Do you believe in life after death?
There are many theories and beliefs about the afterlife. However, one man in particular is inspiring others not to fear dying — after he survived multiple near-death experiences.
The chance of getting struck by lightning is less than 1 in 1 million — yet that’s exactly what happened to Marine and businessman Dannion Brinkley in 1975.
Dannion Brinkley survived multiple near-death experiences. dannion.com/“It went into the side of my head above my ear, it went down my spine,” the 74-year-old told KLAS of the lightning strike.
“It threw me up in the air, I see the ceiling, it slams me back down, a ball of fire comes through the room and blinds me. I am burning. I am on fire. I am paralyzed,” he recalled.
After he was taken in an ambulance and doctors declared him dead, Brinkley said, he woke up almost 30 minutes later in a hospital morgue. He said his soul temporarily left his body, as reported by KLAS.
While explaining what happened to him when he flatlined, the veteran described what many people would expect when a person dies: There’s a light and a flashback to one’s entire life.
Two long years after the incident, Brinkley learned to walk again. But his experience with death didn’t end there.
More than 10 years later, while Brinkley was under the knife for open heart surgery, he once again faced death.
The publisher of his first book, “Saved by the Light,” wrote that during the author’s second encounter, he was “reunited with his angelic instructors” and learned how to “use his new psychic and spiritual gifts to aid the dying and the desperate.”
While Brinkley has his skeptics and doubters, his near-death encounters might have some scientific truth to them.
“There are signs of normal and near-normal brain activity found up to an hour into resuscitation,” Dr. Sam Parnia, an associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Health, told The Post.
“We were not only able to show the markers of lucid consciousness — we were also able to show that these experiences are unique and universal. They’re different from dreams, illusions and delusions,” Parnia said, referencing an NYU Grossman School of Medicine study.
Being given multiple chances at life, Brinkley is using his story to inspire others.
Being given multiple chances at life, Brinkley is using his stories to inspire others. Getty Images“So, when you learn you don’t die, when you learn you’re a spiritual being, you’re not going to go to hell — that’s enough to inspire you to change,” he told KLAS.
The businessman now spends his time counseling terminally ill patients and his fellow veterans — encouraging them not to fear death.
After all this, where does Brinkley stand on an afterlife? “Nobody dies. It never happens. It’s not a part of the nature of reality,” he said.
