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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from coast to coast am on

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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio. Well, tell us what happened to you? Tell

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Speaker 1: us about this car accident? Oh gosh, okay, So December fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, I had just recently graduated from college

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Speaker 1: in South Carolina, and I was living in Charleston. Because

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Speaker 1: back back in those days, if you were still dating

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Speaker 1: the fella that you went to college with, you know,

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Speaker 1: your mom was picking out china patterns in crystal. Yeah, goblet,

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Speaker 1: getting ready to get you married. That's right, that's right,

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Speaker 1: good old Southern style. And so my my intended was

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Speaker 1: kind of migrated post graduation, and I was working for

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Speaker 1: a sign company and it was it was a wonderful

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Speaker 1: thing because with my big fat college degrees, I was

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Speaker 1: only work I could get. And it was truthfully the

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Speaker 1: best thing that ever happened to me because the people

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Speaker 1: Frank Entresa a Coin who owned it and mentored me there,

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Speaker 1: prepared me for life in a way that I couldn't expect.

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Speaker 1: And I was on my way to our Christmas party

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Speaker 1: And I was less than two miles away from my

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Speaker 1: on a major highway, Highway seventeen, and I sat at

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Speaker 1: the red light until it was my turn to go,

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Speaker 1: And when my light turned green, I was going across

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Speaker 1: there was a car coming at me. And they estimated

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Speaker 1: about seventy five miles an hour broadsided you right right,

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Speaker 1: right on the driver's side, or pass on the driver's side. Oh, jee, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're lucky. We're lucky you're here. But you weren't for

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Speaker 1: a while. Well I wasn't for wow. Yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: where it gets interesting, because, see, George, I'm a preacher's

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Speaker 1: daughter from the Bible belt of the South, and so

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Speaker 1: what proceeded to happen from that moment on literally rewrote

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Speaker 1: my my entire understanding of how we live as human beings.

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Speaker 1: Because everything I had been taught to believe about death

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Speaker 1: my face. It didn't happen that way. I was very

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Speaker 1: much so in control time literally stood still. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, I see that car barreling towards me, and

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Speaker 1: then it stopped. And I'm creeping through those next moments

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Speaker 1: and completely consciously aware of what's happening, and I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's time to die. And I was suddenly suddenly overtaken

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Speaker 1: with this awareness that I had done this so many

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Speaker 1: times before. And you know, obviously I didn't learn that

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, okay, well, I can choose this time

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Speaker 1: to stay in the body and feel that impact and man,

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Speaker 1: that's going to hurt because he's going fast, or I

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Speaker 1: can take off and watch the accident. So on this

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Speaker 1: go I took Option B, and next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: I am accompanied by this very bizarre frequency of a

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Speaker 1: very low drone that would I would liken it too.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever heard of bagpipes when it's getting ready,

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Speaker 1: the sound that was accompanying my spirit as I lifted

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Speaker 1: my own death. Oh my gosh. The car was mangled,

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Speaker 1: t bone, so I was. It was bent in half.

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Speaker 1: And what was so fascinating watching it is, you know,

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Speaker 1: It was like a little puppet and the seat folded

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Speaker 1: Oh no, no airbags. No, that was ninety one, That's

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Speaker 1: what I thought. Yeah, little a little Toyota Corolla. UM.

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Speaker 1: And as I watched it kind of just been like

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Speaker 1: leaving the body at that point. The best way I

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Speaker 1: I can describe to you what it's like to lead

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Speaker 1: Almost instantly? Oh? It was instant, yeah, and but enough

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Speaker 1: many years of studying this, writing about it, lecturing about it,

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Speaker 1: you begin to realize as that frequency played such a part,

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Speaker 1: because that's what's keeping the essence of me, the real

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Speaker 1: who I am, as the occupant of that body, keeping

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Speaker 1: me tethered to the body into the earth plane. Was

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Speaker 1: see them take your body in an ambulance to a hospital?

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Speaker 1: How close to I was gone? I was gone before

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Speaker 1: that happened. So I watched. What I got to see

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Speaker 1: very interesting, is I'm not bang dead, and then watching

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Speaker 1: I was dead, even because I was watching my car

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Speaker 1: get hit. I watched myself spin through the intersection. I

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Speaker 1: I watched him do that, and then there was another pitch,

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Speaker 1: turned into like an orchestra. I call it the music

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Speaker 1: they were part of me. And that was when I'm

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Speaker 1: in the next space wall. When you were in that area,

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Speaker 1: did you realize you were dead? Yes? Okay, so this

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Speaker 1: is this is kind of interesting. I've had a very

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Speaker 1: unusual life, you know, I've always had some unusual abilities

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Speaker 1: so not like that. It's like you're suddenly a lot smarter.

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Speaker 1: You're like, oh, oh gosh, that's right. That's how this works.

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Speaker 1: You are aware, aware of the life you've led, but

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Speaker 1: few really important things happened when I was kind of

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Speaker 1: this is where you'd expect the angels to arriveal these

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Speaker 1: angels didn't have wings. They were the most incredibly benevolent,

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Speaker 1: There always there in support. And so this was just

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Speaker 1: life review and so yes, there is the cliche life review.

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Speaker 1: But it's very different than what you might imagine because

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Speaker 1: Imax cinema. You're in the center and your life is

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Speaker 1: And so what's so interesting is that I'm watching myself

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Speaker 1: And what was interesting is when I was in the hospital,

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Speaker 1: not going to let you die. And I'm I'm screaming,

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Speaker 1: I've already been dead. I've already been exactly, and which

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Speaker 1: is because when those beings came to my father and

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