Round Trip Death Podcast - NDE

What happens when love becomes so pure that missing someone is no longer possible?
In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett talks with author and spiritual teacher Darnella Ford.
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Darnella recounts losing her best friend to lupus — a chilling premonition, an eerie final text, a shared death experience (SDE), and a visitation where her friend walked through a wall to say: stop crying.
Even more striking is her account of being pulled into the realm where her friend now exists, discovering that some deeply human emotions, like missing someone, simply don't exist there.
This isn't just another NDE Experience story — it's a look at the bigger questions a Near Death Experience forces us to ask: Is death timed and orchestrated, or random? Do we truly have free will, or are we running on autopilot and childhood programming?
Darnella and Eric debate predestination versus agency and what it means to "win" against death, leaving plenty of room for skepticism.
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Aaron tells his story publicly for the first time.
At eight years old, Aaron Gould was dying of pneumonia in a California hospital, his body withering away under a doctors' pronouncement that nothing more could be done.
Instead of the ending his family braced for, Aaron slipped into a full-blown Near Death Experience — pulled through a tunnel of light into a shimmering, alive darkness, greeted by a tree, a "glass house" city humming with warmth, and a being he calls the Mother of Creation.
In this episode of Round Trip Death, Aaron walks host Eric Bennett through the sensory overload of his NDE Experience: water he could hear but not see, a path that lit up beneath his feet, and a profound, wordless conversation at the top of a staircase where he was told, simply, that it wasn't yet his time.
From a childhood NDE to a decades-later spiritual awakening that reshaped his faith, Aaron's Near Death Experience raises haunting questions about what waits on the other side — and why some of us are sent back.
Tune in for a rare, unpolished, first-time telling of an NDE experience that's stayed with him for over thirty years.
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A horrific auto accident takes the lives of 2 of Julie's children, and sends her to the hospital in and out of consciousness.
In that space between life and death, Julie Cluff found herself standing face-to-face with Jesus in a peaceful mountain meadow — while back in her body, doctors fought to save her and she didn't yet know her two youngest children, Carrie and David, hadn't survived the same Mother's Day car accident.
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In this gripping episode of Round Trip Death, Julie takes host Eric Bennett through the harrowing rollover crash, the calm voice that told her "bring your arm in" moments before impact, and the profound NDE/OBE that unfolded as she lay in the ER unsure if her kids were alive.
It's a Near Death Experience unlike most — one born not from her own dying, but from a mother's unbearable loss, and the otherworldly peace that met her in the wreckage of it.
What follows is even more startling: how a single Near Death Experience cracked open a hidden gift.
Now a spiritual medium, Julie explains how she still communicates with Carrie and David, why she believes their short lives were part of a plan made before birth, and what she'd say to any parent drowning in grief today.
If you've ever wondered what a Near Death Experience or NDE Experience can reveal about love, loss, and what waits on the other side, this conversation will stay with you long after it ends.

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What happens when a three-year-old drowns, sees her own lifeless eyes staring up at her, and consciously chooses not to return to her body?
In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett sits down with marine scientist Dr. Ingrid Honkala,PhD to unpack a lifetime shadowed — and illuminated — by death.
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Her first Near Death Experience unfolds like a fever dream: frigid water, crushing terror, then a collapse into silence so profound she spent her childhood trying to recapture it. She floats above her drowned body, chases bubbles made of light, and watches her mother's intuition pull her back from the brink — an NDE Experience so vivid it gets verified years later, down to the exact soap opera playing at the moment of her "return."
But one NDE wasn't the end — it was only the beginning.
Equal parts scientific rigor and mystical testimony, this NDE closes a decades-long ache — and leaves listeners questioning where science ends and spirit begins.

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He died — not once, but three times.
In this jaw-dropping episode of Round Trip Death, guest Cedar Branches takes us deep into an extraordinary Near Death Experience that defies belief: a deliberate leap off a bridge during a spiritual crisis, followed by what he calls a full-on resurrection.
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This isn't just any NDE Experience — Cedar describes crossing into an infinite sea of unconditional love, a place that felt like "home," before being sent back with three electrifying messages from Spirit: it takes more courage to live than to die, we can affect far more in life than in death, and his work on Earth wasn't finished yet.
From a corporate career at Microsoft to starvation-induced visions to a literal bridge jump, Cedar's journey is one of the most intense NDE stories you'll hear — raw, unfiltered, and unapologetically real.
This is an NDE story about suffering, transformation, and the electrifying truth waiting on the other side. Don't miss this one.
Note: this episode discusses suicide and self-harm. If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available for support.
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Art of the Wound (Autobiography): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8QCF85NAppied Karmic Magic (The Gift): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8T9JL74