One of life's greatest questions is what happens to us after we die? Is death the end or a new beginning?
Welcome to the Round Trip Death Podcast. In this show, we listen to firsthand accounts of people who have gone beyond the veil and return to talk about it.
We're here with Allison Snowden today down in Florida. How are you?
I'm doing great.
Don't tell me it's warm and sunny.
It is absolutely gorgeous and I'm looking outside my window and it's just absolutely blue water and super sunny and it's about 75 degrees.
Alright, I'm headed down there right now.
Yes.
You know, lately we have been talking for some reason. We've had some not only interesting near death experiences that we've heard of, but the way people died has been really interesting as far as somebody getting hit by a van, somebody getting hit by a train and drug, things like that.
I'm just teasing it for our listeners a little bit. You might actually have one of those kind of different things too.
We'll come back to that. First, tell us a little bit about you.
Yes. Yeah. So, my name is Allison Snowden. I have my doctorate in Chinese medicine and in holistic healing. I like to say mind, body, soul healing.
And that's the result of the incident that happened in 1999. Currently, I'm a 39-year-old holistic doctor. I practice integrative medicine, mostly energy healing from the subconscious side and I just love helping people.
It is one of my soul missions while I'm alive is to really teach people how to heal themselves and that's emotionally, physically, spiritually, mentally. And that is one of my soul missions from my NDE and it just makes me so incredibly happy to help people access this power within them to heal themselves, to know who they are.
That's great. Let the record show I did not ask your age. Okay. Let's go back to when you were 15 years old. Where were you? What in the world happened?
So, I always like to share a little bit before this because I think, you know, what happened, my near-death experience was March 29, 1999 in Cancun, Mexico. But I think to set the stage of this, this was an answer to my prayer.
And this could probably shock some people, but my near-death experience was a huge, huge manifestation of my prayers. And the reason why that was happening was that I was exposed to a lot of death when I was younger.
My sister, my older sister, who's still alive, she had childhood cancer back in the late 80s. So I saw a lot of children suffer. This is when children were, you know, still conscious when they were doing spinal taps.
You know, it was, I saw a lot of kids in physical pain. I saw a lot of kids die. And my sister, you know, I saw, I went to probably 10 plus kids funerals, which is very abnormal.
And then my cousin died. And so around the age of 14, after my cousin died in a traumatic accident, he fell asleep at the wheel. I was like, what is going on?
Did you grow up in a religious family that helped you deal with that?
No, no. I mean, I went to, so my like family atmosphere that I grew up in, my dad was a physician who was an OBGYN and my mom was a nurse.
And we, I grew up Catholic, but my, my family, my parents are very ethical, grounded people, but I was very interested in the spiritual aspect. They liked Catholic religion because it was like good values, but they weren't very spiritual.
So I always was, you know, praying and thinking more on that level. And it didn't come from them.
Okay. So what were you praying for specifically?
So what happened was, is once that happened with my cousin, Andrew dying, I would just pray and I, and because I was like, what is going on with this world? Like I didn't understand. I didn't understand. Like I had this deep feeling that there was this, you know, there was something else.
You know, my teenage brain was like, wait, what the, you know, insert cuss word, like there's all of these beautiful kids dying, my cousin dying, there's all of this suffering. And so I just, how it was having what I call an existential crisis.
And I was like, what is going on? And then I think hindsight looking, I had some, you know, anxiety and some PTSD around, you know, people dying. Cause I'm like, well, who's next?
So I just was praying because I really wanted really the answers to the universe. I wanted to understand why I was here. Why did some people die? Why some people lived? Why is there suffering in this world? And why would a God allow suffering in this world? And what is this whole life about? And then my biggest question was what happens when you die?
And you had really big questions for anybody, let alone a 14 year old.
Yeah, I was just really in, you know, in that existential crisis. And I felt like I had this yearning for, this yearning to understand really deeply. And people's answers weren't really fulfilling me. It didn't feel like truth. And that was before really the internet.
You know, I mean, the internet was kind of going at that time in 97, 98, but it's not something that we went and like Googled, you know, oh, what happens after you die? And then you get near death experience people on there. Right?
So I just prayed and I tell my friends and my clients and how much the universe feels our desires and our true wanting because I wanted to know. Like, it was a strong thing that I wanted. I was like, show me. I want to know. And I persisted.
And so that was like something that was very private for me. I did not really share this with my friends. You know, most of my friends at that time had no experience with death.
You know, they and I had had this long history. And so it was one of these things that I kind of put it in a private place in my room. I wouldn't talk to people around and I had this connection and I would just pray that I needed. I needed to know.
