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Part Two: Vincent Tolman Died in a Dairy Queen Bathroom at 25 — He Was Gone for Over an Hour and Came Back With 10 Messages About the Afterlife

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Mayim Bialik

Comedy, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.85.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

He was dead for 90 minutes. What he saw will shatter everything you think you know!


Doctors say this should have been impossible.


Vincent “Vinney” Tolman wasn’t just clinically dead - he was gone for somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour and a half, with no brain activity and no chance of returning without severe damage. Yet somehow, he came back - fully conscious, forever changed, and carrying a story that has left even medical professionals stunned.


What happened during that time? According to Vinney, everything we think we know about life, death, and reality is only the beginning.


After an accidental overdose in a restaurant bathroom, Vinney crossed over - and what he experienced on “the other side” goes far beyond a typical near death experience. He describes leaving his body and entering a state where he could hear the thoughts and feel the emotions of others, moving through a realm where time doesn’t exist the way we understand it, and encountering a level of unconditional love so overwhelming it defies human language.


In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, he shares the moment he met his spirit guide, learned how to raise his energetic frequency to travel, and underwent a profound life review, reliving not just his own actions, but feeling every ounce of pain and joy he had ever caused others.


After being resuscitated and placed in a coma for 3 days, Vinney returned with 10 specific messages he says were given to him from “the other side”, including insights into:

- Why we’re really here on Earth

- Hidden purpose behind suffering, conflict, & evil

- Why free will is essential to existence

- Truth about authenticity, love, & judgment

- How tech & other negative influences shape our spiritual path

- Why our value has nothing to do with what others think


He also reveals why he believes Earth has existed far longer than we’ve been told, how it moves through energetic cycles, and why children seem more spiritually connected.


But coming back wasn’t peaceful.


Vinney opens up about the dark psychological aftermath of returning to his body: waking up in a hospital, desperately wanting to go back "home", seeing what he believed were departed souls, and nearly losing himself trying to process it all. From being prescribed antipsychotics to a supernatural turning point that pushed him toward spiritual understanding instead, his journey didn’t end when he came back - it only got more intense.


Now, he shares how he connects with his spirit guide, the premonitions and guidance he receives, what he believes “Earth angels” really are, and how anyone can begin connecting with their own spiritual guidance.


He even links his NDE to childhood trauma, explaining how dissociation may relate to the ability to leave the body and what that means for human consciousness.


Vinney believes we are currently in a global “shedding phase”, and his mission is clear: to awaken as many people as possible.


This isn’t just a story about death. It’s a story about why you’re here…and what you’re meant to remember.


Vincent Tolman’s book, The Light After Death: My Journey to Heaven and Back: https://thelightafterdeath.com/


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Hi, I'm Iambialic. And I'm Jonathan Cohen. And welcome to our breakdown. Welcome back to our conversation with Vincent Todd Tolman. At the age of 25, he was declared dead in the bathroom of a dairy queen. But he was not dead. He had an incredible encounter, came back with 10 lessons and an entirely new perspective on reality, consciousness, and what our purpose is here on Earth. We're so excited for part two of our conversation with Vincent Todd Tolman. Break it down. Take us from we are all one, which was the last lesson we learned, to hearing your brother's voice. You know, Drake said that we're all fingers on one hand. All of us

