Verified Near-Death Experiences: Proof of an Afterlife with Simon Bown | EP 479

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Close your eyes and imagine.

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What if the things in life that caused us the greatest pain, the things that bring us grief, are challenges.

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Challenges designed to help us grow to ultimately become what we were always meant to be.

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We feel like we've been buried, but what if, like a seed, we've been planted?

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And having been planted, we grow to become a mighty tree.

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Open your eyes to this way of viewing life.

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Come with me as we explore your true, infinite, eternal nature.

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This is Grief to Growth and I am your host, Brian Smith.

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Hi there, I'm Brian Smith and welcome to Grief to Growth.

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So whether you're a first-time listener or someone's been on this journey with me for a while, I'm truly glad you're here.

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This is a podcast where we explore the big questions.

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Who are we?

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Why are we here?

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Where do we come from and where do we go when this life ends?

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And I want to say this to you.

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If you're a skeptic, this episode is especially for you.

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Today, we're taking a close look at one of the most fascinating and controversial topics in the study of consciousness, and that is near-death experiences.

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But we're not talking about just any NDEs.

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We're talking about verified near-death experiences, cases where people gained information during clinical death that they couldn't have possibly known through ordinary means.

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My guest is Simon Brown.

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He's the author of Verified Near-Death Experiences, Proof of an Afterlife.

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Simon is a clinical hypnotherapist who's guided hundreds of past life regressions, and he's also the host of a podcast with over 900 episodes exploring NDEs, reincarnation, and consciousness.

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His new book brings together some of the most rigorously documented NDEs, cases that challenge the materialist idea that the mind ends when the brain stops.

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We'll explore what it means for an NDE to be verified.

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We'll hear some of the most compelling cases that Simon has uncovered, and we'll tackle the hard questions that skeptics often raise.

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Can these experiences really offer proof of life after death, or is it all just brain chemistry and wishful thinking?

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We'll also look at how these experiences often lead to deep personal transformation, the common themes that show up again and again, and even the more troubling NDEs that don't follow the usual script.

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So whether you're deeply spiritual, whether you're cautiously curious, or you're firmly skeptical, this is a conversation that will challenge you to look deeper.

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And when you're done listening, please head over to my Substack at grief2growth.substack.com, where you can read an article I'm going to post about this, leave a comment, and join the conversation.

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So now let's dive in with Simon Brown.

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Hi, how are you doing?

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It's good to be here.

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It's great to have you here, Simon.

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I've studied a lot of different afterlife areas, mediumship, after death communication, etc.

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NDEs, I think, provide some of the most compelling, I'm going to say, proof that an afterlife exists.

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So before we get started, I mentioned an introduction of verified NDE.

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What is a verified NDE?

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Well, the word that we use is veridical, which comes from a Latin word veridicus, meaning truth, or to be truthful.

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And I didn't want to use veridical near-death experiences as my book title, because people probably don't know that word so much.

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But what I've got is 30 cases in the book where people basically, they died, and then they saw something while out of body, they come back and talk to people about it, and they say to them, yeah, but that happened when you were dead.

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There's no way you could have seen it.

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So it's a kind of verification that something spiritual happened, that their consciousness was out of their body and able to see what was going on.

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So that's basically what it is.

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Yeah, and I know the word veridical myself, but it is a word I've only ever heard used associated with NDEs.

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I think verified is a good word to use for your book title.

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So you said you've got 30 cases in your book.

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So explain to people like how you found these cases, how you verified them.

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Well, there's, I'd say five of them are quite famous cases, which I think are really good.

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So I've put them in the book.

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But the rest of them, every single one of those people has been a guest on my podcast.

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So I was able to talk to them myself, myself about their whole experience.

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And I was writing the book, and I did further zoom calls with everybody.

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And then when I'd finished the chapter that they're featured in, I'd send it to them so they could read it and confirm that I got everything accurate.

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So this this book has been read by the experiences and confirmed that what I've put is is accurate of their experience.

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Yeah.

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And also, I write about their whole experience, everything spiritual that happens when they go on.

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So it's the afterlife, they have the life review, they make deceased loved ones or spirit guides, the areas they might go to.

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So it's not just about the veridical side of it.

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There's lots more to the book as well.

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Yeah, exactly.

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I've interviewed probably 100 or so people who have had near death experiences.

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And the vertical part of it is really interesting, but there's so much more to it.

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But so we'll start with the vertical today, because I do want to address this episode to the skeptics, the people who say, well, this is all just a dying brain.

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This is this is a dump of DMT.

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This is oxygen deprivation.

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So this is one thing that that easily refutes those those theories.

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So can you give me like one example?

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Maybe we'll start with the famous one.

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And then we'll go to one that's not so famous.

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Well, there's a famous one of the famous ones is the Pamela Reynolds case that I've got in my book, where she had an embolism in the back of her brain at the base.

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And it was large, and it was likely to kill her.

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And it was in a really difficult place to operate.

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So the doctor, Mr. Dr. Spetzler, he had this new technique back in the 90s, which I think is more common today, which he calls standstill.

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And what they do is they purposely stop the heart.

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And so the brain function ceases.

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And so there's no flow of blood.

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And then they can operate on this thing in the back of her head, take it out without risk of her bleeding out or other complications.

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And so she's hooked up to all these devices.

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So they can be absolutely sure that there was no brain function, no heartbeat.

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And yet she was able to describe what happened in the room.

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And there are criticisms of this.

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One is that she might have seen something, or that she might have heard something and hallucinated, that there was some form of consciousness in the brain, even though it's been inactive for 10 minutes.

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It's not just a few seconds.

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But for her, they built these special earbuds.

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This was the 90s before the earbuds we have now.

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And they were put in her ears, and they were shaped to her ears.

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So they completely blocked exterior sound.

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And they played repeating clicks about 96 decibels, which is really loud.

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It's like being in a rock concert.

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And they were going really fast, almost machine gun fast.

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The reason they did that is because if the brain was functioning at all, it would show up on the devices, the screens they had, there was some kind of auditory processes going on.

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So this argument, she might have heard something and hallucinated, impossible, with her ears just completely plugged up.

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Also, our eyes were taped shut throughout this, through this thing.

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And it's almost, if you wanted to do an experiment with a near death experience, you'd want somebody hooked up to all this stuff to check on it all.

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But she was able to talk about the music they were playing, while the operation was going, and the conversation that happened.

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And she was very accurate, like there was, they had to feed a line in through her, her groin, that went right up through her heart.

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And it was some kind of tube for something I'm not a surgeon.

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But there was a doctor down her leg.

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And she said, I can't find a vein big enough.

