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I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been on a journey to prove the existence of life after death. On each episode, and we'll discuss the reasons we now know that our loved ones have survived physical death and so will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm home today with a cough and a cold that snuggled under the covers, So today you're going to hear four very interesting experiences, one shared death experience, and three near death experiences. I'm going to let them do most of the talking. Here's our first one. Meet Lisa.

I'm Sandra Champlain. For over twenty five years, I've been on a journey to prove the existence of life after death. On each episode, and we'll discuss the reasons we now know that our loved ones have survived physical death and so will we. Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm home today with a cough and a cold that snuggled under the covers, So today you're going to hear four very interesting experiences, one shared death experience, and three near death experiences. I'm going to let them do most of the talking. Here's our first one. Meet Lisa.

Hi.

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I'm Lisa Jones, and I am a former certified public accountant for pricewaterhouse Ernstignon, and I also have had a shared death experience which changed my life. On February twenty second, two thousand and four, my husband passed away after a long illness. He had been sick for seven years. He had lymphoma cancer, and he was forty four when he passed away. The night that it happened. Actually, hospice had been called that day, because up until then he didn't even believe he was really dying. But he was incoherent that morning and I called this doctor and so they said, let's send hospice over. They actually evaluated him and said that it'll probably be at least two to three weeks before he passes.

I'm Lisa Jones, and I am a former certified public accountant for pricewaterhouse Ernstignon, and I also have had a shared death experience which changed my life. On February twenty second, two thousand and four, my husband passed away after a long illness. He had been sick for seven years. He had lymphoma cancer, and he was forty four when he passed away. The night that it happened. Actually, hospice had been called that day, because up until then he didn't even believe he was really dying. But he was incoherent that morning and I called this doctor and so they said, let's send hospice over. They actually evaluated him and said that it'll probably be at least two to three weeks before he passes.

He's not looking imminent in any way.

He's not looking imminent in any way.

I called his brother and best friend and they came over, and it was the first time I really wasn't alone in the house with him.

I called his brother and best friend and they came over, and it was the first time I really wasn't alone in the house with him.

At this point.

At this point.

We had two young children, they were one and three when he was diagnosed and eight and ten when he died. So after hospice came, my kids ended up leaving the house that night. My son went to Ian's mother's house, and my daughter went to her best friends. I went and took care of Ian that evening. It was actually the first time he had been given any pay medication or anything. I just kissed him on the head and said good night, and then his brother came into the room to take care of him. So I went and slept on my daughter's bed, and before I fell asleep, I prayed to the angels and just said, please help us. There's no way out at this point. So I fell asleep, and that's when basically two angels just came and escorted my soul out of my body and took me to what I call heaven. It was the most beautiful place I have ever been. There were rolling, gorgeous hills and colors I've never seen. It's so hard to articulate because I feel like we don't even have words to express, but the light of the colors were so dynamic and so multi dimensional. I almost feel like here on planet Earth we live in this kind of flat Stanley. I don't know if you've ever heard of people setting around this little flat Stanley doll to take on their vacation or whatever, and you take photos with it, And that's kind of what I feel like, like here on we're living in this flat Stanley world where the colors are just saturated, but there's.

We had two young children, they were one and three when he was diagnosed and eight and ten when he died. So after hospice came, my kids ended up leaving the house that night. My son went to Ian's mother's house, and my daughter went to her best friends. I went and took care of Ian that evening. It was actually the first time he had been given any pay medication or anything. I just kissed him on the head and said good night, and then his brother came into the room to take care of him. So I went and slept on my daughter's bed, and before I fell asleep, I prayed to the angels and just said, please help us. There's no way out at this point. So I fell asleep, and that's when basically two angels just came and escorted my soul out of my body and took me to what I call heaven. It was the most beautiful place I have ever been. There were rolling, gorgeous hills and colors I've never seen. It's so hard to articulate because I feel like we don't even have words to express, but the light of the colors were so dynamic and so multi dimensional. I almost feel like here on planet Earth we live in this kind of flat Stanley. I don't know if you've ever heard of people setting around this little flat Stanley doll to take on their vacation or whatever, and you take photos with it, And that's kind of what I feel like, like here on we're living in this flat Stanley world where the colors are just saturated, but there's.

No light in the colors here.

No light in the colors here.

And then there was just such a wider range of colors and like I said, there's no words to even express what they are because we don't have them here. And then in the distance there was this beautiful castle like structure. Next thing I know, we were inside of it. All of a sudden, I could hear choir singing, and there were just like all these banners and all the corridors, and there was an announcement the Grand mister Ian Sharp is about to arrive. As I was approaching down this corridor, it was to the end of this balcony and I could look down and I saw all these souls coming together.

And then there was just such a wider range of colors and like I said, there's no words to even express what they are because we don't have them here. And then in the distance there was this beautiful castle like structure. Next thing I know, we were inside of it. All of a sudden, I could hear choir singing, and there were just like all these banners and all the corridors, and there was an announcement the Grand mister Ian Sharp is about to arrive. As I was approaching down this corridor, it was to the end of this balcony and I could look down and I saw all these souls coming together.

I can't describe what they looked like other than I just.

I can't describe what they looked like other than I just.

Knew it was Ian's soul family and that they were so excited and they're like, oh my.

Knew it was Ian's soul family and that they were so excited and they're like, oh my.

Gosh, he's coming, he's coming. He's almost here. He's almost here.

Gosh, he's coming, he's coming. He's almost here. He's almost here.

Then all of a sudden, there was this giant door that started to open. You could almost hear it scraping on the ground, and everybody turned oft the same time, and just at that moment he started to walk through. I saw him and the amount of unconditional love and peace. I thought, I never want to leave this place. It's just so amazing. And then right at that moment, there was a knock on my door.

Then all of a sudden, there was this giant door that started to open. You could almost hear it scraping on the ground, and everybody turned oft the same time, and just at that moment he started to walk through. I saw him and the amount of unconditional love and peace. I thought, I never want to leave this place. It's just so amazing. And then right at that moment, there was a knock on my door.

Lisa, wake up, wake up.

Lisa, wake up, wake up.

Ian just took his last breath, and it was his brother waking me up to let me know. Oh, and that moment, it was like a trap door opened in heaven and my soul fell back into my body, and I remember just this thud back into my physical body, and I bounced out of bed, and I was actually excited because I saw where he was going. And yet I knew that was not like an appropriate response in that moment, because my husband just died, and yet I had all this excited feeling. To top it off, I thought he was going to be going to hell because he hadn't been baptized. I was very religious, and I believed that because he was unwilling to be baptized, that he literally was.

Ian just took his last breath, and it was his brother waking me up to let me know. Oh, and that moment, it was like a trap door opened in heaven and my soul fell back into my body, and I remember just this thud back into my physical body, and I bounced out of bed, and I was actually excited because I saw where he was going. And yet I knew that was not like an appropriate response in that moment, because my husband just died, and yet I had all this excited feeling. To top it off, I thought he was going to be going to hell because he hadn't been baptized. I was very religious, and I believed that because he was unwilling to be baptized, that he literally was.

Going to go to hell.

Going to go to hell.

