Episodes

In this powerful episode of the Round Trip Death podcast, host Eric Bennett sits down with Steven La Russa from Reno, Nevada, to discuss one of the most remarkable near-death experience (NDE) accounts you'll ever hear. In fact it was a shared NDE. In October 2024, Stephen suffered a sudden heart attack with no prior cardiac history while on a trip to Lake Tahoe with his wife Wanda. What followed was a deeply transformative NDE in which Steven blacked out, traveled through darkness into a vast s...

In this rich and moving episode about NDE's, host Eric Bennett sits down with David McGinley — psychospiritual specialist, former Lutheran pastor, and 25-year hospital chaplain based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. What begins as a conversation about a rare and life-threatening illness quickly opens into one of the most profound explorations of consciousness, faith, death, and the nature of the afterlife. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTR...

In this transformative episode, host Eric Bennett sits down with Liane Marie Lambert, who experienced an NDE after being hit by a double-decker bus in London over 20 years ago. What started as a traumatic accident that cracked her skull in two became the catalyst for a profound spiritual awakening and life mission. Liane shares her unique NDE (near death experience) perspective, where she experienced herself outside her body (OBE), witnessing both herself on the ground and the frightened bus dr...

In this extended episode of Round Trip Death, we hear the full story and NDE Experience of Billie Kay Rains, a 79-year-old woman from Texas who chose to speak publicly as she nears the end of her life. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ Billie Kay describes a period of intense spiritual searching in the early 1970s that led her away from organized religion and into Transcendental Meditati...

Imagine seeing what seemed like the entire universe and feeling a love so great that it can't be described in words! In this episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett welcomes Masati, a rare three-time Near Death Experience survivor, for an expansive and thought-provoking conversation about consciousness, identity, and what happens when we die. Masati’s story includes three distinct NDE Experiences, each occurring at a different stage of his life and each revealing deeper layers of unders...

In this moving episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett sits down with actor and stuntman Trent John Miller to explore his profound NDE, a life-changing Near Death Experience that followed a devastating accident. ________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ What began as an ordinary day turned into a deeply transformative NDE Experience that reshaped Trent’s understanding of life, death, and ...

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 tak...

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. _________________ Squarespace FREE Trial & 10% OFF purchase: https://www.squarespace.com/ROUNDTRIP Coupon Code: ROUNDTRIP _________________ Drawing on decades of experience in military intelligence and journalism, Don explains how he began studying NDEs after his fat...

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. Richar...

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, s...

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 uncon...

In this enlightening conversation, Gary Wimmer shares his profound near-death experience (NDE) that transformed his understanding of life, consciousness, and the universe. He recounts his journey from a curious young man to a spiritually awakened individual after a life-altering accident and his NDE (near death experience). Gary discusses the insights he gained about the infinite mind of God, the nature of free will, and the importance of personal empowerment. He emphasizes the role of free wi...

Our Purpose: To go from Selfishness to Selflessness In this episode of Round Trip Death, Eric welcomes Marilynn Hughes, whose powerful NDE (Near Death Experience) forever changed her life and faith. Suffering from severe peripartum cardiomyopathy, Marilynn slipped out of her body and entered a translucent tunnel of light where she reunited with her childhood dog and encountered Jesus in radiant form. She was shown multiple realms, a spiritual “measure” of how souls progress from selfishness to ...

At 13 years old, Ishtar Howell survived a devastating car accident that took his mother’s life and shattered his fear of death. His NDE (Near Death Experience) is unusual and the story also includes a SDE (shared death experience) when his mother dies. Moments before impact, time seemed to slow as he slipped out of his body (OBE) into a profound life review, encountered a loving, omniscient presence, and discovered that everything—even pain and trauma—was held within a vast field of love. In t...

LOVE NEVER DIES In this episode of Round Trip Death, Eric sits down with evidential psychic medium and author Connie Fusella to explore her three near-death experiences (NDEs) and how they slowly woke her up to her soul’s purpose. From an early-twenties anaphylactic reaction and a profound life review, to a dramatic cardiac arrest in a New York ER, to a luminous visit with Jesus in a meadow full of joyful children, Connie shares how each NDE experience peeled back another layer of who she real...

