Mayim Bialik's Breakdown - Betty Guadagno's Incredible NDE, What She Learned & How to Access Your Spiritual Awakening

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

From Drug Addiction to Divine Awakening: Betty Guadagno’s Mind-Blowing NDE & Spiritual Transformation In one of the most jaw-dropping and unforgettable interviews we’ve ever had, Betty Guadagno..., a transformation coach and spiritual teacher, shares her extraordinary journey from homelessness, sex work, and heroin addiction to a profound near-death experience (NDE) that completely altered her life and awakened her soul. After a drug overdose, Betty Guadagno left her body and had a real NDE that revealed higher truths about suffering, purpose, and the afterlife. She experienced her parents’ tragic double suicide from their perspective, explored multidimensional timelines, and discovered that she had chosen this life before birth. Her experience was a VR-like simulation of the Matrix, where she witnessed past lives, soul contracts, and the interconnected nature of consciousness. Betty Guadagno’s near-death experience reveals: - Her life before the NDE: addiction, trauma, and hitting rock bottom - The root causes of heroin addiction, withdrawal, and disordered eating - How shadow work and spiritual awakening saved her life - Her out-of-body journey through time, space, and creation - The spiritual lessons from her NDE about reality and the afterlife - Her connection with her deceased father across dimensions - Why she believes humanity is undergoing a global spiritual awakening - How she helps others heal through her work as a transformation coach - The power of angels, spirit guides, and higher self communication This is more than a survival story! it’s a soul-altering journey that will challenge your beliefs about life, death, and consciousness. Buckle up for a conversation that blends NDE stories, trauma healing, and spiritual awakening like never before. Betty Guadagno's website: https://buddhabetty.com/ Betty Guadagno's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@buddhabetty Betty Guadagno's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buddha.betty Follow us on Substack for Exclusive Bonus Content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bialikbreakdown.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BialikBreakdown.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube.com/mayimbialik⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 My daily drug regimen was heroin, methamphetamine, ketamine, mushrooms, LSD. My body collapsed and I could see myself outside of myself. That's the out-of-body experience, which is a hallmark of an NDE. It was so dark and I just remember thinking, I must be dead. And I started to hear my dad's voice chanting to me, you are worthy of all the love in the universe. My parents were both drug addicts and they committed suicide together. I started to experience their suicide.
Starting point is 00:00:27 But from their perspective, that's when I learned. landed in the light of the near death experience. Wow. I find myself on what feels like the deck of a spaceship. There's thousands of other souls all around me. My soul came online and activated for the first time ever. I saw the fabric of creation. My soul planned my life before I got here, planned out all these big plot points that were
Starting point is 00:00:50 going to happen. Addiction, recovery, spiritual awakening. I saw all the women that I harmed. I would manipulate women. I'd get them strung out on drugs, their faces, the pain, the agony. I was really witnessing the kind of person that I was. And of course, I feel guilt and remorse for what I've done, but guilt taps me on the shoulder and says,
Starting point is 00:01:08 okay, make it right. If I was awoken, I know that something is happening on a big, large scale. Everybody has access to their guides and angels. Okay, our guides are our Earth customer service agents. You have to call them in order to get connection. Every soul is here to accomplish some sort of forgiveness. For just one step away.
Starting point is 00:01:29 Hi, I'm I am Bielick. I'm Jonathan Cohen. Welcome to our breakdown. People, I can't explain what's about to happen to you in this episode. Today is an extremely powerful story of personal and spiritual transformation, unlike anything we've ever heard on this podcast. I have never heard a story so bizarre, so complicated. and with such a dramatic, drastic, intense transformation.
Starting point is 00:02:10 Someone who is struggling with addiction, with poverty. This is a woman, a self-described dumpster for drugs, who experienced a life that no one that I know could even access, like, an understanding of what this woman's life was like. and she introduces us into a world that she was immersed in of addiction to opioids, methamphetamine, heroin. She was a prostitute. She was a pimp.
Starting point is 00:02:45 She grew up in poverty. She believed that there was no opening in life for her. And through a series of attempts at sobriety, which all were, I don't even want to use the word, unsuccessful, They were part of a journey that led her to being unconscious on the floor of an apartment and having an experience that she believed was a psychotic drug-induced state, which revealed itself to be components of a near-death experience combined with a spiritual transformation that have led her to an understanding of the universe that echoes mystics, physicists, a kundalini awakening, and she dedicates her life to living guided by spirit, guided by an understanding of the soul that chose this iteration of her life. The way that she describes our existence as not even a simulation, a video game, a theater that we're all playing our roles in, she dedicates her life to helping people in recovery who believe there is no love for them in the
Starting point is 00:03:55 universe, the number of coincidences, the number of messages that she received, it is a fascinating, it's a gripping story. My jaw was open most of the time. Just before we get to this episode, if you aren't already subscribed to the podcast, please do us a favor. Subscribe. It helps us make the best possible episodes for you. And our promise is that we will continue to do that. And if you want to check out more about the Bialik Breakdown Universe, check out our substack, Mind Bialx Breakdown, on Substack. Our guest today who is going to walk us through her incredible journey is Betty Guadano. She is known as Buddha Betty.
Starting point is 00:04:36 That's B-U-D-D-H-A Betty at her website. She's a transformation coach. She's a writer. She's a spiritual teacher. Her life has been shaped by trauma, addiction, and this near-death experience that she's going to share with us. She survived decades of abuse, prostitution, her parents died in a dual suicide when she was in her 20s.
Starting point is 00:05:00 She's going to talk about meeting them in other realms. And it's just such an honor to get to speak to her and welcome her in person. Betty, welcome to the breakdown. Break it down. So grateful to be here. We're very eager to hear your whole story because, you know, sometimes we talk to people about the work that they do now. and sometimes we talk to people about what they came from. And the transformation that you experienced is so heavily weighted on kind of the life that you came from.
Starting point is 00:05:36 So in a nutshell, can you explain what you do now and how you got here? Yeah. So I do a couple different things. I work as a transformation coach. That's one of the things that I do. I also work as a peer supervisor in New York City, and I do a lot of outreach. So I'm helping the population, the homeless population, with substance use disorder, trying to get them connected to care.
Starting point is 00:06:03 And, yeah, I get to, like, advocate for people. And the reason why I'm able to do all those things is because I've undergone a major transformation myself and overcome substance use disorder and all different kinds of addictions in my life. You had an unbelievable near-death experience. Yeah, pretty unbelievable. Yes, totally transformational, 180 degree turnaround in my life. The details of this we're going to get into later in the episode, but are vivid and somewhat shocking and quite different than any other NDE. You know, we've spoken to some people. Everyone has a unique experience. Yours is, uniquely yours. What can you tell people who maybe have never heard about an NDE, just like the power
Starting point is 00:06:56 of transformation of that experience before we get into the details? Yeah, I think that near-death experiences are like fingerprints. They're super unique to each individual. I felt like pieces of my personality came along with me because my experience is kind of comical and funny and definitely tailored to me so that I could understand it. I had never heard of a near-death experience before this happened to me. I had never heard of a spiritual awakening. None of these things were on my radar. So near-death experiences is basically when someone's on the verge of death or they've been clinically pronounced dead. And there's a couple of very mirrored markers that happen for a lot of different people. They see a tunnel of light. They reconnect with loved ones that have been
Starting point is 00:07:40 lost in this, you know, in this lifetime, they, sometimes they have a life review, sometimes they see their pre-birth planning. So there's definitely markers that hit a lot of different near-death experiences. There's some mirrored experiences. Your near-death experience was, as you said, they're like fingerprints, right? They're all unique. We've spoken to a lot of people who have had accidents. We've spoken to, you know, several of kind of the nation's leading recounters of NDEs. And I'd say most, most of those experiences occur in hospitals, under anesthesia in many cases from, you know, horrible accidents. Yours was the result of a near-death drug overdose. Can you explain a little bit the uniqueness of that experience, meaning did you? Did you
Starting point is 00:08:35 you understand that you were in a critical, fatal, you know, potentially fatal situation that you then came out of? How did you frame it at the time? Yeah, I definitely didn't know what happened to me. Even throughout the whole experience, I was just blasted out on my bathroom floor, like, I took too many drugs, you know? Can we ask what kind of drugs? Because, I mean, not that I'm trying to be like, which kind of drugs lead to, but you didn't just, like, smoke some weed and almost died. Right. No, yeah. So at this point in time in my life, I was at the tail end of my active addiction. So I was basically a dumpster for drugs. This particular day, I went down my drug-a-log that I had that I did every day. But this day, I decided to do a little bit extra
Starting point is 00:09:19 of each because I was going to go do my laundry and like, that's so boring. So it might as well be real messed up for something so boring. And I guess just the combination of all the things with that little bit of added extra just absolutely was not going to happen. So my daily drug regimen was heroin, methamphetamine, ketamine, mushrooms, LSD. Like, I was really a dumpster for drugs. So just anything I can get my hands on. But yeah. So tell me what happened. So you were in the bathroom at some point. You have a recollection of that moment of being conscious and aware. And then something happened. Yeah. My body kind of colloquial. laps. And I could see myself outside of myself.
