1
00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,480
Speaker 1: And you're here. Thanks for choosing the iHeartRadio and Coast

2
00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:06,760
Speaker 1: to Ghost Day and Paranormal Podcast Network. Your quest for

3
00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,640
Speaker 1: podcasts of the paranormal, supernatural, and the unexplained ends here.

4
00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:13,520
Speaker 1: They invite you to enjoy all our shows we have

5
00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,440
Speaker 1: on this network, and right now, let's start with Chase

6
00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,680
Speaker 1: of the Afterlife with Santra Channaplain.

7
00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,200
Speaker 2: Welcome to our podcast. Please be aware the thoughts and

8
00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,240
Speaker 2: opinions expressed by the host are their thoughts and opinions

9
00:00:29,280 --> 00:00:34,480
Speaker 2: only and do not reflect those of iHeartMedia, iHeartRadio, Coast

10
00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,960
Speaker 2: to Coast am employees of Premiere Networks, or their sponsors

11
00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:42,159
Speaker 2: and associates. We would like to encourage you to do

12
00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:51,680
Speaker 2: your own research and discover the subject matter for yourself. Hi.

13
00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:56,000
Speaker 2: I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been

14
00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,640
Speaker 2: on a journey to prove the existence of life after death.

15
00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,680
Speaker 2: On each episode, we'll discuss the reasons we now know

16
00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,760
Speaker 2: that our loved ones have survived physical debt, and so

17
00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:12,720
Speaker 2: will we Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. Before we

18
00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,120
Speaker 2: dive into this episode, I got a lovely email from

19
00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,800
Speaker 2: listener Paul. I won't read it all to you, but

20
00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,680
Speaker 2: he was with his mom when she passed, and I

21
00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,320
Speaker 2: just want to read a few words. He said. I

22
00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,280
Speaker 2: was alone with her, and in about five to ten minutes,

23
00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:31,240
Speaker 2: I heard almost a breath, and it's like her body decompressed.

24
00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:34,400
Speaker 2: And when I looked up to see her, I saw

25
00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:38,200
Speaker 2: what I can only describe as a pearl colored aurora

26
00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,400
Speaker 2: borealis light coming out of her body and going up.

27
00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:45,800
Speaker 2: It made me smile as I knew she was right

28
00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:49,440
Speaker 2: there and that we don't die. So thank you for

29
00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:52,840
Speaker 2: sharing that, Paul. I know just recently we heard from

30
00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:57,040
Speaker 2: doctor Adam Risby, who has witnessed similar things in the

31
00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,040
Speaker 2: ICU as people have passed. OK, let's get on to

32
00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:04,280
Speaker 2: the episode. Since we were last together, I have really

33
00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,160
Speaker 2: been devouring some stories of near death experiences. I know

34
00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,440
Speaker 2: I've mentioned doctor Jeffrey Long's work before, but I want

35
00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,560
Speaker 2: to look deeper at his work and also share several

36
00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:21,200
Speaker 2: stories of experiences. He is a physician who practices radiation oncology,

37
00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:26,000
Speaker 2: treating patients with life threatening cancer diagnosis. But beyond his

38
00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,200
Speaker 2: medical practice, he is one of the world's leading researchers

39
00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,040
Speaker 2: of near death experiences, and back in nineteen ninety eight,

40
00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:38,640
Speaker 2: he and his wife Jodie, founded NDERF. I refer to

41
00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:43,320
Speaker 2: it as end DERF, the Near Death Experience Research Foundation.

42
00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,120
Speaker 2: If you haven't personally visited ENDERF dot org, I highly

43
00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:54,040
Speaker 2: recommend it. It's the world's largest public, searchable database of

44
00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,840
Speaker 2: near death experiences in the world. Through his research, doctor

45
00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:03,760
Speaker 2: Long has established twelve concrete lines of evidence that proves

46
00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:09,120
Speaker 2: our human consciousness survives bodily death. And we'll look at

47
00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:13,320
Speaker 2: today some of those specific lines of evidence and connect

48
00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:17,400
Speaker 2: them with some incredible stories. Doctor Long points out that

49
00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:21,560
Speaker 2: within ten to twenty seconds of the heart stopping, our

50
00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:27,560
Speaker 2: brains flatline, and there is no measurable electrical activity none,

51
00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,040
Speaker 2: and under our current understanding of biology, it should be

52
00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:34,560
Speaker 2: impossible for us to have any kind of clear memory.

53
00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,840
Speaker 2: Right well, Doctor Long did a survey of eight hundred

54
00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:44,240
Speaker 2: experiencers and nearly eighty percent reported having more consciousness and

55
00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,240
Speaker 2: alertness during their near death experience than they do in

56
00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:53,360
Speaker 2: normal waking life. There is also something he calls spiritually

57
00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:59,840
Speaker 2: transformative experiences, also known as stes, that may or may

58
00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:03,680
Speaker 2: not be a result of a physical ailment. Let me

59
00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,960
Speaker 2: tell you about Brent. Physically, he was at a breaking

60
00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:12,160
Speaker 2: point in his life life was extremely overbearing. He had

61
00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:17,120
Speaker 2: reached a state of pure physical and emotional exhaustion. He

62
00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,600
Speaker 2: was burnt out, and he surrendered his life and the

63
00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:25,480
Speaker 2: outcome to it to God. The moment he surrendered, the

64
00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,440
Speaker 2: physical symptoms hit him like a freight train, so much

65
00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:31,640
Speaker 2: so that he thought he was having a heart attack.

66
00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,719
Speaker 2: Here's what he said. It was like taking hold of

67
00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:39,120
Speaker 2: an electrical fence. It was powerful, like the pulsating vibration

68
00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:44,000
Speaker 2: of divine electricity flowing through my being. I could feel

69
00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:48,000
Speaker 2: every molecule in my body as though each had accelerated

70
00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:52,880
Speaker 2: thousands of times. I distinctly recall the sensation of surprise

71
00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:57,159
Speaker 2: when I could no longer feel my face or my lips.

72
00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:01,880
Speaker 2: The energy erupted in my belly a supernova. When it

73
00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,680
Speaker 2: entered my heart, I suddenly became afraid. It felt like

74
00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,960
Speaker 2: my heart was palpitating thousands of times faster than it should.

