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July 18, 1997: NDE's - Dannion Brinkley
Published 2 years, 4 months ago
Description
Art Bell welcomes Dannion Brinkley, a former covert military operative turned near-death experience survivor, for a deeply personal conversation about dying and returning. Brinkley recounts being struck by lightning while talking on the phone in 1975, an event that left him clinically dead for 28 minutes and fundamentally transformed his worldview from hardened soldier to spiritual seeker.
Brinkley describes floating above his own body, observing the energy fields around those trying to save him, and traveling through a tunnel into a place of brilliant light. He details his panoramic life review, where he re-experienced every interaction from the perspective of those he had affected. He recounts encountering a being of light and visiting crystalline cities where 13 beings showed him visions of future events, including Chernobyl and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The conversation also explores Brinkley's second near-death experience following emergency open heart surgery years later, his 18 years of hospice volunteer work, and what he learned about forgiveness and the true nature of human existence beyond the physical body.
Brinkley describes floating above his own body, observing the energy fields around those trying to save him, and traveling through a tunnel into a place of brilliant light. He details his panoramic life review, where he re-experienced every interaction from the perspective of those he had affected. He recounts encountering a being of light and visiting crystalline cities where 13 beings showed him visions of future events, including Chernobyl and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The conversation also explores Brinkley's second near-death experience following emergency open heart surgery years later, his 18 years of hospice volunteer work, and what he learned about forgiveness and the true nature of human existence beyond the physical body.