So that made it even more exciting to me that he got to go to heaven. So I ran down to our bedroom and his body was laying but it wasn't him. It was just almost like a shell, and I could just see that his soul was gone and that he had gone to heaven. And I got to witness that I have never heard of a shared death experience. And I didn't know for years after that until I just randomly read a near death experienience book that talked about shared death experience and I'm like, oh my god, that's what I experienced.

So that made it even more exciting to me that he got to go to heaven. So I ran down to our bedroom and his body was laying but it wasn't him. It was just almost like a shell, and I could just see that his soul was gone and that he had gone to heaven. And I got to witness that I have never heard of a shared death experience. And I didn't know for years after that until I just randomly read a near death experienience book that talked about shared death experience and I'm like, oh my god, that's what I experienced.

That I wasn't dead.

That I wasn't dead.

It was all so similar, like the colors and the unconditional love and just the excitement and beauty and the cleanliness. That was the biggest thing, is just how clean it is in that heavenly realm versus here. And then only recently after I moved to Maui and I got involved with the International Studies of Near Death Experiences, did I meet a man who wrote a book about shared death experiences. And that's when I started hearing that they're now starting to study shared death experiences. I was raised Lutheran, and in fact It was traumatic because I was in a parish where our youth minister ended up molesting a lot of the girls in my confirmation class. When he took me to the basement, I knew something was going to happen, and so I had the sense to get out before anything did happen. I attribute that to the fact that I read found out that I had a near death experience when I was two weeks old, and this was through a guided meditation. I was on a guided meditation, not thinking anything of where it was going to take me. But the next thing I know, I remember being born. I was adopted as a baby, and so after I was taken from my birth mother, I was just in a room for two weeks basically where caregivers would come and feed me and take care of me. But I also had colic, so I was crying a lot and they were having a really hard time consoling me. And so what I saw in this guided meditation is that one of the caregivers picked me up and shook me.

It was all so similar, like the colors and the unconditional love and just the excitement and beauty and the cleanliness. That was the biggest thing, is just how clean it is in that heavenly realm versus here. And then only recently after I moved to Maui and I got involved with the International Studies of Near Death Experiences, did I meet a man who wrote a book about shared death experiences. And that's when I started hearing that they're now starting to study shared death experiences. I was raised Lutheran, and in fact It was traumatic because I was in a parish where our youth minister ended up molesting a lot of the girls in my confirmation class. When he took me to the basement, I knew something was going to happen, and so I had the sense to get out before anything did happen. I attribute that to the fact that I read found out that I had a near death experience when I was two weeks old, and this was through a guided meditation. I was on a guided meditation, not thinking anything of where it was going to take me. But the next thing I know, I remember being born. I was adopted as a baby, and so after I was taken from my birth mother, I was just in a room for two weeks basically where caregivers would come and feed me and take care of me. But I also had colic, so I was crying a lot and they were having a really hard time consoling me. And so what I saw in this guided meditation is that one of the caregivers picked me up and shook me.

I just popped out of my body.

I just popped out of my body.

And so in this guided meditation, I witnessed again being in heaven and I was just surrounded by all these beautiful angels, it's going to bring me to tears, because they just lovingly said, but you have work to do on earth and you need to go back. So I reluctantly went back into my body and it was a few days later, but my adoptive parents that's when they picked me up up. I had the most loving mother. I even told her as a four year old, like, this was God's plan. You couldn't have babies, but another mommy had to have me so that I could be your babies. So because of that near death experience, it makes so much sense because as a child, I saw energies, I saw cowboys and indians outside my windows at night. I felt aliens come and like put medicine in my mouth and poke my toes. When I was a little child, my mom and dad, of course didn't believe me. But now that I know about near death experiences and what happens after you had one, that you do have these sixth sense really elevated.

And so in this guided meditation, I witnessed again being in heaven and I was just surrounded by all these beautiful angels, it's going to bring me to tears, because they just lovingly said, but you have work to do on earth and you need to go back. So I reluctantly went back into my body and it was a few days later, but my adoptive parents that's when they picked me up up. I had the most loving mother. I even told her as a four year old, like, this was God's plan. You couldn't have babies, but another mommy had to have me so that I could be your babies. So because of that near death experience, it makes so much sense because as a child, I saw energies, I saw cowboys and indians outside my windows at night. I felt aliens come and like put medicine in my mouth and poke my toes. When I was a little child, my mom and dad, of course didn't believe me. But now that I know about near death experiences and what happens after you had one, that you do have these sixth sense really elevated.

That makes sense to me.

That makes sense to me.

Why when I went down to the basement with my minister, I knew that something bad was going to happen, And then when he confessed to doing this to girls, I stepped away from my religion.

Why when I went down to the basement with my minister, I knew that something bad was going to happen, And then when he confessed to doing this to girls, I stepped away from my religion.

But then when I got married and.

But then when I got married and.

Had kids, I felt like they really needed that foundation, so I became Episcopalian. I was totally in belief of all the rules that the church said, that you have to be baptized, and that there's heaven and hell and all of this. And interestingly, when I went through the Episcopal church and my husband was dying, I went for counseling.

Had kids, I felt like they really needed that foundation, so I became Episcopalian. I was totally in belief of all the rules that the church said, that you have to be baptized, and that there's heaven and hell and all of this. And interestingly, when I went through the Episcopal church and my husband was dying, I went for counseling.

The minister tried to hit on me.

The minister tried to hit on me.

So between the two ministers, but I realize now that religion is just an organization where men come to power generally men, and then sometimes take advantage of women. So between that and then having my own connection with that shared death experience, I'm like, I don't need this anymore.

So between the two ministers, but I realize now that religion is just an organization where men come to power generally men, and then sometimes take advantage of women. So between that and then having my own connection with that shared death experience, I'm like, I don't need this anymore.

I stepped away from the church. I walked away.

I stepped away from the church. I walked away.

So I am not a fan of organized religion any longer. When people go to the other side, they actually get to witness what they think their heaven is, because I do think it would be jarring if I had gone to the other side and I was in a Buddhist temple or like a mosque or something like that. So I do believe, And again I've interviewed a lot of near death experiencers, and it seems to me that most people witness what it is that they are anticipating. I don't believe in death. I think we just transition into another realm. Whatever your current belief is. You just stepped right through this thrushold and you're in the next realm with that same belief system, and then it might unfold from there. It just seems like that's a great way to welcome them in.

So I am not a fan of organized religion any longer. When people go to the other side, they actually get to witness what they think their heaven is, because I do think it would be jarring if I had gone to the other side and I was in a Buddhist temple or like a mosque or something like that. So I do believe, And again I've interviewed a lot of near death experiencers, and it seems to me that most people witness what it is that they are anticipating. I don't believe in death. I think we just transition into another realm. Whatever your current belief is. You just stepped right through this thrushold and you're in the next realm with that same belief system, and then it might unfold from there. It just seems like that's a great way to welcome them in.

I am not afraid of death.

I am not afraid of death.

I am, in fact looking forward to seeing how this all ends, because I've witnessed so many different deaths throughout my life as I'm a hospice volunteer and a dipth doulah. In fact, a few years ago after moving to Maui, it was like a Saturday morning with my phone just looking out. All of a sudden, I get an alert saying incoming missile from North Korea. This is not a test, this is actually happening. Take cover, and I'm thinking, oh my god, I had no idea this is how it was going to end.

