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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Dannion Brinkley - NDE's

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	Welcome to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight, featuring Coast to Coast AM, from July 18th, 1997.
	From the high desert, and the great American Southwest, I bid you all good evening, or good morning, as the case may be, across all these many prolific time zones.
	From the Hawaiian and Tahitian island chains, in the West, East, all the way to the Caribbean and the U.S.
	Virgin Islands, South into South America.
	North to the Poland.
	Worldwide on ye olde internet.
	This is Close to Close AM.
	Top of the morning, I'm Art Bell.
	What do you suppose it would be like to die?
	What do you suppose it would be like to die?
	Uh, only not quite go on as we all imagine you might.
	To one's final reward, whatever that might be.
	I suppose having earned it one way or the other while you were here.
	Now, coming up is a man who has done that.
	Only came back, uh, actually twice.
	And the medical records all support that fact.
	His name is Danion Brinkley.
	He's a good friend.
	He's back in the country and bouncing around as he always does.
	Danion does a lot of geographic hopping.
	But we've got them pinned down at least for this night in Charleston, South Carolina.
	And so we'll talk with Daniel about many, many things.
	What it's like to die.
	Come back.
	What it's like to have visions.
	What they mean.
	Egypt.
	We'll touch on Egypt.
	And many other things.
	All of it coming up.
	Oh, by the way.
	Coming Tuesday evening.
	Mr. Spock.
	Star Trek.
	Leonard Nimoy.
	It's funny, we were talking the other day about the fact that if you had to be stuck with a role, boy, Mr. Spock is a role to have.
	and we'll talk to about that and uh... he's somebody i have admired watch
	since i was small now we take you back to the night of july eighteenth
	nineteen ninety seven on our girls somewhere in time
	and Alright, about to get underway.
	One special visitation.
	My very own wife, Ramona, happens to be down in Southern California.
	Visiting with her family, my in-laws, and I want to let her say hello from Southern California.
	Bicellular at that!
	Here she is.
	Hiya!
	Hello there!
	Well, wait a minute.
	Have I pushed the button?
	No.
	Let me get it right.
	There.
	Now you're on the air.
	You know, you are never any better at, you know, doing this with me than you are with anybody else.
	That's right.
	How are you doing?
	I'm fine, baby.
	Mom's getting ready to scound everything in my bathroom right now.
	I see.
	Trey, right now we have my brother, Rodney, who is on leave right now from the service.
	Uh, who happens to be a fellow who spends his time in nuclear submarines.
	That's right.
	He's on the USS Wyoming.
	Hold on.
	Here you go.
	Say hi, Rodney.
	Hi, Rodney.
	Hi, Rodney.
	And here is my soon-to-be sister-in-law, Risa.
	Say hi, Risa.
	Hello, hello, hello.
	Hello, Risa.
	And here is my brother, Andy.
	Hello.
	Hi there.
	And if you're still there, here's my mommy.
	And Yes, I am the mother.
	Hi, Julie.
	And my sister who abandoned us all and went into the bathroom.
	We're all sitting here right now.
	We just got done having dinner.
	And we all raised a ruckus down in the restaurant.
	So they threw us out.
	They threw us out of the lounge.
	And now here we are up in my room saying, Hello, baby.
	How are you?
	I am just fine.
	I'm glad.
	You know, I'll be home at 1230 tomorrow afternoon.
	All right.
	And I know that you have Danion on tonight, and I welcome Danion very much.
	I do.
	Say hi, Danion.
	Hello, Danion.
	How are you, darling?
	Hi, Ramona.
	How are you?
	I'm fine, sweetheart.
	That's an awful clear cellular communications link there.
	You know, that's because the husband picked up the phone.
	That's right.
	I care about phones.
	All right, baby.
	See you tomorrow afternoon.
	All right, sweetie.
	Take care.
	I love you.
	I love you, too, hon.
	Bye.
	Bye.
	There you go.
	That's my wife down in Southern California, Dannion.
	Dannion Brinkley.
	Mark Dale, you're an awful lucky man.
	I am.
	I know.
	I know.
	In fact, we're going to talk a little bit about that.
	But before we get into it, Daniel, let's catch the world up on who you are.
	You know, because not everybody in my audience knows we've got so many new affiliates, this thing grows like an out-of-control weed.
	That's because you do such a good job of letting people who are of the night know what's going on and make their own decisions.
	You know, I'm one of these people who are listening to this radio show.
	I just happen to be stupid enough to be talking on the phone in South Carolina during a thunderstorm.
	We all... Oh, no!
	Is there... There's not one going on now, is there?
	Oh, no.
	We would be having this conversation if there was one going on now.
	Yeah, that's a good question, Dan.
	Do you stay clear of phones during all thunderstorms?
	Absolutely.
	I've learned my lesson about it.
	You know, when you start out, Art, I never had any inkling toward anything mystical or all the stuff that's on coast to coast or dreamland.
	I'm a guy from South Carolina.
	I will be 47 years old on Sunday.
	And when I think back to look how long when you look at your birthday and realize that 21 years ago this September I was minding my own business being a complete jerk like I'd spent my entire life, you know, always thinking I knew it all.
	And I decided to talk on the telephone, and it was thundering, and I decided... Actually, don't skip over all that, Daniel.
	You're moving too fast.
	Okay.
	You said you were a complete jerk.
	You were in the service.
	You were a bad guy.
	I once asked you, and you told me you had to kill some people, huh?
	Well, I mean, war dictates that kind of stuff, like a lot of it.
	You try to put that out of your mind, but nonetheless, that's what you did.
	But I guess what I mean is you weren't, it was not in a regular combat situation for you, was it?
	In other words, where people were shooting at you and that sort of thing.
	Well, I think the element of surprise art is always good in warfare.
	And I was fighting a type of war, what we call covert wars, the secret wars, or the wars that held countries together or kept them apart.
	by fighting proxy wars.
	You know, a product of being, growing up and being born in 1950, that a lot of guys came
	home from the war, World War II, who just wanted to be people.
	Daniel, were you an assassin?
	Is that a too strong a word or is it...
	I was a good soldier, no matter what the combat situation was.
	Fair enough.
	So anyway, you had to do some...
	Whatever it took and whatever the orders that came down, that's what you followed and you
	them.
	And yes, it included the fact that, you know, someone lived or someone died.
	How well do you remember the other side of it?
	I mean, when someone died, how much thought do you give that ahead of time or do you just respond to your training and do what you do?
	You plan it out, just like you would do anything, you would plan it.
	And you would get your part in whatever the mission was, and it was planned well, and then you compartmentalized what you were supposed to do, and you kept that in focus, and you got your part done.
	I didn't have to live long enough to figure out some of the stuff I did that didn't know at the time that that's what I was doing, but I learned about it years later because I kept surviving.
	I think that was the major issue.
	Any reflections at the time, or, you know, obviously when you're doing something in the military?
	You just do it.
	I mean, you're trained to do it, so you do what you do.
	But I mean, afterward, any thoughts about having taken life?
	No.
	Never thought about it like that.
	I always looked at it with them or me, and I was stemming the red tide or enforcing the Monroe Doctrine or protecting, you know, mom and apple pie and baseball.
	And I thought in the early parts of what I was doing, because I started as a kid at 19, By the time I came to my senses, I was like 25 years old.
	So that doesn't make me a rocket scientist.
	But I lived in that mentality, the continuous siege mentality and the soldier mentality and the macho mentality.
	And that consumed my whole world.
	I mean, it's what I did and where I lived.
	And I lived both one life and then a quieter life.
