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Meet The Near-Death Experiencer RESURRECTED After 47 Minutes

🧠 JOIN THE GIANT'S SHOULDER FAMILY Become a YouTube Member for exclusive episodes, early access + ad-free viewing 👇 https://www.youtube.com/@thegiantsshoulder/join Vinney Tolman is a near-death experiencer, the co-author of The Light After Death and co-founder of the nonprofit Living God's Light. In 2003, aged 25, a supplement twenty times stronger than he realised left him collapsed in a restaurant bathroom. By his account, paramedics declared him dead and zipped him into a body bag, and a rookie medic got his heart beating again 47 minutes later. He says he watched all of it from the ceiling. Expect to learn: - The Body Bag: why a rookie medic broke protocol and unzipped it - Three Heartbeats: what dying felt like, from the loud pop to weightlessness - Hearing Their Thoughts: the medics' minds, and the moment he realised the body was his - The Guide On The Big Screen: the spirit guide he says he recognised in a town-history slideshow six months later - Endogenous DMT: whether the brain's own psychedelic could explain any of it SPONSORS Get Unlimited AI Research Agent Usage with SciSpace (CGIANT for 35% off Advanced or Max plans) - https://scispace.com/?via=crgiant GS EPISODES MENTIONED Rick Strassman - Meet The Father Of Modern DMT Research: https://youtu.be/KeAZOj7tYsc David Nichols - Meet The Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientist You've Never Heard Of: https://youtu.be/6umTgXsW1lQ Andrew Gallimore - No.1 DMT Neurobiologist: Alien Worlds, DMT Entity Encounters, Attractor States and Consciousness: https://youtu.be/USgWrxEFWDA GUEST LINKS Living God's Light: https://livinggodslight.org/ The Light After Death (2022): https://thelightafterdeath.com/ Living God's Light on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@livinggodslight Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinneytolman/ International Association for Near-Death Studies: https://iands.org/ LISTEN ON Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5m3Gta5MtIYdk59pb2GJ7M Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-giants-shoulder/id1752486249 SKOOL Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant's Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about FOLLOW EVAN https://x.com/evan_mcgl TIMESTAMPS 0:00:00 Trailer 0:02:38 Who Is Vinney Tolman? 0:03:34 The Supplement That Was 20 Times Too Strong 0:04:55 Pronounced Dead And Put In A Body Bag 0:06:53 The Rookie Who Broke Protocol 0:08:14 Watching His Whole Life Up To Age 25 0:09:35 "No Son, I'm Not God" 0:13:14 Earth Is A Grad School 0:17:30 What Leaving The Body Actually Felt Like 0:20:55 Three Heartbeats, Then Nothing 0:24:16 Feeling Sorry For "Whoever The Dead Guy Was" 0:25:29 Hearing Every Medic's Thoughts 0:26:55 Tracking Down The Rookie Medic 0:33:28 The Moment He Realised The Body Was His 0:37:36 "We Are Not Our Bodies" 0:43:48 Did He Look For A Scientific Explanation? 0:52:09 Do All Near-Death Experiences Look The Same? 0:54:38 The Being That Asks If You Want To Live 0:58:37 His Guide's Name, And A Photo Six Months Later 1:04:34 Is It Just DMT? 1:10:08 A 12-Hour Meditation And Three Letters: DMT 1:12:06 Evan Pushes Back On Endogenous DMT 1:19:26 Watching Them Find His Slot In Time 1:20:50 Ripping Out His Own Breathing Tube 1:27:19 "Don't Believe What You See In This World" .....Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com

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