Yeah. So a little while later you found yourself you were in Mexico in the Cancun area.
Yes. So then, you know, I'm living teenage life, you know, like that's in the background, you know, privately that no one knew.
And fast forward, it was 1999. We were going there for my sister's spring break, but my sister at the last minute got sick and she got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and her infectious disease doctors said there's no way you can go to Mexico.
Your immune system's not good. But my everything had been paid for. So we went anyway. So this was around the third. I was the fourth night.
And this was a very auspicious, you know, the first night in Mexico, we almost get in a car accident because like a taxi almost lands in a ditch because there's construction. So that's the first night, the second night, or the second day I was on a bus and the guy was drunk, you know, and so he was swerving, you know, the third day.
And then we were coming out of a restaurant and like someone had just gotten hit by a car or a bus and I have a I still have this memory in my brain. And this they were lifting this person on up on a gurney and their leg was like dangling and I can remember just cringing, not knowing that the next night that would be me.
So the next night I was I went out to dinner with my whole family and then my mom allowed me and my friend to go out with my sister's friends and then we had to be home at like like 1045 at the latest.
And so we went out with my sister's friends and then I lost my friend I was there with. And so I, I essentially got very scared because she was my responsibility and I took that seriously and so I told one of my friends, one of my sister's friends, hey, I need to go find her.
I need to go and he's like calm down, calm down. I thought it was brushing me off. And so I left by myself, because I was like, no one's taking me seriously, I need to go and so I went to go get my mom.
And so I left without anyone. And so I went and I was walking by myself so my 15 year old girl, walking by herself and I remember some people following me.
And I remember getting very upset and turning around and telling them a couple, you know, cuss words and yelling at them to get away from me and I started running. So I started running and in Cancun there's some, you know, busy streets so I was trying to get across the street to go to a bus.
And all of a sudden, I just like my consciousness, you know, it just went blank, like it was just like, just blank, like I got knocked out or something.
And the next thing I know, I'm on the ground, and I don't really know where I'm at. And I feel like I'm getting sexually assaulted and I start just fighting for my life, just fighting trying to hit but I couldn't move my arms, and I was just screaming.
And then all of a sudden, there was a blank of consciousness. And then the next thing I know is that I am out of my body, looking like and when I say out because I know there's certain different layers of, you know, near death experiences I mean like hundreds of feet, like
above like very out of my body. So I was looking like at a very bird's eye view of what was, well maybe not 100 that's kind of that's kind of a little bit exaggerated but very, very high up.
And what I saw was my body I call it like this this body that I'm in was just lifeless, and I was in a pool of blood and there was ambulance trying to get through. And there's just this huge pool of blood there's this whole human drama of the scene going on.
And at that time in my near death experience I kind of was like oh whatever, you know, like, people were like well what was happening you know like did it and the thing was is that I could sense like, I could sense people's feelings.
So like I can remember this guy he was very upset of what had happened to me. I can remember sensing his compassion, you know, like the roads were like blocked off because there was police and all of that and I can remember seeing that and I can remember sensing people's feelings seeing what was happening.
But really, when I was in my near death experience it was it really wasn't the object of what was going on with like the drama of the aftermath of the trauma wasn't really like the object of my attention because I was so in this loving consciousness.
And that's pretty common of people looking down on their body and not really being kind of ambivalent like, you know, whatever. Right. Yeah, for some reason it's not traumatic it's not oh how do I get back to it or anything like that it's just oh, yeah.
Yeah, there's my dead body down there. Yeah, yeah, I mean, honestly I was like I was super, I was so detached like, you know, I, I done a lot of healing work to really love like my human vessel that I'm in right now but my soul was like, I'll just get another one, it's just kind of like this the amount of detachment to the physical body is like if I miss the sweat like if I have to, you know, throw away a sweater and get another one.
It's like, oh, that's what it was cool but I'll get another one like that's like and my, you know, my brain actually like my soul actually said that oh well oh oh I'm dead. Well, I guess I could get another body, you know, it was one of those things like, oh, just kind of like no big deal.
So what actually had happened to your body. My parents were told because my mom wasn't with me at the time. The police told her that I was hit by like a motorcycle or a motor vehicle. First they said I was on one and then they said I was hit by one or maybe that or like a car.
You could tell that something that hit me because my shoes there was like ingrained tread marks my left my left whole left side was destroyed. What happened was is like my left leg so that's your left lower leg my tibia and fibula were a double compound fracture, also rupturing my tibial arteries so that was the extreme loss of blood.
