Jim Jones and me. Remembering Reverend Jim, The People's Temple and a healing

Published 2024-05-05
I'm David Parker. I've had many spiritual experience as a child and through out my life including spirit encounters as an RN for 4 decades including 17 years as a Hospice Nurse. As a child my mother took me to many spiritual events, churches, healers, psychics, events, workshops, seminars and new age groups. I was exposed to many different thought, mind and spirit options as I grew up, including The People's Temple which we attended for several years.

This is a clear memory I had of Reverend Jim and had spoken about it frequently with my parents and at church yet still no clear identifier as to what it was about. Looking back I may have some more informed insight into a few events that happened, but I don't for sure know. Reverend Jim is remembered for other actions he later took, but this is what happened between Jim and me.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:14 Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple
00:02:18 Jim had bug eyes
00:04:01 Globe of coal dust
00:05:21 I suspect . . .
00:08:20 Something happened
00:09:08 I had a lung infection
00:10:32 I've been thinking about this again

© David Parker

#jimjones #thepeoplestemple #healing #spirituality #RevJim #The People's Temple #jonestown

All Comments (21)
  • @mgd6087
    Yes. There was something in his eyes. I knew a woman whose friends invited her to the San Francisco site. Every time he looked at her she would have to go outside and throw up! She told her friends she could not go with them again. It saved her life but sadly her friends died with the group.
  • @Elizabeth-arb22
    Dave, I'm glad that you posted again, and though this was a really scary story, that you and your family got away from that cult. You had important, positive things to do, and were needed here to be a light worker them.
  • Your life and experiences would make a great movie! Please continue making these short stories.
  • @Michele.3142
    I remember this story and the horrific ending of the members’ deaths in Guiana. Later his temple in San Francisco was turned into an Angel exhibition. I went with some friends as I was living in SF at the time. The Angels in the exhibit were created in chicken wire and dressed in various robes in a variety of materials and were 10 ft and higher. Some had long horns like you’d imagine on Judgement Day. They played beautiful music and the light streamed in from the stained glass windows. It was an appropriate exhibition to counter the sad thing that happened. The vibe in there was dark but the Angels made it feel safe. I’m so glad you and your mom didn’t go further in following the Church. What happened sounds so creepy but interesting you had been healed. I remember hearing the same thing re Jim Jones wearing the dark glasses being due to taking drugs.
  • So happy to see you again. I’ve been looking for updates and wondering if you were okay. I’m relieved. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
  • @desertrose128
    The eyes are the windows to the soul...he was totally dark. I'm so glad you got away. Did your Mom ever tell you why she decided to leave? Glad to see you ,Dave❤
  • 😮 wow! Very interesting. Thank you. I'm here from watching your interview on The Resilience channel. 🙋🏾‍♂️
  • @mortalclown3812
    Dear Dave, There aren't enough words to describe my gratitude to your big angels for protecting you. (Though there were definite times you needed it and 💔) It may seem crazy to say that both things could be true: he could have helped heal your lungs and hidden his eyes to disguise evil - and I do not toss that word around lightly. Fwiw, I'm also asking angels - which we are all able to do - to surround you always. We love you. Thank you for sharing your life experiences with us. It helps some of us be a bit more at peace with things in our own lives. Paz y luz ✨️ to all
  • @marybarratt2649
    So good to hear another story. A very strange one this time and I’ve not heard of anything like this before. Lovely to see you and that you are well. Blessings. 😊
  • @KeysbyEar
    You are so gifted in your ability to relay stories. So genuine & intriguing. Thanks for sharing!
  • Even demons can heal or give you something you want so that you will be encouraged to continue to follow their dark path.
  • Wow! What an incredible story and experience. Another viewer here previously commented that they wonder if Jim Jones was not an extraterrestrial or inter dimensional being and that also came to my mind. Did you and your Mom start attending his church because of how the other congregation reacted following the death of Lee? I was born after the Jonestown incident and I had heard his name before and the tragic ending to his followers. I had assumed it all happened in the United States and was something similar in fashion to David Koresh or the Heaven’s Gate group, but when I started researching last week, I learned it was very different. It all happened down in South America and even a US Congressman was killed! An absolutely crazy time in history. Thank you so much Dave for sharing another fascinating time in your life with us! I’m truly grateful.
  • @Katie-qg7xz
    I don't think it was so much spiritual as a grooming thing. Did it manifest spiritually? Yes, because there was so much evil there. You saw the manifestation of grooming. You said he didn't molest you, but i think it was the beginning of that. I think you saw it for the truth of what it was. I love your heart. I love that you truly cared for your patients. I am a nurse and have been under bad care without the tools you have. I am so honored to hear your story. It is healing.
  • @velipso
    Really interesting, I wonder why you saw that, thanks for sharing
  • @maggiesmith979
    It just seems strange that it was dark. Did it look like energy? Have you thought about having some of these things remote viewed by friends? Maybe Akashic Record? Always easier to see other peoples stuff than your own as it goes. Since we are experiencing time differently, Akashic might be a quick look at the energy. Another amazing story. Your voice has that wonderful reassuring quality. Thanks for sharing these with us. It triggers wonder in me.
  • @arl4945
    Dave, you look great, hopefully you are getting better and better! Thank you for sharing.
  • @artiemcfly4832
    Thank you for sharing your story! Missed you. Hope you are well. ❤
  • @htwrex
    I was reading a bit of his biography and I saw that in 1961 he was hospitalized for a week, then went and lived somewhere in Brazil with his family for a year before returning in 1963. I wonder if something happened there, if he brought something back with him or was “healed” himself but perhaps in a Faustian bargain sort of way
  • @ryanthomas4078
    What of Jim was like a sponge of sorts and he could suck up negative energy out of other people and it built up in himself