Near Death Experiences: The Ultimate Truth About Your Soul’s Purpose, Consciousness, & Oneness

I all of a sudden felt this tremendous sense of sadness.

Yeah.

To think that the biggest realization for most people-

Is at the deathbed.

...is at the deathbed.

Many of the, the death experiences that I've been around in which the individual let go of the body fully, like letting go of that egoic construct, they will journey immediately off the planet, and they will go to other planets. They will go to, you know, distant times and places. They'll j- jump to future places, and then they'll come back in and they suddenly snap out of a coma and tell you something absolutely mind-blowingly ridiculous that doesn't fit into our reality here.

Holy cow. If you've ever been with somebody as they are passing on...

They're whole. There's basically bookends of the human experience that everybody's going to, to have. They're gonna come in whole and they're gonna leave whole.

If I think about my own experience of my life, there are those moments, like one that comes to mind is thinking about being at the bottom of the aisle on my wedding day, and I looked straight down the aisle and Chris turned and he flashed this, like, huge smile, and it was that same experience of wholeness.

And that's where the near-death experience is a gift. You can actually feel what it feels like to be whole.

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Hey, it's your friend Mel, and there's been a topic that's been coming up a lot in my life lately, and it's not exactly the lightest topic, so I was thinking, "Should we even talk about this?" But the theme just keeps coming up, so I decided to pay attention to it and lean in, because everything that happens to you in your life is teaching you something. Your relationships, your mistakes, your wins, the things that trigger you and just get you so mad, all teachers, and perhaps one of the most impactful teachers is death. It's a natural part of life, and lately it's been everywhere. I mean, just yesterday my daughter was at a funeral for somebody who died so suddenly. Just a few days ago, I was talking to our other daughter who lives out in Los Angeles, and she was mentioning all these natural disasters in California that have been in the news and how much it scared her, and I said, "Well, why is it scaring you?" And she said, "Well, what happens if something happens and I die?" My mother-in-law, she's been coughing a lot, like a lot, and it's been going on for almost two years and she keeps saying, "Oh, it's (coughs) oh, it's nothing." We all want her to get a scan. Why? Because we're afraid. We're afraid she might have something that's undiagnosed and might be dying. And in just a few hours, I'm hopping on a plane to fly to Nashville and give a speech and it's, you know, one of those little planes. And as much as I love flying, I don't know about you, but I can never get on a plane and not have the thought of my death cross my mind. And I'm not afraid of dying anymore, because I've gotten to the point in my life where I'm so proud of all the things that I've accomplished and changed in my life, and I'm also so proud of the person that I've worked so hard to become, the amends that I've made, but whenever I do think about death, I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness because I just don't wanna miss out on more of my life. And so as it just kind of keeps coming up, I thought, "Well, why don't you and I lean into this and talk about it together?" And so I've reached out to a world-renowned expert who is so incredibly wise and comforting and profound. He also happens to be a triple board certified medical doctor who has spent a lot of his career with people at the end of their lives, and he is here today to share the wisdom and the lessons from what he calls the science of the soul, which is how to let death, the fear and regrets of people dying, near-death experiences profoundly shape your life. Dr. Zach Bush, welcome to The Mel Robbins Podcast. Thanks for jumping on a plane from Columbia and flying here.