Episode 3 continues the conversation about NDEs and color while also returning to the debate introduced in Episode 2 about AI, creativity, and accessibility.
The episode begins with Michelee revisiting a debate with her son about the use of AI. Her son is concerned about AI disrupting people’s jobs, while Michelee focuses on another question: what happens when technology enables people who might otherwise struggle to participate creatively to finally bring their ideas into the world? She explains that, for her, AI isn’t about replacing human creativity but about helping transform ideas that have lived in her head for years into tangible work. She ultimately describes a compromise: using her son’s photography, commissioned artwork, and her own art for the book while reserving AI primarily for her website.
The episode then returns to the subject of color in NDEs, with an important clarification: Michelee presents her chakra interpretations as her own lived framework rather than scientifically established fact. She emphasizes that she is less interested in determining whether the colors came from chakras, the subconscious, neurological processes, or something spiritual than in describing what the colors felt like and what they seemed to communicate.
The centerpiece of the episode is an encounter with the Jackson family. Michelee recalls seeing the Jacksons singing and dancing in an experience that may have incorporated something she heard or saw while physically lying comatose. What stands out is the unusual palette: burnt sienna, dark brown, and rusted orange. Rather than the bright colors one might expect from a televised musical performance, the Jacksons appeared through an earthy, aged, almost oxidized palette. She then examines each color symbolically.
The Jacksons themselves ultimately become more than people in the experience. Michelee considers them a symbolic vehicle representing themes such as family, childhood, music, performance, fame, creativity, sibling relationships, public versus private identity, transformation, success, and the passage of time. The unusual combination of Jackson family members appearing together suggests to her that the experience may have collapsed different periods of Jackson family history into a single scene.
The episode closes by explaining Michele’s larger belief system: she does not regard the experiences as unreal, but believes they occurred in other dimensions rather than in the ordinary reality she calls “HereNow.” She proposes that people may have interdimensional counterparts and that these counterparts might be benevolent or malevolent. This becomes part of her explanation for why she calls these experiences near-death experiences: because what is experienced may differ fundamentally from ordinary physical reality.
The central idea of Episode 3
Episode 2 asks: What if color is a language during an NDE?
Episode 3 takes that idea further: What if the combination of colors, people, memories, and symbols creates a larger language—one that tells a story about time, identity, transformation, and the life we are living?
The Jackson scene becomes the episode’s major example of that idea. The colors aren’t simply descriptions of what Micheleesaw. They become clues. And the episode suggests that understanding an NDE may require looking not only at what appeared, but at why those particular things appeared together, in those particular colors, at that particular moment.
Episode 3’s closing thought:
Believe… in the unbelievable
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