DEAD for 20 MINUTES: Man SHOWN the QUANTUM SECRETS of the DIVINE with Rob Gentile

On today’s episode, we welcome Rob Gentile, a man whose life was irrevocably altered in the blink of an eye. Rob shares a tale that reads like a spiritual odyssey, beginning with what seemed like a routine medical procedure but quickly spiraled into an extraordinary journey beyond the physical realm. His story isn’t just about a brush with death; it’s a profound exploration of the unseen connections that tether us to the divine, to our loved ones, and to our own spiritual evolution.

Rob Gentile hails from the industrial heartland of Western Pennsylvania, a place where steel and grit are forged alike. After relocating to North Carolina, Rob’s life took a harrowing turn when a seemingly simple surgery to remove bone spurs in his neck led to a massive heart attack just days later. The widow-maker, as they call it, halted his life in a split second, plunging him into a flatline that lasted 20 long minutes. But what happened during those 20 minutes defies the conventional understanding of life and death.

As Rob lay unconscious, his body failing, he had what can only be described as a mystical encounter. A name, “Frosty,” escaped his lips as he lay flatlined on the hospital gurney. This wasn’t just any name; it was the nickname of his brother-in-law, who had tragically taken his own life just seven weeks prior. In a moment of spiritual clarity, Rob Gentile was visited by Frosty, who delivered a message of regret and redemption—a message that carried profound implications for Rob’s understanding of life, death, and the afterlife.

Rob’s story is one of those rare instances where the veil between worlds seems to thin, allowing us a glimpse into the spiritual realm. His experience was not just a personal revelation but also a healing moment for those around him. The very doctor who fought to bring him back from the brink, Dr. Patel, was herself transformed by Rob’s survival. In a deeply emotional conversation, she revealed that she had lost faith after her own father passed away suddenly. Yet, seeing Rob alive against all odds rekindled something within her—a spark of hope that perhaps there is indeed something greater at play in this universe.

As Rob reflected on his miraculous survival, he began to piece together the significance of what he had experienced. He recognized the voice urging Dr. Patel to keep working on him as that of her own father, a spirit who refused to let his daughter give up. This realization wasn’t just comforting; it was life-altering. It underscored a truth that Rob had come to embrace: “We are spiritual beings first, having a human experience.”

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  1. Connection Beyond the Physical: Rob’s story reminds us that our bonds with loved ones do not end with death. Spiritual connections transcend physical limitations, offering guidance and support from the other side.
  2. The Power of Faith: Dr. Patel’s renewed faith through Rob’s survival highlights the importance of holding onto hope and belief, even when life’s circumstances seem bleak.
  3. The Divine in Everything: Rob’s journey teaches us to seek and recognize the divine in every aspect of life. Our spiritual relationship with the Creator is our true essence, and realizing this brings ultimate freedom.

In this profound conversation, Rob Gentile shares not just a story of survival but a testament to the enduring power of spirit and the divine forces that guide us. His journey is a reminder that life is more than just a series of random events; it is a spiritual quest filled with lessons, connections, and the ever-present light of the divine.

Please enjoy my conversation with Rob Gentile.

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Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE027

