This is one of the most powerful podcasts I've ever listened to! I relate so much to this experience.

“Satan doesn’t disguise with half truths. He disguises with 99% truths and 1% lie.” Wow, amazing quote.

Tony being able to feel again after he read the Book of Mormon was so poignant to me. There's something about the Book of Mormon combined with prayer that makes the heart soften, and the emotions pour out. Christ really does want our broken hearts and contrite spirits.

I pray every day that my daughter will come back and be truly converted. So many in my family think that it's up to us to fix her. I know in my heart that the only thing that's going to bring her back is the Lord and she has to find him herself. Truly find him! The only thing that we can do is try to show love if she will let us and many times she won't.

I can relate to this story. I too went down the path of new age. I became an apostate for 20 years. I finally came back to Jesus Christ and was re-baptized in June 2020. I know how cleaver and deceiving Satan can be having been in his grasp for so long. Words cannot express the joy I feel at having Jesus back in my life. I love hearing other people's come back stories. So inspiring and hopeful!

About a year ago I was sad thinking about friends and family who left the church. Pondering their particular arguments for leaving. I was given a disturbing and powerful dream that shook me to my core. I saw a glimpse of the adversary and what it’s like to be without the presence of God. When I asked in my mind why I was given this nightmare, the answer was to warn those I know that evil exists and he works by deception. Excellent testimony in this video!

Spring of 2017 Tony taught a Sunday School lesson on personal revelation that was an anchor for my testimony for years. I had no idea all this had been happening just months before. I'm so grateful God brought him back when He did

Wow I once got a book from I don't know where, but was so seriously searching for truth. But when I started reading and it said "we. Are Abraham for we are many". I had a shocking almost out of body into dark, like my internal organs were twisting in darkness. I hid the book under the seat in my car. But also magically drawn to it. But couldn't touch it again until one day I had to make a choice. So I compared those feelings to my feelings singing the hymns in church and was able to throw it into a large trash dumpster. And could breath again in my car.

Amazing come back story!! I’m going to work on watching the things I say to those who might be “past feeling”. I mean, we just studied about how the natural man is an enemy to God and sometimes that natural man wants to say the first things that pop into our head. It’s better to wait on the Lord and speak words He would have me speak.

This is frightening. I pray that I will never need such a trial to learn what is meant for me. It must have been so awful to go through

I can describe your feeling. It's called the "burning in the bosom". I felt it when I was converted to the church. It is something that you cannot deny nor forget. It is so powerful, so peaceful, so joyful, you want it to continue on, and on. Thus a testimony is born. Lovely to hear your experience. Glad you found your faith AND you family again.

This channel always makes me feel proud to have enlisted in the LDS Church.

Wow! This was absolutely the most powerful episode you have had! Everyone needs to see this. Tony, you are going to change so many lives for the better; thank you for changing mine!

Thank you Tony. Your story will heal so many. Including me.

So much beauty and truth here. I 100% agree with the 99% truth, 1% lie statement. Something that has happened in my later years (I'm almost 50) is I find that the closer I get to pure truth, the more obvious the lies become. Getting closer to God by praying and studying the word of God daily, little by little enables me to more easily see through the lies that inevitably come in life - and the world is full of them. I can't express adequately how grateful I am for the Spirit to help me discern between the things that will enlighten my life and the lies that are disguised to do so.

Thank you for sharing your journey. So many great ideas and truths shared. There is power in the Book of Mormon!

I can barely breath....your wifes story is literally where my husband was at during my own inactivity. THANK YOU for sharing your story as it it SO many of ours. The Lords words to me were " you must be broken to truly be born again." I LOVE HIM!!❤

I am so grateful for this one it helps me have for people I love who have fallen away. This helps me know they too are not too far gone.

Coming back is a miracle! This channel is so needed. Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. It has confirmed many things I have felt and believed. I got into some holistic healing modalities that keyed me into the slippery slope that is founded in your own power to heal emotions along with some philosophies mingled with religion and turning your power over to others in this manner of healing. I remember asking my husband about what he thought about clearing emotional blocks and saying the prayer for this particular healing and he said something very profound-he said why don’t you go to the master healer-your Savior. That’s when I was like wow if I can just do this clearing method then why do I need a savior that heals. Does my Savior only provide resurrection? Then why did Jesus heal the sick and the broken hearted. Many of the energy healers I had read about took Jesus out of the picture. “Christ consciousness”quickly turned to just believing in God and all our connections to the universe. And any channeling or cording was the avenue that happened to shift to a place where Christ was no longer needed. There is so much more I could say that blinds one from the real power of Christ but at least it’s being talked about in the capacity. So thanks for speaking out about it.