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doesn't matter what country, what religion, what race doesn't matter who you are. Even he explained even animals and plants and earth. It's all we're all fingers on the creator's hands. The hand that writes the story and that we can't hurt each other without hurting our creator and without hurting us. And he taught me as something as the principle of the pointed finger, whenever we point our finger at somebody, we're pointing three fingers back at ourselves, but also pointing equal blame to our source. So there's no way to point negative outwardly, but if we point positive outwardly, Like, wow, you did a great job. That's bringing in positive energy, sending up positive energy. Yeah. So that that pointed fingers very powerful in the positive, but also very powerful in the negative to tear us down. Sure. So that was that was another tool that I learned as as we were finishing this journey. And as we were finishing the journey, we're approaching this expansive place, just gigantic. Like bigger than I thought was even possible in this universe. It felt like this space, I can't even call it a planet because it's so large. It feels like you could put multiple suns across it, like multiple of our suns. It feels like you could put probably thousands or millions of our earths inside of it, easy, just across it across one circumference. I knew it was just vastly larger than anything I could comprehend, anything that I think we even have comprehension of in this universe. And I noticed that I could see this beautiful landscape off in the distance. And as we got closer and closer, you know, I could I was really focusing in on this grass. And I didn't understand yet why. But we got closer and closer and closer. And then I felt as my feet, my toes came down and like intertwined with the grass and stood in the grass. And as soon as I did, it went back to that same feeling I felt when I had that life review, and I felt this overwhelming love pour over me, I felt again just this rush of unconditional love coming into me from my feet. And the only thing I can think of is like, but why? I don't deserve this. I know I don't deserve this. And they just kept speaking to me. The grass would speak every blade had a voice and just or a thought at least. can hear the thought and so I could hear them say because you're you because you're Vinny and I kept hearing it again and again and that's what I noticed that the grass itself had the most sweet sweet flavor and I and I was tasting it through my energetic toes. And it had this aroma that felt like very floorly but also very earthy. And it had just all these smells that were beautiful with it. And I noticed that every single blade had like a tone, like a musical tone, and that all of them together were like a concert, like an orchestra. And so I'm just absorbing all of this and it's almost too much, really. Like I'm trying to take it all in. I'm I'm balling but there when you ball, you just like like globe writer. You know here when we cry, we tears and water works that kind of thing There, when you do the crying energy, you're just like glow brighter. So I was glowing like so bright. I'd be so bright. And I had this feeling like I'm so glad I'm home, so glad I'm home. And I, you know, I've done quite a bit of recreational drugs in my life. And I noticed that right then and there, this is what we're chasing with those drugs. We're chasing one of these blades of grass. Chasing home. We're smoking the wrong grass. You know, I was just in the, in, enthralled by this grass and Drake came over to me and goes, if you like the grass, you should see the flowers. And I just freaked out and like, there's flowers. What? And I'm not a flower guy. I'm a, I was an amateur body builder working in movies and stuff here and there. TV shows here and there. I was not a grass and flower guy. Yeah. And but yet I was like, there's flowers. Yeah. So I want to see the flowers and he took my consciousness and like put it on a flower. Like somehow made me small and put it on a flower. I was like running around. I could see everywhere my my foot touched the flower pedal. It was a globe writer and it was like liquid lavender light with some beautiful reds and pinks inside of it. And it was just luminescent. And again, a smell, a taste, a vibration. You would even see like these rainbows coming off of everything. So there is just so many more senses that we don't have here. And it's, you know, a lot like our eyes here, how we can only see 15% of light. It's like, there's a reason we can only see 15% of light. When we leave these flesh vessels, these flesh temples, we can see all light. And that's why I was seeing that glow on that Medics chest is that's part of his light. And I was just so excited, you know, he Drake showed me the trees I was freaking out about the trees. I felt like there were wise ancient billion year old souls. And they were just living very slow and methodically about their existence. And then I felt this tap on my toe. I looked down, I saw this little creek, this little stream had come out and it had like tapped my toe. And I heard in my mind, do you want us on you? And I was like, yes, I want, yes. Whatever this is, I want it. So the water started coming up and over me. The water was speaking to you. Yes, it definitely was. Yeah. And I was speaking to it too. So we were, we were conversing and it was going up and over my body. And you know, as a kid, um, I, I had severe abuse. And a lot of that showed up in my adulthood. I would get in fist fights. I would headbutt people all the time. I'd put a guy in the hospital one time because he kicked me in the groin and you know, I just silly things, but I would take out my trauma. I would channel it on any male who disrespected me, especially one that looked my dad, you know? And here it was, this water was going in and finding all these little places in my soul, all these little cracks, these hyper fractures, these tears, and they were repairing it. And as it went up, it wasn't till got to like my chest, I'm like, oh, I wonder if I'm going to build able to breathe. And it came up over my mouth. And I was like, Oh, yeah, I guess I don't need a breathe. That was the first likely I've been noticed like you don't need to breathe there. And the water came up and complete itself on the top of my head. And when it did, there was like a boom of energy like that came off the top of my head. And then the water came back down, slowly came down off of me. And I felt healed, I felt completed. And I know that that was either Drake telling them to do it, or source telling them to do it, but they were doing it because it was part of my journey to prepare me to go back. Because right after that, I was forced to go back. Drake came and put his arm around me. He said, Vinnie, this next part, it's going to be really hard, but it's going to be worth it. And, you know, I think I'm invincible as a kid, but I wanted to cry right there. And he hugged me. And when he hugged me, you know, our two beings came together. And it's so neat because you don't have that flesh vessel there. Your two energetic bodies can come and become one for a second. And when it happens, there's like this pulsar of energy that comes off of just a hug, a simple hug. And I could feel that all the energy that was in me and all the energy that was in him, when we came together as hug, it became 8x. It became 8 times more powerful than what we could become on our own. It was just so much more powerful. And I felt like that was kind of a send off gift from Drake, because in that hug, I started to hear in my ear, my brother on earth, saying a special prayer over my, my comatose body and, and saying, I command you to be whole. I command you to come back to your body. Because it was, it was evident. It was three days, zero brain activity. It wasn't induced coma in the beginning, at least because I wasn't conscious, but they, they wanted to induce the coma for helping with the swelling. I'd swelling on the brain, seizures, all sorts of stuff. So I wasn't coming out of that induced coma. This episode is sponsored by Wondering Jews an open door media brand. If you've ever found yourself feeling like you have more questions than answers, you're in good company. The Jewish people have been like that for thousands of years. Wondering Jews with Michal and Noam is a podcast where two of today's most dynamic Jewish

