What He Learned From Dying with Jonathan Van Valin Episode 156
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Guest: Jonathan Van Valin - Near Death Experiencer and Shared Death Experiencer
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Jonathan Van Valen had an NDE - Near Death Experience where he chose to come back. He came back with a transformed worldview that took some time to realize. He also had remarkable abilities that even allowed him to join someone else in dying in a Shared Death Experience.
Jonathan grew up in suburban Seattle, spending much of his youth immersed in music and assorted outdoorsy and athletic pursuits. His family was kind of a mess. In college he devoted himself to training as a concert pianist; then pivoted to entrepreneurial pursuits for the following decade-plus. There were moderate successes and an ordinary amount of failures along the way. He also had a tendency to go traveling across continents, including a stint living in Italy.
Throughout all of this, an inner search ramped up, mostly unrevealed to those around him, which eventually became quietly yet ferociously all-consuming. While many awakening shifts had occurred during these years, it was in 2011 that Jonathan left his regular life entirely for a long self-directed retreat in a remote village in the highlands of Guatemala. There, he went through a sort of “final” doorway, in which a radical falling away of egoic self became the abiding ground of his being.
After a few years spent very quietly, people began to occasionally seek him out to speak or teach about his experiences. Along the way an inner prompt revealed a subtle healing ability, though his natural tendency was to reveal nothing of his own experiences or gifts.
But that eventually shifted too. Over the past few years, the inner prompt to share what’s been received has become the prime mover of Jonathan’s life. His essential function, as he sees it, is to help people remove blocks to their awareness of their deepest being and to live from the love that pours forth.
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