Hi there,
My conversation with Near Death Experience survivor, Vinney Tolman is now live on Awakening Soul Films and I can’t wait for you to see it.
In 2003, Vinney Tolman collapsed in a Dairy Queen bathroom, was pronounced dead, bagged, and loaded into an ambulance. A rookie medic, on his first week on the job, broke protocol on a feeling he couldn't explain. What followed was three days of near-zero brain activity and a journey through heaven guided by his great-great-great grandfather.
Some important takeaways from our conversation…
Earth is a classroom, not a courtroom
Before Vinney’s NDE, he had the belief that we come to Earth to be judged. To separate the good souls from the bad. Vinney's guide showed him something different: we chose to come here to learn, to grow, and to expand. There is no judge waiting with a verdict. The low frequency of Earth life is exactly the conditions we need to develop the things we can't develop anywhere else. When we understand this truth, the good and bad experiences become just experiences. Moments that can propel us to grow and evolve as souls.
Authenticity is the paramount principle
The first thing Vinney was shown was authenticity. Vinney had lived his whole life being different versions of himself for different crowds: the bodybuilder, the film crew worker, the church-goer, the friend. His guide walked him back to who he was at five or six years old and told him THAT was his real self. That authentic version of himself needed to be the foundation everything else was built on.
"Unless we are authentically loving, we are not sending or receiving love. We can't. Authenticity is the foundation actual love is built on."
Coming back is the hardest part
Nobody talks about this enough. Vinney returned from an experience so beautiful, where even a single blade of grass carries more energy than our sun, and had to re-enter a body, a broken life, and a world that felt impossibly small by comparison. For years he looked for ways to get back, even trying to think of ways to have “an accident”. It was his future wife Andrea, and eventually the realization that his children were waiting to exist, that gave him a reason to stay.
"It felt like I was the genie being put back in the bottle. I knew what was out there. And I had to find a reason to stay in here."
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-Adam Striker