PODCAST · religion
Afterlife Pod
by Nicholas Dove
What happens when we die?Is this one human life all we get?Why are we here?I explore the topics of afterlife, spirituality and humanity by looking at near death experiences.
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Episode 249 Linda B NDE 'God loves me' NDERF.org
The narrator describes a near-death experience during a traumatic labour where she entered a tunnel filled with bright blue-white light and felt overwhelming peace, love, and freedom from pain. Believing she had died, she encountered spiritual voices that told her she and her unborn son would survive and taught her about God, angels, free will, and the meaning of life and death. She was shown moments from her past and future, including times of guidance, suffering, doubt, and growth. The experience left her convinced that divine love and spiritual guidance are always present and that searching for truth is part of life’s purpose.
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Episode 248 Robert B NDE 'remained in that place for what felt like a literal eternity' NDERF.org
Robert, a rational teenager from the South Pacific who did not believe in spirituality, attempted suicide by taking sedatives under a tree at the grounds of the Little Sisters of the Poor. He then experienced what he described as a powerful Near-death experience, encountering a radiant being of light and entering a vast place where beings communicated without words and profound knowledge about existence was instantly understood. The being eventually told him he would return, and Robert suddenly regained consciousness in an ambulance where he was being resuscitated. Later, nuns confirmed he had been found with no pulse and not breathing. The experience deeply changed his understanding of life, though he shared it with very few people for nearly thirty years.
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Episode 247 Sherry G 'I was filled with love' NDERF.org
Growing up in San Jose, I dreamed of becoming an athlete, supported by my father who encouraged me in everything I did. But after my grandmother’s death and my parents’ divorce, I lost that support and began struggling with deep emotional pain, turning to food and later bulimia to cope. My desire for acceptance and perfection led me into destructive relationships, drug use, and eventually methamphetamine, as I chased an unattainable image of beauty and worth. This path brought me to a breaking point, where I felt lost, empty, and ready to give up. In 1997, after a near-death experience caused by my eating disorder and drug use, I experienced a profound sense of love, clarity, and purpose. I was given a second chance and came to understand that true healing comes from self-acceptance, love, and living with purpose. From that moment, I committed to rebuilding my life, using my experiences to grow, help others, and inspire people to recognise their own inner strength and potential.
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Episode 246 Angela S NDE 'We do not change when we die. We are always butterflies' NDERF.org
Angela awoke one morning unable to breathe and was taken to hospital, where she lay struggling for air before suddenly feeling free, weightless, and completely unafraid. She sensed two loving guides who lifted her from her body and showed her a vast vision of creation, where she understood that everything is connected and that every action matters. She then learned that death is not a change of self but a change of place—that we carry no material things with us and remain who we are. When she returned to her body, the pain and breathlessness resumed, but her fear of death was gone, replaced with deep assurance that life has meaning and that what comes after is good.
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Episode 245 Kelly K NDE 'i was in awe' NDERF.org
Kelly describes a near-death experience in which she suddenly found it easy to breathe and felt herself ascending through a warm, reddish tunnel toward a brilliant light. She sensed that she had died but felt calm after being reassured that her children would be safe. During the experience, she was shown a vision of the universe where everything was connected, like a vast network, and she understood the deep importance of all life. As she moved closer to the light, she experienced beautiful music, colours, and overwhelming feelings of unconditional love from beings who communicated with her telepathically. Just before reaching the source of the light, they gently told her it was not her time and that she had to return. When she woke back in her body, the knowledge she had gained quickly faded, but the memory of the experience and the sense of the unity of all life remained with her.
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Episode 244 Cara M NDE 'part of a collective consciousness' NDERF.org
Cara was a reckless teenager who overdosed on cocaine and alcohol in a remote area. Her friends witnessed violent seizures and believed she had died when her heartbeat stopped. Days later, Cara began recalling a vivid out-of-body experience in which she watched her own death, burial, and the passage of time beyond her physical body. She then experienced a profound state of pure energy and interconnected consciousness, where identity and time no longer existed. A voice told her she was not meant to die yet, and she suddenly returned to her body, feeling renewed. She now lives a healthy, drug-free life.