NDE vs SDE. In this moving conversation, Eric talks with Amber Kasic about the night she accompanied her father as he was dying in 2020 and unexpectedly experienced what’s known as a shared death experience (SDE) — a spiritually transformative moment in which she felt her father’s soul transition before his physical body died. In this SDE, Amber describes holding her father’s hand in hospice, dropping into pure love and surrender, and suddenly feeling a powerful, "whooshing" presence move thro...

Artist and author Nicole Meeuws joins host, Eric Bennett, to share the near death experience (NDE) she had during an emergency procedure following the loss of a pregnancy in 2015. Nicole recounts leaving her body as a surge of peace carried her into a luminous, “watery” blue-white light and then into a vast white hall where two enormous, blue beings sat upon marble thrones. With feather-like hair, indigo eyes, humanoid torsos, and mer-like tails, they conveyed—wordlessly yet unmistakably—“wel...

Author and screenwriter Sai Marie Johnson flatlined during a high-risk C-section complicated by placenta percreta. While doctors fought to stop catastrophic hemorrhaging, Sai experienced a profound “void, tunnel and light." During her NDE (Near Death Experience) she met and saw her deceased grandmother and great-grandmother. They told her that she had to go back. Above all else, she felt "Every good emotion we can feel on earth, times 5,000!" Goodness and Pure Love. Following her NDE, she wok...

Crisis Line #998 Imagine life being so tough that you attempt to take your life. Then it gets worse! In this episode of Round Trip Death, Nicole Consiglio opens up about her life's difficulties that resulted in a suicide attempt. But she came back. That's the definition of a near death experience (NDE). During her NDE Experience, Nicole was "sucked up into a vortex." There she dealt with black shadow figures holding her down. Eventually her cries for Jesus and Mary were answered. When she th...

Dead 15 Minutes! At nine years old, Mario was declared dead at home after violent spasms and unbearable chest pain. His first NDE followed. He describes separating from his body and entering a realm of tunnels and roads made of fluorescent, multicolored light, where he felt only absolute love, safety, and belonging. Family had begun preparing for his funeral, but he revived within minutes, telling his father he’d wanted to stay “there.” The years that followed were marked by poverty, bullying...

NDE Episode Summary At eight years old, singer–writer Kara Marlene was thrown over her bike’s handlebars and was dead for roughly 45 minutes. What followed was an immersive near-death experience (NDE) of overwhelming love, peace, and a wordless guide—“love itself” in a familiar, humanlike form. In this intimate conversation, Kara recounts the crash, the boundary between light and vast “space,” a brief child-sized life review, and the moment she agreed—simply—to “follow love.” Returning changed...

Can an NDE actually last for 2 years? How about other spiritual experiences? In this moving episode of Round Trip Death, host Eric Bennett welcomes Rebecca Kastl, a speech-language pathologist from Colorado, who shares her extraordinary two-year-long spiritually transformative experience (STE). Unlike typical near-death experiences (NDEs), Rebecca’s journey began not with physical death but with deep emotional trauma and an earnest desire for complete healing. Her story begins with a traumatic...

Mystic and former monastic, Kimberly Braun joins Round Trip Death to share the near-death experience (NDE) she had at 19 after a suicide attempt—a passage not of tunnels and relatives, but of awakening “as and within the luminous void.” Held in unconditional love and freedom, she was offered a choice and chose to return from that heavenly place. Kimberly unpacks the paradox of being both an individual and the whole, the emotional and psychological healing that followed (including therapy), the...

Voices said, "Welcome Back, We're So Glad You're Home." At 26 years old and eight months pregnant, psychotherapist Deborah “Deb” Hanie survived a head-on collision that triggered a profound near-death experience (NDE). Instead of a tunnel of light, Deb describes entering “the void”—a dark, peaceful expanse filled with loving, luminous beings who told her she could stay or return because she “had a baby.” Choosing to come back meant waking to excruciating pain and a difficult recovery, but it ...