In this episode, I explore one of the most unusual and carefully investigated reincarnation cases of the twentieth century: the case of Uttara Huddar.

In 1974, Uttara, a thirty-two-year-old woman from Nagpur, Maharashtra, began to speak and behave as someone else. This second personality called herself Sharada. She spoke Bengali, dressed as a married Bengali woman, followed Bengali customs, and appeared confused by modern life. What made the case so striking was that Uttara came from a Marathi-speaking family and was not known to be fluent in Bengali.

Sharada described a previous life in Bengal during the early nineteenth century. She gave details of her family, her marriage, the places she had lived, and her death from a cobra bite while picking flowers. Her story included names of relatives, references to villages, religious customs, and family connections that investigators later attempted to verify.

The case involved responsive xenoglossy, the apparent ability to converse in a language not learned in the normal way. Sharada did not simply repeat phrases; Bengali-speaking witnesses reported that she could answer questions, hold conversations and use older forms of Bengali.

This episode looks closely at the investigation, the verifiable details, and why the Uttara Huddar case remains one of the strongest and most fascinating examples in the literature on reincarnation.

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In this episode I'm talking to William Peters about the Shared Crossing Project

The Shared Crossing Project’s mission is to positively transform relationships to death and dying through education and raising awareness about shared crossings and their healing benefits. We aim to bring people together in community to support open exploration and discussion of this important topic in a safe place.

Bio

William is a licensed psychotherapist and is the Founder of the Shared Crossing Project. He has developed a series of leading-edge programs that introduce audiences to a broad assortment of experientially based curricula and practices. These programs focus on preparation for a conscious, connecting, and loving end-of-life experience, and they invite exploration of the topic of life after death.

Some of these workshops also impart a series of protocols intended to initiate shared death experiences and other beneficial shared crossing phenomena. William teaches clinical methods to guide end-of-life practitioners in assisting their clients in meaningful integration of their end-of-life experiences.

As the Director of the Shared Crossing Research Initiative (SCRI), William and his research team collect and study extraordinary end-of-life experiences (shared crossings). He is recognized by many as the world’s leading authority on the shared death experience (SDE) having developed research-based typologies that classify the full range of SDEs. He also created the Spectrum of End-of-Life Experiences, a user-friendly guide to assist the dying, caregivers and health care professionals in navigating and understanding phenomena that can manifest at end of life.

William conducts workshops and presents internationally. He recently presented at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Annual Conference. His innovative work has been featured on CNN Online among other media outlets. William’s book entitled At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better was published worldwide by Simon & Schuster in January 2022.

William continues his practice as a licensed psychotherapist at the Family Therapy Institute in Santa Barbara, specializing in end-of-life counseling as a means toward psycho-spiritual evolution. William has served as a Zen Hospice volunteer and his work is informed by his two near-death experiences and a variety of shared death experiences.

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This week I'm talking to Greg Halpern about his near death experiences.

Bio

Greg Halpern is a Chicago-based judo world champion, serial entrepreneur, and survivor of thirteen near-death experiences that have profoundly shaped his life, worldview, and sense of purpose.

His first near-death experience occurred at the age of five, following a post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage. As he recalls, the trauma carried him into what felt like an infinite expanse of warm, radiant light, where a powerful voice instructed him to return because there was still work for him to do.

Over the years, Halpern came to view each subsequent near-death experience not merely as an encounter with mortality, but as part of a larger process: a series of extraordinary events that, in his view, cleared his mind and prepared him to receive a deeper understanding of his mission.

By the time of his twelfth near-death experience in 2005, when exposure to chlorine gas from a pool canister seared his lungs and throat, Halpern had developed an unusual relationship with survival. Rather than expecting death, he had come to believe that each crisis carried meaning and direction.

His thirteenth near-death experience proved to be the most consequential. After a ruptured appendix was misdiagnosed as food poisoning for three days, Halpern underwent a six-hour surgery for advanced peritonitis. During his recovery, a fatal over-medication caused him to flatline in his hospital bed.

