CHILLING NDE: Clinically DEAD for 45 Mins; Meets GOD & Wakes Up in a BODY BAG! with Vincent Tolman

In the tapestry of life, some threads glimmer with experiences so profound they alter the entire fabric. On today’s episode, we welcome Vincent Tolman, a man whose journey took him beyond the veil of death and back, bringing with him a message of immense love and understanding.

Before his near-death experience, Vincent lived what many would consider an ideal life. He traveled extensively, worked in construction across the globe, and even dabbled in the film industry. Despite these adventures, he felt a persistent emptiness, a sense of chasing happiness that always seemed just out of reach. This restless pursuit led him to a pivotal moment on a seemingly ordinary day.

On January 18, 2003, Vincent and a friend took a supplement that would unexpectedly change his life. Almost immediately, they began feeling unwell, and Vincent found himself collapsing in a Dairy Queen bathroom, his body succumbing to a toxic overdose. Unbeknownst to those around him, Vincent Tolman lay lifeless for nearly an hour, his soul embarking on an extraordinary journey.

As Vincent describes, the transition from life to the other side was marked by an overwhelming sense of peace and vitality. He felt a cool, electrifying energy wash over him, alleviating all pain. His awareness expanded, allowing him to perceive the thoughts and emotions of everyone in the restaurant. He watched from above as paramedics arrived, initially treating his body as a lost cause. But one rookie medic, driven by an inexplicable determination, defied protocol and continued to administer life-saving measures.

“Take the best love that you can have as a human being, the most unconditional, perfect love, and times that by eons by trillions, and it’s still just an eyelash to God’s love,” Vincent reflects, sharing the most profound insight from his near-death experience. This boundless love, he explains, is not contingent on who we aspire to be but embraces us exactly as we are.

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  1. Unconditional Divine Love: The love of the Creator surpasses any human understanding, embracing each of us as we are, in our most authentic form.
  2. Life Beyond Death: Vincent’s experience illustrates that consciousness continues beyond physical death, offering a different perspective on life and existence.
  3. Purpose in Life: Through his journey, Vincent realized the importance of living a life filled with purpose and authentic happiness, rather than chasing superficial success.

In this profound conversation, Vincent Tolman shares his insights, urging us to embrace the divine love that surrounds us and to live each moment with authenticity and purpose. His story is a reminder that life’s true meaning often lies beyond the material and the visible, in the unseen threads of love and connection that bind us all.

Please enjoy my conversation with Vincent Tolman.

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Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE008

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

Vincent Tolman 0:09
You know, prior, I had kind of lived the ideal single life I traveled the world lived all over the world, I actually worked construction primarily, and was able to pick up projects all over the United States, even some, some projects, literally everywhere, everywhere I could find a contract, we could work. And so I did, I got the opportunity to live across the United States and internationally and even works for about three and a half years and major TV and film. Just working, you know, kind of worked my way from the bottom of the ladder for as a standing up to it became a second second, then a second ad. So, you know, it was a fun, fun turn of life. And I felt like I was successful by the world standards. But I didn't feel happy. I didn't really have what I felt was happiness, I felt like happy was happiness was always on the horizon. And I was always chasing it. I didn't feel like I felt I had happy moments, but I didn't feel like I embodied happiness yet. And that was kind of my journey. At that time.

Alex Ferrari 1:17
You take this toxic amount of the supplement, which is fascinating in its own right. What happens?

Vincent Tolman 1:25
Well, we each took our little bottle cap and our plan for the day was we were going to go up to a an International Auto Expo and kind of walk around and then we're gonna go do a workout and kind of have our normal day. Normal Saturday, it was a Saturday, it was Saturday, January 18. And so we we that was our plan, we took each cigar bottle cap, we got in the car, and we as we were heading out the door. Getting into the car, we both felt that it was hitting us really fast. And it felt almost like a drunk this. Like literally it felt like a drunkenness. And I felt cold spreading from around my chest and my thighs. Like literally cold cold, my body was becoming cold. So I said, Hey, let's go get some to eat. You know, sometimes if you get a little too much of this stuff, you can get something to eat and they'll make you feel better. So we headed down the street about two blocks down the street to a Dairy Queen. And we pulled up my buddy, he was almost falling asleep as we pulled up. So I was like shaking him awake as we pulled in. I remember like reaching over and helping him put the car in park even he was to that point where he just was almost out himself. I stumbled into the restaurant, made it directly to the bathroom which was right by the door went in there and it was single use bathroom so out of habit just locked the door. And I proceeded to just pass out passed out right there on the floor on my back. And I began to aspirate or vomit and breathe in my vomit literally died right there, there. And then meanwhile my buddy he goes in, he barely stumbles in collapses on a booth and starts vomiting all over the booth, the manager of the restaurant comm comes over and sees this is like oh my god, you know, he calls 911 and gets gets my buddy hauled away to a hospital, my buddy ends up being totally fine. They pump his stomach, they treat him with a bunch of charcoal. And he gets released out of the hospital the very next day, without any problem and no long lasting effects. But again, meanwhile, nobody knew there was another guy knee in the bathroom. And I was literally laying there dead on the floor on the floor. And how long were you out for so so from the time that my buddy came in, and they called 911 to get me out of the it was about an almost an hour. So we we know for at least 45 minutes at the most conservative estimate to because it was 45 minutes between phone calls between the 911 phone call to my buddy to get him all the way and then the 911 to come and get this dead body.

Alex Ferrari 4:00
What happened in when you start to transition?

