Next Level Soul Podcast with Alex Ferrari

Episode: BONUS MONDAYS: Woman Dies, Has the MOST PROFOUND Near Death Experience We EVER Heard! (NDE) with Sara Jayne
Date: September 22, 2025
Guest: Sarah Jane

Episode Overview

In this powerful episode, Alex Ferrari welcomes Sarah Jane, a cardiac specialist with a scientific background, who shares the most profound near-death experience (NDE) story the show has ever featured. Sarah details not one but two NDEs, each transforming her understanding of consciousness, love, and the human experience. Her journey through illness, death, and the realms beyond provides deep insights on life purpose, soul evolution, and the importance of intention.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sarah's Background and Life Before NDEs

[03:53 - 08:00]

• Grew up in a family blending science (father, a cardiologist) and religion (mother).
• Sarah inherited her father's scientific worldview, dismissing thoughts of an afterlife:
  "I didn't ever think about existence beyond your last breath ever. It was not even in my conscious thought. I was lights out. That's it."

2. First Near-Death Experience (NDE #1)

[03:53 - 12:43]

• Occurred after birth complications, internal bleeding, and emergency surgery.
• Out-of-body awareness: Observed surgery from above, without emotional distress.
• Awareness expanded to sense her baby in the nursery and husband in the corridor, also feeling their emotions.
• Encounter with her grandfather's essence, who communicated:
  "No, it's not your time. You have to go back."
  Immediately after, Sarah returned to her body and shared accurate details of the surgery with the surprised medical staff.
• Struggled to process or discuss the experience afterwards due to illness and fear of being seen as 'crazy'.
• Shelved the event:
  "I essentially locked it up in the chest, threw away the key, dumped it into the ocean... I just kind of shelved it."

3. Life Between NDEs & Illness

[18:12 - 24:05]

• Years later, diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening autoimmune disease affecting her heart and brain.
• Extended illness, multiple hospitalizations, near-death episodes, and chemotherapy.
• Despite relentless health struggles, continued to focus on family and work as a "heart detective".

4. Second Profound Near-Death Experience (NDE #2)

The Departure

[26:15 - 36:07]

• At home, intuitively knew it was her last day; chose to stay with her family instead of returning to the hospital.
• Felt her body shutting down like turning off lights room-by-room, pain dissolved, and her essence left her body through her feet.
• Ceiling-level out-of-body perspective, complete with curiosity about still perceiving herself as 'Sarah' without a physical form.
• Sensation of being pulled upward by an anti-gravity force toward a brilliant, living, loving light described as "the source of all".

Memorable Quote

"This most magnificent bright white light... was alive and it was dynamic and it was pure love... It was unconditional, non-judgmental love that I knew was the source of everything. I knew it was where I came from. I knew it was where I returned to. It felt like I was coming home." — Sarah Jane ([36:07])

The Life Review

[38:17 - 47:51]

• Encountered three familiar spirit guides.
• Underwent a life review, experiencing each event, both as herself and as the people she affected—feeling both the joy and pain she caused, understanding the ripple effects of her actions.
• Focused discussion on the importance of intent in every action.
• Life review wasn’t punishment but deep awareness.

Memorable Quotes

"Everything I thought was telepathically communicated. The beings communicated they were my guides... It was sort of like, 'let's see how that went'—that's referencing a life review." — Sarah Jane ([38:17])

"What you do and your intent in each moment matters. How you're living your life now becomes your heaven or hell because you're going to experience it as what you've lived your life as."
— Sarah Jane ([43:45])

No Judgment, Only Soul Evolution

[50:30 - 55:22]

• No external judgment—only self-awareness and the opportunity for soul growth and consolidation of wisdom for future lives.
• Profound shift from taking life so seriously to focusing on love, intent, and service:
  "If I can just turn up as love in this moment... I really now try and be very aware of what's my intent and bring that into each moment."

