Welcome to this bonus episode of Round Trip Death and part two of our interview with Felice DiMartino.
After we finish up talking with Felice, I hope you'll stick around because we're going to talk
a little bit about some ideas for the future of this show and I would love your input. So
please be sure to stick around for that and to email any input that you might have to
Eric at roundtripteath.com. Alright, let's finish off the interview. From the time that they
pronounced me dead was a good 45 minutes. They cut my clothes and then they paddled my heart,
my heart had stopped and I could see people screaming and crying but I didn't realize that was
actually my physical body because I was somewhere else. The only thing that I could feel if you could
imagine absolute love and peace. There wasn't anything else to be felt. I was greeted by people
I'd known in the past. I'm back home again. Incredibly safe and felt at home.
Shifting gears in a major way here. Tell me about shared death experiences. I find these fascinating.
They're not talked about very much but I know that you've had some experience with it.
Would you mind telling us about those experiences? Sure. So in 2006 I was with my grandmother.
She had been in and out of hospice for like a few years basically. The night she passed I was there.
I was by her bed. The first thing that happened was there was an I was there the hospice nurse was
there and there was a knock at the door and there was something in me that knew that there's not
going to be anyone at the door. We're not expecting anyone. It was like late it was 10 30 11 o'clock
and it was late and sure enough we go to the door there's no one there. It's funny because it felt
like the hospice nurse at the time was a little spooked and I was just like oh this is so cool
right to experience this kind of stuff and I was open to this always. At some point we call my
aunt and uncle they come over because the hospice nurse was like you know have them come over it
could be any time that like tonight feels like it's going to be the night that she passes.
So my aunt and I are in the bedroom with her with my grandmother. She has a hospital bed. I'm sitting
by the bed I'm holding her hand. My aunt goes to lay in the it was a big king-size bed and I'm
holding her hand talking to her telepathically. My grandmother saying grandma it's okay you can go
where I'll find you're so loved like I'm talking telepathically again and that's another thing.
All of this and what happened in the near-death experience is telepathic. It's this telepathic
energy communication and I'm holding her hand. I know that when I let go of her hand that's going
to be it. So I'm saying you can go but meanwhile I'm holding her hand right. You're keeping her
hand. Right exactly so the hospice nurse finally says get into bed I'll let you know when we're
close when it's time. So again to bed I enter into a state that is not that that kind of
theta state in between wakefulness and sleep and I go on this journey of my grandfather came. I was
in this ballroom and I was looking down I was above I was looking down yet I was also a part of it
and the relatives knew there were relatives there were old friends there were ancestors yet they
were all in their youthful form they didn't look old and they knew that I was there and I was amongst
them as I was existing and they were all dressed in these ball gowns and the men were dressed and
no one had feet. I noticed that they were all hovering no one had any feet and at some point
the room parted and there was like an aisle was formed up the middle so they started to part an
aisle was formed up the middle and I could feel my grandfather and another presence going up and
there were two other presences with my grandfather and then as they walked or they sauntered or they
moved up it was like walking up this aisle up to a platform and as they got up one of these angels
I'm going to call this an angelic presence it was an imprint of there was an angelic presence there
with my grandfather and as this reaching down there was a sense of my grandfather was there
and there's this angelic presence right with him that reached down for my grandmother
and I heard the words get up now and as soon as I heard that I shot up in the bed I looked around
for half a second the hospice nurse had fallen asleep my aunt was laying in the bed next to me
she was asleep I looked at my grandmother her eyes were wide open and she was taking her last breath
okay so there was that that's part one yeah that's super interesting so so this this presence is
reaching down and my grandfather is right there this angelic presence reaches down my grandfather
right there when she crosses over I had my experience in 2015 in 2018 in March no that's not true
not 2018 a year and a half ago my dad passed on March 18 so 2022 2022 my dad he was at home and we
had hospice care at home there was a nurse at home and we and the family was there the day that he
passed we were in and out of the room and when he passed we all went in the room my mom's head was on
his chest he took his final breath and I could feel him above the room I could feel him and oh
in the morning of the day that he passed he was pointing up to the left at the corner and then as
the day went on shortly before he passed he started reaching not just pointing you know he was pointing
I would say daddy they're here to welcome you because he would point and then he would jolt back
in his body like he would go out and point and look at us and then he would come back to his body
so as the day went on and he started reaching towards the corner that's what happened there
and when he when he transitioned and when he passed and my mom's head was on his chest I felt
him above us and I knew from my own experience what that what that experience is to be out of the
body above the body to be able to hear everything that's going on so I entered into this space I
had us all hold hands we were all holding hands around his body and I could feel him with him
it was distinctly his essence his his imprint energetically looking down at us and I said daddy
we know that you can hear us you can see us we're all going to take care of each other you know and
really talking to him because they they can you can hear in that state and also the your soul's
going to go off to soul school do its thing and we'll be here if and when you want to come back
and communicate with us and for me what that that circle of love the reaching down for my grandmother
and then my dad reaching up it completed the circle to have the experience from the other side
reaching down waiting to welcome my grandmother and then on this side physically having my dad
reaching up it was like this completion of what occurs for us and what's what's possible when
we're with our loved ones to send them off because they're welcomed into love we're all welcomed back
into the state of love you know we're not taught what to do when somebody dies yeah yeah or how did
how to react how I think that was beautiful what you guys did thank you yeah I know there are people
out there with a title of a death doula I haven't had any of them on the show yet but maybe one of
these days a few months ago we did have a hospice nurse on nurse Hadley she was awesome you might
