When Lightning Strikes with Dr. Tony Cicoria
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
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🗓️ 4 March 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today on the Life, Death, and the Space Between Podcast we are back with Dr. Tony Cicioria, a renown orthopedic surgeon with a very busy practice who had no interest, time or talent for music until he was tragically struck by lightning in 1994.
The bolt was enough to kill him, but he was soon resuscitated after having a powerful near-death experience.
Soon after his NDE, Dr. Cicoria developed a sudden craving for listening to classical piano - Chopin, in particular.
Today, we discuss…
- His near death experience
- What changed in his life after his NDE
- How his NDE changed his view of science
- Three major life takeaways from this experience
I am also dedicating today’s podcast to my Uncle Richie Sherman, who is also an orthopedic surgeon and a skeptic.
If you are interested in reaching out to Dr. Tony, you can reach him tcicoria@yahoo.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the Space Between podcast. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and medium. I know it seems like a strange combination, |
| 0:16.2 | but that gives me a unique view of life and death. Death can be scary. I get that. That's why I'm doing this. |
| 0:23.2 | I want to help people explore life, death, and what it all means. We are born and we die. What we do in the |
| 0:31.1 | middle is the space between. Today on the space between, Tony Sikoria was a renowned orthopedic surgeon with a very busy practice who had no interest, time, or talent for music, until he was tragically struck by lightning in 1994. |
| 0:51.4 | The bolt was enough to kill him, but he was soon resuscitated after having a powerful near-death experience. |
| 0:59.3 | Soon after his NDE, Dr. Sequoia developed a sudden craving for listening to classical Pano, |
| 1:06.5 | Chopin, in particular. |
| 1:08.6 | He began studying Pano and soon developed a level of mastery that was astonishing. |
| 1:14.4 | This led to his performing on stages across the world and recording several CDs of his original music, |
| 1:21.2 | including notes from an accidental pianist and composer. He was profiled in neurologist Oliver Sacks's book, |
| 1:29.1 | Musicophilia, Tastes of Music and the Brain. I also wanted to dedicate today's podcast to my |
| 1:36.4 | uncle, Richie Sherman, who is also an orthopedic surgeon and a huge skeptic. So, Tony, I'm |
| 1:42.8 | hoping today maybe you can help him a little bit more come around to this notion |
| 1:47.8 | of consciousness existing beyond our current bodies. |
| 1:52.2 | So welcome to the show today. |
| 1:54.4 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:56.0 | So can you tell me a little, can you tell me what your life looked like before your near-death |
| 2:01.7 | experience? |
| 2:03.1 | Sure. |
| 2:04.1 | Before the near-death experience, I was, first of all, I had started out as a scientist |
| 2:12.3 | and in basic sciences, and then I went into medicine after that. |
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