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

Rob Gentile 0:08
I'm originally from Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh area, and in the steel industry. I grew up in the steel business and worked in the mill, and a lot of my family's still back there. But anyway, I live in North Carolina now, but I had had some bone spurs on my neck from sports injuries when I was younger. And there was this famous doctor that is in Korea, that came from Korea, he's in Pittsburgh, and developed this new technique where they go in through the front of your neck and they drill out these bone spurs. So they just go in, they make a small cut, they move your esophagus aside. They go in, they drill these things out. No big deal. You're in the hospital one night, and you and you released. I went up there. I had that done, and this was, this was in January of 2016 so four days later, I came home and had a massive heart attack in my bed at around 11pm in retrospect, now we now we know what happened is that I threw a blood clot or a piece of plaque broke off. They're not exactly sure, but it went right into my widow maker and both, of course, everything stops, so I didn't know what was going on my wife, we have a special each child who has a seizure disorder, and you know, it's 11 o'clock at night, you're asleep. All of a sudden, there's all this screaming in the house, and it's me screaming in pain. Don't remember any of this. So my wife, my wife, runs down the hall to check on Maria, and she's fine. And you know, she's confused, turns on the light and area and flopping around in bed like a fish, screaming. Don't remember any of that. She calls the ambulance, and thank goodness the hospital is like, three miles away from our house. So neighbor comes over to watch Maria wheeled into the emergency room. They know that I'm having a massive heart attack, so they hook me up. They give me some whatever it is that they give you blood thinners and things to, you know, calm me down, submit all the night, they call the cardiologist. He's not in the hospital, so my wife and nurse are in a room, and she says, hey, look, you know, we've got him. Got him calm down. He's okay right now until the cardiologist gets here and he's stable. Soon as she said that, as my wife says Now, when I detail that in the book, it was like a moment from the movie The Exorcist. All of a sudden, I sprang up off the gurney, from my waist up like somebody grabbed me by my shirt and just pulled me forward with great force. So I'm unconscious. I spring forward like this. My eyes pop wide open, and I scream out the name frosty. I scream out frosty, and I collapse backwards on the gurney, boom, my flat line, code blue rings out through the hospital and in Russia, team of doctors to start working on before the doctors take my wife out of the room, my wife turns to the to the doctor, who is now a very good friend of mine, a little beautiful Indian woman named Dr Patel. And she turns to Dr Patel and says, Look, you have to save my husband. We have a special needs child, and she's not going to make it without him, and I can't do this alone. So she takes my wife out of the room. My wife drops to her knees, starts praying out loud to God to save me, and Dr Patel starts working on me. Well, Dr Patel and her team did everything I'm talking about, the paddle shocks, four injections into my heart with the needle of epinephrine, sternal rubs, the whole thing, I was flatlined for 20 minutes. So during that period of time, you know, the cardiologist finally arrives. Dr Patel, for some reason, she should have called it long ago, because, you know, after a while they think your brain did so, but she kept on working on me. Something compelled her to continue to work on me, and she obtained a slight pulse. Dr Boswell comes in, the cardiologist, puts a pump up through my thigh, finds the blockage, puts two stints in my heart, but it was too late. I'd gone into cardiogenic shock. Another doctor comes in, who's a friend of mine now, Dr Carson comes in, intubates me. I'm on the vent, and I slip into a four day comb. So that's how it all began. They think that I'm probably brain dead. So, and I don't know how this works, but they send in neurologists during this four day period. And ironically, one of those neurologists, world famous, Dr corbier, Dr Jean Ronald corbier, who happens to be my daughter's neurologist. My daughter has Rett syndrome, very rare. He he comes in as well to see if I'm brain dead. But you know, nobody can really determine that my oldest brother drives down from Pittsburgh. I was raised Catholic. He calls a local parish priest. Parish priest comes in, gives me my last rights, the Catholic faith. It's called extreme unction. You only get it once in your lifetime. So he comes in, anoints me with the oils, gives me my last rights. Everybody. Was home, and on the fourth day, my doctor says, Look, tells my wife, we can't wait any longer. It's four days now, we're going to take out the vent. If he starts breathing on his own, we'll see. We'll see what we got, you know, so obviously I start pulling the tubes out. I start choking and and here I am. So I go into recovery. The first person that I see is Dr Boswell, but my I'm still kind of like, unconscious. He's like, shaking me, you know, how are you feeling? Who's a Sikh, by the way, so he's got this purple headdress on. I'm looking up at this guy. I think I'm, I think I'm, you know, watching a movie. I don't know what's going on. Everything's still blurry. But my wife comes in. She's the first one that enters the room. She says, I'm talking like a child in this high pitched rush. You know voice, it was frosty. It was frosty. Your brother, frosty. He came to me. You have to believe me. You have to believe me. And she's like, calm down. I know, I know frosty came to you. I said, What are you talking about? She said, right before you flatline, you came you came up on the gurney, sprang forward, screamed out frosty's name, and then collapse backwards, and then boom, flatline. So to give you a little bit of history there so frosty is the nickname of my my wife's brother, and unfortunately, frosty had passed by suicide seven weeks prior to the night that I died. So frosty lives in this small country town. He was living with his parents at the time, which is about 35 miles south of where I live. And he had, it was around Christmas time, and frosty was going through a divorce. He was living in the upstairs bedroom of his parents house. And, you know, frosty had had some issues. He had some drug addiction, things going on, but had been clean for like, five years, but, you know, end of the year, and he had his own business, surveying business, and he's, you know, trying to figure out how to pay college. His daughter's got one child, her bills and lots of stuff going on. So he, so he went out to try to blow off some steam, you know, got, got some kind of drug that drove him mad for like, 40 minutes, and came home and unfortunately, took his own life. So his mother calls me in the middle of the night, and she said, come down here, please. And can you go up into the bedroom and try to find a note or a journal or something that would give us a clue as to why frosty did this. So I did. I went up into that bedroom seven times, picked through a rather gruesome scene, unfortunately, and finally, on the seventh trip up. I did find a journal, which I had given to the family So, but anyway, so my wife said, Tell me exactly what frosty said to me. And frosty said to me, I've made a big mess out of things, but I want you to go back and help clean things up. Tell my parents I'm in a good place. So that was very curious to me, having been raised Catholic, you know. And the whole, you know, I'm 62 so back then, it was a mortal sin. And, you know, you you went to to, to hell, your soul was condemned all these things. And so that was like the first big paradigm shift, the spiritual shift that took place in my mind, that, hey, something's not right here. I mean, hell is not a good place, you know. And it was kind of curious, because Melanie had told me what was going on at that moment, is that she was screaming to me, no, no, no, no, no, don't go to frosty. Don't go to frosty. Stay here with me, because you know it, and then we I've read it over and over again, and my wife actually has experienced it. I've experienced it with my mom during her passing, that a spirit comes to welcome you and ease your passing to the other side. That's very, very common. So she thought that frosty was coming to ease my passing into the spiritual realm. Was kind of interesting. She was just like pleading, you know, for me to stay there with him. So that's the first thing that happened, coming out of coma. There was another experience that I had which was really interesting. So on the second day, coming out of coma, I didn't know it was Dr Patel at the time, this lovely Indian woman walks into my room, and she pulls up a chair and sits down, and she introduces herself, I'm Dr Patel. I'm the one that was working on you that night. And she got very emotional. Can't tell you how many times I almost lost you. And this is what we went through. And my arms were paralyzed at the time, by the way, for like, three or four days coming out of coma. So she reached down and put her hand on mine, and she, all of a sudden, got very emotional, and she started talking about her father. I thought that was very odd, and she said, You know, I have to tell you something. My father and I were so close. He helped me get through medical school, and we almost knew each other's thoughts. Every time I was thinking of him. He called vice of her son. We were incredibly close in spirit, and she said all he was living for was to see my first child. And she said I was pregnant with my first son, and he just couldn't wait to see my son's face, but then unexpectedly, he had an aneurysm, and he died six months before my child was born.

