Round Trip Death Podcast - NDEs

In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett, sits down with Tammy Cheney, a lifelong traveler whose path was profoundly altered by a near-death–like (NDE) experience following a head injury. Tammy shares how a series of spiritual awakenings culminated in an instantaneous transport to what she describes as “home”—a realm more real than physical life, permeated by unconditional love, vivid colors, soundless tones, and living light.
Guided by two silent, luminous beings, Tammy's NDE takes her to an otherworldly landscape where flowers always face the observer, scents blend into a single transcendent fragrance, and love exists as the very fabric of reality. Her NDE journey deepens when she encounters countless light beings and a vast, sun-like presence she instinctively recognizes as God. The moment she expresses her desire to return and tell others, she finds herself back in her body.
The NDE experience leaves Tammy temporarily unable to speak, profoundly transformed, and driven to share what she witnessed—at great personal cost. Though misunderstood by those around her, Tammy emerges with a complete absence of fear of death and an unshakable certainty that physical life is temporary. This conversation explores the nature of consciousness, the illusion of death, and how a single encounter with unconditional love can irrevocably change a life.
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Tammy Cheney: https://www.youtube.com/@rawconscioustalkpodcast
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In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett and guest Donald Winner take a deep investigative dive into near-death experiences (NDEs) using the tools of intelligence analysis rather than belief or doctrine.
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Drawing on decades of experience in military intelligence and journalism, Don explains how he began studying NDEs after his father briefly lost consciousness and wondered aloud if that moment felt like dying. What started as curiosity turned into a large-scale analysis of thousands of NDE accounts.
Don explains that when viewed collectively, near-death experiences reveal remarkable consistency: out-of-body perception, movement through darkness or a tunnel, encounters with light or an intelligence, life reviews, and reunions with deceased loved ones. While individual experiences vary in detail, the underlying structure remains strikingly uniform—much like people describing the same journey from different perspectives.
He also explains how he evaluates authenticity, including the development of a computer-based scoring model that analyzes transcripts for known NDE markers. According to Don, true NDEs are marked by clarity, coherence, and emotional authenticity—unlike hallucinations or drug-induced visions.
The conversation expands into the origins of religion, with Don proposing that ancient near-death experiences—shared orally for hundreds of thousands of years—may be the foundation for humanity’s earliest concepts of the soul, the afterlife, and God. Importantly, he emphasizes that belief systems don’t seem to dictate what happens after death; atheists, Christians, and people of all faiths report similar core experiences.
This episode offers a grounded, analytical, and thought-provoking exploration of what may await us beyond death—without asking listeners to believe anything blindly.
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Don Winner: https://www.winnernde.com/
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What happens when everything you think you know suddenly stops—and something far greater takes its place?
In this powerful episode of Round Trip Death, Eric sits down with Richard Greene, a retired business leader who clinically died for three minutes following a cardiac procedure and experienced what he describes as an overwhelming state of love, unity, and oneness. What he encountered on “the other side” reshaped his understanding of life, fear, gratitude, and our shared humanity.
Richard shares his near-death experience (NDE) in vivid, grounded terms—avoiding dogma while offering deep insight into consciousness, love, and purpose. During his NDE, he met deceased ancestors and felt "engulfed in love."
Together, Eric and Richard explore big questions: Why are we here? What really matters? And how might the world change if we truly understood that we are all connected?
This episode is reflective, hopeful, and deeply human—an invitation to slow down, quiet the noise, and remember what unites us.
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In the final episode of 2025, Round Trip Death travels to Scotland for a deeply intimate and powerful conversation with Jane Dawson. Jane’s near-death experience (NDE) occurred during the birth of her son, after hours of unmedicated labor left her physically exhausted and emotionally depleted.
At the moment she felt she could no longer continue, Jane’s spirit separated from her body. The pain vanished, replaced by a velvety darkness filled with peace, love, and profound relief. In that space, she encountered the spirit of her father, who had recently passed away. Their connection was not verbal, but a soul-to-soul “knowing”—an infusion of unconditional love that would ultimately call her back to life.
Jane returned to her body after her son was born, though reluctantly, and her healing unfolded gradually over the years that followed. After her NDE experience, she had ongoing signs from her father—unexplainable scents, moving objects, and an unmistakable sense of loving presence—convincing her that consciousness survives physical death.
The near death experience transformed Jane’s worldview. Once plagued by fear of death, deep self-loathing, and depression, she began a lifelong journey of spiritual discovery and self-love. She came to understand heaven not as a place “above the clouds,” but is an energetic state of being—limitless, loving, and deeply personal.
Today, Jane works as a spiritual medium and teacher, sharing the same truth her father showed her at the edge of life during her NDE: we are never alone, love never dies, and healing is always possible.
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In this deeply moving Christmas episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric welcomes Tammy Lee Anderson, a psychotherapist, martial artist, spiritual seeker, and medium who shares her extraordinary life story shaped by three near death experiences (NDEs).
Tammy recounts being stillborn, experiencing cardiac arrest during infant surgery, and a profound third NDE at age 23 following a heat stroke while fasting in the mountains.
Across these encounters, she describes overwhelming encounters with unconditional love, light, spiritual beings, her grandfather, and Jesus—experiences that fundamentally altered her understanding of life, suffering, and divine presence.
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Tammy: https://healingwellness.com/
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