Dr Joe Dispenza shares his personal journey of transformation – starting from his childhood through his college years. During this time, he learned about the human body and the subconscious mind through his study and practice of yoga, hypnotherapy, and his training to become a chiropractor. Dr Joe was 23 years old and competing in a triathlon in Palm Springs, when he was struck by a car traveling 55 miles per hour, shattering six vertebrae in his spine. This accident was a pivotal point in his life, leading him to study the mind-body connection and teach others how they can heal themselves through the power of the mind. In the decades since, Dr Joe has become one of the world’s most influential voices on the science of healing, consciousness, and human transformation, reaching millions through his books, retreats, guided meditations, and research. Dr Joe also talks about the phenomenon of near-death experiences, exploring how we don’t need to die to transcend the body or experience the beauty and power of the Other Side.
“Science is the contemporary language of mysticism – science demystifies the mystical” – Dr Joe Dispenza
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*Timestamps*
00:00 – Opening: Doctors give Joe an ultimatum for spinal surgery — he refuses and bets on the intelligence that gives him life
02:09 – Introduction: Who is Joe Dispenza? Clark, NJ, first-generation Italian family, supportive parents who prized family and education
03:14 – Awakening at 17: A senior-year yoga class, reading Dostoevsky and Kafka, and finding his way from pharmacist to chiropractic in a search for the vitalistic
05:44 – “Learn While You Sleep”: Self-hypnosis, somnambulist roommates, and his first taste of the subconscious mind’s power
07:15 – “Autobiography of a Yogi”: The book handed to him on the drive to Atlanta that reignites everything and pulls East and West together
10:54 – The Accident: Palm Springs triathlon chaos, an 83-year-old woman in a Bronco hits him at 55 mph
14:38 – The Ultimatum: Six fractured vertebrae, an arch broken like a pretzel, Harrington rods or paralysis — a 23-year-old faces the choice
17:17 – “I Had the Answer”: Realizing he won’t do the surgery; checking out of the hospital against medical advice
19:55 – The Deal: Connect with the intelligence, give it a plan, don’t let one unwanted thought slip by
22:15 – Six Weeks to Breakthrough: Mind wandering, then finally holding the whole visualization — body starts responding
24:13 – Ten and a Half Weeks: Wakes up knowing it’s the day — walks back into his life, an old part of him has died
27:04 – Studying Spontaneous Remissions: 17 countries, hundreds of healings, hunting for what the healed had in common
30:11 – Going Inward: Losing space and time as the inner world becomes more real than the outer
32:16 – His Own Mystical Experience: Electrical charge, becoming space, and the pineal gland as a radio receiver beyond light
37:15 – What NDE Survivors Bring Back: Biological upgrades, healings, and the love beyond human love — remembering the source we came from
45:12 – Closing: The future is community — the synchronization of human beings as the force that really changes humanity
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We at Coming Home will always remain focused on Near-Death Experience stories. That will never change.
And every once in a while we will share a story that while is not an NDE specifically, we feel is aligned powerfully with the teaching and messages of NDEs.
Our lives have been deeply impacted and changed by Dr Joe's teachings – and we were honored to be invited to share his story on our channel. We hope you enjoy this message about how we don't have to die in order to connect to the Other Side, and how we can consciously connect to the Mystery of the Divine in our daily life.
For us this is the powerful message at the heart of NDEs, and we hope you enjoy Dr Joe's story!
I wonder if the celebrities that you two talk about get the details of it by their PR people or whoever. So fricking funny.
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Dr joe,you are a gift to humanity.❤
Brilliant. Thank you
Thank you for your story, Dr Joe. It helps me a lot. ❤
Not me searching for Amara Lorne arche type quiz after seeing it mentioned three times today. I don’t even normally do these quizzes. The curiosity got me.
The comments about Amara Lorne arche type quiz are making me more curious than the quiz itself. Half of you feel personally attacked and the other half feel understood. What is happening 😭
Chiropractors are NOT doctors 😂😂😂
I've been diagnosed with degenerative scoliosis in my lower back and have been doing everything possible to avoid surgery like physiotherapy, strength training at the gym and I just ordered a back brace off Amazon but nothing is working and my only option is surgery 😢😢💔💔
God healed you… not yourself.
I totally agree with the last part of this story. It has been a drive of mine for over 50 years. I agree it can be done. These principles are all you need. Focus on that amazing world and practice being in it continually and it has to come. Thanks Dr Joe. We need many, many more like you.
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Thank you endless
beautiful share ❤ feeling very grateful
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I don't understand how you could afford (with no job just a student) to move to the Northwest etc and travel to 17 countries, interviewed people, studying etc and when the accident happened he was just a student. Where on Earth did all the money come from as just a student when the accident happened? No job but yet do all these things? Maybe the 83 yr old lady was sued extensively to pay for all that? Started working teaching long after all those things. This story has elements that I cannot connect to this story there is something missing. Perhaps his parents are millionaires and paid for all that. Levels of consciousness etc? Okay. Not. Just doesn't resonate with me.
I’ve never had a near death experience. I have however, listened to countless new death experiences. Like Dr. Joe says people universally report overwhelming like they’ve never experienced.
I recently went to a Doctor Joe Dispenza we call it not even a month ago. I’ve done a lot of different meditation experiences over the years all of them excellent experience experiences. The Dr. Joe retreat event with the most amazing experience in my life by far., extremely amazingly transformable. And overwhelming sense of joy in love from everybody there.. pure love, pure joy transcends anything I have experienced. Truly indescribable.. and everybody there says the same thing.. I can’t wait to tell you the time many resources to do another one. In the meantime, I do his meditations a couple times a day at least.
We all need SOMETHING like an NDE. It’s funny I want the experience the NDE’ers describe more than anything else but also don’t want to die AND know it’s for sure possible to visit that “place” FULLY ALIVE, and even LIVE THERE!
Thank you. I have had a kidney removed …can another grow back with?