Our Paranormal Afterlife : Finding Proof of Life After Death

This week I'm talking to Lynne McGinnis about her book 'Overcoming Adversity by Embracing the Higher Truths: One Woman’s Journey to Spiritual Awakening'.
Lynne McGinnis grew up feeling defective—bombarded by parental atheism, messages that there was "something wrong" with her, relentless bullying, and a deep-seated panic over death. She sought refuge in compulsive achievements, excelling as a top-ranked law student and later as an attorney. Yet, her prestigious career only masked her chronic anxiety, struggles with body image, and ingrained belief that she was worthless. In the early 1990's, at one particularly low point, spiritual nudges led Lynne to participate in a 12-Step recovery program and study the liberating doctrines of the New Thought movement.
This path led her to confront the ultimate fear—death—by discovering the transformative truths of Near Death Experiences and reincarnation, compelling her to seek out the world's foremost authority, Dr. Michael Newton, Ph.D., for a Life Between Lives spiritual regression session.
But Lynne learned the hard way that true spiritual awakening requires changing negative thought patterns and embracing not only unconditional love of others but also, unconditional love of oneself. Thus, she continued her relentless attempt to gain self-esteem by overachieving and seeking the approval of others. This ultimately drove her to a mental and emotional collapse - a true dark night of the soul. Only then was she ready to let go of the false messages she had been giving herself for so many years and embrace the Higher Truths.
Follow Lynne into the spiritual realm during her life-changing Life Between Lives (LBL) sessions with Dr. Michael Newton (author of Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls) and one of his successors, Scott. Here, her Spirit Guide and Council unlock profound memories and universal insights:
   Her Pre-Birth Planning: Confirmation of her soul purpose as a Teacher of Souls and her choice of a challenging family life to master the lesson of unconditional self-love.
   Soul Connections: The identity of her own Soul Group.
   The Universal View: A deep discourse on the "Watchers of the Planets," revealing why they intervened during the Cuban Missile Crisis and their current dilemma regarding the Earth's environmental crisis.
   The Path Forward: The ultimate realization that her fear, rage, and competitive drive were merely distractions from her true lesson: unconditional self-love—a love already bestowed by her Creator.
Overcoming Adversity by Embracing the Higher Truths is more than a memoir; it is a roadmap to self-acceptance and a powerful confirmation of the soul's enduring journey. Lynne shares how embracing the timeless truth—"We are Eternal Souls human experiences who our Creator loves unconditionally"—finally dissolved decades of fear, rage, and self-sabotage, leading her to hope, purpose, and Divine alignment.
Read this book if you are ready to:
   Heal from decades of negative self-talk and feeling "not good enough."
   Understand the soul-level purpose behind your deepest struggles.
   Find comfort in the existence of an unconditionally loving Higher Power.
   Embrace your true, Eternal Self and step into your highest purpose.
Bio
Lynne. I was an attorney who was employed by a large organization for over 21 years. Due to self-imposed pressure and the pressure of meeting seemingly never-ending deadlines, over the years, I felt increasingly anxious and depressed.
One day, I had a stress-related breakdown. To recover from the breakdown, I followed a three-step process where I focused on all aspects of myself: my body, my mind, and my soul. This process ultimately led to what I can only describe as a spiritual awakening. My life is now filled with joy and wonder.
I now feel called to help those of you who are facing work stress challenges similar to my own. I’m not doing this as a paid consultant or to make money, but rather to share my knowledge.
https://freeyourselffromburnout.com/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FYRN7CVS

