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Verified Near-Death Experiences

• Stan Mallow

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What happens when we die? While this question has fascinated humanity for millennia, clinical hypnotherapist Simon Bown brings something remarkable to the conversation: verifiable evidence. In his interview with host Stan Mallow on “Paranormal Yakker” Bown presents compelling cases where people who were clinically dead witnessed events they couldn't possibly have known about—events later confirmed by medical professionals and witnesses.

Whether you're a skeptic, a believer, or somewhere in between, this episode of “Paranormal Yakker” opens doorways to extraordinary possibilities about human consciousness and what might await us all. Discover why Bown believes these verified accounts offer genuine proof of an afterlife—and what that revelation means for how we might choose to live.

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Hi everyone, I'm Stan Mallow, welcome to Paranormal Yakker. My guest today is Simon Bown. He's a clinical hypnotherapist& an author specializing in topics related to consciousness, reincarnation, & the afterlife. I'll be talking with him about his book Verified Near Death Experiences, Proof of An Afterlife. Simon Bown, welcome to Paranormal Yakker. It's great to be here. I'm looking forward to talking to you. Your academic & professional life has been devoted to exploring the nature of consciousness & its potential existence beyond the physical body. What Simon was there about the subject that initially got your attention & by any chance is there a backstory regarding how your interest in the field came about? I've always been interested. Even when I was 10 years old, I was getting books out of the library on supernatural stuff.& then later on, I got hold of Raymond Moody's book, Life After Life.& that was in the 80s.& the book was published in '76 & that really got me interested in near death experiences. There weren't very little books out then about this phenomenon, & I started investigating it& I investigated all sorts of things. I would go to the College of Psychic Studies where they would teach people how to be a medium& channel & psychic stuff past life regression,& I wasn't a student there, but you could go& pay a little bit of money & sit with these students & they could practice all this stuff on you so I'd be there every couple of weeks, just investigating just to see what comes out.& I was taken through a past life regression& I sat with a channel & a medium & I started having my own experiences, UFO sightings& psychic things, dreams & all sorts of weird stuff happening.& so it's been a spiritual path in a way, & then I got to a point where I wanted to do a podcast. so I started doing that in 2018 & now I've done over 800 episodes in total. So I've got the our paranormal afterlife podcast& another one called Alien UFO Podcast,& it's been a real education making all those episodes & I've written this book, which is mostly people who have been a guest on my podcast. They told me about their near death experience, but we also talk about these verification events where they saw something while they were out of body that they shouldn't have been able to see, & then that's later verified, which is a good evidence that their consciousness left their body while their body was dead,& I find it really fascinating.

In Verified Near Death Experiences:

