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03.15.2022 - By Alex TsakirisPlay

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William Peters, one of the leading authorities on the remarkable shared death experience phenomena.

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[00:00:00] Alex Tsakiris: On this episode of Skeptiko the truth about what happens after we die. Now I could jump right into that truth. With today’s outstanding guest William Peters. But why go with the straight truth? When we can mix in a little bit of Hollywood, Stephen King fantasy, crazy stuff. A clip.

[00:00:26] Clip: You can hear me imagine like me, I don’t know about magic. I always call it. The shining

[00:00:36] Alex Tsakiris: That’s when the movie doctor sleeping. And while that clip sure is scary in spooky, the movie does stumble onto some kind of real truth about the afterlife and in particular, the transition to the afterlife that can be experienced by other people who were in the room, it’s called a shared death experience. And you’re going to hear about it in this amazing interview I have coming up. But first. Another clip from the movie where Danny.

And yes, this is Danny from the shining all grown up. Anyway, Danny is in hospice with this older gentlemen whose dying and Danny is experiencing that crossing over.

[00:01:20] Clip: What a visited from to sleep really is. So what do you see today? let’s see your twin sons four years old and he them, I do ah, look at that. I could take a cards all out of order. not scared of hell dog, huh? I lived a decent life. Don’t think there is such a place anyway. I guess I’m scared of. There’s nothing. We don’t end Charlie. I know that for certain, I don’t know much else, but I know that we don’t

[00:02:12] Alex Tsakiris: , not bad. But how about this? How about one of the world’s leading authorities, unshared death experience, a psychotherapist who studied it for over 30 years. Runs an organization with multiple PhDs, including medical doctors. Who’ve looked at the phenomenon.

so what is today’s guest William Peters find? How about this story? Imagine this at this point, this cus already had a very , traumatic near-death experience when he was just 17 years old, . Nearly killed him. Very nearly paralyzed them. He recovers from that and he got a Cates his life to kind of service .

Winds up through a series of events working with homeless people, people in need in San Francisco And as he’s telling the story that he’s about to tell circa 1980s, this happens to be a lot of people who have contracted aids and are dying and are completely shunned and ostracized by society. So they’re living in these burned out buildings

in the worst parts of downtown San Francisco. This is back in the day when there were worse parts of San Francisco. Now it’s all billion dollar condos. Nonetheless. William has his first encounter with a story that is a shared death experience. It’s unbelievably remarkable. This is.

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