Heart and Soul: My journey beyond death

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Following a dramatic train accident, David Ditchfield was dragged under a speeding train in Cambridgeshire and nearly lost his life. As he lay in hospital, just before being taken into surgery, he had an extraordinary spiritual experience characterised by overwhelming love, white light and spiritual beings The experience awakened a previously hidden talent for painting and music. Despite his vision of angelic beings and a white tunnel of light, he doesn’t view his life-changing spiritual awakening as a religious experience. He tells his remarkable story and meets the founder of Near Death Experience UK who too had a profound spiritual awakening while in a critical condition.

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0:19.6	But first tonight, a man's horrific ordeal after becoming trapped in the door of a moving train.
0:24.7	He was seeing off a friend at Huntington Railway Station
0:27.4	when he was dragged off the end of the platform and under the train.
0:36.1	This is Huntington Railway Station.
0:38.4	This is where my accident happens.
0:40.2	It took me a long time to get back onto this station platform.
0:44.2	This is the place that changed my life, yeah.
0:48.1	I'm with David Ditchfield and we are revisiting the exact place
0:52.2	where he had a terrible train accident.
0:54.5	The human body should never have to go through that.
0:56.5	The human body should never have to go through it being pulled underneath a speeding train
1:00.6	and thrown around relentlessly like a ragdoll.
1:03.1	It took 13 and a half seconds.
1:05.7	But the interesting thing is, is that it didn't feel like that to me.
1:08.7	It felt like minutes.
1:09.8	So time actually slowed down for you and that meant it?
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