And she said, you know, ever since then, Rob, I've lost I've lost faith, and I'm a very spiritual person. I'm Hindu, but I don't believe that stuff anymore. And you know, I've been very bitter about that whole thing, she says, But you know, seeing. Here alive against all the odds. There's no way you should be here. Just gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, there's something more out there. And it was in that moment that the puzzle unscrambled, and I began to put things together, because a male spirit had entered the room while Dr Patel was working on me. And I kept hearing over and over and over again, keep working on him. Don't give up. You can save him. Keep working on him. You can save him. And it struck me in that moment that it was Dr Patel's father encouraging her to continue to work on me. And interestingly enough, you know, Alex, I couldn't tell her in that moment because I'm thinking, Hey, okay, this second day coming out coma, I'm still trying to figure all this stuff out, he's going to think I'm crazy. So I let it go, and I didn't tell her, and it was a year later that I met her at the hospital that I told her that story. And it's like now every year since, you know, we get together on her father's birthday and talk about that. So it was her father speaking through me, even though she didn't hear him, you know, prompting her to continue working on me. So now she knows that her father is always with her, which, of course, you know, we're spiritual beings, first having a human experience. So why do we find that to be such a, you know, an uncanny thing. We really should think of it as being something you know usual instead of unusual. So that was the my first experience, my first envy. But the ultimate purpose for me is to grow spiritually. Is to learn more and more how to connect with that love and light of the Divine, how to become a better person, how to evolve more in that direction. Because, you know, in the end, as I, you know, when I wrote the book, I kept an urn with not all of this, but partial urn of Frosties ashes to remind me that, in the end, we really do just get reduced to a pile of dust. So that's all we are. Like you said, are we really are just a meat stick without spirit. So it's so important for us to develop this spirituality, what I would call the spirituality of wholeness, of understanding who we are, where we come from, why it's so important realizing that our real identity comes from God, and when we do that and learn how to see the divine in everything, it equals freedom or freedom, no matter what happens in this life. Doesn't matter how much money we earn, or, you know, what kind of car we drive, or what kind of position we we hold, because in the end, it's all folly. In the end, our spiritual relationship with the Creator is really all we have. That's it.

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