My pelvis so my butt bone and my pubic bone were broken in four different places. Most of my ribs were broken, and then my left arm, the humerus, your upper arm was just pummeled like in like 200 pieces.
And then my jaw was broken in four different places. So the police at the scene charged a Mexican guy for manslaughter at the scene.
And they hauled him off to jail. So some people are like, well, how dead were you, or, you know, because I get the question a lot like how long, I don't know I felt, I mean, the concept of time, guys, time doesn't exist outside this human 3d realm so when I was up in the, you know, the beautiful
unconditional loving divine conscious plane I was like I felt like I was up there forever. You know, I was just I had so much fun. You know, there is no time constraints up there. It's very interesting to try to translate that.
But I guess I was in terms of the timeline on on human terms, I was I was, I guess dead enough or they thought I was going to die or, you know, dead for so much for them to actually very much charge him and convict him of manslaughter, but I woke up a slightly in the ambulance,
and then I kind of passed out again and then I and then I woke up again and in one of the worst, probably facilities called a hospital in Mexico.
It was like a dilapidated building and dirt my blood everywhere I mean, it was not not a good place to be if you're critically injured so you'd think in a tourist place like Cancun that they would have something better than that, and maybe now they do.
I don't know. I don't know either. Do you want to tell us more about this? I mean, you've mentioned words like beautiful and loving and things like that. Let's go more into depth of what the experience was like when you were felt like you were out of your body.
My experience was I was in this non physical place, non visual place, and it was pure consciousness. So, there was no visual component, it was all a feeling and a consciousness so like a vibration.
It was this very loving, loving force so if you can think about the person that you love the most of when you see them or when you're with them and you times that by like trillion times a trillion times a trillion times a trillion.
It is that that that is what we come from. And it was just this big consciousness, just, just wrapping me up with love. And within that consciousness, because, you know, there are no bodies up there there are it's just pure consciousness I didn't know where I ended and I didn't know where I began
at the same time, I could sense, I had my own self awareness as me as an individual consciousness. And I could sense that there was some, you know, there were some consciousness or souls that weren't as aware or self aware, and then there was some older, like kind of, you know,
advanced souls that were more conscious, but we were all in this energy field of oneness of love, and there's all it was all telepathic communication.
And so I was having conversations. And at one point I'm having all of these conversations because, you know, all of this information all of the spiritual information is there, it's just, once you're out of your body and you're awakened to all of these truths that just kind of,
comes to you and you're, and so I was having these conversations these awakenings these knowing, and at one point I was like, am I talking to my, my higher self or God or an angel or, and I was like, Oh, who cares, like, because it's all one type thing it was like, whatever.
But some of the things that were shown to me, obviously, I wasn't my body, like I existed beyond my mind beyond my body and beyond my personality.
And so it, that was the obvious thing of my near death experiences is is that we do go be, we are we are so much more than, you know, what society, pretty much puts us in a box, which is, you know, your job, your, you know, what you look like, you know, you know your status, you know your skin color.
And all of that, or your eye color your gender and so my identity, you know, just got blown open that that is those, those kind of little things so my skin color like my gender, like that is not who I am, who I am is this consciousness that's like an invisible force.
And also what I saw too, was, I say saw, but it wasn't saw it was this knowing it was this this this data bank of all of my previous life experiences or my previous reincarnation or my incarnations.
And so I grew up Catholic I had never been exposed to even the idea of reincarnation I think now, I don't know what it's like to grow up in this time and space, but you know 1983 up to 89 like I wasn't exposed to world religions like I didn't even know what reincarnation was
I was that that that had never even come into my field of knowing as like a as a ninth grader. So, when I got into that space, and I was, it was it was just, here's a data cow like categorizing all your previous lifetimes Do you want to look and explore them more.
And I was like, oh, and then I had this knowing this other knowing that you in between lives you would study yourself. And so there was this also this other knowing that everything that you do in your life is recorded by this loving field of consciousness you know all your
thoughts all of your actions all of, you know what was going on with you all of this is recorded like nothing is mess nothing like every little thing and I don't know that made me feel super happy.
Still makes me feel super happy, and I didn't have a life review, like in my thing, but I guess when you do truly end your life you have all of these all of this data to look and, and I guess some religions say that you're judged well that is just really not the case there is
this learning and this love you get to see and you get to feel. And I think the thing is is that God doesn't judge it's really our souls and our consciousness they're really just evaluating and looking.