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And Dr. Spetzel said, try the other leg.

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And they know that that occurred when her brain function was zero.

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And yet she was able to recount that conversation back to them.

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And in fact, they were listening to Hotel California.

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And she was a little annoyed with them, because there was the lining that you can check out, but you can never leave.

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And she felt a little offended by that.

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So Dr. Spetzel says he just can't explain it.

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And she was accurately described this bone saw that they used on her skull, which actually looks like an electric toothbrush.

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And it has a little blade at the top that spins.

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And she would never have seen that before.

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And when she was taken into the operating theater, all the surgical stuff was covered with cloths to keep it sterile.

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So that's a great one.

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That's quite famous, that one.

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And then another one in my book was Barbara Bartolome.

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I don't know if you've talked to her.

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I have not.

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She's great.

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She talks so much.

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And she had a problem with her spine, and they were going to operate on her spine.

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And the day before, they did a test where they'd inject ink into the spine.

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And she was on a table with her head here.

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And then they'd move the table like this slowly.

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And the ink would go down her spine.

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And they could see through the x-ray where the leak was in the spinal fluid.

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So they knew where to operate.

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And they could see if there's other stuff they hadn't spotted before that dealing with.

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So there were two radiographers, one controlling the bed and looking at the screen, and another one controlling the equipment.

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The neurosurgeon was there, and the orthopedic surgeon was there.

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And there was a nurse.

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And it was a pretty standard procedure.

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And the thing was, the surgery was supposed to be 7am the next morning.

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So the doctors, the surgeons wouldn't have time to check out the results before it started.

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So they wanted to be there and watch it.

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So the guy had his finger on the button on the table.

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He's checking the equipment, he presses the button, and the table goes the wrong direction.

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And the ink goes into her brain, basically kills her.

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So she's above the table, and she's looking down on it.

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And it's that very specific stuff of it about the nurse getting on the phone and calling for a crash cart, and about how they hooked up these things to her chest.

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And it was the heart monitor, and it was flatlined.

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So they knew her heart was flatlined.

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The two radiologists were doing CPR, taking it in turns to change between doing the chest compressions and the help of the breathing.

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And she said what happened was the neurosurgeon came over and pushed them out of the way, and he hit her on the chest with his fist.

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And she said the fist came from back here, he really smacked her with it.

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And the second time he hit her, she got a heartbeat.

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And she said that's when she went back into her body.

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So she was resuscitated, and they put an oxygen mask on.

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And eventually, after 20 minutes, they took it off.

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And she was like, what just happened?

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And they're like, what just happened?

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She says, I saw you do this, and you did that.

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And you said this, and she recounted all of it.

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And they knew she was dead when it happened.

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And the neurosurgeon stood next to the table.

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And she said he had his teeth clenched, and his fists clenched.

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And he said, I'm not going to stand here and listen to this.

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And he stormed out the room.

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But then the orthopedic surgeon sat down with her and said, tell us again, what happened?

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And, you know, she couldn't get anybody to talk about it from the hospital.

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And the reason is that they'd made the mistake, it was her fault, she was dead, so they were liable, she could sue them, no one was going to confirm anything to her.

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So, you know, I did try and see if we could talk to the orthopedic surgeon, because she's still in touch with him.

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But he declined being interviewed.

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That's a great case that there is that skepticism that might say, again, there was some consciousness, she hallucinated it, or she heard it.

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But her heart stopped beating.

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And I interviewed Dr. Evan Alexander.

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He told me that within, say 20 seconds of your heart stopping beating, you have no brain activity.

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Right.

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So you can be pretty sure there was nothing there.

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You know, it's really interesting, Simon, how the materialists will keep chasing different theories to hold on to that materialism, right?

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Because they tell us the consciousness is in the brain.

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And that's, that's all the brain generates the mind.

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That's it.

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Once your brain stops, you're, you know, it's lights out.

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But then, I know, and there are certain, you know, people like Dr. Evan Alexander neurologists tell us, once the blood flow stops to the brain, you've got a few seconds, and then there's no, there's no brain activity.

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So we know there's no brain activity, there's no heart activity.

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And it's a but yeah, maybe, but there's some element of consciousness.

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But Pam Reynolds case proves that her ears and her eyes were not functioning.

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So even if there is some element of consciousness that way, and I don't, I haven't, I haven't read your book, unfortunately.

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But are there any cases of like remote things where people could not possibly know because they weren't even in the room?

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Oh, yeah, yeah, there's, there's a few of those.

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There's my favorite is this guy called Tybor Putnocki, a Hungarian man.

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Have you ever heard of him?

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This is not a great case was Dr. Penny Sartori talked to him.

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I didn't get to talk to him, but I saw interviews with him and all sorts of things.

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And this was the early 90s.

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He was in Hungary, just after Hungary left the Soviet Union.

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He was in hospital for very high blood pressure.

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Doctors told him they were really worried about him.

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But being this post Soviet hospital, it wasn't great.

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And there were three beds in his ward.

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And there was a big window that was a two way mirror.

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So people in the room could see in the ward, but you couldn't see in that room from the ward.

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So he's lying in bed at feeling awful.

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And in the next moment, he's standing up in the ward and he feels great.

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And he's like, this is great.

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They've killed me.

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I feel fine.

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And why are those nurses rushing past me?

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And they were rushing over to his body to give him CPR and try and resuscitate him.

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He didn't realize he was dead.

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And he looked at this two way mirror and he just said, I just thought to myself, what's happening in there?

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And then instantly he's in there.

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And there's a nurse with a trolley at a cupboard and she's pulling all these things out and putting them on the trolley fast as she can.

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And she dropped something and it rolled underneath the cupboard.

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And then she ignored that and rushed out.

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I think she was going to help with the resuscitation.

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So Tybal went, what is that thing under the cupboard?

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And he said it was like his sight was suddenly four inches away from this item.

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And I've heard this before with other near death experiences.

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And he read the label on it.

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And there was a nurse in that room having a phone call with her husband and their children were ill.

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And she was trying to tell him where the doctor's phone number was in the phone book, because we didn't have cell phones in those days.

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You wrote down your own phone book and he couldn't find it.

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And Tybal could hear both ends of the conversation.

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And then he wondered about that man.

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And he said suddenly he was in the apartment with that guy.

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And it's seven kilometers from the hospital and instantly he's there.

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And he looked around the room and saw the books and the furniture, the carpet.

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He looked over the guy's shoulder and he saw the doctor's number and the guy kept flipping the pages.

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And Tybal said he was shouting, there's the number, there's the number.

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But he also saw this man's socks.