Starting point is 00:10:03 That's the out-of-body experience, which is a hallmark of an ND. Definitely. And I was like, wow, she looks really messed up. But so the first part of my experience was a life review. That's what it felt like. I started to experience every feeling that could happen, not just in my own life, but that happened on earth. So like every emotion, every experience was happening to me simultaneously all at the exact same moment. My whole consciousness was completely cracked open. And some of the really vivid. things is that, you know, like I shared, I was an active addiction for over 20 years, and the very end of my active addiction was a horror show. I mean, like, I was manipulating people. I was
Starting point is 00:10:42 tormenting them. I was stealing. I was lying. I was cheating. And so in my life review, those were the things that I started to experience right away. And it was so dark and it was so dense. And I just remember thinking, I must be dead and I'm in hell. Like, I didn't believe that anything happens after you die, I was a pretty staunch atheist, but I definitely wasn't expecting what I was experiencing. And I was like, well, this is way worse than I thought. And so as I was experiencing all of those super dense emotions, I had some life experiences start to flood back to me to experience both sides of it, like in my life, trigger warning, but my parents were both drug addicts and they committed suicide together when I was in my early 20s due to their addiction. And, you know,
Starting point is 00:11:27 they were really immersed in poverty as well. So I started to experience their suicide, but from their perspective, and again, it just felt like the most agonizing betrayal of life. It just felt so painful. Like every cell in my body was being shredded apart. And I went through the whole process with them. Like, I saw things from their suicide that I didn't know had happened. Like, I watched them drive to the pharmacy to go pick up their refills that they used
Starting point is 00:11:56 to overdose. I watched them write their suicide notes together. I watched them embrace each other as their body started dying and the pain that I was experiencing was so overwhelming. And so I just thought, okay, I'm seeing my parents. I know that they're dead. So I must be dead. And then in that moment, I started to hear my dad's voice came through to me in this very tangible, present way. And he just started chanting to me, you are worthy of all the love in the universe. You are worthy of all the love in the universe. You are worthy of all the love in the universe. And I didn't believe that, but I believed him. Like, I trusted his voice.
Starting point is 00:12:32 And so I started to follow his voice. And that's when I landed in the light of the near-death experience. My Ambialx breakdown is supported by Superpower. We all know the feeling of leaving a doctor's office and kind of feeling like we didn't get anything out of the experience that was useful. Maybe they're like, you're fine. Drink more water. There's no real data.
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Starting point is 00:14:56 your body and you could see yourself, the current medical understanding is that that's not possible. If we frame this at the point where we go outside of what's currently understood by people other than these experts. Well, yeah, I don't, I mean, I think that the notion of this out-of-body experience is one that, you know, takes us into a conversation of like literally who are we. and I think some of this you can explain much better than we can. You know, we have more of a, you know, sort of layperson's understanding of like, what is consciousness and who are we?
Starting point is 00:15:33 Now, if anyone's had a psychedelic experience or a transcendental experience, you can understand what ego death is. It's the part when like the anxious people who take mushrooms are like, do I have to go to the hospital now? But that notion of sort of like losing yourself. So what you're describing, though, is that there is a self that, can observe the vessel that we are physically in, but that our consciousness, as we know it,
Starting point is 00:15:59 does not have to have a body to reside. Right. Yeah. And I think that this gets into the debate of, do you need scientific black and white on a piece of paper evidence, or can you leave room in your life for mystery and faith? So the whole world is just this belief system. We're all designing our own belief system.
Starting point is 00:16:19 I didn't know about any of this before it happened to me. And I didn't believe it for months after it happened to me either. But that's exactly what we're doing here. Sort of the purpose of our podcast has always been human experience from a first person lived narrative, expanding the realm and people getting consciousness expansion, having awakenings, having things that they can't explain. And some of the scientists who are catching up, trying to make sense of it, and expanding the sort of quote unquote world order to make sense of things.
Starting point is 00:16:54 And so what I love in this moment that we're harping in on is this moment of a change in consciousness whereby all of a sudden we're seeing things that are outside of what's physically happening. You're having extrasensory experience. You've gone off to some other realm. And we're going to get fully into that. Before we do that, take us backwards to have. how you got to that moment in the bathroom. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:22 So some of my origin story that I think kind of really sets up for the impact of the near-death experience. I grew up in this really traumatizing environment. It was super chaotic. It was full of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, poverty, addiction. And so my whole life, I was just taught that if anything uncomfortable happens to you, don't talk about it. Just medicate it and sedate it.
Starting point is 00:17:49 And the reason that I learned that is because I watched everybody else in my family do that. So I just took all these mental notes. Nobody ever shot me up with drugs. You know, nobody ever handed me my first bag of heroin. But I just kept making all these mental notes. I was watching what the adults in my family were doing. And I said, I'm going to do that the second that I can. And where did you grow up?
Starting point is 00:18:09 I grew up in Las Vegas. So perfect setting for absolute debauchery to take place in a person's life. Talk a little bit about sort of what your entry point was in the, to the world of addiction. There's many different kinds of stories. And for those of us who grow up in the disease, we see it all around us. And some of us have different coping mechanisms. Some of us choose the same coping mechanisms. You know, when was your first attempt to say, I'm going to fill the God-shaped hole with this? Yeah. I think when I really think about it in a tracing it back sort of way, I think that sugar was probably my first.
Starting point is 00:18:49 addiction, food really came in and comforted me. And it was almost weaponized to a little bit food in my house. And it was used as a reward. And so there was just all of these different things around it. Fantasy addiction came into my life really early too. I would love to just escape the world that I was actually witnessing and just pretend that I was somewhere else. And then drugs came into my life around 12 years old. It's probably the first time that I tried substances. And maybe by the time I was 15, I knew that I was in love with substances, really truly in love with them. What did it do? What did it feel like? Yeah. So my first, my first real drug was methamphetamine because I grew up in Las Vegas and this is like the little pre-breaking bad era. That's really what
Starting point is 00:19:34 it was like. There was just like all of these trailers that were blowing up because they were meth labs out in the middle of the desert. And I was a really good student. I was actually a good kid. I was trying to escape the cycle of my family, which again is like no education, poverty. rinse, repeat over and over again. And I was in always advanced placement classes. And one of the girls from one of my classes came over to study. And she said, hey, do you want to stay up all night and study? And I was like, yeah, I definitely do. That sounds great. And then studying went right out the window after we did this drug for the first time. And it just progressed from there. It got really bad. The first time I went to rehab, I was 18. And I knew that I had a problem, but I wasn't going to
Starting point is 00:20:16 stop using substances at 18. When am I never going to have a glass of champagne when I turned 21 as if I was ever going to drink champagne? That was like not my thing. But yeah, it really, you know, the progression of the dis-ease of addiction is so insane. And it just swept me away. But after my parents died from their addiction, I had these two voices. One said, you need to stop using drugs. They just kill your parents. And then the other voice said, you have to keep using. It's all that you have left of them. What kind of, this is your legacy. You have to continue the legacy of your family no matter how, you know, no matter how bad it is. What was the home like that you grew up in? Did you have siblings? Was there extended family? Yeah. So grew up around cousins and I have a little sister.