Proof of an Afterlife, there are nearly 30 individual profound near death experiences, each one coupled with irrefutable verification that challenge the understanding of life, death, & the afterlife. How Simon did you go about selecting the cases included in the book? Well, about 24 of them, have been guests on my podcast, so I was able to talk to them about their whole near death experience& the verification events that happened.& then I wrote the book & I did further Zoom calls with them to go over what happened & when the book was nearly finished, I sent them to their chapter because each chapter is a different person & I got them to check it for accuracy so I can be sure that those chapters have been checked by the actual experiencer who has confirmed that it's all correct. but there are some others that I wanted to put in their kind of famous ones, like there's a lady called Pamela Reynolds. There's a guy called Al Sullivan. Then I was doing research looking for older ones& there's stuff in there from 1911, 1950s. There's a guy who was a British author in the Victorian age who had an experience that he wrote about in his memoirs.& there's there's one there that's really good from the Association of Near Death Studies Journal.& it's it's was investigated by these 4 researchers who kept going back to the the doctors & talking to them about what happened.& that that's a real solid case. So most of them were guests on my podcast, but the others with me researching & reading books & things. Detailed descriptions of events that occurred while the experiencers were clinically dead are given. Can you Simon give me one or 2 examples of people who described events that were taking place while they were clinically dead? Yes, so there's Barbara Bartholemy. She was having an operation on her spine& the day before they wanted to do a test where they inject some ink I don't know what sort of ink, some special ink into a spinal cord, like the base of her skull,& then the table she was on had a motor on it that would tape it up& the ink would go down her spine & they could use X-Ray stuff to see if there was a leak anywhere in a spinal cord so they knew where to operate.& the guy controlling the table pushed the wrong button& it went the wrong way & the ink went into her brain& basically she died on the table there.& so all this emergency stuff started happening. A nurse got on the phone calling for a defibrillator trolley& 2 X-Ray guys starting CPR& they were doing it 2 minutes this the chest compressions then they'd swap & the neurosurgeon was in there & the orthopedic surgeon & another guy came running in& with this device & he attached some of those stickers on her chest. You know, they could measure her heartbeat& you could see it was flat lined & she saw all this happening from a vantage point on the ceiling.& so when she was resuscitated, after about 20 minutes they'd stabilized her& she pulled her oxygen mask off& said well, what just happened? I saw you do this & you did that& all these things they did to resuscitate her & everybody's actions & their conversation she correctly accounted all of it, & the people where she was where it happened, they knew that she was dead because they knew her heartbeat was flatlined.& I had a guest on my podcast, Eben Alexander, who was professor of neurosurgery at Harvard medical school. He told me that when your heart flatlines within about 20 seconds or so your brain will flat line & you're dead, & it's impossible to make& retain complex memories, but that's exactly what happened with Barbara Bartholemy,& the neurosurgeon couldn't handle it. He stood next her & she said he clenched his fists& his teeth, & he said, I'm not going to stand here & listen to this,& he stormed out the room, but the orthopedic surgeon sat with her& said, okay go over it again tell me exactly what happened,& all the people in the room were listening while she recounted it it's been difficult to talk to the hospital about it cause they know it's their fault that she died then & they're liable so no one wanted to confirm anything for her. I really like that case because it's very solid, but there is a skeptical argument that says well, she was in that room her body was there& she may have had some form of consciousness. She may have heard things going on& hallucinated it, which is very unlikely. She had other spiritual stuff happen while she was in that space so there's another case in the book where this guy sees things happening 7 kilometers from the hospital while he's been given CPR in his bed,& that that's a guy called Tibor Pudnocki. He was an Hungarian. In the early 90s he went into hospital with very high blood pressure. The doctor said they were very worried about him. He didn't know if he'd survive,& a little while later he just found himself standing in the ward& he felt fantastic, & these nurses were running past him & a doctor & they were crowding round a bed& he looked round he thought ah, it must be a VIP patient there. They're getting so much attention. He didn't realize it was him& he looked at the room to the side of the ward. There was a 2 way mirror, so the nurses could see her out of that room into the ward, but you couldn't see in that room from the ward,& he wondered what was going in there& then instantly he was like kind of like teleported into that room & there was a nurse with a trolley by a cabinet. She was getting all these things out of the cabinet really quickly, putting them on the trolley she dropped something& it went under the cabinet& he wondered what that was,& suddenly he found himself just a few inches from it, & he reads the label on there& the serial number, & then there was a nurse on the phone talking to her husband& he started listening into this phone call& he knew what the husband was saying& they were talking about the children were ill & she was trying to tell him where the phone number was for the doctor because you know, early 90s we didn't have mobile phones. You wrote the numbers down in a book yourself.