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And they had lots of little pictures of animals on them.

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And Tybal says he thought to himself, what kind of a man wears socks like this?

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So anyway, he was he went on to have all sorts of stuff with the life review.

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And it was really such an impact on him, that side of it.

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And I described all that and the book.

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But afterwards, he was resuscitated and the doctor sat next to him and said, OK, you were dead for nine minutes.

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Did anything happen?

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So he talked about the nurse's room.

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The doctor went in, found this item under the cupboard just as Tybal had described it.

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And then he found the nurse that was on the phone.

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She confirmed that the content of the phone call was exactly as Tybal described it.

00:18:46.869 --> 00:18:49.970
So he got in the car with her and went to the apartment.

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And again, he saw this is exactly as described.

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And when he returned to the hospital, he was holding those socks with the little animals on them.

00:18:59.009 --> 00:19:06.609
So I think that's that's a great one that, you know, something happened seven kilometers from the hospital and he accurately described all of it.

00:19:06.950 --> 00:19:07.170
Yes.

00:19:07.649 --> 00:19:14.970
And they know that at the time the phone call happened, they were trying to resuscitate him, that he was going through CPR.

00:19:15.490 --> 00:19:21.009
So how could he possibly have known about that apartment, that phone call, that item under the cupboard?

00:19:22.190 --> 00:19:22.289
Yeah.

00:19:22.409 --> 00:19:40.230
And I love I love that case because it proves that not only just consciousness survived death, but it's also that it's not it's not just local because you could say, well, you know, someone knows something is going on in the room that maybe somehow they're they heard it or they're, you know, something like that.

00:19:40.629 --> 00:19:49.009
But this is this is like consciousness describing something that's going on remotely, which as far as we know, our eyes and ears, you know, aren't equipped to do.

00:19:49.710 --> 00:19:59.869
So, you know, the word proof is is I know in science, I work with Dr. Gary Schwartz, and, you know, they always they don't like the word proof, right?

00:20:00.269 --> 00:20:05.069
But it's it's to me, there's a there's a proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

00:20:05.930 --> 00:20:12.549
Because there's no theory of consciousness that's materialist, that can account for the things that we're talking about.

00:20:13.389 --> 00:20:14.029
Yeah.

00:20:14.649 --> 00:20:19.309
And it's on my books called verified new death experiences proof of an afterlife.

00:20:19.990 --> 00:20:22.829
And I said proof because for me, it's proof.

00:20:23.389 --> 00:20:28.490
I'm not waiting for a scientist or somebody to allow me to believe it's true.

00:20:29.029 --> 00:20:31.730
Yeah, I've convinced myself enough as it is.

00:20:32.170 --> 00:20:37.409
So that that word proof can be a bit, I don't know, contentious.

00:20:37.730 --> 00:20:39.629
Is that proof for who decides what's real?

00:20:40.349 --> 00:20:42.129
Yeah, I love the way that you use the word proof.

00:20:42.250 --> 00:20:56.750
Because the other thing a scientist will tell you is we don't prove anything, they'll say that philosophers prove things, and mathematicians prove things, but science, they don't use the word proof, because it's just it's a philosophical thing in the scientific community.

00:20:57.329 --> 00:21:05.690
But for us normal people, you know, everybody looks at the sky, and we all say the sky is blue, I don't I don't need proof that the sky is blue.

00:21:06.069 --> 00:21:07.490
We all perceive it.

00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:52.779
And I've spoken to enough in the experiences and you have as well, that we know it's proof for us.

00:21:53.499 --> 00:21:58.299
I have I have a really good friend who was a total atheistic materialist.

00:21:58.819 --> 00:22:03.839
And she came to me and said, I don't believe mediumship is real, give me the best medium that you have.

00:22:04.219 --> 00:22:10.639
And I will go to her, I will give her a fake name, I will use my friend's credit card, and I want to see what she gets.

00:22:11.499 --> 00:22:19.219
And this person came back to me and said, I'm convinced, because her personal experience was, you know, able to quote, prove it to her.

00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:23.459
So proof is you're right, it's something that it's it is still subjective.

00:22:23.959 --> 00:22:26.519
How much does it take for us to prove it to ourselves?

00:22:27.179 --> 00:22:31.079
But I love the fact that you've gathered these things were and it's, to me, it's like a challenge.

00:22:31.199 --> 00:22:32.479
Okay, explain this to me.

00:22:32.479 --> 00:22:34.439
How does this happen in your model of consciousness?

00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:41.259
Yeah, for me, I tend to think that the brain is a receiver of consciousness.

00:22:41.919 --> 00:22:45.059
Yes, you know, it's like a radio picking up a radio station.

00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:53.059
And so somebody might say, Yeah, but when somebody has brain damage, they might lose their memories, or they might lose this or that.

00:22:53.499 --> 00:23:02.139
And it's like, yeah, but with a radio, if something goes wrong with it, it might be you can't tune to another station, or the sound is awful, or you can't change the volume, different things happen.

00:23:02.539 --> 00:23:05.879
But doesn't mean that this radio station stops transmitting.

00:23:06.499 --> 00:23:08.539
And just because your brain's dead, it doesn't stop.

00:23:09.139 --> 00:23:10.919
I mean, consciousness is no longer there.

00:23:11.479 --> 00:23:17.539
Because your brain's just dumbing down your consciousness, so it can survive in a 3d world.

00:23:18.399 --> 00:23:22.579
Because you know, we know our eyes can't see the whole spectrum, our ears can't hear everything.

00:23:22.819 --> 00:23:27.799
And exactly, it's, it's, it's a thing, I think, consciousness is somewhere else.

00:23:27.819 --> 00:23:30.499
And it's somehow we're receiving it.

00:23:31.519 --> 00:23:34.819
That's a model to me, and my background is engineering.

00:23:35.399 --> 00:23:41.999
So you know, I look at it like, you know, that's a model to me that makes sense, that that the brain is more like a receiver.

00:23:42.199 --> 00:23:43.879
And it's a filtering receiver.

00:23:44.059 --> 00:24:04.519
And as you said, we know that our eyes filter, we don't see above a certain light spectrum, we don't see below a certain light spectrum, our ears filter, we don't hear things above a certain spectrum or below a certain spectrum, our brains, our bodies receive so much input, that our brains only prevent present a very small bit of it to us consciously.

00:24:05.199 --> 00:24:07.819
So we know all these things are being filtered.

00:24:08.419 --> 00:24:16.619
And the materialist says, well, the mind is generated by the brain, well, then you've got it, if you're going to use that model, you've got to account for things like we're talking about.

