The show’s guest, Canadian clinical psychiatrist Manuel Matas, MD, is an experiencer who can differentiate between the various symptoms of mental illness and truly anomalous experiences. On the show, and in his book, The Borders of Normal, he describes his own paranormal experiences, and his hope that by sharing his knowledge of both psychiatry and the experiencer’s world of the multi-dimensional, he will help de-stigmatize paranormal and psychic phenomena.

This week, Lee reads the written accounts of NDEs experienced by Dr. Rynn Burke & Jean Barban.

Rynn Burke, MD, RN was a brilliant internist and board certified in Pediatrics, Hospice & Palliative Care, and as a medical specialist in HIV, she adored empowering patients. A survivor of severe child abuse, Rynn fought neuroendocrine carcinoma since age 18, breast cancer, and finally myeloma. Initially she was a Pediatric ICU nurse at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. In 2002, In addition to being trained in Western medicine, Rynn was an herbalist and Native American healer. Dr. Burke passed away on April 24, 2021 from multiple cancers. She was best known for inspiring others to fight fiercely for love.

Jean Barban is a professional artist, with her works on display in galleries from the Midwest to Colorado. She has traveled to her favorite national parks pursuing her passion as a wildlife photographer. Jean's heart had been attacked by a virus and over a period of years had deteriorated.

She received a heart transplant, and not a day goes by that she is not grateful. For Jean, every day is a gift.

Read the entire Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics (NIB) NDE Symposium in

*VOICES, Healthcare After a Near-Death Experience, originally published in MUSE by John Hopkins University Press, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2020.

To read the NDE Symposium commentary article written by Lilia Samoilo & Diane Corcoran, Ph.D, Closing the Medical Gap of Care for Patients Who Have Had a Near-Death Experience, please visit, VOICES p. 51-6.

https://nibjournal.org/voices/healthcareafternde/

*VOICES includes three commentary articles and all 18 accounts of NDErs that participated in the NIB NDE Symposium.

The show's guest, Barbara Mango, co-hosts Alternate Perception Radio with Brent Raynes. Convergence: The Interconnection of Extraordinary Experiences, which she co-authored, is her debut book. Barbara first guested on NDE Radio on our show of Nov. 6, 2017 -- a must-listen, as she describes amazing changes in her father, a Jewish atheist who experienced OBEs as he was dying of pancreatic cancer. Barbara's prayers for an ADC with him have been answered, as you will hear today, along with an amazing new viewpoint on the nature of overlapping consciousness.

The show's guest, Ken Johnson (in photo with wife, Hatsy), was an air traffic controller for 36 years before a life-and-death struggle triggered by H1N1 led to a demon encounter near the hospital morgue, and a Bible-referenced, life-changing NDE.

When today's guest was just 16 years old, she was crushed when the horse she was riding stumbled off a hillside and crushed her underneath. Though she was raised Jewish, Heidi found herself unsurprised to be holding hands with Jesus, who took her into the light of God. Heidi;s recovery led her to a year in Israel, and ultimately to a remarkable career in Hospice nursing.

The show's guest, Irish-born Lorna Byrne, was blessed from infancy with the vision to see the angels that surround us every day. This gift, combined with her near-death and shared-death experiences, has made this diminutive, soft-spoken woman an internationally best-selling author with more than a million readers. Her books, Angels in my Hair, Stairways to Heaven, A Message of Hope from the Angels, and Love from Heaven have been translated into 30 languages.

Ambivalent about God until his death, materialist Jim Woodford could have been drawn into Hell but for the six words of a saving prayer, "God forgive me...God help me!" Jim returned to his body, after 11 hours, with a profoundly disturbing story concerning his NDE.

Lillie Leonardi, the show's guest, may have arrived on earth under an agreement with God to be split in two, divided between the laws of church and state and the reality of the metaphysical. An NDEr already, FBI agent Leonardi witnessed legions of angels, and the blessed mother, at the crash site of Flight 93.

The story that Geo. Washington had a prophetic vision at Valley Forge has been refuted by historians, but confirmed by some psychics. Whether the vision story is true or not, Washington's Farewell Address answers the internal divisions the vision warns of, divisions that could drive America into a second civil war.

Keyaunoosh Kassauei, MD, known as Dr. K, is an international medical graduate, including a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Medicine. But in 2006, this Iranian doctor became the patient and, post-surgery, she died and went into the light. As a result, Dr. K developed a passion for coaching in healthcare, and has founded "My Conscious Coaching Group," a coaching non-profit that works with NDErs, among others.