Tom’s Video Tapes

Produced by Sanctuary of the Beloved

This eight-part video collection features Tom Sawyer of America in a series of in-depth interviews conducted by Carol Scoville between July 1989 and January 1991. Filmed by Lynne Giaver and produced by The Sanctuary of the Beloved, the tapes document Tom’s near-death experience and the spiritual, philosophical, and ethical insights that followed—exploring themes of unconditional love, free will, precognition, healing, reincarnation, attitude, and global responsibility.

The original videotapes were given to Richard Hughson by Carol for safekeeping after Tom’s passing. They were digitized earlier for the School for the Prophets.

The videos below have been segmented to help find certain teachings more quickly. To watch the full videos, uncut, please visit the Tom Sawyer Videos on Daniel Chesbro’s website.

Tape 1: Tom’s Story

Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes

Tom Sawyer recounts his transformative near-death experience after a catastrophic accident in which a two-ton truck crushed his chest. Previously an agnostic, he challenges religious dogma, emphasizing agape love beyond belief systems and cautioning against spiritual rigidity. Addressing issues such as capital punishment, abortion, and environmental harm, Tom advocates compassion, nuance, and human responsibility, while stressing humility, humor, stillness, and continual learning as essential to spiritual growth and humanity’s evolving awakening.

Tape 2: Earth Changes

Duration: 30 minutes

Tom Sawyer weaves together environmental change, healing, and psychic awareness. He discusses droughts, extreme weather, and rising seas as part of gradual Earth cycles intensified by human impact, urging responsibility without fear of sudden apocalypse.

Partial tape; more to come soon.

Tape 3: Plane Crash Precognition

Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes

Tom Sawyer explores his personal experience of foreseeing the 1985 L1011 plane crash more than a year before it occurred. He reflects on the emotional and spiritual burden of carrying detailed yet incomplete foreknowledge, including the anguish of knowing many of the victims and the limits of his ability to intervene. The tape concludes with reflections on prayer, spiritual support for the bereaved, and the need to balance awareness with acceptance, recognizing that some events are unchangeable while others may shift through collective growth and love.

Tape 4: Attitudes

Duration: 1 hour 59 minutes

Tom teaches that attitude is a powerful expression of free will capable of transforming personal lives and world events. He emphasizes that attitude can be consciously changed and often outweighs force or technology, citing examples of halted violence, global political shifts, and crises eased through collective love, prayer, and compassion. He links attitudinal change to environmental survival, relationships, and personal growth, sharing reflections from his own life. He concludes by encouraging self-awareness, humility, humor, and “love bombing” as practical tools for healing and positive change on both individual and global levels.

Tape 5: Teaching

Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes

Tom addresses spiritual responsibility in channeling, teaching, relationships, and crisis care. He cautions against ego and absolutism in channeling, emphasizing honesty, discernment, and sensitivity to others’ readiness. He speaks on suicide prevention with a focus on compassionate presence and affirmation of life, then explores how spiritual awakenings can strain relationships, distinguishing unconditional love from romantic attachment and stressing conscious choice.

Tape 6: Hijacked Flight

Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes

Tom Sawyer shares his clairvoyant experiences involving aviation, highlighted by a vivid precognition of a hijacked Boeing 737 in the Middle East. He describes sensing the fear and trauma of passengers through psychic and telepathic awareness, emphasizing unconditional love as a source of spiritual comfort available to all, regardless of belief. Tom reflects on the difficulty of carrying such insight, including a later real-world encounter with a victim, and explores broader themes of self-love, the distinction between soul and personality, and the role of psychic awareness in compassion, healing, and ongoing spiritual growth.

Tape 7: Reincarnation

Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes

Tom explores reincarnation through the lenses of spirituality, personal experience, and science, drawing on Gary Zukav’s The Seat of the Soul. He challenges purely five-sense views of reality and distinguishes the eternal soul from the evolving personality, emphasizing that reincarnation refines characteristics rather than the soul itself. He cautions against literal interpretations of past-life regressions and simplistic views of karma, reframing reincarnation as an opportunity for learning, responsibility, and reverence for life in the present. The tape weaves in near-death experiences, free will, and cultural conditioning, concluding with an emphasis on self-realization now rather than fixation on past or future lives.

Tape 8: The Gulf War

Duration: 2 hours 1 minute

Tom Sawyer reflects on precognition, war, and responsibility during Middle East conflicts and the Gulf War era. He recounts a precognitive warning about a covert missile deal that could have enabled nuclear catastrophe, which he believes was averted through prayer, public action, and synchronicity. Tom explores the paradox of advocating love and peace while acknowledging that force may sometimes be required to prevent greater destruction, urging compassion even toward adversaries. The tape concludes with a pragmatic spiritual stance: free will, prayer, and awareness can influence outcomes, but hope for peace must be balanced with responsible action in an imperfect world.