Thomas Gates, founder of Healing Spectrums for Health and Wholeness, and Abbott Lane Publishing, is a speaker, author, healing facilitator and workshop leader. He is the author of That Time I Died: An Extraordinary Journey Beyond the Veil of Life and Death, to be released January 1st 2025, as well as a contributing author to the Amazon Bestseller Thank God I… Volume 2.

In the Spring of 1972,Thomas had just celebrated his 22nd birthday when he was suddenly rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery. A few days after an extensive 9 hour procedure, his body began shutting down. As he lay in his hospital bed, appearing to be unconscious, he heard someone speak to his father, “We’re sorry. We’ve done all we can. We’re not sure he’s going to make it.”

He heard the words, but could not even begin to believe them. He could not move or speak but shouted inside his head, “That’s crazy! You’re in the wrong room! There’s no way I’m going to die! I’m too young to die!” It just seemed totally impossible to him that he could actually die! But within moments, Thomas began witnessing the process of slowly but steadily emptying out of his body until finally, he simply popped out of the body.

At first, looking down below at his lifeless body, he didn’t recognize it. He thought, “What is that?” Then he realized, “Hey, that’s me! But wait! How can that be me because I’m up here looking down at that?” This was the moment when Thomas truly understood that nobody really dies… If he had gone no farther and had suddenly returned to his body, he likes to say: “That alone would have been well worth the price of admission!” Our bodies may die but we somehow continue to exist and to consciously experience beyond all physical boundaries.

But his journey continued, leading him through and beyond a brilliant golden light (and much more) into an ever expanding infinite field of existence, ultimately leading to the threshold of the unbounded, unmanifest Source of himself and of all manifest creation. In those moments, Thomas instantly realized the who, what, when, where, why, and how of our purpose of “being.”

Thomas now inspires and empowers audiences throughout the world with his presentations, workshops, training programs, and personal and group sessions, as he shares the unique healing gifts and insights that came from his remarkable near death journey.

Thomas offers personal and group healing sessions and teaches others how to use his simple, yet effective Healing Spectrums Self-Treatment Method. He also trains individuals and health care professionals how to use his programs for the treatment of others, as a complementary adjunct for ideal health and well-being.

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