Laura Harris Smith: Hi. I’m Laura Harris Smith filling in for Sid Roth. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. My guest, get this, spent five weeks in Heaven and when he came back he brought Heaven to Earth with him. And where Heaven is, there can be no pain or sickness. Are you guys ready to experience Heaven?
Is there a supernatural dimension, a world beyond the one we know? Is there life after death? Do angels exist? Can our dreams contain messages from Heaven? Can we tap into ancient secrets of the supernatural? Are healing miracles real? Sid Roth has spent over 35 years researching the strange world of the supernatural. Join Sid for this edition of It’s Supernatural.
LAURA: Hi. I’m here with my guest Steve Musick, and Steve, I want to talk for just a moment about your upbringing. You grew up in a nice church-going family, but everything was not okay. Explain it to me.
STEVE: I grew up in an orthodox Episcopalian household, so it was very high church. It was very formal. But I also grew up in a really violent household. My brother was undiagnosed bi-polar and we were latchkey kids. And so that meant every afternoon was terror time for me. And for all the years that I can remember growing up he’d just beat the daylights out of me every chance he got. And part of that also put me in a place where my anecdote, my coping mechanism, was to be vacant. And so he got all the limelight, which bi-polar wants, and I gave it to him. So I grew up with violence and vacancy was really part of my upbringing as a kid all the way to adolescence.
LAURA: So then you just tried to stay invisible.
STEVE: Yes.
LAURA: Probably just hidden. But then you joined the Navy and you were actually qualifying to be a Navy SEAL. So then what happened there?
STEVE: Well part of being in the Navy was it gave me a first opportunity to step outside of myself. And one of the things that they do in the Navy is they give you an opportunity to try out for SEALS. And there were 900 people in a chow hall where the SEALS said, hey, if you guys want to try out for SEALS, come to the Aqua Center at 6:00 tonight. There were 30 of us who showed up. Three of us qualified for SEALS and it was the first time that I felt like I could actually be somebody, and it mattered. The following week, I also found out that I qualified for Annapolis through the studies. They do academic testing for recruits. So within two weeks, I’m qualified to go to SEALS and I’m qualified to go to Annapolis. And the Father had a totally different plan for my life. The next week, they lined us all up in a big hanger and they gave us the swine flu vaccine. They tested the swine flu vaccine on military personnel in North Chicago, all of the soldiers at Fort Sheridan, all the Navy people at Great Lakes, and I had an allergic reaction to the swine flu vaccine.
LAURA: Okay. So then you went to the emergency room.
STEVE: Yes.
LAURA: And then something even worse happened. You got sicker and sicker, and what happened?
STEVE: Well they started an IV and they realized that I was in severe trouble. And about 20 minutes later a nurse came in with a big syringe, and she said, I should have known something was about to come undone because the song playing on the radio in the emergency department was a group called ELO, Electric Light Orchestra, and they were singing “Evil Woman.”
LAURA: Oh boy.
STEVE: I should have known. She inserted the syringe into my IV tube and pushed the plunger. Well I was allergic to the anecdote and that’s tantamount to a lethal injection. I don’t remember what happened after that. My arm got really hot all the way to the armpit and I went out. I woke up five weeks later with a Navy nurse sitting at the foot of my bed.
LAURA: So you’ve got to back up for just a minute because I know that everyone else is thinking what I’m thinking, which is taking me from the “I passed out” to “what did you see, where did you go, who did you meet?” Take me down that journey first.
STEVE: Everybody wants to know what is Heaven like. I could tell you what Heaven was like for me. Very common experience. You’re weightless. You go through a tunnel of light. You definitely feel like you’re transported. Hollywood does a really good job, trans warp drive if you’re a Star Trek fan. It’s like that. And then you get pushed out on the other side of the tunnel into a place that is a real place. It has gravity. You have a body. You have a soul. You’re there. The magnificence of the place is a contrast, which means we live right now in the land of bland. We live in 1950s television where it’s black and white and grainy, whereas Heaven is HD on steroids, vibrant.
LAURA: What about Jesus. Tell me about Jesus.
STEVE: Jesus is a young man, hazel eyes, long hair. You would think that he was a bodybuilder, a logger. He’s massively built, strong, powerful. And yet Jesus is a paradox as well because he’s tender to the touch. He’s soothing in his voice and the way that he relates so deeply to me. And what he did eliminated all of the carnage of my lifetime, you know, the violence in my household, the vacancy in the way I was raised. He settled all of that and he walked me through basically all of my history and he said it was okay. He was there the whole time. I just never knew it. And so being in Heaven is, you have to be fully there because Heaven comes after you, emotionally. It’s like being inside pure joy. You know, we live in happiness and depression, and there’s a tidal flow to what happens to us here. In Heaven, there’s no flow. It is pure joy, a hundred percent all the time, comes after you.
LAURA: That is so fascinating, just amazing. All right, well, Jesus spoke the worst words you could ever hear. We’re going to talk more about those when we come back with Steven Musick.
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