	And it wasn't quieter, but it was unknown.
	And there were a lot of us that did that.
	A lot of people came from the Vietnam era.
	that felt unsatisfied in the fact that we lost the war and who knew so much about what was going on that we felt
	we had to keep week
	we proven ourselves so we got bolder and bolder and we created
	the world of covert activity and now it's such a dominant part that we've
	accepted that this way of life is supposedly the best way to protect the quality of life
	that we live you know reflecting for a second on vietnam we lost the war
	not because we couldn't win it because we didn't have the will to
	well we and that are what we were really fighting for what were we fighting for
	well yeah they all these are all questions worthy questions but I mean
	once you're in a war is my feeling that you either win the damn thing
	and do what you have to do A war isn't a partial game, it's not a part game.
	Amen.
	Or you get the hell out, one of the two.
	Or you be the best you can and figure out how to stop them.
	I remember very well the president at the time, Johnson, who I thought and still think is a criminal, was a criminal.
	This man concocted missions and sent people into situations in a limited war.
	You know, a war with rules.
	That's bull, Daniel.
	War doesn't have rules.
	If you're going to get into it, you go into it and kill the other guy, period, until he gives up, until you win.
	Well, that's how I thought it.
	I mean, I think a lot of the frustration from a lot of us, I mean, from everything that we went through in that era, and watching so much of what, that it was only petty little wars among almost governments, not so much as a spiritual cause or a deeply Emotional and patriotic cause.
	I think it became very diluted toward the end.
	And after the fall of Saigon, it was even worse and then become worse.
	I just tend to look at things differently, you know, when you were involved in it and you saw friends who got killed because they went to fight in less than a full fight.
	Oh, it builds anger and a lot of it in me.
	I can understand and appreciate it very much, my kind friend.
	I can understand it very much, and I see one of those coming again.
	Bosnia comes again.
	I mean, the whole deal from the whole issue of where Bosnia and Sarajevo and all that, here it comes again.
	If they think that when they leave, meaning us, that they is us, that it's not going to take up where it left off, they, we, are out of our minds.
	It's doing that now.
	Of course.
	I mean, that's what's going to happen.
	One thing that I really love about the Art Bell Show is the more informed a person is, regardless of whether it's lunacy to complete sanity, the more informed that we are, the better we're able to make informed decisions.
	And that's what will stop the war.
	I mean, that's what will keep it contained in a place where we don't commit.
	We have to keep a spiritual focus in guarding the world, but we have to be very careful about what we waste human life for.
	And here it comes again.
	I mean, it's like the 20s have recreated themselves and are molding into where Bosnia and all those issues are.
	That molds itself, and that's Christians killing Muslims.
	Well, I don't like to seem negative, but hard as Vietnam was, in a lot of ways, in this country now, socially, life, human life, is worth less in the corner of the realm than it ever was.
	Well, there's more of it, also.
	I mean, people take life without a thought.
	You know, I've got a favorite example.
	It used to be in America, Daniel, that when somebody would rob a 7-Eleven, they'd go in, you know, and I love this example, and they'd hold a guy, hold a gun on a guy and say, give me your cash, and back out the back door and take off.
	Now, the guy goes into the store, says, give me your cash, the guy gives the cash, and as a second afterthought, the robber puts a bullet through his head, then runs away.
	It's something that's changed.
	You know, a lot of things are changing in the cultural and social sense, but I think, you know, when you bottom out, we hit a place where we're having to really decide what the value of our spiritual self is, and I think there's a lot of things that are going on.
	I think a lot of it is inequities, too.
	You know, we're both in that age group where we look at life now with a little maturity to it, and we realize that a lot of the things we've heard, when I listen to rap music, I've listened to a cultural disparity, and I don't know what the true cause of it is.
	But you see where people really don't have a value of themselves, that's what creates so much of that lack of concern or care for life or the value of life.
	Well, then, you know, I'm always trying to understand whether it's my getting older And it might be.
	You know, I mean, I remember when I was 12 or so, 13, I'd be listening to music that I considered to be superb, which are now oldies but goodies.
	But my dad would come in and say, how can you listen to that?
	That's not music.
	That's not a tune.
	There's nothing musical about that.
	He'd shake his head and walk away, very much the way I do with the music today, a lot of the music today.
	So are you sure?
	What do you think?
	Is it that we might be getting older?
	Well, each generation reflects in its own understanding.
	When I listen to the music, I mean, I don't particularly like it, but when you sell millions and millions and millions of albums of gangster rap and this kind of music, you're expressing something of the youth.
	And when I listen to it, I listen to guys that feel like there's no way out.
	That people who are trapped in a system that have lost their spirituality, or the identity in the spiritual nature of themselves, As opposed to living in everyday urban situations.
	One of the most wonderful comments in the quickening was about you talking about what's going to happen with the urban Russian population in the next 20 years.
	It was one of the coolest things that was in the book because it started making really clear sense what's happening.
	You either have the Rust Belt which is losing its industrial base because we moved toward a technological base.
	And then you have those cities that are growing so thick with people and more and more people, then what we're seeing is like a more and more thought about the value of life in space.
	In Brazil, they were riding around paying policemen to shoot children 6 and 12 and under because they were messing with tourism.
	Yeah, the street children.
	They're still doing that.
	Yeah, so when you start thinking, that won't hold up.
	There is a part of us that I learned about having two near-death experiences.
	You know, like where we started out.
	I've never dealt with the things that I deal with now because once you go through a near-death experience, talking on the telephone, struck by lightning, I'm 25 years old, I don't care anything about spirituality.
	I'm not interested in it.
	I'm interested in a 7.62 millimeter gas-operated, junk-fed, shoulder weapon.
	And how fast I could move with it, what ground I could cover with it, and how I could get away with it and get home and try to be as cool as I could possibly be with no one know it was me that done it.
	What were you doing in 25?
	You were out of the service, huh?
	Oh, yeah.
	Okay.
	What were you doing?
	But not very far out of it.
	I mean, were you in business?
	Had you gone into the private sector?
	Oh, yeah.
	I was in business.
	I worked and I was in a family business and I had an antique car business and all the things that they would create to create covers for you and you just tended business.
	You never knew from one month to another month what it would be but you just did your part and they paid you your money and you came on and went on about your business.
	It wasn't something every day but it was going on all the time because I ended up working in Central and South America.
	And that would be because I could leave quickly from this area, get there, and get back in a matter of time that would not be so obvious.
	And, you know, the government intertwines with so much other stuff.
	And so I've been in Nicaragua, because they knew the Somoza, the Anastasia Somoza regime was going to collapse.
	And so what we do is send a team in and you would determine how to destroy the economic and social base.
	Yep.
	Train railroad systems.
	Sure.
	Power systems.
	Sure.
	Because then you create a civil war, and from that civil war, you can put a hoot to end, or you can go in to stabilize the Americas under the Monroe Doctrine, like we did in Nicaragua, dealing with the Sandinistas were communist.
	And we would go in, and I've been down there.
	I'm curious.
	We rarely talk of such things, but I debated my way through those times on the air, Daniel.
	What was your view with regard to the Sandinistas?
	I thought they were just farmers.
	Just farmers?
	I didn't see... I couldn't find, in my life, as hard as I looked, I couldn't find an enemy.
	It was worse than an arm.
	You couldn't find an enemy.
	They were farmers.
	It was strange.
	I was getting pretty deluded by it, but I couldn't find an enemy.
	There was not an enemy in that.