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ep 243 Steve B NDE 'Love never fails' NDERF.org
Steve describes having a near‑death experience in 1998 where he felt he crossed into another realm beyond physical life. He travelled through darkness and a tunnel into a place of overwhelming light, love, and higher energy beings who communicated without words. He witnessed a life review, reliving his actions and feeling the emotional impact he had on others, both positive and negative. Steve says he reached a peaceful “ocean of no return” but was told he could not stay because his life’s purpose was unfinished, especially regarding his son. He believes souls choose to incarnate to grow through imperfect earthly experiences and must release negative energy before returning “home.” After being sent back into his body, he struggled emotionally but gradually reframed life as a learning journey centred on love and forgiveness. Steve now teaches that life is about experiences and memories, and that forgiveness frees the soul from burdens that complicate the journey beyond death
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Episode 242 Mary W NDE 'no strings attached to God's love' NDERF.org
Mary, a nurse and mother of six, had a profound near-death experience during a car accident in July 1994 when time seemed to stop just before her vehicle was hit by a semi-truck. In those few seconds, she felt enveloped in overwhelming love, sensed God’s presence, and experienced a vivid life review in which she felt both the joy and pain her actions had caused others—without judgment, only love and understanding. She was shown that life’s purpose is learning to love others and oneself through small acts of kindness, and she was given a choice to stay on Earth or leave. Choosing to return, Mary survived the crash with only minor injuries and was deeply transformed, losing her fear of death and living thereafter with a strong sense of purpose, compassion, and certainty that God is unconditional love.
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Episode 241 Andy P NDE 'Light that looked like a thousand exploding suns' NDERF.org
Andy was a joyful high-school student who nearly drowned during a lake picnic just days before graduation. As he sank helplessly, he heard a calm inner voice telling him to let go. The moment he stopped struggling, he felt himself leave his body and travel through a dark tunnel toward a brilliant, loving Light. All pain and fear vanished, replaced by warmth, peace, and overwhelming love. Andy experienced a life review without judgment and felt completely known and accepted. The Light spoke his name and told him he was loved, but then instructed him to return. He awoke back in his body on the beach, deeply saddened by the loss of the Light. Although he told others he remembered nothing, the experience remained vivid for the rest of his life and later inspired spontaneous poetry that Andy felt was flowing through him from the Light.Interview with todays experiencer.......https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmZ--8WtAqc
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Episode 240 Brian T NDE 'radiantly full of love' NDERF.org
When Brian was ten, he slipped from a small dam into a fast-moving river. Caught in an undertow, he lost all sense of direction and believed his life was ending.In the darkness, his life appeared in brief flashes—his mother’s face, his siblings, moments of love. He was drawn through a tunnel of light, filled with peace and belonging. At a boundary, he sensed he could not cross and return.A guardian presence told him his time was not yet finished. Brian was pulled back into his body, heard a voice telling him to stand, and was lifted from the water.He survived, forever changed, carrying a quiet certainty that his life was given back to him for a reason.
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Episode 239 Brent S NDE 'descriptions beyond language, holiness unspeakable' NDERF.org
I saw that humanity’s blindness was part of a divine plan—so that when the veil lifts, joy will flood the world. Awakening isn’t tied to time but to changes in human consciousness. Each person who heals and opens their heart helps loosen the veil for everyone, until it finally falls. I saw lights around the earth—people already touching the Divine. Their joy helps raise the whole world. Jesus taught me that true faith is a shift of consciousness, not obedience. He freed me from old obligations and guided me directly into God’s love. Then I was welcomed by Heavenly Father, who showed me my life’s struggles were gifts and that a new purpose was beginning. Finally, Heavenly Mother embraced me with perfect, complete love—the deepest wholeness I have ever known.
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Episode 238 Shalom G 'GOD is NOT only one religion, but ALL religions' NDERF.org
Shalom recounts that after a serious car accident shortly after graduating high school, he was pronounced dead and experienced profound peace, love, and a journey through a tunnel of light, where he was told it was not yet his time. He later endured years of struggle, loss, and illness, leading to a second near-death experience during surgery, where he encountered guardian beings, a life review, and a loving presence he recognised as Jesus, whom he was invited to call “Big Brother.” He was told he must return to fulfil his mission: to help healers heal, to serve without ego or greed, and to unite people of all faiths through love, forgiveness, patience, and inner awakening. Raised Jewish, educated across traditions, Shalom understands God as beyond any single religion, believing all people are connected as one through the divine spirit, and that true faith begins with recognising that inner unity.
