he unzipped that body bag he uh started feeling around for a pulse didn't feel any completely opened my eyes to why we're here on Earth and truly understanding that Earth is a school and it will never be a [Music] courtroom welcome to prioritize your life and prioritize yourlife.com I'm excited today to be here with Vinnie Tolman this is exciting I love this kind of thing I love um sharing inspirational experiences inspirational stories so thank you for all that you do oh thank you well uh my experience it is a considered an ad or an afterdeath
experience um I'm I'm classified in the group of people that have had these as a body bagger where I was revived out of a body bag and uh my experience starts um back in 2003 I was a bodybuilder or am bodybuilder um no titles not even any uh serious competition at all just a an amateur just working on the body a lot we had a a supplement that worked really well it would help your muscles recover a lot faster than normal so you could go to the gym and work out the same muscle group every
day and uh we we ordered some of this stuff online it was sold out locally everywhere ordered it online and when it came it had writing in Thai you know the Thai script and my buddy and I neither of us read or knew how to read Tai script yeah but we opened the bottle it smelled the same as the American stuff so we figured hey it's the same we each took just a liquid bottle cap that's it and that's normally all you need and that's going to help your Muscle Recovery much faster yeah so we
both took it and and within minutes we we could feel that this was different I could feel a coldness going over my like almost from my heart area down the rest of my body and later you know in my life I've had surgery and when they do IV anesthesia that's exactly what it feels like it's like going to the heart first and then spreading that's what I felt I felt like that coldness coming over yeah and so I knew something was wrong so did my buddy we decided to go down to a a little local
Burger Joint that that was open for breakfast we went down there this happened January 18th 2003 in the morning we go down to this place we barely make it in I make it directly into the bathroom and it a single-use bathroom so I locked the door just out of habit single use bathroom you close that door you lock it uh as soon as I got in there just the world was spinning on me uh I felt like everything was spinning uh I fell back and and passed out collapsed on my back and it was there
that that I started to vomit I aspirated and I died right then and there on that floor and the next thing I know I am now looking down at this scene from above and I am seeing a dead body but there's no way it was me because me was up here like looking down it didn't even was not even possible for for me to even think that that could have been me I just thought hm this is interesting I'm now sitting up here watching this it almost felt like I was in a u a very
comfortable chair watching a movie but watching it watching the whole scene from above and I watched this ambulance crew uh it was already there by the time I was in the space where I was looking down and the ambulance crew was uh dealing with my buddy they were he had walked in the the restaurant collapsed on the first booth and vomited uh same as I but he was on that Booth a manager saw what was going on he called Emergency Services they got an ambulance there they took him away and I was watching them you
know wheel him away on a gurnie and put him in the ambulance and and I tried to follow that ambulance and as I tried to follow I only made it about a half of a block and then I I felt like this pulling back and so now I was back again hovering over this this scene at the restaurant and I kept looking being kind of centered on this dead body I I I just felt horrible for whoever this was that nobody knew that he was in there and he was dead I could hear the thoughts
of everyone in that place including you know customers and guests I could hear the the cook in the back I could hear the manager even his assistant manager I could hear her thoughts it was just very odd and you know I had worked in the movie industry so I thought this is very interesting that uh a Director of Photography or a director would decide we're going to shoot this from above and have the the viewer hearing everyone's thoughts I thought that was just such a weird choice but I I also thought hm that's kind of
artistic so maybe maybe I'll interpret it differently as as this plays out as I'm watching and um I have this I I hear this one customer he kept thinking like why is that bathroom still locked and he kept going and trying to use that like open that bathroom door and it wasn't Lo it was locked he couldn't open it up after like the third try he went to the manager and said hey you know can you open that door I and he did say I think there's somebody in there in trouble cuz I keep hearing
a phone ringing in there and and sure enough the manager opened that door and found a dead body on the ground he called uh emergency services and while he was on the phone he was coaching his assistant manager to like like you know feel for a pulse and as she was filling for a pulse she even felt like around the neck area it was you know covered with with vomit with sick so um it was disgusting to her but as soon as she touched the skin she like recoiled back and she's like there he's cold
it's cold and uh as soon as the the the operator on the phone heard that they said you know what just secure the room make sure nobody gets in there we already have have um you know uh Medical Services coming as well as police so you know they waited a few minutes it was very quick right pretty much right after that only maybe 3 to 5 minutes from my perspective um um a second ambulance was there and yeah this this crew is a three-man crew those are kind of rare but this one was a three-man