And I think as you go through or what I sense from myself as I move through different lifetimes I different goals are different, not different goals but more of a spiritual sense of experience and wanting to understand and cultivate.
And I think that's something that God just knows like maybe there's a misunderstanding. Maybe you know justice doesn't get served on my part on some level and some situation, but I find a lot of peace like knowing that that this divine consciousness or this field and knows my
true intentions. I get I get a good sense of it maybe that might scare some people.
Knows everything that's going on. That's okay. Let me interject. I noticed you use the term divine consciousness some other people use the term God why did you choose one versus the other.
Because for me, I guess maybe coming from a Catholic upbringing. I think of, I feel like God is personified as a male, or, you know, as in some religions. And so I use the word just divine consciousness because I feel like the God that I met or the divine
consciousness that I met is is a pure energy it's not a person it's a pure energy that we all are a part of and we all make up into this big unified field. And so, and all it is, is love.
And that's all it is. And I feel like because of other religion has projected a lot of human like qualities onto this energy field so if I write a book about my near death experience and probably be like to pay.
I'm not going to be doing this whole thing it's just basically, God is love love is God, like, end of story, like, that's it, but that's really difficult for us humans because we make things so complex like what does that mean what is love like what is, what is love
like what does that actually feel like. Also in my healing profession and also a lot of people in humans call love that isn't love, you know, a lot of humans, maybe feel like they were loved but that's not that love is not the love that I felt, you know,
the high vibrational love that I felt is very different than a lot of things or energies or frequencies that people call love here, you know, and also a lot of the people I do healings with their consciousness things love is abuse or love is a certain judgmental and so I think
there's a confusion around love in general in in in our culture and it, but the feeling I got when I was in my near death experiences is just it's no words can describe it and once you once you feel it you're completely changed.
I wanted to go not feeling judged just I think you said learn and feel. What do you mean by that. What were you learning. Well I was taught that, you know, there's good and bad and all of these things, and I and I feel like there is good and bad according to a belief
or a judgment system and that can change depending on who has that but it when you're looking at your life when you're looking at your life and it's like you're having your life review and you're seeing from from the beginning of your life all the way to the end, and you get to see
there's, and I'm sure all of your, you've had these I've had these where there's very pivotal points in your life where where you chose to do something or where you're like I need to, you know, be more loving or, you know, maybe you, you decided not to be more loving, or you had these
conscious choices of how to move forward. And when after you die you get to review this, what I found with me is like I studied myself, you know, in between lives.
And so also what was very pertinent is you get. So I just want to share because I think some, sometimes people have a hard time with this is is is that, you know, when you were on that state you have a very visceral knowing that this other person that maybe you hate it
or were angry at actually is you. And so, you realize that everyone who ever interacted with was you. The issue is is down here when we're a human we have this illusion of separateness and part of it we need, you know, we need to have some separateness in
our lives. And so, you know, we live our life but you know we think that this person doesn't matter or that's not me. How I treat them doesn't matter but actually it does because that is you. And so it's when you have your life review and maybe you
know these other people in the world are actually you know part of God and they are part of you. Maybe you didn't treat them a certain way or or whatever. And so when when you're dead and all of the illusions drop and you're reviewing from that point of view you get to see how you
how you affected a person and you get to feel this and you get to learn judgment it's not there's no judgments that there's just awakening because once you once all of these illusions that that we believe as truth here fall when we die, then the truth through a real truth
comes out. And I think that's where a lot of us. I mean, hopefully we learn when we're, you know, in our body but I think there's also a lot of healing and learning when when we're on the other spiritual side as well.
Yeah, it's a it's sort of a tool we've been given our spirit is right now within this physical body right. So we have an we have legs so that we can move around. Yeah, and and when you're in the spirit world, you're, you were able to absorb so much more knowledge and everything
going on. But here we have this brain that, well, it does a good job for us, it limits us a lot as well. To have this very impactful experience of being knowing myself without a body and without a brain and knowing myself as pure consciousness and then being me being like pushed back in and, you know, being operating in a human suit and a nervous system.
I was like, I felt a little bit in prison for a while. Yeah, that's very common. And I like the terminology you just used in a human suit. Yeah. Right. Yeah, it is because that makes that makes a lot of sense. So in what ways was it hard when you came back to deal with everything besides your body was probably in all kinds of pain and disarray.
How long was that recovery, by the way, physically? Oh, I mean, it went on for decades because I mean, the the initial recovery, it depends on how you like, you know, stage it. But it took about two and a half years of surgeries back back and forth and in a wheelchair for me to actually be like, able so it's about two and a half years where I could walk.