	We had created something because we wanted to keep a regime in power, and these were people Who had grown to a certain level of maturity from the native and the Indian population.
	So they had demanded their rights and the old colonial powers were not going to let that happen.
	Okay.
	Well, my political views on that aside for a second, if you thought that at the time, Daniel, how were you able to do what you did?
	It was hard, but I had begun to pull myself away from it.
	I mean it was amazing as I look now back at 47 years and this is over 21 years ago.
	I mean I was 25 years old and it's 21 years ago.
	I can think now of those moments on that way home and what went through my mind as I was coming home which was I'd been home two days when I got struck by lightning.
	I'd been gone like eight days and then I'd come home for two days.
	And I had to, I was going, trying to get all my, the business of everyday life back in order after I'd done the surveys of what I was supposed to do and what the team was going to go back, if I had to plan to do that, if I was going to be a part of that.
	And I was going through my mind just thinking about all those things when I got home.
	All right.
	Well, that's exactly what we're going to talk about next.
	So hang tight.
	Bottom of the hour is here.
	My guest is Daniel Brinkley.
	I guarantee you, you're going to be fascinated.
	What's coming is one of the most amazing stories that you've ever heard.
	I mean, if you're at all curious about what happens when you die, then stick around.
	You're listening to Art Bell Somewhere in Time on Premier Radio Networks.
	Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from July 18, 1997.
	This is a presentation of the Coast to Coast AM concert.
	so so
	so so
	so somewhere in time
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from July 18, 1997.
	Good morning.
	It's great to be here.
	Daniel Brinkley is my guest, and you're about to take a trip.
	He'll take you on it, so sit down, buckle in, and get ready.
	I bet it should be interesting.
	Now we take you back to the night of July 18th, 1997 on Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
	I'll see you there.
	A sad note for you to hear.
	Alice Springs, Australia.
	CNN is reporting that geologist Eugene Shoemaker Who helped discover the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet that crashed into Jupiter three years ago in a most spectacular way was killed Friday.
	In an automobile accident, according to Sky and Telescope magazine, the couple had been in Australia for two weeks on an annual trip to search for asteroid impact craters in the outback, and he has met with his death in an automobile accident.
	Very sad.
	I've got one other item.
	As you know, there have been UFO sightings recently in Oregon.
	And I am not going to identify the person unless they want to be identified.
	But I have a report here from the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle.
	You remember I told you I was joking about objects hovering above my network headquarters?
	Well, one of our employees there, there are many, there are about 40 there, saw a UFO herself and reported it to the National UFO Reporting Center.
	And if she wants to say anything about it, I'll let her do it, otherwise I certainly will not identify her.
	But there are some interesting things going on in Oregon, and I think it's less than coincidental that there are crop circles beginning to show up in the area as well.
	Just something for you to note.
	Back now to Charleston, South Carolina, a very famous old American city, and Danion Brinkley.
	Danion, hi.
	Hi, Art.
	All right.
	One of the greatest, oldest, old cities in America.
	Yes.
	Absolutely wonderful place to be.
	Alright, Daniel, let's talk about it.
	You were on the phone one day, just to chat with a friend or something?
	I'd like to say one other thing, Art.
	I think that the era that began in 1975 and all the things that were going on, I think that in the near future there will be a lot of amazing revelations that will come from those early days of where covert activities, and I think when people start really taking a good look at the NSA and The things that came out under the Reagan administration and the early forerunners of what they call archer teams and all of that kind of stuff will help better explain what was really going on in that time.
	I frankly, though, kind of wonder if it's really any different today than it was then.
	It's worse today.
	Yeah, I think it probably is.
	Yeah, it's like it's become an established fiefdom.
	Yeah.
	Before it wasn't that.
	It was as we made inroads to control certain governments and aspects of government and banking and collapses of banks and FNL stuff.
	I've watched a lot of that through the years that I saw the early days of its development, but I never could put that together because I didn't have that much sense.
	But I think that we're going to learn a lot in the next couple of years because people are beginning to talk Who would never spoken before.
	So I wanted to add that, but after I came home, I was going over all those stuff in my mind, like this birthday now, as I look at being 47 years old.
	And I really wasn't concerned except doing a good job of getting paid for it.
	By the way, your birthday on the 20th Sunday.
	Happy birthday, Daniel.
	Thank you very much.
	Pretty amazing I got this far.
	Yeah, I feel the same way sometimes about myself.
	But listen, that's an important day.
	The 20th is a very interesting day.
	It could be a day when things will occur.
	We'll see.
	I was thinking about if I'd have known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
	And then I realized I didn't live this long.
	So I feel pretty good that I got this far.
	But I was talking on the telephone.
	With no idea, never heard of what the near-death experience was, none of that stuff.
	I mean, none of the things that you talk about would I have given the time of day.
	And all of a sudden, I'm talking to a friend, and I hear thunder, like any September in the Dog Days in the South.
	And all of a sudden, I heard the thunder in the distance, and I said, I need to get off the phone.
	And we talked a couple minutes, and I heard it again coming this way, and I said, I have to go.
	I never realized what I meant when I said that.
	I'm sitting on the edge of the bed in the bedroom.
	I'm talking on the phone and all of a sudden I'm hit in the neck by a bolt of lightning because it had come down the phone line.
	It knocked me out of my shoes, welded the nails in the heels of my shoes to the nails in the floor.
	It knocked me in the air.
	It suspended me in the air and then blew me back down and bent the bed frame.
	And I was burning and I'm on fire.
	Just an idea of what the impact of that was.
	I was dead for a little more than 28 minutes.
	You were on fire?
	Yeah, it was like drinking battery acid.
	Daniel, who was there?
	Was somebody there?
	Yeah, my wife was there.
	Your wife was there?
	She saw it happen?
	She heard it happen?
	Yeah, but she turned down the hall, and I can remember her saying it was a close one, and she looked down the hall and saw me spread out across the bed.
	And I'm burning and on fire, and I can't move, and I don't know what had happened.
	I never thought about lightning.
	You know, I thought it was C-3 or C-4 or Semtex or some type of rocket, rocket grenade.
	And that's the whole mindset.
	Yeah, I can imagine that that's what you would have thought.
	Yeah, I didn't think about being struck by lightning.
	I figured it was my time.
	And someone had come to do to me what many times I had gone to set up or be a part of and I could accept it.
	And then the pain was so severe, I couldn't move.
	Think about dead for 20, no pulse, no respiration.
	And, uh, not breathing.
	Your wife, uh, obviously calls 9-1-1.
	Well, Tommy, the guy on the other end of the phone, he came over, he heard the explosion, the phone wasn't working, and he came over, he was a corpsman in the Navy, and she and he were working on me, and he saw that I wasn't breathing, and he, uh, he sent her to call next door to call, uh, the paramedics.
	Right.
	But in the course of this, This is what starts the experience that now has led Daniel Brimfield for 21 years, a whole new different way he looks at life.
	As I was burning it on fire, the first thing I thought after I gathered my senses of where I was, I couldn't move.
	I mean, you're talking dead for 28 minutes.
	I was completely paralyzed for six days and partially paralyzed for seven months.
	It took me two years to learn to walk and feed myself and I lost more than 50 pounds.
	Yeah, the medical records are very complete on all of this.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, it happened at a medical university.
	It's not like it's some big... It's not a difficult situation when medical records are like big stacks of stuff.
	Normally, if a person is dead for 28 minutes, they're dead.
	I mean, you know, your brain begins to starve and pretty soon you don't have a brain, so... I didn't have much of a brain to start with, Arthur.
	I didn't have a heart to go in that particular issue.