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Episode 237 Leo P NDE 'I saw love he had for all humankind' NDERF.org
Leo was struck by a car and felt no pain, only darkness and a strange tunnel of light that carried me above the Seine, free from breath, gravity, and time. Fear and disbelief surged as I realised I had died, yet I observed the world slowed below me, glowing with halos, and discovered I could move and accelerate at will. Thinking of my family brought sorrow, but curiosity and longing drew me upward, until a being of immense love and light appeared, showing me my memories and filling me with an indescribable, limitless compassion for all humanity. In his presence, I felt clarity, forgiveness, and the profound truth that intention and love matter more than we realise. Then, I was returned to my body on the road, the experience lasting only seconds, yet it transformed me forever, leaving a warmth and faith in love that endures, even in loneliness.
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Episode 236 Diane C NDE 'I am at peace' NDERF.org
During an MRI with contrast, Diane felt her body burning alive—her throat swelling, vision fading, unable to breathe. Yet she didn’t press the panic button; finding the truth mattered more than fear. As she lost consciousness, pain and time disappeared. There was no past or future, only a vast, peaceful now. She was the void, and the void was her—completely at peace, beyond fear or regret. When she awoke, everything had changed. She no longer believed peace could be found through death; it arises only through being fully present. That timeless stillness remains the most profound experience of her life.
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Episode 235 Wayne H 'completely at peace' NDERF.org
I was struck by a car while pushing a disabled vehicle and briefly died, awakening first to darkness and then to a radiant light where I observed my body from above in a state of complete peace and euphoria. I encountered a presence and a vast, flowing “river of life,” understood as a collective consciousness containing all experiences, where individuality and unity existed simultaneously. Within this knowing, I experienced the life of Jesus as a human being who taught that death is not to be feared and that love, equality, and spiritual awakening are humanity’s true nature. I felt this realm was home and longed to remain, but was shown that I must return to endure pain that would shape me. I then fell back into my body, later undergoing surgery, carrying with me a lasting understanding of unity, love, and the continuity of consciousness.
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Episode 234 Jack C NDE 'miraculous light' NDERF.org
Jack underwent routine gall-bladder and hernia surgery under full anaesthesia, during which he experienced a profound near-death–like state marked by heightened clarity, peace, and an expanded sense of consciousness. He perceived himself separate from his physical body, observed the operation from above, and then found himself in a luminous, nurturing environment filled with overwhelming wellbeing, love, and understanding, where time and fear did not exist. Jack intuitively sensed the presence of people connected to him and an unspoken knowing that he must return, after which he awoke in recovery with an intense feeling of loss at leaving that state. The experience left him deeply changed, convinced that consciousness exists beyond the brain, that life continues beyond physical death, and that this awareness is natural, timeless, and independent of religious doctrine.
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Episode 233 Lucia L NDE 'So much love' NDERF.org
Lucia is severely allergic to narcotic pain medications. During her gallbladder surgery, a medication error caused a severe reaction, and she went into cardiac arrest. During that time, she had a near-death experience: observing the medical team from outside her body, traveling through a vivid tunnel, encountering other souls, and standing before a radiant being and Jesus, who offered her symbolic “gifts.” She was eventually revived after hours of complications. In the weeks afterward, Lucia began experiencing voices and prophetic visions about world events. Doctors could not explain these experiences, as she showed no signs of mental illness.
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Episode 232 Ron K 'Ultimate Force of Pure Love' NDERF.org
This passage recounts a near-death experience following a severe car accident at age fifteen. After leaving his injured body in hospital, the narrator describes entering a peaceful, highly aware spiritual state, free from pain, fear, and ego. He encounters a collective entity made up of his past lives, experiences unconditional and universal love, and learns that the purpose of life is spiritual growth through compassion. He is then drawn before a divine Trinity embodying an ultimate, impartial force of love, where he undergoes a life review focused on understanding—not judgment. Although he deeply resists returning to Earth, he ultimately chooses to do so, knowing his task will involve suffering and uncertainty, and awakens back in his physical body with only partial memory of what he was shown.
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Episode 231 Filiesha NDE ' The real I AM is a Spiritual Being' NDERF.org
Filiesha’s life changed after a near-death experience during a serious accident. Floating above her body, she glimpsed her true spiritual home — a place of love, unity, and awareness — and was given the identity Truth Seeker. She realized humanity’s purpose is to grow through love, compassion, and forgiveness, leaving fear behind. This revelation guided her exploration of spirituality and religion, showing that enlightenment comes in many forms, each following its own path toward the same light.