crew because there was a brand new guy a rookie and he was kind of shadowing the two veterans and uh they they came out the the two veterans ascertained that the body was dead they did try to do some chest compressions trying to see if they could get any sign of Life they couldn't so they did pronounce de on arrival um or DOA and they they sent that rookie in to go get a a body bag they uh you know rolled out this body bag um got the body into it they did do this this
little packet thing where they cut like a section of the skin and I don't know what they're doing but they they also did the all of that all all of this was going on um and I'm just feeling like horrible for whoever this is and their family and thinking this is such a horrible thing but the whole time I could hear this rookie the rookie kept saying to himself this sucks like why can't we keep doing something more for this one and he kept telling himself in his mind why are you even doing this job
if they're not going to let you do this job cuz he wanted to do more but the veteran Medics are like nope this is what you do you follow protocol you do this you know you attempt this for this long if there's no response you attempt this there's no response um you you pronounce death on Dead on Arrival yeah so that was that was a frustrating thing for him and for me cuz I was siding with him like like why they trying harder for this guy they went ahead and bagged the body they they had
the rookie watched the body in the back of the ambulance and his job was just to sit back there on this little jump chair that folds down he was sitting there just kind of babysitting in the body while the other two Medics went around and they were asking for uh like witness statements like basic witness statements um they went ahead and they they got all that cleared up got some statements they went in uh to the ambulance and right as they're about to pull away a police officer showed up and so the the head uh
medic he got out and they they exchanged some information I and from my perspective it looked like he was giving him some paperwork too or a copy of the paperwork and and the police officer cleared them yeah go ahead and turn this body into the medical examiner and so that's what they did they they drove down the Street about a block and a half and they were on their way to the medical examiner when right at this about block block and a half mark down the road from my the actual death scene the the rookie
medic where he was sitting in the back he started to actually have light real light start to Glow out of him out of his heart space it was as if there was a really bright like flood light inside of his shirt that's what it looked like to me and as that that light started to grow it was growing and then I heard really loud this one's not dead and I feel like he heard it too or he he received that message somehow because you know when you're you're kind of riding as a passenger in a
car you kind of have like a relaxed energy as you're riding and when that message happened he went like this and he went rigid like what was that and then I heard his his mind say that's just your that was your imagination you made that up and the next thing I know there're now another half block down the road but the light is even brighter now it's grown from his waist till almost above his head where light is is like coming out of him and now for a second time that voice came and said this
one's not dead but it came so loud and so strong it it was as if he could didn't deny it this time so he went ahead he he unzipped that body bag he uh started feeling around for a pulse didn't feel any but he had you know to get down to the groin area where we have a major artery on our bodies he had to undo a couple more straps on that body bag he undid those straps felt down there and as he was feeling for that that artery that big artery he made contact with
the femur bone like the actual bone of of my leg and when he made that cont I felt where I was sitting watching this whole thing I felt a spark like I jumped and even though technically speaking I wasn't in my body I was attached enough that there was something there and he jumped too so we both jumped as soon as that spark that that that little spark was felt by both of us he jumped and kind of flinched a little but to him that was enough of a sign that he was going to go
ahead and break protocol and try to resuscitate this body well you know that's something you're not supposed to do yeah especially a rookie yeah especially a rookie uh the other two Medics didn't notice right at first what he was doing but as soon as he hooked up the defib machine and started making all the alarm Bells um they look back and they they're they're they're saying hey what are you doing you can't do this you you're going to get fired this is against the law this is against protocol you have to treat a dead body
with certain respects you can't do this kind of stuff and it it was as if he didn't hear them at all he went ahead and let the defib machine um uh charge the body or hit it with electricity the the heart area with electricity and the body jolted but that was it there was a jolt though um the second time he went ahead with the second shock with the second charge there was a single heart beat and then it was back to Flatline or no heartbeat and then the third round he uh he went ahead
for that third round and instantly as soon as the shock happened there was a steady heartbeat and uh you know one of one of the Miracles cuz I feel there's multiple miracles in my experience just many yeah um one of the Miracles to me is the fact that he followed that prompting and and broke protocol yeah because I wouldn't be here speaking with you yeah um at least not in in physical form but uh yeah so he he was my my uh saving saving angel on this side of things on earth he was the one