Vincent Tolman 4:04
So for me from my perspective, what I was watching because I watched the room get very dizzy as I walked in there into that bathroom, and it felt like the whole room start to spin backwards. Like literally like the kind of like in the movies how, you know, it makes it feel like the whole grant felt like the whole ground was shaking on me. And it was just me Of course, I was passing out the very next moment I felt like I was I was like plunged into cool electricity. And it felt very much like a fluid almost a water. But it wasn't water because I didn't feel wet. But I felt electrified literally in a good way. I mean not in the like scary but I felt just full of this. This vitality, this energy and instantaneously. You know, I body I was bodybuilding pretty hard. My body was pretty sore, and was soon as I plunged into this cool feeling 100% of pain was completely gone. And, and I recognize that instantaneously, but then I recognized also that I was surrounded by just nothingness. Like I couldn't see anything I could just see darkness. And out of nowhere I started to see this like fogginess in front of me start to get clearer and clearer and brighter and clearer and brighter. And what it was is it was the scene of this restaurant, but I was looking from above, but I could see everywhere in the restaurant as if there was no roof, like no ceiling, no roof on this restaurant, I could see everywhere in the restaurant, I could see and hear the thoughts, feelings, everything that anyone who was dealing in that building, I could I could perceive literally, the feelings of the cook, I could perceive the feelings and the thoughts of the assistant manager, the manager, even the two customers that were eating breakfast, this man and his wife, I could perceive what the man was thinking about what the wife was thinking about. It was just so surreal. And I just proceeded to observe everything. I watched them Holloway, my friend in the ambulance. I watched them call 911 for him. I watched so I died, I must have died instantaneous. The second that I went in there and passed out I must have died just right then because I watched them haul him away. And I knew, I knew without knowing I don't know how I knew. I knew he was going to be okay. But I knew that this other guy in the bathroom that he was he was in serious trouble that he was gone. And this ambulance shows up. It's a three man team. So there's two veteran medics. And there's one rookie Medic and the rookie has kind of a tag alarm. It's his first live week on the job. And he's supposed to primarily observe and help out. And somehow I know all this, I just know it from from the second they show up. I just know this. It's almost like he carried that as a badge on him that he was a new guy. They're processing the scene. They attempted preliminary resuscitation attempts, they tried, you know, chest compressions, they tried to a little oxygen bag where they're trying to squeeze with their hand, and they weren't able to get anything. Obviously the body was actually starting to get a little stiff in the legs. So they they knew this one was gone. They went ahead and bagged it. They took their time, there was no rush. They were there for about 45 minutes to an hour. While they while they put the body in the bag. They got statements from everybody who witnessed anything. They, which was about four or five people that every all the statements were signed, all the paperwork was signed. Meanwhile, the rookie is sitting in the back of the ambulance while he's waiting for the other two medics to to kind of process all the paperwork, get all the paperwork signed. As they're doing all of this. He's sitting there back there staring at this body bag and feeling all these these feelings that like, why can't we make a difference for this one. This is where it gets very interesting. From my perspective, he unzips the body bag, he has to undo the straps on the body just to unzip the body back he's trying to find a pole so can't find anything. He reaches under the arm area can't find a pole. So it's cold, stiff, it's gross. And he's even feeling this like this is a dead body. And he had to undo one more strap. So now we're three straps down, he goes down and he was feeling on the inside femur area. And when he got on the inside femur area, he made contact with the actual femur bone. He was trying to feel for that femoral artery or I always say that wrong. But the femur artery, the one that's near the femur, I felt a shock and I felt I saw him jump right when I felt the shock. So I think that he felt it too. And that was enough for him that there's gotta be something there, there has to be something there. So he he continued unzip the body baggie and did a couple more straps. He he began forcing oxygen into the lungs. Then he also hooked up a defibrillator. And that is for the heart to shock the heart. And when he hooked that up, it makes this alarm sound right before it shocks the body. So meanwhile, the other two veteran medics, they're deep in conversation about sports. They're thinking about like the game coming up to this, this and that. Because it was right before you know the the big game in the NFL at the time. This is again January 18 of 2003. But when the alarm bells went off the warning alarm for the decent machine. They both like turned back and saw what was going on. And they started to freak out on this medic. They started yelling at him telling him he's gonna get fired. He's breaking protocol. How do you like to be fired on your first week on the job, just really go into town on him and he just ignored it completely ignored it. He let the defib hit he let it charge and hit. It did not do any result. There was no heartbeat. He went ahead and charge the second time. And again these metrics are chewing him out at you and him out. They he lets it go a second time at the second time. I did get a single heartbeat, one heartbeat, and then it was flatline again. And that single heartbeat was enough to like shut up the the veteran medics, they completely stopped talking. And they they knew something odd was going on here, something very different. And so the third round of shocks happen, which which that medical louder third round, on the third round, it was a steady but faint heartbeat, continuous continuous. So he was able to get that heart started back up after the third round of shocks. And there's some estimates that say it's at least it could easily be an hour and a half to two hours, factoring and all the paperwork, the time I was in the body bag, all of that. Yeah. So well over an hour easily over an hour, cold, dead and stiff, the body came back. Now I was still brain dead, the body was still brain dead. And for three more days, I was brain dead. And that's where I had my experience. I had my experience while the body was brain dead. The most important takeaway that I took away from this experience is that take the best love that you can have as a human being the most unconditional, perfect love and times that by eons by trillions. And it's still just an eyelash to God's love, love that the Creator has. And that love is so strong and so unconditional, that the Creator loves you exactly how you are right now. Exactly how you are not not who you want to be. not who you think you should be. But who you're showing up as who you who you are allowing your heart to be as right now. That's who God loves.

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