A man with no heartbeat knew where the nurse put his dentures. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at near-death experiences that came back with facts the patient had no way to know, and ask how they got them.

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Links for this episode:

• Titus Rivas et al.’s book The Self Does Not Die
• The Day I Died (BBC documentary, 2002)—featuring the Pam Reynolds case
• Psi-Encyclopedia article on Near-Death Experiences
• International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)

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Chapters:

• 0:00:12 – Intro
• 0:00:41 – The Setup: No Pulse, No Brain Activity, Yet He Describes the Room
• 0:01:50 – Earlier Episodes on NDEs
• 0:02:10 – What "Veridical" Means
• 0:03:24 – The Source: The Self Does Not Die
• 0:04:02 – The Book’s Standard: Independent Confirmation
• 0:05:28 – A Note for Sensitive Listeners
• 0:06:06 – The Nurse, the Punch, and the Doctor’s Watch
• 0:10:27 – Testing the Watch Case Against the Three Conditions
• 0:12:07 – Confirmation in Writing
• 0:12:51 – Nine Types of Veridical NDEs
• 0:14:31 – Type 1: Nearby Perceptions — The Surgeon Who Flapped His Elbows
• 0:19:53 – The Elbow Habit Confirmed
• 0:21:43 – Type 1: The Night Watchman’s Open-Heart Surgery
• 0:24:03 – Checking the Account Against the Operative Report
• 0:27:49 – Type 2: Distant Perceptions — Maria’s Shoe
• 0:30:37 – Skeptics and the Shoe
• 0:31:13 – Type 2: Major Scull and the Red Pantsuit
• 0:33:41 – Type 3: Perceptions During Cardiac Arrest
• 0:34:10 – The Man with the Dentures
• 0:38:37 – "You Know Where My Dentures Are"
• 0:42:44 – Lloyd Rudy’s Patient and the Post-it Notes
• 0:48:03 – Auto-Resuscitation: The Lazarus Syndrome
• 0:48:47 – What the Patient Saw
• 0:50:39 – A Second Surgeon Confirms It
• 0:51:33 – Pam Reynolds and the Standstill Operation
• 0:56:35 – The Saw, the Arteries, and the High Natural D
• 0:58:53 – Surgeons Confirm Pam’s Account
• 1:00:33 – Pam’s Uncle and the Push Back
• 1:02:57 – Type 4: Telepathy — "And Then You Ate My Lunch"
• 1:05:00 – A Thought Never Spoken
• 1:06:56 – Type 5: Stranger Encounters — Vi Horton’s Baby Brother
• 1:10:30 – Type 6: Familiar Encounters — Peak in Darien Cases
• 1:11:33 – Eddie Cuomo and His Sister Teresa
• 1:13:22 – Type 7: Apparitions — Olga Gearhardt’s Message
• 1:17:14 – Type 8: Miraculous Healing — Anita Moorjani
• 1:22:39 – An Oncologist Investigates
• 1:23:29 – Type 9: Paranormal Abilities After an NDE
• 1:25:47 – Thank you to Patrons
• 1:26:18 – Sponsor: The Grady Group
• 1:26:39 – Sponsor: In Time by Robert Young
• 1:27:16 – Sponsorship Opportunities
• 1:28:18 – Theories: Five Explanations
• 1:29:18 – Reason Perspective …of Fraud
• 1:31:03 – …of Coincidence
• 1:32:45 – …of Prior Knowledge
• 1:34:45 – …of Sensory Reconstruction
• 1:37:25 – …of Mind-Body Separation
• 1:38:22 – Faith Perspective
• 1:39:24 – Bottom Line
• 1:40:42 – Further Resources
• 1:41:16 – Mysterious Feedback: #424 Joseph Williamson’s Tunnels
• 1:47:22 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:47:56 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:48:04 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:49:07 – Next Time: What Are Demons?
• 1:50:13 – Get your Mysterious merch
• 1:50:21 – Show notes
• 1:50:29 – Become a Patron
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• 1:51:38 – Outro

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