At exactly 11am one morning, farmer Philip Hasheider's life took a dramatic turn. He suffered a cardiac arrest that led to a near-death experience and in that moment, "everything changed".

Philip, a family man with a wife and children, was on his way to get his tyres changed when he decided to pop into his local gym, realising he had some time to spare before his appointment. After completing a modest set of 20 arm curls, he felt a peculiar tingling sensation in both forearms.

Then, as he describes it: "The next moment, I find myself in a completely different dimension."

An emergency medical technician present at the scene recalled: "Philip was clinically dead. His heart had stopped. He wasn't breathing on his own."

Medical staff at the gym in Sauk City, Wisconsin, US, frantically tried to resuscitate Philip, who had turned blue and showed no signs of life, using a defibrillator. However, during those six critical minutes, Philip insists he has vivid recollections of being detached from his body.

Philip Hasheider © @cominghomechannel

Reflecting on the profound experience, he said: "At that point where I was sitting there enjoying all this stuff, there were a dozen EMTs and hospital staff trying frantically to restart my heart and had I know that, I couldn't even call them to tell them 'don't bother, this is great'."

He asserts that the afterlife experience is so deeply etched in his memory that it feels like it's "tattooed onto his soul". He shared his extraordinary journey and the message he believes he was sent back to impart on the Coming Home YouTube channel.

Recalling the moment his heart stopped beating during the terrifying incident in 2015, he said: "It was like being in a huge open amphitheatre, realising that there is no sky, there is no stars, there is no moon, there is no galaxies, and that is when I noticed that I kept moving up and down, and wondering what that was, and I realised I was floating on these waves of energetic energy coming towards me.

"But not only towards me, they were passing through me and I thought, this is really interesting. I had no fear, it just felt so warm, and accepting and I didn't know where I was, I didn't even think about where I was, I was just there."

Philip Hasheider © @cominghomechannel

Philip claimed he witnessed endless universes of love within a massive golden yellow orb that consumed his entire field of vision.

Reflecting on his proximity to the divine, he continued: "I instantly knew that this was the nest of the source of all creation and this is where everything is created and this is where everything is created anywhere.

"So I knew at that point, this is where I was born, this is where you were born, this is where everyone and everything was born as we understand a birth as a starting point so that each of us carries the DNA of that creator energy and we take that with us wherever we go."

The senior paramedic revealed to Coming Home that Philip's survival odds at that critical juncture were merely 5%.

Philip recalled gazing into eternity before the startling realisation dawned that he had journeyed across time and space. He elaborated: "A door had been opened up to me and I had stepped through it. I still did not realise that my body was back on the floor. I didn't have any awareness that I had died."

The farmer went on to say: "The moment that I realised that all of this was before me, in less than a blink of an eye, I left that dimension and I found myself back here."

After his recovery in hospital, Philip began to piece together the events of those six minutes when his heart had stopped beating and his lungs had ceased to function.

Mary Hasheider © @cominghomechannel

He is convinced that his experience was not a dream and maintains that even now, 10 years on, he can remember every detail of the scene, noting that nothing about the otherworldly dimension has altered.

At first, Philip grappled with understanding why he had journeyed to the afterlife and why he had been brought back. He reflected: "I thought, 'Why do I want to stick around here?' And it's not because I don't love my wife, it's not because I don't love my family, it's just because everything was so far beyond great where I was that this is really not quite that level."

His wife, Mary, shared her perspective on the programme, saying: "The underlying sense was when you have such an extraordinary experience, that you really would rather be back into that experience, and we talked about that and I can understand that part of it.

"However, you have a family, you have friends, you have people who care about you, and so how do we fit them in?"

But this revelation came to Philip through a dream one evening, and he suddenly understood the reason behind his return.

He believes he came back to serve as a "conduit of hope" and felt compelled to document and share his experiences, ultimately penning his memoir titled Six Minutes In Eternity.

Philip doesn't view himself as extraordinary, but acknowledges having undergone a remarkable experience that has given him wisdom he previously lacked.

Mary, meanwhile, has noticed her husband being far more engaged since his near-death experience.

Reflecting on his paramount message after witnessing what lies beyond clinical death, Philip explained: "The hope of which I speak has to do with not being afraid of what comes next. We are so tied to physical things here that we don't want to give them up.

"This life that we understand is not the end even though we decease, that's what human bodies do, but the internal essence, our internal spirit, is what continues on.

"That is all that death is, it is a transition from what we experience here, to something far greater, and to me that is the hope that I am trying to explain to people.

"Yeah, we are going to lose some of the stuff that we have here that we can't take back with us. But we're gonna keep going, going to keep having other experiences as we keep going through eternity because that essence of us that goes on is part of the God creation – and that doesn't get destroyed."