About Me
Don Winner is a retired U.S. Air Force veteran with a 20-year career in military intelligence, serving as a Korean and Spanish cryptologic linguist, signals intelligence analyst, and Special Operations SIGINT specialist. His assignments took him across Korea, NSA, DIA, Panama, the Middle East, and beyond — supporting elite military units and national-level operations at the highest levels of the intelligence community.
After active duty, he worked as a civilian contractor across Latin America before building a reputation as one of Panama's most prominent investigative journalists. His reporting — featured on CBS 48 Hours, Dateline NBC, and the BBC — contributed to the arrest of multiple serial killers and drew international media attention.
Back in the United States, his lifelong fascination with the deeper questions — what happens when we die, where our beliefs come from, and what consciousness really is — led him to spend years researching near-death experiences through the same analytical lens he once applied to intelligence work. That research became the foundation for his book, You're Going To Die Someday, Right? — Near Death Experiences Reveal What Happens Next, published in November 2025.
The book argues that prehistoric near-death experiences were the seed of all human afterlife belief and religion — a bold thesis backed by 426 pages of original analysis spanning anthropology, neuroscience, theology, and the testimony of thousands of NDE survivors. It has been called a genuinely original contribution to one of humanity's oldest questions.
Don is based in Hudson Valley, New York, and is available for speaking engagements, podcast interviews, and media inquiries.
Exploring Ndes
eBook
The eBook provides an in-depth look at Near Death Experiences, blending personal narratives and research to shed light on these extraordinary phenomena.
Videos
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Speaking Engagements
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Interviews
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Resources
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