I love how Tony describes how he experienced the power of the Book of Mormon. And how he finally found real intent. Answers come when we are humble enough and turn to God. They don’t always come right away, but they come. Ask, and ye shall receive!!

That was a great podcast. Wish he would have explained more about his re-conversion… although I understand that’s just how quick it happened for him as well.

Wow!!! His interpretation of enmity and describing how drugs removes our God given protections really hit a chord with me! It feels so true! I loved this story so much!!! Thank you!!!❤

I have shared this video with so many today. It touched me to my core.

Tony’s description of the word “Enmity” was complete truth…I’ve had people in my life who have terrible addictions and it is visible in their countenance that evil is attached to them

36:22 Tony, I'm right there with you on the metaphysics thing. I haven't been nearly as deep as you, but I've been in the personal development industry since 2010. I've seen many people appear to allows be seeking and never finding the truth. It's a bottomless rabbit hole. I've had many friends "transcend" religion and come to. Believe they are gods and don't need religion. They can be spiritual on their own with "the universe" or "divine source" or you name it other than God. I'm inspired by your "Parley Pratt moment" of reading the Book of Mormon all day and night and finding the Spirit teaching your Truth. I love Pres Bensons teaching that you quoted that there is Power in the Book of Mormon that will flow into your life when you begin a serious study of it. I have felt it and testify it is true! So glad you didn't led the new age stuff destroy your family and your life. You are right that Satan can tell 99% truth and 1% lie and it is so subtle and deceptive that almost no one can discern it. We must hmseek the gifts of the Spirit to be able to withstand the subtle lies of Satan and withstand his fiery darts. God bless you for standing as a witness of God and sharing your story!

Thank you for sharing. This inspires me and prompts me to spend more time in the scriptures 😊

There’s another awesome reactivated sister I see on few channels (Kelsea’s Comments) in the comments section every now and then who said she messed with New Ageism, fell away, and finally came back after almost 20 years. We all have to experience life to find truth, some experiences are more difficult than others. I’m watching this later tonight, thanks as always CBP. Try and find her and have her on, she’s got some great insights to share.

My dear Brother. I totally felt the Spirit. You are strengthening many testimonies by your own testimony of returning to the covenant path. Think and Live Celestial. Blessings & Thank you. 🙏🏽😍

So powerful, my heart is full my testimony becomes double...

All I can say is Wow! Thanks for sharing and welcome back Brother!

3 things, powerful testimony of Jesus Christ, poor wife of yours, and thank you for sharing.

This is exactly what I needed today! Thank you for sharing! ❤

Divine intervention that this popped up on my feed after many doubts from various videos I had recently seen. Thank you.

This was amazing and so helpful for me to understand some friends going down the mushroom path!

Please tell Tony thank you for sharing his experiences. We all have our challenges and journey in life, some bumpier than others. :-) thanks again!

This was an amazing podcast. It completely resonated with me as I as well went down a similar path but have found my way back to the truth. I’m so thankful for Tony’s honesty and for his bravery to come on and share his story. I know that it could not have been easy. I’m so happy he shared about how evil Abraham Hicks is! He is going to help many people because of his experience. Thank you Come Back Podcast!!! Love you guys!! 🌸

This was amazing. Thank you for sharing your journey

Wow. You could turn your story into a movie. So good.

Wow. This was quite the inspiring story. I felt the spirit listening to this man. So glad he found his way.

First of all, this is one of the best Come Back Podcast yet from my perspective -- an absolute heavy-hitter that I predict will have wide impact. Second, not to nitpick but it matters here, the word is "EN-MITY," not "EM-NITY" (as Tony is pronouncing it), and it does not mean anger or frustration per se but the quality of being enemies. It's a divinely placed recognition in humankind that we and Satan (and his gang) are truly ENEMIES. Satan wishes us ill, and we have an inborn detector to warn us away from his machinations. In a former iteration, the temple movie also mispronounced the word as "EM-NITY.." I'd find myself annoyed that the producers of the film and the leaders who approved its release didn't fully understand the doctrine reflected in that word -- at least not enough to get it right. LOL But I second all Tony said, from my own personal experience. Thanks for sharing, Tony and Ashly.

