Beyond The Veil Near Death Experiences

Mother of four Crystal McVea stopped breathing for nine minutes during a hospital procedure and says she woke up in heaven, forgiven and remade. Her book Waking Up in Heaven was a New York Times bestseller. In this warm two-host discussion we explore what her experience suggests about life after death, love, purpose, and how a person should live afterwards.

Boy paralysed in a 2004 car crash, Alex Malarkey's coma story of heaven became a bestseller — and then Alex himself recanted it, saying he made it up. His book sold over a million copies before it was withdrawn in 2015. In this honest two-host discussion we explore his story, the recantation, and what it suggests about belief, storytelling, and how we weigh extraordinary claims.

Texas girl Annabel Beam lived with an incurable digestive disorder until she fell 30 feet inside a hollow tree, survived unhurt, and said she visited heaven — and then her symptoms vanished. Her story became the bestseller and Jennifer Garner film Miracles from Heaven. In this friendly two-host conversation we explore what her experience suggests about life after death, love, purpose, and how a person should live afterwards.

Atheist diver Ian McCormack was stung by five box jellyfish off Mauritius and says he first sank into darkness, then was pulled into light and met Jesus — waking up in the morgue 15 to 20 minutes after being declared dead. In this warm two-host discussion we explore what his experience suggests about life after death, love, purpose, and how a person should live afterwards.

Baptist minister Don Piper was pronounced dead after a truck crash and says he spent 90 minutes at heaven's gates, meeting people who shaped his faith. His book 90 Minutes in Heaven reached millions of readers worldwide. In this friendly two-host conversation we explore what his experience suggests about life after death, love, purpose, and how a person should live afterwards.

At four years old, after emergency surgery, Colton Burpo described heaven, Jesus, and relatives he had never met — including a sister lost in miscarriage. His story became Heaven Is for Real, selling more than 7.5 million copies and becoming a major film. In this warm two-host discussion we explore what Colton's experience suggests about life after death, love, purpose, and how a person should live afterwards.

Pronounced dead for 20 minutes, Scott Drummond describes being lifted to a place of light and love — and sent back with a message about living fully. In this friendly two-host conversation we explore what his experience suggests about life after death, love, purpose, and how a person should live afterwards. His story has been called the most-watched near-death experience of all time, with over 21 million views.

Imagine lying in hospice care with an inoperable, terminal brain tumor, having exhausted your life savings and resigned yourself to death. In 1982, stained-glass artist Mellen-Thomas Benedict woke up at 4:30 AM knowing it was his final day. He made his hospice caretaker promise to leave his body untouched, closed his eyes, and died. His caretaker found him cold and stiff, monitoring him with an amplified stethoscope and heart monitors that confirmed no pulse, respiration, or vital signs for an astonishing hour and a half. But while his physical body lay dead, Benedict embarked on one of the most comprehensive cosmic journeys in the history of near-death experiences.Guided out of his body, he entered a tangible, loving Light that transformed into religious figures and archetypal mandalas of connected souls. Going far beyond traditional NDE boundaries, he shot through the center of the galaxy into the Void, the zero-point stillness existing before the Big Bang. There, he witnessed universes creating and de-creating across cosmic cycles, discovering that all creation is made of living light and that human beings are designed to self-correct and heal. He woke back up on his floor, alive, and clinical follow-up scans three months later showed that his terminal tumor had completely vanished, which doctors dismissed as a "spontaneous remission".Yet, Benedict's story ignites fierce controversy. Did he genuinely transcend time and witness the cosmic origin of the universe, or was his 90-minute journey an extended, hypoxia-induced hallucination of a dying brain in severe palliative crisis? Tune in as we explore the shocking collision of quantum cosmology, terminal cancer, and life after clinical death.

Imagine being a 20-year-old U.S. Army recruit during World War II, suddenly struck down by a catastrophic bout of pneumonia. In December 1943 at Camp Barkeley in Texas, young George Ritchie collapsed. An attending medical officer found no pulse or respiration, pronounced him dead, and pulled a sheet over his face. But nine minutes later, a relentless ward attendant detected a slight flicker of chest movement and convinced the doctor to inject adrenaline directly into Ritchie's heart, bringing him back to life.While his physical body lay motionless beneath a sheet, Ritchie reported that his consciousness was wide awake, hovering above his bed and recognizing his frame by his fraternity ring. Stripped of physical form, he found himself flying hundreds of miles across the dark night landscape to Vicksburg, Mississippi, a journey featuring specific geographical landmarks that researchers later subjected to rigorous third-party verification. Encountering a radiant Being of Light emitting total, unconditional love, Ritchie underwent a 360-degree life review and was taken on an extraordinary tour of the afterlife. He witnessed earthbound spirits trapped by worldly addictions, a plain of souls locked in conflict, an intellectual Temple of Wisdom, and a distant City of Light, culminating in a 45-year prophetic warning about Earth's future.Decades later, while completing his psychiatry residency at the University of Virginia, Dr. Ritchie shared his story with a young post-graduate scholar named Dr. Raymond Moody. That single conversation ignited Moody’s investigation into over 150 cases, leading to the landmark book Life After Life and coining the term "Near-Death Experience".Yet, Ritchie’s account continues to ignite fierce debate. Was his out-of-body flight to Mississippi and tour of heavenly realms a genuine spiritual awakening that launched modern NDE science? Or was his 9-minute death merely the hyper-vivid hallucination of a dying brain flooded with adrenaline and severe hypoxia? In this thrilling episode, we unpack the historic case that changed how humanity views life after death.

Imagine standing in your bedroom talking on the telephone when a 180,000-volt bolt of lightning strikes the line, throwing your body into the air with enough force to shatter your bed frame. On September 17, 1975, 25-year-old former Marine Dannion Brinkley was electrocuted in his South Carolina home. What followed became one of the most famous and fiercely debated near-death experiences in history.Brinkley claimed he was clinically dead for 28 minutes before waking up. During his journey beyond physical reality, he reported floating above his body, traveling through a dark tunnel into a luminous crystal city, and meeting 13 spirits of light. In a 360-degree panoramic life review, he felt the direct emotional impact of every person he had ever hurt, from schoolyard brawls to military combat. Most chillingly, he claimed these divine beings showed him over 100 visions of future world events—predicting the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Gulf War, and the collapse of the Soviet Union decades before they transpired. His 1994 memoir, Saved by the Light, became a massive New York Times bestseller adapted into a hit television movie starring Eric Roberts.However, Brinkley’s sensational claims ignited an explosive, decades-long scandal. Investigative reports and statements from his attending doctor revealed that original 1975 newspaper interviews told a completely different story—showing he was only unconscious for a few minutes and revived by his wife’s CPR long before reaching the hospital. Skeptics also exposed holes in his military record, revealing he served as a state-side truck driver rather than a covert CIA sniper in Vietnam. Was Dannion Brinkley’s journey a genuine prophetic revelation from the heavens, or a masterclass in psychological fabulism? In this gripping episode, we confront the clash between mind-bending prophecy, neurological shock, and public deception.