In this episode, we are joined by a fantastic lady who uses art forms as a means of spiritual expression. Toni Nagy, is a stand-up comic and filmmaker who has written, edited, directed, and acted in hundreds of videos that have had over 500 million views. Our conversation today revolves around her story, experiences and how her chosen forms of expression have helped shape her spiritual journey.

• Toni tells us about her life story and how she brings her values and visions through filmmaking and comedy.
• The reason why and how she got into acting and comedy.
• How she started to formulate and find her own belief system.
• How the loss of a close friend opened the door to spirituality.
• The story of how she found meditation and Buddhism.
• Toni recalls her first meditation experience.
• Finding out about her brain tumor and what happened next.
• Toni shares how she feels about being in her flow state, her most creative compared to when she was still trying to walk the other way.
• Her plans for the future.

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In today’s podcast, we have a conversation with Dr. Eben Alexander MD. Dr Alexander was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Children's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In 2008, he experienced an unbelievable transcendental near death experience that completely transformed his worldview. Since then, he has authored 4 books, became a New Your Times bestselling author, and is now a pioneering scientist, a modern thought leader in the emerging science that truly acknowledges the primacy of Consciousness in the Universe. We’ll talk more about his experience and mind-blowing recovery and transformation from his 7-day coma in this episode.

• Dr. Eben Alexander’s background, studies, and what led him into neuroscience.
• He tells us about his experience days before and after he went into coma in 2008.
• When you're coming through that coma, how long was it before you started to have memory of, of the week-long coma?
• What happens to memories from near death experiences.
• Salient points that happened during his 7-day coma.
• How his coma impacted his thought process and coping with it.
• The story of how his memories came back.
• Talking more about spontaneous healing and the studies around it.
• Discussing spiritual pathways, religion, and meditation.
• The role that consciousness plays in wellness and recovery.
• The importance of the higher soul and how it has an extraordinary healing that can take place. 
• Dr Alexander tells us about the next phase of his journey and working on comprehending the true nature of consciousness. 

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“What happens when we die?” That was a daunting question that Dr. Penny Sartori sought to answer. In the 1990s, she was an ICU nurse. An encounter with a dying patient led her to know more about near-death experiences. Her fascination led to passion and purpose. In 2006, she was awarded a PhD for her research about near-death experiences. She has written several publications since 2003, the latest of which was: “The Transformative Power of Near-Death Experiences”.

• Penny shares what attracted her to become a nurse
• That one nightshift that became lifechanging for Dr. Penny
• Reading and researching about near-death experiences
• The mindset shift after talking with people who had near-death experiences
• The commonalities patients go through
• The interesting electromagnetic changes in some patients
• Her best case, Patient 10
• How her study changed her perception of the world
• Reconsidering what Consciousness is, according to Dr. Penny’s research
• Penny’s advice to follow your passion
• The sense of purpose Dr. Penny felt after her patient’s depressing death
• What’s next for Dr. Penny Sartori

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“I started reading about death. Wherever I went, I had a book about death in my hand. My colleagues all thought that I was really morbid reading about death. But I think it’s when you start to learn about death that you really start to learn about life.”

“What it’s done for me is give me a completely different perspective on life. It’s taught me to live more in the moment as much as I can.”

“The bottom line of the near-death experience is, what people say is that ‘Do unto others as you would have done that unto you’. That’s the golden rule which is at the heart of all of the wisdom and tradition, isn’t it. It’s a very loving peaceful message that people come back with as well. And I think if we engage more with that as a society, I think, perhaps things would be a lot easier. Life would be easier to live as well.”