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What happens after we die? What if the afterlife is nothing like we’ve been told?
At 21 years old, John J. Davis was clinically dead for 7 minutes…and what he experienced shattered everything he thought he knew about life, death, and the universe.
Unlike most near death experiences that begin with the tunnel of white light, John says his journey started beyond the light, in a realm that felt more real than Earth. Though only minutes passed here, it felt like hours exploring the other side.
In this episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, John describes in vivid detail what he experienced beyond death, including:
– Meeting his spirit guide
– Entering an orientation center where souls are greeted by loved ones (including pets)
– Why people appear to be in their 30s on the other side
– How the afterlife includes joyful activities like beaches, music festivals, & creativity
– How time operates differently beyond Earth
– His life review & witnessing 3 past lives
– Why Earth may be the most difficult place a soul can incarnate
– Truth about soulmates
– A mysterious “planetarium” revealing life across the universe
– A library where souls can watch past events unfold
– Revelation that religion was created by man, not God, & hell does not exist
– His encounter in a meadow with the being he believes was Jesus
– A message he was told to bring back to humanity
But returning to Earth wasn’t easy.
After coming back and telling loved ones where he had been, John fell into depression, questioned everything, and even considered taking his own life as he struggled to reconcile the beauty of the other side with life on Earth.
Eventually, he discovered a new purpose.
John shares how his experience brings comfort to people experiencing grief, especially parents who have lost children, and how his hospice work helps those nearing death face it without fear.
We also explore:
– How he handled skepticism
– How his NDE shaped his parenting
– How he integrates what he saw into everyday life
– Whether he returned with special abilities
– How hypnotherapy later confirmed his memories, revealing the same past lives
This is one of the most detailed NDE accounts you’ll hear, raising questions about the afterlife, the purpose of life, and what may be waiting beyond death.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when we die, this conversation will challenge everything you thought you knew.
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00:00 – Intro
03:16 – Why John?
04:23 – Dying on Operating Table
06:03 – Waking Across the Tunnel
07:24 – Meeting Spirit Guide
18:44 – Orientation Center
23:29 – Reunion in the Afterlife
40:19 – Life Review
45:17 – Past Lives Theater
50:34 – Planning Lifetimes
55:06 – Soulmate Library
59:05 – Planetarium Tour
01:14:01 – Meeting Jesus in a Meadow
01:16:45 – Waking in the OR
01:18:09 – Aftermath & New Purpose
01:20:51 – Skeptics & Symbolism
01:26:24 – Religion, Love & No Hell
01:34:05 – Hospice Work & Guidance
01:36:28 – What is God?
01:38:38 – Parenting After NDE
01:42:40 – Hypnosis & Confirming Past Lives
01:46:44 – Telepathy, Dreams & Aliens
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I'm a skeptic by nature, though I want to believe this is true since it aligns with my personal beliefs about the afterlife. So I must respectfully ask, have you reviewed his medical records to verify that he was dead for seven minutes (or indeed, dead at all)? If not, is there a reason it wasn't verified? I'm not saying he's lying, I truly want to believe him; but I think as a scientist, you'd agree that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
It just seems odd that he says he was literally dead for seven minutes, but he had no physical effects from that, and they didn't even keep him for observation overnight; they just sent him home. I seriously doubt they'd do that even today.
1987 was long ago, sure; but my son was born in 1987, so I can attest that one very specific thing about his story sticks out to me as unlikely at best. In 1987, doctors were far more likely to admit a patient overnight, or even for prolonged periods, even in situations wherein today they would discharge the patient the same day. For example, I was kept unwillingly inpatient for three days following uncomplicated childbirth in 1987, just because my doctor insisted that I needed the rest.
So I can't even imagine that any doctor in 1987 would say, "Okay, look – you were dead for seven minutes, but you're alive again now, and that's good enough for me. We don't need to keep you for observation to ensure you don't die again from the allergen which has not yet had time to clear your body, or do any testing for brain or organ damage; let's just reschedule this surgery, and get you home today!" That would NEVER have happened in 1987, unless he had the literal worst doctor and worst hospital on earth.
He also doesn't mention fractured ribs or bruising from CPR, or burns from the defibrillator (which he definitely would have had back then). He didn't mention waking up freezing or numb either, though therapeutic hypothermia was their only way to avoid irreversible brain damage after being dead for that long (saying that for those reading the comment, I'm sure Dr. Bialik is already well aware).
However, is it possible he's completely misremembering that part, due to the trauma of being dead for that long? Could it be a miracle that he survived completely unscathed?
