This is the past lives podcast episode 287 and I'm your host Simon Bound.

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who look at past life memories, near-death experiences, spirit communication and other incredible phenomena.

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This week I'm talking to Kathy Gabrielson about her book, Dying to Live, Surviving Near

Death.

Kathy Gabrielson is an intuitive healer who has had two near-death experiences.

After crossing the boundary into death, Kathy experienced the spiritual

transformation and discovered her own paranormal gifts. Hi, Kathy. Thanks a lot for coming on the podcast.

Hi, Simon. Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. So we're going to talk about your book.

It's called Dying to Live, Surviving Near Death. And you had two

near-death experiences. So could you tell us about the first one, how that came about?

Yeah, the first one, I was 18 years old, and I was in a car, I was in high school, I was my senior

year that fall November of 1988 and, you know,

kind of like the celebration time. We're halfway through our senior year and we're going to go

away to colleges the next year and it was just a great time of life. And I was in a car with my

boyfriend and I live in the suburbs and the area where we were,

it was nighttime, it was probably around 11.30 at night.

And it was dark, and we were just on a windy country road.

And I don't know if he was driving a, like a Bronco type car with big wheels and it was

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