	But what I did learn, What I learned was probably the greatest lesson anyone will ever learn, and I don't know if it was worth it, but it still happened to me.
	I'd never heard of the near-death experience.
	I'm burning and I'm on fire.
	The first thing I think about is I stabilized myself.
	I couldn't move.
	I couldn't see.
	I started thinking about Sandy and if she was going to be okay because I couldn't protect her, and my whole mindset is that militarized war mentality, the siege mentality, and how to dig in and where my perimeters are and which way to move And how to get to protect her.
	When I couldn't protect her, it was more than I could handle.
	Then all of a sudden I was in this blue-gray place, and I'm floating.
	I roll over and I see myself lying across the bed.
	I see Sandy come in and start to work on me.
	Tawny come over immediately.
	It was raining by then, and I watch this.
	Stop for a second, Danny, and explain to me, you said I'm in a blue-gray place, and yet you're still in the room.
	Yeah, I'm still in the room.
	I'm in a place that I did not recognize because I had nothing to draw from.
	I had no background whatsoever to draw from.
	Can you put words to it?
	I mean, how are you in a blue-gray place but still in the same room?
	Can you make words that will help us visualize that?
	Yeah.
	I mean, I didn't know that I was still in the room.
	My mindset was still wherever I was.
	It was more comfortable than the place that I had been because I wasn't burning.
	I had some movement and it was a kind of peaceful place around me.
	It was like you were detached.
	Oh, absolutely.
	I was detached, but I wasn't aware of that until I would appear to be rolled over, you know, like I was floating on my back.
	And then I roll over and I see myself flying across the bed.
	And I'm still amazed at what's happening.
	I have no way to grip it.
	I feel pretty good about it.
	I never thought I was dead.
	My mind was just studying like one step removed from everything that was going on.
	I'm analyzing and looking at it.
	I'm watching them work on me and yet it's never taken into consideration.
	I'll show you how dumb I am, Art.
	As I was watching Tommy and Sandy work on me, what was amazing to me was I could see that they had like energy fields around them.
	I'd never heard of auras or anything like that and I would have never believed it if anybody had told me.
	I wouldn't have believed it.
	You couldn't have gotten me to believe it.
	But as I was watching them, they had fields of colors around them and every word and every emotion appeared as a reflection of these colors that moved about eight or nine inches from their bodies.
	And I looked at myself and I thought to myself, why didn't I have one of these color fields around me of energy and color fields around me?
	Not knowing that the color field It's what symbolizes the spiritual body.
	I didn't have sense enough to think that.
	Can you describe that?
	In other words, you said you saw an aura about them.
	Again, I'm trying to visualize what you actually saw.
	Did you see... Imagine multi-colors.
	Imagine a person that you're standing in front of a Christmas tree.
	You know how a Christmas tree has those little wheel lights that If you have a silver Christmas tree it has this light that goes around and it has different colors that turns the color of the Christmas tree.
	You bet.
	Imagine you standing in front of that but with a beautiful kind of glow about you and you standing in front of that and these colors are pulsating around you and flowing around you and you realize that they're flowing around you dealing with the emotions More so than anything about the person, that they're emotionally reacting to the situation of one seeing her husband and the other seeing his friend.
	Of course.
	And then the interaction between the two of them, I mean it was beautiful is what it was.
	It was beautiful colors and hues and I almost say tones, but I didn't hear anything.
	But I could see that there was a rhythm to them and it would emanate in their thoughts, emotions, some happy, some sad, some points, some thoughts.
	It was really terrific.
	So all of this was occurring in complete silence with understanding.
	In other words, you saw what was going on.
	You understood what was going on.
	You didn't need to hear words, and you didn't hear any words.
	Well, when they were talking, it was more important that I look at the colors and the blending of the colors, and I could feel their emotional state more so than any of the conversation.
	I think if I would have listened to the conversation, I would have realized that they had They had realized that I was dead, but I wasn't even thinking about that because I was feeling pretty good.
	I was safe.
	I could watch this event with more clarity than anything I'd ever seen before, and I was seeing what a person really looks like, who we really are, and these are the early moments of this first experience.
	I could see who we were, that we were more spiritual in our dynamic than we are in physical and mental, and these bodies that I was seeing, the physical body that we now have, That we seem to, in our peripheral vision, have cut ourselves off from seeing the greater body that we truly are and that we truly have.
	And I'm watching this really amazed by it, Art.
	Sure.
	I watched him call the paramedics and I was, I think, not enjoying it, but amazed that so much was going on and I could understand things a lot better, still never thinking that I was dead.
	I watched him load me in an ambulance.
	And I was too busy exploring what was inside of an ambulance since I'd never been in one before, more so than this guy, this EMS guy, really having himself a good time.
	You know, firemen and policemen and paramedics, God bless them, but they really enjoy their work and they get into it.
	Oh, I know.
	And this guy was having a great time trying to resuscitate me.
	He was pounding and working and pushing and talking to himself, but I was paying attention to what was in this ambulance.
	I mean, there was more important things than whatever he was doing.
	And I hear the guy say he's gone.
	And I look over his shoulder, and I tell this all the time, but it's still what happened.
	I remember looking over his shoulder and looking down at myself and thinking to myself that I thought I was a much better looking guy than that.
	And when you think that, but that's true.
	People laugh at me, but it was me coming to grips with the fact.
	That I was separate from this body.
	Well, look, Daniel, you were having a bad hair day.
	You couldn't have looked that good.
	You were on fire.
	You just got hit by lightning.
	You were dead.
	It was not your best moment.
	Well, I'm telling you, but that's my mind when I look at it.
	Whoa, boy.
	I always thought I was a better looking guy because my hair was burned, my eyebrows were burned, my fingernails, all the hair was burned off my arms.
	You know, and people who know about electrical discharges know it follows wherever moisture is.
	So I have these blue lines all down me, all over my neck.
	That would be exactly right, yes.
	And then this tunnel, I began to pull away from this whole event.
	They keep rushing on to the hospital.
	But I moved into a tunnel.
	A tunnel that was moving whether I was moving or not.
	That had an essence to it and a nature to it, but it was peaceful.
	It was truly, truly peaceful.
	I start moving down this tunnel, and I was comfortable with it.
	You know, people, when you think about all the things that we go through being afraid of death... Can I ask a dumb question?
	At this point, Daniel, do you remember sensory things?
	In other words, for example, do you remember, did you have a body?
	Did you have a body you could examine or see?
	Did you see your hands?
	Did you see any part of your physical, what seemed to be a physical body, or were you a pure spirit?
	No, I had a body.
	If I moved down this tunnel, it became more defined than it was.
	I was mostly my mental self, but I had a body, because when I came through this tunnel, I could see a light at the end of this tunnel, and I started coming through at the end of this tunnel.
	When I came into the place where I appeared to have stopped, and I was like resting, or Just dwelling is the only word I can describe.
	I remember looking at my hands and seeing I had a body that appeared to be surrounded by light, but it was not as dense as the physical body, but it still was a body.
	I was still Daniel Brinkley.
	I didn't turn into an angel or anything like that.
	I was still Daniel Brinkley's mentality, but it was evolving.
	I could tell I was changing.
	When I looked at myself and I would focus on my hand, the light and the energy around it would tend to focus tighter.
	When I let go, like to watch it move, it would move outward and blend with everything around me.
	But where I was was in this blue, silvery white place, like in the early morning in a fog in New England.
	It looks like it's thick, but it's really not.
	It's like a gentle mist.
	And it had color to it, but it was more silver and white.