I am, in fact looking forward to seeing how this all ends, because I've witnessed so many different deaths throughout my life as I'm a hospice volunteer and a dipth doulah. In fact, a few years ago after moving to Maui, it was like a Saturday morning with my phone just looking out. All of a sudden, I get an alert saying incoming missile from North Korea. This is not a test, this is actually happening. Take cover, and I'm thinking, oh my god, I had no idea this is how it was going to end.

I'm actually really excited.

I'm actually really excited.

I was ready to get in my car and go to the beach and say bring it on.

I was ready to get in my car and go to the beach and say bring it on.

If I'm going to go that way, I want to go quick.

If I'm going to go that way, I want to go quick.

I don't want to like have the radiation poisoning or whatefter the fact. And meanwhile people were driving off the road and breaking out about the whole thing. But again from interviewing near death experiencers, every one of them says, like before impact in a car accident or if they were falling or freezing to death or whatever their circumstances was, their soul pops out before the impact. So they don't feel the pain, they don't experience that. So I trust that that'll happen with me too. Am I doing the work that I'm here to do. I feel like I'm leaning in.

I don't want to like have the radiation poisoning or whatefter the fact. And meanwhile people were driving off the road and breaking out about the whole thing. But again from interviewing near death experiencers, every one of them says, like before impact in a car accident or if they were falling or freezing to death or whatever their circumstances was, their soul pops out before the impact. So they don't feel the pain, they don't experience that. So I trust that that'll happen with me too. Am I doing the work that I'm here to do. I feel like I'm leaning in.

Closer and closer.

Closer and closer.

Part of it is literally sharing my experiences with people just to help them whatever they're going through. A lot of times I get feedback from people that it really helps to know that these stories exist and it can help them. So I'm leaning into being an eternal love and Abundance coach, which is helping people as they are on their journey here on earth, and if that's connecting with their past away loved ones, if it's figuring out why they're stuck in life.

Part of it is literally sharing my experiences with people just to help them whatever they're going through. A lot of times I get feedback from people that it really helps to know that these stories exist and it can help them. So I'm leaning into being an eternal love and Abundance coach, which is helping people as they are on their journey here on earth, and if that's connecting with their past away loved ones, if it's figuring out why they're stuck in life.

I've had so many experiences through these shared death experiences and talking about near death experiences and cultivating relationships on the other side, I call my heavenly husband. He's been helping me for twenty years. He talks to me, he guides me, he helps me. My mom is the same way.

I've had so many experiences through these shared death experiences and talking about near death experiences and cultivating relationships on the other side, I call my heavenly husband. He's been helping me for twenty years. He talks to me, he guides me, he helps me. My mom is the same way.

Rom Dass, who was a spiritual leader here on MAUI, I had a shared death experience with him and he's guiding me at all times.

Rom Dass, who was a spiritual leader here on MAUI, I had a shared death experience with him and he's guiding me at all times.

So I am.

So I am.

Here to now help people literally connect with their loved ones and cultivate that relationship so it's not over.

Here to now help people literally connect with their loved ones and cultivate that relationship so it's not over.

When they die.

When they die.

It's just a new experience of a relationship with their soul. It's super exciting, it's super fun, and yeah, I feel like I'm on my path.

It's just a new experience of a relationship with their soul. It's super exciting, it's super fun, and yeah, I feel like I'm on my path.

Lisa, it sounds like you definitely are on your path. If you want to find out more about Lisa, you can visit her website, Being of Love and Light dot com. If you scroll back through past episodes, lots of talk on shared death experiences. The two that come to mind are with doctor Raymond Moody and then also William Peters.

Lisa, it sounds like you definitely are on your path. If you want to find out more about Lisa, you can visit her website, Being of Love and Light dot com. If you scroll back through past episodes, lots of talk on shared death experiences. The two that come to mind are with doctor Raymond Moody and then also William Peters.

It's time for.

It's time for.

Our first break and we'll be back with three experiences. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Hairinormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. We're going to jump right in with the near death experience of Bubba Herrick.

Our first break and we'll be back with three experiences. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast am Hairinormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. We're going to jump right in with the near death experience of Bubba Herrick.