who broke protocol put his put his brand new job on the line uh later I did find out he did get in quite a bit of trouble and he transferred uh a lateral transfer to a different department as a fireman medic because of all this so for him he felt that was enough motivation um but that's where that's kind of where my Story begins is is right there where I I died and they brought my body back I still didn't know it was me I thought for sure this was some type of uh kind of
multi- experiential entertainment of some sort I didn't I didn't understand what it was yeah I just knew that I was very involved with my emotions and my and my heart with everything that was going on I watched them transfer the body um from the ambulance into the hospital gurny because you know I think God or happen stance whatever you want to believe it had this play out that the heart started within about a 100 or or a couple hundred feet of the hospital so they were right there that when the heart started they were able
to to Route directly into this hospital and they were able to get the body in in get a team there a trauma team ready to meet it they they were working on you know all the different systems of the body there was a lot going on the body was going into full seizures and uh vomiting more more things coming out of the the stomach and as I was all happening I just felt this was this was not good I felt horrible for whoever this was but I also knew that somehow I was I was involved
I didn't know how they yet though uh as they they brought the body into the hospital the because of the seizures they had to strap the the legs and the arms down so that they could work on the the different systems that they need to work on and as they stra the legs I didn't feel anything as they strapped the right arm I didn't feel anything but I'm left-handed and as they strapped the left arm I felt someone pulling my left arm down and I resisted I literally resisted and I pulled so much so that
I looked down where I was watching this body and the scene and I watched the body break the strap that they were trying to use and so then they had to come with a second strap a big strap and they put that one on the left arm it looked just like the ones they put on the legs and and that's when I had this moment where what you're watching is you and I felt such an idiot like how could I have been watching this whole time my own body in front of me and not know
it was me like how is that possible I felt so dumb I felt so ignorant and so as soon as I had those thoughts like this is you and it it almost like my mind voice said this is you idiot and so I I started feeling um all these very kind of self-d thoughts and I I actually started to see every little bad thing I did in my whole life everything even from a little baby you know 45 years old all the way up to that date at 25 years old I saw everything bad or
anything that I had a bad intention I saw what happened but I also saw from the perspective of those around me and it was so weird because it felt like only a few seconds but at the same time I saw it all and I was very conscious of even the littlest things that I did that were not positive and that were negative and the impact of those negative things and then I started to have this feeling come into me like look at you look at what this is are you even worth existing and that's when
I started to feel this warmth and the same way that when I first took that that supplement and that coolness started to come over me it was it was the opposite it was warmth and instead of coming from the front side of me the warmth was coming from behind me around my back from about the my lungs or my chest area and this warmth just started to completely envelop me and as it came over my shoulders I could I it's almost like you're getting a hug from a from a cloud that's what it felt like
it just felt this enveloping warmth coming over me then I started to see all the good I ever did and there was a I did a lot of good things but I also got to see that sometimes when I didn't even know I was doing good I was doing good and making a difference for people and I got to see kind of the butterfly effect of how they reacted and and were able to go forth and and put more good energy out into the universe and that's when I I started to recognize that the energy
I was feeling was love but the weird part is it was a love I never felt before not in not in this life I I feel that we come from that love all of us and I missed it because as I felt it I embraced every bit of it and it made me feel like I was a missing piece from from a puzzle and now I was being put back in the puzzle I felt that that's that's the energy I was supposed to always be filling my whole life and as that love came over me
I I recognized it was directionally coming from behind me and it wasn't coming from looking at this scene but it was coming from behind me so I turned around as I turned around I see like I swear he look like the Hollywood version of like God is this you know white man with very pink skin long white beard long white hair and a white suit white pants and I the love that his eyes were giving me is better than all the good things on this Earth added up together it it completely changed me just seeing
him and my first thought was oh this is God and he just smiled and he goes no son I'm not God and I I I felt confused I like but this is what I I grew up thinking God was going to look like and here you are if you're not God then is are you Jesus like I I was just trying to figure things out and he he said no son I'm Not Jesus he explained he said Vinnie and and this is a a a new thing for me he was communicating with me and me
with him without using our our language at all he said Vinnie I'm here to be your guide and I love you I want to take you wherever you want to go and he he explained that his those who love him call him Drake and so I said okay Drake you know this sounds good and I repeated back to him anywhere in the universe like anywhere and he said yes anywhere anywhere in the universe you want to go I can take you there and I thought about it for for a half of a millisecond I you
