If someone dies from addiction or overdose, do they find clarity on the other side?

“And, um, you know, what I got to experience through my drug addiction was understanding the darkest of the dark, going into places that most people don't get to see, so that I can have compassion and a deeper understanding for other people who are struggling with the idea of addiction or escapism.”3:35

“talk to each other. And so, that's that's my belief. It's like it's a story that really helps me. And I think the same thing about like overdoses and stuff. Like I I don't I don't I don't necessarily think that people sign up to overdose in their life either. Like I think that if you sign up for the life experience of addiction, you're also signing up for the life experience of recovery. Some people don't get to experience it in this one lifetime. So they might come back and do it again. They splinter off into an alternate”74:10

“through addiction and things like that is it it cracks your heart open. It makes you more empathetic and compassionate. I won't lie, I was kind of a judgmental, selfish person for a lot of my life and I had no choice but to reorient myself and I I just experienced so much suffering, the suffering of my friend's family, witnessing that seeing the destruction that addiction caused on myself and other people I cared about. When I see homeless people now dealing with with addiction in the past where I may have”3:38

“I work with a lot of people who are experiencing grief and I do help guide them through that and it's not something that goes away and especially if it's a a child, it it never is going to go away, but you can get to a place of peace and you can get to a place where you can utilize that to help other people and you know, that is something that we can do with many other things that are not as severe as that, but like addiction, the program that surrounds addiction is about you getting sober and then you help others get sober.”47:00

“And I've been involved in many deathbed scenes, and many times those of us that are there are entrained, we go into the same vibration as the dying person, and we have the beginning of the experience. So that's another way. Detox. Bill W, who started A. A., had a light experience while he was being detached from alcohol. Overwhelming loss.”2:57

“I've talked to people that, you know, they did drugs, they had NDEs, they were drunk, alcohol overdose, and they have this NDE and they have such a profound experience, they don't even have, some, not all, don't even have the desire to do that drug, to drink again. It has that big of a profound impact on them.”7:38

“And even, um, like the slow death of, of, of using, you know, substances, um, if people make it through that, you know, they, they get to have opportunities for a revelation, you know, for that spiritual awakening, for the, as shaken, you know, that's like, "Hey, come on, get out of there." You know, "There's something even greater for you." And yeah, so that's, so yeah.”38:59

“Also, when someone has a near-death experience, they can see the people who are on the other side.”37:25

“challenging addiction. Um and they're going to keep that's just going to keep happening until they uh do what they need to do to beat their addictions. You know, we hear so much about drug overdoses these days and obviously that's, you know, to some for a lot of people that is an addiction. Um, do you think that the overdose and the actual passing from the overdose is part of the life plan? Uh, that's a great question. Um, I don't know. Um, it seemed to me that I I had this plan laid off, but you”87:12

“Well, that's an interesting question. Can, can you explain that a little bit more about what you mean by that? So if they, they succumb to the addiction and they end their lives, what happens next?”22:43

“Where someone out there that may be going through an opiate addiction, what advice do you have for them? What worked for you besides the NDE? So I went through the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. But first of all, if someone's watching this right now and they're addicted to opiates, that there is a solution to the addiction problem because when you're stuck in the opiate addiction, it can really seem like there's no way out.”19:23

“Well, first of all, let me back up. That near-death experience taught me that your choices matter and you can make one choice that will totally put you on a different trajectory in life that really will create a whole new reality, just from one choice. And that choice for me was: number one, I went into detox right after that near-death experience to get the drug out of my system.”10:23

“So generally, when I see people with addiction issues, you know, I, I'm always kind of holding a spiritual perspective, like, 'Wow, that soul is very strong. That soul signed up for a super intense lesson.' I know that they're going to get it, and I hold the vision that they will achieve the transmutation of their soul lesson. I really truly do. I know that if I can, they can.”43:51

“that to be one of the greatest evidences uh is to see how people come back from their experience and have concepts and um even like personality traits that are just so beyond what they had before. >> Yeah. >> So different. >> Yeah. You came from I don't know like I mean you were doing drugs and to to where you are now and um how much of a shift that's been. It's it's incredible. Um, and it is really a miracle. I mean, and specifically, I'm thinking about the drug addiction thing. It's so interesting how um I find it seems like”21:55

“That is a very defining moment, knowing you were going to die. Upon leaving the hospital, a new version of myself emerged. Mentally, the anxiety and fear that ruled my life for so long was completely erased, as if I had never had it. The addiction that followed me for so long was missing in action too.”8:33

“You know, spiritual transformative experience is what helps people overcome addictions.”25:15