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EP: 375 Eight Hours in Hell: A Buddhist's Journey to Jesus Through Death with Steve Kang

Blurry Creatures

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Christianity, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Most near-death experiencers see the light. Steve Kang went the other direction."There were demons everywhere. Three-to-four stories tall with capes and weapons. I knew they were in charge of this place called hell."Raised Buddhist, dedicated to becoming a monk, praying eight hours daily—Steve had his spiritual life figured out. Then a laced drug at a party kept him awake for ten straight days. Buddhist artifacts started making poltergeist noises. A voice claiming to be his god offered a deal: kill yourself for a better afterlife. So he did.During surgery after his suicide attempt, Steve landed in a place Buddhists don't believe exists: hell. Crowded. Dark with no sun. A purplish-red wasteland with massive demons and torture cages. And the certain knowledge: "I'm going to be here forever." But that wasn't the end of the story. As he was fighting for his life and experiencing the realities of hell, eight Christian ministers showed up to pray for a Buddhist kid they'd never met. In those moments, Steve shares how Jesus appeared to him in hell, offering love and rescue when he least deserved it. In this unbelievable story of salvation and redemption, Steve gets a second chance at life. His encounter became the turning point that not only saved him from death but also transformed his entire understanding of God, salvation, and purpose. Today, Steve shares his story as a testament to the reality of the afterlife and the radical love that pursues us even in our darkest moments. This episode is sponsored by: https://zocdoc.com/blurry — Find and instantly book top-rated doctors today! - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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As I was dropping, this is, I'm going the wrong way.

0:02.0

And I was like, did I make a mistake?

0:04.0

It was too late because they're doing the operation, which is about eight hours.

0:08.0

And I'm unconscious and when I fell and landed, I just landed like, boom, I land into what I now know is hell.

0:18.0

But I don't even believe in hell. That's the crazy part.

0:20.0

As a Buddhist, I didn't believe in hell.

0:22.4

But here I am, and I look around, and it's crowded, guys. It's crowded. How does that? What does that mean? I'm not the only one there. There's so many people there. You can see them? Oh, yeah. So for me, hell was a very visual experience, a very physiological, spiritual

0:39.7

experience where the guilt, so like during the 10 days before I attempt to suicide, I had so much

0:46.3

anxiety and fear and confusion in hell, it was worse. The guilt and the condemnation, which is

0:52.3

eternal separation in hell because, you know, at least on earth, you got a break, right?

0:56.0

You can shoot morphine if you're tired, take Advil, go to sleep.

0:59.0

There's no rest in hell.

1:00.0

It was perpetual agony, perpetual fear, perpetual pain, perpetual condemnation, not one second of relief.

1:08.0

And it was so painful, I couldn't look at the person in front of me and go

1:11.6

Hey where you from are you from America China like India? I just looked around it and I didn't see any specific face. It was very just people everywhere

1:20.6

There was no light. There's no sunlight. I looked down. There's no plants. It was like a like a pebblish like just hard ground yeah like like a wasteland

1:29.8

like just a wasteland of no nothing alive yeah like a like a wasteland and it was like purplish

1:35.0

red atmosphere i look to the left there's a huge cliff again no plants no life no pets no animals

1:42.4

and i knew for the first time in my life that I was a sinner,

1:45.0

which I was never taught in Buddhism

1:47.0

because there's no concept of original sin like the Bible.

1:50.0

So I knew I was going to be there forever,

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