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A near-death experience took one guest somewhere he never expected — and changed the course of his life completely. Our guest, Steve Kang, was raised in a Buddhist family and trained as a monk before a life-threatening crisis led to a profound spiritual experience. He's now a pastor with Revive the Nations, was featured in the Angel Studios documentary "After Death," and is the author of "Eight Hours in Hell." Top Takeaways:
Growing up in a Buddhist family and training to become a monk
The financial collapse that reshaped his family's life
A ten-day period without sleep and its effect on his mental state
A near-death experience and what he describes encountering on the other side
How his mother's network of prayer responded during the crisis
The months of recovery and a return to old habits afterward
A vivid dream involving end-times imagery and an overwhelming encounter
His path to becoming a missionary and later a pastor
How his story has been received by others with similar experiences
His perspective on spiritual influence and free will
Stories Discussed:
Steve describes the days leading up to his crisis, including a visitation he believed at the time came from a different source than it actually did.
He recounts the experience itself in vivid detail — including what he says he saw, felt, and understood during it.
He shares how his mother reached out to a Christian friend, and the group of people who gathered to pray during his hospital stay.
He describes a vivid dream several months later involving global upheaval and an encounter with an overwhelming, radiant presence.
He talks about returning to his old life shortly after his recovery — and what eventually led him to fully commit to a new path.
Memorable Quote: "One minute I was on Earth, and the next minute I was in eternity."

Steve's book, 8 Hours in Hell, documents this experience and his theological reflections in full.
https://www.amazon.com/Hours-Hell-Firsthand-Experience-Afterlife/dp/B0DVVSFX61/ref= 

Revive The Nations website link: https://allnationsjc.org/schedule - 
IG: stevekang97
Youtube: @SteveKang9879

After almost losing his life in an overdose of drugs when 19 years old, the Lord Jesus Christ showed him heaven and hell and he became a born-again Christian and has been serving the Lord through the up and down, and the thick and thin of ministry and life. He graduated from UCI with a BS in Economics and MDiv from Talbot School of Theology in La Mirada, CA. He currently resides in Orange County, CA. He is the founder of Revive The Nations, a church planting and radical evangelism movement in these last days, and also preaches and serves as an revivalist preacher, and Church Planter in the Body of Christ thru the SBC Send Network. Steve Kang also served out on the mission field in China, and served as a Chaplain 1st Lieutenant in the US Army. He is married to Goeun Kim, a loving wife and professional pianist for Church worship! He works as a consultant to Kingdom business owners. He is also an associate pastor at Irvine Onnuri Church, in Irvine, CA.

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What if the words you say every day were never really yours to begin with — and using them might be opening doors you didn't know were there? Our guest, Brad Lail, hosts the Awakened Podcast, where he researches language, symbolism, and what he calls "word magic" — how sound, repetition, and meaning may shape the world around us. What You'll Learn:
The theory of "word magic" and how repetition and sound may shape reality
How hypnosis and persuasion techniques work by bypassing conscious consent
The toroid (donut-shaped) pattern and its role in sound, energy, and portals
A list of common English words whose meanings have flipped over centuries
The etymology of "church," "circus," and their shared root in ancient words for "circle"
Why repetition shows up across music, chants, prayers, and sporting events
A theory connecting UFOs, Bigfoot, and other phenomena through plasma and portals
The Tower of Babel and the idea of a "deceptive" language
Free will, consent, and the folklore idea that entities can't enter uninvited
The 33rd parallel, ley lines, and symbolism tied to Bethlehem
Stories Discussed:
Brad recalls working alongside a sports-team hypnotherapist early in his career and what that taught him about consent and suggestibility.
He walks through a segment from a paranormal TV show where Native American drumming appeared to trigger a thermal-camera anomaly across an entire property.
He breaks down a series of English words — including "terrific," "awful," "nice," and "broadcast" — whose meanings have reversed from their original definitions.
He shares how a strange comment from a viewer about the spelling of "twelfth" led him down a rabbit hole connecting numerology, language, and symbolism.
Both hosts discuss their experiences with reduced reach on their shows and how they've adapted to keep producing content.
Memorable Quote: "Where intention goes, energy flows."

Brad Lail, Host of The Awakened Podcast
🎧 Explore more of Brad’s work: www.theawakenedpodcast.com

