Ep. 342 | Near-Death Experiences (with T.K. Coleman)

Our good friend T.K. Coleman was recently struck by a car during an evening stroll. He almost died. But thankfully, he was rushed to the hospital-and he survived. Now, a month after the crash, he's back on The Minimalists Podcast to talk about the benefits of near-death experiences. Watch “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively on Patreon: / theminimalists
Questions answered in this episode:
00:00 How has having your film nominated for an Emmy affected you?
03:19 How many times has T.K. appeared on the podcast?
05:32 What near-death experience did T.K. experience recently, and what lessons did he take from it?
11:22 What mattered the most to you in your moment of crisis?
17:52 What effect did T.K.’s near-death experience have on his relationships?
24:20 What insights or enlightenment do near-death experiences yield?
35:20 Did T.K.’s near-death experience alter his views regarding minimalism?
54:22 Listener comments and minimalism tips.
#TheMinimalists

Пікірлер: 57

  • @mettebak751
    @mettebak7512 жыл бұрын

    So happy to see TK on the podcast and that he is okay after the accident😄 He is my favorite guest on the podcast❤

  • @bumblebee_ms

    @bumblebee_ms

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too :)

  • @cathyjane4774
    @cathyjane47742 жыл бұрын

    I recall long ago, a canoe trip that some smart aleck set up, and had us go down this one section of river that, when you went around this big bend, suddenly there was a roaring sound, and you were caught deeply in a swift current, and all the group in different canoes, one by one were sucked into this extremely dangerous rapids, with big boulders, and my canoe like every other, capsized, and I was trying to hold onto it, and my life did flash before me somewhat. The Big Thought that came to me in this moment was, "I better not die now! My mother will be MAD at me!!!"

  • @bumblebee_ms
    @bumblebee_ms2 жыл бұрын

    Congrats guys, even if you don't win the Emmy, you have changed my life for the better (from Australia).

  • @ymb6987
    @ymb69872 жыл бұрын

    Another meaningful conversation and with T.K. Coleman no less! I am sooo happy to see T.K. back sharing bonus time with all of us! Appreciate all of you!

  • @AdelaidesReadingFamily
    @AdelaidesReadingFamily2 жыл бұрын

    The willingness to walk away is a superpower anyone can harness. If you don’t make time for wellness, you’ll be forced to make time for your sickness. Love that! So many gems in this episode!

  • @soumiabenrochd1396
    @soumiabenrochd139610 ай бұрын

    It's a wow episode and a wow essay that you read in the middle. We recently experienced a strong earthquake in Morocco. I was about a 100 miles from the center of the catastrophy, but we felt it so hard that we stood totally shocked around 11pm on Sep. 8th, while the apartment was rocking us as if it were a jelly cake. I felt it would be the end. I realised that I wasn't immune to catastrophies. And my mind just went blank and I was ready for the worst. But then it stopped shaking and nothing bad happened afterward. But I would not say that I have changed since, because I've already been on a satisfying path, with tiny little improvements on the personal, the spiritual and the professional levels. So, I was, and still am, convinced that I should keep going as long as I can. Much love, Soumia

  • @nnylasoR
    @nnylasoR2 жыл бұрын

    “WELL ….. it sure is crazy how life can change in the blink of an eye… One minute I was pouting and ranting about not being appreciated, that I’m just a cook, etc etc… angrily taking the garbage out… I was not careful when shoving it down into the bin - having forgotten I had just tossed out a tin can with the lid still attached! The point is, we can be pouty and woe-is-me one moment, and bleeding the next. This really made me think and be grateful for the opportunities I have to serve my family in humble love. To share *LIFE* with them. Life is too precious to grumble through it.” **This is a little something I wrote to a friend when I cut my arm and got taken to the ER, thankfully to leave soon after with the parting gift of a meager 4 stitches. (PHEW! 😩) 🙃

  • @JoseGuillen422
    @JoseGuillen4222 жыл бұрын

    Hes right when he says, you dont think about the debt, the things you wanted... when i got into my crash i was shocked how this 18 wheeler when it got me caught under the truck and dragged me . All that i "saw" was the person that i loved and all the memories ill never have with them. after it ended, i was in my car and amazed it wasnt worse.

  • @shaylahughes8423
    @shaylahughes84232 жыл бұрын

    Love you T.K. So glad you are okay, I can’t imagine what a scary experience that must have been for you and your wife.