I'm trying to keep an open mind, but there are far too many things which don't add up, to not request medical records as verification of the basis of the claim. He should have had them all along given what happened – his other doctors would definitely need that information, even today. I don't need to see them myself, I would absolutely trust Dr. Bialik's word that she verified he did indeed die on the operating table (for any period of time).
This man may be telling the truth I have a cousin who can see the dead and the dead comes to her and speaks to her in dreams her mom passed away and told her it's jus like over here but the population is way bigger and also say her mom told her she was getting married on the other side
I stopped watching at 48:19 as he went on IT BECAME BLASPHEMOUS.. God says nothing about spirit guides, we do not have passed lives, God never describes heaven as a giant computer system, .. Jesus spoke on hell more than anything else.. So don't tell us there is no punishment for rejecting God.. THIS MAN CAN'T EVEN SAY HEAVEN HE KEEPS ON SAYING "OTHER SIDE" HE IS A FAKE. You can even see the skepticism on Mayims face. You should repent sir and not lead people astray..
In Catholicism, reincarnation used to be a thing but they stopped teaching/preaching it to have more power over the flock (sheep).
One of my favorite movies is “Defending Your Life” with Meryl Streep. It’s surprisingly similar to your near death experience.
Were there black people twerking there too?
So who are the ghosts around us in this Earthly plane of existence and why haven’t they crossed over?
It sounds exactly like the Albert Brooks movie defending your life
I didn't know Amy from Big bang had a friggin pod cast..awesome!
Seems to me she's definitely not a believer in the "big bang" if she believes in an afterlife. Lol
Sounds like a movie 🎥
This dude must've been hepped up on Quaaludes. Tvs? A map?
Dude.. i died. Saw no white light, Jesus, god, angels or dead family members. What ever you were on, gimme some.
Mayim Bialik you surprised me by entertaining this dude you're smarter than this.
If this is what really happens then all near death experiences would be this way. They're all different tho, so why?
I'm so sick of these stupid ass people talking about how they died and came back to life. Its bullshit
Did he ever go to "the void"?
Ooooohhh… I just died in your arms tonight.
Hahaha😂 Allen talked like Alvin from the Chipmunks.
Bentov helps explain how John knew Allen vs Allan. Tiered levels of God being us, we're being the experience for God
I’ve been dead before and I had nothing of the sort happening. All I remember is an internal overwhelming feeling of peace nothing else.
So…I started binging NDE videos about two years ago. Noticed there is definitely a structure to the afterlife. Kept hearing people refer to the “heaven” experience as being “home.”
Started waking up at 3:00am listening to the fleeting arguments of my inner voice trying to convince another entity to allow me to come home.
Started feeling like my soul no longer fit in my body. Like I’m trapped in a meat suit that no longer fits. That I belong “in the entire universe.” Best way I can describe it.
The only time I feel any relief is when I look at low light starry nights with tons of visible stars.
Be careful. This stuff is real.
I spent 40 years in death care- dying easier than living- it’s the seed principal- journey
RIPD 3
I have similar experiences. I died. I went to a place. I came back with the grace. It was 13 years ago. I cant shake it. 😊
Do you want to know what it was like on the otherside?
He carrys a vile maybe
Life after earth.. life as "we know it!" Ends but there is what i call after earth yall probably call it after life
Time is a window. Death is but a door.
Amazing!
I love the Mayim Bialik hosts this. It's such a twist from her role on the Big Bang Theory.
What were people wearing?
I always think life sounds boring on the other side when people describe it
Too long. Want to know but I have responsibilities. Need 20-30 min….
I passed away and was reincarnated back here 10 years later I passed away December 5 1980 and was reborn October 10 1990 I remember all of it im not supposed to remember but i do….. I remember watching myself growing from months to years when I was 4 I finally got to fully inhabit this body…… Everything is a reminder of who we once were we can choose to remember or to forget really…. But every choice has its rewards and its consequences so be careful….
Call me a sceptic, but his experience just doesn't seem real to me. Hard for me to wrap my head around "god"…or anything related to that. I'd say he had some heavy duty drugs.
My NDE guide in the corridor did not tell me it wasn’t my time. She honored our agreement that whichever of us dies first must “come back to haunt” the other to prove there is something after death. She died not even the year before. I had the NDE NDE during a likely severe apnea episode. Or I somehow just manufactured the event in my own mind. I dunno. The shit is weird.
