Western tv star Clint Walker on his NDE — a ski pole through the heart has gotta hurt ;-)

The 6’6″ Walker was the star of the first major one-hour tv western series, running 1955-63, Cheyenne. Walker was a staunch, conservative Republican.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_(TV_series)

After surviving his NDE in 1971, he lives until 2018 and almost age 91. His character was a perfect mix of yin and yang, a gentle man and also a two-fisted, straight-shooting warrior.

……Actor and friend James Drury on Walker:

Drury about any parallels between the character Clint Walker played on TV and the real man.

“I believe Clint patterned the Cheyenne Bodie character after his own personality,” Drury said. “What you see is what you get with him. He lets it (his personality) work for him every day of his life and people love him for it. He’s a wonderful gentleman and a wonderful human being, he really is.

“He’s always doing everything he can to help everybody else. Whatever is going on, he’s there to help. I’m always willing to talk about him because he is such a dear friend and gentleman.”

“You know it takes a lot of physical strength to do a western,” Drury continued. “Both mental and physical strength to do all the things you have to do on horseback and the other tasks. Westerns are make-believe but we actually had to do the work as well. If we were pretending to be digging a cesspool, then we were digging a cesspool. You had to get down there and do it, whatever it was.

“Clint had done all sorts of physical labor before becoming an actor and built up a tremendous amount of strength. Then he got into the body building. He made his own weights out of cement. He put cement in two five-gallon cans and stuck a pipe in both ends and made a barbell. I’m sure he could lift a D12 tractor if he felt like it. He’s got to be one of the strongest men I ever met. Incidentally, someone told me just the other day they had measured Clint’s draw with a six-gun and he was among the fastest there was. I just heard that recently, though it doesn’t surprise me.”

When asked about the traditional American values reflected in the Cheyenne series as well as shows like “The Virginian” and “The Rifleman,” Drury said, “As my friend Richard Farnsworth used to say, that early part of our (country’s) history was our Camelot,” he said.

“It’s the time we look back to when integrity, honesty, loyalty and true friendship were qualities people went out of their way to share and have because the conditions were so terribly difficult you had to take care of your fellow man, and he had to take care of you. People had the tendency to make friends and keep them. There’s a little saying from the ‘Cowboy Way’ that goes, ‘If it’s not true, don’t say it; if it’s not yours, don’t take it; if it’s not right, don’t do it.’”

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Recently, I also saw a video about a NDE involving an anesthesiologist from India, Rajiv Parti, M.D. He died during gastric surgery, and, faced with a life review which showed despicable behavior in his last two lives, went back and made amends.  Then only was he released from a hellish, though temporary place, and survived the operation, profoundly changed by the experience.

(Most of the NDE videos on this channel involve very sincere white Americans, btw, such as this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HTdyDCuY90.)

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Dr. Rajiv Parti was the chief of anesthesiology at Bakersfield Heart Hospital in Bakersfield, California when his life was turned upside down by an illness that led to seven surgeries. The final surgery led to a profound near-death experience that changed his life. Since his Near Death Experience (NDE) included some objective evidence that his consciousness actually traveled out of his body, his NDE is included in our video database of Out of Body Experiences that have an evidential aspect.

Learn more at Dr. Parti’s site(link is external).

In this video he talks about realizing he had been a brutal prince and had beaten unarmed peasants without mercy. In the next video,  much longer, he talks about his own father beating him with a cricket bat and being laid up for three weeks…. What goes around comes around.

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