<p>*Warning: Contains Some Discussion of Abuse</p><p>Not all NDEs come from happy places. When Renee Christine Martine was five years old, her father — a former member of the White Fence Gang hiding from the Mexican mafia behind a Jehovah's Witness conversion — came home in a rage and sent a tent pole into her face.</p><p>Thirty-one stitches, a 45-minute drive bleeding out in a station wagon, and something else: floating above the farm looking down, a mysterious woman no one else could see, and absolute love and peace on the other side of it all.</p><p>She has no paper that says she died. She doesn't need one for us to know it was a near death experience (NDE). What she came back with — apparitions appearing in her bedroom, premonitions that spooked her parents, a ghost in a pea coat outside her window at 16, and a lifelong magnetism for paranormal phenomena — made it pretty clear something had shifted permanently.</p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/iyqTTtyS2QQ">Video Version of This Episode</a></p><p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://RoundTripDeath.com">RoundTripDeath.com</a></p><p>Donate to this podcast: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/">https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/</a></p><p>Renee: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://reneemartine.com/">https://reneemartine.com/</a></p>