75
00:05:10,279 --> 00:05:13,920
Speaker 2: I had the thought that if this continued, my heart

76
00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:18,559
Speaker 2: was going to explode. And fear gripped him briefly because

77
00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,279
Speaker 2: he thought of losing his wife and children. But then

78
00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,760
Speaker 2: he made a conscious choice. He thought to himself, if

79
00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,359
Speaker 2: this is my time, I accept it. Brent closed his

80
00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,799
Speaker 2: eyes and surrendered, and says, as soon as I closed

81
00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,720
Speaker 2: my eyes and let go, I was free from the

82
00:05:35,760 --> 00:05:39,400
Speaker 2: normal constraints of the body, and I immediately came forth

83
00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:43,200
Speaker 2: into the most beautiful light I had ever seen. And

84
00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:46,680
Speaker 2: as an analytical thinker, he compared the light to a

85
00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:51,160
Speaker 2: nuclear reaction. He said, the light I was experiencing in

86
00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:55,200
Speaker 2: that moment felt like the molecules that make up my

87
00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:59,080
Speaker 2: body would have completely come apart in the intensity of

88
00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,680
Speaker 2: the joy and love that was coursing through my entire being.

89
00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,520
Speaker 2: I had the distinct impression that if my body had

90
00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,159
Speaker 2: been with me, it would have died. And there was

91
00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:13,120
Speaker 2: no judgment whatsoever. There was no fear. All there was

92
00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:18,239
Speaker 2: was overwhelming love and joy in everything. Doctor Long talks

93
00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:23,080
Speaker 2: about a super accelerated consciousness that takes over us at

94
00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,080
Speaker 2: the moment of death, and Brent explained it like this,

95
00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,160
Speaker 2: understanding of almost every event in my life came flooding

96
00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:35,240
Speaker 2: into me. It was like being connected to the Internet

97
00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:41,400
Speaker 2: of God, where knowledge on every subject became instantaneously available.

98
00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,159
Speaker 2: It was also like having an expanded processor that could

99
00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:51,479
Speaker 2: process information on hundreds of different tangents in parallel. The

100
00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:56,520
Speaker 2: information was downloaded, was understood and then all the questions

101
00:06:56,600 --> 00:07:00,760
Speaker 2: were immediately answered in the same fashion, all in parallel

102
00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,880
Speaker 2: in a single moment of time. Soon, a figure in

103
00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:10,000
Speaker 2: white approached him. On the other side. Knowledge arrives before

104
00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,960
Speaker 2: we even have to ask. Brent knew instantly for him

105
00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,640
Speaker 2: it was Jesus, and when Jesus embraced him, Brent experienced

106
00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,000
Speaker 2: a second explosion in his heart that took him to

107
00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,920
Speaker 2: an even higher state of bliss. He said, like an

108
00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,960
Speaker 2: amoeba in a single drop of water that suddenly feels

109
00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,120
Speaker 2: the expanse of being placed into a bucket of water,

110
00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,440
Speaker 2: then the wonder at being placed in the enormity of

111
00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,320
Speaker 2: a pond, followed by the incomprehensible magnitude of an ocean.

112
00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,480
Speaker 2: So too did my joy expand Jesus began to speak

113
00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,480
Speaker 2: to him, and Brent said each word was an unfolding

114
00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,040
Speaker 2: revelation on multiple layers of experience and understanding, all of

115
00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:59,440
Speaker 2: which took place without losing the rhythm of a conversation.

116
00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,240
Speaker 2: Doctor Long's research consistently highlights that the spiritual content of

117
00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:11,560
Speaker 2: these experiences is uniform around the globe. Experiences overwhelmingly report

118
00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:16,040
Speaker 2: an environment of unconditional love and a total absence of

119
00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:20,520
Speaker 2: earthly judgment. Brent experienced exactly this. He wrote, there was

120
00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,640
Speaker 2: no judgment whatsoever. It allowed me to see my life

121
00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,200
Speaker 2: through the eyes of love and wisdom, beyond anything I

122
00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:34,199
Speaker 2: could comprehend. Before. Even my biggest mistakes had been perfect.

123
00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,720
Speaker 2: I saw them as the key ingredient in the experience

124
00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:44,600
Speaker 2: of unfolding salvation. Jesus showed Brent the interconnected network of

125
00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:49,240
Speaker 2: all of life, explaining that humanity shares a vast field

126
00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:55,199
Speaker 2: of consciousness. Deeply rooted human beliefs act like computer programs

127
00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,240
Speaker 2: that dictate our physical reality. Brent says, our beliefs are

128
00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,840
Speaker 2: like that web of programs. They are the programs of

129
00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,480
Speaker 2: life itself, dictating the height, the width, and depth of

130
00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:11,800
Speaker 2: our mortal experiences. They are the boundaries of life as

131
00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:15,320
Speaker 2: we understand it, and the force that is responsible for

132
00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:20,120
Speaker 2: creating the appearance of separation from the light. Jesus showed

133
00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,120
Speaker 2: Brent that to change the world, we don't need to

134
00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:26,679
Speaker 2: fight it with fear. We just need to unplug from

135
00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,959
Speaker 2: those negative programs and rewrite our inner code through the

136
00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,079
Speaker 2: actual experience of love. Bren's journey wasn't over. Brent passed

137
00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,120
Speaker 2: through another veil into a more expansive state of joy.

138
00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,120
Speaker 2: He felt he was with the presence of God, a

139
00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,520
Speaker 2: love so tender it shattered his previous religious notions of

140
00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:51,840
Speaker 2: a tough, judging creator. Then he said, he was brought

141
00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,080
Speaker 2: into the presence of a heavenly Mother. Never had I

142
00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,360
Speaker 2: felt such a perfect and complete love as I did

143
00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:02,559
Speaker 2: in the embrace from Mother. I was finally whole, complete.

144
00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:06,840
Speaker 2: I needed nothing else. Because Brent had such an inquiring mind,

145
00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,640
Speaker 2: he got a tour of Heaven. He saw heavenly gardens,

146
00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,840
Speaker 2: an intelligent light that exists throughout all things, and God

147
00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,880
Speaker 2: showed Brent that Heaven is very close to earth and

148
00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,480
Speaker 2: that the same physics of spirit apply here on earth.

149
00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:27,600
Speaker 2: He realized that true prayer isn't about begging an external

150
00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:32,560
Speaker 2: God using empty words. True prayer is a principle of power.

