In this week’s live for the Breaker community, Mayim and Jonathan are catching up on three very different episodes that follow the journeys of Vincent Tolman, NDE survivor, Barbra Banner, evidential medium, and Shaka Senghor, resilience expert and formerly incarcerated author.
Vinney Tolman died in a Dairy Queen bathroom and watched his own body get zipped into a body bag from above. The Breakers have questions. So do Mayim and Jonathan. And while “death” remains an unsolvable mystery between the two — whether he was “mostly dead” as Miracle Max famously puts it in The Princess Bride, or if “nearly dead” in itself doesn’t mean dead — they’ve only just started to unravel the mystery. Barbra Banner’s story steps in. If you want a full picture of how this advertising executive became one of the most sought-after media figures around, start with Suzanne Giesemann, whose episode still has skeptics turning their heads. Then, as they revisit Shaka Senghor’s story, Jonathan reflects on the moment that stayed with him most: the power of literacy as a lifeline. In solitary confinement, Shaka built a structure of reading, writing, and working out that turned seven years in solitary confinement into a stepping stone to his life as an author.
Then a spontaneous turn of events. Mayim and Jonathan ask the community: What was the number one song on the Billboard Hot 100 list the week you were born? Watch now for a joyful jaunt down the rabbit hole about music, memory, and whether or not the universe has a sense of humor about what it sends you into the world with.
In this live, they also explore:
The EMT who received an intuition to revive a body already zipped into a bag — and what that says about the things science can’t explain
Whether childhood trauma and the ability to leave the body are connected — and what that might mean for who has NDEs and why
Why Barbra Banner describes herself as a funny medium — and why Mayim, a self-described skeptic, still can’t explain what happened in her reading
Suzanne Giesemann — where to start if you want to understand how Barbra Banner found her abilities and became her student
Shaka Senghor’s dream, written in a prison cell: that one day Oprah would talk about his book
A tease for Tuesday’s episode so cryptic even Jonathan would be amazed if anyone could figure it out
"He was not unwakeable from death. That's the most accurate thing I can say." — Mayim Bialik
Three episodes, and maybe a few more questions than answers. Join us next Tuesday for an episode you won’t want to miss!
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