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This episode I am reading from Holly Porter's book 'Near Death Shift : What Dying Taught Me About Life, Business, and Purpose'.
When everything fell apart, grace held her together.
After seventy days in the hospital—including two intubations, a coma, and a near-death experience—Holly Porter awoke to a life forever changed. Near Death Shift is her breathtaking true story of survival, spiritual awakening, and divine purpose.
When Holly entered the hospital, she had no idea her world was about to stop breathing. Fighting for her life through sepsis, paralysis, and weeks on a ventilator, she experienced what few ever have—a journey beyond the veil. In that sacred realm, she found herself surrounded by a radiant stadium of light, angelic choirs, and divine messages that would reshape everything she believed about life, leadership, and love.
What she brought back was more than hope—it was a blueprint for transformation. Through her signature SHIFT framework—Surrender, Hope, Intuition, Faith, and Transformation—Holly reveals how pain can become purpose and how surrender can lead to strength. Each lesson offers spiritual and practical guidance for anyone navigating loss, trauma, or the longing to live a more purposeful life.
As Holly learned to walk, breathe, and live again, she also learned how to listen—how to trust the quiet voice of divine intuition and follow the signs that would lead her to rebuild not just her body, but her mission. Her near-death experience became a new beginning, inspiring the creation of Retreat RnR, a platform for transformational retreats, and the Adventure Bucket Wish Foundation, dedicated to helping women lead with purpose, passion, and presence.
Blending powerful storytelling with timeless spiritual truths, Near Death Shift invites readers to see their own challenges through the lens of grace. It’s a reminder that the hardest seasons often carry the seeds of our greatest callings—and that even in the darkest nights, love and light remain.
Whether you’ve faced illness, loss, burnout, or a crisis of faith, this book will meet you where you are and guide you toward healing and hope. With honesty, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Holly shows that no matter what you’ve endured, your story isn’t over—it’s shifting you toward the person you were always meant to become.
Readers will discover:
✨ How to find divine meaning in life’s hardest moments
✨ The healing power of faith, surrender, and intuition
✨ Tools to rebuild life after loss or trauma
✨ Ways to transform adversity into abundance
✨ Hope, strength, and renewed connection with what truly matters
If you’ve ever wondered why you’re still here—or what your pain is trying to teach you—Near Death Shift will help you uncover the light hidden within your own story.
“I didn’t come back to who I was—I came back to who I was created to be.”
Bio
Holly Porter, Hon. Ph.D., is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, podcast host, and humanitarian who turned the fight for her life into a global mission of purpose and transformation. During a seventy-day hospitalization, Holly had a near-death experience and several other profound spiritual experiences. These led to the development of her SHIFT framework—Surrender, Hope, Intuition, Faith, and Transformation—a model that guides individuals to find meaning in adversity and to live with greater purpose. Holly is a best-selling author and the founder of multiple ventures, including the PropTech and SaaS platform Retreat RnR, and the Adventure Bucket Wish Foundation. She inspires audiences worldwide with her keynote speeches and her All Things Retreat Podcast. She received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate in Global Humanitarianism. Holly and her husband, Scott, live in Southern Utah, where they enjoy their large blended family of eight adult children and nearly nineteen grandchildren.
https://neardeathshift.com/
https://hollyporterinternational.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G1J9PCBY

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/
https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife
My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP

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This week I'm talking to Holly Porter about her book 'Near Death Shift : What Dying Taught Me About Life, Business, and Purpose'.
When everything fell apart, grace held her together.
After seventy days in the hospital—including two intubations, a coma, and a near-death experience—Holly Porter awoke to a life forever changed. Near Death Shift is her breathtaking true story of survival, spiritual awakening, and divine purpose.
When Holly entered the hospital, she had no idea her world was about to stop breathing. Fighting for her life through sepsis, paralysis, and weeks on a ventilator, she experienced what few ever have—a journey beyond the veil. In that sacred realm, she found herself surrounded by a radiant stadium of light, angelic choirs, and divine messages that would reshape everything she believed about life, leadership, and love.
What she brought back was more than hope—it was a blueprint for transformation. Through her signature SHIFT framework—Surrender, Hope, Intuition, Faith, and Transformation—Holly reveals how pain can become purpose and how surrender can lead to strength. Each lesson offers spiritual and practical guidance for anyone navigating loss, trauma, or the longing to live a more purposeful life.
As Holly learned to walk, breathe, and live again, she also learned how to listen—how to trust the quiet voice of divine intuition and follow the signs that would lead her to rebuild not just her body, but her mission. Her near-death experience became a new beginning, inspiring the creation of Retreat RnR, a platform for transformational retreats, and the Adventure Bucket Wish Foundation, dedicated to helping women lead with purpose, passion, and presence.
Blending powerful storytelling with timeless spiritual truths, Near Death Shift invites readers to see their own challenges through the lens of grace. It’s a reminder that the hardest seasons often carry the seeds of our greatest callings—and that even in the darkest nights, love and light remain.
Whether you’ve faced illness, loss, burnout, or a crisis of faith, this book will meet you where you are and guide you toward healing and hope. With honesty, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Holly shows that no matter what you’ve endured, your story isn’t over—it’s shifting you toward the person you were always meant to become.
Readers will discover:
✨ How to find divine meaning in life’s hardest moments
✨ The healing power of faith, surrender, and intuition
✨ Tools to rebuild life after loss or trauma
✨ Ways to transform adversity into abundance
✨ Hope, strength, and renewed connection with what truly matters
If you’ve ever wondered why you’re still here—or what your pain is trying to teach you—Near Death Shift will help you uncover the light hidden within your own story.
“I didn’t come back to who I was—I came back to who I was created to be.”
Bio
Holly Porter, Hon. Ph.D., is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, podcast host, and humanitarian who turned the fight for her life into a global mission of purpose and transformation. During a seventy-day hospitalization, Holly had a near-death experience and several other profound spiritual experiences. These led to the development of her SHIFT framework—Surrender, Hope, Intuition, Faith, and Transformation—a model that guides individuals to find meaning in adversity and to live with greater purpose. Holly is a best-selling author and the founder of multiple ventures, including the PropTech and SaaS platform Retreat RnR, and the Adventure Bucket Wish Foundation. She inspires audiences worldwide with her keynote speeches and her All Things Retreat Podcast. She received the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate in Global Humanitarianism. Holly and her husband, Scott, live in Southern Utah, where they enjoy their large blended family of eight adult children and nearly nineteen grandchildren.
https://neardeathshift.com/
https://hollyporterinternational.com/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G1J9PCBY

