Hollywood Director’s Incredible Near-Death Experience

Jeremy Kagan was best known for directing movies and TV series episodes before his amazing NDE from a sweatlodge experience.  Jeremy experienced bliss and saw a vision of hell. On the other side he met his spiritual family and almost became a star in the galaxy. Jeremy even experienced what it felt like when he and God were one.  He says this reality seemed very 2-dimensional and made-up like a scripted play or movie in comparison. Everything played back in reverse and he found himself in his body again.

Jeremy is deeply interested in the Kabbalah and mystical Judaism. He has taken sacred journeys with ayahuasca, and he has a long-standing interest in ETs and UFOs having directed the film “Roswell” (1994) and an episode of “Taken.”

Join us to hear about this amazing person and his many incredible experiences first-hand in this special IANDS interview.

Background:

Jeremy Kagan’s resume is long and deep. In addition to his film and TV work, he teaches directing and is a published author. Jeremy also loves to do illustrations, producing one every day. Jeremy also hosts interviews with top film directors and others.  Below is a 2-hour interview hosted by Jeremy this past February 10. The DGA presented its membership with a unique opportunity to celebrate the craft of directing during the 33rd Annual Meet the Nominees: Theatrical Feature Film symposium.  The 2023 Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film Award nominees — Greta Gerwig (Barbie), Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things), Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer), Alexander Payne (The Holdovers) and Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) — joined moderator Jeremy Kagan onstage in the Guild’s Los Angeles Theater for an in-depth discussion about their work.

Biography

Jeremy Kagan interviewing Martin Scorsese

Jeremy is a director/writer/producer of feature films and television. His credits include the box-office hits Heroes (1977), The Big Fix (1978) and The Chosen (1981). His The Journey of Natty Gann (1985) was the first US film to win a Gold Prize at the Moscow Film Festival. Other directing credits include Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987) (winning the ACE Award for Best Dramatic Special) and Roswell (1994), which he produced and directed and which was nominated for a Golden Globe. In 1996, his episode of Chicago Hope (1994) won him an Emmy for Outstanding Direction of a Dramatic Series. One of his segments of Picket Fences (1992) was listed by TV critics among the top 100 television episodes.

His more recent work includes an episode of Steven Spielberg‘s Emmy-winning anthology – “Taken” (2002/I) (mini) – and numerous episodes of such hit series as The West Wing (1999) and The Guardian (2001). His Bobbie’s Girl (2002) was the highest-rated film on Showtime in 2003. His movie Crown Heights (2004), which he produced and directed, won the Humanitas Award for “affirming the dignity” of every person and was nominated for a Directors Guild Award in 2004.

Mr. Kagan is a graduate of Harvard University, where he wrote his thesis on Sergei Eisenstein, has a Masters from NYU, and was in the first group of Fellows at the American Film Institute (AFI). He is a tenured full professor at USC, where he is in charge of the directing track, and has served as the Artistic Director of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute. He is on the National Board of the Directors Guild and is Chairperson of its Special Projects Committee and author of the book “Directors Close Up” and was presented the 2004 Robert Aldrich Award for “extraordinary service to the guild.”