Category: near death experience

Train Accident Survivor Experiences the Realm Beyond and Gets a New Lease on Life

What is your worst nightmare? When you watch a train speed into the platform, has your brain ever—despite all logic—succumbed to its innate love for drama? Out of nowhere, your imagined body is tumbling hopelessly through the air and into the incoming train. That thought alone is enough to send a chill down anybody’s spine….


Dying Patient Enters Heavenly Realm, Chooses to Return to Sick Body | Mysteries of Life (S1, E7)

Life is full of tough choices—which home to buy and where, go to college or pick up a trade, place your loved ones in a care facility or care for them at home. Some, believe it or not, say they are given the choice to stay in a heavenly realm or return to a dying…


Robert Bare Died for About 45 Minutes, Had Intense Near-Death Life Review | Full Interview | Mysteries of Life

Robert Bare, co-founder and vice president of Spiritual Awakenings International, shared with Mysteries of Life about an intense and introspective life review he had during one of his near-death experiences. For more on spirituality, read the founder of Falun Gong’s latest articles and responses from readers. …


Atheist Overdoses, Meets God and Sees How She Picked Her Own Life

Betty Guadagno is a recovery coach, helping others overcome their addictions and heal toward a more authentic and whole version of themselves. It’s work she approaches with gratitude and experience, having once “reprogrammed” herself out of a victim mentality “by the grace of God.” “It’s really amazing just to be able to hold that space…


Elizabeth Taylor’s Near-Death Experience in the 1960s

Elizabeth Taylor was an icon—two time Oscar winner for best actress and activist, she was a trailblazing woman of the 1900s. In 1992, Taylor appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and shared a near death experience that she had in the 1960s while she was in London and was pronounced dead from a pneumonia. “I…


Materialist Doctor Does 180 After Seeing Heaven During NDE | Mysteries of Life (S1, E6)

Materialism, a theory that denies the existence of the soul, has had a powerful influence on the sciences. Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, would subscribe to this theory until he had a near-death experience (NDE). After the bacterial meningitis worsened and he went into a coma that left doctors with low hope, Alexander says he…


PREMIERING 4/29 9:15PM ET: Materialist Doctor Does 180 After Seeing Heaven During NDE | Mysteries of Life (S1, E6)

Materialism, a theory that denies the existence of the soul, has had a powerful influence on the sciences. Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, would subscribe to this theory until he had a near-death experience (NDE). After the bacterial meningitis worsened and he went into a coma that left doctors with low hope, Alexander says he…


The Myth of Er

Well, I said, I will tell you a tale; not one of the tales which Odysseus tells to the hero Alcinous, yet this too is a tale of a hero, Er the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth. He was slain in battle, and ten days afterwards, when the bodies of the dead were…


Jeffery Olsen on His Near-Death Experience: ‘I was home’ | Full Interview | Mysteries of Life

Jeffery Olsen, co-author of the international best-seller “Where are you?”, shared his dramatic and life-changing near-death experience with Mysteries of Life. …


ICU Doctor Sees Series of Medical Miracles, Says Phenomenon Is an Invitation to Be Critical but Open

Death is a phenomenon that instills fear in people, because no one knows what happens after death, and death is often linked to pain. Dr. Laurin Bellg is a critical care physician, and throughout her career she has come across several patients who died but came back. From the patients she talked to, she concluded…