are you going to know if they were serious i'm going to uphold that threat or not

after what they had done to me anything was possible right so so ultimately the man that lived across the street was in cahoots with a man that lived behind me okay i lived on an alley in a subdivision and so behind me on the other side of the alley about five houses down was the man that was the janitor for my church so those two pedophiles Somehow they knew each other.

I don't know how, but they did.

And then they used the church building as a place to abuse us because the janitor had the key.

He knew when it was empty.

He knew what buildings only could be accessed by him.

So it was a place of hell for boys, right? Three of my childhood friends are dead today.

Yeah.

Their incredible stories reveal to the living that this is not the end.

Well, hello, everybody.

I wanted to first start by thanking Phil for giving me an opportunity to share my near-death experience with his podcast audience.

So thank you, my good man, for the work that you do in sharing the messages and the experiences of those that have been to the other side and have something to share about it.

So anyways, my story, my name is Thayne Martin, and I grew up right here in Phoenix, Arizona.

And I start with a little bit about my life story because it relates to my NDE.

So I had a difficult life.

That's B-O-B at L-I-B-S-Y-N dot com.

Mm-hmm

Mm-hmmSpecifically, I teach connection.

Mm-hmm.

So for people that are closed off, I start with a card in my exercise.

I have 101 cards in this deck, and what we do is we use these experiences to very comfortably extend our s- I'll call it our social circle- Mm-hmm ... to extend back into the world of which we've closed off.

So the first exercise I might have you do is called Smile Marathon.

And so all I would ask you to do would be to go to the shopping mall, the food court, um, or a l- busy hospital lobby, that's another place to see lots of people.

Mm.

Isn't it mostly just empathy?

Um, well, you would, you would hope they had empathy, but ultimately the reason they didn't take it is they didn't felt qualified to treat me.

And I appreciate that.

You know, DID is a weird, it's weird.

It is weird, right? Okay.

You know, and what's also interesting, Todd, you're talking to somebody different.

Okay.

Yeah.

How do you get there?

Wow.

Okay.

So, you know, I guess what I would say is I've lived a full life and a life that has been full of big highs and big lows.

And it's been a journey.

It's definitely been a journey.

I think what makes my story unique is what happened to me.

Yes, I want to embrace it.

right like your own

your yourself uh amen a hundred percent you know you 100 yes and and knowing that you know taking responsibility for your own care and being smart enough to also kick the tires that's something that you know when i when i came out of the ugly trauma that i had experienced you know i was abused as a child by a religious institution and it ultimately led to a life of constantly running okay i never understood a normal day because of what had happened to me as a child and the stories that i had told myself as a child that I then carried my entire life, right? I mean, all of that, but ultimately getting caught in the system and then ultimately being overmedicated.

In my story, I'm grateful for the therapist that I had.

I would not be alive today was it not for her work and the EMDR work that she did with me.

And then same thing, psychologist, amazing psychiatrist, somewhat amazing.

But ultimately, being real, I ended up with seven pillboxes.

OK, seven pillboxes by a medical establishment with good intentions.

please take some space to receive the unconditional love that you may have felt in an instant from someone else, from a, from a prayer with your higher power, from a time in nature, wherever it's come or even just coming from being with yourself and be with it and breathe into it and let it expand and let yourself feel it.

So just explain what what's that all about?

Yeah.

So what neuroscience is, neuroscience is the study of our nervous system.

And when we say nervous system, we most people think neuro brain and your brain is definitely part of neuroscience.

But it's also an understanding of the entire nervous system.

Right.

the various components of our nervous system and how our nervous system is actually it's it's like an octopus really when you think about how our nervous system run because we have to keep track of taste sight sound touch hearing like all of the senses have to be integrated into one central nervous system that then feeds its information to the brain of which the brain then does something So I realized in my life that I was severely traumatized as a boy.

okay

You're bringing things into my life that's not necessary that I don't

want.

You're balancing.

You're making the necessary state, right? That's the one thing that I, you know, like, so in the equation of life and abundant happiness, it's a course that I teach people.

And it's all based on what I learned in my near-death experience, okay? And probably one of the most important things is understanding how critically important it is to just be aware in the moment, right here, right now.

I was always that guy that was stuck in my head, thinking about the past that I couldn't fix and why did it happen, and then the future that I was trying to create in like this dreamlike thing of what my life could maybe be like if I had never been abused.

And so the reality was that I never got to see the beauty of my life that was in front of me the entire time because I was always obsessed with the past or the future and my brain would never allow me to stay present.

what they are.

So

I needed to figure out how to reinvent myself, how to think like, quote, a normal person.

Well, what does that look like? Because I didn't get to grow like a normal child.

I didn't.

So It came to me that the operators of math, which you all know, we all know them, are in fact the equation of life and abundant happiness.

And it goes like this.

Addition is the first thing we learned in grade school.

me.

Can you tell us a little bit, like, what was the awakening? What was the clarity, the aha moment for you? Like, what, what were the thoughts and the, the shifts?

Yeah.

Okay.

Great question.

So when I drowned, I was very fortunate to get out of the pool alive.

I know that.

When I came out of the pool, my body wasn't working.

So what would that look like in a classroom with teachers and students?