Annalee Skarin

Who was Annalee Skarin?

Annalee Skarin, born Nansela Mathews, the granddaughter of "Wild Bill" Hickman, was a popular New Age/Metaphysical author, originally raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She gained fame by claiming to believe in the possibility of attaining immortality through the ardent pursuit of Christian principles, which she summarized as gratitude, praise, and love.

In Mormonism, it is believed that some individuals, such as Enoch and Moses underwent translation, where they are "changed from a mortal state to one in which they are temporarily not subject to death." Skarin claimed to have invented a meditation technique by which anyone could translate themselves directly into Heaven, although her definition is more closely related to the Christian idea of ascension than the translation doctrine of the LDS Church.