# 13 Near Death Experiences (NDEs) - Greg Halpern's Journey

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Podcast: [Round Trip Death Podcast - NDE](https://stenobird.com/podcast/round-trip-death-podcast-nde-5498978)
Published: 2026-05-18T16:47:38+00:00
Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/roundtripdeath/2836241
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"Go Back, Your Work's Not Done!" What would it take for you to die — not once, not twice, but thirteen times — and come back with something to show for it? In this electrifying episode, host Eric Bennett sits down with Greg Halpern, a Chicago-based judo world champion turned serial entrepreneur who has survived 13 Near Death Experiences that would have broken — or simply ended — anyone else. It starts at age five (NDE #1), when a post-tonsillectomy hemorrhage sends young Greg bleeding into the night and straight into a boundless space of warm, infinite light, where a deep, commanding voice tells him to go back because there's work to do. Each successive NDE Experience, he explains, felt less like a brush with death and more like a controlled transmission — the universe systematically clearing his mind to receive something extraordinary. By the time his 12th NDE hits in 2005 — a lungful of chlorine gas from a pool canister that felt like a blowtorch down his throat — Halpern had long stopped expecting to die. Then came Near Death Experience number thirteen — a ruptured appendix, three days of misdiagnosed food poisoning, a six-hour surgery for full-blown peritonitis, and a fatal over-medication that flatlined him in his hospital bed. What he saw in that darkness was chilling: a vision of global destruction centered on 2023, and an urgent message that he had been sitting on world-changing information for too long. Video Version of This Episode RoundTripDeath.com Donate to this podcast: https://www.roundtripdeath.com/support/ Greg: https://patriotinnercircle.com/

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