EP: 365 The Hell Question: What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Judgment and Eternity with John Burke

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Christianity, Science, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 158 minutes

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John Burke returns for a deeper dive into the harder questions surrounding near-death experiences. After 40 years of researching over 1,500 cases from every continent and religious background, Burke tackles what people consistently report about hell, spiritual warfare, angelic beings, and the nature of God.This episode explores the uncomfortable testimonies of hellish experiences—from the outer darkness to pits of fire, from victims of spiritual torment to those trapped chasing earthly addictions. Burke discusses why some NDEs involve deception by malevolent beings, the role of tunnel experiences as spiritual protection, and whether there's a "liminal space" where souls can still cry out to God before crossing into eternity.Burke shares stories that don't make it into most Christian discussions: the Muslim imam who saw Jesus with holes in his wrists and woke up at his own burial, the Jewish woman who sat on God's lap while Jesus stood nearby (but they were somehow "one"), the Hindu engineer who saw a lake of fire despite never reading the Bible, and the atheist professor dragged into darkness by deceptive beings claiming to be hospital staff.These aren't ghost stories or hallucinations—many occurred during documented clinical death with flat EEGs and no heartbeat for extended periods. Burke explains the consistent patterns he's discovered: the tunnel as protection, the life review, the welcoming committee of angels, and the terrifying reality that some people initially head toward places of torment before being rescued. We discuss AI deception, astral projection, why time works differently on "the other side," and whether these experiences prove the Bible's descriptions of the afterlife are more literal than we thought. This episode is sponsored by: https://mintmobile.com/blurry — Get your premium wireless plan for $15 a month when you try Mint Mobile for the first time! https://quince.com/blurry — Get free shipping on your order & 365-day returns when you shop now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The history of our earth is so different from what we can imagine.
0:05.0	The Smithsonian, that if they found out about a large skeleton somewhere, was to go get it.
0:13.0	I'm going to assume at least one person is right, because if one person's right, it's
0:18.0	right to bust the paradigm, it all goes back to the fallen church.
0:21.6	And the problem with the modern day church, they have a very truncated view of the supernatural.
0:25.6	This backdrop that's just pregnant with all kinds of meaning associated with this Mount Hermon event.
0:35.6	And this guy defects from the kingdom.
0:39.3	That's a big deal.
0:41.3	Well, that's my whole.
0:45.3	Well, that's my whole thing with AI as a whole.
0:57.7	It's like, okay, why are we not thinking?
1:01.7	Because there is a common moral law.
1:05.2	Hit it, C.S. Lewis.
1:06.1	There's a common moral law, right?
1:08.5	Yeah.
1:09.6	We better train it on the common moral law.
1:12.5	Right.
1:13.4	Or in trouble.
1:14.7	The problem, though, is you're at the behest of who's the programmer.
1:17.6	So then if you have immoral people, then you essentially have an immoral program.
1:21.3	Well, that's the thing.
1:22.2	If it's just all of human experience, then it just gets better at, you know, at being, at lying.
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