What he says he encountered in that moment was both haunting and urgent: a vision of global destruction centered around the year 2023, accompanied by a message that he had waited too long to share information he believed could change the world.

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This episode I am reading from JM DeBord's book ''The Science of the Paranormal: The Truth Behind Telepathy, ESP, Reincarnation, and More Mysterious Phenomena'.

Discover the truth behind ESP, paranormal powers, and psychic abilities—the perfect gift for curious minds and bold scientists alike.

Some paranormal phenomena and powers of the mind are real, but mainstream science dismisses it all as fantasy. The Science of the Paranormal looks toward the overwhelming evidence that something weird and wild lies behind our everyday reality. Credible witnesses have seen paranormal activity with their own eyes. Scientists have studied it in their labs. And everyday we see depictions of it in popular media like Stranger Things and X-Men. Separate fact from fiction in this book and get answers to questions like:

Can objects be moved with psychokinesis?

Is the future foreseeable?

Can we communicate telepathically?

What does science say about ESP?

Where is the evidence for reincarnation and spirits?

Bio

Known online as RadOwl, he’s published over 25,000 dream interpretations at r/dreams — Reddit’s largest dreaming community, which he’s led as head moderator since 2014. No other public record of dream expertise comes close.

He’s the author of DREAMS 1-2-3: Three Steps to Interpret Dreams — the most complete modern guide to dream interpretation — plus The Dream Interpretation Dictionary, RadOwl’s Crash Course, and The Science of the Paranormal. Recognized by the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Former dream expert-in-residence at Canyon Ranch Spa. Featured in The Guardian and a recurring guest on Coast to Coast AM.

He built the DREAMS 1-2-3 method to give anyone a practical system for decoding what their mind is actually saying at night. Because your dreams are telling you something — and once you know how to listen, everything changes.

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This week I am talking to Martha Jo Atkins PHD about her book 'Sign Posts of Dying'.

Sign Posts of Dying tells about the unique language and behaviors of the dying. Brief so as not to overwhelm yet thorough enough to get the information needed, each Signpost shines a light on often ignored or unrecognized aspects of the dying process. Is your beloved hearing people in the hallway? Are they talking about 'other rooms' or friendly visitors who aren't family members? This book can help you recognize the language of dying. Useful for caregivers, mental health pros, and hospice volunteers, Signposts will help you understand some of what you may experience as you walk with a person who is leaving this world. One reader says, "Very intimate and makes what is a difficult topic for lots of people very safe."

Bio

Martha has been with more than a thousand children and adults at end-of-life - in hospitals, homes, and in-patient hospices. Long-term work in grief and bereavement laid a strong professional foundation early, and personal losses provided hard-won empathy and their own kind of wisdom.

She is a doctoral level end-of-life licensed professional counselor and counselor supervisor (LPC-S), coach, consultant, speaker, and author. I love all dogs but most especially boxers. Dr. Pepper is my drink of choice. I worked with my first dying patient, a 3 y/o, when I was 22 years old. For thirty five years now, I’ve come alongside grieving and bereaved children and families + people at end-of-life and the ones who love them.

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This week I'm talking to JM DeBord about his book ''The Science of the Paranormal: The Truth Behind Telepathy, ESP, Reincarnation, and More Mysterious Phenomena'.

Discover the truth behind ESP, paranormal powers, and psychic abilities—the perfect gift for curious minds and bold scientists alike.

Some paranormal phenomena and powers of the mind are real, but mainstream science dismisses it all as fantasy. The Science of the Paranormal looks toward the overwhelming evidence that something weird and wild lies behind our everyday reality. Credible witnesses have seen paranormal activity with their own eyes. Scientists have studied it in their labs. And everyday we see depictions of it in popular media like Stranger Things and X-Men. Separate fact from fiction in this book and get answers to questions like:

Can objects be moved with psychokinesis?

Is the future foreseeable?

Can we communicate telepathically?

What does science say about ESP?

Where is the evidence for reincarnation and spirits?

