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Speaker 1: for Shades of the Afterlife with Sandra Champlain. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: matter for yourself. Hi. I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty

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Speaker 1: five years, I've been on a journey to prove the

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Speaker 1: existence of life after death. On each episode, will discuss

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Speaker 1: the reasons we now know that our loved ones have

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Speaker 1: survived physical death and so will we. Welcome to Shades

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Speaker 1: of the Afterlife. Have you ever noticed that life revolves

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Speaker 1: around you. Everything we experience is from our experience, depending

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Speaker 1: on what's happened in our past. We make meaning out

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Speaker 1: of everything. My grandmother's brother died from drowning. My grandmother

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Speaker 1: lived her life avoiding water. She didn't enjoy movies where

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Speaker 1: To her, water was bad and could mean death. Now

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Speaker 1: take someone like Jacques Cousteau and his family from a

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Speaker 1: but different meaning to it. With each of us, our

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Speaker 1: begin looking for answers and spiritual truths. Personally, my fear

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Speaker 1: Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sander Champlain and we're talking

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Speaker 1: We all have our own meaning of God. Some people

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Speaker 1: with my soul only that's the best way I can

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Speaker 1: express it. I looked down to my right and I

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Speaker 1: saw an incredibly beautiful, bright light that made me feel

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00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: better and better as I looked at it. The light

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00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: didn't come towards me, neither did I move towards it.

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00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: I just realized it had always been there, the same

436
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: way as when you lose your keys, but they are

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00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: right in front of you and you finally realize there

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Speaker 1: they are. I thought to myself, how could I have

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00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: not seen this for so long, because obviously it has

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00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: always been there. Then I realized the light was on

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00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: my left, underneath me, in front of me, and every aware.

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00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: The light then started to rise in me. I didn't

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Speaker 1: feel that I had a body, but I had a

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Speaker 1: sense of occupying a certain space similar to that of

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Speaker 1: my body. The light rose higher and higher in me.

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Speaker 1: By rising, I mean that it started to engulf me.

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00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: That I became one with this light. And the more

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00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: I became one with the light, the better I felt.

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00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: It rose up to what my mental imagery envisioned as

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00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: the equivalent to my hips. At that point, I started

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00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: to be afraid of losing myself in the light, that is,

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Speaker 1: losing my individuality. As I felt this fear, the light

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00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 1: gently dropped to the equivalent of my feet. Then I

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Speaker 1: realized that I could totally trust the light not to

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Speaker 1: force anything on me. But when the light was at

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Speaker 1: my feet. I didn't feel as good as when I

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Speaker 1: was wrapped in it. Then it started rising again, up

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Speaker 1: to the equivalent of my neck, the level at which

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Speaker 1: I felt comfortable. At that point, I started having a

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Speaker 1: very blurry memory of having lived a life on earth.

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Speaker 1: It was incredibly blurry, much like when you wake up

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Speaker 1: and you know that you've had a dream, but you

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Speaker 1: can't manage to remember what it was. I felt puzzled

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Speaker 1: because I knew the only thing that existed was the light,

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Speaker 1: and I wondered how it was possible that I had

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Speaker 1: lived anything else but the light. As I felt the

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Speaker 1: questioning in my being in front of me, I would

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Speaker 1: say the equivalent of forty The light dropped, unraveling to

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00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: reveal a beautiful garden with flowers, butterflies, and bushes. It

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Speaker 1: was not a picture nor a hologram. I knew this

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00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 1: was a very real place, and had I wanted to,

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Speaker 1: I could have floated in it. I didn't do it, though,

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Speaker 1: because I had a sense that if I moved further

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Speaker 1: from where I was, I could not go back. I

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00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,439
Speaker 1: never thought in terms of death or not going back

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Speaker 1: to my earthly life. I only thought in terms of

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Speaker 1: losing my identity, my personality. But seeing this garden gave

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Speaker 1: me the answer to my question. I realized that the

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00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: light contained everything, including my life on Earth. Therefore, it

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00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 1: made sense that there was only the light, yet that

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00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: I had memories of a life. The instant I understood this,

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Speaker 1: the light wrapped up the garden and I only saw

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00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:41,640
Speaker 1: the light again. I knew it was eternity, and that

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Speaker 1: it was incredibly vast, that I could walk float for

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Speaker 1: an eternity to extreme distances, and that it would be

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Speaker 1: exactly the same light. I decided not to move further again.

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Speaker 1: After that, I don't remember anything. I just woke up

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Speaker 1: in my bed, not really owing where I was for

489
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Then I acknowledged the incredible experience

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00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: that I just had and regretted my decision to not

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Speaker 1: move further in the light. What I understood from my

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00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:16,280
Speaker 1: experience is that when we die, we don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Our conscious awareness stops focusing on the physical spot of

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Speaker 1: the universe, that is our body. It can expand in

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00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: the whole light, or it can focus on anything it

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Speaker 1: wants to create, such as the garden. I saw what

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00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: I understood in the light is that it is everything.