	It didn't have multidimensional color.
	But one of the key things about it was I was comfortable.
	I was at peace.
	Wherever it was I was, I was happy to be there and content that this was a part of everything that was natural.
	Were you aware you were dead?
	I started to begin to think that.
	I mean, that's an obvious question, a layman's question.
	In other words, were you asking yourself, huh, this is really strange, I wonder if I'm dead?
	I mean, that's what you would think you would ask yourself.
	Well, it was pretty close to that.
	I was thinking about, is this what the end of life was like?
	Not so much dead because my mind was too alive to be dead, but my mind started searching for an answer for it, but not from a fear base.
	I mean, just a curiosity base.
	You know what's so amazing about death is that it's a natural, orderly system and it's filled with very comforting methods that you travel through.
	You know, after going through this the first time and going into this place of light and Really realizing, not as much then as I do now, but knowing that this is how we all leave this world.
	There is a very systematic nature that comes into play that takes us home.
	Back to a place where we started from.
	We're not from here.
	We come from this other place.
	And as I watch all of this, I'm 25 years old.
	I grew up in South Carolina.
	You know, I'm not like a rocket scientist.
	And my whole mindset is a whole different world.
	And all of a sudden, I'm dealing with a spiritual plane.
	And a spiritual dynamic about myself, I think the most important part is this next part.
	Were you, at this point, disconnected from everything going on with your body?
	Well, I don't even know anything about it.
	I've heard the stories of what happened to my body.
	They took me to the hospital, they worked on me.
	Right, but I mean, at that moment, you didn't know a thing about, nor even care about your physical body?
	I wasn't even interested.
	I not only didn't care what that body was, I wasn't even interested in it.
	And wherever it was they could have it.
	But wherever I was now was the place I wanted to be and it's a comforting place.
	You don't really know what it all is but inside of you something knows it's the right way and the right part.
	Just like you know how you got up in the morning and you put your clothes on and you got on the bus and you went to school.
	It was the natural way that you ran through your day and you got on the bus and you came home and if you're like me you went to work.
	And it was as natural and as wondrous as that was, but even more so, because I was freer and I could move and I could conceive and it was just a different person evolving in there.
	Alright, hold the story right there.
	We're at the top of the hour.
	Rest, relax if you can.
	I wonder how hard it is to relive all of this.
	The medical records are, uh, very clear and there were months and months of recovery.
	What you're hearing is the story of a man who died.
	I hope you're listening.
	You're listening to Art Bell's Somewhere in Time.
	tonight featuring a replay of coast to coast am from july 18 1997
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	Tonight's program originally aired July 18th, 1997.
	On a Friday night, Saturday morning, or perhaps Sunday night, Monday morning, if that's when you're hearing this, my guest is Daniel Brinkley.
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	Now we take you back to the night of July 18th, 1997, on Art Bell's Somewhere in Time.
	For those of you who may be joining us, Danion Brinkley is my guest.
	Uh, he was struck by lightning while on the phone.
	His shoes, the nails in his shoes were welded to the floor.
	He was thrown into the air and onto the bed, and his body was on fire, taken by ambulance to the hospital as they tried to resuscitate him.
	27 minutes or 28 minutes dead.
	Dead.
	Months and months in recovery.
	And we're kind of midway in the story, and at this point he's in the ambulance.
	Observing more about the ambulance than the emergency medical technician trying to reanimate him, and that's where we kind of left off.
	And you were in a kind of a hazy place, but an okay place, looking around the ambulance.
	Well, I was watching him work on me, but I was more interested in the stuff that was in an ambulance.
	I had never seen that kind of stuff before.
	This was a truck instead of an ambulance.
	You know, when I grew up, An ambulance was either a Buick, a Cadillac, or an Oldsmobile, and it was the same automobile as a hearse, except it had lights on the front and back.
	Right.
	This happened to be a truck, and it was the first time I'd ever seen an ambulance that was a truck with a shell on the back, and I was curious about that.
	What people are going to be amazed at is when you think what you've been taught by religions and institutions and governments, literally indoctrinated to believe that death comes or exists, when it never really does.
	The most disturbing thing about having a near-death experience is all of a sudden you realize that about 75% of everything you've ever been told is just some kind of crap.
	It was amazing after I came back in recovery, the things that I used to believe were so real, all of a sudden they didn't even matter because they were the furthest thing from the truth.
	A lot of that's beginning to occur to me now as I get older anyway, but very slowly.
	But also that you innovate.
	Look what you're doing, you're allowing people to tell their stories and their issues.
	I'm sitting here turning 47 years old, looking back at what happened to me 21 years ago.
	And how I moved through that tunnel.
	And how I came out into a place of bright, brilliant, beautiful light.
	Before there was Raymond Moody's book, and before anyone really knew the commonalities within the near-death experience.
	But we all know now, after 15 million Americans and so much reports about it, This is the natural way in which you leave this world.
	That's the key part of the whole message of Daniel Brinkley.
	Okay, your consciousness was still there.
	I mean, if you're sitting there, uh, curious about, you know, looking at the ambulance, I might do that myself.
	I know the kind of ambulance you're talking about.
	That means that you had a full consciousness about you.
	You were expressing curiosity.
	I was more conscious than Art, and in 1989 than I've ever been conscious.
	In the 47 years I've been on this earth, I may not be a rocket scientist, which I'm sure I'm not, but I was alive more in what we call death than I ever was alive in what we call life.
	I always say I had a near-life experience because to realize that you will live from your body and you are safe and protected and aware that it's a system, you're fully cognizant and you move down a tunnel.
	Going to a place of bright, brilliant, beautiful light, no matter what you think, or who's telling you, or what the minister said, or what anybody else said, this is how you leave this world.
	One question, and that is, what happened to you physically is not in question, it's well documented.
	What you experienced, and you've told us about up until this moment, there are doctors, there are many doctors, who would say, What you experienced was within your own brain, which was not really dead yet, that endorphins were releasing in huge amounts, that your body was going into a protective mode, you were shutting down, the tunnel is a function of the brain shutting down from the outside moving toward the core, and that it was a pure physical experience and you misinterpreted that
	As a spiritual experience, that's what a doctor might say, Daniel.
	That shows you how stupid he is.
	I have no problem that there are endorphin releases and peptide bonds and neurons breaking down in the brain, that there's oxygen brain deprivation, there's temporal lobe seizures, there's frontal lobe seizures, there's reactions to shock, reactions to medication, reactions to Whenever a person's at that point of death, the resuscitation techniques, I don't have any problem that a lot of that stuff does occur and a lot of times that people who are describing near-death experiences have really experienced what they're talking about.
	I have no doubt that biological and neurological shutdown does occur in what happens in a near-death experience.
	But then you have to stop and think for a moment that doctors and scientists 73% of all scientists believe that if you believe in God or a spiritual afterlife, you can't do good science.
	And 52% of all doctors don't believe in God.
	I wonder why that is?
	Well, because they themselves have become gods, or they've been trapped in a system that is the institutionalized nature of medicine.
	And then all of a sudden the art of healing became the business of medicine, and now it's become the business of Insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.
	But I mean, Daniel, why can't you watch a comet slam into a planet and plot it and look at the stars and the planets and still believe there is a creator?
	Why is there a problem with that?
	Well, I think a lot of it is we lost a lot of faith in what we thought was the church in the early days because we found it to be fallible.
	As we grow older, we look at religious concepts.
	And we look at all the dimensions that have been taught us to be established, Christianity and Judaism and other religious concepts.
