title: Glimpses of Eternity: New Near Death Experiences
author: Arvin S. Gibson
description: Arvin Gibson has filled numerous teaching and service positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He has been a bishop, a counselor in a Stake Presidency, a High Counselor, an Elder's Quorum President, and a teacher of numerous classes. Arvin graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of California. He took post-graduate courses in engineering and management. For many years he worked and performed research in the field of nuclear engineering. He then joined Utah Power and Light Company where he eventually became an Executive Vice President. Arvin met his wife, Carol, at the LDS Institute of Religion at the University of California in Berkeley and they were married in 1950. They are the parents of four children and have twelve grandchildren. Arvin and Carol have both performed extensive research in the field of near-death experiences. They are the authors of three widely-read books on life-after-death experiences which present the results of their numerous interviews: Glimpses of Eternity, Echoes From Eternity, and Journeys Beyond Life. Arvin and Carol are active in a local chapter of the International Association of Near Death Experiences (IANDS of Utah).
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  This book was originally published under the title “Deadtown” in 2013 by L.
  David Hesler.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
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  To my brother, who scarred me for life by showing me the best horror movies
  when I was in middle school.
  
  
  “The instruments of darkness tell us truths.”  
  \- William Shakespeare
  
  
  AVA
  
  The pain in her left temple was what brought her back.
  
  It was so immediate and glaring that she thought someone might have shoved a
  nail into her skull. Her eyes shifted be