Starting point is 00:21:04 And the life inside the home was a lot of physical abuse. My parents really, they didn't like each other, but they stayed together because this is what they were taught to do. You just stay unhappy and you stay miserable and you take it out on each other. So I think I learned really young that fighting equals love, that abuse equals love. Danger. Yeah. And yeah, mistaking chaos for connection. And so I repeated all those patterns well until I got into recovery. And I was like, oh, wow, I am also a toxicly codependent person. I don't actually want to die with somebody like my parents did. I want to live with someone. I want to learn how to actually live a real life. The subject of your parents is, I think, one of the most painful, you know, circumstances that
Starting point is 00:21:51 anyone could imagine. You were out of the house by the time that your parents passed, correct? Yes. And were you aware that they wanted to end their lives? My mom was super suicidal for many years before she actually completed suicide. She had probably tried to kill herself at least. a dozen times. When you, wow. Yeah, definitely.
Starting point is 00:22:18 And that's just in the last couple of years before they actually died, but I never, in a million years, could have ever conceptualized that my father would do that or that they would do it together. What was it about your father that felt like you couldn't imagine that?
Starting point is 00:22:32 I don't know. He just, even though his life was really hard, he just seemed like that was not an option. And I used to see how upset he would get every time that my mom tried and he would call her names and tell her that she would, wasn't allowed to leave us like that, and that wasn't the way that we do things. And yeah,
Starting point is 00:22:50 and, you know, in my life review, I felt how desperate they felt just on that verge of, it was agony. Yeah, I guess I'm curious, and I know it's hard. Generally, when you ask someone this, that person hasn't had interactions with these people in an NDE, but I'm wondering, before that NDE, what was your understanding of your parents' decision to sort of leave that way? Was it simply that the cost of living was too high emotionally? Like, what was it? So this was the height of the oxy-cott an epidemic. And my parents would go around. They would doctor shop. They were prescribed over a thousand pills each every month. And they would sell half their pills. They would eat the other half. But every month, they would always run out. And there was never enough pills to make money,
Starting point is 00:23:37 money enough to pay the rent or the lights or the gas or the phone bill. And so I know that I had gotten married three weeks before their suicide. And so I think that in their minds they were thinking, well, the big one has a husband now. She'll take care of the little one. My sister had just gotten her first grown-up job in a casino. So in Las Vegas, when you get into a casino, you're set for life if that's all that you want to do with your life. And so I know that they had some rationalization to their decision. And they were going through a really intense detox.
Starting point is 00:24:09 And the day of their suicide was the day that they were able to pick up their refills again. And they just decided, I can't do this again next month. And I'm just going to be done with this now. What was it like when you found out? Oh, I found them. Yeah, my sister and I found them. And it was terrible. I've done a lot of healing around it.
Starting point is 00:24:27 So I'm able to talk about it without falling apart. But me, 10 years ago, I could have never been able to do this. We got to their house. My sister had spent the night at my house for her weekend from work, which was like a Tuesday, Wednesday. And my dad called us on Wednesday in the day. And he said, hey, keep your sister for another night. The lights are still turned off. The gas is turned off. And there's nothing for her to do here. And I was like, okay, no problem. And the next day, we were calling them all day to see if it was okay to bring her home and no answer. And I just started to get like this eerie feeling. And so did she. And so we drove over to their house to see what was going on.
Starting point is 00:25:03 And when we pulled up to the house, we could hear the smoke alarms from outside. And so, of course, we run to the door. We touch the door handle. It's not hot. Bust inside. My first instinct is to run to the stove because they would nod out all the time. They were opiate addicts and benzo addicts. So I'm thinking, okay, they were cooking something.
Starting point is 00:25:23 They left the stove on, and now there's some sort of fire. I run to the stove and I put my hands on it and I could see this fine layer of soot. I see my handprint on the stove. And then I remember, oh, wait, the gas is turned off. There can't be a fire on the stove. And then I hear my sisters scream from upstairs in their bedroom. And she comes tumbling down the stairs as I go climbing up them. And I get into my parents' room and I just see my father's body slumped over the side of the bed.
Starting point is 00:25:52 And I see the whole blanket is just littered in pill bottles and pills. And because there was no electricity turned on, they had lit candles inside of the the room. And as their bodies were dying, they flung themselves off the bed and my mother's body hit the candle, which then caught a lamp on fire, which caught the wall on fire. By the time that we had gotten there, it had extinguished itself, but the sound of the smoke alarms was still going off. And yeah, it was so traumatizing. And my sister was screaming her head off. And I was so scared that they were going to take her away from me because they were going to put her in an insane asylum. And now I realize that that was the only normal reaction to have to a situation like this.
Starting point is 00:26:35 But yeah, it was a really messed up situation. And it kept me strung out on drugs to medicate that grief. So I was just going to say you weren't clean at the time. I was. I had about two weeks clean. I had just detoxed myself. And I was at this war with myself. And I remember my parents left the pills that they knew that I could sell on the bed.
Starting point is 00:26:54 And I said, all did you is just grab these and put these into my pockets before the police get here. and I'll be okay, I'll feel better. And I was at this crossroads and I just told myself that there was no way that I could get through this pain without using. So how old are you at this time? 23. I'm trying to do the math now. Yeah, this was 17 years ago.
Starting point is 00:27:16 It'll be 18 years ago this year. So what was the course of that kind of journey for you? And then how did that get us to the NDE? Yeah. You know, my whole life was just trying to medicate this wound. And I abandoned my sister and I left her across the country. I said that I couldn't deal. And I said that I didn't want to be her mom and our mom didn't want to be our mom.
Starting point is 00:27:42 And I just destruction. I wanted everybody to hurt as deeply and badly as I hurt. I didn't even know that there was a way to heal from anything. And so I just kept going around causing harm everywhere that I went. What was the next decade of your life like? Oh, it was total chaos, total chaos. Marriages, divorces, apartments, found, apartments lost, like dozens of jobs, just bouncing around from place to place. No foundation, no stability.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Just use, destroy, rinse, repeat over and over and over again. Where were you in the... I had moved back to New York where my extended family is, and it's where my parents were from, and I was born there. So I'm in Brooklyn this whole time just, you know, causing havoc in the streets of New York City. And did your sister go back to New York as well? No, no, no. I left her in Las Vegas and she built a whole life for herself despite, you know, the most tragic circumstances and her sister abandoning her for drugs. It was like the whole family, for the whole family, except for my sister, drugs was more important than anything else.
Starting point is 00:28:49 I want to ask about, you know, an aspect of your story, which a lot of people don't talk about and a lot of people uncomfortable talking about it. Sex work is part of a lot of addiction stories. And, you know, we talk about sort of the lengths that we go to, you know, and the situations that we find ourselves in. And I wonder if there's a perspective you can offer us about sort of, you know, I'm not going to ask you why you did that. I think we understand, right?
Starting point is 00:29:24 But I'm curious, you know, with your hindsight, what sort of that feels like for you to think about, you know, also how close you were to sort of losing so many parts of yourself, right? Yeah. Oh, I did lose a ton of parts of myself. It took me, I mean, I'm still on a healing process from, you know, how I treated myself and my body. The one thing that I took away from my spiritual experience was that there's no such thing as condemnation. So if I want to be a prostitute and do whatever I want, I'm still going to heaven when I'm done here. Like there's no way that I'm not getting back there. If I already made it there once, I'm definitely going back there again. But, you know, and I know that sex work is very empowering for a lot of women. I mean, so they say, I'll believe them if that's what they're going with.
Starting point is 00:30:10 For me, this was something that I did because I needed money to get drugs and no other reason. And it caused a lot of damage to me. I saw men in this really distorted way. And then I became very empathetic and compassionate towards them. And I started to hate women. And I was just like this very self-hating. I was like an anti-feminist. I used to go on these long rants about how women are the worst.
Starting point is 00:30:34 And I just really, really did not like myself. And I didn't have any scope of what it meant to love my body, like love my temple and to not share it with everybody. This is not meant for everyone. And that's something that I've had to learn over time and heal all those pieces of it. But yeah, you know, for me, sex work was not an empowering thing. It was really the end of the line and it was the bottom of rock bottom.