	We tend to see common threads in it, and then we have to depend on those who keep us alive.
	When we're looking at death as the controlling issue, and not an afterlife, but the fear of pain, then we create a whole new religion, like the science of medicine.
	You know, first we had the science of spirituality, which we defined as a church.
	Then we created a new god called science because we needed it.
	We couldn't have faith anymore so we had to have something explain it to us.
	From science we created our new gods called doctors and the system of managed care.
	What I learned from the near-death experience is first, it doesn't happen.
	Number two, what most people tell us goes on from a religious concept doesn't happen.
	You will move down a tunnel.
	You will come into a place of life.
	A lot of people are met by friends and relatives.
	Were you?
	I'll let you know what kind of person I was growing up.
	I've been over there twice and no relatives come to meet me yet.
	No?
	So I can easily understand how, where I just started from that that didn't happen to me.
	No relatives came to meet you.
	Did anybody come to meet you or any presence or what, you know, what did you encounter?
	I encountered a being of light.
	I think what I'm about to say is the single most important point of the near-death experience.
	When I came into this place, this misty blue, not blue, silver place, I was safe and comfortable.
	A being moved toward me, and I mean a being of bright, brilliant light.
	I've heard people say Mohammed and Allah and Buddha and Moses and Jesus.
	I mean, I've heard every description, but the system is the same.
	The methodology is the same.
	As this being moved closer to me, I was in awe of it.
	I could feel a love and a comfort that was like when my mom would pick me up as a kid, and I would come so far away from that place and how I'd lived the last twenty years of my life, starting about seven, you know, the last eighteen years of my life, to this event.
	And that safe, protected, calm place.
	You know, I write a lot about it in Saved by the Light, more in depth about it.
	But when I came into this place and this being moved closer toward me, all of a sudden I started to feel all kinds of emotions.
	Then I had a panoramic life review, literally seeing everything that I've ever encountered, 360 degree panoramic life review, everything.
	And I did never realize that I haven't missed very much, and neither will any person who's listening to this broadcast.
	How did that occur?
	I mean, how did it come to you?
	It was three-dimensional.
	It was like a hologram.
	I was living in every aspect of it, from the leaves on the tree outside of the window to the conversations to the books that were in the room.
	Anywhere that I would focus, I knew everything about that event.
	And as I did that, I watched it from a second person.
	All this happened at the same time, Art, and it's really hard to I've taken years to try to create a language that describes what really happens.
	Sure.
	This is just the best that I can do.
	Sure.
	No, I understand.
	You know, you put it together and use it in hot words and dictionaries so you have the best way to try to explain it.
	But I not only re-experienced it, I watched it from a second-person point of view, like an empathetic point of view, to look at it as though I was a friend of mine watching me.
	You know, a lot of times we have kids and friends and relatives that are There's nothing you can do about but be there, watch and support them.
	Like an empathetic point of view.
	And then I literally became every person that I ever encountered.
	And I felt the direct results of my interaction between me and that person, not what I thought had happened, but what they truly felt.
	That's when I really realized that, like, love thy neighbor as thyself, and do unto others as you would have others do unto you, are real, true things found in religion.
	Because if you are going to be every person that you have ever encountered, and you are
	going to feel the direct result of your interaction between you and that person, then as you look
	at any situation, you look at it differently.
	That's a terrifying thought.
	All of us, all of us, Danny, we have things that we have done to people.
	I wrote of that in my first book.
	You know, I know I have.
	When I was younger, I did some things that I'm not at all proud of to other people.
	And to imagine to have to live that from their perspective, I don't think I'd be looking forward to that.
	It doesn't matter, Art.
	This is how it works.
	I hear you.
	It will happen.
	But here's the coolest part about it, Art.
	Watch this.
	When it all passes, And you'll be amazed at how much good stuff you've done.
	But what will happen is how the judgment system, this is what has amazed me through two near-death experiences, the judgment system is as though, the best way that I can describe it is, think of looking at your life review from this perspective.
	If God couldn't come today, and God sent you, in the life you're now reviewing, what difference has God made?
	Not anything to do with you.
	You are looking at it.
	From a perspective, as you go through it, there was also that dimension.
	Now, when I went through my first panoramic life review, it was a depressing time for God, if that was the difference I was supposed to make.
	I mean, it was a bad day in heaven, trust me.
	Because I hadn't been just a jackass locally and here.
	I had taken jackassdom all over the world and had mastered it as an art form.
	I had to feel what they went through.
	And I had to understand, my God, this is the result of my action, and no matter how I saw it or felt bad about it, I'm too busy feeling what they went through to think of being afraid of it happening.
	Now watch it, because it's an automatic nature.
	This automatically happens.
	It will happen to everybody.
	What I write about is how to take it being mid-life, or in our mid-life, and how to take it and apply it to your life today so that you change.
	Why I write my books is I dedicate them all to baby boomers, to those of us as we face our own mortality.
	We must help those who we love and who have loved us face theirs.
	The sky is just a little before me and people just a little after me, but they're in a place where they're having to look at their lives and take a full inventory of their health, especially with the way insurance is going, and then they have family members That are making this transition from this world to the next world.
	Alright, but with what you've told me of your life to that point, you should have been bound to the down escalator after that review.
	No doubt.
	Absolutely.
	It still amazes me why it didn't happen.
	It still amazes me, but nonetheless it didn't.
	Now, Danion, before we continue, is it possible Do you think that everybody comes back with their own particular experience?
	In other words, there are many who have experienced near-death who tell a somewhat different story.
	Even some will come back and tell of hell.
	About 3% do that.
	So, is it possible that what you're describing is not universal?
	That it might be different for every soul?
	I think that everyone's interpretation of it can vary, because we're all uniquely spiritual beings.
	There is a uniqueness about each and every one of us, and how our perspective sees things, which shows our unique part in the overall spiritual consciousness of things, as well as in the mental and physical consciousness of it.
	But I believe that this experience is universal.
	I mean, think of this.
	I've had two near-death experiences.
	Two of them.
	Let us finish with the first.
	I mean, after all, there you are.
	You're with a being of light, and I guess we better... I've had a panoramic life with you by now, Art.
	And so what are you doing?
	You're sitting there saying... I'm trying to figure out how to forgive myself.
	I was trying to figure out... I can remember this.
	I was trying to figure out that what appeared to be the next step to me was how to forgive myself.
	And that forgiveness was like an art.
	That once you could forgive yourself of things, you became aware of the things that you had done that were good, that either equated them or things that you don't really ever think about that you do.
	Over there, the most important things are the little things that you do every day.
	I mean, it's the simple things of an act of kindness or patting someone on the back or giving someone a boost of confidence or helping them through a hard time.
	Okay, did you have the sense?
	Uh, Daniel, that you were being judged by an entity, by another, or that you were in effect judging yourself.
	I was judging myself.
	I never encountered anything that in any way was judging me.
	Nothing.
	And I'll tell you something, Art.
	There is nothing who can judge me as harsh as I can judge me.
	Uh-huh.
	I mean, there is no one, just like when you were just talking earlier, there is no one who can handle And understand what you did and what motivated you better than you.
	And when you look at the system of how you judge yourself, you realize that this is a job.
	What I've come to look at after going through two near-death experiences, I met Raymond Moody.
	I've been in over 10 countries and talked to more than 600 people who had near-death experiences.
	I've been around since 1975 watching this experience.
	And I've been a hospice volunteer for 18 years.
	I've been around probably 155 people leaving this world and they are family members.
	I went from a complete jackass to having this near death experience.
	I'm still a jackass but I've improved myself.