& he thought about that man& then again he teleports. He's instantly in the apartment with this man that's 7 kilometers from the hospital so he could see the furniture, the books on the shelves, the carpet, & he noticed this guy's socks, & they had lots of little animal pictures on,& he thought to himself, what sort of a man wears socks like this. To cut a long story short because he had a life review& these other spiritual things happened to him& after he was resuscitated, the doctor sat with him & said so you are dead for 9 minutes. What happened? So he told him about the nurse at the cabinet & the thing that was dropped underneath,& the doctor went & looked under the cabinet, & there it was just as Tibor had described it,& he even got the serial number correct on that& then they talked to the nurses on the phone & she confirmed the call, the content of the phone call,& the doctor said to her, do you know this man Tibor has he been to your apartment? She said no never so they went to the apartment, the doctor& the nurse & he looked around. It's exactly as Tibor described it,& when he came back to the hospital, he was holding those socks in his hand with the little animal pictures on, so there's several instances of things that happened that were all confirmed, & they knew that this phone call happened while he was dead effectively in a bed than they were giving him CPR. So that's a whole series of verification events there& I like that one as well. Veridical near death experiences offers one of the most compelling lines of evidence for the possibility that consciousness can exist independently of the brain. What Simon is it & can you tell me about Maria, a woman in Seattle, whose veridical near death experiences is one of the most famous ones on record? Yes, she was in hospital & she had her near death experience, & during it she left the hospital building & went above it,& she saw this tennis shoe on the roof& so after she was resuscitated, she told them the medical staff & said what color it was the angle it was lying at, the scuff marks on it where it was on the roof, & there's a nurse called Kimberley Clark, she went to look for the shoe through the window couldn't see it went outside the hospital looking up, couldn't see it then she went up on the roof& she found that shoe exactly as Maria had described it. The color& the scuff marks of the angle it was sitting, & the nurse Kimberley knew absolutely you could not see that shoe from if outside the hospital or from that hospital room that Maria was in. There's no way she could have known about this shoe & known the details of it. That's a famous case because it's it's so solid & veridical. You Simon write about a man who apparently died at birth, was resurrected. How did that story play out? One at the beginning of the book, Simon Moody was talking about it. That's the one where he was telling his parents that the room he was born in was painted pink& they thought it's it's a bit silly, but as he got older, he kept saying it no, I remember he had that near death experience at birth& he saw the pink room, & the thing was his parents were in the military& he had been born in the Philippines. They contacted the hospital & actually got hold of the doctor who delivered the baby & said what color was was the walls & the doctor said well, we had pink walls then. We run out of all the other colored paints& we needed to paint the rooms so we had to paint it pink. so this guy he'd had that near death experience when he was born & he still remembered that room& the color of the walls & they'd moved back to the States when he got older there's no way he could have seen it as a child or when he was growing up. David Wallace was born on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, often regarded the most spiritual island in the Hawaiian chain. During his life he has had 4 near death experiences. How rare or common is it Simon for someone to have multiple near death experiences? I don't think it's very common. I have talked to a few people. There's Ivonne Kason had more than one PMH Atwater had more than one then there's Wendy Rose Williams had 4& I'm not sure why this happens as a woman in my book called Deborah King who has 2 because I wonder why does somebody have a near death experience because there's lots of people who have, say a cardiac arrest & their brain flat lines & their resuscitated they don't remember anything no near death experience. So why does some people get it & others not & then there's that next question why would somebody have multiple near death experiences?& I wonder if the spirit world is in some way orchestrating it, giving it to them because they need it for some kind of spiritual reason. Maybe their life's off the path it should be on or that they need like what you might call a care, a spiritual kick up the pants to get them on that spiritual path that's supposed to be on. But then there's other people like Franco Romero in my book. he was 6 months old when he had his near death experience. He didn't remember it till he was 15 so maybe there are people out there who have near death experiences, but they don't remember them immediately. It could be years later. It starts coming back to them,& with Franco he wondered if these were powerful dreams were just nonsense,& it was just his brain making stuff up until he talked to his mum about everything he'd been seeing in these dreams & she confirmed it was all correct. He had nearly died while he was in hospital at 6 years old, 6 months old. Amongst the experiencers you interviewed are those who give vivid insights about visiting the other side& describe meeting ancestors there who they never met before, only to later recognize them in old photographs or through family stories. Can you give an example of one of those experiencers? There was one lady who, when she was in the that kind of out of body state, there was a woman with her who she didn't recognize & that this was a some this was a spirit. It wasn't somebody who was still alive.& she asked her who are you?& this woman said I'm the one that named you. After the the near death experience a lot of other things happened to her, but after that she was home recovering & it was like 6 months of recovery because she had such an awful thing happened to her to caused the near death experience.& her mother was going through loads of old family photographs & the woman that had the near death experience came over to the desk & looked over& there were all these women dressed in 1950s clothing standing together, & there was the woman that was in the near death experience,& she said to her mum, who's that? She was in the near death experience,& her mum said, well, that's your grandmother, but she died before you were born.