I was a baseball player. And if anyone would have asked me before my experience what I did or who I was, that was the only answer I could ever come up with was baseball player. I am a baseball player. So I was playing baseball at this little tiny school in Jacksonville, Florida, called Jacksonville University, and it was my freshman season, and I had good hopes for my career. I was playing at the Division one level, which was the highest level of amateur baseball that there was before the professionals. I was just playing in high school on the number two ranked team in the entire country. So I thought that my track was I'm going to play major league baseball. So It's my freshman season at Jacksonville and I have an elbow injury and I'm heading in for surgery on my elbow. The surgery is often referred to as Tommy John surgery in the baseball world. And I get into the hospital for my pre operation checkup, and the nurse she wanted to ensure that I was able to be operated on, so she was asking me all these types of questions, one of which was are you allergic to anything? And I didn't know the answer, so I said no. So fast forward to the next day, I'm going in for my surgery and my surgeon says, Okay, here's how this is going to work. You're going to lay on this hospital bed in your hospital down and we are going to hook you up to this iv We're going to put the anesthesia through your ivy so that way you don't feel a thing during surgery. By the time we get into the operating room from where we are now, you'll be out, you'll be unconscious, and you'll be back on the field before you know it. So that's what he did. He wheeled me into the operating room. I was supposed to be under anesthesia, but I wasn't. I just felt like I was completely awake and conscious. From my perspective, I was like, well, maybe it just hasn't hit me yet, so I'm not going to say anything. So the doctors are confirming with one another that I'm ready to get operated on and they grab their tools and they're about to cut into me, and from my perspective, I'm like, I'm still awake. This is really gonna hurt. So I started to, I guess you could say, get a little bit afraid. And then in the flash of a second, I was just watching the entire scene from above. I watched from above as my body turned like a lifeless blue and then a bruise like purple, and then I watched as my heart monitor went from B to B. I was immediately thrusted into this life review where I saw my entire life on like a panoramic three hundred and sixty degree screen. But I also had the ability to enter the life review. So it's like I was watching a movie, but I was also in the movie, and I was experiencing my life review from the perspective of all of the characters of the movie. So it wasn't just my life. I was also experiencing my life from others perspectives. I'll give you an example. I was probably four or five years old, and my dad used to discipline my brother and I with a belt. That's how he would discipline us. And my brother's four years older than me. So from my perspective as a kid, obviously I hated that and I don't condone that at all, and I don't think it was right. But my entire life until I had this near death experience, I absolutely shaded him for it and I would never, ever, ever forgive him for it. In this life review, I was able to actually experience those beatings from my dad's perspective, and from his perspective I had never known, but he thought what he was doing was right. He was like, you know, my kids need discipline, and this is what I believe discipline to be. So from his perspective, I got to understand that because of the life review, he was coming from a good place and he was actually trying to express love to my brother and I. So I was able to experience memories like that and just every single memory of my life in all types of detail and clarity. It was just incredible. And the last memory of my life review was one where it just stuck with me. I don't know. My parents' divorced when I was eight, and after that a man entered my mom's life. His name was Mike. He was just what I needed from a father figure. He didn't discipline us in the same way. He was just very loving and nurturing and gentle. And anyways, we played this beautiful basketball game one time when I was twelve. I don't know why it stuck with me my entire life, but it did, and in the life review I was able to experience it again. It was just beautiful. It was a good way to end my life review. That said, after that memory and my life review was done, I couldn't help but feel angry with myself and upset at myself for how I decided to live my life. And I was afraid of what was next. You know, I wasn't ready to die, and there are so many reasons to that at the time. You know, I didn't believe in an after life before my experience, so that contributed to it, but also the way in which I lived my life. It was just I don't know, I just wasn't happy with it at that time. It sucked because I couldn't do anything about it. After my life review, so after the fear and the anger subsided, I was transferred into this place that was just indescribable by words. It was like I was viewing it from the perspective of the inside of a diamond. It was just serene and crystally and there were refracted combinations of light that just formed one universal color. It just beautiful. And in this place, the voice in my head that was beating me down about how I lived my life after my life review, it didn't exist. I didn't have this voice in my head. I just was. I was pure presence, pure bliss, unconditional love. I was in this place for what felt like forever before a strange, distant figure appeared. As I approached this distant figure, immediately I was passed a basketball and I began to play this basketball game with this strange figure who happened to be my stepdad, Mike. It was a recreation of the moment I just saw in my life review, just moments ago or however long ago, I don't know. I didn't have any concept of time. In fact, time and I felt like we were the same thing. So anyways, Mike and I played this beautiful game of basketball, which lasts forever, it feels like, And I'll mention that neither of us had a body or in ability to speak words, because there was no use for either of those things. We both like, I don't know, it's so hard to describe, but we both just knew. We just knew that we were playing a game of basketball, and we didn't need a body, and we knew what each other was thinking, so there's no need for real communication. But anyways, after the beautiful game of basketball, which lasted forever, Mike slowly like stepped away from me, and his tone changed, and if words existed, this is what he would have said. Essentially, what he said was, Okay, play time's over. Let's get serious. There's a reason that you're here, and there's a reason that I'm here. I'm here because I know how you felt after your life with you. I know that you desperately wanted a second chance. Well I'm here to present to you that second chance. But if you take the second chance, you have an obligation and a responsibility to live out your great purpose. That's what he called it was a great purpose. So it didn't feel like I had much of the decision, and I made my decision, and right when I did, he disappeared and I was face to face with myself on the operating table. Was as if a glass panel was separating me from up here. And me from the operating table, and I watched as the doctors injected me with the shot that saved my life. And I woke up on the table and I was punching the doctors because I was fighting with myself about the decision I had just made to come back because that place was so perfect. After I had been revived and I was on drugs sedated from them bringing me back to life, I was just viewing a bunch of words and I had recounted the story to my mom, and obviously she was like, Oh, that's just the drugs talking. You're you know, you're not telling the truth. But the nurse overheard it, and the nurse was like, wait a second, that's real. Those are called near death experiences. She didn't go into too much detail, and if she did, I can't really remember it. But I heard it. My mom heard it, and we were just like, oh, that's cool. But we had no concept of MDes. We thought a near death experience was like when you almost die, you know, maybe a car almost hits you or something. That's what we thought a near death experience was. After the near death experience happened, I just returned to my life as it was before. For a long time, like I returned to baseball, I returned to I don't know, listening to the voice in my head directing and guiding my life. So for a long time I kind of just brushed it off, as if it was just a dream, but as if that didn't actually happen. At first, I didn't want to admit it to myself that that was real, because if I did, that would mean I'd have to change my entire life and my entire identity, because my identity was built around the voice in my head, and when I was in that place, the voice in my head didn't exist, and it felt as if I was the real me. So the question that I was afraid to answer was if I'm not the voice in my head, then who am I. The weight of that question, especially for me, I was only nineteen when it happened, it was just too much for me to bear. So I tried to sleep it under the rug as long as I could, But I couldn't unsee or unexperience what I saw and experienced. So it became real to me that, like, yeah, the afterlife is real, and it was more real than here the life that I lived before was built around the idea that the voice in my head was me. So when I came back, I tried to fit myself back into that box, but it felt like I was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It just didn't work. So my entire life change. What I wanted to do with my life change, My ambitions and dreams and goals changed, and my personality changed. You know how athletes carry themselves just like very egotistical and I'm better than you and I'm God's gift to this earth type thing. And after this experience, I was just humbled to the core because number one, I didn't believe that death could actually happen to me, and so that was really like shocking, like, oh my gosh, this is real. And then two it was like I'm not God skifts to Green Earth. You know, I'm just a regular guy. I don't play baseball anymore. I did come back for quite a few years after, but a few things happened. You know, I just didn't love the game anymore. And because of the fact that I didn't love the game, my performance on the field was really bad and I just fell out of love with it. But I will say that I am re entering the game as a coach because it does mean a lot to me, and it gave me a lot and it taught me a lot, so I'd like to give back to it. It's okay to trust in the idea that death is not scary, and you can use that to live a life without fear and to do good for this world, because someone is going to inherit the world that we leave behind, and it is our job to teach whoever is going to do so that same concept that death is not scary, to have faith and to put your trust in some higher power because we can't do it alone. And right now things seem like they're scary, and right now, more than ever, I think we just need a lot of faith and a lot of love.