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Episode 230 Peg A NDE ' love beyond anything I could ever describe' NDERF.org
This is one of the better experiences I have read lately that describes the light. She believed she was dying and felt herself move from panic into deep calm and acceptance. Fear and pain faded as she separated from her body and became aware of a powerful vibration and a radiant Light that drew her forward with overwhelming love and familiarity. Within the Light, she experienced a life review and a profound sense of home. When she saw her husband Pete, she understood her life with him was not finished. Though she did not want to return, she accepted that she was needed. She was then pulled back into her body, gasping in pain and confusion, surrounded by medical staff. The last thing she heard was someone saying she had almost died.
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Episode 229 Wan I NDE 'happiness I've never felt when getting closer to the light' NDERF.org
When he was fifteen, the stress of his parents fighting and pressure to succeed pushed him into a breakdown. A psychiatrist misdiagnosed him, and the medication caused numbness, paralysis on one side, and a terrifying near-death experience. He felt himself leaving his body, moving through fading vision toward a bright, peaceful light where all fear vanished. A young man—who later looked like his grandfather—appeared and stopped him from going further. He suddenly returned to his body and later recovered. The experience changed him deeply: he became more sensitive to people’s emotions and felt a stronger connection to God, believing the event happened for a reason and gave him gifts meant to help others.
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Episode 228 Mel W NDE 'He felt a love unlike anything before or since' NDERF.org
When he was seventeen in 1972, he lost consciousness after taking drugs and entered a vivid, peaceful realm. He travelled through a dark tunnel into a radiant garden where beings of light communicated with him through pure understanding. They showed him Earth’s history, life on other worlds, and the truth that every thought affects creation. He eventually met a great Light he felt was God, who told him the meaning of life was love. He didn’t want to return, but was told he had a mission only he could do. As he agreed, angelic beings sang in honour of him—me, a lost kid who never felt valued. He came back deeply changed. Though he lived an ordinary life—marriage, children, military, police—he believed his real purpose was to show kindness and spread love. Now, facing the loss of a young relative, he trusts that death leads back to that realm of love where nothing is ever truly lost.Here is the link for the experience I just read in his own words......Sorry, it is not letting me paste the link so just google....'Wayne Morrison Teenage NDE radio'
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Episode 227 Mathilda M NDE 'light radiates Love' NDERF.org
Mathilda M became critically ill with meningitis and chose to stay fully conscious without hospital sedation. As her fever worsened, she calmly “let go” and entered what she describes as another reality. She felt herself move through a bright vortex into a vast, peaceful light where her body, thoughts, and personality disappeared. Only pure consciousness remained. She felt limitless, weightless, deeply loved, and held by a compassionate, golden presence. There were no visions of tunnels, guides, or past-life reviews—just an experience of being immersed in unconditional love and unity. Mathilda understood this light as the source of all life. She sensed that all beings share the same cosmic energy. She hesitated to return but chose life because of her love for her family. The return was painful, but the clarity she brought back transformed her. Afterwards, she felt a deep inner peace, less attachment to ego, and constant awareness of a silent, loving consciousness behind all things. Everyday reality and the “other side” felt continuous. She no longer feared death, seeing it as a transition, not an end. Her experience ended a 30-year spiritual search. She realised that the divine essence is always present, that separation is an illusion, and that life’s true nature is love. She continues to live normally but with greater serenity, compassion, and understanding that all beings are united in the same luminous consciousness.
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Episode 226 Blaženko K STE 'Love is all there is' NDERF.org
In 1989, he had a sudden spiritual awakening while sitting on a bench. It felt as if he woke up from a long dream and realized his everyday self was only a character, while his true identity was something far more real. His awareness expanded to the vastness of space and time, and he sensed that everything existed in one eternal moment. He experienced that all things were actually one single conscious reality—and that this One was him. He then felt a loving, omnipresent Presence watching him, whom he recognized as Father: a being of pure, warm, radiant love. Soon he understood that he and Father were the same being, and that Love was the very substance of the universe. When he asked about illusion, Father showed him a “cloud of worries” hovering over people—a field made of imagined fears and anxious thoughts. That, Father revealed, was the true Maya. As normal thoughts returned, the experience faded, but its impact stayed with him.
