She Died After a Brutal Assault; Then Discovered the Spiritual Purpose of Pain with Dr. Allison Snowden

Sometimes the universe wraps its deepest truths in tragedy, only to unwrap them later with a beam of grace so blinding, it rearranges the very geometry of your soul. On today’s episode, we welcome Dr. Allison Snowden, a gifted healer whose extraordinary near-death experience shattered the illusion of separation and rewrote the script of her life.

Dr. Allison Snowden is a trauma-informed spiritual healer and teacher who uses Theta Healing to help others reconnect to their divine essence.

She shares with us a night in Mexico that unraveled in chaos—an assault followed by a devastating accident that left her body broken, yet her consciousness entirely free. Hovering above her “meat suit,” as she wryly calls it, she found herself in a space outside time and identity. There, she was immersed in pure, unconditional love, a love so impersonal and vast that it dissolved all concepts of self. No personality, no ego, no story—just the eternal witness remembering what it always was.

What struck me was the sacred nonchalance with which she observed the earthly drama beneath her. As EMTs scrambled and chaos reigned, she wasn’t clinging to the scene. “I’m taking a vacation,” she joked inwardly. And in that moment, the infinite revealed itself not with trumpets, but with silence—cosmic, enveloping, and ancient. It was not an astral realm with familiar figures, but something more raw, more refined: the Seventh Plane of existence. As Allison put it, “It was just pure, pure love.”

In that formless dimension, she recalled her pre-birth planning, the soul contract that would lead her into pain and purpose. She remembered choosing her parents, and more profoundly, choosing this life. The experience was not just a retreat to Source but an awakening to mission. She was shown that all thoughts, all actions, all intentions are recorded—etched into the vibrational memory of the universe. This is not karma as punishment, but a curriculum for evolution. Every soul a student, every wound a lesson.

As she returned to her body, ravaged and unrecognizable, she carried that same essence back with her. The transition was not easy. She was met with pain—both physical and emotional. Grown men wept at the sight of her. She avoided mirrors for weeks, fearing she would no longer see herself. And yet, when she finally did, swollen and bandaged, the familiar gaze stared back: “Oh, I’m me,” she whispered. Not the body, but the soul wearing it.

The soul does not descend to Earth merely to witness. It comes to embody, to transmit, and to transmute. Allison’s task, made clear to her in that eternal space, was not just to survive, but to share. To share love, yes—but also to talk about healing trauma. To educate a society still wrapped in ignorance and shame about pain. “People filter everything through their wounds,” she says. And yet, she prays before speaking, so that her words may pass through not just ears, but hearts.

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  1. You are not your body, your income, or your trauma—you are consciousness experiencing form.
    Allison’s near-death journey reminds us that our truest self is not defined by our suffering, but by our essence.

  2. Healing trauma requires more than time—it demands a new lens of love and compassion.
    Ignorance often causes more harm than the initial trauma, and awareness is the first step toward collective healing.

  3. Our choices are not accidental—they’re part of a soul’s curriculum.
    Even suffering can be part of a pre-planned journey meant to awaken us to deeper truths and missions.

And so, the mystery remains—why must some of us suffer so deeply to remember so fully? Perhaps it’s because the soul, like a diamond, is formed under pressure. Or perhaps, as Allison so gently puts it, we simply forgot… and are now beginning to remember.

Please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Allison Snowden.

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Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE068

Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.