I was a baseball player. And if anyone would have asked me before my experience what I did or who I was, that was the only answer I could ever come up with was baseball player. I am a baseball player. So I was playing baseball at this little tiny school in Jacksonville, Florida, called Jacksonville University, and it was my freshman season, and I had good hopes for my career. I was playing at the Division one level, which was the highest level of amateur baseball that there was before the professionals. I was just playing in high school on the number two ranked team in the entire country. So I thought that my track was I'm going to play major league baseball. So It's my freshman season at Jacksonville and I have an elbow injury and I'm heading in for surgery on my elbow. The surgery is often referred to as Tommy John surgery in the baseball world. And I get into the hospital for my pre operation checkup, and the nurse she wanted to ensure that I was able to be operated on, so she was asking me all these types of questions, one of which was are you allergic to anything? And I didn't know the answer, so I said no. So fast forward to the next day, I'm going in for my surgery and my surgeon says, Okay, here's how this is going to work. You're going to lay on this hospital bed in your hospital down and we are going to hook you up to this iv We're going to put the anesthesia through your ivy so that way you don't feel a thing during surgery. By the time we get into the operating room from where we are now, you'll be out, you'll be unconscious, and you'll be back on the field before you know it. So that's what he did. He wheeled me into the operating room. I was supposed to be under anesthesia, but I wasn't. I just felt like I was completely awake and conscious. From my perspective, I was like, well, maybe it just hasn't hit me yet, so I'm not going to say anything. So the doctors are confirming with one another that I'm ready to get operated on and they grab their tools and they're about to cut into me, and from my perspective, I'm like, I'm still awake. This is really gonna hurt. So I started to, I guess you could say, get a little bit afraid. And then in the flash of a second, I was just watching the entire scene from above. I watched from above as my body turned like a lifeless blue and then a bruise like purple, and then I watched as my heart monitor went from B to B. I was immediately thrusted into this life review where I saw my entire life on like a panoramic three hundred and sixty degree screen. But I also had the ability to enter the life review. So it's like I was watching a movie, but I was also in the movie, and I was experiencing my life review from the perspective of all of the characters of the movie. So it wasn't just my life. I was also experiencing my life from others perspectives. I'll give you an example. I was probably four or five years old, and my dad used to discipline my brother and I with a belt. That's how he would discipline us. And my brother's four years older than me. So from my perspective as a kid, obviously I hated that and I don't condone that at all, and I don't think it was right. But my entire life until I had this near death experience, I absolutely shaded him for it and I would never, ever, ever forgive him for it. In this life review, I was able to actually experience those beatings from my dad's perspective, and from his perspective I had never known, but he thought what he was doing was right. He was like, you know, my kids need discipline, and this is what I believe discipline to be. So from his perspective, I got to understand that because of the life review, he was coming from a good place and he was actually trying to express love to my brother and I. So I was able to experience memories like that and just every single memory of my life in all types of detail and clarity. It was just incredible. And the last memory of my life review was one where it just stuck with me. I don't know. My parents' divorced when I was eight, and after that a man entered my mom's life. His name was Mike. He was just what I needed from a father figure. He didn't discipline us in the same way. He was just very loving and nurturing and gentle. And anyways, we played this beautiful basketball game one time when I was twelve. I don't know why it stuck with me my entire life, but it did, and in the life review I was able to experience it again. It was just beautiful. It was a good way to end my life review. That said, after that memory and my life review was done, I couldn't help but feel angry with myself and upset at myself for how I decided to live my life. And I was afraid of what was next. You know, I wasn't ready to die, and there are so many reasons to that at the time. You know, I didn't believe in an after life before my experience, so that contributed to it, but also the way in which I lived my life. It was just I don't know, I just wasn't happy with it at that time. It sucked because I couldn't do anything about it. After my life review, so after the fear and the anger subsided, I was transferred into this place that was just indescribable by words. It was like I was viewing it from the perspective of the inside of a diamond. It was just serene and crystally and there were refracted combinations of light that just formed one universal color. It just beautiful. And in this place, the voice in my head that was beating me down about how I lived my life after my life review, it didn't exist. I didn't have this voice in my head. I just was. I was pure presence, pure bliss, unconditional love. I was in this place for what felt like forever before a strange, distant figure appeared. As I approached this distant figure, immediately I was passed a basketball and I began to play this basketball game with this strange figure who happened to be my stepdad, Mike. It was a recreation of the moment I just saw in my life review, just moments ago or however long ago, I don't know. I didn't have any concept of time. In fact, time and I felt like we were the same thing. So anyways, Mike and I played this beautiful game of basketball, which lasts forever, it feels like, And I'll mention that neither of us had a body or in ability to speak words, because there was no use for either of those things. We both like, I don't know, it's so hard to describe, but we both just knew. We just knew that we were playing a game of basketball, and we didn't need a body, and we knew what each other was thinking, so there's no need for real communication. But anyways, after the beautiful game of basketball, which lasted forever, Mike slowly like stepped away from me, and his tone changed, and if words existed, this is what he would have said. Essentially, what he said was, Okay, play time's over. Let's get serious. There's a reason that you're here, and there's a reason that I'm here. I'm here because I know how you felt after your life with you. I know that you desperately wanted a second chance. Well I'm here to present to you that second chance. But if you take the second chance, you have an obligation and a responsibility to live out your great purpose. That's what he called it was a great purpose. So it didn't feel like I had much of the decision, and I made my decision, and right when I did, he disappeared and I was face to face with myself on the operating table. Was as if a glass panel was separating me from up here. And me from the operating table, and I watched as the doctors injected me with the shot that saved my life. And I woke up on the table and I was punching the doctors because I was fighting with myself about the decision I had just made to come back because that place was so perfect. After I had been revived and I was on drugs sedated from them bringing me back to life, I was just viewing a bunch of words and I had recounted the story to my mom, and obviously she was like, Oh, that's just the drugs talking. You're you know, you're not telling the truth. But the nurse overheard it, and the nurse was like, wait a second, that's real. Those are called near death experiences. She didn't go into too much detail, and if she did, I can't really remember it. But I heard it. My mom heard it, and we were just like, oh, that's cool. But we had no concept of MDes. We thought a near death experience was like when you almost die, you know, maybe a car almost hits you or something. That's what we thought a near death experience was. After the near death experience happened, I just returned to my life as it was before. For a long time, like I returned to baseball, I returned to I don't know, listening to the voice in my head directing and guiding my life. So for a long time I kind of just brushed it off, as if it was just a dream, but as if that didn't actually happen. At first, I didn't want to admit it to myself that that was real, because if I did, that would mean I'd have to change my entire life and my entire identity, because my identity was built around the voice in my head, and when I was in that place, the voice in my head didn't exist, and it felt as if I was the real me. So the question that I was afraid to answer was if I'm not the voice in my head, then who am I. The weight of that question, especially for me, I was only nineteen when it happened, it was just too much for me to bear. So I tried to sleep it under the rug as long as I could, But I couldn't unsee or unexperience what I saw and experienced. So it became real to me that, like, yeah, the afterlife is real, and it was more real than here the life that I lived before was built around the idea that the voice in my head was me. So when I came back, I tried to fit myself back into that box, but it felt like I was trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. It just didn't work. So my entire life change. What I wanted to do with my life change, My ambitions and dreams and goals changed, and my personality changed. You know how athletes carry themselves just like very egotistical and I'm better than you and I'm God's gift to this earth type thing. And after this experience, I was just humbled to the core because number one, I didn't believe that death could actually happen to me, and so that was really like shocking, like, oh my gosh, this is real. And then two it was like I'm not God skifts to Green Earth. You know, I'm just a regular guy. I don't play baseball anymore. I did come back for quite a few years after, but a few things happened. You know, I just didn't love the game anymore. And because of the fact that I didn't love the game, my performance on the field was really bad and I just fell out of love with it. But I will say that I am re entering the game as a coach because it does mean a lot to me, and it gave me a lot and it taught me a lot, so I'd like to give back to it. It's okay to trust in the idea that death is not scary, and you can use that to live a life without fear and to do good for this world, because someone is going to inherit the world that we leave behind, and it is our job to teach whoever is going to do so that same concept that death is not scary, to have faith and to put your trust in some higher power because we can't do it alone. And right now things seem like they're scary, and right now, more than ever, I think we just need a lot of faith and a lot of love.

Faith and love are definitely needed. And don't take that little voice in your head's words so seriously, it's out for its survival, not necessarily yours. It's not speaking the truth. Quiet the mind and tap into that truth. Buba is busy writing his book, so we wish him well on that. Let's go to the break and we'll be back with another near death experience. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and cost to cost Am Pirinormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife, Sandra Champlain. Next, we'll hear Anastagia's near death experience.

Faith and love are definitely needed. And don't take that little voice in your head's words so seriously, it's out for its survival, not necessarily yours. It's not speaking the truth. Quiet the mind and tap into that truth. Buba is busy writing his book, so we wish him well on that. Let's go to the break and we'll be back with another near death experience. You're listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and cost to cost Am Pirinormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife, Sandra Champlain. Next, we'll hear Anastagia's near death experience.