& this woman said, she told me she named me, & then her mum started crying & said she was alive while I was pregnant with you& she told me that we should give you this name, & that's the name I gave you, but I never told anybody where I got the name from. There's no way that she the woman called this name could know that's who named her her mother had never told anyone. So that that was a nice verification. That's a guy called a woman called Crystal Faith & it was her grandmother who said we should call her Crystal Faith& she's has all these different incidences in her near death experience where she saw family doing things like she saw her children at home packing a suitcase for her because she's in the hospital& she saw her sister in a car driving to the hospital& she was able to talk to these people afterwards,& she said to me I drove them crazy because I kept asking them over & over did that really happen?& they were going yes, it really happened. You you did see this thing.& at the time these things were happening, she was in a medical helicopter being taken to the hospital. You know, obviously, there's no way she could have known about all these little details that were going on around in her family. Many who have had near death experiences report profound transformations, including a greater sense of purpose, compassion,& decreased fears of death. Could you tell me about a few of those people& describe in what ways their lives would change were altered as a result of their near death experience? Yeah, one that stands out to me is not in the book. It's a Howard Storm, who, when he was in his 30s, he was a professor of art & he took a load of students from America to Europe to go to these great galleries,& while they were in Paris, he became very ill with terrible pain in a stomach, & he was lying on the hospital bed,& the next thing he knew he was standing next to the bed,& he was trying to talk to his wife,& he couldn't work out why she was just ignoring him.& he saw this body in the bed that he kind of recognized it was himself, but he told me that at this point in his life he was an aggressive atheist. He wasn't just an atheist,& so he thought it couldn't possibly be his body, & then he heard some people calling him from the hallway saying, Ker Kay Howard, come with us come with us, & he he went with them & he was walking down the hallway with them & he was said he started thinking, I'm sure the hospital wasn't this big, this hallway's going on forever& it just got darker & darker& these people started getting quite mean & he said, I'm going to go back to the room & they wouldn't let him. They're pushing him, shoving him, swearing at him all these things & eventually they got to this space where there was no light. They couldn't see a thing & they attacked him, so it was quite a distressing near death experience& he was on the floor & he heard a voice in his head saying pray, but being an atheist, he didn't know any prayers. He started quoting Shakespeare & a TV commercial, but then he remembered the Lord's prayer& started saying it, & all these people around him started to back off. He could hear them shouting at him, but they were getting further away, so he kept saying this prayer,& this light appeared pin point of light up in the sky,& it came down & he was lifted up into the light,& he said it was Jesus that lifted him up,& I said, how could you be sure it was Jesus & he said to me, oh boy, you know you know when you're there. After the near death experience before it he was an aggressive atheist. Afterwards he went to seminary,& he became a pastor, & so that's how much he was changed, & how he's the pastor of a church. It's like this thing some people might see near death experiences are hallucinations, but hallucinations don't change people that much that their entire life is different. 70% of people that have near death experience get divorced because they are so changed, & I think there's a thing that people become much more worried about the environment& the climate, & they're no more longer interested in making loads of money & having all these material things.& so if somebody's partner, their husband or wife, they like the material things. They're like, what do you mean you're giving up your job? I like having the holiday & the Porsche that there's a thing called the life review that a few of them in my book you experience your whole life. Everything you've ever done, you see everything bad you did, everything good you did, but you see it from the other person's perspective, so if you are mean to someone, you feel how it is when you are mean to them you feel bad, & it's a real kind of empathy there that you understand your impact on the people around you,& I think because you feel how bad they felt when you come back from it, you have a totally different attitude to how you relate to people& you you don't be mean. I find that the people that have had I find in my podcast, I've done 350 episodes. I find the people that have had a near death experiences are so good to deal with. They're so nice & they're very generous people & caring,& it really stands out, so the near death experience can really change people. Should viewers of Paranormal Yakker

want to buy Verified Near Death Experiences:

Proof of an Afterlife, learn about other books you've authored, your podcasts& past life regression sessions, how Simon, can they do that?

My website is:

PastLivesHypnosis.Co.Uk& there's info on my book there, but there's also my calendar if you're interested in doing past life regression with me & I've done hundreds of them over Zoom. You can book a free 20 minute consultation to talk about what you might want to achieve. My book is on Amazon. It's worldwide. I've also got it on other places like Barnes & Noble & they probably won't have it on the shelf. You have to order it in or you can order it from their website.& my podcast is Our Paranormal Afterlife& the other one is the Alien UFO Podcast. So you can find those on Apple & Spotify & everywhere. I'm all over the place, I suppose. Simon Bown, I thank you for being my guest on Paranormal Yakker. Yakking with you has been a most informative experience. Thank you. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. It's great talking to you.