00:24:17.159 --> 00:24:26.239
And beyond NDEs, things like remote viewing, you know, we know the government knows 100% for that remote viewing is real, because they've used it.

00:24:27.239 --> 00:24:28.839
And so we know those things exist.

00:24:30.539 --> 00:24:32.399
Yeah, I talked to Russell Targ.

00:24:32.899 --> 00:24:33.299
Oh, yeah.

00:24:34.719 --> 00:24:42.539
And Russell Targ was telling me about this guy called Pat Price, who, back when they were doing this for the army, he was exceptional.

00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:46.099
And there was one time they sent two people out.

00:24:46.739 --> 00:24:52.559
And they got to a location and they called in to Russell and said, right, we're at the location.

00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:55.459
So he just went to Pat and said, the location.

00:24:56.399 --> 00:24:58.619
And he drew out all this, these things.

00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:03.659
And they'd gone to a swimming pool, where there's outdoor swimming pools.

00:25:04.179 --> 00:25:13.299
And he had drawn these rectangles, and he'd said the sizes of them, and the amount of feet he described is exactly what the swimming pools were.

00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:17.099
And he had drawn out the whole plan of the swimming pool location.

00:25:18.019 --> 00:25:21.859
But he also drew two water towers there, which are not there.

00:25:22.739 --> 00:25:26.979
And they did some research and they found out decades ago, there were water towers there.

00:25:27.659 --> 00:25:31.979
So he was seen back in time, as well as what's currently there, which is pretty strange.

00:25:32.779 --> 00:25:36.399
But he was given a target as a test.

00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:41.519
And it was a small cabin in the woods, next to a military base.

00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:51.319
And he was able to go into a real high ranking officers room and look through the filing cabinet and see the names on the files.

00:25:52.179 --> 00:25:55.639
And when he reported that to them, they just freaked out.

00:25:56.199 --> 00:25:57.619
They said, this is too much.

00:25:58.479 --> 00:26:01.519
You'd think this would be great if you had a spy who could do this.

00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:06.739
Russell Togg said he died soon after in mysterious circumstances.

00:26:07.719 --> 00:26:11.199
And he thinks the army couldn't risk him learning all their secrets.

00:26:12.739 --> 00:26:16.859
But it shows, remote viewing works over and over.

00:26:18.379 --> 00:26:21.499
And they also remote view places that are far away, don't they?

00:26:21.639 --> 00:26:22.819
Like Mars or the moon.

00:26:23.459 --> 00:26:24.959
And they say they see stuff there.

00:26:25.639 --> 00:26:30.979
So if the stuff they see on Earth can be confirmed, what does that say for the things they're seeing on Mars?

00:26:31.699 --> 00:26:33.659
Does that lend to it being real?

00:26:33.879 --> 00:26:35.399
We're getting off the subject a bit here.

00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:40.619
And then we are and we aren't because to me, it's a whole body of evidence.

00:26:42.419 --> 00:26:49.279
So the near death experiences are something that I think we can take to a skeptic and say, this is very concrete.

00:26:50.219 --> 00:27:05.579
But it also fits the model that you and I have that the brain is a receiver consciousness and consciousness exists outside of the body, which remote viewing also, let's say, verifies or emphasizes that model, right?

00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:12.339
Because if you if our model is true, that consciousness outside of the brain, that things like remote viewing would be possible.

00:27:13.199 --> 00:27:17.999
And that is very, very well documented, that remote viewing happens.

00:27:18.299 --> 00:27:22.479
So that, that again, I think that that kind of backs up the NDE as well.

00:27:23.059 --> 00:27:27.779
So I want to encourage people to get your book and to read the verified near death experiences.

00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:40.919
But beyond the that verif that physical verification, there's the the the abilities that people come back with, the personality changes that people have after they've had an NDE.

00:27:42.499 --> 00:27:43.239
Yeah, I know.

00:27:43.439 --> 00:27:48.919
I heard 70% of NDE is divorce when they come back.

00:27:49.659 --> 00:27:51.179
It may be such a change.

00:27:51.699 --> 00:27:58.399
If you're quite materialistic, you want your big house, your nice car, your great holidays, you've got a great job and not so many.

00:27:59.139 --> 00:28:01.719
And you come back from the near death experience and all that is gone.

00:28:02.499 --> 00:28:04.479
You're spiritual, you don't want to chase that anymore.

00:28:05.019 --> 00:28:06.879
And then your partner saying, well, hang on a second.

00:28:07.439 --> 00:28:08.299
Yeah, I like the money.

00:28:08.459 --> 00:28:09.159
I like the house.

00:28:09.739 --> 00:28:09.999
Yeah.

00:28:10.959 --> 00:28:16.679
So yeah, it's a thing or so this this after effects, they like that they've become more psychic.

00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:23.759
And they're almost like weird things happen in a house and you can't wear watches because they won't work or lights flicker when they're around.

00:28:24.199 --> 00:28:26.959
And those after effects come back with near death experiences.

00:28:27.959 --> 00:28:34.719
And I think the life review is maybe the most powerful part of the near death experience.

00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:37.279
That can change people so much.

00:28:37.399 --> 00:28:48.859
If you really think about what that is and what it would mean for you, you know, to go through every second of your life and to feel the hurt that you might have caused other people.

00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:53.919
And it shows you what you're doing, what sort of person you are.

00:28:54.519 --> 00:29:00.219
And I think it's such a shock that people come back, they're much more compassionate and much more empathy.

00:29:01.199 --> 00:29:04.199
And they're much more like less materialistic.

00:29:04.679 --> 00:29:08.019
I talked to somebody the other day who had a great job.

00:29:08.479 --> 00:29:11.479
And they just sold everything and moved into a small apartment.

00:29:12.459 --> 00:29:20.319
And that's all they want to do now is talk about their near death experience and show people that spiritual stuff is the path to go down.

00:29:20.999 --> 00:29:27.539
And it's all about love and looking after the people around you.

00:29:27.919 --> 00:29:35.379
Because I've heard people say in the life review, that they may see stuff where they were kind to people.

00:29:35.919 --> 00:29:39.499
And it could be the smallest little thing that they just forget about just like that.

00:29:40.059 --> 00:29:46.919
And they say it's like the spirit guides that are with them are so proud of them just for that one little thing that they do.

00:29:47.179 --> 00:29:49.119
And it's like they're saying, yeah, this is the stuff.

00:29:49.119 --> 00:29:49.939
This is important.

00:29:50.159 --> 00:29:51.259
This is how you should behave.

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:52.179
Yeah.

