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Speaker 2: Man, welcome back to Coast to Coast, George Nori with you,
Speaker 2: Danveln Brinkley back with us. Daniel, of course, is known
Speaker 2: for his inspirational lectures on near death experiences, alternative healing practices,
Speaker 2: and self awareness. He's an author of several books, an
Speaker 2: expert on the dying process as well. He's been struck
Speaker 2: by lightning several times, survive heart failure and brain surgery,
Speaker 2: and he has been at the bedside of more than
Speaker 2: three hundred and forty plus people at the point of death.
Speaker 2: And he also works on the Twilight Brigade for our veterans.
Speaker 2: Dani and my friend looking forward to seeing you live
Speaker 2: in April and Charlotte.
Speaker 3: I can't wait, George, It's going to be exciting.
Speaker 2: You are great on stage.
Speaker 3: By the way, my friend what totally completely inspired by you.
Speaker 2: Have you been you ready for Christmas?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean everything is going as well as be expected.
Speaker 3: You know, I have to deal with all that. It
Speaker 3: aches and pains like everybody else, but everything that the
Speaker 3: whole legend of Danion is the boxes of knowledge, you know,
Speaker 3: the things that came from being struck by lightning in
Speaker 3: seventy five, and now it's in that last phase, that
Speaker 3: last phase of what the boxes were talking about, and
Speaker 3: it's pretty amazing to watching, George.
Speaker 2: You know, tell us about that episode of getting hit
Speaker 2: by lightning twice, by the way, and what was the
Speaker 2: span in between it was?
Speaker 3: It was I was struck by lightning, Uh, September seventeenth
Speaker 3: and seven o five pm, nineteen seventy five. I was
Speaker 3: struck by lightning again May of that same May thirteenth, sitting.
Speaker 3: I was doing the exact same thing, George. I was
Speaker 3: sitting on the edge of the bed at a different
Speaker 3: house and different bedroom, with my hold in the phone
Speaker 3: on my with my elbow on my knee, and the
Speaker 3: lightning came down the phone line and went down my
Speaker 3: spine and welded the nails of the heels of my
Speaker 3: shoes to the nails in the floor and throws me
Speaker 3: in the air. Oh my God, slams it back down.
Speaker 3: In the second one, I was doing the exact same thing, Landlines,
Speaker 3: I was doing the exact same thing. And I think
Speaker 3: it was because, uh, this is the mystical point about it, George,
Speaker 3: I think it was because I really didn't want to
Speaker 3: change as much as what I had seen and what
Speaker 3: I became aware of about going from being a person
Speaker 3: or human being into realizing that you're a spiritual being
Speaker 3: and all the things that would be required to take
Speaker 3: on in order to achieve those goals. And I don't
Speaker 3: think that. I just don't think I was ready because
Speaker 3: it took me two years to learn to walk and
Speaker 3: feed myself, you know, in the first one it took
Speaker 3: two years, and right in the midst of that, right
Speaker 3: in the midst of that, three years later it happens again.
Speaker 2: That is unbelievable. So you recommend people during the storm
Speaker 2: staff of the phone, I guess, huh, Well, if it's.
Speaker 3: A landline, you know, once you go through what I
Speaker 3: went through, and you watch it and it's so organized,
Speaker 3: you know, it has structure to it. George, It's a
Speaker 3: plan of action that I'm a participant in. But I
Speaker 3: can look at it from an action plan, and I
Speaker 3: can look at it from the boxes of knowledge, which
Speaker 3: is the whole story of where I became Danian because
Speaker 3: of Raymond Moody and the course of when I was
Speaker 3: writing say by the Light, it was because I had
Speaker 3: watched so many people who were having this experience and
Speaker 3: they had nowhere to turn. And I was lucky to
Speaker 3: have Raymond George because Raymond was going to the medical
Speaker 3: school of the hospital they brought me to and he
Speaker 3: was going to medical school, and he was just writing
Speaker 3: his original book, Life After Life, and so he went
Speaker 3: to a meeting. I was learning the walk passing out
Speaker 3: and my god, it is horrible and lose where I
Speaker 3: was and fall and blackout. And I had Raymond. But
Speaker 3: there were so many people who were having this experience
Speaker 3: because of cardiopullm and their resuscitation that somebody had to
Speaker 3: do something. And so I decided to write Saved by
Speaker 3: the Light. Why because somebody had to give people a
Speaker 3: way to look at this. And I think that I
Speaker 3: describe it fairly well. To look at it, to see
Speaker 3: what its values are, and how do you use it
Speaker 3: and look at it in your life, because it's life,
Speaker 3: it's life transforming. And so what I wrote down in
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy seven was one of the events, is the
Speaker 3: panoramic life of view had lifted out of my body