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Episode 225 Carolyn B NDE 'Every cell soaked in His love' NDERF.org
In August 2005, Carolyn was rushed to hospital with life-threatening complications. Her body was failing, and doctors said she had only forty-eight hours to live. While in an induced coma, she experienced a profound spiritual encounter: a brilliant, loving figure in white held the hand of a young girl—herself—and enveloped her in a love beyond human understanding, telling her it was not her time to die. When Carolyn awoke, she felt spiritually reborn, seeing herself as pure, forgiven, and deeply loved by God. Though her recovery was long and painful, she emerged with unshakable faith, knowing she had been miraculously saved.Today recommended listen.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aguTPw_8goU
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Episode 224 Linda S NDE 'God and I are one, Creator and created' NDERF.org
Linda grew up fearing a wrathful God due to strict Southern Baptist teachings. After a severe illness, she let go of life and experienced a near-death journey, where she was embraced by Christ and carried into a brilliant Light — God — who revealed unconditional love, oneness, and peace. Returning to her body, her fear of death vanished, and she discovered the ability to see angels and spirits around people. This transformation inspired her to share messages of divine love, interconnectedness, and life beyond the physical realm.
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Episode 223- Luis S Spiritually Transformative NDERF.org
In this experience, a man's quest for knowledge and intelligence leads him to discover he is actually looking for love.
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Episode 222- Greg Ns experience 'I had no sense of even having a body' NDERF.org
Greg's mundane dream undergoes a remarkable transformation, transcending its ordinary and forgettable nature to manifest as a vivid rendezvous with the divine.
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Episode 221 Katie NDE ' the light was love in form' NDERF.org
In 1992, Katie had lung surgery and, while anesthetized, felt herself rise above her body into a warm, radiant light where she experienced a profound sense of peace and love. She glimpsed her life, understood others’ feelings, and realized her purpose was tied to love, connection, and compassion. Though she returned to her body, the experience changed her forever, filling her with a deeper awareness and desire to live fully.
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Episode 220 Sarah S NDE 'Home was of pure love' NDERF.org
Sarah became addicted to a drug for a year and — after deciding to stop — experienced a relapse that left her dissociative and suicidal. While her body drove dangerously, the conscious part of her negotiated with the suicidal part, obtained a tiny dose, and fell into a deep, peaceful sleep. She had an out-of-body, near-death experience in a bright, ethereal space where a voice of Oneness offered her the choice to stay or return; she reluctantly chose to go back. Sarah woke in an ambulance, initially disoriented and irritable, but ultimately felt lighter, calmer, and grateful. The experience transformed her beliefs: she now sees death as a transition into a state of pure peace and love and feels reassured that everything will be okay.
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Episode 219 Bryan D NDE 'the most loving, familiar energy, washed over me' NDERF.org
Ryan experienced a transformational near-death vision where a universal guide showed him his soul’s purpose and handed him life-saving instructions; he came back, followed them, recovered, and now feels compelled to heal and awaken others.
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Episode 218 James W NDE 'I was made from Love' NDERF.org
At thirteen, during gym class in May 1961, James leaned against a fence, looked at the sky, and suddenly shifted into a profound mystical state. He experienced a white light, an indescribable oneness, and unconditional love. He felt outside his body, floating above the schoolyard, and realized he could choose to stay or return. Choosing to come back, he awoke to his teacher and classmates gathered around his body. The experience left him certain that everything is one, that God is present in all, and that love is the essence of existence.
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Episode 217 'engulfed by an overwhelming love' IANDS.org
In the spiritual realm, she encountered souls as radiant orbs and understood that death is not an end, only a return to divine love. She saw that no one is judged by God—only by themselves in a life review, feeling the impact of their choices on others. Darkness, she learned, has no power unless we feed it with fear and shame. She was told: “Know thyself. Be the Light. Be the Love.” Back in her body, shaken but changed, she realized everything was divinely guided—even her partner’s call that saved her. She now lives with the truth that love is the only thing that matters, and that we are never alone.