Allison Snowden 0:08
We were on a spring break. It was for my sister's spring break. She, at the last minute, couldn't go because they found out she had an autoimmune disorder, and her doctors were like, do not go to Mexico if you get sick in Mexico, it's not good. Their medical systems, which is super ironic, are horrible. And so, like the trip had already been bought, like, everything like that. So we went and in, I think it was like the fourth the it was like the third or the fourth night I lost my friend and I, because we went out with my sister's friend, so we were doing like, the spring break thing. And I'm sure I'll get like, some comments around that, because that always happens. But anyway, people are like, Oh, they, you know, they. I mean, I went through so much victim blaming, you know, when I was after this whole thing of like, Oh, you were drunk, all of that stuff. I'm just like, whatever. So I was really upset, and I didn't wait for someone to come and, like, walk with me, because I was like, Oh, my God, I need to go now. So I was walking by myself. I was attacked, assaulted, and then I don't know how this happened, because no one else was around, but then I was run over by like a motor vehicle. They said a motor vehicle or a motorcycle that was probably going about 60 miles per hour. I remember fighting these men, and then it was blank. I don't remember, obviously, a motor vehicle or anything like that. But then I remember I was out of my body, and I like I was laying this I was my, my meat suit, this, this shell that, or this amazing human body that I'm in, was just below there, and I ruptured it to my tibial artery. So I bled out a lot, and so I just saw my body, and I was like, Oh, damn, you know, like I was, I was way up there, but I just absolutely when I was went straight up to that divine, that unconditional love. I was so absorbed in that aspect. There was, like, the whole drama that was going below of like the ambulance trying to get in and all of them trying to figure stuff out. I mean, there's some near death experiences where they like, are very close, and they're like, they can report back what had happened and things like that. I'm like, I'm taking a vacation, you know? I'm back home. I felt like I was back home. I was like, without a body, and I was like, expanding in my consciousness. I was enveloped in this unconditional love on this plane. There is no space or time, which is very difficult for even my own brain to, like, get around. And so it's just a timeless space and just enveloped in love. And then there was a lot of telepathic communication, of messages for me. So I re remember, you know who I was on a very deep level, that I am this consciousness that survives, that is more than physical, and that survives physical death, and that this is the eternal part of me, and this is who I really am. And I'm not my brain, I'm not my personality, I'm not my body, I'm not my income, I'm not my social status. Like this is this energetic, you know, soul, spirit, consciousness, whatever you like. To put a word to it, that's me. This is, this is the true me. So that, I mean, that was just the most profound experience. Because here I'm looking at my human suit, and I'm like, Oh, well, if I die, then maybe I'll get I'll just get another another one, you know, another body, or whatever it was. Like, this kind of, like, very, like, detached sense of, Oh, okay. I also feel like, kind of reiterate what you're saying. Like, this is just my experience. I don't need anyone to, like, buy into my experience, because it is my experience so but what I was shown is I had had several previous lifetimes. There was a couple things that was also shown to me. Is that the universe or that everything is recorded in between lifetimes, you can study and you know, see where you need to heal or where you want to grow. So your thoughts, your intentions, your actions, everything's recorded, and you have access to that. So this is an interesting thing about my nd. It was in this plane of consciousness where there was no visuals, there wasn't, I guess it was like, kind of more like the void. It was like unconditional love. It was very impersonal, super impersonal. And I was like, wait, I knew all these people that had died before, after. When I started to look into near death experiences, I was like, that's interesting. And there were other souls, but it was very there was not like, it wasn't on the astral realm. Realm, right? Where the actual realm we have our light bodies and we look kind of like our physical it was almost more raw than that. It was it was more just potent, pure like unconditional love. And in data healing, my main technique that I do, or that I teach, and I heal with, it's called the seventh plane, and it's just pure love. And there's many different planes in that system, in her paradigm. But that made sense, because on a different plane, you there's the astral realm, there's like you see Jesus, you can see all these different masters. But on this on this plane of the seventh plane, is pure love, pure unconditional love. But when you're in this energetic space outside your body. You're just submerged, and you re remember certain things that we forgot as humans from the spiritual realm. And so it was just like this, re remembering of, oh, past lives. Oh, everything is everything's recorded. Oh, I Oh, so it's like you're awakening to what you once remembered, but it's like you fell asleep when you were incarnated or something. When I looked at the Theta Healing, how they, how she structured the planes. It was, it was the seventh plane is, is more of just pure love. It's pure, it's just pure, pure love. And the fifth plane and the fourth plane, that's where you'll see it in the astral realm. The thing that I had was, you know, in the RE remembering, I was remembering the