Thanks for sharing.

This is what my brother is going thru right now.

Thank you so very much for your story! I struggle with the power of adversary. And it was exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you both

That is a wild come back story!

One of my college roommates took a course in metaphysics and read books by Edmund Husserl, who was quoted as saying: "To charge the perception of the physical with representative functions means substituting for it an image consciousness which from the descriptive viewpoint is constituted in an essentially different way." Of Husserl it is said, "Never has anyone gone so deep and come up so muddy."

Great episode!! Tony, thank you for sharing . Totally relatable . So much out there in this new age energetic metaphysical area. After years of searching in that space I had the same feeling that my soul needed to be back to the full truth. I respect as you do those in other paths but I can testify that joy and peace come as we follow the teachings of the gospel. Other ways may be attractive and make sense in the beginning but they are not guided by the Lord. They are at the end full of confusion and despair. I am so grateful that we have the gift of repentance and grace . So glad that you are back too! Many blessings and love for all that are struggling or in a difficult path. Jesus is our Savior!

Another great episode! Thank you so much for sharing. And, thank you so much for all the hard work put into this channel :-)❤

In the book "Return From Tomorrow" those drinking alcohol have their auras crack open and allow other spirits to enter their bodies. His reference to drugs and the invisible force fields reminded me of this.

What a powerful testimony! thank you for sharing. I will go back and read the BoM again...

I want to spread his message to all Latter-day Saints who are considering or active New Agers, including those who are a part of Christ-centered healing which does have power. It has not been taught by the prophets and apostles. I believe New Agers are well-meaning and truly want to bless the lives of others and themselves. But it is not the strait and narrow way.

This is such a powerful story. What were the 'two words' in the Book of Mormon that touched you in such a powerful way as you began reading? Thank you very much for sharing. I am grateful for your beautiful spirit.

Powerful and moving!

This might be the most powerful testimony I’ve ever heard! Thank you❤

I would like to know if this bishop once was on an anti show? He looks so familiar. I had clicked out of curiosity and remember feeling so bad for this bishop who was now "celebrated" to a point of ridiculousness and had lost it all! I will never forget it how I felt for him. It was as if the evil forces had torn to shreds his garments and he turned into this small man of mockery. If this is the same man I am so happy for him for having come back to the light! Thank you for your testimony.

I absolutely needed this this week.

This is an incredibly important testimony that Tony shares about his faith trial but left me feeling still a sense of warning. For me, I would need to entirely turn away from and have nothing whatsoever to do with that which caused me to become beyond all feeling and question even the need for a Savior. His story shows if we even entertain these ideas, we are opening a crack for Satan to gain a foothold.

I'm troubled with the idea that its necessary to cause so much pain in others just so we can go through our journey...is that always necessary? Cant we overcome more by being more humble, and less demanding of others so much of the time?

Do you think this was what the people adhering to Daybells or Jody Hildebrandt philosophy did? This made me cry for so many people that are being lost. My son had this happen. It’s been heartbreaking.

Wow! Fascinating and important conversation!

If we are living based upon fear rather than love for God, we have misunderstood God. His lovingkindness is for all. Who in this world is not among the wounded? God is the personification of Love and is intent on making us whole, if we are willing to receive Him. When scriptures discus fear of God, its a poor translation. Have Awe, and Wonder, and Love of God. Discover Who God really is. God is not looking to punish, but desires to heal our brokenness and wounds of this world, and to make us whole in Christ. God's whole purpose is Love and to bring us Home. He continually welcomes us if we will only come to Him. He wins our hearts and souls with love. We can know the goodness, love, mercy, and grace of God. He desires to be known, as personally as He knows and loves us. I too tried the woo woo scene for a while when I had left the church many years ago. I too had a sacred intervention experience with God that turned my heart everlastingly to Him. I'm glad Tony is explaining how Satan works. It's helpful to know how to recognize the subtle lies. God has promised us a Spirit of Truth and Discernment. We must not wander away from God and fall for the deceptions of Satan whose greatest tools are fear and hatred. Seek to know the goodness of God