know all my little boy sci-fi brain was thinking like oh this place this place this place and then then instantly I knew I wanted to go wherever this love was coming from I was raised in a pretty really rough upbringing and I had a lot of Brokenness in me and this love was fixing it it was actively fixing it as I sat there and so I knew I wanted more of that I wanted more of whatever this love is so I told him I said Drake I want to go wherever this love is coming from
this energy that you're sharing with me I want to go wherever that comes from so we expressed that you know this is an energy that we all have access to we only get very limited versions of it here on Earth and he he described Earth as being a school and that was we visited that later but but uh you know he said on Earth School this kind of love is very rare and you only get small versions of it but if you want I can take you to your home and I said my home how
is it where how is that place my home you know this is says I came from Earth and he explained that no I didn't come from her that my home where he could take me what we would call Heaven that's our home that he could take me back there and so we began this journey I said yeah let's do it let's do this and we began this journey and you know meanwhile I you know they did resuscitate my body I was brain dead and I was brain dead for 3 days and um while I was
brain dead I was having my experience with Drake I I got to um learned some very beautiful principles that completely open my eyes to why we're here on Earth what we're doing here what we're supposed to be doing and and not just that understanding the rules of the game at Earth school and and truly understanding that Earth is a school it's always been a classroom for us and it will never be a courtroom there's a lot of you know um different people out there saying that we're here to be you know judged kept and or
thrown away and that's not the case at all yeah he he explained that everyone here if we make it to Earth school just to make it here we in in the realm of of existence and life we're already the cream of the crop if we can just get here to Earth School it's like the hardest school there is for souls and so that's one of the the beautiful things that I I was able to learn from him that you know why we come here is very different than what most people believe and it's definitely not
to go and earn some great income CU we don't get to take that with us but in that process of helping me understand um the real the real fundamental principles that we could all Implement into our lives that will get us in alignment so that we have that trajectory to strengthen ourselves through our Earth School experience so that we're ready when we graduate we get to go and be ready for what's next for going home and really celebrating that return and it was just an absolutely amazing Journey one of the first things he taught me
was um Above All Things authenticity is more important than anything in our lives here and the reason why is because we can't grow we can't learn and we can't love or be loved unless we're authentic first and when we are finding real actual love in this life or we're giving real love it's it's only in a way that we can be AU authentic and if we can kind of you know bring authenticity into our whole being that gives us the ability to build ourselves and grow at at a a foundational level at in Earth School
yeah that was the that was a big aha that authenticity is so important yeah um you know Drake he he brought me through essentially nine or 10 more nine more but 10 total uh principles that he taught me about and he didn't teach him to me like here's principle one here's principle he taught me he he was just observing me and saying okay here's what we want to learn next here's what I want to show you next and I didn't have to say that I accepted what he was trying to teach me all I had
to do is say I was willing to believe it was possible that's it as long as I was willing to believe it was possible I could go keep going with him and uh well we made all the way towards this this amazing beautiful just huge space and to me it looked like a planet but it was far bigger than any planet in our system far bigger it felt like you could probably pit a million Earths inside this space but also look like a sun yeah and all the light was coming from it yeah the place
that we were going our destination and as we got closer and closer I could see that it was so I me from far off it was like white light coming off of it as we got closer and closer I it's almost like I had to adjust my light as we got closer and closer I was extremely excited I started just getting like this little kid energy coming out of me as we got closer and closer and closer and um I didn't understand why I I was getting so excited I I was just trying to figure
it out actually right as we touched down and came down we had come down there was this huge mountain very very large mountain I feel like the mountain itself was as big as our planet and we're coming down and we actually touched down uh next to this mountain there was like a little uh lake and a little river and this big forest and then these buildings um the primary building was this big building that we are coming down almost um within like a a half mile of it or maybe even a/4 mile of it we
come down as soon as my feet touch the ground the first thing I think is oh wow I have feet because you know I I now knew that I was dead but I was looking down and seeing my toes I could see my toes and I saw that my toes were coming down and touching grass and the second that grass like touched me I was instantly flooded with this this light and it was coming from the grass itself and it was more of this love that Drake had been showing me and it was just pouring