Starting point is 00:31:01 We're, you know, kind of taking this decade of your life and we're sort of like, you know, shrinking it and, you know, trying to sort of arrive at, you know, you came to a point where you obviously were using to the level that it could kill you really, at any time. Like once you're, you know, and this is something I tell my teenagers, you know, once you enter the land of, you know, and like insert drug here, whatever, you know, there's a certain dance with death that you're doing. Can you sort of talk a little bit about what,
Starting point is 00:31:37 looking back now, what was Betty experiencing that there was a level of comfort in dancing with death? Yeah. Addiction is soft suicide. So I wasn't going to flat out do it. it, but I was absolutely ready for it at any moment. And again, I was an atheist. I thought that it just meant blackness and nothing else. And I was totally okay with that. Darkness and nothingness was way better than what I was experiencing. And I think that it felt it felt comforting to be in that level of chaos. It felt so normal. That's how I grew up. I grew up in that level of chaos. So just not knowing, felt empowering. And, you know, it's funny because it's funny because In recovery, they say, like, just live for today.
Starting point is 00:32:21 And in active addiction, I was just living for today as well. It's in a totally different way. I was like, just live for today because you might die at the end of the day. And today it's like, just live for today because that's all that we can do is we just need to stay present. So, yeah, it's so strange how like both sides of that coin. But yeah, you know, this soft suicide that I was dancing with for so long was really just to hide the pain. Did you try or did you go into rehab other times? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:32:50 How many times did you try? At least a dozen times. And what was that like when you would go? You know, I never really went into detox and rehab with the intention of getting clean and staying clean. I just went into rest. Why were you going? Just to rest, recalibrate, reset so that the drugs will work again because they stopped working. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:08 What does that mean when you say they stopped working? Yeah, you know, you could take, you just build up a tolerance. So maybe I would use five bags of heroin a day, and at one point in time that would get me high. But then it just became maintenance, and it was just to not get sick. And I wanted to be able to get high again. So I would go into detox for a week. Sometimes I would go for a couple weeks into rehab. I did try once to really, truly give it a shot because my second husband had left me.
Starting point is 00:33:37 And I thought, okay, if I stop using drugs, maybe I can get him back. And my favorite reason to stop using drugs. Definitely, which didn't work. And, yeah, I left the long-term facility that I was in because they wouldn't let me draw on my eyebrows. And I was like, I'm not staying here. Your eyebrows are kind of on foot. Well, now they're tattooed on my face. For someone who hasn't been in this world or known people in this world, can you just check into a facility?
Starting point is 00:34:04 Like, how does it work? You're sort of clearly inactive addiction, and then you just decide and you're just able, there's just opportunity to, check yourself in? Tell us a little bit about the process. Yeah, I love that you're making a space for this because some people really don't know. And they think that you have to have a bunch of money to go into a detox or rehab, maybe a fancy one. But there's all of these state-funded detoxes. You have a beds.
Starting point is 00:34:28 Yes, yes. And so, yeah, I would just go to the hospital because most hospitals do, at least in New York, I don't know what it's like out here, but most hospitals do have a detox and a rehab within them. And so I would just go to the hospital, whether my insurance was turned on or not, the hospital would help me take care of that and I could get a bed inside of a detox or a rehab. And it's multiple weeks. Like, what is that process like? And the second part of that question is tell us a little bit about the agony of detox because I think a lot of people don't understand. They're like, oh, you should just stop doing drugs and get your head right. And this is a moral issue.
Starting point is 00:35:03 Like, tell us about the hook of and pain of detox. Yeah. So just, you know, and I work in the field of substance use disorder today and insurance isn't great. And so today it doesn't let you stay in rehab as long as you used to be able to. It used to be 28 days. Now it's more like 11. And which is impossible. How's the person's supposed to get well after 11 days? It's totally insane. Well, they'll get you dry. Right. Yes. And then maybe not even, you know, I don't know, they don't really set you up for success either. You know, I'm a product now. I went into a long-term treatment facility that I'm so grateful for it. And I stayed there for a year and a half because I just needed foundation. And it sucked. It sucked. I had all these rules I had to follow. I hated all the people I was there with. I hated myself. I didn't know who I was. But I was safe. After a month, you're allowed to draw your eyebrows on.
Starting point is 00:35:55 They're like, you will detox with no eyebrows. Right, right, right. But yeah, you know, the system, I don't know the system is set up to help people. But that's why I put myself in those spaces. That's why I want to work in that field. That's why I want to be present for people going through recovery. Because maybe the system isn't set up to help us. But, you know, we can have little lights set up along the way.
Starting point is 00:36:17 And that's the people who choose to work in that field. Like, it's not glamorous. So when you go into a facility like that and your body, is addicted and with heroin, like every single cell and every mechanism of every single cell is addicted to that drug. And the definition of addiction is when you stop using it, the symptoms become intolerable and you start using again to present the symptoms. So explain what happens when you go in. The first handful of days are apparently hell on earth. Talk about the withdrawal process and kind of that detox process and then what happens at, let's say,
Starting point is 00:36:50 one week versus two weeks versus four weeks. Yeah. Withdrawal is hell. literal hell. And the worst part about opiate withdrawal is that there's nothing, there's nothing physically wrong with you. But it feels like someone is stabbing you over and over and over again in your eyeball. And it's just so insanely painful. And so it feels like physical pain. Physical. So, you know, our pain receptors in our mind are all messed up because we've been feeding at these opiates. And so they have the feeling of euphoria. And so when they don't have euphoria, they don't have the drug inside of your brain, then your body assumes that you're in And so everything is all messed up. And it takes about a week for it to reset itself. But people run away from that week of pain for decades of their life because that's how unbearable that week of pain is. The craving is so it's so visceral. Right. And just to escape the physical pain. And yeah, the mental addiction is terrible as well. And the worst withdrawal that I ever went through was from alcohol. That was the absolute worst. I had a bunch of seizures as a result. It was it was, it was, it was,
Starting point is 00:37:54 terrifying. So, you know, there's only a couple drugs that you can have a physical addiction to, and that's opiates, benzos, and alcohol. But my mental addictions to the other drugs were absolutely insane. You know, methamphetamine totally destroyed my brain. And it made me think that I couldn't operate or do anything without a stimulant inside of me. So, yeah, you know, the process of getting through that first week of detox, if you can get through that, then you're looking forward to the next couple weeks of... What are you doing that week? Nothing. You sleep.
Starting point is 00:38:30 They might... Like you pray to sleep, right? Oh, yeah, definitely. Like, that's all you want to do. Like, being awake is bad. I remember in one institution that I was in, I went up to the nurses station, and I said, I need more had a van. I need more sedation.
Starting point is 00:38:44 And they said, no, you're maxed out. You can't have anymore. And I said, then find a rock and eat me over the head. I was just so ready to be knocked out. I could not sleep. And it really is so insanely, you know, sleep deprivation is insane. So talk about what happens after that first week and then what happens at two weeks versus four. Yeah. I think like maybe you can find a little glimmer of hope around four weeks. But the first month, everything is just so confusing. And, you know, there's science that says that it takes
Starting point is 00:39:15 21 days to reroute a neural pathway. So I think that that maybe might be why they used to have people stay in for 28 days because there's some science around it. And in 12-step rooms, they say to make 90 meetings in 90 days because the science used to say that it took 90 days to rerout a neural pathway. So we need to create new habits. Do they make you go to meetings there? Sometimes the meetings come into the institutions, yeah. I work for a subcommittee. Wouldn't you think that would be an important part of recovery is trying to give people tools?
Starting point is 00:39:42 Well, so, you know, now the model is not abstinence-based recovery. The whole world of recovery is based around a harm reduction model today. and I won't get into like all my resentments against Big Pharma or anything, but... Please do. We're very resentful. So, you know, they want you to be on some sort of medication. So whether that's methadone or Suboxin or Vivitrol, they want you to be on a medication because that's how they make money. But really, I'm a product of 12-step fellowship. I'm a product of abstinence.
Starting point is 00:40:12 And it's not easy, but it's way worth it. Way, way worth it. Do you want to rail on Big Pharma for a second? I'm never going to defend Big Pharma. and I've seen all the documentaries. I've seen dope sick. Like, I've seen them all. I'm just obsessed with this whole notion.
Starting point is 00:40:27 And also, you know, this is, I mean, I think people should be marching in the streets over this. Like, what? How? How? How? How? But, you know, I think something that is also true is that, you know,
Starting point is 00:40:43 those medications are a crutch for many people who are not finding sobriety. And so for some people, for some people, it is a way to be entered back into society in ways that without it, they would not. I'm not advocating one way or another. And I happen to be, you know, a person who believes in like the 12-step formulation, you know, and not Southern California at 12-step, like just general, like sobriety. But it's very complicated, though, because I do know people for whom. they get their kids back and they get, you know, aspects of their life back that, you know, I don't want to say that people who can't stay sober don't deserve to have lives, but it's a very, very complicated thing.
