Is Death A Lie? | NDE Researcher Dr. Donna Thomas

Happened to me when I was about 7, undergoing removal of my tonsils under general anaesthetic. Left my body, eyes were looking down on the blue curtain around my bed from the height of the tiles in the ceiling; went to find my mum in the corridor who wouldn’t respond to me talking. When I returned to my body and being awake I could see two healthy elderly people (man stood and woman sat down in a nearby chair and I was racing out to them but no one else could see them). It made a big impression and impact on me. Made me very empathic and also gave me an ability to “see” into the future to some degree. All sounds mad when written down like this but it’s true.

Our daughter had a near death experience at age 3, due to near drowning in a group swimming pool. At one time, a few years later, she was with my wife at a certain beach location; she started to tell her mum, that there was something about the location that was making her feel uneasy, and my wife casually mentioned to her that a number of people had drowned there, over the years and our daughter animatedly responded: 'That's it, that's it, let's go, I don't like it here!' Just one other incident -and there are others. On one occasion, at primary school, our daughter started to tell some of her friends, that her grandmother had just died. A few hours later my wife arrived, about an hour earlier than usual, and told our daughter that something had happened in the family, which proved to be just as our daughter had revealed to her friends. This is a very interesting interview, with Dr Donna, there's far too much 'swept under the carpet' and pathologised by the high priests of materialism in Western society. Kudos, for the interview.

I had a NDE aged 4. If it's any comfort for a parent of a child who has drowned I did not suffer the transition. I remember the saltness of the water but that's all. I did not struggle and any suffering did not happen. I floated out of a peaceful body into a new state of being The only bad bit was coming back. And the resuscitation.

On several occasions, when I was a child, I remember floating in my bedroom and looking at myself in bed.

The most vital question for each and everyone of us, "Who/what am I"? She knows, experientially, she is not the body? No one is. So what is the full, never changing reality. The body, mind, sight, hearing, world, people etc. change constantly. Love this conversation. More like this, please.🙏

58:40 "The wonderful thing about children is they are natural philosophers." This gives me hope as it points to a capacity innate and still alive (if obscured) in each of us. Thank you.

I have been grieving my whole life because these questions have always been of utter importance to me in a world that simply ignores them, and doesn’t even dimension them. I studied philosophy with the aim of understanding myself and the world around me—and I’m glad there are academics like this that allow children to have the space to develop psychospiritually and look at themselves clearly.

When i was a child, i could see things no one else saw but whenever i told people, they laughed it off. I buried that part until recently when i randomly predicted the death of both of my parents. Its so important to not make fun of children and just let them be themselves

I'm no academic, but it's so refreshing to hear from Dr. Thomas; breaking from material-reductionist science, recognizing "paranormal" experiences, integral theory-type cooperation, and bringing consciousness into all this research with kids & social areas where they're not treated/viewed as bio-machines. And so much more that I won't get into. It does give one hope that things can actually change for the better! Great & exciting work!

I love hearing this discussion from someone with her accent! I'm not English, but it seems the doctor's accent wouldn't be considered upper class. We usually hear such high level intellectual/academic discussion from people with very thick upper class accents. She just flows with high-level intellectual and philosophical concepts and academic jargon with, what I'm guessing, is an English working class accent! Lovely. She's overturning institutional paradigms on more than one level, for sure!