Speaker 3: and all those standard mechanisms. But the thing that was
Speaker 3: important about all of that was I went before these
Speaker 3: twelve beings, and it was a thirteenth being to the
Speaker 3: upper right side, and it would dictate which one of
Speaker 3: those beings would light up and become to resonate in multicolors,
Speaker 3: you know, And then I would only see that one,
Speaker 3: and then I would see what Paul and I call
Speaker 3: the boxes of knowledge, which were future events. Well, when
Speaker 3: I could write, which is probably two years, then I
Speaker 3: wrote them down. And so when I went to publish say,
Speaker 3: by the Lights, the whole reason for why I put
Speaker 3: it in there when they didn't want to was I said, look,
Speaker 3: I believe that there's a life after death, and I
Speaker 3: think that this stuff that's happened to me and happened
Speaker 3: to so many people, and it gives proof that there's
Speaker 3: a different way than no matter what you've been taught
Speaker 3: of how you're supposed to die, and all the context
Speaker 3: that's placed upon that mentally, physically and mostly and spiritual,
Speaker 3: it never happens like that, okay, And so once once that,
Speaker 3: once that comes into play, I said this, So if
Speaker 3: this stuff comes true, it means to me there's a
Speaker 3: life after death. It was prophecy then, George, but I
Speaker 3: didn't really know that. I didn't know it. But when
Speaker 3: I put it in the book and I said, look,
Speaker 3: I said, if it comes to the means, there's another point,
Speaker 3: that there's a life after death. When it's all come true.
Speaker 3: Anybody can buy that thirty year old book and read
Speaker 3: it and see exactly where we were. And I said,
Speaker 3: if it doesn't come true, then I was hallucinating. And
Speaker 3: I will owe everybody in the apology okay, because that's
Speaker 3: where I was in being torn between writing the book
Speaker 3: and going public to take on that mantle or not.
Speaker 2: Why did you wait almost thirty years plus to write
Speaker 2: the book?
Speaker 3: Because when I saw, when I saw the well, what
Speaker 3: I absolutely saw was the devastation of the people who
Speaker 3: were the beginners, the people who had held on to
Speaker 3: this and just like Raymond, what they had gone through
Speaker 3: when they were descending something and never had the experience themselves.
Speaker 3: And I saw this, and when I kept I saw
Speaker 3: it happened, then I had to do something. I had
Speaker 3: to do something about it. The same way with that
Speaker 3: piece and with Secrets, each of those books, where it's okay,
Speaker 3: here's me looking at what happened, and here's what I think,
Speaker 3: and I see about it, and here's the plan of
Speaker 3: action that I'm going to lay out, and then became
Speaker 3: Secrets of the Light, which was the caregiver book. When
Speaker 3: you watch as much as like you said, I've been
Speaker 3: with more than two thousand people going from this world
Speaker 3: to the next, and three hundred and fifty eight taking
Speaker 3: their last breath, and so I realized that the power
Speaker 3: of the caregiver has to come into play because we're
Speaker 3: seeing such loss and grief because of our age group
Speaker 3: and then the veterans. It's the last of the World
Speaker 3: War two or right after World War Two. There's Korea,
Speaker 3: then there's Vietnam, and then there's maybe six thousand others.
Speaker 3: But that's the point of it. So we look at
Speaker 3: the transition, what's going to happen, and caregivers are going
Speaker 3: to be important. So when I wrote Secrets of the Light,
Speaker 3: it was, okay, here's things based of looking at this
Speaker 3: for thirty five years and been at it for fifty years.
Speaker 3: Then here's things that you can based on and draw
Speaker 3: from as a reality because I've been through all of it.
Speaker 2: Truly remarkable. Did they send you back or did you
Speaker 2: have free will?
Speaker 3: Well, I'd have to say, George that the first time
Speaker 3: I didn't have sense enough to understand how the mechanisms operate.
Speaker 3: R you know, but I've been through it. What I've
Speaker 3: been through three well, the first one instruct by lightning,
Speaker 3: was dead for twenty eight minutes. Open heart surgery was
Speaker 3: on a ventilator on life support. Brain surgery was on
Speaker 3: life of support, open art surgery was on life support.
Speaker 3: Then I had to be clinically resuscitated after the second
Speaker 3: open heart surgery, and then five days after that I
Speaker 3: went into cardiac arrest and had to be clinically resuscitated twice.
Speaker 3: But I think that that was me making the final decision.
Speaker 3: I mean, I knew that I knew I was really sick,
Speaker 3: and I knew I was in trouble no matter what,
Speaker 3: because of what the doctor said about what it was
Speaker 3: like inside of me, the kind of scar tissue and
Speaker 3: damage done on the inside of me that no one
Speaker 3: could ever be able to go back in there or
Speaker 3: to fix anything, and the damage that it had done.