Starting point is 00:41:32 Yeah. And I will say this, you know, the drugs have changed. And so drugs are killing people. Like, drugs aren't getting people high. They're murdering them. And so the thing about using a secondary medication is that you won't die. And that's really what we want. We want people to stay alive long enough to figure out what to.
Starting point is 00:41:49 does life look like? What does sobriety look like for you? So let's just at least keep them alive. So there definitely are benefits. So you did this, let's say, 12 times or so over and over. And take us to what happened now when you're kind of going about your life, you're doing all the things that you need to do, essentially, right, to survive. How many times were you married? Three. I'm quite a catchly. Just throw me back and forth. And you didn't have children. No children.
Starting point is 00:42:24 Okay. Were you divorced at the time of the 2019 NDE? Not divorced, but not together. Okay, got it. So you've lived this kind of 10 years, let's say, right, or so. And now I want you to reframe for us, right? Here's your regimen of the drugs that you do. Also, I'm going to ask a heroin question.
Starting point is 00:42:51 How long does one bag last? Is that one experience? Well, it depends, I guess, on the person. At that point in time, I really didn't have a lot of money. So I was making a bag last. Okay. Just to not get sick. I see.
Starting point is 00:43:04 Not to get high anymore. But heroin doesn't even exist anymore. The whole drug supply now is just fentanyl. Right. But, you know, like, so the shelf life of fentanyl would be like a four-hour high. Heroin would be like an eight-hour high, but heroin doesn't exist anymore. anymore. Okay. So you've got your regimen and you're in the bathroom. Yeah. So after this kind of dark life review experience that I was having, I started to follow my father's voice and I go into the
Starting point is 00:43:34 light. Actually, hold on. Before we go there, so the only thing that I understand distinguishes your experience from a clinical NDE as they usually are kind of, classified is typically NDEs are overwhelmingly positive and don't have dark aspects. But I'm going to go ahead and give Betty the benefit of the doubt here because there could have been altered states of consciousness that occurred in a transition to what otherwise sounds like a completely standard issue, NDE. Totally. Does that feel accurate? Yes, yes. You can feel all the emotions, but I like how you describe the emotions as dense, right? Yeah. There's the, which to me sounds like kind of like a visceral, like, you know, feeling all the things.
Starting point is 00:44:21 Is that clear? Absolutely. And just to walk us back into the story that you're going to tell, I don't know what day of the week it is. I'm imagining it's a Tuesday. I don't know why. It's a Wednesday. Perfect. It was a Wednesday.
Starting point is 00:44:36 You have to do laundry. You're re-upping, trying to make laundry less boring. You take more drugs than you normally take. and now do you start to feel sick? Like, walk us like through the moment. Did the laundry get into the wash? It did. It did get into the wash.
Starting point is 00:44:55 So this is all happening with wet clothes. So the laundry, so you get high enough to go do the laundry. You come back into your apartment, I'm imagining because you're waiting for the laundry. And now do you start to feel sick? Like walk us into the moment before you get onto the bathroom floor. Yeah. So, yeah, it started in the laundromat. I had taken the drugs before I went there.
Starting point is 00:45:16 I live in Brooklyn, so like we don't have in the apartment washers and dryers. So my laundromat was about six blocks from my house. Oh, that's a long walk. And I went and I started putting, I put the clothes into the washing machine, I'm putting the quarters in, and then all of a sudden I know something's not right. Just this whole body tingling starts to take over me. But not in a good way. Kind of in a good way, but then also in a super terrifying way.
Starting point is 00:45:40 Like, oh, I, it's like a wave coming. Like, oh, this is not just going to be a regular wave. is going to be a tidal wave, it turns into a tsunami. And I sort of had that awareness that something was about to happen. I tried to record myself on my phone because I was like, this is going to be crazy. I need to document this. And I couldn't because they couldn't figure out how to use the phone. So then I leave the laundromat. Tell me your high without telling me you're high. Right, right, right. I leave the laundromat and I start running home. Like, I'm booking it because I know something terrible is about to happen. And it felt like I was stuck inside of a loop. I would make it to the
Starting point is 00:46:15 corner and I saw the street signs and it said Stuyveson and Madison and then I run to the next corner and it says Madison and Stuyveson again and then all the buildings around me started to crumble and all that was left was the green lines of matrix code that make them up. Wait so you're
Starting point is 00:46:31 hallucinating or you're in the matrix like you're I mean you're out of the matrix. I feel like the way that I can conceptualize it now is that my soul took the VR headset off right? Like all of our souls are just kind of chilling in heaven and we have these VR headsets on and we've fallen asleep with them on like
Starting point is 00:46:50 we've forgotten that we're inside the game but in this moment my headset came off and I could see the whole architecture of the game and then this bright white light came and just flooded everything and you're on the street I'm on the street losing my mind yeah losing my mind I finally made it back to my house and I closed the door and I was in the entryway and I thought oh I'm definitely dead because this is like the movie Beetlejuice. I don't know how long it took me to get back here. I can't remember where I was before this and I don't know what the heck is going on. And that's when I started to collapse and have all of these feelings take over my body from my crown to my feet just over and over and over again, this rapid firing of energy.
Starting point is 00:47:36 And that's when the spiritual experience really started to take place. And I was downloaded with, I have language for it today. I experienced a spontaneous kundalini awakening. which is like this life force energy activation. My soul came online and activated for the first time ever. Definitely never was before. And so I saw the fabric of creation. I remember asking the question, why? Why?
Starting point is 00:47:59 Why does Earth exist? Why this? Why that? And just being downloaded with this whole time. So I guess like the short way to put it. And again, I came back with this two gig drive. Like I don't have the whole infiniteness, you know. I don't have a big enough hard drive for that.
Starting point is 00:48:15 But it's bigger than mine. It was supposed to be this really fun place where we exchanged energy and we created, so like a SimCity, that we were all collectively building together. The simulation theory is like a big part of my experience. And I like using video game analogy because I feel like it connects with a younger generation that, you know, they all need this information too. They're having awakenings as well. If I'm having an awakening, they're definitely going to have awakenings. So we all decided to create this thing together, and then some of the energy got in balance, some of the divine feminine, the divine masculine, the shadow, the light, the whole idea of duality
Starting point is 00:48:52 started to take place. We fell into duality. At first, it was just this beautiful spiritual experience, and we were all in our light bodies. And then the fall of, you know, the fall of creation was, I believe it was us falling into human form or believing that we're in human form, falling into a layer of the dream that we forgot that we were dreaming. And we think goes really, really slow. You mentioned having a lot of questions on the other side. Did you have, were you a question asking person before this? Did all of a sudden, were you surprised that you had all these questions when you got there? I don't know if I had a
Starting point is 00:49:25 lot of questions. Why? It was definitely a question like, why. Why does this exist? I was a inquisitive person, but at that point in my life, my whole life was just drugs. So my questions were more like, where can I get? How much money do I need? Who can I manipulate? But I had never pondered what is the Earth experience? What does it mean to be a human? I had never had any quantum questions come into my mind. I didn't even have any vocabulary before my experience. It was just this long laundry list of drugs that I used and how much money it cost to be with me. I didn't need any other thoughts in my head. This is one of the, you know, really fascinating components of NDEs is people often describe coming back and I want to get into some of your other kind of special abilities, right?
Starting point is 00:50:09 But one of the very unique things, you know, that we've often heard about and when we spoke to Elizabeth Crone, who was struck by lightning and came back with very special abilities and changed her whole life and had pre-cognitive visions and things like that, you know, the download that she received was not in her vocabulary, right? So she was on the pavement after being struck for a few minutes and had a world of information that was downloaded in those few minutes, right? And that's what's so interesting to me is that, like, something is getting downloaded that definitely feels like it's from outside of Betty, right? And when you describe these things, when Elizabeth, when a lot of people with NDs describe these things, they sound like Kundalini mystics. They sound like Kabbalists,
Starting point is 00:50:59 right? The Jewish, you know, Kabbalah system. They sound like, like, theoretical physicists because if you talk to quantum people and we talk to a lot of theoretical physicists here, they have almost an identical description from a different perspective, right, from a transcendental perspective or from a mathematical perspective, right? And this notion of, you know, Thomas Campbell talks about like, it's just all zeros and ones. Like we're, and the way you've described it is like, this Betty, this is not who you are. This is the avatar that we call Betty. And in this iteration, you've been placed in this body. But tell us what you learned about your soul when you were in this state. So what I learned about my soul is that I'm part of a tribe.