In December of twenty nineteen, I had an invasive dental procedure done and it had required me to be sedated and have medication that I've never had before. The dentist started to preparations, put a mask over my face, and I started taking in Knights's oxide, and as the dentist then went on to prepare some of the other things in the room, kept getting this really strange feeling, the sensation starting to come over me. It was like I was lifting up out of my body when I was breathing, and then I would fall back down again, and then I would lift up and I'd fall back down again. As is continued, it wasn't subsiding, and I was getting a little bit concerned, and having never done this before, I didn't know if it was normal or if it was something that I should raise to the dentist. So I just kept quiet because I didn't want to disturb the dentist. And as it started to continue, it got to a point to where I really felt like I was coming way out of my body, and I came back down and I thought, Okay, that's it.

In December of twenty nineteen, I had an invasive dental procedure done and it had required me to be sedated and have medication that I've never had before. The dentist started to preparations, put a mask over my face, and I started taking in Knights's oxide, and as the dentist then went on to prepare some of the other things in the room, kept getting this really strange feeling, the sensation starting to come over me. It was like I was lifting up out of my body when I was breathing, and then I would fall back down again, and then I would lift up and I'd fall back down again. As is continued, it wasn't subsiding, and I was getting a little bit concerned, and having never done this before, I didn't know if it was normal or if it was something that I should raise to the dentist. So I just kept quiet because I didn't want to disturb the dentist. And as it started to continue, it got to a point to where I really felt like I was coming way out of my body, and I came back down and I thought, Okay, that's it.

I probably need to say something.

I probably need to say something.

And in the next breath, I'm no longer in the dental chair, but I'm now up in the ceiling looking down at myself in the chair. And now it's so hard for me to explain everything from this point on because what I experienced was outside of time. There was really no feeling or sensation of time like we experience here where one thing after another happens. It's more like everything all happened simultaneously, and I can just try to explain it like one thing happened after another, but it really felt like it all happened at one time. And so I'm looking down at my body and I'm thinking.

And in the next breath, I'm no longer in the dental chair, but I'm now up in the ceiling looking down at myself in the chair. And now it's so hard for me to explain everything from this point on because what I experienced was outside of time. There was really no feeling or sensation of time like we experience here where one thing after another happens. It's more like everything all happened simultaneously, and I can just try to explain it like one thing happened after another, but it really felt like it all happened at one time. And so I'm looking down at my body and I'm thinking.

What am I doing up here?

What am I doing up here?

And in that moment I realized something so profound. It was like a flash of an epiphany, and I thought, I just said what am I doing up here? I didn't say what am I doing down there where my body is?

And in that moment I realized something so profound. It was like a flash of an epiphany, and I thought, I just said what am I doing up here? I didn't say what am I doing down there where my body is?

I said what am I doing up here?

I said what am I doing up here?

With whatever it was that I was at that time in the ceiling, that part of me.

With whatever it was that I was at that time in the ceiling, that part of me.

That was then.

That was then.

Looking down at my physical body and I went, oh, my gosh, we are not our bodies. And then my very next thought was am I dead? And just like that, I slipped over and I am now like inches away.

Looking down at my physical body and I went, oh, my gosh, we are not our bodies. And then my very next thought was am I dead? And just like that, I slipped over and I am now like inches away.

From the ceiling.

From the ceiling.

This is so interesting because if you remember being a little kid and seeing something for the first time, and I'm not talking about like something really ordinary, I'm talking about an eclipse or something that you've never seen before that just takes your breath away. I was looking at all these little d tails in the ceiling and I found them absolutely beautiful and miraculous, and I remember the little particles of dust and the little cracks and just thinking, that is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. And just like that, it was like I blinked or a lens came down over my face and I was gone.

This is so interesting because if you remember being a little kid and seeing something for the first time, and I'm not talking about like something really ordinary, I'm talking about an eclipse or something that you've never seen before that just takes your breath away. I was looking at all these little d tails in the ceiling and I found them absolutely beautiful and miraculous, and I remember the little particles of dust and the little cracks and just thinking, that is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. And just like that, it was like I blinked or a lens came down over my face and I was gone.

I was out of the room.

I was out of the room.

Now at this point, I opened my eyes and what seemed like a flash, like it was really almost like a blink, and I am in absolute It's a void. It's like it's nothing, but it's everything.

Now at this point, I opened my eyes and what seemed like a flash, like it was really almost like a blink, and I am in absolute It's a void. It's like it's nothing, but it's everything.

This feeling that I have is I am in.

This feeling that I have is I am in.

Complete and total oneness in this place. This is where it gets really really hard to try to describe each piece because it all blended together as one. But I had this feeling that wherever I I was one. I didn't wonder where I was, I didn't worry about where I was.

Complete and total oneness in this place. This is where it gets really really hard to try to describe each piece because it all blended together as one. But I had this feeling that wherever I I was one. I didn't wonder where I was, I didn't worry about where I was.

I didn't even really.

I didn't even really.

Have much recollection about the physical body that I just came from. I knew who I was, that I had an individual sense of self. I remember that, But I remember so clearly that I was a part of this what I call a oneness in this void. Now I call it a void, but the better way to describe it is like it's a void.

Have much recollection about the physical body that I just came from. I knew who I was, that I had an individual sense of self. I remember that, But I remember so clearly that I was a part of this what I call a oneness in this void. Now I call it a void, but the better way to describe it is like it's a void.

Of anything that isn't complete.

Of anything that isn't complete.

It felt like everything in this place was absolutely complete. Everything that was to ever be known all existed there. Every soul experience, every soul was absolutely a part of this, and any experience that any of us have ever had through any soul experience was all accessible there.

It felt like everything in this place was absolutely complete. Everything that was to ever be known all existed there. Every soul experience, every soul was absolutely a part of this, and any experience that any of us have ever had through any soul experience was all accessible there.

It was a place of absolute knowing.

It was a place of absolute knowing.

Just like the time didn't exist when I was back in the room but hovering over my body, time didn't exist here at all either.

Just like the time didn't exist when I was back in the room but hovering over my body, time didn't exist here at all either.

I've tried so hard.

I've tried so hard.

To find the words to describe some of these pieces, because we just don't have a vocabulary for something like this. We don't live our day to day lives feeling at one with everything. We don't walk past our mailbox and feel like we're one with the mailbox. It's just not the way we live our lives. So we don't have a real vocabulary to describe these kinds of experiences. But it was as if I was one with everything, and that there had never been anything but.

To find the words to describe some of these pieces, because we just don't have a vocabulary for something like this. We don't live our day to day lives feeling at one with everything. We don't walk past our mailbox and feel like we're one with the mailbox. It's just not the way we live our lives. So we don't have a real vocabulary to describe these kinds of experiences. But it was as if I was one with everything, and that there had never been anything but.

Being one with everything.

Being one with everything.

And because of that, it felt like and it gave me this sensation that I could look through the eyes of every single soul that had ever existed, through all time and through any experience ever, and that all I had to do was just shit my awareness to something and I would be able to.

And because of that, it felt like and it gave me this sensation that I could look through the eyes of every single soul that had ever existed, through all time and through any experience ever, and that all I had to do was just shit my awareness to something and I would be able to.

Know it now.

Know it now.

As I was picking up this like sensation that I was connecting to tumping so big.

As I was picking up this like sensation that I was connecting to tumping so big.

I wanted to know everything.

I wanted to know everything.

