Artist Speaks Publicly About His Near-Death Experience (NDE) for the First Time..

Mar 2026 11

In this episode, Dani Foffa talks to Near-Death Experiencer Davis Haines. Davis is a professional musician, actor, and teacher performing and working directly with people with developmental disabilities and young children based in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2011, he was run over by a truck. He was given a 1% chance to live after experiencing bone fractures, blood loss, organ failure, and a 1% chance to live. Doctors scrambled against the odds to save his life and transfused him with13 units of blood as his family said goodbye. Davis crossed the veil and what he found wasn’t darkness—it was a homecoming: boundless love, unity, and the deep knowing that “Earth is the dream.” In this intimate interview, the professional musician/teacher shares his accident and a years‑long integration that reshaped everything: art, family, faith, and purpose. When he awoke from a five-day coma, he told his family that an angel — a man named Art — had saved his life.

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Davis Haines is a songwriter, a certified Music Together® teacher, a worship leader, and since his profound NDE, Davis has traveled the world creating music, improvising, and sharing his gift and personal mission to “spread Love through Art.”

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Timecodes:

0:00 – Introduction
0:59 – The Accident: Run over by a truck
2:18 – “Stay with us, Davis”
3:50 – Level‑1 trauma & a 1% chance
5:47 – 13 units of blood—crossing over
6:40 – NDE with space, unity, and pure love
8:40 – The post-experience recovery
15:34 – What was your view on life after death before your experience?
17:15 – Fear of death and advice for skeptics: Stillness & letting go
19:20 – Integration is a journey (not instant)
20:23 – Recovery milestones & radical simplicity
21:17 – Art, meditation, and following “cosmic breadcrumbs”
24:29 – Vision quests, Vipassana, and marriage as practice
27:35 – Recommendations for NDErs to help with the integration process
30:05 – How was your identical twin affected by your NDE
35:32 – What’s the biggest lesson you have learned from your NDE
40:47 – What is God for you
43:44 – Why do you think God made us
47:46 – Do you feel we are entering a society that is witnessing a shift from a material to a more spiritual humanity
53:30 – What’s the meaning of life
53:50 – Final thoughts

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What is an NDE?

A near-death experience (NDE) is typically a profound, life changing, intensely emotional experience that usually occurs during a clinical crisis and has common characteristics and aftereffects. It is not a dream, hallucination, or mental illness (Greyson, 1983). There are no predictive variables to identify who will have an NDE. They happen to people of all ages, religions, socio-economic groups, cultures, educational backgrounds, and belief systems. They occur under a variety of circumstances such as accidents, near-drownings, illnesses, combat, surgical procedures, and childbirth. Following an NDE, experiencers (NDErs) often display some common aftereffects. Research has established a set of common NDE characteristics and long-term aftereffects. Theories used to explain near-death experiences in purely physical terms have been proven inadequate by NDE researchers and others.

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