into me as if I was finding my charger port and as soon as my feet touched I I started getting this fulfilling love energy come over me and the the really cool thing is I as I look down to see whoa this is happening I noticed that the grass is so different than anything on Earth just millions of shades of green but the the the blades of grass themselves glowed light was coming out of them there was no external source of light like our sun there wasn't that the light was coming from inside that's why
I realized that light comes from everything there and and so that's why it felt like a sun is because light was coming from everything there and this grass it it had like a a humor a Consciousness um a loving energy and it it it was expressing how much it loved me and I'm like this is just grass but it's so beautiful and the grass itself had a a sweetness and just by touching it you actually would taste like what I felt was taste I could taste the sweetness and then I could see these like oscillating
rainbow just shimmering rainbows coming off of the grass itself almost like it was radiating off of the grass and then there was a a very beautiful uh I felt like a concert but like at a micro level you could hear just this beautiful tone coming off of the grass and I was just flabbergasted and Drake just kind of sat back and was just smiling and watching me and I kept looking to him like can you see this do you believe this is happening you I'm I'm freaking out and he's just laughing he's he's having fun
with me and he lets me calm down a little bit and then he goes he goes Vinnie if you think the grass is great let me show you flowers and I about lost it I'm like there's flowers and I was now touching the The Petal of this flower while I was looking down into the middle of it and I could feel the same energy but even more beautiful than the grass and at such a higher level of of Love energy even coming off of that flower and as I was just trying to take this all
in and Drake came back and he says there's also trees and I was like there's trees so then he he did kind of the same thing he let me plug in to the trees and and when I say plug in I mean he he allowed my Consciousness through the grass I was back in the grass and and connect to what is the trees and I I recognize that the trees themselves are they feel that they're living beings they feel that they have their their own Consciousness their own energy to themselves and these trees themselves um
they just live at a lot slower level than us and so we feel that they're like planted in the ground but they feel like they could walk if they wanted to you know they they have um just this sacred energy about them pristinely sacred energy and as I was plugging into them I could connect to this this Supreme Consciousness and it was the collection of these trees in that area and they were expressing to me how much they love me and and I'm sitting there thinking thoughts like why me and they said because you're you
and then they explained that that's how they love all creation every little piece of creation they they absolutely love this way and so they you know expressed and and tried to show me things I couldn't I couldn't understand but as as I was feeling and and receiving all of this that's when I noticed there was this building and I noticed it coming in but I didn't notice notice it meaning that as I started to notice what it was I could see that it was this huge vast building it was built out of one piece of
marble the entire building like everything on that building was built out of this one huge slab of marble and I I could feel that there was this beautiful Supreme Consciousness in the building itself and and Drake was trying to help me understand what the building was and the best I can ascertain is that it was it is some type of like University or place of Higher Learning a place where people can go and learn true um true history true knowledge you know unbiased and un UNC convoluted or or um you know patronized or or ruined
you know like true knowledge and it was a um a place that I I watched people as they would go up to a doorway they would have to match the energy of that room and then the doorway would would actually form in the wall they would go in and then as soon as they would go through it would just be sealed as if it was almost like it was Liquid the marble itself I could feel just this overwhelming divine presence coming over me from all of these things and it was like I had to put
all these puzzle pieces together and as I was I was recognizing that there was this just Supreme presence there and that I had connected to the grass version and the flower version and the building version the trees version and and actually right before the building I did have uh the Water the water actually came over to my toes and and it asked me the water itself asked do you want us on you and I said yes I felt as that that Supreme love that was coming even from the water it was washing away and healing
every bit of trauma or damage that I had received in this life um and I I got to feel like a wholeness a wholeness that I had never felt before and it was life-changing completely life-changing just to go through to this point it was completely life-changing and that's when I was just in full of love I was grinning so big I was so happy and I was looking to Drake like Drake this is so amazing you you know thank you for bringing me here thank you for allowing me to come to my home I now
know it was my home I didn't know it was until I got there but I recognized it was my home I couldn't remember being there before yet but I know if I had stayed long enough the memory would have come back that I had come from that place and as I was just expressing this love to him he came over to me and he looked me in the eyes and put his arms around me and gave me this hug and as he did um he helped me understand he he expressed to me he said Vinnie