151
00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,880
Speaker 2: It is feeling the emotion of what you want to

152
00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:41,000
Speaker 2: create so deeply that your heart actually expands with gratitude,

153
00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:45,800
Speaker 2: and then completely letting go. But the most scientifically important

154
00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,360
Speaker 2: parts of Brent's experience, the part that aligns perfectly with

155
00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:54,160
Speaker 2: doctor Jeffrey Long's rigorous clinical evidence, happened right before Brent

156
00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:57,840
Speaker 2: returned to his body. In his research. Doctor Long states

157
00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:01,599
Speaker 2: that one of the absolute strongest roofs of the afterlife

158
00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,920
Speaker 2: is verifiable out of body observations. When a person's consciousness

159
00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:10,040
Speaker 2: is outside their physical body, they often see or hear

160
00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,080
Speaker 2: things happening far away, and those events are later proven

161
00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,040
Speaker 2: to be one hundred percent accurate. As Brent was floating

162
00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,640
Speaker 2: in the light, he was suddenly shown a friend of

163
00:11:20,640 --> 00:11:25,199
Speaker 2: his back on Earth. She was inside a temple tearfully

164
00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:30,199
Speaker 2: pleading with God in prayer over some very specific questions.

165
00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:33,760
Speaker 2: Brent was given the direct answer to her prayer and

166
00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,839
Speaker 2: instructed by God to share it with her. He communicated

167
00:11:37,840 --> 00:11:41,800
Speaker 2: the words to her energetically through the veil. A few

168
00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,120
Speaker 2: days later, after Brent had recovered, he tracked down this friend.

169
00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:50,400
Speaker 2: He asked her about that specific day and time. She

170
00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:53,199
Speaker 2: confirmed it. She said she had been in that temple

171
00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:58,840
Speaker 2: crying and praying about those exact questions, and confirmed she

172
00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,800
Speaker 2: had suddenly received a profound and comforting answer. So for

173
00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:07,400
Speaker 2: the skeptics looking for hard facts, that's an important detail.

174
00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:12,640
Speaker 2: A hallucination cannot happen inside a dying brain and know

175
00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,080
Speaker 2: something that's going on miles away. Listen into a private

176
00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:22,200
Speaker 2: prayer in an exact location, transmit an emotional answer, and

177
00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,079
Speaker 2: have that exact sequence of events verified by another person.

178
00:12:26,559 --> 00:12:30,520
Speaker 2: It requires a consciousness that is entirely independent of the

179
00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:35,360
Speaker 2: physical body. It requires the soul. And Brent's story is

180
00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,040
Speaker 2: just one of thousands and thousands documented on the enderf

181
00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,120
Speaker 2: dot org website. But the next story we're going to

182
00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,960
Speaker 2: hear challenges the argument of our adult consciousness because the

183
00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,640
Speaker 2: person having the near death experience wasn't an adult at all.

184
00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:54,040
Speaker 2: She was only five years old. We'll explore her story

185
00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,360
Speaker 2: right after the break. We'll be right back. You're listening

186
00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:01,040
Speaker 2: to Shades of the Afterlife on the Iheartraate and Coast

187
00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:24,880
Speaker 2: to cost Am Pirinormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades

188
00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:29,920
Speaker 2: of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Whenever a skeptic attempts

189
00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:34,080
Speaker 2: to explain a near death experience, they always say it's

190
00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,120
Speaker 2: got something to do with our cultural conditioning. They argue

191
00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:42,360
Speaker 2: that people see in their NDEs what they've been taught

192
00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,920
Speaker 2: to believe throughout their lives. They claim that an adult

193
00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:50,640
Speaker 2: having a near death experience is simply hallucinating, shaped by

194
00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:56,840
Speaker 2: religious upbringings, movies, books, or stories they've heard before. According

195
00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:00,760
Speaker 2: to that theory that dying brain is simply projected a

196
00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:05,200
Speaker 2: comforting and familiar fantasy before it shuts down. But as

197
00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:09,960
Speaker 2: we continue to look at radiation oncologists doctor Jeffrey Long's

198
00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:14,320
Speaker 2: work he takes that argument head on by studying a

199
00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:19,520
Speaker 2: very specific group of people, very young children. Doctor Long

200
00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:23,560
Speaker 2: and his team have studied the near death experiences of

201
00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:28,520
Speaker 2: children under the age of five. These are toddlers and

202
00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,720
Speaker 2: very young children who simply have not had the time

203
00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:37,040
Speaker 2: to be culturally programmed about life and death. They haven't

204
00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:41,120
Speaker 2: read books about Jesus or heaven, and they haven't formed

205
00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:47,000
Speaker 2: expectations about what the afterlife is supposed to be like. Yet,

206
00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:51,280
Speaker 2: doctor Long's clinical data shows that the near death experiences

207
00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:56,240
Speaker 2: of these young children contain the exact same highly structured

208
00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:02,560
Speaker 2: elements reported by adults. They describe leaving their bodies, entering

209
00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:08,080
Speaker 2: an environment filled with love and light, the encounter loving

210
00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:14,320
Speaker 2: spiritual beings, and they often meet deceased relatives. The structure

211
00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,600
Speaker 2: of the experience is consistent, and the next story I'm

212
00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:21,640
Speaker 2: about to share with you is an example of this

213
00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:26,640
Speaker 2: phenomena because the person having this experience was only five

214
00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,440
Speaker 2: years old. Gina lives in Sweden, and as a young child,

215
00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:36,320
Speaker 2: she endured something no child should ever have to experience.

216
00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:41,880
Speaker 2: She was subjected to severe abuse. The trauma became so

217
00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,640
Speaker 2: overwhelming that her physical body simply gave out, and she

218
00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:51,240
Speaker 2: experienced two separate near death experiences, one at the age

219
00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:53,840
Speaker 2: of five and the other at the age of seven.

220
00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,760
Speaker 2: Here's what Gina described happened when she was just five

221
00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:02,520
Speaker 2: years old, during a very terrified moment, she wrote, Suddenly

222
00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,400
Speaker 2: I left my body and found myself up in a

223
00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,080
Speaker 2: corner of the room. I saw everything that was happening

224
00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:12,440
Speaker 2: to me, but I felt no pain. I saw everything

225
00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,920
Speaker 2: that was happening from the perspective of being up in

226
00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,880
Speaker 2: the corner of the room. I noticed that the people

227
00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:22,880
Speaker 2: in the room became upset and terrified. There was screaming

228
00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:26,920
Speaker 2: and shouting, and I saw myself stop breathing, and that

229
00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:31,440
Speaker 2: same moment, I was drawn upward, backward, and away from

230
00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,600
Speaker 2: the room. Then I found myself in a light so

231
00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:38,520
Speaker 2: bright it has no equal, and yet I was not blinded.

232
00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:44,360
Speaker 2: Everything there was so alive. There were trees, flowers, and grass.