pre birth planning, like before I was born, and like, why I chose my parents. In my experience, I chose my parents, and I love the Buddhist take about life is like to be born human, like you've done something amazing, like it is a gift. Like you like that is an amazing, remarkable accomplishment, evolution to to be incarnated, even in the shittiest of the circumstances, you've done amazing things, like you're at at this level, type thing. And also, here's the thing is, when we're hurt and when we're wounded, we need care, and that's emotional, and that's emotional and spiritual. And I definitely when I was in my wounded space and my wounded lens, and I was even after my near death experience, because traumas can be so impactful, you know, it just overtakes you. And so you view anything your wounded self, your wounded paradigm, takes things in, and then it uses it as ammunition to blame yourself or to hurt yourself more. That's kind of going into like everyone's in their own paradigm, in their own belief system. So if I share my truth, people are filtering it through their own wounds, insecurities, core wounds, unhealed, trauma and programming, and that's why I try to hopefully energetically transmute this on some level. I always, I always meditate and pray before, because I hope, because our words can be distorted, or it can be construed through our own, on our own lens of programming on healed wounds. You know? I'm like, sometimes I'm like, wow, it's an amazing thing that we can actually communicate. I'm like, Oh my God, a person heard me actually. Because it's like, I know, because I'm in a body, and I have programs, I'm in the process, and I can still, just like, my first kind of sense of when I when someone says something, or and if it triggers a little old thing, it'll, you know, your wounds will just like, oh, this is how it is. And you have to, like, really sit with yourself and like, is this the highest truth, or am I really hearing this? So I also was aware that there is a part of me in that pre birth, because each lifetime that you live, you you're learning or growing something or and focusing on something. So in this lifetime, there was a part of me that wanted to have this type of experience and to live and to share about it. So there is this spiritual energy, and also a deep healer energy archetype that was also coming through in this lifetime, and that definitely was like apparent when I was little. I always wanted to help. I always wanted to help heal my sister. I That's always been like part of my essence, and definitely part of like this lifetime, or what I'm here to share and to give and to teach. So when I was up there, it was like, oh, there is choice, but you already chose, like, to have this experience and go back and survive. And so there was this point where I was like, looking at staying, but I had already, kind of already been like, but I'm going back type thing, but I got to see and I was like, Well, if I died like my mom and one of my sisters would have been like devastated, to the point where their lives would would have gone like this way. When I came back from Mexico into to St Louis, I was covered in blood, and I was not clean. They didn't really clean. Me off in the hospital in Mexico. So it was a very disturbing sight, from what people tell me, my I told my mom not to take any pictures because I didn't want a visual memory of what I looked like. But people, when they would come to me in the hospital, I saw grown men just like burst into tears. I thought that I was disfigured. I didn't see my reflection for three weeks because I was bedridden, and they didn't get me up into a wheelchair for that long, and which was the most painful thing I've ever experienced because getting out. But I had mentally prepared, because people's reactions to me were so horrific, and I knew I'd broken something. I was like, it's gonna be okay, you know, I'm gonna roll with this. Because I had had that experience. And I was like, I am not a physical body, and so I had just assumed that, like, I wasn't gonna recognize myself on a physical level. The first time I saw myself, I can remember, I knew there was a mirror here, just because I know the hospital rooms. And so I was like, expecting that to recognize myself, but I was like, Oh, I'm me, really swollen and, like, I had a cut right here, so it's a bandage. And I was like, swollen as I was coming down, you know, through that lightning speed, like Portal, that divine consciousness, was like, oh, bring this energy and anchor it into your body and also share it. Or this needs to be embodied and also anchored into Earth and with others. So it was like this energy of of love needs, needs to come down right, come down to you. And the whole message, that was, the biggest message, is for me and also to share with others. Because this is not just for me. This is to be shared. This is a part of what you're supposed to do is to talk about this and to share. Share about it. Also share about the healing, and also, equally, part of my mission is also to share about healing, about healing trauma, because there's a lot of ignorance around it, there's a lot of shame around it. There's a lot of fear around it, and also, just as a society, we need to kind of upgrade from and to really understand this more on a holistic manner, so we can really support each other and heal because a lot of people unintentionally hurt, trauma survivors or survivors just by their own ignorance and their own fears, like just world theory, all of that, their own ego, feeling threatened and scared, living from a space of freedom and love, and living on my soul's terms, and completing that keep going and love, Pure Love with no conditions, no stipulations. Pure high vibrational love. I love growth and connection.

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