Round Trip Death Podcast - NDE

Heavenly Basketball Game With Stepdad!
What really happens in the moments after your heart stops? This episode of Round Trip Death brings together two guests with strikingly different connections to the same profound mystery: the near death experience.
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Host Eric sits down with Makai Calles — a journalist turned filmmaker who himself had a childhood NDE after a venomous scorpion sting in Mexico — and Bubba Herrick, a former college baseball pitcher whose routine elbow surgery turned into a full-blown clinical death.
Makai wrote and hosted the new documentary Final Hours, and his own near-death experience as a seven-year-old set him on a lifelong path of investigating others' stories, including Bubba's.
Bubba's account is the heart of this episode — and it's a wild one. After an allergic reaction to anesthesia stopped his heart on the operating table, he describes floating above his own body, undergoing an intense 360-degree life review filled with guilt and unexpected anger at himself, and then being pulled into a breathtaking realm of pure light.
There, his deceased stepfather appears — not with words, but with a basketball, recreating a childhood memory in real time. Their telepathic "game" becomes the vehicle for a message about purpose, responsibility, and reluctant return.
The conversation digs into why so many NDE experiencers report depression and grief after coming back, how life priorities shift dramatically post-experience (career changes, fading fears, even divorce), and why guilt-driven life reviews like Bubba's are actually the exception rather than the rule.
Equal parts eerie, emotional, and hopeful, this episode asks the big question the show is built around: if these accounts are real, what do they tell us about fear, death, and how we're meant to live right now?
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She died for 45 minutes... and saw nothing but darkness. So why did it feel like Heaven?
In this episode, Claudia Edge recounts the most harrowing night of her life — bleeding out from a placental rupture while giving birth to her fifth child, as doctors raced to save her baby while her own heart stopped.
What followed wasn't the typical tunnel-of-light NDE. Instead, Claudia floated through the hospital watching her own resuscitation, then crossed into an infinite, pitch-black space she insists wasn't a void — it was absolute love, a feeling so complete she calls it being "swaddled" by the universe.
No tunnel, no relatives waiting for her — just overwhelming peace, until a nurse's voice pulled her back.
Claudia also shares things she's never discussed publicly: encounters with benevolent extraterrestrials, ongoing afterlife communication with her late sister and mother, "pre-life planning" of our hardest struggles, and an intimate vision of Jesus as a playful big brother rather than a figure to worship.
Skeptic or seeker, this is one of the most unconventional NDE stories we've featured — and barely scratches the surface of her new book.
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https://www.amazon.com/Dying-SPIRIT-SCHOOL-Curriculum-Teachers/dp/0999463551/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3DL6RK10WBYN2&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HSVYyuBr1b-GJo0Ckg4qfO1qdQypHIFWHemFAFXg8rjGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.uUdTEwKLHIB-mwrhUYIYZ5TiO9Qfaf44LvaO43DpbiY&dib_tag=se&keywords=dying%2Bto%2Bgo%2Bto%2Bspirit%2Bschool&qid=1782757102&sprefix=dying%2Bto%2Bgo%2Bto%2Bspirit%2Bschool%2Caps%2C276&sr=8-1#

At age four, Scarlett Heinbuch drowned in a pool—and watched her own body sink while her spirit hovered nearby in a state of overwhelming love. This NDE (Near Death Experience) changed her, and the trajectory of her life.
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During her NDE Experience, she chose to come back for her mother's sake, but the door between worlds never fully closed, leaving her with a lifetime of precognitive dreams, remote viewing, and unexplained phenomena she spent decades researching just to feel sane.
Then in 2005, a stranger asked her to pray over her dying son, David, who was comatose with destroyed kidneys and a grim prognosis. Scarlett experienced a shared near-death experience (SNDE) with him—recognizing his soul in a field of light—then later saw towering blue "healing beings" performing what looked like a holographic kidney transplant at his bedside. David's kidneys, supposedly damaged beyond repair, fully recovered.
The two strangers married a year later, and Scarlett now researches others who've encountered the same mysterious blue figures.
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In this powerful episode, host Eric Bennett welcomes Lynn Arches-Rappaport, a Massachusetts teacher and grandmother, who shares her Near Death Experience (NDE) from nearly 50 years ago.
While surfing in Puerto Rico, Lynn was caught in a brutal set of waves, slammed against a reef covered in sea urchins, and began drowning. At the moment she feared she wouldn't survive, she was pulled out of her body.
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Her NDE included a vivid life review, a tunnel with a shadowy being, a welcoming group of entities, and the presence of both her deceased father, Jesus, and God, all bathed in an overwhelming sense of pure love and warmth unlike anything she had known on earth.
Lynn describes her Near Death Experience as "more real than real" — a state of unconditional love so complete that it transformed her understanding of life, death, and her difficult childhood.
She returned from her NDE with a mission to share her story and has since written a memoir, Entangled. Lynn also discusses the life lessons she believes souls choose before birth, and why she no longer fears death — viewing it instead as a homecoming to a place of permanent, boundless love.
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*Warning: Contains Some Discussion of Abuse
Not all NDEs come from happy places. When Renee Christine Martine was five years old, her father — a former member of the White Fence Gang hiding from the Mexican mafia behind a Jehovah's Witness conversion — came home in a rage and sent a tent pole into her face.
Thirty-one stitches, a 45-minute drive bleeding out in a station wagon, and something else: floating above the farm looking down, a mysterious woman no one else could see, and absolute love and peace on the other side of it all.
She has no paper that says she died. She doesn't need one for us to know it was a near death experience (NDE). What she came back with — apparitions appearing in her bedroom, premonitions that spooked her parents, a ghost in a pea coat outside her window at 16, and a lifelong magnetism for paranormal phenomena — made it pretty clear something had shifted permanently.
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