Zach Tavcar's Near-Death Experience
Hi Zach. Thanks for joining me.
I heard you had a near death experience.
Can, uh, you share it with us please?
Absolutely. Thanks for having me, Alan.
I was 14.
I had just been diagnosed with leukemia.
Part of the protocol of leukemia is you have to go on a steroid called prednisone.
And so prednisone is a bone demineralizer.
It's helpful for treatment, but it causes the bones to become a little bit brittle.
So my spine, while I was in the hospital, uh, the vertebrae,
they got little fractures.
So I needed to go get a back brace.
I was with my dad and my four year old brother at the time.
I'm standing there and there's kind of like parallette bars that you had to hold
onto to keep yourself nice and upright.
And as he's fitting me and doing these measurements on my chest,
I started to feel a little fuzzy.
I was probably there about 15 minutes, and this fuzziness
just started getting heavier and heavier and heavier and heavier.
So we walk out of the building down the steps, and I'm in front of my
dad and my little brother who's just kind of holding on my dad's hand.
And they're still talking to the technician and ya know,
I'll see you guys later.
And I was kind of rushing at this point to get to the truck, my dad's truck,
which is probably about 50, 60 yards away.
And I'm walking, I'm walking, I'm walking.
I finally take a seat.
I'm like, okay, just calm down.
Calm down.
You know, just relax.
You're gonna be okay.
And I sat on the lip of the, my dad's truck and was just like, oh geez! Oh geez!
And I looked at my dad probably about 30, 40 meters away, and
I said, dad, I'm going to.
And then I went black.
And all of a sudden I opened my eyes and I was in a tunnel with a shadow
figure who was wearing a trench coat.
And it was the most luminescent, goldy, silvery, white, flowing energy.
And it was like moving around me and through me.
The only thing I can attribute it to is feeling like liquid love.
So I just was enamored in this space, like, whoa, what is this?
Feeling completely at peace.
No concern, no worry.
I didn't even think of my body.
I was just, one minute I was there and the next minute I
was in this beautiful tunnel!
So I, I looked forward and I remember, and you know, through the shadow figure
that's just kinda waiting for me.
Immediately I thought to myself, oh, that's grandpa!
My dad's dad who had died seven years previous.
I saw his figure and we had this inaudible conversation.
And he just told me, everything's gonna be okay.
You're gonna get through everything.
You just have to keep going.
It's important that you keep going.
We had other conversations and I remember having things like that,
but when I came back it was like a dream where I, I don't remember the
extra stuff that we talked about.
So we had this conversation and it feel, it felt like we just
were in this space for forever.
And then all of a sudden, without a warning, without, you
know, I didn't get a choice.
It was just, I felt sucked back like I was getting pulled back
through a vacuum, through this black tunnel and I, boom, hit!
And was back in my body, but I couldn't move.
My nervous system was still jacked from the, the passing out.
And so it was still coming online.
And all I heard was Zach!
Zach! Zach, are you okay?
Are you okay?
Zach, are you okay?
And then I heard another voice and they said, do you want me to call ambulance?
And uh, my dad said, no, no, no, no, no, no it's, it's fine.
Just Zach, are you okay?
And I felt him touching me and I, I couldn't open my eyes, so I just, I
kind of was able to utter, I'm okay.
I just can't move yet.
Maybe about 30 seconds to a minute it felt like, you know, you get the
tingles and start coming back online.
I opened my eyes and there's my dad just, you know, terrified face,
just like, whoa, what the heck?
And uh, my little brother who's just four years old, just terrified as could be.
So I get up, my dad helps me with the truck.
So, you know, I'm awake now and I'm mulling this experience over
like, what the heck just happened?
And at 14, you know, I'd never had anything happen like that yet.
So I'm thinking, okay, I just, I just sensationalized this in my
brain, but I did want to tell my dad.
So I probably spent a few days to a week, two weeks.
I don't know, was it fuzzy?
But I finally was like, okay, I'm gonna tell dad.