I remember wanting to know this and wanting to know that because there was still this part of me that had my individuality, and then there was this part of me that was connected to this oneness, to this everything, and I couldn't ask a question, no matter what I would try to do, I couldn't form a question. All I could do was be curious about it. It feels to me that when I reflect back on that, the reason I couldn't form a question is because everything was already known.

I remember wanting to know this and wanting to know that because there was still this part of me that had my individuality, and then there was this part of me that was connected to this oneness, to this everything, and I couldn't ask a question, no matter what I would try to do, I couldn't form a question. All I could do was be curious about it. It feels to me that when I reflect back on that, the reason I couldn't form a question is because everything was already known.

It would have been impossible for.

It would have been impossible for.

There to have been a question, because if there was a question, that would mean that something's not answered. And in this place, everything was answered. Everything was already known, every outcome already complete. As I was taking this in, I felt myself expanding, if you will. As I was taking in all of this knowing, it felt like it was gaining like an acceleration or.

There to have been a question, because if there was a question, that would mean that something's not answered. And in this place, everything was answered. Everything was already known, every outcome already complete. As I was taking this in, I felt myself expanding, if you will. As I was taking in all of this knowing, it felt like it was gaining like an acceleration or.

A momentum, and it was getting.

A momentum, and it was getting.

Bigger and bigger and bigger, and all of a sudden it stopped and I was back in the dental chair again. At this point, it was like I kind of felt like I had a foot in two worlds. It felt like I was still back in the void, and it felt like I was in the dental chair and the dentist was there.

Bigger and bigger and bigger, and all of a sudden it stopped and I was back in the dental chair again. At this point, it was like I kind of felt like I had a foot in two worlds. It felt like I was still back in the void, and it felt like I was in the dental chair and the dentist was there.

He had his hand on me.

He had his hand on me.

He's like, are you okay? And I remember hearing his words, I remember knowing what he was saying, and I remember responding with like, yeah, I'm okay. But my interest was not in the dentist at all. Where before this whole thing started, I was so concerned about what was happening with me when I was starting to float above my body. That was good, on that concern out the window. At this point, all I wanted to do was hold on to that connection that I had, because it seemed like it was like an aperture.

He's like, are you okay? And I remember hearing his words, I remember knowing what he was saying, and I remember responding with like, yeah, I'm okay. But my interest was not in the dentist at all. Where before this whole thing started, I was so concerned about what was happening with me when I was starting to float above my body. That was good, on that concern out the window. At this point, all I wanted to do was hold on to that connection that I had, because it seemed like it was like an aperture.

And as time was going when I came back.

And as time was going when I came back.

It was closing down, and all of that knowing, all of that access to everything was slipping away. It felt like it was just slipping through my fingers and I was grasping and I wanted to hold on to absolutely everything I could possibly hold on to, but there was nothing I could do.

It was closing down, and all of that knowing, all of that access to everything was slipping away. It felt like it was just slipping through my fingers and I was grasping and I wanted to hold on to absolutely everything I could possibly hold on to, but there was nothing I could do.

The connection was closing.

The connection was closing.

Of all the things that I brought back, I wish I would have brought back all of the knowing, but I brought back some really specific things. I feel like I still have somewhat of a foot in that place still, like the door is like cracked open. It hasn't completely closed, but I don't have that intimate connection that I had when I was there.

Of all the things that I brought back, I wish I would have brought back all of the knowing, but I brought back some really specific things. I feel like I still have somewhat of a foot in that place still, like the door is like cracked open. It hasn't completely closed, but I don't have that intimate connection that I had when I was there.

When I was in the dental chair, and when.

When I was in the dental chair, and when.

I came back, I immediately thought, Okay, we are not our body. That is so obvious. We are so much more than our body. And I use the word soul because I don't have a better word. There may be a better word that really represents the part of us that is more than our physical body. But without having a better word, I'll use the word soul. That we are a soul in a physical body, and that our physical bodies are nothing more than like a sensory tool for us to collect sensory information about the physical experience, and that it gets shared at the soul level, because the soul ultimately wants to have a direct physical experience and to be able to create here in a physical life.

I came back, I immediately thought, Okay, we are not our body. That is so obvious. We are so much more than our body. And I use the word soul because I don't have a better word. There may be a better word that really represents the part of us that is more than our physical body. But without having a better word, I'll use the word soul. That we are a soul in a physical body, and that our physical bodies are nothing more than like a sensory tool for us to collect sensory information about the physical experience, and that it gets shared at the soul level, because the soul ultimately wants to have a direct physical experience and to be able to create here in a physical life.

The soul is absolutely complete. That part of me that.

The soul is absolutely complete. That part of me that.

Went into this boy, that went into this oneness was absolutely complete. That's been something that, without a doubt, was so clear to me. But it was also clear to me that with that completeness, it also meant in that place that I was at, there was no good or bad. There is no right or wrong. There are no lessons to learn in the physical life. Now, how you live your life here in a physical world absolutely is going to have a good or a bad sensation for you, depending on your experience. If you experience something traumatic, it's not going to feel good. If you experience something blissful, it's going to feel great. But those actions as they translate to the other side, did not translate in my experience into anything that meant that you would be judged. And that judgment is not like a sorting tool. It's not like the Harry Potter sorting hat. Right, You're not going to go into this place or this place depending on your actions. It was really about you reconnecting to this part of you that you've always been connected to, but you didn't have the ability to bring it into your physical body for whatever reason. So when you connect to that oneness on the other side, you have the ability to create these experiences that you want to have in the afterlife. The connection of oneness, of bliss, of peacefulness in this place is unlike anything I have ever experienced in this physical life. But I understood that it's not like we're trying to check boxes here to get into an afterlife that we ultimately want to have forever and ever and ever. It felt very much like we are learning to bring that bliss that's a part of us at the soul level into our physical experiences.

Went into this boy, that went into this oneness was absolutely complete. That's been something that, without a doubt, was so clear to me. But it was also clear to me that with that completeness, it also meant in that place that I was at, there was no good or bad. There is no right or wrong. There are no lessons to learn in the physical life. Now, how you live your life here in a physical world absolutely is going to have a good or a bad sensation for you, depending on your experience. If you experience something traumatic, it's not going to feel good. If you experience something blissful, it's going to feel great. But those actions as they translate to the other side, did not translate in my experience into anything that meant that you would be judged. And that judgment is not like a sorting tool. It's not like the Harry Potter sorting hat. Right, You're not going to go into this place or this place depending on your actions. It was really about you reconnecting to this part of you that you've always been connected to, but you didn't have the ability to bring it into your physical body for whatever reason. So when you connect to that oneness on the other side, you have the ability to create these experiences that you want to have in the afterlife. The connection of oneness, of bliss, of peacefulness in this place is unlike anything I have ever experienced in this physical life. But I understood that it's not like we're trying to check boxes here to get into an afterlife that we ultimately want to have forever and ever and ever. It felt very much like we are learning to bring that bliss that's a part of us at the soul level into our physical experiences.