Starting point is 00:51:47 I have a soul family that I came here with. I learned that my soul planned my life before I got here, planned out all the major markers of my life. So all these big plot points that were going to happen in the story of my life. These are some of the things that I learned about what a soul is. and how a physicist might have a different approach, how to process this information. Because I was a meth-head prostitute when I entered the space of eternity, the only thing that they could do
Starting point is 00:52:13 to help me understand about what is Earth and what is life was they just started showing me little clips of movies because that was the only... I needed pop culture because I had never read a book on philosophy. I don't know anything, really. And so they showed me the Matrix. They showed me inception.
Starting point is 00:52:29 And they showed me what dreams may come. And they said, these movies are the blueprint. Stop it. Yes. Yes. For reality. What dreams may come is a fantastic and very underrated movie. A lot of people don't know about it. So all of us Matrix heads who are like this is really touch, and like the Weikoski siblings
Starting point is 00:52:47 that like definitely touch something. Well, so, you know, the Matrix is a modern day telling of Plato's allegory of the cave. Of course it is. Right. Of course it is Betty. Everybody knows that, Betty. These are things I know now. So the thing about, you know, the allegory of the cave and the Matrix, it's not about necessarily escaping the Matrix.
Starting point is 00:53:07 We're not going to do that. It's not going to happen in this lifetime. We're not going to escape the Matrix. Not with that attitude, we won't. That's true. Maybe you have enough of us get together. Maybe we can. But it's about manipulating the energy inside of the Matrix or not allowing the Matrix to win.
Starting point is 00:53:20 So, you know, it's a video game that we're inside of. The Matrix is the video game that we're inside of. And the big boss of the video game is the game itself. So am I going to be distracted by Matrix tricks like paying attention to politics or whatever's going on in the world or things that are totally out of my control? Or am I going to do what my soul came here to do? And that's to focus on my individual mission to connect with the members of my soul family, to do righteous things, to be of service and to live a fulfilled life. Okay, I'm going to ask you a hard question. I love you, first of all.
Starting point is 00:53:52 Like, this is amazing. I'm going to ask you a really hard question. Some people think you're insane. Oh, totally. Some people think that people, and not just you, I don't mean to make it personal, that people who had NDE's and who are like, I have a soul family, I came, I met God. Like, oh, you're what we call clinically insane and Western medicine knows how to solve that. And that's to sedate you. Right.
Starting point is 00:54:13 Like you were on the wrong kind of drugs, Betty. We're going to give you the right kind that makes Big Pharma a lot of money. We're going to quiet all that down. You're okay. Stop being so uppity. Stop trying to find your purpose. What you probably need is to get married and have kids, right? And like, you know, so what do you say when people hear your story and they're like, oh, that's a woman who had a mental breakdown because she was a poor drug addict, prostitute.
Starting point is 00:54:40 And that's what happens. And guess you better pull herself up by her bootstraps because she's crazy. I never want to. I don't think that. No, I totally. I hear you. I never want to be considered sane in an insane world. Never.
Starting point is 00:54:53 I never ever want to fit into the box of what society. says this experience is supposed to be like. And my life is awesome. Hello, I'm sitting here with you guys right now. Like, what the age? I used to be a homeless meth-headed prostitute strung out on heroin just six years ago. Okay. And now I'm sitting here. This is like incredible, incredible. So it doesn't, I don't. Surprise this is hell. Yes. So, okay, on my two gig flash drive that I have, right, I had to bring in new belief systems, which means I had to delete some of the old ones. And one of the old ones is needing validation from other people. Some of the other things I had to let go of was guilt and shame about who I used to be.
Starting point is 00:55:34 And those are some of the programs that I deleted in order to upload these new programs that I live my life by, which is living by spiritual principles, by being in recovery, by living a life led by spirit. So when people say, there's this great TED Talk. Let me just reference this. It's called spiritual awakening or psychosis. And it's incredible, incredible. And what this man says inside of his TED talk is that in indigenous cultures, when people start to hear voices, they cultivate that gift. They bring them to the medicine men and women of the tribe and they cultivate this. And in the Western world, we medicate sedate institutionalized because we are so disconnected from spirit.
Starting point is 00:56:16 And I think that, and I love L.A. because there's like a lot of woke people here. There's just like everybody is. They're so woke. They really, I mean, there's a lot of people. I walk down the street and people are talking about. about source and the universe and I'm like, this is wild. Don't breathe in too deeply. You'll inhale ayahuasca. But I do think that there are these, there's mass awakening happening. If I was
Starting point is 00:56:36 awoken, I know that something is happening on a big, large scale. This was not part of my story. Bring us sort of a little bit more chronological in terms of what you experience. So all of a sudden, you're describing, you have this whole life review, you're seeing all these aspects of your life. It's dense. It's very dense. It's intense. You're seeing details of your parents' suicide, which just is so painful. I can't even really imagine the intensity of the emotion that's happening. If you're seeing them write their notes and make that plan, how long does that feel? Like, let's really kind of dive in here and slow down. Like, help us understand what you're experiencing in that witness state. Yeah, it felt like three seconds of
Starting point is 00:57:20 time, not even, like a millisecond of time. I can't even conceptualize it in linear time. It was instant. Everything was happening instantaneously. It could have been 10 years that I was there or it could have been 10 seconds. Do you know how long the entire experience was roughly? Around eight hours. Yeah. Because it was daytime when I fell out and it was nighttime when I came to. The clothes were in the lunger. They were mildew. They were done. Yeah, they were. And when you're watching your parents, is that happening really quickly in the other realm or but but it feels really intense? Like how you processing it. It's just like the screen that things are flashing through, like, describe it to us. I mean, it's a download. The same way that you download something on a computer, like, it's
Starting point is 00:58:00 instant flash. It's there. It wasn't there and then it's there. But you're processing it in a way, because like when it downloads on a computer, you have to kind of open it and review it, but it's not. It's like downloaded and instantaneous and you feel it and you know it and it's like all of a sudden. Yes. Deep, innate knowing. Everything is just knowing. And yeah, it kind of plays out like a movie a lot. And there's nothing actually going on. You're just. just in blankness. But then your mind's eye is creating all this scenery. So you see your parents. What else do you see in that life review? I saw all the women that I harmed. I harmed a lot of women in active addiction. Like I would
Starting point is 00:58:33 manipulate women. I'd get them strung out on drugs. I would prostitute them and prostitute myself. And they were all there, just like their faces, the pain, the agony, the emotions. And I was really witnessing the kind of person that I was. And wow, really not a good person. I thought that there was no consequences to anything that I did. And then here I am being confronted with the consequences, the consequences being that I have to feel this. And even though it's instantaneous and it's not super terrible, no, I don't want to live the rest of my life like that. So the life review kind of caps at that. And then I start to hear my dad and he's telling me that I'm worthy of all the love in the universe.
Starting point is 00:59:10 And so I start following him. And this is where I'm introduced to the concept of pre-birth planning. This is how the scene shifts. and I find myself on what feels like the deck of a spaceship, there's thousands of other souls all around me. What the spaceship look like? The Gravitron ride from Carnivals. Do you remember that?
Starting point is 00:59:29 It's like a spinning disc that like you throw yourself up against the wall and like can go upside. Yeah. So like I walk through the side of one of those walls. I don't know why that's important, but they always tell me to say it. Maybe it's like shifting through a parallel reality or that's just how close we are. Oh, you broke through a barrier. But just like we're all so close. We're just one step away.
Starting point is 00:59:47 like one little door into another realm. I'm surrounded by thousands of other souls. There's a commander in the center, this bright white light, and this commander is telling us that we're the most special volunteers. We've all signed up to go to Earth for the transformation of consciousness. Stop it. Yeah. And I think that the light was Christ or Krishna or Buddha, whatever, some sort of higher consciousness, right?