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Episode 216 JB NDE 'Light was highest love, tantalizing, living' NDERF.org
In 1973–74, while training in film and television, I underwent surgery and was plunged into darkness under anesthesia. I raced through a tunnel toward a radiant, living Light—an overwhelming presence of pure love. Just before I could merge with it, a commanding voice asked, "Are you ready to die?" Terrified, I begged for another chance. The Voice responded, "You promised to help others. You have failed." After pleading with all my being, I was granted a second chance.I found myself in cosmic space, shrinking into a dot of consciousness. The Voice, now plural yet unified, said, "In the beginning was God..." I understood that God is the source, boundary, and life of all existence. I was within God and yet myself. I saw a past life and was reminded of my purpose: to help others awaken spiritually. When I awoke in the operating room, only ninety minutes had passed, though it felt like a journey through eternity.Recommended experience.....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9sMEjCg_2E&t=1133s
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Episode 215 Daniel A NDE 'immersed in infinite peace' NDERF.org
Daniel went through a difficult period in his life, struggling with poor health and emotional distress. One night, after consuming too much coffee, he was unable to sleep and experienced what seemed to be a near-death experience (NDE). His heart stopped for several seconds, during which he felt detached from his body, saw his life flash before him, and experienced a profound sense of peace and knowledge beyond human comprehension. He believed he was close to joining a divine entity but ultimately returned to life, realizing he still had a purpose on Earth. After restarting his heart himself and visiting the hospital, he learned his condition was due to nutrient deficiencies causing arrhythmia. His NDE profoundly changed him, leaving him with a heightened understanding of life and death, an increased IQ, and a belief that life is a learning journey before returning to a greater existence.Today recommended video....https://youtu.be/Ag_5i2c95U4
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Episode 214 Cathleen NDE 'I am his creation' NDERF.org
After being poisoned, Cathleen lost her senses and slipped into darkness. She descended into a terrifying void filled with the anguished cries of countless souls. Desperate, she cried out to God, and a great hand lifted her out. She rose to a peaceful place where familiar, loving beings greeted her. Still confused, she asked repeatedly, “What about Cathy?” They told her not to worry—she was safe now. Then, Cathleen met God. They spoke without words. He told her He had created her, loved her deeply, and wanted her to stay. She felt an overwhelming love greater than anything she had ever known. God showed her a hallway of doors—each representing a new life. She had the choice to stay or return. Though Heaven was perfect, she longed to say goodbye to her parents. Suddenly, she was back in her body. She had chosen to return. Her father died four years later, and she’s still saying goodbye to her mother.
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Episode 213- Andreas Probable NDE 'I was nothing, yet I was conscious' NDERF.org
Andreas consumed "legal highs" which led to an out-of-body experience. They felt disconnected from their body and questioned existence, comparing the sensation to being in a video game. After observing their own heart beating from outside their body, they were jolted back to reality with a dangerously fast heart rate. Seeking medical help, their condition stabilized after a few hours. This experience made the author reflect on consciousness, its possible existence beyond the physical, and its relation to quantum physics, advocating for empirical exploration over mere beliefs.
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Episode 212 Michael H NDE 'purest form of 'love' there is' NDERF.org
At sixteen, Michael had a near-death experience during knee surgery when his heart stopped. Though sedated, he became aware of the medical team's voices and then found himself in a state of pure love and peace, beyond his body. He felt united with God and had no fear of death. Wanting to ease the distress of those in the operating room, he focused his energy—and suddenly returned to life. Now fifty-three, Michael believes he was brought back because of his concern for others. He is certain we continue to live beyond physical death in a more beautiful form.
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Episode 211 Glauco S NDE 'the light just engulfed me' NDERF.org
At eight years old, Glauco and his two brothers nearly drowned in the Rio Guaíba in Brazil. During the incident, he had a near-death experience where he was embraced by an angel, shown a life review, and felt overwhelming love and peace. After miraculously surviving 22 minutes underwater, he and his brothers were found safe. Decades later, they admitted to each other that they’d all seen angels. Glauco now feels compelled to share that God and heaven are real.
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Episode 210 Shawn J NDE 'It was where I wanted to stay for eternity' NDERF.org
In 1974, after a month-long hospitalization, Shawn neared death from a mysterious illness. A priest administered Last Rites, and he welcomed death as a release from immense pain. He then found himself floating through the universe, guided by a being toward an indescribably brilliant Light, experiencing profound peace and love. Becoming one with it, he felt he had encountered God. Returning to life felt like a loss, and he initially resented it. With NDEs largely unknown at the time, he confided only in a former sweetheart, an ER doctor, before keeping the experience to himself for years.