  • @debk6161
    @debk6161 Жыл бұрын

    After a mountain road collapsed beneath our van in 1979 and our vehicle flew end over end over a mountain cliff in Colorado, it took so long for the rescue crews to get down to the crash site and then extract me as I was hanging by my seatbelt and covered in debris. My spine had been crushed, eventually I went into shock and was very close to death. The last thing I heard a paramedic say was that my BP was 60 over 20. Instantly, my soul left my body and suddenly I was looking down on the entire scene from high above. Every detail was crystal clear, all pain was gone and I was held by an eternal presence that enveloped me with an unconditional love such as I had never felt in corporeal life. And I was given a choice, to leave my wrecked body behind and go Home right then or to return to that body, to the horrific pain and whatever consequences might follow. While I longed to stay in that wonderfully blissful state and return Home I knew my work on Earth had not been completed. I had very young children to raise, babies who were now being cared for by kind strangers on the road below. The moment I made the decision to return to them I was sent back into my body and all the torture that entailed. It took months of lying flat in a hospital bed and eventually getting enough healing and physical therapy to sit up, stand and walk again. But my precious children needed me, so these were sacrifices I was willing to make. What I experienced and gained from my NDE can never be taken from me. I know that no matter what happens to me in this life I will always be safe. We are never alone. Ever. And eventually each of us will get to return to our true Home where unconditional all enveloping Love will immediately embrace us. I cannot express how much I look forward to that indescribably glorious day. ❤

  • @kevinspliid8509
    @kevinspliid85092 жыл бұрын

    New serenity prayer we are no longer accepting things we cannot change but change the things we can not accept

  • @guadaluperatcliff9030
    @guadaluperatcliff90302 жыл бұрын

    My son's took that course in highschool and now 21 he has over 40k saved up :-)

  • @smallhouseinthemeadow6131
    @smallhouseinthemeadow61312 жыл бұрын

    Thank God you are both okay T.K.

  • @sarahlockridge7879
    @sarahlockridge78792 жыл бұрын

    My daughter is a Recovering Heroin Addict. It's the truth. People break their legs to get opioids. To withdraw from opioids is described as the worst pain. It also causes the brain to go into anxiety mode. Those suffering Addiction are desperate to ease the pain.

  • @t.k.coleman5398

    @t.k.coleman5398

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wishing your daughter a healthy and hopeful recovery 🙏

  • @sarahlockridge7879

    @sarahlockridge7879

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@t.k.coleman5398 thank you! She celebrates 4 years in July of recovery!!!

  • @t.k.coleman5398

    @t.k.coleman5398

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sarahlockridge7879 Wow! That's so inspiring. Congratulations to you both!

  • @sarahlockridge7879

    @sarahlockridge7879

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@t.k.coleman5398 thank you! It's the worst thing I've been through, but through her recovery and story we have been able to help so many others; those suffering from addiction and parents!

  • @t.k.coleman5398

    @t.k.coleman5398

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sarahlockridge7879 What an amazing testimony!

  • @jamie86403
    @jamie864032 жыл бұрын

    Great episode everyone! I’m gleaning so much from this!

  • @me-lg1yw
    @me-lg1yw2 жыл бұрын

    I only catch an episode of yours here and there but this is definitely the best I’ve heard. TK is a wise man that we can all learn from.

  • @martinarmbrust3606
    @martinarmbrust36062 жыл бұрын

    Thanks be to God, T.K. is still with us. My goodness.

  • @ash32458
    @ash324582 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed listening to this. Another insightful podcast!

  • @cathyjane4774
    @cathyjane47742 жыл бұрын

    Because I hang around with psychic medium types of people, I feel your near death experiences are a bit too this worldly. I think we all feel we are going to live forever because we actually are! Even though the body dies, we are more soul than body. Studying NDE's often have the element of leaving ones physical body, and often people reporting they are never afraid of death again after such stuff.

  • @KSix86
    @KSix862 жыл бұрын

    TK I am so glad you and the wife are okay! T_T What a scary experience that must have been!

  • @HananBenNafa
    @HananBenNafa2 жыл бұрын

    Welcome back T.K.! Love you all. 18:33> Gold!

  • @nicolewilliams2468
    @nicolewilliams24682 жыл бұрын

    Yet another excellent episode with my favorite minimalists!

  • @kolitiokada9825
    @kolitiokada98252 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Trio of Minimalism - great discussion! Title for Ryan & Joshua's School Financial Education program: "Near-Debt Experience". (I would really love it if people could learn how to handle their money when paying in the check-out line.)

  • @t.k.coleman5398

    @t.k.coleman5398

    2 жыл бұрын

    That's a *really* *really* good title.

  • @kolitiokada9825

    @kolitiokada9825

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@t.k.coleman5398 Hey T.K.! So happy you are well! Many blessings to you! Well, I love your answer to "What You Don't Think About During a Near-Death Experience": "I'm about to be debt-free!"

  • @amberleeperry7479
    @amberleeperry74792 жыл бұрын

    Much love to tk and the minimalist love you guys keep it up

  • @amberleeperry7479

    @amberleeperry7479

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey guys I was wondering I know your busy but I am really interested in the book about movement from your podcast and I don’t really have enough money to buy one would you be willing to help me get a copy

  • @jenniferhodgson1114
    @jenniferhodgson11142 жыл бұрын

    Thanks guys great podcast you do such important work especially about learning about finance saving people stress and unnecessary debt thus adding great benefits to their lives helping them achieve better relationship and lives. With gratitude. 🌝

  • @divaandchomin1
    @divaandchomin12 жыл бұрын

    TK is full of wisdom. God has you here with a great purpose.

