VISIONS OF GLORY- PREPPER MAYHEM - MORMON STORIES/HIDDEN TRUE CRIME COLLABORATION PART TWO

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🗓️ 17 November 2023

⏱️ 124 minutes

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PART 2 of HIDDEN TRUE CRIME'S COLLABORATION WITH MORMON STORIES PODCAST with Host John Dehlin and Lauren Matthias. What do Chad Daybell, Tim Ballard andJodi Hildebrandt have in common? Is it Thom Harrison, author of Visions of Glory? PART TWO explores the connections between the book Visions of Glory and the extreme beliefs of Chad and Lori Vallow, Tim Ballard and recently imprisoned therapist Jodi Hildebrandt. Thom Harrison is a Utah therapist who published a book called "Visions of Glory" in 2012, focusing on three of his alleged near-death experiences (including personal visitations from Jesus Christ). Thom Harrison and his book have been highly influential across the Mormon "prepper" community, and particularly in the lives and stories of Chad Daybell, Lori Vallow, Tim Ballard, Jodi Hildebrandt, as well as other "preppers" such as Julie Rowe, Rod Meldrum, and alleged abuser-therapist Maurice Harker. Megan Conner, Lori Vallow Daybell's cousin, as well as Mindy Caldwell, host these podcasts exploring the book Visions of Glory, and the influence that Thom Harrison has had an extremist Mormon prepper community. Other pertinent Hidden True Crime Episodes: Daybell crash course Chad Daybell speech Braxton Southwick Interview Jodi Hildebrandt beliefs Tim Ballard LAUREN MATTHIAS has worked as an anchor and reporter for ABC, NBC, and FOX News in Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah. She spent a decade reporting on a diverse range of topics from high profile crimes to Presidential visits.. In 2015 she received the Idaho State Broadcaster’s Association Best Reporter award. She left the reporting world to produce the Hidden True Crime Podcast along with her husband Dr. John Matthias, a forensic psychologist, and is a frequent contributor on News Nation. WEBSITE: https://hiddentruecrime.com/ TO SUPPORT: https://www.patreon.com/hiddentruecrime https://paypal.me/hiddentruecrime Our Sponsors:* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Acorns: https://acorns.com/HIDDENTRUECRIME* Check out Armoire and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.armoire.style* Check out Effecty and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://www.effecty.com* Check out Happy Mammoth and use my code HIDDENTRUECRIME for a great deal: https://happymammoth.comSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/hidden-a-true-crime-podcast1836/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of Mormon Stories podcast. I am one of your hosts for today.
0:07.0	John Delen, it is October 17th, 2023 and we are now covering part two of our series on a book that has taken the
0:19.4	Mormon Church and Mormon Preper Church Culture by Storm.
0:23.5	The book is Visions of Glory.
0:25.6	The author of the book is Tom Harrison,
0:28.3	Mormon therapist Tom Harrison.
0:30.6	And we just spent a good five in a quarter, five at a half hours talking about Tom Harrison,
0:38.0	his history, his claims, his connections to all sorts of alleged criminals.
0:44.3	I don't know, I think that's accurate.
0:46.8	Not that he, I'm not saying he's trying to be a criminal,
0:49.6	but he seems to sprout criminal behavior allegedly and we talked about we did a deep dive into
0:58.0	his book Visions of Glory which is a book that he published in 2012
1:04.0	with a co-author scribe named John Pontius who has passed away
1:10.2	under the second coming of Jesus, Mormon style, Mormon Preper style, and all the activities and visions and
1:27.6	mayhem that's going to lead up to that, including the White cities, etc.
1:33.8	So that was part one, and we promised to come back for part two,
1:39.3	because if that weren't enough we discussed as a setup to last episode the connections
1:48.9	to several recent global news stories, Chad Daybell, Lori Valo, several murders associated with them,
2:00.0	Tim Ballard, CEO of Operation Underground Railroad.
2:04.0	You know, he now has several sexual allegations against him
2:08.4	and allegations of fraud.
2:10.8	And then, of course course we have Ruby Frankie the eight passengers YouTube channel and
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