00:29:52.839 --> 00:30:01.739
Yeah, I think, again, that to me, the vertical part of it is really cool, because it's really we can get people's attention with that.

00:30:02.839 --> 00:30:11.179
But the people that you said the changes they've had, and people don't change based upon hallucinations and dreams, we've all had dreams.

00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:25.719
None of us has ever had, well, I shouldn't say none of us, but very few of us ever had a dream and woke up and said, I'm going to sell everything and, you know, move to the desert because I because of a dream I had, or people that have had had experiences where they died in the hospital.

00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:31.079
Not all of them report near death experiences and not all of them changed their lives.

00:30:31.939 --> 00:30:36.979
But some of the ones that do, and I interviewed a guy just yesterday, and it'll be out in a few weeks.

00:30:38.059 --> 00:30:39.399
He's a really extreme example.

00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:57.199
This guy was a sea level executive CEO of a company, total materialist, totally changing motorcycles and boats and cars and experiences and going out to eat and, you know, just just living a hedonistic lifestyle and said, there is a God, I worry about it.

00:30:57.199 --> 00:30:58.779
When I get there, I'm not even thinking about this.

00:30:59.379 --> 00:31:01.299
And this guy had an NDE.

00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:08.359
He woke up the next day, when he came back into his body, goes into work and says, I quit.

00:31:08.859 --> 00:31:11.259
I'm not, I'm not a sea level executive anymore.

00:31:11.639 --> 00:31:15.159
And he told me, he said, I won't do, I won't trade anything for money anymore.

00:31:15.379 --> 00:31:16.639
It's like, I can't do it.

00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:20.379
He gave, he does, he's got all the clairs now.

00:31:20.659 --> 00:31:26.959
So he's basically, he's a medium, he's a psychic, and he will work with people, but you know, for donations.

00:31:27.719 --> 00:31:31.139
But he said, I don't, I don't, money is nothing to me at this point.

00:31:31.859 --> 00:31:33.299
That is a massive change.

00:31:33.499 --> 00:31:35.159
It doesn't happen because of hallucination.

00:31:36.779 --> 00:31:38.399
Yeah, yeah, I know.

00:31:38.519 --> 00:31:43.019
And also the life of you seem to happen in such different ways for different people.

00:31:43.779 --> 00:31:50.199
It's that thing where the near-death experience can be, it's like it's tailored perfectly for that person.

00:31:51.019 --> 00:31:55.399
And some people get distressing near-death experiences and others, they're kind of neutral.

00:31:56.539 --> 00:32:07.739
And I wonder if the spirit guide sort of, or whoever's in control of this is looking down, seeing this person and thinking, man, we need to have a talk with them.

00:32:07.959 --> 00:32:09.159
These things aren't going right.

00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:15.939
And so this near-death experience happens, and they think, what is the perfect thing for this person?

00:32:16.099 --> 00:32:17.459
And so they construct it.

00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:20.059
It's almost like the theater of the near-death experience.

00:32:20.679 --> 00:32:23.179
Almost like it's not the afterlife.

00:32:23.679 --> 00:32:27.979
It's a space outside of that somewhere else, maybe for some of them.

00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:33.899
And I talked to this woman, Nancy Rines, in her near-death experience.

00:32:34.679 --> 00:32:38.519
She was in this incredible landscape with mountains and forests.

00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:43.319
And she was walking through this field with a woman she said was one of her spirit team.

00:32:43.859 --> 00:32:48.779
And she looked behind her and the whole landscape was just dissolving away into a mist.

00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:56.799
And the spirit team member said to her, yeah, we created this whole environment just for you right now for this experience.

00:32:58.359 --> 00:33:00.339
Because that's just what she needed.

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:01.139
Yeah.

00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:09.739
Yeah, I think, like I said, the NDE, it is so rich, and it is tailored because everybody's is different.

00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:11.719
I think people get what they want.

00:33:12.099 --> 00:33:16.499
And you mentioned disturbing NDEs, and I'm sure you've spoken with some people who've had some.

00:33:18.039 --> 00:33:19.439
Yeah, like Howard Storm.

00:33:20.659 --> 00:33:25.059
There's another lady, I think, I don't want to get her name wrong, so I won't say her name.

00:33:25.639 --> 00:33:31.099
I think that distressing near-death experiences happen more often than it appears.

00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:35.279
I think people don't want to talk about it when they have those ones.

00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:39.199
It's almost a thing I think they have an experience when they go to hell.

00:33:39.999 --> 00:33:40.099
Yes.

00:33:40.639 --> 00:33:42.219
So you don't want to tell people about it.

00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:46.719
They look at you and think, you went to hell, what are you doing in your life that you're going to hell?

00:33:47.639 --> 00:33:50.859
But it doesn't seem like they're awful people.

00:33:51.819 --> 00:33:56.479
Howard Storm was, I think he described himself to me as an aggressive atheist.

00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:57.219
Yes.

00:33:57.679 --> 00:33:57.779
Yeah.

00:33:58.619 --> 00:34:01.159
And he was so changed, wasn't he?

00:34:01.259 --> 00:34:02.099
He became a pastor.

00:34:02.939 --> 00:34:06.059
Yeah, I've actually, I've met him.

00:34:06.179 --> 00:34:13.059
I have an interview for the podcast, but I've met him because he lives, I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and he's in Northern Kentucky.

00:34:13.059 --> 00:34:14.759
So we're really close to each other.

00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.199
And he's like the most gentle, nicest guy that you would ever meet.

00:34:19.699 --> 00:34:22.219
And this experience happened, I don't know, 40 or 50 years ago.

00:34:22.219 --> 00:34:24.259
It's quite a while ago, but he does.

00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:25.699
He says I was an aggressive atheist.

00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:29.780
And I have interviewed Dr. Rajiv Party.

00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:38.059
I don't know if you've spoke with him, but he was an atheistic materialist, and he had a distressing indian.

00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:44.360
The thing about the distressing indies though is people come back and they're always better for it.

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:53.340
So, and I remember hearing a woman one time, she said, oh, I was in, I know that hell was, I was falling and I knew I was going to fall forever.

00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:54.940
I was in this black, total blackness.

00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:59.880
And I remember thinking I was listening to, I was like, well, obviously you didn't fall forever because you're here.

00:35:00.500 --> 00:35:02.840
So it is, I believe it's just theater.

00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:04.739
It's to get people's attention.

00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:06.900
Yeah.

00:35:07.599 --> 00:35:07.699
Yeah.

00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:14.559
And with Howard Storm and this other lady I talked to, they had a weird way of getting out of the distressing part of it.

00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:14.780
Right.

00:35:15.179 --> 00:35:15.280
Right.

