It’s the focus of our latest book — future events, especially in line with a template provided, at least in part, by “secrets” from alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

Striking it is how the more credible ones line up with prophecies from certain near-death experiences (again, the more credible ones).

Case in point: Vincent Todd Tolman of Henderson, Nevada, who “died” in a Dairy Queen restroom (soon after taking a supplement from Thailand, which unbeknownst to him was toxic) on January 18, 2003.

For all practical purposes, he was dead — even sealed in a body bag by paramedics who saw no signs of life. His body temperature was seventy-nine degrees when he was found, unconscious in the restroom. It’s estimated he was clinically deceased for at least forty-five minutes and probably more than an hour (an extraordinarily long time for near-death episodes). That was followed by three days in a coma. Rigor mortis was starting to set in.

In addition to the extraordinary sights, sounds, aromas, and sensations of the other side — as well as truly profound spiritual lessons (see his book, The Light After Death, which we’ll make available soon), Tolman asserts that he was told about the future — the near future.

If his testimony bears credibility, major global events will occur over the next ten years.

“I was allowed to see some amazing things that are going to happen,” he says in the book. “These are not scary things. They are glorious things. There is reason for hope.”

For if responded to in the right way, he emphasizes, coming tribulations will cause us to reform our inner, spiritual lives, putting them more in harmony with God and creating a better world.

What Tolman alleges he was shown, he says on YouTube, is that “there are some major hardships coming, but they’re going to build us as a society as a whole, and there are going to be great miracles happening, in the very, very near future. All logic will have to go out the window when these miracles happen. We’re going to be battling this logic and ego in us, where we’ll be watching something happen and everything inside us is saying, ‘That can’t be.’ But everything in our hearts is saying, ‘That is real.'”

There’s going to be a real reckoning, he says, and part of it is going to involve the news: The media are “going to portray certain events of the earth as very, very scary, and it’s going to put a lot of the earth in a fearful state, but those who know will know that the light coming from this is amazing and absolute perfection, so we won’t be afraid of these things that are happening.”

“We’re not going to have our cell phones near us,” Tolman, a former computer technician (as well as a homebuilder), believes. “We’re not going to depend on modern technology. We’re going to essentially step away a little bit from technology. Those who don’t go this path will stay in the paradigm of fear. They will need technology even more. In fact, they will cross the border into putting technology in the body, and that’s when we’ll see society split. There will be those who embrace the technology inside the body, and those who will not do that, for any reason.”

We present this for discernment only.

When asked if this was in the next ten, fifty, or a hundred years, Tolman told interviewer Heather Tesch, “The next ten years.”

“I see years of struggle,” says Tolman. “But I see on the outside of that, the growth we get from that struggle is so amazing, so beautiful. We don’t need to fear the hardship or struggle. We just need to make sure we get our core corrected, so that God leads us through the struggle, not the news, not our apps, but God. God can lead us right through the struggle and then it’s not a struggle but a lot easier.”

The key, he stresses, is to love everyone under all circumstances, and above all, to connect with the Love of God.

People will have an inner “knowing,” he says, of whether or not to relocate — seek refuge somewhere — during the events. They will gather in multiple locations around the world, he believes, and new, “little cities” will be built up by those who move.

Others — those in the “paradigm of “fear”—will seek refuge in the larger cities.

“We’re going to see very strong fear behavior, and fear behavior includes guns and violence and lots of those kinds of things happening in those cities.”

There will be a split between ego and spirit in society.

“Those who go the ego route are going to do everything that their phone tells them to do, everything that the news tells them to do, everything that governments tell them to do, they are going to do. But everybody who has that inner connection, they’re going to do whatever makes sense to them, as long as it synchronizes with the inner connection [to Heaven].”

The “ego side” — those who follow the route of fear — “just slowly eradicate themselves off the face of the earth,” he claims. The “apartheid” is between the higher and lower self, the Godly and the worldly.

“The earth already is on this trajectory,” believes Tolman. There is a profound change in its force—and in the forces, he asserts, of the entire solar system. “People think that the earth is experiencing climate change,” he says. “Well, do the math on this: the entire solar system is experiencing climate change.”

There will be a shift. This too is posited in Future Events: not The End, but a new beginning — though with dramatic events foreseen at places like Fàtima, Medjugorje, Kibeho (Rwanda), Betania (Venezuela), and perhaps a few other places. Said Fatima seer Lucia dos Santos of what she called an “illumination” about the Third Secret, “The tip of the spear as a flame unlatches and touches the axis of the earth. It shudders. Mountains, cities, towns, and villages with their inhabitants are buried. The sea, the rivers, and the clouds emerge from their limits, overflowing and bringing with them in a whirlwind houses and people in numbers that are not possible to count. It is the purification of the world as it plunges into sin. Hatred and ambition cause the destructive war!”

Still, it’s not the end of the world. It’s a correction.  It’s a simplification. Many of the ways we use technology, and abuse His Creation, as well as each other, will come to a halt.

As such, it will be glorious.

The important thing is our connection with God.

For He will lead us, says Tolman, as to how to prepare—without trepidation or frenzy.

Afterward, the societies of men, so wayward now, so full of division and hatred, on all sides, will be more in conformance with His designs.

[resources: Future Events; Michael Brown in-person retreat May 18; and pilgrimage to Fatima, Lourdes, and elsewhere]