Jul 16, 2026 · 51 min · 15 segments
Can near-death experiences be trusted? Former biotech CEO Randy Kay didn't think so—until he was medically declared dead for more than 30 minutes and came face to face with Jesus. Now, after…
Randy KayGuest
I'd been in that scientific... with, um, that mindset, so the fanciful, you know, ways in which many afterlife survivors or near-death experiencers, uh, express things was, A, to me, not provable, and B, it just was hard to believe.

Yeah, and so I wanted to go through the process of validating these for the sake of their truth.

Because these were the most, uh, these were the most important experiences of these people in their life, sacred experiences, and they weren't being treated as such.

You know, you and your mom treated them as sacred experiences, and for that I'm very grateful.

You know, people are accused of making it up, hallucinating, uh, or a host of different things.

And so I wanted to add some credibility to our stories, that indeed, uh, there are a lot of similar things that go on.

And that's how I got involved in expanding this to then researching and interviewing a number of other, uh, near-death experiencers.
What I loved is, when I was going through the show notes, is it said that you guys wanted to reclaim the near-death experience space because the New Age people were trying to take that.
... people were doing it 'cause they were like, "We're all gonna go into the light, and it's all gonna be okay," and that's not true.

My wife and I pray routinely, as I'm sure you do, uh, and He said, "I want you to take back the narrative." I had no idea what that meant.

I'd been in that scientific... with, um, that mindset, so the fanciful, you know, ways in which many afterlife survivors or near-death experiencers, uh, express things was, A, to me, not provable, and B, it just was hard to believe.

Yeah, and so I wanted to go through the process of validating these for the sake of their truth.

Because these were the most, uh, these were the most important experiences of these people in their life, sacred experiences, and they weren't being treated as such.

You know, you and your mom treated them as sacred experiences, and for that I'm very grateful.

You know, people are accused of making it up, hallucinating, uh, or a host of different things.

And so I wanted to add some credibility to our stories, that indeed, uh, there are a lot of similar things that go on.

And that's how I got involved in expanding this to then researching and interviewing a number of other, uh, near-death experiencers.
What I loved is, when I was going through the show notes, is it said that you guys wanted to reclaim the near-death experience space because the New Age people were trying to take that.
... people were doing it 'cause they were like, "We're all gonna go into the light, and it's all gonna be okay," and that's not true.

My wife and I pray routinely, as I'm sure you do, uh, and He said, "I want you to take back the narrative." I had no idea what that meant.
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