233
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,720
Speaker 2: Everything was so alive, and it was if everything was

234
00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:53,280
Speaker 2: speaking to me. I could hear nature, and I experienced

235
00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,960
Speaker 2: it so intensely. At the same time, I was in

236
00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,000
Speaker 2: a love without words, to just be in it, float

237
00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:04,800
Speaker 2: around in it, be completely wrapped in it. A love

238
00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,800
Speaker 2: without beginning and without end, so strong that it cannot

239
00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:12,360
Speaker 2: be captured in words. It was a love that surpasses

240
00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,040
Speaker 2: all understanding. And I want to add a side note

241
00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:20,560
Speaker 2: here from myself, Sandra. I've interviewed hundreds of people who

242
00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:24,160
Speaker 2: have had near death experiences, and even if they happened

243
00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:28,040
Speaker 2: when they were very small, they still remember them like

244
00:17:28,119 --> 00:17:32,600
Speaker 2: they were yesterday, more clear than any memory they've ever

245
00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:36,840
Speaker 2: had in their life. And another interesting thing is people

246
00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:41,719
Speaker 2: who have had near death experiences have absolutely no fear

247
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,560
Speaker 2: of dying, and that's been tested. So let's continue with Gina.

248
00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:50,680
Speaker 2: She said, with me very close was a being of light.

249
00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:54,119
Speaker 2: I saw him his face, and it was if he

250
00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:57,040
Speaker 2: has always been there with me, but it was me

251
00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,760
Speaker 2: there discovering him. He's smiled child and swept around in

252
00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:05,680
Speaker 2: a three hundred and sixty degree circle with his whole being,

253
00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,160
Speaker 2: as if to show me all these amazing things, all

254
00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:13,000
Speaker 2: that is alive and all that exists. Then the being

255
00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,600
Speaker 2: of light led her to a magnificent cherry tree in

256
00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:20,600
Speaker 2: full bloom, and sitting under that tree was someone She

257
00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,320
Speaker 2: immediately recognized. It was her grandmother, her grandmother who had

258
00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,520
Speaker 2: died a year before in a tragic collision with a truck.

259
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,480
Speaker 2: And then the Being of Light reached down to the

260
00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,679
Speaker 2: trunk of the cherry tree and picked up something that

261
00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:38,880
Speaker 2: appeared to be glowing, a sphere, something meant to help

262
00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,840
Speaker 2: her survive the pain when she returned to earth, Gina says,

263
00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,639
Speaker 2: at the trunk of the tree, there was something like

264
00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:51,520
Speaker 2: a circle, glowing, a color like fire, but clearer and

265
00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,399
Speaker 2: with stronger colors. The Being of Light bent down and

266
00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:59,440
Speaker 2: picked up the glowing orb. It crackled as it shined.

267
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:04,040
Speaker 2: I felt like love coming from the fire. He handed

268
00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,040
Speaker 2: me the orb and I accepted it. He said, you

269
00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:12,639
Speaker 2: need this, I will follow you back. She said, what, Back?

270
00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:17,159
Speaker 2: Back to what? I don't understand. Then I felt myself

271
00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:21,600
Speaker 2: back in my body. I felt myself breathing, I felt pain,

272
00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:27,359
Speaker 2: and I felt the orb inside me, burning with reality, presence,

273
00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,199
Speaker 2: and indescribable love. Two years later, at the age of seven,

274
00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 2: Gina found herself in another unbearable moment of abuse. Once again,

275
00:19:37,560 --> 00:19:40,080
Speaker 2: she found the life draining out of her body and

276
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,600
Speaker 2: instantly she was back in that same realm of love.

277
00:19:44,119 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 2: She said, the realization came to me that I was back,

278
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,880
Speaker 2: and I didn't understand, but I felt happy beyond words.

279
00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,880
Speaker 2: As I was connected to the love and the light.

280
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,480
Speaker 2: There was no separation between us. I was bathed in

281
00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,680
Speaker 2: the light, in the love. I am part of everything.

282
00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:05,080
Speaker 2: That Being of Light was there again, this time he

283
00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,040
Speaker 2: was accompanied by other spiritual beings. Gina told the Being

284
00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,880
Speaker 2: of Light that she could not handle what she had

285
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,600
Speaker 2: to do back on earth. She told him that she

286
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,200
Speaker 2: had made mistakes and that she did not have the

287
00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,360
Speaker 2: strength to keep going. His response surprised her. He told her,

288
00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,280
Speaker 2: you are a human being, you are a child. Play

289
00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,439
Speaker 2: So I ran, I jumped, and I swung. There were

290
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,200
Speaker 2: lots of children there. We had a fantastic time. We

291
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,240
Speaker 2: fell off the swings and the beautiful garden, yet no

292
00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:39,479
Speaker 2: one got hurt. We climbed all the trees, We swam

293
00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,920
Speaker 2: in the most amazing waters. We even flew, We danced,

294
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 2: and everything was done in love. After letting her experience

295
00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,920
Speaker 2: the pure joy of childhood on the other side that

296
00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 2: had been taken away from her on Earth, the Being

297
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,240
Speaker 2: of Light brought her back to that cherry tree. Then

298
00:20:57,280 --> 00:20:59,640
Speaker 2: he showed her the fire ore, but she had received

299
00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 2: two years earlier. Gina said, he made it more sharper, clearer,

300
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 2: more shining, and this time glowing gold. It was as

301
00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:12,440
Speaker 2: if it was getting more energy. The orb became even

302
00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,840
Speaker 2: more beautiful. Everything is in here, and in you is everything.

303
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 2: Do not be afraid. In you, I am always, This

304
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:26,639
Speaker 2: is yours for you. He placed his hand on the

305
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,800
Speaker 2: fire orb, and it was back in me, as if

306
00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,919
Speaker 2: sealing it within me, And then I was back in

307
00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,320
Speaker 2: my body. Experiences like Gina's challenged the idea that near

308
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,919
Speaker 2: death experiences are simply shaped by expectation or belief. But

309
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 2: what if the person experiencing the reality of the afterlife

310
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 2: isn't the one who is doing the dying. Our next

311
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:52,880
Speaker 2: story raises that exact question. Skeptics argue that near death

312
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,880
Speaker 2: experiences are simply the dying brain releasing chemicals to comfort

313
00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 2: itself during its final moments, but doctor Jeffrey Long research

314
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,960
Speaker 2: highlights another category of evidence that is very difficult to

315
00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 2: explain using that theory, verifiable after death communication. In these cases,

316
00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 2: someone who is completely alive receives information from a deceased

317
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 2: loved one that they had absolutely no way of knowing.

318
00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 2: And this is exactly what happened to a woman named Penny.

