755. Jonathan Ashford: C‑Level Executive’s NDE, Life Review, and Radical Spiritual Awakening
Buddha at the Gas Pump
Rick Archer
4.7 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan lived the definition of material excess, twenty-five years climbing the corporate ladder in marketing and technology as a C-level executive, accumulating possessions, and actively avoiding anything spiritual. That was until May 22, 2023.
On that day, Jonathan died. His skin turned yellow, his organs failed, and he was gone for three hours. What happened during those three hours wasn’t just a glimpse of white light. He experienced complete immersion in divine consciousness, received profound spiritual teachings and revelations, and was given a choice: stay on the other side or return to share with those ready to awaken.
He chose to return. But the being who returned bears no resemblance to the executive who died. Jonathan now helps individuals across the world through speaking engagements, group calls, and private sessions.
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| 0:00.0 | everything is like has this slow breath like it's all alive it's like i want to say vibrating but that to me |
| 0:06.9 | is fast it's just like this breath or pulse of something and the grass was all moving like it was |
| 0:13.3 | underwater almost in like in unison but there was no breeze there was no climate in a way |
| 0:18.7 | and the light like this light was like love. |
| 0:29.6 | Welcome to Buddha at the gas pump. |
| 0:31.7 | My name is Rick Archer. |
| 0:33.6 | If you're not familiar with it, Buddha at the gas pump is an ongoing series of conversations with spiritually awakening people and about related topics. |
| 0:42.8 | And this is our 17th season. We've done over 750 of them now. |
| 0:47.6 | If this is new to you, you might want to check out the website where you'll find a number of interesting things. |
| 0:53.4 | One is a categorical index that lets you |
| 0:56.1 | search for the interviews by category. And there's an NDE category, of course. Another is a video |
| 1:03.3 | context search thing where you could type in a search term such as Kermit the Frog. And if that's been mentioned in a particular interview, |
| 1:12.7 | you'll immediately see the interview in which it's been mentioned. And if you click on that listing, |
| 1:16.4 | you'll actually go straight to the point in the interview, which it's been mentioned. And I actually |
| 1:20.8 | have mentioned Kermit the Frog. There's also a Bat Gap bot, we call it, an AI chat bot that has |
| 1:26.2 | been informed by nearly half a million documents |
| 1:29.6 | that are relevant to the kinds of topics we cover, including 1,700 of the world's sacred texts. |
| 1:36.4 | There's no charge for any of this, of course, but like today's guest, Jonathan Ashford, |
| 1:41.7 | we do accept and rely upon donations. So if you appreciate it all and feel like |
| 1:46.8 | donating, there are PayPal buttons on every page of the website, and there's a page which |
| 1:50.9 | explains alternatives to PayPal. So as I mentioned, my guest today is Jonathan Ashford. A lot of you |
| 1:59.4 | who are on this call are probably familiar with him, but many of |
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