{"podcast":{"title":"Imagine Heaven Podcast with John Burke","slug":"imagine-heaven-podcast-with-john-burke-7127530","podcast_index_feed_id":7127530,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6437398/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/imagine-heaven-podcast-with-john-burke--6437398","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/3faad468127ba9819650d7d7fd4e1bdc.jpg","author":"John Burke","episode_count":31,"summary":"From the author of the New York Times Bestseller Imagine Heaven—with over 1 million copies sold—comes a thought-provoking podcast by John Burke exploring one of life’s biggest questions: What happens after we die? The Gallop poll found that 1 in 25 Americans has experienced a Near-Death Experience (NDE). Join us as we unpack real-life NDE stories and examine how they align with the Heaven described in the Bible. This podcast dives into the intersection of faith, science, and the profound mystery of the afterlife. Prepare to be inspired, challenged, and awakened to new possibilities. Tune in and discover: Are NDEs glimpses of Heaven?","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T02:21:02.315463+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/imagine-heaven-podcast-with-john-burke-7127530"},"episode":{"title":"Hindu Engineer Dies and Encounters Something Unexpected in the Afterlife","slug":"hindu-engineer-dies-and-encounters-something-unexpected-in-the-afterlife","published_at":"2026-06-04T14:30:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/imagine-heaven-podcast-with-john-burke-7127530/hindu-engineer-dies-and-encounters-something-unexpected-in-the-afterlife","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/imagine-heaven-podcast-with-john-burke-7127530","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hindu-engineer-dies-and-encounters-something-unexpected-in-the-afterlife--72344710","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72344710/santosh_podcast_final_v2_audio_mp3.mp3","summary":"A Hindu manufacturing engineer clinically dies — and what he experiences completely challenges what he expected about the afterlife. Santosh grew up believing in reincarnation. But during his near-death experience, he says he encountered something else entirely: a radiant city unlike anything he had ever seen before… matching descriptions found in Revelation 21 of the Bible. What he describes about God, heaven, judgment, and the nature of eternity raises profound questions about reincarnation, truth, and what really happens after death. Was this simply the mind under stress — or did this Hindu engineer witness something impossible? In this powerful episode of the Imagine Heaven Podcast, John Burke sits down with Santosh to unpack one of the most compelling cross-cultural near-death experiences we’ve heard yet.","meta_description":"A Hindu manufacturing engineer clinically dies — and what he experiences completely challenges what he expected about the afterlife. Santosh grew up belie…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4718,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/imagine-heaven-podcast-with-john-burke-7127530/episodes/hindu-engineer-dies-and-encounters-something-unexpected-in-the-afterlife/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/imagine-heaven-podcast-with-john-burke-7127530/hindu-engineer-dies-and-encounters-something-unexpected-in-the-afterlife.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}