319
00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 2: Penny was around thirty years old when her grandfather was

320
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:30,680
Speaker 2: in the hospital terminally ill with cancer. He asked Penny's

321
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,800
Speaker 2: mother to call her and tell her to come to

322
00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 2: the hospital. Penny rushed there, and a few hours later,

323
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,160
Speaker 2: her grandfather passed away, with both Penny and her mother

324
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 2: standing right beside him. Eventually, Penny had to leave the hospital,

325
00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,000
Speaker 2: but her mother stayed behind a while to sit with

326
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,600
Speaker 2: his body and say goodbye. Penny had no idea what

327
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 2: happened in the room after she left. About two months later,

328
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:58,359
Speaker 2: Penny had an experience that would change everything. She said,

329
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 2: I fell asleep one night, but then I was half

330
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:05,199
Speaker 2: awake when suddenly my grandfather was sitting next to me

331
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 2: on my bed. It was real, and it still feels

332
00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 2: like it was very real. She found herself walking with

333
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 2: her grandfather on his beloved golf course, but he no

334
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:20,240
Speaker 2: longer looked sick. He looked healthy. She said. The entire

335
00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:25,120
Speaker 2: environment felt incredibly real. It was liberating and light, filled

336
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 2: with love and relief and the sadness and loss of

337
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,080
Speaker 2: my grandfather disappeared. During this encounter with him, he told

338
00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:37,199
Speaker 2: her something comforting. He was telling me that he was

339
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 2: fine now and where he was it was so much

340
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,880
Speaker 2: better than where he had been on earth. He joked

341
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:47,240
Speaker 2: and said, in his very normal, lovely sense of humor,

342
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 2: it's so much better now than it feels when you

343
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,880
Speaker 2: are alive. Believe me. But Penny wondered how she could

344
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,560
Speaker 2: know this experience was real, so she asked her grandfather,

345
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 2: and he gave her a specific anm Sir, he told me,

346
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 2: straight away, remember the number sixteen dash eighty dash zero eight,

347
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,280
Speaker 2: and go tell your mother. It's to do with the

348
00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 2: hospital visit you both had with me. She will know why.

349
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: When Penny woke up, the number was burned into her mind.

350
00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,440
Speaker 2: Sixteen dash eighty dash zero eight. She called her mother

351
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:28,640
Speaker 2: and shared her dream. Then her mother went very quiet,

352
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 2: and she explained why. After Penny had left the hospital

353
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 2: that night, her mother had secretly removed his hospital wristband

354
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,960
Speaker 2: and taken it home with her. On that wristband was

355
00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:47,680
Speaker 2: the number sixteen dash eighty dash zero eight. Penny had

356
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,199
Speaker 2: never seen it, yet somehow her grandfather knew stories like

357
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 2: this are why Doctor Jeffrey Long says the evidence for

358
00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 2: survival of consciousness deserves serious att because when cases contain

359
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:07,240
Speaker 2: verifiable details like this, they raise a profound question. If

360
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 2: consciousness ends when the brain stops, how could information like

361
00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 2: that be communicated at all. It's time for our break,

362
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 2: but when we get back, we're going to look at

363
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,399
Speaker 2: a case involving a man who received knowledge during his

364
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 2: experience that may have saved his own life. We'll be

365
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 2: right back. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on

366
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network.

367
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain,

368
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 2: and today we are looking at some of the clinical

369
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 2: research of radiation oncologist doctor Jeffrey Long and his evidence

370
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: that scientifically support the survival of human consciousness. Doctor Long

371
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 2: is the author of the great book Evidence of the Afterlife,

372
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 2: The Science of Near Death Experiences. Next, doctor Long points

373
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 2: out something very important from a medical perspective. During a

374
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 2: severe medical crisis, such as a cardiac arrest or a

375
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 2: massive stroke, the brain becomes highly impaired. It is starved

376
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 2: of oxygen. Under normal biological conditions, memory formation should be

377
00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: extremely difficult or even impossible. A dying, oxygen starved brain

378
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 2: should not be able to produce a clear, structured narrative experience,

379
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 2: and yet many near death experiencers return with vivid, detailed

380
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 2: memories of what happened while their bodies were in crisis.

381
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,240
Speaker 2: Even more fascinating, some of them returned with specific knowledge

382
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 2: they had absolutely no way of knowing before the event.

383
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 2: And the next story is an example of this phenomena.

384
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 2: It involves a man named Brian, and the knowledge he

385
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 2: brought back from his experience may have literally saved his life.

386
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 2: Brian describes himself as an omnist, someone who believes truth

387
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 2: can be found across many spiritual traditions. When he was younger,

388
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 2: Brian spent years exploring different paths. He studied with Buddhist monks, Sufis, Hindus,

389
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: and Native American medicine people, always searching for a deeper

390
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 2: understanding of life and spirituality. But as time passed, the

391
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 2: stress of everyday life began to take its toll. By

392
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 2: the time he reached his early forties, Brian was working

393
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: a demanding corporate job. He was drinking multiple energy drinks

394
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 2: every day, plus eating an unhealthy diet, and carrying around

395
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 2: far more weight than his body could handle. In his

396
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 2: own words, his body had become a ticking time bomb,

397
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: and on July ninth, twenty eighteen, that bomb went off.

398
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 2: I'm going to read Brian's exact words describing the terrifying

399
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 2: beginning of his massive stroke. He said, I was chomping

400
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 2: down on an extra large chicken, bacon, onion and barbecue

401
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 2: pizza while chugging on my two liter bottle of Sierra Misted.

402
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 2: Halfway through eating, a sharp pain hit me in the

403
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 2: lower right side under my ribs. I was getting increasingly

404
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 2: lightheaded and dizzy, and breathing was getting more laborious by

405
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: the minute. After an hour or so, I asked my

406
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 2: now ex wife to take me to the hospital. Reluctantly

407
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 2: she did, while laughing it off as indigestion. I got

408
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 2: out of the car and walked inside the hospital. As

409
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 2: she drove off, she left me at the emergency room entrance,

410
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 2: gasping for breath. I was alone and scared, and I

411
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 2: knew that I needed some serious assistance. I staggered into

412
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: the hospital, and at this point the tunnel vision was

413
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 2: so bad I could hardly see four feet in front

414
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 2: of me. I could hear my heartbeat intensely thundering within

415
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 2: my ear drums, and the whole world was fading away quickly.

416
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 2: I had to focus very hard to walk, to see,

417
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 2: and to think. Brian managed to lift his hand and

418
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,959
Speaker 2: point toward a nurse pushing a gurney, trying to signal

419
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 2: that he needed help, but before he could say anything more,

420
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: his body collapsed onto the hospital floor. In that exact moment,

421
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:42,200
Speaker 2: his physical brain was shutting down. During this massive cardiovascular event,

422
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: something extraordinary happened, he said. His consciousness expanded at that moment.