And I didn't have to have any more surgeries on my leg. So I would I would I would have a surgery and then it would the surgery in Mexico that failed. And so I did another one. And then I had another have another two ones. So I learned how to walk again. And my arm when I had several on that several on my one on my job.
But then, you know, after you're after the surgeries, and if any of your listeners have had surgeries or had major trauma, you know, that's just the beginning because your whole body of getting back to I could hardly walk up a flight of stairs without being tired because I lost all of my muscle mass from being bedridden.
Sure. So I mean, my I was in pain, like physical pain for about so 99 it happened. I was 15. I wasn't out of physical pain till I was like 31 or 30. Wow, that is really serious. But it doesn't bother you anymore.
No, I wanted to come back and share about it. And so as I'm going back into my body, and it is like lightning speed, once you decide you're like, yes, I'm going back, it's like, bam, like you're back there. And as like in that millisecond before, like that divine knowing that consciousness was like, bring this consciousness bring this love into Earth and anchor it into Earth.
And I was like, I can remember, like, what, like this whole thing. And so this question of how am I, how am I me, this, you know, young girl, how am I supposed to bring this consciousness this love this this amazing frequency down to Earth.
Like that was like my prayer, and it still is my prayer, how can I more bring this down here. And I guess my answer to that first was to my body because my body was so hurt.
And so when I would be lying in the hospital in horrible pain, I would channel and I would connect to that light and to that consciousness of love where like there is nothing more powerful than that frequency when you when we die or that love that constant there that is like there is nothing
more powerful than that. And so I would just connect to it and I would be like, please heal my body, please heal my pain. And so I would do that. And then, you know, as I got healed and a lot of a lot of that is first bringing it to my body, but then it's also like, well, how do I bring that to my interactions?
How do I bring that frequency into my daily life into into my relationships, you know, and I mean, I'm like, how do I anchor this into the world? I mean, like, that was that's still my question. And then I'll and I'll still probably be my question till I die.
As someone who had a near death experience in 99. So it'll be 24 years ago. I mean, when I came back, I didn't I didn't say anything to anyone because I thought someone was going to think I was nuts. So you asked about me coming back. Well, I came back and then I was, you know, thrown into this drama movie.
You know, it was like a movie that, you know, you watch. It's like a Hollywood thriller. I'm in Mexico. They don't know if I'm dying. They don't know, you know, that it was this whole drama. I had to get airlifted out. So it's all of this. But I can remember being in the hospital and communicating with my angels and being like, um, this really sucks.
Like, and that's like a big ass like in capital letters, like the amount of pain I was in the amount of pain I've experienced in my life is just is just insane. And I was like, and my angels, I was communicating with them and they're like, Yep, you're going to be in pretty serious shape for like 10 years. So you know, watch out like kind of like pace yourself.
And I was like, I don't want to be here. And I was like, can I go back and they're like, Nope. It was kind of like, you missed that window. And I was like, okay, we do need to wrap up. I want to go full circle quickly before we do and go back to what you were saying in the beginning.
14 year old little Allison had big, big questions that you were praying for answers to were those answered through your experience. Yes, 100%. And lastly, you were sent back with a mission with something to communicate. Why don't you summarize that and tell it to the world right now?
Love is who we inherently are. And the more we tune into that within our hearts, and also communicate that with others and also listen and witness to each other.
We can anything's possible. So world peace, healing of anything creating any goals. So it's really that we are so powerful in our own consciousness and I am really excited about the future because I feel like we are in such a precious time in history where we are.
We are. We have never in history have we been so connected to so I can share spiritual, you know, across the world, share this with other people also never have we been so connected where we can heal trauma, we can talk about things it is so open now where we can
heal emotionally where we can really communicate with different cultures, like, clear hate hatred clear violence through love communication connection understanding.
And I am really excited to be a part of, of this, you know, through teaching people how to heal themselves, heal others but then also being a part of a bigger conversation of love and connection and and and greater awakening across this world because I feel like it's happening
right now, and there is a lot of polarity happening, but I think that that is normal during a global awakening and that that we're right on track and this is the setup for for a lot of people to open up and, and to get into their power of their love and of their
consciousness, and I just hope people can really on your show can really hear that and really internalize that there are so much more than what the world tells them, and I see it, and I, and I feel it when I meet all different people from all different walks of life and I want to
share that everything that you do makes a difference. Every loving text every smile. Everything matters. Alison, hey thanks a lot for your time. Thank you. I'm so appreciated and sending all of your listeners.
So many blessings and love and it was such a pleasure.
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