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00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: My education is in experimental medicine. Therefore I always try

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00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:47,399
Speaker 1: to understand things from a science perspective. Perhaps the light

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00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: that permeates everything in which to me I know is everywhere.

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00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: Perhaps it permeates the whole universe. Who knows. But one

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00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: thing I know is that we are in it right now,

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00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: and that it ultimately is the only thing that exists.

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00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: Everything and everyone is a part of it. My experience

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00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: of the light cured my depression and all my suffering.

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00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: I understand now how every experience of my life was

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00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: a blessing and how it allowed me a variety of

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Speaker 1: experiences to grow. I no longer have a fear of death,

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00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: nor a fear of when I will die. I only

510
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: shared this experience with my spouse because since it was

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Speaker 1: not near death by any means when it had occurred

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Speaker 1: eleven years ago, I thought nobody would take it seriously.

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00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: But I think it makes no difference, since ultimately there

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00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: is no death, just to shift in the spot in

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Speaker 1: the universe our consciousness is focused on, and we can

516
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: expand into everything. Ultimately, we are all already in eternity,

517
00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: in heaven, in the light, in love, and it is

518
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Speaker 1: our ultimate home. I love how the author explains this,

519
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: because even mediums say it's just a shift of consciousness

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00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,239
Speaker 1: to be able to tap into the unseen world and

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00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: communicate with loved ones. The light is all around us.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of the light, I heard someone once say

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Speaker 1: that if you can imagine, all the different religions in

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00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: the world are different lamps, and all the different beliefs

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00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: about God all different lamps, but the light remains the same.

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Speaker 1: Think about that one. So we're going to go into

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Speaker 1: the break and then we'll hear one more spiritually transformational experience.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the I

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Speaker 1: Heart Radio and Coast to Coast, a m paranormal podcast network.

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Speaker 1: H Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sander Champlaine.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for your next spiritually transformative experience? This

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Speaker 1: is another one author unknown. There's a lot more to

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Speaker 1: this story, but I will start here. Our small red

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Speaker 1: jeep was sideswiped by an oncoming car that came hurtling

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Speaker 1: toward us, skitting on the ice and out of control.

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Speaker 1: The impact not only hurled the jeep with us in it,

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Speaker 1: over the side of the mountain, but it also threw

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Speaker 1: me out of my body. In this out of body state,

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Speaker 1: I was shown three very odd and seemingly different things. First,

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Speaker 1: I was shown that although I had seen the sun

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Speaker 1: come up over the horizon many times, I had never

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00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: truly seen it. I had never actually viewed the awe

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00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: and splendor of the arrival of a new day. Second,

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Speaker 1: I was made to understand that I had never smelled

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Speaker 1: their earthly aroma of freshly cut grass. And again, of

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00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: course I had many times, but only in passing. I

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00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 1: had never done so with the deliberate intent of experiencing

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Speaker 1: the magic moments of pleasure and grace offered by my senses.

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00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: For the most part, I had totally disregarded my senses

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00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 1: and hurried through my life. I was always too busy

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00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 1: on my way somewhere else to stop and smell the roses,

552
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: much less the freshly cut grass. At that time in

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00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: my life, everything was a means to an end. My

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00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: life as a single mother was a matter of practicality, utility,

555
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: and necessity, and not pleasure. The grass had to be cut,

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00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,719
Speaker 1: It did not have to be inhaled or experienced on

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00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: a visceral level of pleasure. And again I was just

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00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,240
Speaker 1: too busy. The same was true of my other senses.

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00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:19,959
Speaker 1: In my survival rush, I had forgotten, literally and figuratively,

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Speaker 1: to see, smell, listen, taste, and touch the beauty of

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Speaker 1: my life. To this point, touch was the third thing

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Speaker 1: I was shown. I had never reached out and touched another,

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Speaker 1: truly touched them with my physical body. Obviously, I had

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Speaker 1: two children, so I had touched another, but my contact

565
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: with most was again utilitarian. I brushed my children's hair

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Speaker 1: to send them off to school, but I rarely took

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Speaker 1: the time to simply caress their tender heads. In the

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Speaker 1: lonely time after my divorce, unaccompanied by a mate, I

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00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: went through a long periods with little or no physical contact.

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00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 1: On some level, I must have known that this would

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00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: be detrimental to my body, as I somehow decided to

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00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: schedule a regular massage. Now I understand the importance of

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Speaker 1: physical contact. So now if we meet in person, you

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00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:21,919
Speaker 1: almost assuredly get a hug from me. All of this

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Speaker 1: and more was shown to me as the jeep tumbled

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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the icy mountain. In that suspended

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Speaker 1: moment where time seemed to be absent, I experienced an

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00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: overwhelming wave of remorse for the wasted and unacknowledged moments

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Speaker 1: of my life. I was also shown that many others

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Speaker 1: at the point of death have the same great sadness

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Speaker 1: and sense of loss. For many, the value of human

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Speaker 1: life was not fully acknowledged until it was too late

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Speaker 1: and they were slipping over the edge into death. In

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Speaker 1: that instant, I understood that each soul is here for

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Speaker 1: the bliss of its own existence. It was a glorious

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Speaker 1: but ironic discovery, as it was too late for me,

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Speaker 1: too late for bliss, too late for anything. Our small

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Speaker 1: red jeep was skitting out of control on the icy

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Speaker 1: mountain road and falling fast towards the unmoving ground below.