Reunion and Choice to Return

[55:28 - 74:28]

• Reunion with her father (who had previously passed), communicated love, pride, and guided Sarah through understanding consciousness and co-creation.
• Experienced a healing session in a dome-shaped room with guides and healing beings, described as a “warm liquid gold” vibrating through her.
• Shown the nature of time and consciousness:
  "All time is stacked on top of each other... your awareness is the arm that goes in and picks the record out."
• Welcomed at a jubilant “party” by ancestors and loved ones beyond.
• Presented with a choice—cross a threshold and remain in the afterlife, or return to her body and her children.
• The thought of her children triggered an immediate return to her body, described like a “roller coaster,” bringing with it intense pain and the shock of density.

Notable Quote

"No choice is right or wrong. If you step over this threshold, you get to stay here... or you can go back and you go back to your sick body, to challenges and pain. No choice is wrong. I instantly thought of my children and... I yelled 'No!'" — Sarah Jane ([74:28])

5. The Aftermath: Integration and Wisdom

[81:27 - End]

• Difficult reintegration—kept the experience private for a month, reflected and journaled rather than seeking outside validation.
• Now possesses a deep peace, focuses on gratitude, joy, living authentically, and seeing challenges as opportunities for soul growth.

Wisdom Points

• We co-create both in life and in death—your experience reflects your beliefs and state of consciousness.
• Each afterlife experience is individually tailored, reflecting belief, familiarity, and personal journey.
• The importance of not taking life too seriously and living with presence, joy, and intention.

Advice to Self

"Don't be so serious. Be in the now. Don't spend your life worrying about things in the past or stressing about the future... live where you are. Be where you are. And don't be so serious about it all. Get over yourself. It's not about you." — Sarah Jane ([93:58])

Notable Quotes & Timestamps

• On Out-of-Body Awareness:
  "We're only used to looking at ourselves in 2D. We never really appreciate what we look like from another person's perspective in 3D... It's so weird."
  — Sarah Jane ([04:51])

• On the Life Review:
  "Everything I thought was telepathically communicated... You're experiencing, participating as you, but also as the other... And if you had a really positive effect... you experience that as they experienced it, and also the ripple effect that had."
  — Sarah Jane ([38:17 – 43:45])

• On the Healing Space:
  "It was a vibrational feeling and sound that traveled through me... like a warm liquid gold just passing in. It felt magnificent... It's intoxicating. It was healing." — Sarah Jane ([62:32])

• On the Nature of Time:
  "Think of time like a jukebox... all the records are lined up and your awareness is the arm that goes in and picks the record out and brings it out... what you put your awareness on is the reality you're living." — Sarah Jane ([62:32 – 68:32])

• On Living Authentically:
  "Live it as who you are... Be you. Don't edit. Don't live it how other people think you should. Find what lights you up and do that... We're all here to be love, in all our thoughts, words and actions." — Sarah Jane ([92:15])

Important Segment Timestamps

• [03:53] — First NDE, medical background, out-of-body details
• [15:31] — Psychological aftermath, shutting down the experience
• [18:10] — Illness and life pre-second NDE
• [26:15] — Second NDE: intuition, body shutdown, entry to the light
• [38:17] — The life review: guides, telepathic communication, ripple effect of actions
• [62:32] — Healing chamber and nature of time/consciousness
• [74:28] — Reunion, the threshold, choice, and return to body
• [81:27] — Integration: impact on life, dealing with the aftermath
• [92:15] — Reflections: Living a fulfilling life and advice to her younger self

Final Reflections & Resources

Sarah’s story reveals that awareness, intention, and love are at the core of both our earthly and transcendent journeys. Her insights challenge listeners to reassess their priorities, embrace joy, and trust the evolutionary purpose in life’s challenges. She now shares her experience through her website and upcoming books to help others awaken and live more consciously.

Learn More:
Sarah Jane’s website – sarahjane.com.au
Follow her Soul Academy and book updates.

“Don’t be so serious about it all. Get over yourself. It’s not about you. Be in the now.”
— Sarah Jane ([93:58])