423
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 2: I felt what I could only describe as a rip

424
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,479
Speaker 2: or a tear. Maybe. I felt like my whole body

425
00:29:55,720 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: had been greatly shaken and also almost electrified. I felt

426
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: forcefully pulled from my body, much like how doctor Strange's

427
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 2: soul was punched from his body in his movie. I

428
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 2: saw my soul self leave my physical self. I was

429
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 2: now watching the back of my head and then my

430
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 2: body fall forward and hit the floor. As I looked

431
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 2: down at myself but without eyes, Brian quickly realized something profound.

432
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 2: The cord connecting him to his physical body was gone.

433
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 2: Medical staff rushed toward his physical body, but his awareness

434
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:38,480
Speaker 2: remained completely separate from it. He said, I also quickly

435
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,959
Speaker 2: understood something that reaches into the far crevices of who

436
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 2: and what I am as a spirit. I immediately knew

437
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 2: that I had been in this form many times before.

438
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 2: I knew that the Brian body was just temporary, and

439
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 2: that in this form I was the real me. This

440
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 2: feeling or knowing was stronger than having any deja vu

441
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 2: feeling that I've ever had before. Instead of fear, Brian

442
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 2: felt something different. An overwhelming sense of familiarity and love

443
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 2: surrounded him. Then a brilliant being appeared beside him. Brian

444
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:20,200
Speaker 2: recognized this presence instantly. He described it as a combination

445
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 2: of his higher self, a guardian angel, and God. Because

446
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 2: Brian had spent years studying different spiritual traditions, he began

447
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 2: asking questions. It asked me, without using any actual words,

448
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 2: So you have questions, I see, go ahead and ask

449
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 2: I can hear my thoughts too? This is telepathy. Playfully

450
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: with glee, it stared at me, waiting, Are you God?

451
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 2: I asked, it replied always, Yet this answer I could

452
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,000
Speaker 2: tell was not yet complete. Are you also Jesus? I

453
00:31:54,080 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 2: inquired respectfully, and innocently, it smiled playfully. Sometimes I pause, thought,

454
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 2: are you also Buddha? I could feel its joyous peace

455
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: before it even answered. It replied, also, yes, of course,

456
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,479
Speaker 2: great question. I was now getting it. You are also

457
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: Krishna and Allah, aren't you? It replied? And more you

458
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: are remembering quickly, this time smiling even more playfully. Brian

459
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 2: began to understand that the divine presence was far larger

460
00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: than any single religion. It appeared in whatever form a

461
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 2: soul could recognize and understand. As this encounter continued, Brian

462
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 2: said knowledge began flooding into his awareness at an incredible pace.

463
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 2: At one point, he asked something very practical. If he

464
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 2: returned to his body, what could he do to stay alive?

465
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 2: The answer he received was surprisingly specific, water, aspirin and

466
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 2: citrus peals. Then Brian's awareness shifted again. He described it

467
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 2: as if his consciousness periscoped upward into a higher plane

468
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 2: of existence. Brian saw thousands of souls who had just died.

469
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 2: Many of them appeared confused. People who had just passed

470
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 2: away suddenly in accidents or hospitals. He could hear their

471
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 2: voices calling out an elderly man searching for his wife,

472
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: a young girl confused after an accident, a teenager filled

473
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 2: with sorrow. But they were not alone. Brian looked upward

474
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 2: and saw enormous angelic beings made entirely out of light.

475
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 2: These beings were moving among the newly arrived souls, comforting them,

476
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 2: calming them, and helping them understand what had just happened.

477
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 2: Brian said, above me, on this newer plane were much

478
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: larger entities than the guide I had met coming here.

479
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 2: They were calming the in between people down, answering their cries,

480
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 2: reassuring them, sending them love good vibes, and caring for

481
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 2: them and assisting their souls for their next mission. And

482
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 2: then something even more astonishing happened. Brian suddenly realized he

483
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 2: had been there before. He said, I was now reeling

484
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 2: with a flood of memories. My spirit said, I know

485
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 2: this place. I used to be one of them for

486
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 2: a time. Now I remember I chose to be Brian

487
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,240
Speaker 2: this time, I used to be one of these helpers

488
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 2: and guides. Suddenly, one of the massive angelic beings looked

489
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 2: directly at him. It recognized him. Brian said. It pointed

490
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 2: at me much like an old close friend would across

491
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: a dance floor. It stated, bro, what the heck are

492
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 2: you doing here right now? It's not your time yet.

493
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 2: Brian replied, I know. Can you help me get back

494
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 2: to my mission as Brian? The beings explained that humanity

495
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 2: was struggling and that people needed help waking up spiritually.

496
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 2: And then something unusual happened. The second angelic being returned

497
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: carrying a sa of intense swirling light. Brian said, the

498
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:08,279
Speaker 2: second entity suddenly reappeared and he had something that I

499
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 2: would describe as being bigger than the size of a

500
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 2: bowling ball, made of an intense violet, red and white light.

501
00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 2: It was a fiery swirl of powerful energy. It said

502
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 2: to me, you told me to give this to you

503
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: if you ever came back here too soon. You knew

504
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 2: this was going to happen. You planned it. He threw

505
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 2: this ball at me fast and hard, and it hit

506
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 2: my soul right in my spirit chest. And that is

507
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:38,400
Speaker 2: the moment I opened my actual eyes as Brian again.

508
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: Brian woke up on a hospital gurney. A nurse was

509
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 2: rubbing his sternum. The nurse explained what had happened. Brian

510
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,719
Speaker 2: had suffered a massive stroke. Doctors had broken up the

511
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,240
Speaker 2: main clot, but three additional blood clots were still moving

512
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 2: through his body, one toward his brain, one toward his lungs,

513
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: and one heading straight for his heart. They were prepared

514
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: him for immediate open heart surgery, and this is where

515
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 2: Brian remembered the instructions he had received during his experience.

516
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 2: In an instant, I remembered a few chapters of what

517
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 2: I had learned from my questions in the spirit realm.

518
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 2: I put my hand on his as he slid the

519
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 2: needle into my IV line, ready to push the plunger.

520
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,280
Speaker 2: I sternly said, no, don't give me that shot. I refuse.

521
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: I know what I need to do. Take me to

522
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 2: a private room immediately. I need a lot of water,

523
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 2: I need a few aspirin and all the citrus fruit

524
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 2: that you can bring me. The hospital staff, of course,

525
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 2: thought this request was extremely unusual, but Brian refused the

526
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 2: surgery and signed a liability waiver. They brought him pictures

527
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 2: of water, aspirin, and bowls of lemons, limes and grapefruits.

