I’m Sophia Williams, and never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I’d be telling a story that challenges everything most people think they know about our reality and its trajectory. At 52, I thought I was leading a typical life in suburban Wisconsin, balancing my work as a high school counselor while raising two teenagers alongside my husband, David. Like many families, we occasionally went to church, offered grace before meals, and I regarded myself as a spiritual person, moderately engaged but not overly religious. But that all shifted dramatically after a brush with death and, more importantly, a revelation about what lies ahead for our world.