this is going to be really hard but it's going to be worth it and with this hug um I felt like what came out of us the two of us as we hugged was the energy of 100 Sons it was this this like boom like really strong energy like pulsated out of both of us as we hugged and I got to realize a um a Divine principle that when you're able to come together in unification in True Divine love of each other and service of each other that The Power Within both of you is Amplified
and unlocked that's what I felt happening just from a simple hug if every single one of us could get one of those hugs there would never be a war on this planet ever again we would care for each other every day no matter what we look like or what lifestyle or anything we would care so much about each other if every single one of us could get one of these hugs in our life and it's a it's something that changed me for for the rest of my life till now I'm literally a different person from
before my experience I live differently I I care about people differently and as I was feeling all this I then started to hear a prayer being given over my body now meanwhile I was in I was braing dead for 3 days and and each one of those days there was visitors coming in and visiting you know my body while it was in this coma and my brother that third night he had this he had his own kind of uh come to Jesus moment where he realized that this is serious that um something needed to change
in the in the spectrum of of prayer or or sending your your desire to God because this was serious like I wasn't waking up and after 3 days the doctors were saying hey he's not coming out of this he's likely never going to come out of this he had even uh given my brother this pamphlet um about looking into palea of care which is what you do when someone's in this position and that really hit home for him and he decided you know what I'm going to come I'm going to do this this this prayer
over him this blessing over him and I'm going to just put put everything I got into it and he did I heard it as loud as if you was saying it directly in my ear while I was in heaven and I I heard him tell my body to be made whole and to come back to my body and as he completed that that prayer that blessing I felt instantaneously brought back to my body in the real time of it though my my brother had said this this prayer at 10: p.m. right around 10: p.m. I
woke up at 1:11 in the morning so only a couple you know few hours after that I woke up and I felt fine I literally felt fine I woke up and was first thing I thought was why am I here why am I in a hospital and my brain was still trying to figure out where I was and as I was figuring all that out I was extremely clust austr phobic so everything I had on me including catheters IVs I yanked it all off everything everything even yeah I won't won't tell that story but I'm
telling you it was painful but it needed to happen I couldn't have anything touching me I couldn't even have the little finger thing little finger socket thing that for your heart or whatever I couldn't have any of that touching me you you just had like one of the most freeing experiences he just like everything out to me this is what it feels like feels like you know our soul our spirit is as big as like a whale in real life it's huge right and then to come back into this body is like trying to put
that whale in a sardine can it's it's just it's near impossible you know to me it is impossible but it happened so I was I was put back in and I was standing there naked just standing there like like taking deep breaths trying to figure out like what's going on what's going on why do I feel this I felt like I wanted to pull my my body off that's what it felt like and it's there's a good thing there's not a zipper on our body I would have pulled it just climbed out I didn't want
to be back in this body I wanted to go back to to wherever I'd come from I I I could feel and and at that very moment of waking up I actually couldn't remember the the heaven thing at all I was just thinking I need to go back I need to go back I need to go home and I kept saying that um you know I I realized I was naked and I like okay I can't be naked I grabbed some uh gowns that I found in the cupboard wrapped around my middle section and then
I just took off like walking really fast I went down straight to this elevator I'm sitting there hitting the down button when I heard a scream and I know it's coming from my room so I knew one of the nurses you know had had found that there was no no coma patient in there no uh brain dead guy there's just a a bed and a bunch of sensors some of those sensors even pulled out of the wall so she was freaking out she thought maybe somebody came and and stole the body and I'm sitting there
hitting down I'm like open the door open the door I just wanted to leave I wanted to go home when I felt was home and then a second nurse came in there um she saw that there was nobody either she came out and she looked down the hallway and saw me and then she screamed and then the other nurse came out and saw me and then she screamed and so I knew I knew it at this point I was I I was caught I couldn't I couldn't leave I had to stay um so I did
I stayed until I could uh self-release or release on my own cognizance so remind you that I woke up at 1:11 in the morning I was not allowed to be released until 7 a.m. so I did every possible release paperwork I did so many tests I did 99% of the tests they wanted there was like one or two I'm like no I'm on I don't need that test you know and so they they did make me do a lot of paperwork I had to sign release meaning that they're not liable they're not liable if something
happens after I leave and I said that's fine just let me out of here um you know by 7:30 I was walking out and my dad had pulled up I had called him at about 7:00 he came picked me up and and took me took me home on my way home he just said you okay I'm like yeah I'm okay and he said are you going to work today I was like no not going to work today take the d but I but I told him but I'll work tomorrow and so I ended up working