528
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 2: Brian crushed the aspirin into the water and drank it.

529
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: Then he began chewing the citrus peels minutes later, the

530
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 2: monitors around his bed flatlined. A clot had hit his heart.

531
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,919
Speaker 2: Doctors rushed in with a defibrillator, but before they could

532
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 2: use it, Brian's body reacted. He said, I instinctively started coughing.

533
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: I felt a squish pop in my chest, as if

534
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 2: a clot entered my heart, and then another pop squish

535
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 2: as it left. My heart restarted, leaving the staff stunned.

536
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 2: Three days later, Brian walked out of the hospital with

537
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 2: only minor side effects. From a medical standpoint, this case

538
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 2: raises a fascinating question. If Brian's brain was severely impaired

539
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 2: during that stroke, where did that knowledge come from. Experiences

540
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 2: like this are part of the growing evidence that doctor

541
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:48,840
Speaker 2: Long has documented suggesting that our consciousness may operate independently

542
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: of our brains. In our final segment, we're going to

543
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 2: explore one of the most interesting parts of our near

544
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 2: death experiences, something we've heard of called the life review.

545
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. You're listening to Shades of the

546
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 2: Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal

547
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 2: Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm

548
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 2: Sandra Champlain and if you want to read thousands of

549
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: true stories from experiencers and visit my favorite new website,

550
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 2: MDERF dot org. Also check out doctor Jeffrey Long's book

551
00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 2: called Evidence of the Afterlife. You may also enjoy reading

552
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 2: his prize winning essay on the website Bigelowinstitute dot org.

553
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 2: Throughout his decades of studying these experiences, doctor Long identified

554
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: one of the most famous and one of the most

555
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 2: scientifically baffling phenomena of the afterlife. It's called the life review.

556
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 2: If near death experiences were simply the result of a

557
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 2: dying physical brain flashing through its own stored memories, the

558
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 2: person would only experience their memories from their own first

559
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 2: person perspective, right. But that's not what happens. Doctor Long

560
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 2: shows that experiencers do not just watch their lives play back.

561
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:30,000
Speaker 2: They actively experience their past actions from the perspective of

562
00:39:30,080 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 2: the other people involved. Furthermore, doctor Long's research highlights the

563
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 2: complete collapse of earthly time during these events. Experiencers frequently

564
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 2: report living through massive, sprawling timelines and what equates to

565
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,919
Speaker 2: only seconds or minutes of physical Earth time. To show

566
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 2: you how profound and scientifically unexplainable this is, I want

567
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 2: to share the story of a young man named Tyler.

568
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:05,920
Speaker 2: Tyler's experience is as a spiritually transformative experience. It happened unexpectedly.

569
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 2: Tyler was hanging out with some friends on a totally

570
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,880
Speaker 2: normal night. He said. We were at a table, cards

571
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 2: in hand, music, low laughter, bubbling beneath the haze of

572
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 2: passing a joint. It was just another night in a

573
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: quiet house. There were no warnings, no signs. Then another

574
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 2: joint entered the rotation and made its way to me.

575
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 2: I took a single hit. In that instant, my reality

576
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 2: began to unravel. Tyler's consciousness was suddenly and violently ejected

577
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,760
Speaker 2: from his physical body. He described it in his own words,

578
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 2: reality shattered, The world folded inward, the tunnel closed, My

579
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: body collapsed. To others in the room, it looked like chaos.

580
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:56,000
Speaker 2: I hit the floor. My body convulsed. I slammed into chairs,

581
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,880
Speaker 2: the table, and the hardward floor, as if something ancient

582
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:04,680
Speaker 2: and uncontrollable had taken over me. My friend screened my name,

583
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 2: but I didn't hear him because I wasn't there. While

584
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 2: his friends panicked over his convulsive physical body, Tyler's consciousness

585
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 2: was thrust into an incredibly vivid, intelligent reality. I was

586
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 2: gone and not dreaming or hallucinating. My consciousness had split.

587
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 2: Tyler found himself in a place that he said felt

588
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: more real than reality itself. I stood in a vast

589
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 2: blue and white expanse, surrounded by a black geometric grid

590
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 2: stretching infinitely in every direction. Above it all, a radiant

591
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 2: white light pulsed like the heartbeat of the universe. And

592
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 2: somehow I knew that light was home. It wasn't just

593
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,920
Speaker 2: a direction, it was a destiny, and knowing I felt

594
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 2: it pulling at every part of my being. I understood

595
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: that all I had to do was spin like a

596
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 2: spiral in space and launch upward like a rocket, and

597
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 2: I would be free. But something held me back. Before

598
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 2: Tyler could move toward that radiant light, the black geometric

599
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,840
Speaker 2: grid around him expanded and unfolded, looking like a massive,

600
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 2: divine neural network. And then his life review began. I

601
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 2: relived every moment of my life, but not from my

602
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 2: own perspective. I experienced it from every point of view.

603
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 2: I was my mother holding me for the first time.

604
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 2: I was the stranger I bumped into on the street.

605
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 2: I was the friend I failed to call back. I

606
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: was the enemy. I had judged without compassion. Every emotion,

607
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: every word, every choice I had ever made, rippled outward

608
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 2: like a sacred equation, revealing itself before me. So if

609
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 2: we look at this logically, it destroys the dying brain theory.

610
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:02,040
Speaker 2: A brain can't randomly hallucinate the exact emotional state of

611
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 2: a stranger on the street or the internal pain of

612
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 2: a friend that you didn't call back. It requires a

613
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 2: consciousness that is entirely interconnected with the fabric of all

614
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 2: of life. But Tyler's experience went even further than his

615
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 2: actual past. The intelligence of the light showed him the

616
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,839
Speaker 2: sprawling nature of time itself. Tyler said, I saw the

617
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 2: alternate timelines, the endless what ifs. What if I stayed,

618
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 2: what if I had forgiven? What if I had chosen differently,

619
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:40,400
Speaker 2: Each potential decision split off into infinite lives, and I

620
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,880
Speaker 2: experienced them all. These weren't dreams or fantasies. They were real.