00:35:15.539 --> 00:35:20.539
Because Howard Storm started saying the Lord's Prayer when he was in this really nasty place.

00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.159
But he said to me, because he was an atheist, he didn't know any prayers.

00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:23.940
Yeah.

00:35:23.940 --> 00:35:25.539
I just heard this message telling him to pray.

00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.759
And he started quoting a TV commercial then doing Shakespeare.

00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.920
And then suddenly he remembered the Lord's Prayer.

00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:38.358
But with this other woman, she was in this kind of snowscape.

00:35:39.019 --> 00:35:40.739
The snow was two or three feet deep.

00:35:40.858 --> 00:35:43.519
And she was trudging along with his other people and these demons were there.

00:35:44.358 --> 00:35:47.239
And they went into this house and it was, you know, so horrible.

00:35:47.378 --> 00:35:48.659
It was like hell as demons.

00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:51.259
And they were really nasty.

00:35:51.420 --> 00:35:53.980
And she said to the one of the demons, why are you being so nasty?

00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:56.278
And he said, it's Christmas day on earth.

00:35:56.739 --> 00:35:58.818
We're always nastier when it's Christmas day.

00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:01.980
And she started singing a Christmas carol.

00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:05.619
And the demon got really angry with shouting at her.

00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:07.318
But he noticed he was backing off.

00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:10.940
And she carried on singing the Christmas carol over and over.

00:36:11.139 --> 00:36:14.500
And then suddenly she was lifted out of that space into the light.

00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:15.099
Right.

00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:18.440
So I've always remembered that Howard Storm said a prayer.

00:36:18.659 --> 00:36:19.940
She sang a Christmas carol.

00:36:20.818 --> 00:36:23.878
If I ever never distressing experience, I know what to do.

00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:33.129
Yeah, it seems to me for my studies, it's like as soon as you realize it's kind of like when you're having a nightmare and you realize, oh, this is a nightmare.

00:36:33.190 --> 00:36:34.009
I can control it.

00:36:34.009 --> 00:36:36.049
And you just you just will yourself out of it.

00:36:36.289 --> 00:36:38.829
Or in these cases, a lot of times people will ask for help.

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And then when they ask for help, then they're then they're taken out of it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And I talked to somebody who'd written a book about distressing near death experiences.

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Sorry, I can't give you their name.

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I've done so many episodes.

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Yeah, I understand.

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They, they said that not one of the people they talked to didn't escape to the light.

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They all got out of the distressing place.

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Exactly.

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And they've all left the distressing place while they were still in the near death experience.

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So they they've always that's that's been and I've actually sought out people that have had distressing experiences.

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And that's been I've found that to be the case in everyone that I've that I've looked at or talked to.

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So there is there is this element and I've interviewed PMH at water.

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And she's talked to I don't know hundreds of thousands of people have any needs probably.

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And she's I remember she said she was giving a lecture I think she said one time.

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And one person stood up and said they had a heavenly near death experience.

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And said was the worst thing that ever happened to them because they came back.

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They felt like they were rejected from heaven.

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They felt like an outcast.

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A lot of stuff that in these some end the years experience just feeling disoriented being back in this world.

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And another person stood up and had a hellish experience and said it was the best thing that ever happened to them because it taught them showed them that they were on the wrong path.

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And now they were determined to live a different life.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And there's a I think with coma particularly over COVID this has found lots of people were in put into coma induced.

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And they came out afterwards talking about these terrible experiences they had.

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They also talked about near death experiences where there's one of the guys in my book was through that.

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And also there's some people who talk about living another life on another earth.

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And they say it's just as real as this life right here right now except this other earth is slightly different.

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And it's might be slightly more advanced technology and it's like the McDonald's sign is all a different color to have.

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It's just little differences.

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Yes.

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I think some of these descriptions I've heard of coma patients talking about they say they're nightmares hyper realistic.

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But I've heard them talk about and they sound a bit like distressing near death experiences to me.

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And I'm wondering if that's what they're getting.

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Yeah.

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Well I again I think it's kind of like you know we get what we're supposed to get when we have the end.

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I don't believe they're they're accidental.

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So I believe that they happen you know again for a reason it's kind of maybe a wake up call that we've we've kind of plugged in instead of if I get to this point and I haven't figured this out yet let's have this this wake up call.

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Yeah I kick up the pants so to speak a spiritual kick.

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And it's it's like I think sometimes the guides or whoever's looking down and somebody dies again look he's dead quick grab him let's give him a near death experience.

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Yeah there's other people I talk to who think that the near death experience was they planned that for their life before they were born.

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That would hit them at some time during their life.

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And it is so personal.

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I talked to one lady she coincidentally was just lives two miles from me and her near death experience was going back to her grandfather's grandparents apartment by the seaside.

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And it was back as the way it was in the 1970s and they were the age they were in the 1970s.

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And it wasn't like she was dreaming she was there.

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They the grandparents oh yeah we're dead this is the afterlife this is where we like to be sometimes and we brought you here and they talked about what they do in the afterlife.

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And one of them said he greets spirits that have people who've just died and he's greets them and brings them into the afterlife as a kind of like a receptionist.

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Yeah just saying yeah you can relax everything's all right.

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The way he described it was to do with like these white flames coming out of the distance and as they got closer you could see the people inside the flames and some of them were with like their mother or father or somebody who died before them who'd gone to collect them.

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It just gets so rich the more you get into it and more complicated the more you learn about near death experiences.

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Yeah so we've talked about so we've said that they're they're unique and for people that aren't familiar with near death experiences help people understand what are some of the common themes that we have come across or did you've come across?

