Famous Director Fulfills Prophecy To Make Near Death Experience Film!

Today’s guest is Lionel Friedberg. Everything that came to pass in his life and during his career was foretold by an ‘nganga’ (soothsayer, diviner, herbalist, traditional medicine practitioner, traditional healer) in a small hut in the African bush in Northern Rhodesia (modern-day Zambia) in 1964. Documentaries have taken him deep into extraordinary places and given him access to the lives of amazing people. When the nganga told him that he would see and experience things that few people could even imagine he had no idea what she meant but he has made films with people who have had NDEs (near-death experiences), brought back from clinical death and even children who—unrelated and unknown to one another—were clinically dead, revived and who told similar stories about their experiences and who all ‘met God who told me to go back into my body because your mommy and your daddy want you back.’ Each of these children draw similar pictures of what they saw and experienced. Lionel Friedberg is an Emmy Award-winning film and T.V. producer and writer. He has worked as a Director of Photography on 18 feature films and wrote, produced and directed for National Geographic, PBS, Discover Channel, and The History Chanel. He is also a New York Times Best selling author and today we will be talking about his life and his book Forever In My Veins: How Film Led Me To The Mysterious World Of The African Shaman.