June 25, 1995: Angels - John Ronner

John Ronner, journalist and author of multiple books on angels including Do You Have a Guardian Angel and The Angels of Cokeville, explores the widespread phenomenon of angelic encounters across America. Ronner cites a 1993 Time magazine poll showing 69 percent of Americans believe in angels and 46 percent feel they have a personal spiritual guardian, then examines the many forms these encounters take, from luminous beings and disembodied voices to mysterious strangers who appear at critical moments and vanish without a trace.

Ronner connects angel experiences to near-death research, describing cases where clinically dead patients returned with verifiable knowledge of events occurring beyond their physical range of perception. He discusses the David Booth case, in which a Cincinnati man dreamed of an American Airlines crash ten nights in a row before Flight 191 went down at O'Hare, and the Cokeville, Wyoming hostage crisis where 150 children survived a bombing that should have been fatal.

A thoughtful examination of spiritual encounters, intuition, and the mounting circumstantial evidence that consciousness persists beyond physical death.