	I began to do hospice work because I was amazed at this method by which we leave this world
	and how stable it was and how I could change my life accordingly to what had happened.
	That's why I wrote Saved by the Light.
	So a panorama of your life followed by what?
	you Well, followed by looking at it from a second-person point of view, like an empathetic.
	I learned from that that when you meet somebody, you don't sympathize with them, you empathize with them.
	If you become them, you can better help them.
	And then feeling the direct results of your interaction between you and that person.
	That is what's so dramatic about the The whole experience.
	I mean all the cosmic stuff that went on in my near-death experience, which I didn't know it was all that cosmic.
	I just explained it to the people who asked me.
	You know, the crystal cities and the future events.
	All those things which have come true.
	Alright?
	But the most important to me is just Danny and Brinkley at 47 years old being struck by lightning.
	Was the fact that I would move through a tunnel and come into this place and this system was so stable.
	That I could build a stronger belief system in this world, knowing that you don't die, and knowing that there's a way in which you leave this world.
	And then I focused it on hospice, so that I could help other people going through those issues, who were still in doubt, or the system had taught them to be afraid, so they could make the right decisions at the right time.
	During all of this, did you have a sense of time?
	There's no such thing as that.
	I mean, here there is, but there, the time-space differential was really Different.
	I mean, it's really different.
	No sense of time at all, then?
	No.
	There's no sense of time except in the panoramic life of you when you're watching a series of events, but a lot of them are happening all at the same time.
	All right, you said a couple of intriguing things.
	Crystal cities, you said.
	Future events.
	Let's get into that when we get back.
	We're breaking here at the bottom of the hour.
	You're listening to what it's like to die.
	And, uh, not too many people come back.
	To Daniel Brinkley, it occurred twice.
	Not once, but twice.
	We'll tell you about that.
	We'll be right back.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time, on Premier Radio Networks.
	Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM, from July 18th, 1997.
	Oh, baby, don't leave me this way, oh.
	Don't leave me this way, oh I can't accept
	I'll surely miss Your tender kiss
	I'll surely miss your tender kiss Don't leave me this way
	Don't leave me this way Baby!
	Baby, my heart is full of love and desire for you Now come on down and do what you gotta do
	My heart is full of love and desire for you Now come on down and do what you gotta do
	You started this fire down in my soul Now can't you see it's burning out of control
	I won't let fire delete me Only your beloved can set me free
	Watching every motion in my good-nothing cage On the sailing ocean, finally love knows my name
	Running every time you move to take a step Watching every motion as you turn around
	Oh Take my breath away.
	Take my breath away Take my breath away
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time, on Premier Radio Networks.
	Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM, from July 18th, 1997.
	Some programs are more important than others.
	This is one of those.
	So, uh, just get comfortable, turn your radio up, and listen very carefully to what it's like to die.
	My guest is Daniel Brinkley and he'll be back in a moment.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time, on Premier Radio Networks.
	Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from July 18th, 1997.
	Music Back now to Daniel Brinkley, a most remarkable, remarkable
	experience.
	So well documented in medical records.
	Near death.
	I wonder if that's even a fair term, Daniel.
	Near death.
	Is that the right term?
	It's more like near life, Art.
	But you know, thanks to Raymond Moody, who wrote the landmark book, Life After Life, Raymond Moody gave this experience a name that allows us every day to talk about it.
	An NDE, a near death experience.
	Then we're not locked into medical terms or locked into religious concepts or institutionalized concepts.
	We have a chance to experience of everyday people, which is me.
	I'm just some jerk from South Carolina who got struck by lightning and who went through this experience.
	And I was in the early days of it, so that my case is like everybody's been tossing it around for 21 years.
	And when you go through this, Raymond gave it a name, which I thank God for it.
	Because it gave me, when I met Raymond Moody, it gave me a chance to understand art because I had absolutely no idea what had happened to me.
	I could find no place to relate to anything about it.
	And then I had to start over and re-educate myself from everything from the Tibetan Book of the Dead to all kinds of books and what people were writing about that had to do with spirituality or esoteric information and shamanism.
	I don't have any idea what this is all about.
	A near-death experience doesn't in any way relate to being alive.
	No one ever dies.
	I have no question about it.
	Death is not something to be afraid of.
	It's something that is inevitable for all of us.
	It's just a transition from this world back to where you came from.
	And it's usually with a job well done, except for a few little kinks that you're going to have to face and deal with.
	Ah, well, I hope that's all it is.
	Listen, you mentioned Crystal Cities.
	Well, what happened after I couldn't forgive myself, which I had a chance to forgive myself, and I recommend everybody out there listening, because everybody who's listening to this are the same as me.
	I'm a night person like you, Art.
	I love the night.
	And I love to explore all types of things in the night and I stay up and I listen to Hart Bell and other shows so that I can grow and expand.
	So I'm really proud of this listening audience and all your sponsors.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, I mean it's terrific that I get to be a part of the night with people who are like me and I appreciate everybody who listens to Coast to Coast AM because we all grow from listening to it.
	But I think what's really important for us is to start looking at the fact that this
	does occur and in its occurrence it gives a stabilizing factor to a lot about life.
	I watch people go through a lot of really stressful things because they don't know that
	the near-death experience is even more valid than the life experience that they're having
	now.
	And that when you're returning home, when this is a job well done and you're going back
	and it's only the quality of the job that you did here and it's as if the Holy Spirit
	or the greatest spiritual value you can conceive of by whatever name had sent you because they
	themselves could not come.
	Then all of a sudden you start looking at it as being a soldier and how you get your
	job done.
	But what happened to me was I went way and deep into the near-death experience.
	At the time when Raymond wrote Reflections on Life After Life and the other books, George's
	books were coming out and Elizabeth Kugler-Roth and their books were just coming out, I was
	right there because I didn't know any better than to tell it all.
	But after I couldn't forgive myself, I began to move through different dimensions and spheres, but not anything I was not comfortable with, and as natural as any other program.
	And I was going through what I could only describe as cities built of light, and they were crystalline in structure, and this is the only thing that I can think of.
	Where do you think you were?
	I mean, as we think in our minds of heaven and hell and maybe purgatory, depending on your belief system, where do you think you were?
	Well, I was in a crystal city, and I think it's a place where you go to really look at the life.
	You return to some place that you had left from to come here.
	You know, Melvin Morris' book about resuscitating more than 300 children.
	He has a really cool book out now called Heartic Visions where people have experiences with dearly departed loved ones.
	But he was a pediatrician who had resuscitated more than 300 children and he had a lot of cases of children saying they had seen people waiting to be born.
	Waiting to be born?
	Absolutely!
	I mean he has case after case of this.
	kids five years old and under who don't know any better than to tell the truth.
	Waiting to be born? Waiting to be born. Alright, but aren't we talking now about
	born or reborn?
	Well, I don't know about that. I mean, reincarnation is not a
	factor in my life that I can attach to the near-death experience.
	In this book, since you've touched on it, what form did these beings have who are waiting to be born?
	Did they have form?
	Physical form?
	I couldn't quite get that, but they had form and they were very knowledgeable of the system.
	It was as though to these kids there was a natural system in place and the waiting to be born was how they described it, but they had a deeper knowledge.
	I mean, waiting to be born, even the expression itself is suggestive of reincarnation.
	Well... Do you rule it out?
	No.
	I used to.
	I wouldn't even have given it the time of day.
	Remember, a hardcore jarhead having an experience, having enough trouble dealing with it in his own self, struggling, living in South Carolina, not exactly the most enlightened place in 1975.