I better add my story too. When I was 11 I was struck by a car in a school zone. I died. I was resuscitated in an ambulance. I went to an amazing place with the cosmos in front of me. It wasn't dark though, everything was bright. I was lost, but there was billions of (souls?) moving about everywhere. They were like orbs of light.. A group of these approached me and told me I wasn't supposed to be there yet. "You need to go back". They vanished.. I was alone again. Then suddenly 'something' pulled me back.. took me some place very quickly. I was then in a coma for 3-4 weeks where I had dreams I was riding around in a car with my mom, the city was a known town from my childhood but everything was flooded. We drove through water that was up to the windows while my mom calmly talked to me. When I woke up weeks later I was told that my mom was talking to me the entire time. Did my 11 year-old mind make up this experience while trying to remember what happened? I dont know..
I dont believe him, because he saw Jesus, if would see some being with 4 eyes and 5 tentacles i would believe him.
Only brainwashed christians will believe this.. look at the these angels idols behind him. I quite sure than he has some agenda, more sheeps for his church.. maybe some book, paid preaching, paid speeches.. 🙁
That soul mate does not make sense, no sense of multiple lives.
He has not soulmate because his face is not great..
Zero new evidence, not something shocking not obvious presented. they still use our books common where they get paper, paper is not good medium. If would be for real, he would know how wicked Mother Tereza was, is just buzzword. if you question it would find ugly true behind it.. she totrured sick people by not giving them medicine, because God decided..
He really seems to made up this nice story to help his flavour of church, more sheeps.. These people believe that even lie to get more sheep is ok..
Only question is that he just had nice dream, or he knows that he is lying..
Otherwise if they are so powerful there would not be such mistakes, like returning person back to life, its bug in the system.. If they are so almighty.
In other way, if would like to us to have some knowledge is so easy to spawn in our world.. Again we a bit better apes love to feel special, but reality is not like that.
There is great plan, world is so nice, tell it to children sold to brothels or childern sold by their mothers to sex predators..
Do you see silver lining, money does not matter give them to you Church, Preacher, Guru, Sect leader..
Religion si probably biggest grift in the human history..
Ok there is DMT these stories are much more believable..
I'm calling bs great story though…i can probably buy the book you wrote😅😅😂😂😂😂
Wish it was true
Every person that dies then comes back to life, has a different experience a different story. No 2 stories match. This proves, every story is false. Just an invention of a brain starved of blood and oxygen.
Alan!
Jesus voice made me laugh out loud: Authoritarian? Or authoritative maybe?
Mayim, we'll never see each other in this lifetime, but I was a Professional Organizer for 19 years (along with being an inner-city high school teacher for 30 years) and we can organize all the closets in the universe. That is like so much entertainment for me.! When I first started organizing, I felt guilty asking for money after having all that fun.
Great topics and great conversations and great great insights. If I could give some constructive feedback it often come across as mocking when you laugh or re ask or repeat something the guest says. Just something to consider. Thank you for the amazing videos !
When you’re on the other side you aren’t fixed in time or space so you see anything from anywhere. The Akashic Records. Right? Guessing.
I'm almost halfway through this video, but wanted to pause to write this real quick. I had an out of body experience once and could see myself sleeping next to my wife. I looked around the room and everything was as it should be. It was a very strange experience. It was quick though and I didn't get much time to do anything. I've had some rather vivid, lifelike dreams ranging from my deceased dad and brother to God and Jesus Themselves. While God did not show me what He looks like he had me in my childhood home and I felt my tongue being held. He said "Where walk do I?" I felt my tongue release and said "In my heart" and then woke up. His voice was booming and I can't quite explain it. Years later I dreamed I was in this beautiful wooded area with a large, freshly cut like grassy path cut through it. I'm am looking from over the trees down to the path. I start seeing a bunch of happy, joyous people in white robes coming down the path. I decided to join them and see where they're going. We ended up at river. People start walking across it on top of it. Everyone is so happy and it makes me happy so I start to walk as well. My first step or two was fine, but then I started thinking about Peter sinking so then I began to sink. I'm suddenly in the sky over the river looking toward the way from which we came to the river. I can see people walking across it below me. I look to my right and Jesus was beside me and looked at me and smiled ans said "I'll see you soon", then I woke up.
Jesus is coming. It won’t be alien abduction.
I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of how it will happen and how much pain I might feel in the process.
Sounds like bs to me .
There are couple of points that contradict what God teaches us. The Bible clearly states that there is a Heaven and a Hell. The Bible does talk about accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour to be able to enter heaven.. Now if you want to dispute the Bible, remember this, it was written by 40 different authors over a span of 1500 years and a lot of the authors lived during different times during the 1500 year period. Therefore, the Bible is God given. Therefore, the statements of hell not being there, having different lives (Reincarnation), etc. don't really add up to what Jesus spoke. Although, I'm really happy listening to this cause I've just lost my father little less than a month ago. So, its comforting hearing all this but yes I do have quit a few disagreements.
Allen or Alien? Hmmm