https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/
https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife
My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP

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In this episode I'm talking to Dr. Nicolas Rouleau, Ph.D. about his Essay An Immortal Stream of Consciousness: The scientific evidence for the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death.
This Essay was a Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies Essay Competition Winner
Is experience possible after death? "An immortal stream of consciousness: The scientific evidence for the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death" was the title of Nicolas Rouleau's award-winning 2021 submission for the Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies' international essay competition. Adapted here as a short book, the essay describes a transmissive theory of consciousness inspired by William James and supported by experimental evidence in the field of bioelectromagnetism including the works of the author (Rouleau) and his former doctoral mentor, Michael A. Persinger. It is one of few scientific theories that reconciles physicalism with survival of consciousness after bodily death.
Bio
Dr. Nicolas Rouleau is a neuroscientist, bioengineer, and Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University and Affiliate Scientist at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. Dr. Rouleau was the last PhD student of Michael Persinger of Laurentian University, whose work on the electromagnetic bases of consciousness inspired Rouleau to pursue his dissertation on the material-like properties of brain tissues, including their capacity to filter electromagnetic fields. In 2017, he joined the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University as a Postdoctoral Researcher and was a founding member of David Kaplan's Initiative for Neural Science, Disease, & Engineering at Tufts, focusing on minimal cognitive responses in bioengineered brain models.
As a post-doc, Dr. Rouleau published several 3D tissue models of Alzheimer's Disease and traumatic brain injury. During the research freeze of the COVID pandemic, he wrote an award-winning essay on the topic of transmissive consciousness for the Bigelow Institute of Consciousness Studies, which garnered international attention. In 2023, Dr. Rouleau became a faculty member at Laurier and is now a PI of the Self-Organizing Units Lab (SOUL), which is supported by Tri-Council awards to investigate the mechanisms of embodied cognition and synthetic biological intelligences in customizable, bioengineered neural tissues. He also co-directs (with his colleague, Dr. Murugan) the Center for Tissue Plasticity and Biophysics (TPAB) at Laurier. He is most interested in the fundamental and scale-invariant properties of cognitive systems as well as the pursuit of unifying principles that reconcile organic neural function with analogous phenomena in cells, machines, and non-neural organisms.  
https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/rouleau-immortal-consciousness.pdf

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In this episode I am talking about an inportant element of the Near Death Experience, the life review.
Why do stories of near-death experiences (NDEs) continue to captivate scientists, philosophers, clinicians, and spiritual seekers alike? And why does one element of these experiences, the life review, seem to linger so powerfully in the public imagination?
The reported “life review,” is where people describe a panoramic encounter with their own lives. Across decades of research, these accounts have raised profound questions about memory, identity, empathy, and the nature of consciousness itself.
This episode is for anyone fascinated by big questions: What shapes our sense of self? How do our actions ripple through the lives of others? And how might experiences at the edge of life reshape the way we understand death, ethics, and human connection?
Whether you’re drawn to the science of altered states, the philosophy of consciousness, or the personal stories that emerge from NDE research, this conversation invites you to reflect on why the life review continues to resonate so deeply in contemporary culture.
If you’re interested in near-death experiences, consciousness research, end-of-life psychology, or the deeper meaning of human relationships, this episode offers a thoughtful space to explore why the life review has become one of the most discussed—and most debated—aspects of NDEs today.

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