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Heart and Soul: My journey beyond death

Trauma and the Translucent Light

20/10/2023 GMT

My journey beyond death

BBC World Service - Heart and Soul, My journey beyond death

Exploring extraordinary spiritual awakenings that follow a confrontation with death

Exploring extraordinary spiritual awakenings that follow a confrontation with death.

Following a dramatic train accident, David Ditchfield was dragged under a speeding train in Cambridgeshire and nearly lost his life. As he lay in hospital, just before being taken into surgery, he had an extraordinary spiritual experience characterised by overwhelming love, white light and spiritual beings  The experience awakened a previously hidden talent for painting and music. Despite his vision of angelic beings and a white tunnel of light, he doesn’t view his life-changing spiritual awakening as a religious experience. He tells his remarkable story and meets the founder of Near Death Experience UK who too had a profound spiritual awakening while in a critical condition. Together, they share the astonishing changes they underwent and explore how their experiences relate to formal religion.

Producer: Vishva Samani
Series Producer: Rajeev Gupta
Editor Helen Grady
Production Coordinator: Mica Nepomuceno

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