Bio

Known online as RadOwl, he’s published over 25,000 dream interpretations at r/dreams — Reddit’s largest dreaming community, which he’s led as head moderator since 2014. No other public record of dream expertise comes close.

He’s the author of DREAMS 1-2-3: Three Steps to Interpret Dreams — the most complete modern guide to dream interpretation — plus The Dream Interpretation Dictionary, RadOwl’s Crash Course, and The Science of the Paranormal. Recognized by the International Association for the Study of Dreams. Former dream expert-in-residence at Canyon Ranch Spa. Featured in The Guardian and a recurring guest on Coast to Coast AM.

He built the DREAMS 1-2-3 method to give anyone a practical system for decoding what their mind is actually saying at night. Because your dreams are telling you something — and once you know how to listen, everything changes.

https://dreams123.net/

https://jmdebord.com/

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/dreamsthatshapeus/

https://www.amazon.com/Science-Paranormal-Reincarnation-Mysterious-Phenomena/dp/1510778160

https://simonbown.com/

https://www.patreon.com/ourparanormalafterlife

My book 'Verified Near Death Experiences' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKRGDFP

My book 'Aspects of Alien Abduction' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRRPCT9Y

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Thousands of near-death experience accounts have been documented across five decades of clinical research. Esoteric traditions have described post-mortem states for millennia. Depth psychology mapped archetypal transition imagery throughout the twentieth century. None of these bodies of work talk to each other.

The result is a field fragmented by disciplinary silos, ideological commitments, and the assumption that symbolic content is equivalent to literal description. Materialists dismiss the data. Religionists literalise the imagery. New Age frameworks conflate symbol with destination.

Reverse Engineering the Afterlife operates at the structural level, extracts the cross-tradition pattern, and builds a named explanatory model— the Consciousness Transition Model—that accounts for the data without requiring faith in any tradition's myth-language.

Bio

Brendan D. Murphy is an independent consciousness researcher and author working at the fault line between empirical science and the world's esoteric traditions—testing both against evidence rather than taking either on faith. His new book, Reverse Engineering the Afterlife (2026), introduces the Consciousness Transition Model (CTM)—a structured, cross-disciplinary framework for understanding what consciousness encounters during and after death. Built from over two decades of research across near-death studies, reincarnation data, systems thinking, depth psychology, and esoteric philosophy, the CTM is not a belief system, but an operational map. His first book, The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality (2012)—drawing from quantum physics, consciousness research, psi phenomena, and comparative philosophy—established him as one of the most thorough independent researchers in the field. Professional Member — IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies) Professional Affiliate — Galileo Commission Full Member — Scientific and Medical Network (SMN)

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This week I am talking to Annie Mattingley about her book ‘The After Death Chronicles: True Stories of Comfort, Guidance, and Wisdom from Beyond the Veil’.

This is a book about ordinary people--plumbers, artists and accountants, bakers and beauticians, teachers and lawyers--who have been able to receive communication from loved ones who have died. Included here are accounts from over 80 people across the country who have had contact with the dead through the diaphanous veil that separates them from the living.

The book begins with the story of Annie's deceased daughter speaking to her in the early morning hours. The communication was so transformative that she began to share her experience. Much to her surprise, she discovered that after-death communication is much more common than is normally assumed, and she began to connect with other folks across the country who had similar experiences.

Each of the ten chapters is organized around a specific kind of after-death communication. Included here are chapters on dreams, verbatim conversations, and synchronicity through nature and various other physical manifestations, descriptions of the results of these occurrences, and advice on how to open up to after-death communication. This book inspires in the reader reassurance, courage, healing, and a sense of wonder.

From the author: "The time is ripe for people to recognize the blessing of how frequently our dead beloveds return . . . to confirm the reality that consciousness continues beyond the grave and to remind us that there is much more to death than the physical cessation of breath and pulse. It is time to break the silence, time to stop keeping these powerful healing experiences to ourselves. It is time to allow the experiences themselves, and the positive effect they have on the living."

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