Speaker 3: So when I was facing that, I believe that if
Speaker 3: it happened twice and I had to be resuscitated, it's
Speaker 3: me really having to face the choices that you have
Speaker 3: to make and the things that you have to deal
Speaker 3: with in order to finish what I call the final
Speaker 3: vision if all that other stuff has come true, George,
Speaker 3: And you know, I wrote it in seventy seven. I
Speaker 3: put it in the book in ninety three, is published
Speaker 3: in ninety four, and it talks about now what's happening now,
Speaker 3: and what's happening as we move into twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: and this is the end of the cycle. This is
Speaker 3: the final parts of it. There's like one hundred and
Speaker 3: seventeen things, roughly, but there's only five or six things
Speaker 3: that's left, maybe seven mats.
Speaker 2: When Artel visited you in the hospital, what was the
Speaker 2: episode that you were in the hospital.
Speaker 3: For that was brain surgery?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Well, when you take that much electricity, George, when you
Speaker 3: take that much electricity and by then you've done it twice,
Speaker 3: by then you've it's happened the same way twice. Then
Speaker 3: I blew five subdual heemotomas, and they found out aneurysm,
Speaker 3: or at least they said they told they did, and
Speaker 3: so I was bleeding out and they didn't think I
Speaker 3: was gonna make it because my brain was starting to swell.
Speaker 3: And I've always I've been in cardiac I've been in uh,
Speaker 3: what do you call it, I've been in cardiac riff
Speaker 3: for like forty years. A heart attack, well, I mean
Speaker 3: I've been right there, right on the borderline of that
Speaker 3: for like forty years.
Speaker 2: Well, with Danian Brinkley, we're talking about as near death
Speaker 2: experiences as websites are linked up at Coast to coastam
Speaker 2: dot com. But it's truly remarkable the fact that you've
Speaker 2: been doing this for several years.
Speaker 3: Coming back, Well, if you get a chance to talk
Speaker 3: to you and the people on Coast to coast, it's
Speaker 3: worth the journey back, George. I mean people have to
Speaker 3: have as we move into this final cycle in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five is going to be the beginning of either
Speaker 3: a change or a shift or a battle for to
Speaker 3: hold on to certain situations. And if the boxes a
Speaker 3: knowledge of right, we have to worry about healthcare just
Speaker 3: and I hope we'll cover and then we have to
Speaker 3: also look at what's happening with what they're calling as
Speaker 3: solar flares, and these are the final things that are
Speaker 3: if all the rest of it happened, then we need
Speaker 3: to pay attention to those things.
Speaker 2: I remember once years ago, you were telling me. This
Speaker 2: is after the fact that the Daniel Brinkley from before
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have liked remember that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I can easily understand it. When you when
Speaker 3: you start out as a physical being, you find out
Speaker 3: you're a physical being, and then you realize that intimidation
Speaker 3: and learning how to how to bully people was a
Speaker 3: perfect way. And then you found sports, and then you
Speaker 3: found the Marine Corps, and then you found a whole
Speaker 3: world that was going on in that particular part of
Speaker 3: American history after the war, after the Vietnam experience, and
Speaker 3: so I you know, that's how I looked at life.
Speaker 3: It's like any other typical jarhead of Hurrah Rah you.
Speaker 2: Know God, But you still love that Core.
Speaker 3: No, I mean the whole part. Look, I've been a
Speaker 3: hospice volunteering the VA for forty years. Forty years. I've
Speaker 3: been doing this Why because I believe that one of
Speaker 3: the most important places in life is when you come
Speaker 3: into this world and when you leave it. Okay, because
Speaker 3: the haunting thing in everybody's life, George, what it is
Speaker 3: haunting in their life is helplessness and loneliness. Helpless is
Speaker 3: when you're coming and help us us, when you're leaving.
Speaker 3: And then loneliness is a sense that comes when you
Speaker 3: form an opinion about what you think someone else thinks
Speaker 3: about you, and it sets up loneliness. In the spiritual world,
Speaker 3: in that world that I have visited so many times,
Speaker 3: there is no such thing as helplessness and loneliness. There
Speaker 3: is no such thing. So the great lie that exists
Speaker 3: in this dimensional reality that we're in is that we
Speaker 3: have to believe that we're helpless and lowly, and we
Speaker 3: have to consciously do that. We have to consciously convince
Speaker 3: ourselves that we can be helpless and lowly, because it's
Speaker 3: part of the rules of being here.