Starting point is 01:00:12 Source. But didn't have a form. No form, just a tube of light. Tube of light. What color light? Just white. A pillar of light? Pillar of light, yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:19 Biblical. Yeah, yeah, very biblical, yeah. And, you know, like, I don't really know what's going on, but I know that I'm a part of it. No one knows what's going on. Nobody knows what's going on. What are the souls like when you say there are thousands of just light bodies? Yes, so like human shape, no gender, no features, just light. No gender.
Starting point is 01:00:37 No gender. That's what I was imagining. Keep going. Okay. So, again, I don't know what's going on, but I know that I'm a part of it. We're all stoked. We're so excited. We're like, oh, my God, Earth, here we go.
Starting point is 01:00:50 Like, everybody is so happy. And then my awareness shifts over to another scene, and I find myself in front of a table of beings, these four beings. It was a crappy banquet hall table, collapsible, like in a 12-step meeting. And it was nothing or innate. It was nothing beautiful,
Starting point is 01:01:06 nothing that you would expect in heaven. And I didn't know who the people were, but I knew that they were in charge, of me, at least, if not all of creation. And they had this big, giant book, and that was beautiful and ornate. What kind of a book? It was like this big golden book.
Starting point is 01:01:21 It was velvet. There was like red velvet and gold all around it. It's the Akashic Records. Yeah, and they were thumbing through it, and they said, it's really nice to see you. You're not meant to stay. You're only here for information. And I'm like, looking all around me, I'm like, they're not talking to me, are they? Because I am definitely staying here.
Starting point is 01:01:39 The place is tits. I love it. I am not going anywhere. And they said, nope, just information. And then they shove me into another scene, and I find myself with this man, and he, like an NPC, he had like a little thought bubble come up on the top of his head, and it said, okay, let's pick your life. And he had this big, empty grocery cart, and he starts pushing me through the aisles of a grocery store. And lining the walls of the grocery store aisles were these gigantic cereal boxes. And every cereal box had a life experience on it.
Starting point is 01:02:10 And I'm this hungry little orb of light, this little soul, and I'm like, I'm going to Earth for the Great Awakening. do this and I just start grabbing every cereal box that I can get my metaphorical hands on because there's no physical hands there. And I was grabbing really dense stuff. How do you grab it with no hands? Just in it goes. You think it and there it is. And it goes into this cart.
Starting point is 01:02:31 And I think that my imagery came through like this again because it felt like a video game. And I think that, you know, this kind of description is helpful to somebody. Right. Like there's always amazing NDE ears who have these super angelic. beautiful light experiences. Mine's kind of clunky and I love it. I love the way that mine came through for me. It feels a little like pop culture.
Starting point is 01:02:53 It feels a little fast. It feels a little like a lot of energy to it. Definitely. Okay, so shopping cart, all the experiences go in there. Addiction, prostitution, family trauma. I picked my parents. They picked me. And because I was coming to Earth for this great awakening mission, which is the
Starting point is 01:03:09 transformation of consciousness, I had picked my family line because I was going to be exposed to a lot of life. that needed to be transmuted for the collective itself, not just for me in that family, but for the whole collective. So as I heal, and the one moment that I like to talk about a lot is that I picked this cereal box that said childhood sexual trauma on it. I threw it into the car, and as I did, a little orb of light came out with the box. And that orb of light was the soul of the man who molested me when I was a small child. And we came orb to orb with each other. And we made this contract and we loved each other so much. And again, my human brain cannot understand this at all.
Starting point is 01:03:48 We were just talking about this yesterday. Like you can't understand what it means to feel forgiveness in that realm. It's not like what we think of it now. Yes. And also because there's no such thing as linear time there, that's my soul doesn't know like, oh, you're going to deal with that trauma for 40 years of your life. My soul just thinks like, man, that was, that's a little uncomfortable. I can deal with it. And it happens in an instant. And the underlying message is, you know, always forgiveness. So that's like what I think every soul is here to accomplish some sort of forgiveness. Forgiveness for the world. Forgiveness for other people, forgiveness for themselves. And so that is one part of the story that I like to highlight because out of all of the
Starting point is 01:04:27 traumas that have happened in my life, now I'm experiencing the scene where I'm seeing that I chose all of it, all of it, all of these things that I felt victimized by my whole life. So now my chains of victimization are just completely broken off of me. And I feel like I could fly into the ether of outer space forever and ever. And I find myself back in front of the table of beings and I throw myself on the ground. Again, like my mind's eye is constructing everything. I don't have a body there. But I'm crying out to them.
Starting point is 01:04:55 And I'm like, I can't believe this. This helps me so much. This makes so much sense. This is the information I've been waiting for my whole life. I'm not a victim to my circumstance. I am a divine co-creator. my reality. Thank you so much. I will still not be going back to Earth because that place fucking sucks. But I'm really glad that I have all this information. And they were like,
Starting point is 01:05:19 no, you're going back. And I was like, no, no, no. Like, I'm good. This is totally like, I love it here. I feel reunion. I feel bliss. Did you have an awareness of the self that was Betty at that time? Oh, yeah. I could still see her body. Yeah, I could see my body outside. Was she in the bathroom floor? And she was naked. And she was just, yeah. sprawled out. Were you concerned about her at all? We were like, how am I going to go back into that? When I refused to come back and I kind of transformed into a small child and I said, no way,
Starting point is 01:05:46 I will not go back. You guys do not tell us what Earth is actually like. I've been lied to. I will not go back. And they were like, you say this every time that you come back home. You're always saying that we don't tell you, but we do. You just forget. That's part of the game is to forget.
Starting point is 01:06:01 You specifically or you humans say this? No, they were talking about me specifically, that I've been on a. Earth over and over and over again playing this game. But in theory, I would imagine. Could be everybody. I think it's everyone. When you think of the oneness of everything, we are all the same soul energy. And we all come back being like, no one freaking told me how painful this is going to be and how joints
Starting point is 01:06:21 stop working. We do it over and over again. We do. We do it over and over again for fun. It's because there's no game like it. Yeah. And there's nothing to do in heaven. It's just like emptiness and fullness at the same time. There's just nothing to do there. So we're like, oh, Earth is on fire. Yeah, let's go there. That sounds fun. Fire. So when I was refusing to go back into my body, they said to me, well, you definitely have to go back.
Starting point is 01:06:44 And I said, I can't go into her, look at her. And we were like all staring. I was like, she looks a mess. Like, I cannot. Don't make my beautiful spirit squeeze back into that horror show. And they said, well, if you don't go back into her, then you have to go back into a baby. And they showed me the baby that I would be born into.
Starting point is 01:07:02 Babies are a mess. They showed me everything about her, like a little screen of her staff. came up next to her. And she was like slowly rotating just like an avatar in a video game. And it was her gender, her ethnicity, where she would be born, who her parents were, her traumas, her adversity, her purpose.
Starting point is 01:07:19 Where was she going to be born. She was going to be born in the hospital right next to my house where I was going to die, where I was going to be pronounced dead. Easy access. Yes, easy. Just slide that soul right next door or down the floor. Yes.
Starting point is 01:07:30 And I was like in a really bad part of Brooklyn and like I was going to be born into the projects, to teenage parents. and I was going to have all these other levels of societal adversity. And I was like, I can't. I can't do it from zero. There's just no way. Could you ask for like, hey, isn't there a third option that wasn't presented?
Starting point is 01:07:48 You're like, can't I get someone who has like a pool? Are you Italian? Was it an Italian baby or no? No, it was a little black girl. And I know that she exists somewhere. You know, like I know that she was still born and that somebody hopped into her. You know, it just wasn't me. Somebody took on that mission for sure.
Starting point is 01:08:04 And so I couldn't have like some lavish life because my life experienced cart still needed to be experienced. So it got shoved into kind of like her frame. Like, okay, now she will be taking on your life challenges. So all the cereal pockets that you chose for yourself, now will go into her life. Here's a question. If you had chosen not to go back into Betty,
Starting point is 01:08:27 would Betty have died or would she have had a soul swap? Ooh, that's a good question. I think that, no, that body was really done. You know, that body had a lot of trauma to it. You mean the body that we know is Betty? Yes, this body. This body had a lot of trauma to it. So I don't know if there would be a soul brave enough to hop into that.