And I said, Hey dad, you know, when I passed out I had this experience
that I don't want you to like worry 'cause he's kind of a worrywart.
And I said, I saw grandpa.
In this tunnel of light.
And immediately his eyes kind of opened and went the other way.
You know, he is thinking, my son, who just got diagnosed with leukemia is
going through this serious treatment.
Is he dying?
And he goes, what?
What did he tell you?
You, what did he tell you?
What did he say?
Uh, and I said, you know, nothing, he didn't say anything bad.
He said, everything was gonna be okay, but that I just had to keep
going, you know, like I just, I had to keep moving through this.
And he said, oh, okay.
And he said, what did he look like?
And I go, I don't know, but he was wearing a trench coat.
I was like, that is weird.
I've never seen grandpa wear a trench coat before, 'cause I
only knew him until I was seven.
A few months pass.
And one day he finds a picture and he goes, Zach, is this
what grandpa looked like?
And it was my grandpa as a young man in his late twenties in Prague with the
exact same length trench coat and the exact same figure that I had seen him.
So that was my, uh, you know, validation that what I did experience was very real.
Did your, did your dad know him as a trench coat wearer?
Or did, was he surprised by that too?
I think he was surprised by that too, 'cause I don't think he
really was a trench coat wearer.
He was a very, he was a professional man.
He was a chemist and stuff like that.
Business owner and different things.
So I think he wore more professional suits, not a trench coat.
But in his younger years, when he was this young, dapper, late twenties man, he
was wearing this, this big trench coat.
Like, how big was the tunnel?
Like if you put your arms out, would you touch the edges or was it like a...?
How big was it would you say?
Oh, you know what's the funny is that it seemed like it went on for eternity.
Lengthwise?
I mean, even widthwise, widthwise?
It was, it was, um, how do you say this?
It was malleable.
Hmm.
It was.
It's like flowy?
I think you said like fluid almost.
So was it almost like?
It was this, it wasn't a tangible tunnel.
It was this, but it was.
I don't know how to explain that.
That's a good question.
It was, it was this feeling.
And, and this feeling.
But didn't feel so, it didn't feel solid, right?
It wasn't like being in a steel tube or?
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It felt like, if I just, it seemed like it had faint curtains, but you
could just push the curtains and keep expanding out that left and expand it.
So it felt, it felt like it had faint curtains, really, really faint
curtains that were easily manipulated.
And what color would those curtains be?
The faint, it was all the same color.
It was this, it was a golden, I don't know how to explain it.
The density was different.
Was the, was it, was the tunnel emanating light or was the, like
the light at the end of the tunnel.
The tunnel was emanating light.
Okay. It was light.
And, okay, think about it.
If you're in fluid and you have oil and water and you can keep like putting
more oil, which will push the water out.
Imagine it that way.
That's a good analogy.
The fluid I was seeing was oil and water, right?
And so I'm in this oil, love of oil and, and I could have continually put more oil
in to expand out, but it was still fluid.
And it was still, but instead of oil and water, it was just a different density.
Was the, would be the oil part,
would that be like clear?
Or was that, that would've been more, that would've been, uh,
it would've been more clear.
So it would've, it would've felt, it felt like, um, yeah, it felt like.
Oil and water, but if the oil was the, if it was like the
colors were switched, maybe?
Would've been, exactly.
And I would've been, so looking at my grandpa, I could feel the
energy, but it wasn't as thick. Uhhuh.
And then as you move out, it felt like it became oil and,
and then it went on for forever.
But it was just kind of giving me this, this tunnely.
Yeah. Yeah.
Water pocket.
I love that.
That's cool.
Um, thank you for indulging me on that. Um.
Yeah, that's a good question!
I've never thought about that, but that's kind of, that was,
yeah, that's kind of how if felt.
If people wanna learn more about you and your experience, uh, where should they go?
What should they do?
Uh, you can go to my website, you can go to my YouTube channel, which
I'll be posting a lot more videos.
Thanks to this wonderful inspiration from you, Alan.
Uh, I have a website.
I know you could follow me on any social media.
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