Speaker 2: I've never had a guest that was generate so much
Speaker 2: excitement and concern than you. With Tom dan Heiser, when
Speaker 2: it gets to be close to Veterans Day in November
Speaker 2: and he knows you haven't been scheduled yet to talk
Speaker 2: about the Twilight Brigade, what you do for our military
Speaker 2: men and women, he goes crazy. He goes crazy, and
Speaker 2: I know just by looking at his actions, he's thinking
Speaker 2: about Daniel Brinkley in fact.
Speaker 3: But you know what, George, we look at that was
Speaker 3: we did it. We've made it twenty eight years. I
Speaker 3: mean when you do that as a history of coast
Speaker 3: to coast and who the night of people of the
Speaker 3: night are and what we care about and what has
Speaker 3: value to us to hold on to certain spiritual values.
Speaker 3: You know, think about this for a moment, George. If
Speaker 3: people who've had near death experience, it's roughly ninety five
Speaker 3: to ninety seven percent, say, they lift it out of
Speaker 3: their body and they watch themselves lying in the bed,
Speaker 3: in the wreck car on the street, they watch themselves
Speaker 3: lying there. That means that you're not that body if
Speaker 3: that happens. And the near death experience, which is now
Speaker 3: almost impossible to write off, the near death experience and
Speaker 3: the basic mechanisms that Raymond wrote about that happened in
Speaker 3: the course of it should change people's lives. Okay, it
Speaker 3: should be the moment where you take a good solid
Speaker 3: look at it and it would either change your life
Speaker 3: or you want for those that it's happened to, like
Speaker 3: what we were talking about, it changes your life. When
Speaker 3: I realize that I am a spiritual being, no matter
Speaker 3: what I think, that would make me an electhereal electrical being. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's what it would make me. So how would you
Speaker 3: reinforce that. Well, the Earth has what's called the Schumann
Speaker 3: residence seven point eighty two herds. The atmosphere has an atmosphere,
Speaker 3: a satosphere, and an ionosphere and two subspheres, so it's
Speaker 3: electrical too. So we're walking in air and surrounded in
Speaker 3: an atmosphere that's electrical, on an earth that has a
Speaker 3: frequency that it operates off. How can we think we're
Speaker 3: not electrical beings? You know? How can you think that
Speaker 3: you're not electric wind? And then you take this argument,
Speaker 3: you say, well, wait a minute, if you're a physical,
Speaker 3: chemical being, well, the moment that energetic pattern, all that
Speaker 3: spirit or that that divinity leaves the body and they
Speaker 3: let that breath out, all the physical things are still there.
Speaker 3: The body's there, the blood's there, the plasma is there,
Speaker 3: some of the reactions are still going now, and it's
Speaker 3: still going on. But the person that's not alive anymore, Well,
Speaker 3: that's the main focus of what you've had. This experience.
Speaker 3: That part of you becomes a dominant part in everything
Speaker 3: that you look at and how you plan it and
Speaker 3: think it. And it's not always as much fun as
Speaker 3: it should be, but it's worth it's worth the effort.
Speaker 3: To put forth and when Tommy, We've been at this
Speaker 3: for so long, George, you know, we've been at so
Speaker 3: long because I think we hold a certain spiritual ideal
Speaker 3: about what's the greatness about America and all the magical
Speaker 3: stuff that goes on in this country. And the people
Speaker 3: who call in and do these shows, come on me,
Speaker 3: it's exciting.
Speaker 2: When you were on the other side, did you see
Speaker 2: anything or feel anything that would lead you to believe
Speaker 2: that there's a heaven and the hell?
Speaker 3: Okay, well, I have asked a little question that the
Speaker 3: concept of heaven has to be. I mean, I have
Speaker 3: seen in these journeys, I've seen four realms. They were different,
Speaker 3: and they were constructed different. I mean they had a
Speaker 3: lot of similarities in how I got to them, but
Speaker 3: you know they were different. Okay, So, but I always
Speaker 3: looked at it like this, If anybody was going to
Speaker 3: go to Hell in nineteen September seventeenth at seven o
Speaker 3: five pm, it would have been me. They wouldn't have
Speaker 3: been anybody that deserve to go to Hell more than me.
Speaker 3: I mean I would have it coming based on all
Speaker 3: the stuff that you hear. It just didn't happen, and
Speaker 3: none of the times that I have gone through this,
Speaker 3: the most horrible thing was the panoramic life review, because
Speaker 3: I had to see myself. I had to be myself
Speaker 3: and faith myself. I had to see my whole life
Speaker 3: pass before me. I had to watch it from a
Speaker 3: second person point of view. I had to become every
Speaker 3: person that I'd ever encountered and feel the direct results
Speaker 3: of my interaction.
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