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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George nor

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Speaker 1: with you. David Ditchfield as a near death experiencer, inspired artist, composer, author,

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Speaker 1: and he wants to use his NDE to make positive

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Speaker 1: differences in your lives. In two thousand and six, he

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Speaker 1: was dragged under a speeding train and a freak accident.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. As the surgeons fought to save him,

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Speaker 1: he had a profound near death experience. When he woke

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Speaker 1: in the hospital, he had acquired some astonishing new abilities,

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Speaker 1: and he found that he could paint dramatic paintings of

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Speaker 1: what he had seen in the afterlife. We've got those

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Speaker 1: at Coast to COASTAM dot com, far beyond any artistic

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Speaker 1: ability he had before. And then he discovered he could

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Speaker 1: compose classical music. Have he never received any training? That's amazing.

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Speaker 1: His book is called Shine On David. Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to this with you tonight. Hey Joe, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me on. Tell me how you got under

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Speaker 1: a speeding train? Right, Oh my god, I hate to

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Speaker 1: have you relived this again, but we got to find

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Speaker 1: out what happened to you? No worries, I've you know,

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Speaker 1: I've spoken about it quite a few times now, so yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: basically what happened was I've been living in London at

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Speaker 1: the time, and my sister lived in Cambridge and out

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Speaker 1: in the country, and she said, come and spend a

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Speaker 1: few days with us, because I was down on my

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Speaker 1: luk earlier at that point in my life and I

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Speaker 1: needed a break. So I was up there for a

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Speaker 1: few weeks and a friend that I just met in

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Speaker 1: seeing her off at the rail station. She needed to

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Speaker 1: train carriage with her bags and you gave her a

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Speaker 1: I heard the emergency buzzers game for the doors about

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Speaker 1: to close, so and she was going, David, get off.

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Speaker 1: I was going, yeah, yeah, I'm going, don't worry. And

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Speaker 1: as I stepped back, it was a very cold February

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Speaker 1: day and my coat got caught in the actual closing

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Speaker 1: you know, I tried to pull it free, but it

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Speaker 1: was like a good quality sheepskin and it wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to come out, so I called for help. I looked

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Speaker 1: was like so thick. It was just you know, hugging

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Speaker 1: it exactly. There was no way it was just going

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Speaker 1: nothing happened. So I just stood there and I was

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Speaker 1: looking at my friend Anna, and we were just staring

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Speaker 1: You know, the engines were just ramping up to Leaf

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Speaker 1: and it started putting up a pace and the train

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Speaker 1: you believe you me, it's like it's a different story.

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Speaker 1: You don't realize. And I lost my footing eventually and

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Speaker 1: then I was conscious throughout the whole thing. So it

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Speaker 1: You're bouncing, you're basically bouncing along, your legs are being

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Speaker 1: You know, Oh my god, It's just complete chaos, and

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Speaker 1: I just figured to myself, it's not over yet. You know.

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Speaker 1: something hanging on the top there you know, people stand

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Speaker 1: Are you still underground or are you above ground? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And the train eventually moved on. Did you did you

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Speaker 1: And then how did you finally get out of this situation? Well,

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