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And I was off of all sorts of meds and still no sign of coming out of it in my neurology. And they had talked to my brother and my dad and had given them like these little pamphlets on what to do next, what to do when they're not waking up. Like where do you go or do you unplug? And he knew my dad would decide just unplug. But he wanted to make sure it was the right thing. And he wanted to make sure, for my mom. My mom was our saving grace in our family.

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And... to make sure, especially for my mom. My mom was our saving grace in our family. And some of my siblings might not agree about care if they agree or not. She was. And she really was this bonding between all of us kids and somewhat of a defensive Tory wall between dad and us kids. And she was out of town when this was all happening. She was visiting my uncle Chuck in Texas. And no one had told her, because they knew if they told her she'd either get an ulcer or fly out the first flight back. And they wanted to make sure I was gonna live or die first before they told. And they they were deciding, do we call her? Have her fly out and then unplug? Or do we just unplug? So your brother made this prayer sometime in the evening. It's about 9 30. Right. And a handful of hours later. Yeah. What happened? at 111 in the morning? I woke up. What does that, what did that feel like? It felt like hell. It really did. That's the hell I experienced. Even my negative life review wasn't as bad as this. It was really bad. And right at first, I didn't remember my experience. I just knew I wanted to go home.

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I knew I was extremely claustrophobic. You said you felt like a whale in a sardine can. Yes.

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Like ours, our energetic bodies are so much bigger than these flesh vessels. That's why we have

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to come as babies so we can cry out that that change. And then once we get through that,

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we grow into the physical vessel, allowing the energetic body to grow with us, right? And, you know, our energy, energetic body is huge. And that's probably why home is such a big place. Because we are big. And, you know, when people say spiritual giants, that's almost all of us. So you have this awareness of being in this hospital bed. Yes. I woke up. I tried to go home. I woke up, pulled every two bow to me. I pulled my catheter out, pulled my, my breathers out, pulled every diode on my head off. So you had been dead for three days and you came back fighting like a lion.

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Yeah. And there's only two nurses on the floor. And they were, I think they weren't covering too many beds. But they had like two comas at the time. And that was pretty rare. It's a brand new hospital. And my body wasn't one of them. They saved him right away. He spent one night in the hospital and went home the next day stay because they're able to pump his stomach and He didn't he didn't ever die and so you know I'm going through this experience of I just want to go home So I I number one ripped everything off me and then just stood there naked for a second and I'm like I want to go home. I want to go home And I'm looking around like oh, I naked. And so I went rifling through the covers

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and found these gowns.

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And I grabbed like two of them just wrapped around my midsection. And then I just started walking. I didn't know how. I would have looked like a crazy homeless man, but I was going to do it. I was like, I'll just walk home. I'm not going to stay here. And then I heard two screams. and I look back and see the nurses and I could just feel.

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I could feel the sorrow, the scaredness, the fear

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coming off of them and I knew I didn't want to do that to them. So had you gotten outside the hospital? No, I got to the elevator. I got to the elevator and was pushing the button. It's a little bit like Frankenstein's monster, meaning like something that has consciousness all of a sudden. Yeah.

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And has a directive to move, but doesn't really know how to do it. Yeah. So that morning they did a whole battery of tests. They got you back in the bed. They made me go back in the bed. They put on a real hospital gown. And even though I went and let them tie it in the back, I was like, no, I just didn't like stuff touching me. I didn't even want sheets on my bed.

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I just didn't want to be touching stuff.

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