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Yeah so we hear about the tunnel of light don't we and that a lot of people have some kind of tunnel experience but it's not everybody it's not a hard huge percentage of people have a near-death experience and I've had people describe the tunnel to me as being huge other people I've said it's been tiny other people have said to me they've seen other people going up the tunnel or people going back down the tunnel and for one guy his tunnel was an aircraft fuselage so on an airplane all the seats are gone and you can see the airplane going off into the distance oh wow there's all these all the windows and there's this incredible light coming through the windows because the interior has got no lighting and there was a girl she said she was in a tunnel that was made out of transparent bricks and all the light was coming through the transparent bricks but the floor of the tunnel was so uneven she had to crawl to get along the tunnel because it was so bad so this idea that perhaps people see a ton of light when they die because it's to do with oxygen deprivation and they're getting tunnel vision and their vision is shutting down it's it's just nonsense when it comes to that tunnel and I talked to Dr. Bruce Grayson name dropping here he said to me that he's talked to people who've had that tunnel vision experience just before they died and then they had the tunnel of light experience afterwards right but we talked about the life review that shows up a lot when everybody has the life review and meeting deceased loved ones the spirit guides that comes up a lot there's also the barrier isn't there yeah it can be different for different people I had one guy describe it to me as like a bubblegum bubble but somebody else it was a white picket fence or it just feels like a force field and who was with them says no it's you can't come past it if you come past this barrier then you're not getting back you can't go back to earth and there's a lady in my book who wanted to come back and the spirit guide with us said it's too late your body's dead you can't go back she got really annoyed with him and she was saying no I have to go back he says that basically he said it's above my pay grade I can't make the decision and she said well talk to somebody who can and she said he looked up and these beams of light came out of his eyes going up into the sky and then he came back okay they've said it's all right you can you can go back to your body but be prepared it's not going to be good the first 18 months it's going to be really bad and she came back down this part of her veridical stuff that she was in the room watching her body have a grand mal seizure and there was a nurse there and her husband and she could talk to them about this after the fact that they could confirm and the spirit guide was with her and said this is when you would have died this would have killed you but now you're going to continue after this wow yeah that that's the thing they are um as I said they're they're so rich there's each one is so so interesting but there are these common themes but like you said the tunnel of light is a common theme but it's not like 75 percent of people have an NDE have the tunnel it's actually it's it's a smaller percentage um so it's it's they um but each person comes back and says okay this is this is what I needed you know to to continue my journey is the way I see it so I know you do you're as a profession you do past life regressions right so how does that tie into your work with uh you know interviewing people that have had NDEs well it's just a thing my podcast is looking for evidence of an afterlife so I'll talk to uh mediums people have near-death experiences shared death experiences children with past life memories people who research that kind of stuff and people who facilitate past life regressions and I'm talking to somebody later today interviewing them about their book it's all about the psychomantium oh yeah you know what that is and um she was involved in a study of how the psychomantium can help with grief yeah tell people what the psychomantium is for people that aren't familiar yeah it's it's Raymond Moody put it together he heard about something in ancient greece where people would be with this um highly polished stone that there was a reflection in it and they'd sit in the dark and it was said that they could commune with the dead so he built his own kind of thing and that was called the necromantium I think but he called his one the psychomantium so basically you sit in a chair in a completely dark room with very very dim light and you have a big mirror in front of you but the mirror is angled so you can't see your own reflection and you just kind of stay in there in this kind of sensory deprivation room and then things start springing up on the mirror colors and shapes and occasionally people see their deceased loved ones in the mirror and uh I was reading the books today this woman said she saw Jesus and she was really disappointed because she wanted to see her father and it's like oh man Jesus shows up yeah so that's the psychomantium it's just that sensory deprivation with this this mirror and just relaxing and opening your mind it's almost like getting in meditative state yeah in a state and so with the near-death experiences as well there's there's hints of reincarnation some of them I've talked to have said oh yeah I knew all about my past lives during the near-death experience and there was one lady I talked to said she could see all these people in the distance in this field during the near-death experience wearing all clothes from different eras some looked like from the future some didn't even look human and she realized that these were all her lives and she could sense a part of her soul in all of them so during the past life regression I feel it kind of connects out reincarnation connects with near-death experiences and also of course the children with past life memories which can be really powerful evidence yes mediumship they can talk about reincarnation so it's just one of these different lines of evidence which go to show that there is an afterlife yeah and you know reincarnation is really interesting because I was raised in the Christian tradition and a lot of Christians have been taught to believe that reincarnation is not real that we as Christians don't believe in it even though it was part of early Christianity and was actually taken out of the of the Bible about teachings purposely by the people that wanted to control us and say no you only have one life and we control it but when you start to study this stuff like you said mediumship it comes up with near-death experiences it comes up just like matter of fact it's like it's not like it's not even a question um so for me once you start to really get in and it's it's kind of hard not to say that there is something to it whether they're simultaneous or past or whatever we do live multiple lives oh yeah I know I've been taken through past life regressions a number of times and I've had my own little verifications that in one of the past life regressions I saw this location this park and it was stood out quite a lot because it was really sharp angles the last place you put a park if you're a town planner but two years later I was in a part of north London I'd never been to before and there was the park exactly as I'd seen it in the past life regression and the houses around it were exactly the same as I'd seen I've had one of my clients sent me a a picture of an oil painting a portrait and said that's that's who I was in the past life I tracked this person down so these things come up with past life regression these kind of verifications and there's a detective Robert Snow and he did his research in the 90s he had a past life regression he thought it was all nonsense but in the end he found what he called 28 proofs that that life was real oh wow yeah that he'd seen in that that that's uh he's got a great book out and um it's with the children with past life memories as well that that can be so much detail and you really have to research to find out if they're correct or not yeah yeah um and there had been a well I'm sure you wrote the work of uh Jim Tucker and Ian Stevenson uh with children with past life memories and they've well documented many cases and I read a book called The Boy Who Knew Too Much um and just that one book I think that was the boy who thought he who says he was Lou Gehrig in a past life and it was it's really it's really fascinating to again where it might seem like we're jumping all over the place but there's a common theme here that that we are not just the consciousness in these bodies that our consciousness does survive after we leave here our consciousness is not you know localized so those are the those are the messages I think we're trying to get across the people and there was something else I wanted to go back to on the vertical part of our um the NDEs not so much the physical but if you talk to people who've come back with like abilities that they didn't have before like they can play music or they can paint or stuff like that yeah the David Ditchfield yeah I talked to him yeah because he came back and he wrote the symphony that was performed and he does all these paintings and he didn't do that beforehand I think he was played guitar in a punk band for a little while but and there's other people we hear about who come back and just play the piano and they hadn't had lessons with it before so I haven't talked to a lot of people like this but I know that they're out there and that these things happen and it's also it's like the children a three-year-old playing the piano like they've been playing for 10 years where does that come from that's something you might be coming through as well yeah exactly and it's really interesting I listen to all these podcasts we're trying to explain these things and again it's funny to hear the materialists kind of scramble like how do you