty we face in this life, if we face it with courage and determination, the reward we'll receive on the other side is much more exquisite that what we suffered.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Having had to deal with my disabilities has made me a stronger and better person, giving me the compassion and empathy to serve others in their challenges.
@michaeltex1
@michaeltex1 2 года назад
Most NDEs don't involve religion at all.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Truth is truth wherever it is found. Sometimes it's organized as a religious body. Paul the Apostle "saw the Third Heaven". Paul was a Christian. A group of Shepherds were visited by heavenly hosts. They were likley of the Judaism tradition and I'll bet many of them also later became Christian? Abraham sought after the tradition of his early fathers. Abraham saw angelic beings. Lazarus was raised from the dead by Christ, Himself after being in the grave 3 1/2 days. Oh, the story Lazarus could tell if he were alive today! Surely Lazarus ' words would convert you to Christ? Many see a divine personage they refer to as Christ or Buddah or Kreshina. I was then and still am now very involved in my religious tradition. It is very much a part of my life perhaps more so now than perhaps many others. One thing I'm not doing is trying to force my beliefs on someone else or pick a fight. I will also say, I've always been more spiritually inclined than perhaps the average individual. When I cried out to my God for help, since He knows us all very well, God knew how to respond to my personal inclinations. We all do our best to interpret our NDE's however poorly the outcome. Perhaps it's true most don't use descriptions from their religious background, yet sometime what we do understand or believe spiritually, can give us some type of descriptive footing?
@michaeltex1
@michaeltex1 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 I made a statement. It was not implying anyone was lying or picking a fight. Breathe.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
No offense taken Michaeltex1🙂 there have been some great thought provoking comments, including yours.
@michaeltex1
@michaeltex1 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 I'm glad that wasn't my intention.
@michaeltex1
@michaeltex1 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 Provoking comments? No! It was a true statement.
@buck_maize111
@buck_maize111 2 года назад
What if we don't obey his commandments though.. I don't know anyone that does.. everyone breaks them daily.. and jesus said as long as you live by my commandments you'll be fine. Literally no one does though. So what happens to us? Does this loving being send us to hell? It doesn't make sense
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Christ paid for our shortcomings though His Atonement, making us indepted to Him. All He asks in return is to obey His commandments and genuinely repent, then sincerely try to follow His lead in doing the things He taught us to do. This is how we pay Christ back for dying for us. In doing so, we will avoid any suffering and pain we might undergo during our life review after death. There is a scripture relating to this "For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; 17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; 18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit-and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink- 19 Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men."
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Another scripture.. "Verily, thus saith the Lord: It shall come to pass that every soul who forsaketh his sins and cometh unto me, and calleth on my name, and obeyeth my voice, and keepeth my commandments, shall see my face and know that I am."
@buck_maize111
@buck_maize111 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 doesn't answer my question at all.. there are so many NDE's saying all different things.. some saying there is no hell.. others saying there is.. yet others say there is no judgment and nothing needing forgiveness.. we're just here to experience physical lives.. then NDE's like this one saying you must follow my commandments or you'll go to hell.. it's just all over the place..
@buck_maize111
@buck_maize111 2 года назад
So those that have never heard or believed in the God of the bible.. what happens to them? I've watched hundreds of NDE's where athiests or Christians or any other faith based religion will have a nde.. they say completely different things.. they will say you just have a life review and feel everything you did good or bad to others. No one judges you for it.. you just see what you could've done better.. then they either have a choice to come back or stay.. sometimes there's no choice they are forced to come back. I think what william buhlman talks about is more accurate.. there are belief system territories after this life.. we goto where we fit.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
If I had the time, I know I could give you a very good answer. You're asking very good questions! I will try to respond soon. I've been out of town for four weeks and have much to do to get back 8 to the swing of things. As soon as I am able, I will respond. Check back in a few weeks!🙂
@johnb8854
@johnb8854 2 года назад
*In 1973, I was pronounced DEAD ON ARRIVAL at a medical center... My heart did NOT beat fore more than Half An Hour.... During that time I, "LIFE The Real Self", NOT the human entity, entered the WHITE LIGHT, and have remained there ever since... The WHITE LIGHT is ONE of TWO Ends, the other being BLACK, but they are One and the SAME.... The BLACK contains "The ALL" while The WHITE END, is AWARENESS or LIFE !*
@infpballetswimspa
@infpballetswimspa 2 года назад
Sun, moon, holographic light show in between How do I differentiate between authentic and imitation? Self and shadow selves?