621
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 2: I lived a thousand lives in what must have been

622
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:53,840
Speaker 2: only three earth minutes. No time existed, There was only consciousness,

623
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 2: only truth. Let's really think about the sheer computing power

624
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 2: required to simulate one thousand alternate lifetimes to feel the

625
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 2: emotional weight, the ripple effects, and the precise consequences of

626
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 2: every single choice we make, all happening simultaneously Biologically, a

627
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 2: physical brain that is seizing, a brain that is in

628
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 2: the middle of a major medical crisis does not have

629
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 2: the capacity to process that staggering volume of data. It

630
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 2: should be confused and chaotic. Instead, Tyler's consciousness was operating

631
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:32,200
Speaker 2: with a hyperlucid, god like clarity. Doctor Long points out

632
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 2: that this is a hallmark of the near death experience.

633
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 2: The life review is never a courtroom. There is no

634
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 2: judge handing down a painful sentence. Instead, it is the

635
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 2: ultimate educational tool for the soul. It shows us that

636
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 2: every single interaction we have on earth, no matter how

637
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 2: incredibly small it seems, matters. The way we treat a

638
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: stranger on the street, the grace we give our enemies,

639
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 2: the forgiveness we withhold, it all ripples out into the

640
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 2: universe because we are literally connected to each other. Processing

641
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 2: all of this, Tyler looked toward the radiant white light

642
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,839
Speaker 2: above the grid. He said, it wasn't just brightness, it

643
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 2: was intelligence, It was compassion, it was eternity. I didn't

644
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,840
Speaker 2: see a being, but I felt its presence. It was

645
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 2: so loving and so vast that every word we use

646
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 2: for God suddenly felt small and insufficient. In that moment,

647
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:34,319
Speaker 2: I understood something essential. We are not our names. We

648
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 2: are not our mistakes. We are fragments of the infinite,

649
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 2: temporarily clothed in the skin and bound by gravity and time.

650
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:46,359
Speaker 2: I love that we are not our names, we are

651
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 2: not our mistakes. So Tyler realized that death is absolutely

652
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 2: nothing to fear. He said, it is something we are

653
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 2: meant to remember. And in that space I remembered everything.

654
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 2: But his time on Earth wasn't over. Tyler heard a faint,

655
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 2: powerful sound telling him to come back. It wasn't a

656
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 2: voice from the light, but the sound of his panicked

657
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 2: friend on Earth screaming his name. Tyler said, I snapped back,

658
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 2: like a soul crashing into glass. I slammed into my body.

659
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: Pain exploded in my head where I had been seizing.

660
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 2: My vision was blurred with static, and my muscles were weak.

661
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 2: I was back, and I knew it. I looked up

662
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 2: and saw my friend's face. His skin was pale, his

663
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,360
Speaker 2: eyes wide with fear. I met his gaze and the

664
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,839
Speaker 2: first words to leave my returned soul were I'm a

665
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 2: strong minded mother effort. He stared at me, then slowly

666
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,280
Speaker 2: nodded and whispered, dude, you sure are, And then he asked,

667
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 2: where the hell did you go. Tyler didn't keep this

668
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 2: a secret. He told his friend, He told everyone. He

669
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 2: drew the geometric grid he saw because the truth of

670
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:59,400
Speaker 2: that place was permanently etched onto his soul. Tyler said,

671
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,839
Speaker 2: here is the truth. Death is not an end, It

672
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 2: is a crossing. The body may fail, but the self awakens.

673
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 2: I did not lose who I was. I remembered who

674
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:14,320
Speaker 2: I had always been. I saw the ripple of every decision.

675
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 2: I felt the truth of my soul. And since my

676
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,719
Speaker 2: time was not yet done, I returned. But I came

677
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 2: back changed. I am wiser and more awake than ever before.

678
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 2: I was gone for only three minutes, but in that

679
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 2: space I lived lifetimes, and I returned with one unshakable truth.

680
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 2: I am not just alive. I am eternal, and the

681
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 2: light is always waiting. So friends, I hope we've all

682
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 2: gotten this message, whether it's on this episode or one

683
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 2: of my past. Death is not the end. We are eternal.

684
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 2: We are each powerful creators. Our lives are incredibly difficult,

685
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: but our consciousness, our soul, who we really are, We

686
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 2: are going to and have before survived physical death. Clinical

687
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 2: science is finally catching up with the spiritual truth, and

688
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 2: there are so many people actively involved in this. We

689
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 2: think scientifically minded people are not, but that's just an illusion.

690
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 2: There are plenty of medical folks and scientific folks actively

691
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 2: exploring our consciousness living beyond this physical life. I have

692
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 2: a small request. If these episodes make a difference for you,

693
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,440
Speaker 2: would you consider sharing them. If you follow me on

694
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 2: social media, you'll see I've been doing all kinds of

695
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:41,919
Speaker 2: videos sharing bits of wisdom from past episodes. We never

696
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 2: know who's going through a tough time right now, so

697
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 2: if it feels right to share one of them, or

698
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 2: just get into a conversation, what do you know about

699
00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 2: the life review or the light at the end of

700
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,799
Speaker 2: the tunnel, or a near death experience or have you

701
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 2: ever heard of deathbed visitations? It is human for each

702
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 2: one of us us to fear death, and at some

703
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 2: point in our life we go looking for answers, and

704
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 2: the answers are there and the comfort is there, but

705
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 2: sometimes it just takes a friend to share so that

706
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 2: we trust that we can live a better life. I

707
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 2: always say that there are three fears that we human share.

708
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 2: One is the fear of being alone, one is the

709
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,840
Speaker 2: fear of death, and the other is a fear of failure. Well, friends,

710
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 2: there's no way we can fail. Every failure is just

711
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:32,279
Speaker 2: an opportunity for growth. We don't die, Our consciousness will

712
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 2: live on, will be reunited with those we love. And

713
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 2: as for the fear of being alone, we can't see

714
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 2: them right now, but our loved ones are right around us,

715
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,759
Speaker 2: cheering us on. Don't forget to come visit me We

716
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 2: Don't Die dot Com Every Sunday on zoom i host

717
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 2: a free ninety minute non denominational, fun spiritual service with

718
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 2: medium demonstration included. We can get a free copy of

719
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 2: my book and listen to past up episodes we Don't

720
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 2: Die dot Com. Remember, your loved ones may be invisible

721
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 2: to your eyes, but they are cheering you on as

722
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 2: you navigate life. They are only a thought away, and you,

723
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 2: my friend, are more loved than you could ever imagine.

724
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 2: I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you so much for listening to

725
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 2: Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to

726
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 2: Coast am Paranormal Podcast Network.

727
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:39,560
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the iHeartRadio and Coast to Ghost

728
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: Day and Paranormal Podcast Network. Make sure and check out

729
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,919
Speaker 1: all our shows on the iHeartRadio app or by going

730
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: to iHeartRadio dot com