want to go back and listen to her and yeah some of the experiences sacred experiences I'll call
them when people are passing over to the other side yeah it's a portal it's this sacred I mean
it's this leaving your breathing form and existing they're still here with us you're just
existing in another realm right and I have done my level one death doula training and I've studied
I did some studying with William Peters who has something which you might want to look into the
shared crossing project I have I have seen it I haven't really studied it or talked to him yet
so you've had some of this training what are some of the things that you do as a death doula
be fully present with and holding a safe space for the family to grieve to sit with the loved ones
because a lot of times especially in our culture people don't want to talk about it the family
doesn't want to talk about it to the person who's passing the person who's passing knows what's going
on but it's like an unspoken kind of something that's hanging it's like the unspoken elephant in
the room right so to sit with a person before they pass like is there talking with them about
forgiveness or there is there anything that they want to share or if they're able to speak and share
right at that point is it do they feel they have any unfinished business how can you facilitate
conversations you develop trust with the family if the person is unresponsive sitting with them
holding hands hearing is the last sense to go so talking with that person because you know I know
in the case of my daddy at alzheimer's and dementia and the body is doing what it's doing
physiologically neurologically biologically the spirit the soul essence is pure and in an imperfection
so the soul is still experiencing the purity of does that make sense like the body might not be
like your loved one is still there the essence of who they truly are is still there and talking to the
person and it depends again on what state they're in so any advice for someone who may be going
through that soon with a loved one as far as the loved one who has a loved one who's going to pass
yeah I would say to be in the heart out of the mind into the heart there's an opportunity to
to kind of clear the air if you will so that soul can be freed and released without and the person
could let go without feeling worried or attached or or guilty or whatever may arise to talk with
the soul and to get really in touch with yourself you know it's okay we can grieve and be grateful
for someone's presence at the same time we can show forgiveness this is where forgiveness comes in
really connecting out of the mind into the heart returning to that love all right here's something
I asked nearly everybody near the end of an interview and that is what is your fear level of death
personally so I do not have a fear of death at all I trust that it will occur as it occurs and the
timing will be what it is and I trust in the divine timing of that and as a human there's a lot I
still want to experience like I don't want to have I'm not worried about it happening tomorrow yet
I want to be here for a while as you said to come full circle to be a grandma to my grandbaby's
are we gonna happen are your girls gonna listen to this if so I've got a message for them police
needs to be a grandmother I'm not trying to rush it but yeah let's not rush it let's not rush it
we have things to do and also service I want to remind people that service is the highest
expression of that love that you can be is service service service kindness service yeah absolutely
if you're ever having a really bad day go serve somebody else uh huh uh huh exactly hey any last
thing you want to share with our listeners what was shared with me before we came on is to listen
to your soul listen to the voice of the soul it knows the way and there's so many practices
now that offer ways of connecting with the wisdom of your soul like for some people it might be
what does that even mean right there's a lot of information now on the internet on podcasts
such as this on youtube channels there's so much information now about accessing the voice of the
soul yeah I think a lot of people are gonna hear that and say that sounds great I have no idea how
to do that yeah look it up google it or get in touch with me yeah get in touch with me by the way
police is at grounded illumination dot com yes did I get that right yes and there are easy practical
concrete tips and tools to hear the wisdom of your soul it's it's it can be made very digestible
and very pragmatic give me one then I'm gonna let you go okay so one way is is through the body
listening and noticing where in your body you feel a yes and where in your body you feel a
hell no and pay attention because your body is the vehicle through which the soul speaks to you
and that that ties into intuition but is that helpful listen listen to listen to when you feel
joyful and ease and excited where do you feel that in your body that's your yes and where you feel
like heavy thud dense that's your no right and the voice of your soul is always connected with love
and it's always connected with your internal yes perfect police thank you so much for being with us
today oh bye everyone thank you so much for tuning in and for accessing the remembering of our soul
and that there's nothing to fear in transitioning there really isn't we're welcomed into immense
immense love and there's no judgment there's no judgment coming towards you from the other side
thanks for sticking around on this podcast we've tried to be hyper-nitched into near-death
experiences but there are also a lot of related types of experiences that go along with them
so the question I'd like to pose for everybody today is I watch your thoughts on do we want to keep
the show just like it has been or do we want to expand a little bit into some other areas that may
be related just to give you some examples irons in their most recent newsletter mentioned that when
they incorporated the organization's main focus was near-death and similar experiences so the question
is what are some of these similar experiences now today we talked a little bit about shared death
experiences that's one let me read you a few of the others that irons has here ob e or out of body
experiences telepathy after death communication past life memory precognition remote viewing
mystical experiences anomalous healing of self anomalous healing of others aura viewing encounter
with non-material entities encounter with extraterrestrial beings environmental sensitivity
exceptional talent kundalini awakenings lucid dreaming mediumship photokinesis oh there's a
long list here synesthesia nearing death awareness personality changes terminal lucidity etc so my
question for you is and I would love some feedback would you like us to spend more time talking about
some of those things or stick with just near-death experiences and very very similar things or maybe
a combination of the two maybe our main show that usually comes out monday evening is on ndes and we
have bonus episodes from time to time on some of these other things so there's some thoughts again
love to hear your feedback email eric that's eric at roundtripdeath.com and we will look at every
single email I promise and and we appreciate your feedback so until then I wish you everything
good that you're looking for in this life and the next