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Thirty years after her sister witnessed a strange figure near a Minnesota lake, Eve's teenage daughter drew an identical picture of the same being — unprompted, from a different encounter, in a different state. Eve Howard is a lifelong experiencer, shamanic practitioner, and founder of Thunder Rock Lodge, a wellness and spiritual healing service based in West Fargo, North Dakota. She hosts the podcast Prime Declassified on Rumble and teaches lucid dreaming as part of her practice. Case Study: A Lifetime of High Strangeness
A childhood encounter near a Minnesota lake where a tall, gray figure spoke telepathically to her sister but was invisible to Eve
Night terrors beginning in first grade — always the same man in the closet — and why she still can't sleep with the closet door open
A midnight roadside sighting of a female entity with razor-sharp teeth, seen simultaneously by two other people in the car
An 18-year-old mother trapped in her basement by an invisible force, calling her sister to pray it away
A being in her astral that smelled of sulfur and old sweat — and the Lord's Prayer that lifted it off her chest
A Furby-troll hybrid entity she tried to bite during sleep paralysis — and how losing her fear of it sent it away permanently
Unusual marks on her arm she refused to call scratches — documented by her chiropractor as something closer to a contusion
A joint abduction experience where she grabbed her partner and they both woke up in an unfamiliar house inside what she believes was a deliberate simulation
Mapping out Mall World across multiple visits — the schools, the beach, the sister city, the logging camp, and the reservation
A ceremony at the base of the Luciferian Observatory in Safford, Arizona, during which both she and a Navajo medicine man watched the sky fill with lights
Stories Discussed:
Eve describes the 30-year gap between her sister's drawing and her own daughter's drawing of the same being — a tall gray with long arms, no nose, and a thin mouth — and how her mother kept both pictures in a book that disappeared after she passed.
She recounts being trapped in her basement as a young mother, sensing a presence outside trying to get in, and calling her sister in a panic to pray over the phone until the atmosphere cleared.
She walks through a simulation dream in which she grabbed her sleeping partner, they both ended up in an unknown house, she sent him back, and then her deceased mother appeared and tested her repeatedly.
She details months of nighttime visitors — a black mist, then a troll-like creature on her chest — and how choosing not to fear either of them caused both to stop returning.
She and Rye compare notes on being stuck in a room or basement by invisible forces at similar ages, and discuss a pattern she's been tracking of young people between 17 and 19 being targeted when childhood protection fades.
Memorable Quote: "You're a lighthouse — not only for people that are lost, but also for things that people can't normally see."

Eve can be found:
WEBSITE: https://thunderrocklodge.com
Facebook: Eve Thunder Howard
Instagram: Evieschmivie
TikTok: @EveThunderHoward
Podcast: Prime Declassified Podcast

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A family living on the edge of the Navajo Nation has been encountering the same kinds of creatures for three generations — and our returning guest brought several new accounts with him this time. Our guest, Lee, is a member of the Navajo Nation and a practicing hand trembler, a traditional diagnostic role within Navajo culture. He previously joined us to talk about skinwalker encounters from his childhood — this time, he's back with stories spanning his own life, his cousin's, his uncle's, and his grandmother's. Topics Discussed:
A childhood encounter with something mimicking a family member's voice near a cliff edge
A grandmother's encounter with a large upright creature carrying lambs from a sheep herd
A cousin's multi-day survival story after a fall, and the creatures that watched over him
A face-to-face sighting near a mesa close to home
A relative's encounter with a screaming creature that chased her to a doorway
A roadside sighting of a creature with glowing eyes and an unusual crawling gait
A recurring hyena-like creature visiting a family member's property
A break-in attempt through a reinforced window and the tracks left behind
Folklore around skinwalkers, silver, and whether these beings can enter a home
The Navajo term for Bigfoot and how it connects to sightings elsewhere in North America
Stories Discussed:
Lee recalls a night as a child searching for lost sheep, when something began calling out in his mother's voice and led him toward the edge of a cliff he hadn't seen in the dark.
He shares his grandmother's account from the late 1940s of a large, upright creature that stood up in the middle of her family's sheep herd carrying two lambs, then ran off through the trees without disturbing a branch.
He describes his cousin's ordeal after a cliff fall — days of crawling to safety while several large humanoid figures watched from the tree line and, at one point, left food and water nearby.
Lee recounts his own encounter near a mesa, where a pair of glowing eyes tracked his movements before a large creature finally stepped into view roughly thirty feet away.
He walks through a night when something attempted to force its way through a reinforced window while a family member was home alone, leaving behind unusual tracks outside.
Memorable Quote: "That's too big to be a skinwalker."

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A box of NASA photographs from a small Ohio auction led one researcher to a single image that doesn't quite match the official record. Our guest, Ed, spent two decades as a rare book and document dealer working with major auction houses including Christie's and Heritage Auctions — until this discovery changed the direction of his research. Topics Discussed:
How a rare-book auction led to a 31-binder NASA photo archive
The story of NASA mission control engineer Scott Simkinson and his collection
A 1965 lithograph labeled "strange object" from the Gemini 11 mission
The cloud-pattern match between the lithograph and an original NASA photo
How Cold War-era memos shaped NASA's photo review procedures
The origins of the National Photographic Interpretive Center
A power anomaly and communication gap during the Gemini 11 flight
Reviewing 16,000 frames of film from the National Archives
The theory that most of the visible universe is made of plasma
Filing Freedom of Information Act requests and what came back
Stories Discussed:
Ed describes finding 31 binders of NASA photographs at a small Ohio auction, originally catalogued under the name of NASA's first female employee at Cape Canaveral.
He walks through matching the cloud pattern in a 1965 "strange object" lithograph to an original Gemini 11 photograph, frame for frame.
He reads from a declassified 1965 memo outlining how NASA photography was reviewed before release — written years before public interest in the topic existed.
He breaks down the Gemini 11 mission transcript, where a sudden power drop and a multi-minute communication gap occurred just before a planned night-imaging experiment.
He explains how a well-known photography skeptic's analysis ended up supporting his own conclusions about the image.
Memorable Quote: "Nobody has ever seen more than a third-generation NASA photo."

Ed can be found:
Website: https://geminiufo.com/ 
Amazon Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Ed-Wilson/author/B0GLGLSWSP?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=0f432781-7064-495f-95e6-4881d7da5243

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