Amen to Satan doesn’t tell us half truths!! Just like in the garden Satan tells us truth! He didn’t lie to Eve! He was telling her truth! What we fail to understand is that the lord withholds truths until we have faith and understanding to HOLD that truth. What satan continually tries to do is to insert himself into Gods role as the giver! What does “ I’m only doing what has been done in other worlds.” Mean? It means there would have come a time when Adam and Eve would have gone to the father with the question..Satan was inserting himself as the giver of knowledge and superseding Gods timing. This is what i see happening now with truths being uncovered before the children of God are ready. That is why you see these fringe groups that go off the rails!! They receive a truth and it doesn’t quite fit yet with there understand. So they feel they have been deceived, and just like Eve they go to other sources for knowledge! We just don’t have the full restoration yet!! We are still babies in our development and we need to have faith in Gods timing!! Just like what the prophets have been saying through the ages. When we FINALLY receive what we have already been given..then we will receive more!

In the service of Jesus our “signs” are worthwhile.

Wow! This was a great episode.

Thanks for this!

This is terrifying in so many ways. Powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon. Sometimes I wonder if John Dehlin as spiritual stirrings for him to leave his priestcraft and repent.

This is the first podcast I have seen from this channel. It was most excellent! I do have a suggestion. You should make your guests picture cover about 90% of the screen, with your picture. Very small on the side or bottom.

EXCELLENT!

Isn't the desire to be able to move something simply by faith, actually a temptation to power? We need to desire to have faith enough to desire what the Lord wants? Thanks for provoking thoughts - I need go re-read the Articles on Faith. We need to ensure we desire faith to stay close to the Lord, not to carve our own way in the wilderness.

I’m also duty driven. It pains me to say no to others when asked of my time and commitment even to the detriment of my daily life.

If I may ask. I have a deep metaphysical journey and would love to connect with Tony more directly. Does he have a way to connect with him more personally?

I went down the New Age path as well and can relate to your story!! I was on the hamster wheel constantly searching for truth. I since have come back to church (after being away for 10-15 years) and have felt so much peace. Thank you for sharing your story.

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I know about the Hicks. The Movie & Book THE SECRET.

I listen to that type of stuff allll the time. I love it! Abraham hicks is one I can’t. She/they, whatever, always felt so ick to me. And she does share truths, like solid nuggets of truth, but it feels off. For me the personal development stuff affirms my belief in God and Jesus.

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whats his full name and does he have any other material?

Nothing wrong with metaphysics as a domain of philosophy as the truth of the gospel directs your metaphysical worldview. The truth we are children of a loving God, is a truth that would fall into the domain of metaphysics if seen in a philosophical lens.

You might want to fix quote where it says Pres Nelson was put in as "prophet", only it's spelled wrong.

Congratulations on bringing the reality of Satan and evil back into your life. This must be a big relief.

I would like to listen to his motivational speeches, does anyone know his last name or the the of his podcast, thank you

Does anyone know Tony’s last name or how to get in touch with him?

Spell check the last word in the description's quote.

I got into this as well, but made sure I included God and the church with it. It kept me safe. But there is a lot to it as well.....I am part of a group of LDS that does look into this, but also keep to the grounding of the Savior and the church as well.

Some wonder why God doesn’t reveal how the earth was specifically created. There are a number of reasons: 1. Science has come a long way in the last 100 years in understanding what constitutes matter. But there is still so much we need to know before we can ask God the right questions. 2. If God revealed the intricate how’s, we might spend all our time learning these details and become aware of our ignorance, especially regarding the simpletons we now understand in metaphysics. But such revelation would be to our detriment as it would take our focus off our salvation and exaltation