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Episode 209 Tasha L NDE 'This space radiated unconditional love and acceptance' NDERF.org
Tasha’s second near-death experience transformed her life. Raised in a troubled home with no knowledge of faith, she endured trauma, depression, and anxiety in silence. In 2009, during a low point, she collapsed at school and experienced a profound journey.She found herself outside her body, free from pain, traveling through light to a blissful realm surrounded by loving, radiant beings. These beings showed her she’d been guided and protected throughout her life, even in her darkest moments. Immersing in a river of light, Tasha felt renewed, returning with a sense of love, purpose, and hope she had never known.Todays recommended experience....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FD5lReqe64
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Episode 208 'Love was beyond description' NDERF.org
While bedridden with severe flu and depression, the person felt close to death and let go. They entered a tunnel of golden light, heard unearthly music, and felt the overwhelming presence of God’s love. They realized they had never been truly connected to God before. Returning to their body, they recovered rapidly and were deeply transformed, feeling compelled to share the experience Today recommended video....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUhqsU0NMSM&t=3709s
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Episode 207 'peace like I cannot find words to explain' IANDS.org
This experincer nearly died from septic shock on October 10, 2023, after a kidney stone caused a severe infection. Placed on a ventilator with multiple organ failure, he was unconscious for days. During that time, he experienced total darkness, fear, and confusion—unsure if he was alive or dead. In the darkness, he cried out to God and saw a light that grew into a peaceful presence filled with overwhelming love. He felt drawn into it, washed free of pain and fear, and filled with deep peace and clarity. Memories of his mother, a kind man from his childhood, and a past relationship reminded him how powerful love could have been. The presence stayed with him even as he woke, hearing his daughter’s voice and seeing light return. After the ventilator was removed, he began to understand what had happened. Deeply changed, he came to believe that love wasn’t just from God—it is God. Though still healing, he now feels spiritually transformed, sensing love all around him and within him, even as he adjusts to life again.
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Episode 206 David J NDE 'This presence radiated immense power and love' NDERF.org
David found himself in a dark void, missing the familiar sounds of life. A voice called out directly in his mind, asking, "Are you back already?" He saw a distant blue-white light and felt drawn to it. As he approached, he recognized a friend, appearing as a glowing sphere of light. David asked, "Are YOU GOD?"The friend laughed and replied, "No, I am not. They are the Shepherd, guiding and protecting." After their brief conversation, David returned to the void, now accompanied by a powerful, loving presence. This presence radiated immense power and love.Others appeared and reviewed David's life, focusing on his thoughts and emotions. The presence told David he must return to life to accomplish something, influence someone, and learn more. Before returning, the presence said, "Tell no one. It is not yet time."Forty-two years later, David felt the presence again. This time, it said, "Now is the time to tell your story."
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Episode 205 Carry G Experience 'I felt so alive, so free, so loved' NDERF.org
At 21, Carry visited a college friend in Kansas. Though agnostic, he agreed to pray after being told he was “afraid to.” He said, “If I’ve done anything wrong, I’m truly sorry, and if there is a God, I want to know you.” Suddenly, gray scales seemed to fall from his eyes, and a brilliant white light filled the room. A presence in the light, full of love, spoke into his mind: “Carry, I love you exactly the way you are.” Overwhelmed, he asked, “Is it alright to be gay?” The being gently replied, “Carry, that is not the most important question,” with joy and compassion. The being touched him, and a golden, living light filled his body with joy and peace. In that moment, he knew the being was Jesus. The experience changed his life. Carry became a Catholic priest and often sees the spirits of the recently deceased, radiant with love. He no longer fears death—because he knows we are all deeply, unconditionally lovedRecommended listens/ watch.............1. Richard Rohrhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD7B3wr3xeY2.NDEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gPXoPtmNP4&t=2363s
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Episode 204 Gene J NDE 'Power of Christ had saved my life' NDERF.org
