Learn how a childhood near-death experience sparked a lifelong search for spiritual meaning in life and death.
About the guest:
My guest Sally Dukes has been a small business owner, psychotherapist, editor, and middle school teacher and she is also the author of a newly published memoir titled drummer girl: A Story of Life After Death. The book tells the story of Sally’s near-death experience as a child and how it changed her thoughts on life and death and inspired a lifelong spiritual journey. She discusses the book and the travel stories that are highlighted within it while expressing her hope that readers will come away with less fear of death. Learn more at her website:
In this episode:
- The story of Sally’s NDE at age 3
- How wanting to understand that experience fueled her search throughout life
- The isolation experienced after such an extraordinary event that others don’t understand
- Why she views it as a sacred experience
- How medicine can pathologize occurrences that can’t be explained rationally
- Sally’s travels in India and Burma
- Why she no longer fears death
Links for this episode:
Resources:
- What Really Matters episode: My View of the Afterlife
- Proof of Heaven and the Afterlife with Dr. Eben Alexander
- EOLU recording: Supernatural Stories from the Dreams of a Hospice Physician
Related Episodes:
- Near-Death Experiences and Healthcare with Heidi Walsh and Lilia Samoilo
- NDE’s and After-Death Communication in Hospice Work with Scott Janssen
Other Links:
- 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying by Karen Wyatt MD
- Latest post on Substack: We Need Another Word for Grief
- What Really Matters Podcast: Roses for Tracey and Grief with Wings
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