explain a child that's three years old that can play piano like a man like a prodigy well maybe there's some part of the brain it's like so you're saying there's a part of the brain that knows how to play the piano that's that's locked for the rest of us how was that how did that how did that evolve so it's really interesting that some people do seem to carry over abilities from from lifetime to lifetime or when they do come when they leave their bodies and they come back then suddenly have these abilities that they had no you know no inkling of before or the ability to predict the future even yeah and also injuries as children have birthmarks and birth deformities which relate exactly to an injury in the past life yeah there was a guy uh kids this is one of Ian Stevenson's cases he was talking about being a teacher and the teacher was shot on the way on the way to school to teach and it turns out this teacher was a bit of a scoundrel cheating on his wife and doing some dodgy deals with dodgy people and he was murdered and this boy had a bullet hole like a birthmark exactly where the bullet entered and a birthmark exactly where the bullet left the brain exactly the right place but he knew so much about that guy's life that to say the birthmarks are just a coincidence just seems too much yeah and it's interesting because in these cases people might say well they had the birthmark and then they it's the other way around it's like they'll they'll describe a past life they'll identify the person that had the past life and then they'll discover the child has you know the birthmark um so it's it's it's that's another one of the things about fascinating so uh Simon I'm curious you know with your book have you had any skeptics reach out to you and say yeah I I'll say maybe even cynics people who said I don't believe any of the stuff at all and they read your book and said you know what I think I might believe this I haven't had that but then I haven't sent it out to people like that it's it's almost a thing is I don't engage with real skeptics and materialists I'm not interested in their opinion and my mind's made up which might be a bad thing because that's what they'll say to me don't bother me with the facts my mind's made up well yeah you know I don't think it's not our job to convince other people I 100% agree with you on that I was just curious about that but you know I think it's really funny like like the guy in the room yesterday had the NDE he was a total materialist before and I asked him about his relationship he said well I've lost all of my friends 99.9 percent of my friends are gone because I only hung out with people who believe like me who would laugh at people like me um Evan Alexander was a total materialist before he had his experience so for some people it's got to happen to them for them to be convinced yeah yeah and that's up to them it's it's a thing about I started the podcast because I was learning about all this stuff and I wanted to spread this information more but I thought more people should hear about all these things and what they show but at the same time you can't be forcing someone to sit down and listen to you they have their own path to live and they can believe what they want to believe yeah yeah I agree and and and they'll find out someday right we'll we'll all we'll all find out someday um so I love what you're you're doing and as we're wrapping up I notice I'm saying before we get started that you're also into UFOs and I know a lot of times I used when we have local ions meetings I would go to the ions meetings and there are a lot of people that are that understand NDEs are also in the UFOs so what's the tie-in between the two it's interesting because I've taken people into past lives and I don't control which past life they see right and they might go to one in another planet there's some kind of tie-in there also there's people who complain to aliens they say I'm being abducted and I say to them you've got no right to do this and the aliens reply but you agreed to before you were born hmm and there's somebody who said that they were like they were in their diaper they remember being that small and they're in the playpen these three gray aliens are standing there looking down on him and he said they had just come to make sure my soul had properly meshed with my body so you know you see all this coming together eventually when you really start getting into it you find these crossovers and how the aliens have been heard to refer to humans as containers or vessels and it's like we're interested in your physicality for some reason which we're not sure what it is but it's almost like they don't care about you the individual like Simon or Brian they care about your soul and so this this human life it's just a temporary thing the yeah yeah all right shut up we need to do our experiments or whatever so it does show up as a crossover and also people who claim to be abducted by aliens have the same after effects as people who have near-death experiences yeah that's really interesting yeah the becoming psychic or maybe having some form of poltergeist activity in the house or watches won't work on them so there's there's something going on there and even though we've been researching for decades there's still more to look into but i'm writing a book about alien abduction at the moment because i'm so fascinated by it yeah well i i really um it's really cool to talk to someone that understands the breadth of this and how it all how it all ties together because i do believe it does all tie together to give us a real model of what a human is what a human being is we i believe that our biology and i look to movies like avatar i think does a really good job of showing you know the idea that consciousness can be put into a body that's that's i think that's what we are our bodies are basically avatars and we inhabit it for a while and then we go back to where we came from and then we we inhabit other avatars as well and our consciousness is not just local it's just this is the perspective we have while we're connected brain yeah yeah you reminded me of something somebody said to me this lady in her near-death experience she said in the film avatar when they're in the forest at night and everything's glowing she said that that's the closest thing she's seen to her experience when she was in this field and the the plants were alive and the trees were alive and it was all this connection that she said what she saw in avatar really reminded her of that all this luminosity so that that was interesting and there was something else now but i forgot what it was well um yeah again i was just talking about this this i think it helps us put together a model of of what a human being is and what our consciousness is and it's it's so much greater than the materialists tell us that it is so i again i love your work and of all the bodies of work i think if i were going to present one thing to a skeptic and if they said you can only give me one thing it would be in the ease and particularly verified in the ease so i will definitely be recommending your book to people and i could figure i'm thinking of one person right now who i've known for a very very long time who's very you know like prove it to me kind of person i think this is the kind of thing where people can say okay well yeah i don't have a way to explain that yeah yeah i hope so i hope they they get it i've been told um that it can be quite an impact this book and i'm not saying hey i'm great i'm a great writer it's these people experiences and talking about the life review and the pain that they had in their lives one guy told me he had to stop reading and put the book down because it was impacting him so much and so there's so much to it learning about near-death experiences it's not just an academic kind of logical thing you're studying there's so much emotion there it's not you know um ken ring calls it the benign virus because uh i remember you know there's there's certain things that just open up your eyes and you and you you look up from the page and you suddenly see the world a whole different way and i think your book could be one of those things because as i said it will it will change your view of the world when you realize that what i'm seeing with my eyes is not not all there is um and i love the fact that we're living in an age where all the stuff is out there that there's a podcast i'm wrecking everybody right now the telepathy tapes which is um you know it's it's blowing up which i'm so thrilled about because it's mainstreaming some of these ideas of consciousness being non-local yeah kai dickens has been a guest on my podcast oh has she yeah yeah it's great to talk to her because that's just amazing what's coming up there because it's not just telepathy is it they talk about deceased people being around and other realities and other realms which is pretty what much what shows up in dead-death experiences yeah yeah exactly and again people might feel like we're bouncing all over the place but it's all the same thing it's all the same thing that consciousness is not local the consciousness does not does not start when you're when you're born it does not end when you when you when your body dies and all these things are just pieces of that puzzle of what what they're what it is so thank you so much for being here today remind people the name of your book and if people can reach out to you how can people find you yeah the book is verified near-death experiences proof of an afterlife and my website is past lives hypnosis dot code at uk and my podcasts are paranormal afterlife and alien ufo podcast and i've done over 900 episodes so you'd probably be able to find it somewhere i've tried to get it on every podcast app yeah well congratulations to 900 episodes i know what a feat that is i'm a i'm almost half of what you what you've got so that's that's great simon thanks for being here today enjoy your rest of your afternoon thanks a lot it's been great hey you