the the very next day but but yeah as soon as I got home the only thing I could think was I want to go running to me that was the one thing that helped me feel like I was somehow getting out of this this body um and still at this point I didn't know I didn't remember what had happened to me I I got all the way to the point where I was going to dinner with my sister and and some more family but my sister specifically my oldest sister she cornered me at that restaurant
and she she goes hey you know did you have an experience because you were dead they found you were dead and as soon as she said that my mouth like formed the words at least my mind formed the words no nothing but what came out of me was my experience and as that experience was coming out of me I started weeping and crying because now I remembered all the things that had happened including the leaving the choosing to leave and to not wanting to come back and then I started to ache like to the deepest
part of my heart I wanted to go back home and you know it was a blessing to remember but it was also a curse because I from that moment forward I thought I just want to go home I want to do whatever I got to do I'm going to go home so I looked into the most dangerous jobs I signed up to join uh you know one of the the one of the most in fact the second most dangerous job at the time that I could find was to be a king crab fisherman and uh
there was like this this thing you could pay money for in Seattle you'd go there and you do a run with some fish boats out there and if you did good enough then they would graduate you to possibly being on a wait list for an Alaskan one for for king crab you know so I I signed up for that thing I I was like let's do it I I kept thinking you know a convenient slip on the deck of the boat I could be right there and I wouldn't even have to try it would be
just you know nature having it its way and and I could be back in heaven so I I wanted to do that um but I kept hearing I kept hearing Drake tell me Vinnie this is going to be hard but it's going to be worth it and so I did keep going I picked up you know picked myself up by my bootstraps and just went back to work went back to doing the things I knew to do but I started doing it differently everything differently everything differently at that point and I was done being the
old version of me I was done body worshiping because that's what I felt I was doing when I did bodybuilding and I was done worshiping anything else I was now ready to really um embody my new purpose and my new purpose was to build relationships to love and care for others in a way that is genuine and divine and as I could do that I can emulate that energy in heaven so I began with this new energy living my life and uh you know had a real rough patch right after I came back some of
the hardest weeks and months of my entire life and uh shortly after I came back though I did uh meet my wife and as I first met her even before going on a date we both knew that uh we were going to get married we knew it without a shadow of our doubt we knew we were going to get married and and again before we even went on one date and and kind of the the neat thing is I could feel that presence of Heaven around us when we were together and even before one date
everywhere we go people would ask oh how long have you guys been married you know you have any kids we were just young and then and so we we kind of uh radiated that energy everywhere we went but the neat thing is part of what you know Andrea who became my wife at the time she was my fiance she she really helped bring out a better side of me and she helped me reprioritize my life where family was Paramount and and one of the most important things and as she was teaching me how to do
that that wasn't my way before you know it was my entertainment or my adventure was number one but she helped me do that kind of re reprogram my life there was an opportunity to go to this little reunion in Wyoming and uh normally I wouldn't go I was too busy with some project or something and she lined it out like no look you're not doing projects from this date to this date that's when the reunion is you're going and so I got volen told that you're going you're going to go to this reunion and I
agreed said yeah that's part of my new self I want to do stuff like that so we ended up at this reunion and part of the reunion was you could go to this high school and watch um a historical presentation of the town and in this little town of afon Wyoming they were showing the present ation of the founders of the Town some of the first clergy of the Town some of the first land surveyors and all of this this and it was 4th of July time period when this happened I think it was like
the the 7th of July and um it was actually cold in Wyoming that day which it can be even in July there um and I was getting cold this was Outdoors it was on the high school football uh you know field and we're watching this big screen show all these slideshows of pictures of people and I was cold I was starting to gather our stuff to leave and uh adrea kind of kept dragging her feet a little bit and finally I knew why because within minutes of me starting to say it's time to go she
pipes up she freezes and she goes that's your guide that's Drake and I looked over at her I'm like who what no and I turned and on the screen is this old black and white photo of Drake he was a lot older in that photo but the white hair was there the white beard was there the eyes the eyes they were there and but I was I was completely dismayed because it said his name was Charles it didn't say his name was Drake I'm like it's him but it's not him what's wrong here why I'm
I'm thinking God why would you do this to me you you get me to know him as Drake and then now I find out his he's a real guy but his name is Charles but I noticed the last name and I and it that last name was the name of the reunion we were at and that was my grandmother's maid in eight so I went to my grandmother's house right then we went there I just kind of walked in I'm like grandma grandma grandma I I go can you tell me about someone named Charles kazir