Starting point is 01:08:47 I mean, of course there would be, I'm sure. But the way that I saw it when they showed me the alternate timelines, they showed me that I died. So then if you became this other baby, that baby would have to have some experience to get back. to this spaceship existence in order for her to understand her existence.
Starting point is 01:09:06 Okay. Like it wouldn't be like modern, I'm calling you Betty because you're in the body that is Betty, but it wouldn't be like that orb has the consciousness of that orb. That orb would be a baby
Starting point is 01:09:16 who's then going through life just like you did when you were Betty. Right. So here's the thing with pre-birth planning, right? It's not, the pre-birth plan is about these major plot points. So I could have, here's three of my plot points.
Starting point is 01:09:29 Addiction, recovery, spiritual awakening. I could have experienced those things very early in my life. Again, rehab first time, 18. Okay, there's addiction, there's recovery. I would have had a slow and steady spiritual awakening as a result of practicing the 12 steps in a 12-step program because the 12-step promises a spiritual awakening. No need for an NDE, no need for all the drama, no need for all the theatrics. The naked on the floor.
Starting point is 01:09:54 Right. So, but because I had waited, I had kept ignoring the internal GPS that said, stop, make a U-turn. And so all of my plot points can pound it on top of each other. And they all demanded to be experienced in one moment. Yeah. It feels like there's a lineup of souls waiting to come to Earth. And the longer they hang out there, the further they are away from what the reality of Earth is actually like. It's like when you have a baby or a puppy and then like enough years past that you forget about the sleep deprivation, you're like, I should do that again because they're amazing.
Starting point is 01:10:28 it feels like there's like, are they struggling to get souls down here or is there a lineup? I think that there is a lineup for sure. I mean, we've got 8 billion souls here now. So, you know, definitely people want to be here. I mean, souls want to be here. A population is declining. Okay. Is that because there's not a line of souls?
Starting point is 01:10:47 Oh, I think that when, you know, this transformation, the spiritual transformation starts to take place, it's going to be a much different reality than what we're in right now. I don't know exactly what it's going to look like, but it's definitely going to look different. And this analogy of childbirth is a good one to use for something like this, right? So a woman gets pregnant, carries the baby, super uncomfortable. I mean, I don't know. I've never had a baby in this lifetime, but like, I'm sure it's super uncomfortable. By the end of it, you're like, oh my God, murder me already. I want this to be over. Then you actually go through labor. Like the pain, the agony, right? This is worth in pregnancy. Then you have the baby. And you're like, this is worth
Starting point is 01:11:24 in labor. Right. Right. So then you forget all about it. And you You do it again, right? Like you forget all about it because the reward is worth it. And so the reward of being a soul and coming here is that you forget so that you can remember. And when we go back to that space and we have remembrance again, we're like, I want to forget and remember all over again. You know that spot above your lip? There's a legend in like Jewish mystical thinking that when you are in your mother's womb, you learn all the secrets of the universe is the way they describe it. You learn the languages of the animals.
Starting point is 01:12:00 You learn everything that could ever be known. And before you're born, the angel Lilith, which like, you know, the angel Lilith touches you here and you forget everything so that you can spend your entire life learning it. Wow. But that you have all the wisdom is held. But that's what they say that little spot is, is Lilith basically saying, like, forget. So that kind of reminded me of that. I mean, there's so many mystical things that you say that are. Also like the men in black forgetting device.
Starting point is 01:12:30 Also that, just the thing. Here's a question. If you hadn't had that experience, what would have happened? Meaning like, does everybody have their own, you know, path? And that was yours because that you have a special message? Or if that were to happen to me, which I wouldn't want it to happen in a bad way, God forbid, bet my tongue. But if that were to happen to me, I might have a different experience. Like your spaceship supermarket experience might just be yours, but what would have happened?
Starting point is 01:13:05 Do you have any concept of that? Yeah. So, yeah, I think that it is individual to each person. I've met people who have had similar experiences, not in the same exact thing, but the more people that hear, you know, we have a message. Like, people who have near-death experiences, spiritual experiences, who feel brave enough to come out and share their experiences. because there's a lot of closeted near-death experiencers, again, because society says you're crazy, I'm going to institutionalize you. So people stay quiet out of fear.
Starting point is 01:13:33 I have no fear. So I say whatever. But I do think that, well, you know, for me in particular, I saw what would happen to me. You know, if I didn't come back and, like, continue on this spiritual path, I would have died. And I saw this scene where I was dead on my bedroom, I was dead on the bathroom floor. My cousin came to my house to see why I had gone quiet for so many days. Because at this point in time, I was really heavy in active addiction, and everybody was very scared that I was going to die.
Starting point is 01:14:03 Not that I had a lot of people in my life. My cousin was kind of the only person, but she was terrified. And at the time, she was eight months pregnant. And I saw this scene where she came into my house, and she's screaming over my body. And then all of a sudden, my soul leaves the body on the floor and goes into her unborn baby. Again, we're talking about the multiverse, so like a million things. could happen at once, right? Even though I saw this scene with this baby in heaven, this was another scene that I had seen. And I thought, oh, God, I can't let that happen. Because could you imagine,
Starting point is 01:14:34 like, having to breastfeed on your cousin to survive? Like, that would be so awkward. That's what you thought, Betty? Yes, definitely. When your soul entered your cousin's unborn fetus, that's what you thought. I was like, I don't want to latch on. I'm not latching on for dear life on this one. That is not, we can't have this timeline happen. So, life review, you have the option to go in to the baby, you choose not to go into the baby, so you're told now that you have to go back. You accept this, you're like, it's either this new baby that you don't want to have to start from zero or back into Betty on the bathroom floor. Bring us to that moment.
Starting point is 01:15:09 Yeah. So, again, I'm very, I feel very defiant in this moment in this space. And they told me, my awareness started to shift back into my body as soon as I made the decision that I can't start from zero. I'll go back into that glitched broken body that I just came from. And I just kept telling them, I just want you to know that there's no way to fix her. She is beyond fixing. And they kind of held, it felt like they were holding my face.
Starting point is 01:15:36 Again, like I don't have a body there, but this is how it was coming in my mind's eye. And they said, listen, the first part of your life was boot camp. Nobody likes boot camp. It's brutal. It's raining sideways. You're doing a thousand push-ups. Someone's shoving your face in the mud. There's a bald guy screaming in your face.
Starting point is 01:15:51 the second part of your life's going to be carrying out your mission. You're going to have soulmates, kindred spirits, mentors, teachers, communities. You're going to be safe and supported. You're going to be living in spiritual awareness. Your life is going to be so much better. Just trust us. And I was like, I do not trust you guys. Not after the first part.
Starting point is 01:16:10 Hell no. I didn't trust any of this. And I just found my awareness back inside my body. And I woke up on my bathroom floor. I kind of shook my head. And I was like, wow, I will never be. be that high ever again. That was crazy. I got so high that I thought I was talking to God. I thought I planned my life. What an insane thing. So you thought it was some sort of hallucination. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:16:34 We're going to hit pause here, even though I really don't want to because there is so much more of the story I want you to hear. But that is what part two will be for. Betty has so much more to share with us. We're diving really deep into the details, the really intense detail. of her near-death experience and coming back to integrate that information. We're also going to talk about how she actually returned to using after this experience, and she didn't fully integrate it yet, and all of the signs, coincidences, and episodes
Starting point is 01:17:15 that led her to find recovery, literally. She found it on a subway, and we'll talk about that. The number of synchronicities that she experiences is so phenomenal you absolutely need to follow for part two. We're going to talk about what methods of recovery she actually embarked on. She'll talk about 12-step programs. She'll talk about a course in miracles, something we've never talked about here. Also, what religious and spiritual recovery she maintains. She's also going to talk about special gifts that she came back with after this experience.
Starting point is 01:17:49 She had access to oras, understanding other people's energies. She was receiving too much information from the universe. She talks about how to control that. And she's going to talk about how she lives as a guided entity with angels and guides on this earth who really govern all of the life that she now enjoys. Make sure you're subscribed anywhere you're listening to podcasts for Part 2. And make sure to check out Substack. If you are not already on Substack, you're going to want to be there for more of this kind of content and discussions with the entire Breaker community. From our breakdown to the one we hope you never have.
Starting point is 01:18:25 We'll see you next time.

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