
Shawn Barry Farewell shares his extraordinary experiences with near-death and survival against cancer.
Tonight on Veritas our special guest is Shawn Barry Farewell. And I want you to stay with me for the next two minutes because what I am about to tell you defies almost every category we normally use to make sense of the world. Shawn Barry Farewell is not a mystic. He is not a preacher. He is a man who was born in 1964 in Canada who spent his entire life walking directly toward things most people spend their entire lives running from. At five years old he nearly died of an asthma attack. At ten, a car hit him. The driver, shaking and weeping at his father's door that same afternoon, told his father something that would never fully leave the family. He said: "I saw your son go through my car." In 1994 Shawn was thirty years old and dying. Terminal lymphoma. Nine months of chemotherapy. His doctors told him playing hockey would kill him. He played four nights a week anyway. And then one night, three orbs of light came for him. He floated above his body. He looked down and saw himself lying next to his fiancée. The pain was gone. Everything was gone except this total overwhelming sense of love and belonging and a voice that told him it was not yet his time. He came back. And when the…
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