  • @carla8328
    @carla83282 жыл бұрын

    welcome back T.K. glad you recovered!

  • @sandranewinggriffiths3556
    @sandranewinggriffiths35562 жыл бұрын

    I hope you win the Emmy. Less is now is how I found you guys.

  • @nnylasoR
    @nnylasoR2 жыл бұрын

    TK - you’ ok!!!! **HUGS** ♥️😭♥️

  • @nancymillet8210
    @nancymillet82102 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations and so happy Tk is well.

  • @LoreleiWakefield
    @LoreleiWakefield2 жыл бұрын

    18:44 "We hold off living fully and freely because we have all of these things that we're worried about that are part of this STORY THAT WE CALL FUTURE. And, that story is rooted in a presumptuousness of worry. We think we have the luxury of existing tomorrow and the day after and having all of these limitations and constraints imposed on us by a future we haven't arrived at and that we might never arrive at. And, when you're in a moment where you go, 'Man, I could have been dead right there,' you realize just how fragile that little story is. And how silly it is in many ways and you realize, 'Man, there are so many risks I haven't taken, so many things I haven't said, so many things I haven't tried because I'M TRYING TO PROPERLY DISTRIBUTE MY LIFE OVER TIME.' And I'm saying, 'Well I've got time for this and I want to save some things for next week and save some things for a year from now.' And it's like life has a way of saying, 'NO, IT'S ALL RIGHT NOW.' And that forces you to really reevaluate not just why you're living but how you're living, the choices that you make."

  • @amonralice
    @amonralice2 жыл бұрын

    ❤ T K Coleman ❤

  • @mermeow
    @mermeow2 жыл бұрын

    Yay! Welcome back, TK! So glad you're ok! :)

  • @HananBenNafa
    @HananBenNafa2 жыл бұрын

    the episode is full of wisdom, wow.

  • @ashley.darling
    @ashley.darling2 жыл бұрын

    I am LOVING the black background!! 🖤

  • @notsewmuch7490
    @notsewmuch74902 жыл бұрын

    Congratulations

  • @michaelannamarylopez1629
    @michaelannamarylopez16292 жыл бұрын

    " The world's richest dead man is still dead"

  • @TGBahr
    @TGBahr2 жыл бұрын

    I thought I'd be hearing NDE accounts, but none of you guys seem to have been clinically dead, which of course is a good thing.

  • @NDETV316
    @NDETV3162 жыл бұрын

    A Near Death Experience is having an experience out of your body, into another realm, frequently a Heavenly realm or landscape. A Near Death Experience is not just almost dying or could have died, or a moment of crisis. It is interesting to explore what mattered most to you when you were in those situations, but it isn't appropriate to call these Near Death Experiences. You had the Near Death,but not the Experience. Even if you were flat lined, it doesn't mean you had a NDE. Many are clinically dead but never had an experience out of their body. Only 5-10% of the population has had a NDE. Wisdom from NDEs comes from the Heaven or Hell or void or out of body experience, not from being in an accident, having an illness etc alone. My podcast is called NDE TV. I interview NDErs. I have had two NDEs myself.

  • @susannoble4236
    @susannoble42362 жыл бұрын

    Does this job put food on my table? Y/N. Is it worth it?

  • @sarahlockridge7879
    @sarahlockridge78792 жыл бұрын

    Philippines 1:21; For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Philippines 1:23; I am torn between two: I desire to depart to be with Christ, which would be far better,... And it goes on.

  • @cindymorrison5
    @cindymorrison52 жыл бұрын

    I usually love this show, but disappointed that it turned to racism so quickly. This is why the narrative continues. So glad I have a wide range of friends with different back grounds and races and this is not an issue.

  • @smallhouseinthemeadow6131

    @smallhouseinthemeadow6131

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ask them if it is an issue for them.I think that Joshua was simply commenting that darker skinned people are more inclines to suffer being steriotyped.

  • @t.k.coleman5398

    @t.k.coleman5398

    2 жыл бұрын

    @smallhouseinthemeadow For less than 7 seconds, Joshua committed the mortal sin of wondering out loud if race was one of the components that played a role in a problem that he was discussing. No one made any further comments on anything race-related. I definitely agree with those who say we shouldn't make everything about race, but I wasn't aware that it was inappropriate to ever ask questions about race or to treat race like it could *possibly* play a factor in the way *some* human beings act *some* of the time. We're so obsessed with race that some people think you should *always* talk about it and some people think you should *never* even mention the word. There seems to be no more room for a middle ground where we can talk about race without people worrying that the conversation (or question in this case) will support whatever narrative they hate, fear, or disagree with. This is why I actually think it's heatlhy to participate in conversations about race...even though that's not what we talked about on this episode.

  • @suewarren4486

    @suewarren4486

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, racism continues to exist because it is acknowledged. Wearing blinders never fixes anything, denying reality doesn't make it go away. And no naming doesn't call.