and her exact response was Oh you mean great grandpa Drake he's kind of famous in our family and that's when she expressed that it was her great-grandfather and that he was known by Drake to the family and only to very close friends but even on all official paperwork he was known as Charles and and then I'm like that's why you had me know him as Drake not even as Charles so that I could have that confirmation of of who he is to me but he would be my you know great great great grandfather on my
grandmother's side but funniest thing K I got chills on that one man the coolest thing is when I the way I the way Andrea knew who was is I had been describing him for months to her we had many late night conversations is talking about what he looked like and what I felt he meant for me and we were just still trying to figure out who he was and so when she saw that picture she that's how she felt she knew that was him and when I saw it yeah it was him 100% but the
way I always described it to to Andrea is I said Drake's eyes they you could feel them like reach in and hold you and hug you eyes did that even in this life they did that and I asked my grandmother at a later period when I had a lot of time to spend with her um before she passed away and I asked her you know do you know anything you know attributes you know anything you can tell me and she said well everyone always said like his eyes his eyes they they could reach out and
and and kind of grab you and hold you and and not just that she felt like people couldn't lie to him because his eyes would not allow it like cuz he genuinely loved people and you know it was a beautiful experience and I'm so grateful that I didn't believe what some of the doctors told me cuz some of the doctors did tell me this is your imagination don't you know be very careful about following anything you perceive because you know a brain that's been oxygen deprived that long it's it's going to have some ramifications yeah
and uh so I I move forward with my life you know we got married shortly after that experience and and we've been just building our life since there's a lot more to our existence than what we see here and it's very very important that we understand that we can't take our our incomes with us we can't take our fancy homes or cars but we can take with us the relationships we build and and that is the most important thing we can do here is build good relationships and learn how to create with love and that's
the that's Paramount for us here if we can do that um we we walk away from Earth school you know uh an abundant being someone who's full of um that abundance that heaven wants us to have that's my experience L that was incredible I'm I'm really glad I didn't go read anything or watch anything and I could just be in this moment because that was that was really really special and yeah you said there are so many things I feel like I'm sure as you've shared it people can take away different things um one of
the things that I loved when you were describing coming back into your body and I feel like a lot of us right like there's there's so many identity issues in the world that's like people people want to like know who they are and it creates so much confusion and there I I I think it's so beautiful that you said it's like our soul is like as big of a whale and we're just like being pushed into this I feel like I feel like there's so many people in the world that get out of touch of
like how important they are and that their soul is so big and important and life kind of starts like almost making that Soul you like as a person in your soul and everything just starts almost feeling smaller and diminished and they start forgetting and or maybe they've never even truly known what they have inside of them and that that in innately right without doing anything they have this intrinsic important worth and they are so big and so beautiful they just don't know it and I feel like that's one of many things that I I took
away from from what you said so um but man yeah I was still getting chingles about the Drake that was that is so so cool well it's it's really neat to you know a few months after uh my experience or after we got married uh we got to move in and kind of help take care of my grandmother towards the last few months of her life so we got to go through like old family records and she had a documented special prayer blessing that was given to him and and it even spelled out like hey
this is what you're this is the change you're to make in the world and then it was more than a full page of describing what he's going to do in the afterlife no way and one of his primary purposes in the afterlife was to lovingly escort his family and loved ones from this side to the other and and like at that point I'm like God you don't need to give me anything else I'm good I'm convinced I know it and and it uh that you know just you add so many different elements and since then
being the changed person that I am I'm more in tune I'm more sensitive to uh energy of every kind of energy I'm very in tune with that and it helps me know when there's someone that needs help and they don't have to ask for help I can typically go and ascertain who and help them you know in different ways and to me that's a beautiful way of bringing Heaven back here because you know we don't need to use our words to communicate there if someone broadcasts the energy of help then help just arrives because we
love each other so much there and you know the whole identity crisis is happening because we're not physical beings we're Spiritual Beings having a physical experience and we're pouring so much of our attention and our energy into the physical that's why we feel empty inside we're not meant to do that thank you thank you so much thank you yeah thanks nice to meet you too [Music] [Music]
