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.
Key Moments
December 1993 Time poll: 69% believe in angels, 46% feel guarded: Ronner cites the December 1993 Time magazine cover-story poll showing 69% of Americans believe in angels and 46% feel they have a personal spiritual guardian, with about 30% reporting interactions.
Cokeville, Wyoming 1986 elementary school bombing hostage incident: Ronner recounts the case behind his book The Angels of Cokeville: in 1986, David Gary Young rolled a shopping-cart bomb into a Wyoming elementary school and took roughly 150 children and 15 adults hostage.
David Booth's premonition of American Airlines Flight 191 crash: Ronner describes Cincinnati office worker David Booth dreaming the crash of American Airlines DC-10 Flight 191 ten nights running and reporting it to the FAA, with Lindsay Wagner walking off the same flight on intuition before all 273 aboard died at Chicago O'Hare.