Powerful words and to remember we are all connected. Time for our break and Welcome back with a very different near death experience listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you for joining me on my sick day. My voice might sound a little funny, but the passion to share great evidence of the afterlife is still with me. The last voice you heard was Anastasia. You can find out more about her at the website The Healingheart dot com. She is a founder of a wellness studio in Illinois. I'm struck by these words from Bubba, how we are not that ego mind, that we get to love that go and just be our pure soul self on the other side, And from Anastasia that we are all connected, so we might think a little differently dealing with people, animals, objects, whatever. And from Lisa in the first segment, she shares her belief that near death experiences are comforting to your own beliefs. The next story is Jim Bruton, who is a pilot and I know pilots, having both a brother and a father. Airline pilots with very analytical minds. So this is quite a different near death experience, but it makes sense knowing Jim's a person who likes to understand how things work.

Powerful words and to remember we are all connected. Time for our break and Welcome back with a very different near death experience listening to Shades of the Afterlife on the iHeartRadio and Coast to Coast AM Paranormal Podcast Network. Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank you for joining me on my sick day. My voice might sound a little funny, but the passion to share great evidence of the afterlife is still with me. The last voice you heard was Anastasia. You can find out more about her at the website The Healingheart dot com. She is a founder of a wellness studio in Illinois. I'm struck by these words from Bubba, how we are not that ego mind, that we get to love that go and just be our pure soul self on the other side, And from Anastasia that we are all connected, so we might think a little differently dealing with people, animals, objects, whatever. And from Lisa in the first segment, she shares her belief that near death experiences are comforting to your own beliefs. The next story is Jim Bruton, who is a pilot and I know pilots, having both a brother and a father. Airline pilots with very analytical minds. So this is quite a different near death experience, but it makes sense knowing Jim's a person who likes to understand how things work.

My name is Jim Bruton, and on October six, twenty sixteen, I was in a really bad plane crash. I ruptured both lungs, I broke all my ribs, I broke my right leg and multiple plays, had a hole in my lower back from a battery breaking loose and hitting me. And luckily there was a man fishing nearby a lake where I was aiming for who was able to come over keep me propped up, called nine to one one and got a medical helicopter and to pull me out. Once the helicopter landed, extracted me and took me up to Hartford, Connecticut's Trauma Center to a waiting team of physicians. They were able to put me into a breathing machine and put breathing tubes down my throat and then contact my family. When my family got there a few hours later, they found me, you know, barely hanging on. I had escaped my restraints once and they'd put me back in them, and it was decided to put me into a medically induced coma once they did, I teleported. It was no tunnel I was going through like it was commonly reported, I literally teleported to this terrace of a tall, gray building in a post apocalyptic landscape. Imagine a city like New York a thousand years after a meteor strike or a nuclear blast, and just how horrible that would look. And I was also underneath these tremendous storm clouds that looked like they were just ready to cut loose again with the Mother of all storms. But I wasn't afraid. There was no sense of foreboding. I was just taking it all in and excepting this is where I am right now. All of a sudden, I was hit by this wave of nausea in my stomach, and I doubled over in pain and grabbed my stomach and I said, I don't think I can stand this. And when I said that, I heard this light clacking sound off to my left, and I looked over and saw what looked like maybe a four story tall sculpture of an egg made out of lattice work, meaning there were a lot of open spaces in it, and I can see through it, and within those open spaces I could see these slight movements. So I was able to make my way over to this egg and look through the open lattice work to its interior, and then I saw these hovering in space, freely suspended, little gears spinning around. Now, when we think of a gear, we think of a circle with teeth all the way around it. These particular gears were called sector gears, and they're partial arc of that gear. You usually find them in clocks, and they have a beginning in the middle and an end to their sweep, and that's significant in a certain way. As I looked at these gears, I could see that some were definite and some were not, and they could pass through each other like ghosts. They were also very hard to focus on. I think it's because they represented probabilities. And for that, I'm saying, when I looked at them, even though they might not be in focus, a video feed would play inside my head of what they represented. I would see myself, maybe as an older man, or I'd see my children with their children. So I realized these are events in my future, hence that they should be slightly out of focus because their probabilities. Because each moment is a decision point of a million possibilities, and as I looked at it, I remember thinking, okay, what is this thing? And with that, this disembodied voice came and kept me company the entire time. It said, this is the future, berthing into the now, this is the process of becoming. And my fingers, as I reached through the lattice work to see if I could touch them, brushed by one of the more solid appearing gears. And as I touched it, within my mind I could see something like a video feed of those future events. And that's when I doubled over in pain. Obviously this was a gear that was not good. And then with a reflex, I ripped that gear out, pulling it through the egg's lattice wall to throw it over my shoulder. And the machine then responded by spinning all those gears around again to recalibrate for missing one. And I said, what's happening now? Each gear is the probability of a word or action in your future. Your destiny is resetting itself around what you have removed. I said, how did I know I could do that? Pull that gear out, removing that future moment? And I said, why else are you gear? I said, I have no idea. I don't even know what this place is. And I said, you are in the end between. I said, in between what I said, everything the impossible now between the past and the future. It's impossible, and its short duration, yet it expands across universes. You are standing in the side of an eternity, of a single moment. And then it asked me, do you remember the world do which your body belongs? I thought really hard, and I said, I have no idea. I said, then you see the truth and how the past is dust. I said, okay, why do some of these gears, these futures that I touch, make me sick and not others? And I said, all choices have unintended consequences, some unfortunate and some not. The pain each brings is your guide. And I said, where are the gears that feel good? He said, You're not here to feel good. And then I saw more gears emerge within view, some passing through the others, Several clear and definite, many less so and hard to focus on, though all bringing with them their clear images of meaning. Each time they would come to rest, I would search around in there until I found one that caused me pain, and I would remove it, the one that would be to my future detriment. And at one point I looked at the growing pile of gears and I said, it's starting to look like if I don't have a bad future, that have no future at all. Even though I'm now starting to feel less pain, am I going to die sooner from doing all this? And they said, your destiny has to fit itself around futures that aren't meant to be. Your number of breaths are already counted, I will worry about your last one. I said, I don't know how comforting that is. And they said, eliminating bad choices doesn't mean you want to make wrong ones. You won't know there wrong until after they pass. And since right and wrong are variables over which you have no control, the answer is to what come tomorrow are a waste? Better is understanding the beauty of how things fit and refit together. I said, So what am I missing here in my lack of understanding? I said, what is clearly before you grace. No one deserves salvation, but it can only be given by grace. It's your birthright that it has to be chosen at the expense of the world, that separates us, and I said, this fixing my future is painful, and I feel ashamed. I'm not doing it with some moral compass. I'm only guided by pain. I don't even know where when these futures happen. They said, where is no more important than what? Or when? Removing your enthusiasm to further chain yourself to the world isn't as painful as carrying the crushing weight of those chains once forged around you. I said, it says if this place was made so that I can do one thing, and one thing only, with no chance to screw it up. And the voice then said, if those with choices make poor use of them, then offering fewer possibilities could be called mercy. I watch your gear disintegrate into dust as it passed out of view from the present to the past, and the voice said, you cannot change the past, but you can make better choices in the future. Everything is interconnected, and pay more attention to your relationships. Be gentle with everyone, as I'm gentle with you. I said, gentle, what's gentle about all this? And said, you prayed for something for which being here is the answer. And now the man who fell from the sky is not the same who flew into it. With that, I looked at across that dead city, just took it all in one final time and put my hand on the egg and I said, I think I can live with this now. And with that it pretty much booted me out and I came back to Earth, then woke up in a rehabilitation hospital taking this all in.