A first-hand account of what it's like to be Alma the Younger... or Laman and Lemuel, or Korihor, for that matter, if Korihor had repented! Sorry if he thought that it was crappy for people to call out his cringe behavior when he thought he was so clever to leave for Buddhism, but... bro, sorry, that's cringe. Good for his wife for leading their children in that prayer. He had no right to resent that. When people take the notion to leave and are complete jerks like he was, sorry, but they deserve to be called out. You think Jesus wouldn't call out that bullsh*t? Good for the guy who called Tony out on his bullsh*t instead of being too gentle in the name of "trying to be Christlike." A rigid fixation on Church activity based on duty and obedience can so easily neglect to give people a deep connection to the transcendent truth of the Gospel. It's no surprise when they get a taste of spiritual experience that's, let's say, *colorful,* that they'll so often figure that there's more color and vitality to be found in spirituality "out there" as an escape from a Church culture that seems restrictive, passive, shallow, etc. "Man, sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed: we make still by the law in which we're made... And of evil this alone is deadly certain: Evil is." - J.R.R. Tolkien You don't need to get much into woo-woo to understand that we're constantly casting spells: the words we speak have power to affect people and the world. Those who write stories or songs, they are creating things that can take on lives of their own and change the shape of the world. Movie merch, theme parks, pop culture frames of reference and meaning, "fandoms" - these are all results of people wielding words: casting spells. Understood this way, again, you don't need to get into woo-woo stuff, you don't need to go looking for some kind of thrill, whether it's packaged as love and light, manifestation, law of attraction, etc.; or if it's packaged as more "witchy" to appeal to certain aesthetics, let alone the more blatant selfishness of chaos magic or black magic or whatever. Understand that we are sub-creators - and that means we are called to be subordinate. Understand that spells are real... and that we have been given the Good Spell. Understand that "the power is in [us]" but that there are some questions that have already been answered, orders and protocols and *keys* that have already been given. G.K. Chesterton's _Orthodoxy_ is worth reading: Chesterton used to be into the precursor of the New Age movement (over a hundred years ago: it's not that new after all), but in working out what he thought was an original concept of truth, he found that Christianity had gotten there ahead of him. I find this a vital thing to keep in mind, to help identify the 1% lie: God isn't an outdated concept to be discarded in favor of something in a shinier box: "believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend." God is "more intelligent than they all." God is way ahead of us. I went through a phase of reading Carl Jung, particularly his visionary experiences. I went through a faith crisis, and I decided to "try the virtue of the word of God" - extend trust in a God who was way ahead of me. There are things about Joseph Smith's "folk magic" that have been and continue to be great strengths to my testimony, because I have come to understand that there are times and places for all this, under the proper authority. Like Tony, I have fallen in love with the Book of Mormon in a way that I never had before. Its power is real. I find it so unbearably tedious when people try to discredit the Book of Mormon by comparing it to books produced by automatic writing or channeling (like Abraham Hicks). "Ye shall know them by their fruits." James Lindsay's analysis of modern Progressive movements as fruits of ancient Gnosticism is also worth listening to. The Church's restrictions have got nothing on the groupthink of the Progressive cult, or of people who are in love with their own cleverness and liberatedness.

Ope. Bro fell for pseudo science and mysticism

My Dad used to say to me: "Di, Satan will tell you nine truths to get you to believe one lie." Be careful, the Dark Side is not confined to StarWars and memes, it is real. 2 Nephi 28:22 😑

I also am into a part of the New Age stuff or Spiritual movement or Prebirthers or NDEs. It really is 99% truths and 1% lie. I feel the 1% lie is more of there interpretation not really a lie. You don’t want to build your foundation on someone else’s “truths” find it on your own with Prayer and guidance from the scriptures. It’s crazy how much aligns with the church’s teachings but there will be something said that always removes satan from the picture then eventually god and Jesus.

Science and metaphysics are not the same thing. Quite the opposite. Just saying😊

Uh... I hate to tell you that the Book of Mormon was "Translated" in metaphysical folk magic ways. Seer stone/stones that words appeared on. Angels bringing them, taking them away, it's all a magical world view metaphysical religion.

So no disrespect, but what does the religion have to offer to anyone that doesn't need its structure or commandments in order to be a productive member of society, care for their family and relationships, and not fall into cons or substance abuse? Truly?

Abraham Hicks influenced my wife as well out of the church. Definitely stay away from her.

None of these ideas are new. They go back hundreds if not thousands of years in Western folk magic, including right hand, left hand, and chaos magic. Hence the many scholars pointing out the similarities in LDS rituals and 19th century folk magic. These same ideas have also existed for centuries in Confucianism and Buddhism. So claiming that "new age" ideas are a source of danger and anti theism is reductive at best and then delusional or alarmist at worst.