Gene was a casual Roman Catholic who rarely practiced, unlike his devout parents and wife, Cindy, who attended church regularly with their daughters, Amanda and Amber. Though he drifted from churchgoing as a teenager, Gene always believed in prayer, often praying for the sick.One day, he noticed an elderly man with a curved spine and, feeling grateful for his own good health, he prayed to take on the suffering of others. Shortly after, Gene was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Days later, while mowing his lawn, he suffered a massive heart attack. His daughter Amber called 911, and paramedics rushed him to the hospital. On the way, his heart stopped, and he had a near-death experience, finding himself in a bright white space, feeling an overwhelming sense of peace. Just as he neared a mysterious doorway, voices called his name, and he woke to find himself in the hospital.Doctors diagnosed him with severe heart damage requiring major surgery. While in intensive care, his daughter Amanda gave him a crucifix necklace, and upon wearing it, Gene felt an intense spiritual awakening. Later, he encountered a grieving woman whose husband was in a coma. Overwhelmed by a powerful force, Gene grasped her hands and prayed with her, feeling divine energy flow through him. The experience left him emotionally drained but reaffirmed his belief in God's power.Looking back, Gene felt deeply connected to something beyond earthly existence, believing he had experienced the presence of God and the Holy Spirit firsthand.Today's recommended episode....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH_T_DPHhis&t=3s
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Episode 203 Andre R 'Everything was love and I was eternal' NDERF.org
After a workplace accident left André electrocuted by 4000 volts, he had a profound near-death experience. As his body shut down, he left it—entering a realm of overwhelming light, peace, and love beyond words. In that space, he felt eternal, free, and completely loved by a presence he can only describe as divine. He saw his life clearly and realized he had loved too cautiously. In that moment, he understood: love is our true nature. When his children’s spirits urged him to return, he did—forever changed. Since then, André has lived with a single goal: to love more deeply and authentically, even in a world that often doesn’t understand. The memory of that infinite love guides him every day.Todays recommended video..............https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isCKesvjtNw&t=3867s
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Episode 202 Luis H NDE 'No judgment. Just compassion. Just love' NDERF.orf
One night, Luis woke up struggling to breathe. As panic set in, a calm, metallic voice told him, “Relax and let go. All is well.” He suddenly left his body and was drawn through a tunnel toward a vivid, otherworldly beach filled with peace and love. There, he encountered glowing beings and eventually Jesus, who radiated unconditional love. Luis expected judgment but instead was filled with light that erased his fear, guilt, and past addiction. He felt completely known, loved, and at peace. Jesus told him, “Love is the only thing that’s real.” After thinking of his wife, Luis returned to his body, forever changed—more loving, free of fear, and filled with a deep sense of divine presence in all things.Today video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD7B3wr3xeY
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Episode 201 JMH NDE 'light had no real form, it was delivering love' NDERF.org
JMH endured 24 hours of severe breathing difficulty, culminating in a Code Blue in the emergency room. During this near-death experience, she felt her soul leave her body, encountering a peaceful being and entering a realm of light and love. She rested in a formless, golden-connected "pod" with countless others, all tied to a central being radiating peace and love. She sensed her late father's presence and was asked if she wished to stay or return. Recognizing her unfinished purpose, she chose to return despite the foreseen challenges.Awakening from a coma, JMH carried the peace and love from the experience into her life, finding resilience in emotional pain and trusting in divine guidance.Today's recommended experience https://youtu.be/PdIXHExitkw
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Episode 200- Veronica NDE 'God knows I love Him and I am trying' NDERF.org
In 1995, Veronica experienced a near-death event after disturbing a wasp nest and going into anaphylactic shock. In the ambulance, she heard paramedics say, “She’s flatlining.” Then, she was gone.She found herself in a place of radiant light—calm, loving, and beyond words. A central being of love, whom she calls God, showed her an image of her daughter and told her she would need her. Knowing it would please God, Veronica chose to return. She woke up in a hospital bed, to the amazement of her doctors.Life afterward was challenging—a painful divorce, financial loss, and declining health. Years later, her daughter faced a life-threatening pregnancy, and Veronica was there to care for her. Her granddaughter, born against the odds, is now thriving.The experience transformed Veronica. She strives to live in alignment with God’s love, grow spiritually, and help others do the same. Though she longs for the perfection of heaven, she trusts there is purpose in her being here.Here is a good discussion on why there is evil/suffering in this world.....https://youtu.be/_qVZnHgBb1g
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What happens when we die?Is this one human life all we get?Why are we here?I explore the topics of afterlife, spirituality and humanity by looking at near death experiences.
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Nicholas Dove
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