Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

Author Philip Gabbard shares part 1 of his near death experience.

31 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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In this interview, Nick Hutchison asks Philip Gabbard to share his recent near‑death experience. Gabbard begins by describing a series of profound personal losses: his brother, who was his closest confidant, and his brother’s two sons who both died at age 33—one by suicide and the other in a motorcycle accident. He explains how these tragedies left him emotionally raw. In August of the same year, Gabbard lost his brother. During a spiritual healing session with a practitioner in Mexico, which involved acupuncture and meditation, he reports entering what he calls a “zero‑point God” state. In that state he was suddenly whisked to heaven, where he was held by his deceased brother. He characterises the experience as the most enlightening of his life and expresses a compulsion to tell others about it.

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Why don't you tell everybody about this near-death heaven experience that you had recently and why you feel compelled to tell people about it?
I'll begin at probably a good point to start any conversation. Maybe that's a bad idea. I lost somebody in my life. I had a lot of death past few years. And if you see me change, it's because now that I'm thinking about it, I'll try not to be emotional. But this year I lost my brother and that I was so close to. Every word that I've ever written, he was a soundboard of my life, you know, and we all lose people. And so my brother and I were so close, but never Ever more close within the last couple of years because he lost both of his boys at a young age, both at the age of 33. And they both died, one from suicide and another killed in a motorcycle accident. And I just thought, how can that happen? You know? And then a year later, just this past August, I lost my brother. And I didn't anticipate, but I had the most enlightening experience of my life that is unbelievable. And it's unbelievable because it's going to be hard to believe. And I went in for a visit with my— I work with a spiritual healer, kind of. He's in Mexico. Mexico, and he wanted me to relax and be able to meditate a little bit. And so he uses acupuncture. And in that process, I was engaged in what is called a zero-point God experience, and I was quickly whisked away into heaven. I— there was an intervention in my life, and I was whisked away to heaven. I've been held by my brother.