NDE Radio: Ray Kinman Raymond Kinman is a woodcarver, musician and artist who had a near death experience when he was nine. He writes that it was not until my 50 s, through IANDS, when I was able to come out of the NDE closet that I was able to integrate my experience, now living an extraordinary life! Raymond was for 23 years a woodcarver for Disney, and has done a series of paintings about his NDE. He has been featured on the Biography Channel program I Survived Beyond and Back series.