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Speaker 1: We helplessly fell twenty five ft through empty space before

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Speaker 1: hitting the unforgiving embankment of ice below. After rolling and

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00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 1: flipping over and over ten more times, we finally came

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Speaker 1: to a sudden halt and were wedged into the side

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Speaker 1: of an icy mountain. Everything was in slow motion as

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Speaker 1: I resigned myself to my impending death. I closed my

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Speaker 1: eyes and disappeared into a blur of darkness and bursts

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00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:01,680
Speaker 1: of light. I was quite shocked to wake up back

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Speaker 1: in my body and overjoyed to be given a second

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Speaker 1: chance at life. The sense of being given another chance

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00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: to live the same life, but with a different perspective

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00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: was overwhelming. Rather than just surviving, I would truly be alive.

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Speaker 1: After the accident, there was a subtle but important change

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Speaker 1: in the verbiage and experience of my life. Instead of

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Speaker 1: seeing life as a heavy burden where I had to

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Speaker 1: be responsible, take care of myself, look after my children

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00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: and others, I realized that I get to do all

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Speaker 1: of the above. That I get to be responsible, get

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Speaker 1: to be a good mother, get to smell the roses

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Speaker 1: and the freshly cut grass, that I get to experience

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Speaker 1: the joy and pain of life. That nothing was forced

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Speaker 1: upon me, that we all, on some level choose to

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Speaker 1: be here. I was also shown multiple destinies, one of

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Speaker 1: which I would die, and in others where my life

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Speaker 1: would be negatively impacted by the accident, as well as

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00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: the one. I chose this one to come back and

616
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 1: to be a force of good. Why Because I chose

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00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: to and I get to. This small change in perspective

618
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: changed everything. In addition, I was no longer afraid of death.

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Speaker 1: I knew experientially that what comes after we die in

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00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:45,320
Speaker 1: a physical sense, is good, abundant, and loving. In an instant,

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Speaker 1: my perspective was forever altered. Now, rather than fearing death,

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00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: it was time to truly savor my life. Time to

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Speaker 1: live a meaningful existence, to listen to the deep longing

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00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:03,320
Speaker 1: of my so all, and to be of service to others,

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00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: to be of service to you. Time to shift directions.

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00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:14,280
Speaker 1: Instead of running from death, I would purposely run towards life, love,

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Speaker 1: and the opportunity to be of service. None of the

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00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: above changes were necessarily hard, but they were not easy either.

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Speaker 1: The negative spiral of fear is heavy and weighs down

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Speaker 1: on this planet. I had to be diligent in my

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Speaker 1: daily commitment to be more conscious, purposeful, and alive. To

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00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: this very day, I still have to purposely choose to

633
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:43,719
Speaker 1: see the good in all. It is an ongoing practice

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Speaker 1: of remembrance. To purposefully remember who I really am, beyond

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Speaker 1: my body, mind, intellect, and emotions. To remember that we

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Speaker 1: are not defined by the circumstances or the conditions of

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Speaker 1: a leading human life. To connect with that greater part

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00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: of us that is unchanging and eternal. To choose love

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00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: over fear. All of these shifts in consciousness require that

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Speaker 1: we take full responsibility for our lives, irrespective of the

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00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:23,160
Speaker 1: inner or outer circumstances that quake through our being. To

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00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 1: choose love is to reclaim our birthright and power by

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00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 1: aligning with the goodness and grace of life. As we

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Speaker 1: recognize the full impact and consequences of our choices, we

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Speaker 1: In an instant, as a jeep tumbled down the side

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Speaker 1: I came back to be a lighthouse, a beacon of hope,

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Speaker 1: As we helplessly spiraled out of control on that icy

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Speaker 1: shown that sound and light were the future of medicine.

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Speaker 1: It was all so beautiful and so overwhelming too. At

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Speaker 1: that had enveloped me in grace and light. I had

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Speaker 1: It would simply be that the purpose of life is

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Speaker 1: our time is quickly coming to an end. I hope

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Speaker 1: you enjoyed it. When I started searching near death experiences,

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Speaker 1: I saw these spiritually transformative experiences that give us power

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Speaker 1: When we search for evidence of the afterlife. It might

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Speaker 1: be to know that a loved one has gone on,

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Speaker 1: do and know that we're an immortal soul having a

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Speaker 1: human experience, there's a whole new world that opens up.

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Speaker 1: One of being proactive to go after our dreams, one

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