@infpballetswimspa
@infpballetswimspa 2 года назад
I had sophisticated sunset peach light during one of mine. Where does Holy Peach 🍑 light fit in ? It showed me that everything is different types of holograms. Another was experiencing being buried into the ground dirt and it transforming into a mother’s womb to be reborn as a new baby
@wwrk25
@wwrk25 2 года назад
Mormons. Lehi's Vision. Really?... Combined with the First Vision?. Swedenborg taught many of the same concepts years before Joseph Smith.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
What does it matter where ever truth can be found?
@wwrk25
@wwrk25 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 I'm a Mormons also for over 40 years. I believe very strongly in NDEs. I have had my own experience sharing my mother's life review. This man's story is taken straight from LDS Sunday School Manuel's. A mix match of Church songs, videos, scriptures. I don't buy this is a real NDE. A mixture of basic children stories we mormon teach every week.
@tonifish3879
@tonifish3879 2 года назад
There is no evidence I can find that Joseph smith ever read Swedenborg and he never used the terminology that Swedenborg used so I feel it’s more evidence that both were teaching the truth
@wwrk25
@wwrk25 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 And don't forget that all truth can be circumscribed into one great whole.
@wwrk25
@wwrk25 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 thanks 😊
@MsTinyninja
@MsTinyninja 2 года назад
It sounds like you were astral projecting
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
What ever label you want to put upon it, all I really care about is the fact that it was real and it came as an answer to my prayer to God.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I personally don't believe in trying to induce an out of body experience on my own intentionally. I believe doing so could put us in a very dangerous circumstance. Some claim to have dark spirits attached to their bodies upon their return. Let it be God's will instead.
@tiffanyohara6364
@tiffanyohara6364 2 года назад
My 2 ndes were totally free of dogma. No Jesus, no Budah, no Mohammed. JUST GOD.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
God loves and knows each one of us personally and gives us each an experience best suited for our needs.
@tiffanyohara6364
@tiffanyohara6364 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 Hey Rick!!! i belong to IANDS and also know Jeffery Long. See you when The covid goes away at the next IANDS Convention in Utha? I was raised Catholic but learned GOD is ALL religions and then some!
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Is there an IANDS conference scheduled for Salt Lake? Is it on the calendar?
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
You likely know Jeff sen then? Jeff is a good friend of mine. He's quite involved with iANDS.
@tiffanyohara6364
@tiffanyohara6364 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 Jeffery is very involved with IANDS. Yes, he and i know each other and i know his wife..
@karencarter2759
@karencarter2759 2 года назад
This genyleman is nrautiful. But the Mormon temple will not be in Heaven. Only Gods temple. He does not see religion. He see the heart.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
The purpose of the LDS Temple is to teach us what we need to do to dwell side by side with God in His highest degree of Glory. In the temple, we make sacred Covenants to follow and obey His requirements to achieve that goal otherwise, we are assigned to a lower degree of Salvation in God's Kingdom of "many mansions."
@karencarter2759
@karencarter2759 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 you need Jesus saving grace. He died just for you. None of us are worthy. But Jesus makes us worthy.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 Год назад
As far as the Savior's saving grace, I don't disagree. What goes on inside the temple, is really centered around this truth.
@warrenrodgers7544
@warrenrodgers7544 2 года назад
Jesus did it all... Baptism is not for salvation...the thief on the cross tells us that...
@devbachu7072
@devbachu7072 2 года назад
So lie an lie so much trust me all have life experiences up there now why
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
?
@raychingcar7881
@raychingcar7881 2 года назад
Sorry, but Christian theology doesn’t exist on the other side.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
But it does on this side!😜 Also, it's not uncommon for NDErs to meet a personage described as Christ, Buddah, Mohammed, etc or experience symbolic representations such as the Tree Of Life, Tree Of Knowledge, River of Life, etc...
@thatguy3468
@thatguy3468 2 года назад
@@russellricksbooks2579 my response was removed. Sometimes the truth hurts.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
I just shared what I experienced.
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
@Thatguy there always has to be @Thatguy in the whole crowd! 🤣
@randallcromer66
@randallcromer66 2 года назад
Bull Crap...💯🐂💩💯
@russellricksbooks2579
@russellricksbooks2579 2 года назад
Only 3 negative responses out of 21,674 views and over 784 likes so far!
@rjsimpkins2911
@rjsimpkins2911 2 года назад
KD, you haven't seen or heard enough to know truth if it bit you in the ass.
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