	Nowhere to turn as I struggle with my physical, mental self.
	Hold it on to this experience that I knew was more real than anything I had gone through.
	And I knew I had to survive.
	I had to get up no matter what they said.
	I had to get up and I had to make what I thought my job was, make it happen.
	Because I knew the near-death experience was the most real thing that had ever happened to me.
	And I've seen a 105mm round drop in, and I've seen claymores, what they'll do, and I've seen bombs and firepower, you know.
	I understand what reality is.
	This was the most real.
	And so when I look at these things now at 47 instead of 25, when I look at the work of Brian Wise and Winifred Lucas who are trained scientists trying to help their patients who use regression therapy that takes people back to past lives and that that therapy helps their patients.
	I've studied them.
	I've watched them.
	I know Brian Wise.
	I know everybody.
	I'm a very nosy person.
	Let's stop right there again.
	I mean, here we go again.
	You just cited somebody who takes somebody into past lives.
	Past lives?
	Take somebody into past lives.
	Past lives?
	That's reincarnation.
	Well, that's what a psychiatrist, what Brian Wise does.
	And then I started reading Elizabeth Clare Prophet's new book on the missing end of Christianity.
	You know, I interviewed her not long ago.
	Oh, I was amazed.
	I mean, you hear all this bunker siege mentality stuff about that crowd up in the mountains.
	I found them to be the most delightful people, the most centered people, and really loving and caring.
	I really did, too.
	I didn't find any of what the popular media tries to make her to be.
	Wasn't there?
	I was depressed that she wasn't dressed as Rambo.
	I mean, I got depressed about it.
	I told her that.
	And when I started reading her new book, I mean, there's a lot of really fabulous gathered data in this new book.
	I think it's called Reincarnation.
	I don't know.
	The missing link in Christianity.
	I think that's right.
	And it really goes through a lot of stuff.
	Because I want to know all the facets of my spiritual self, knowing from the near-death experience that you don't die, and knowing that you will pass through all this experience, and then these crystal cities.
	I read in her books, which I had never heard of before, something that Mark Prophet brought back, or whatever how he wrote it down, that described these as brotherhoods or places of learning.
	And I realized there's just another description of the same place that I went.
	I just had no information about this stuff.
	So were you just passing through these by them in motion?
	Were you in motion?
	I passed by some.
	I only went to one.
	But I knew there were many of them.
	You know, when you, like, think of an evening with a mist in the mountains, like in the Grand Rockies.
	Sure.
	And you see houses on the side of the mountain that lit up.
	Sure.
	And you could see that light go out into almost, like, into space.
	or they can light the mist that's hanging over the mountain.
	Gotcha.
	That's what they look like and I was moving above them and I was traveling at, not like
	floating, but traveling at a rate of speed.
	I could tell that because I could hear what appeared to be sounds changing in tone.
	You know, there's so much about frequencies that I don't understand and tones and color
	and pitch and things that I don't have sense enough to understand or I could explain it
	But all those senses were totally alive.
	Oh, absolutely, more alive than ever.
	I came to a place, Art, where I could literally, before I entered this crystal city, and it was in the traveling to it, that I became more aware of who I was than Daniel Brinkley.
	More of a spiritual being returning home, and taking back my natural identity of myself, because I was aware that I could conceive of anything.
	I could know anything at any place.
	I could consume any amount of information.
	You know, a lot of us who come back who've had that experience become obsessed with that consumption of knowledge.
	And so there lies the point that as I became more of the true spiritual person that I am, and much of that I've closed off like anybody would, but you know, I was fortunate or unfortunate enough to get a wake-up call to get another round at it.
	You know, Daniel, when we have a dream at night, Uh, probably just before we awake in the morning, actually.
	Uh, and we, we remember that, you know, as we're just waking up, it's vivid, it's as real as real can be.
	Uh, we were living it, but as, you know, we sip our first cup of coffee, the fading begins by the second cup of coffee, if you're a coffee drinker.
	Uh, or whatever it is you drink in the morning, as you wake up, it's fading fast.
	By midday, unless you have intentionally tried to remember it and recall the details, it's gone.
	Is there any relationship between that and what you experienced?
	I believe that when people sleep, this is a Danian theory, this is not... When I describe the near-death experience, Art, I describe it As emphatically, and I will back up anything I say and I will hold this ground no matter what because of going through the experience of it myself.
	What I'm saying is you've told this and told it again.
	You know the story because you've told it so many times.
	It's committed now to your conscious memory.
	Absolutely.
	What I'm asking is though, otherwise would it, do you think it would have faded like a dream fades?
	I would think that it would have done that.
	I think that It would have passed.
	I could never forget the things that not being afraid of dying and the comfort and the love and the wonderment that's over on that side.
	There is so much wonderment.
	There is so much what is love in its most majestic concept that you can conceive of.
	And that stays with me.
	And it'll never go away.
	But I believe that if I hadn't have seen the future events that made me so famous, Which I didn't know it was the future.
	They had things like Chernobyl, and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the war in the Middle East, and called it Storm Something, and this big deal about designer boots, and my mind in 1975.
	Alright, you're at a Crystal City.
	Now, when did all of this begin to come to you?
	I'm trying to keep you on track here regarding... I went into the Crystal City, and all of a sudden in front of me were like These enormously beautiful beings of light, bull-rated and, you know, like in the language of honor and justice and fairness and righteousness, these kinds of words are the only thing that can express what they felt like and appeared to me.
	Each of these twelve were equal, and then there was a thirteenth being, and to me it was as though this being controlled what I was being taught or shown.
	You mean like a jury for them?
	Well, I mean, they weren't judging me.
	They were there as though they were to inform me of certain events that would come about from the emotional process of where people were.
	It wasn't like... Okay, now here's again where I stop you.
	They were going to inform you or did inform you about events.
	Would it be, Daniel, at that moment that it was already predestined That you were going back.
	Whatever was going to happen, you weren't going forward, Daniel.
	You were going back.
	So you were shown all of this for a really specific reason.
	Is that what you conclude?
	Yes.
	But remember this, I wasn't smart enough to realize that.
	Because, Art, if I had caught on to the fact that they were sending me back at any time, they would have had a tough time.
	I would have been trying to figure out a way to keep from it happening.
	This is the part about being over there.
	No, you didn't want to come back.
	You couldn't give me this place.
	You were remembering that singed, ugly body.
	Yeah, and that whole event, but where I was, I was happy to be there.
	I was exploring a whole new world, and I was more dimensional and more wondrous than I could even conceive of, and I think that was the place I drew such comfort from.
	Okay, but in retrospect, you are now convinced that you were shown these things because you were coming back.
	Yeah, and they never told me either.
	I've held that against them too, Art.
	You know, if they would have just given me some idea, or maybe I was just too dumb, but if they had told me I was coming back, it wouldn't have happened.
	I would have figured out a way.
	Now, the second near-death experience, I chose to come back, but at this point in it, I didn't choose.
	Well, I want to go back and know what it is you saw.
	Well, I wrote it, and let me make an offer, okay?
	Sure.
	I wrote Saved by the Light and at Peace in the Light.
	And it gives all the details about the stuff that we'll miss.
	And if people who listen to this show, if they write me... How many copies of Saved by the Light have been sold now?
	Millions.
	Yeah, millions.
	Millions of books.
	I'm not really sure of exactly, but it's around 21 countries and probably 20 languages.
	What year did you write that?
	In 1992 and 1993.
	It came out in 1994 and at least came out in 1995.
	It's like all the things that we'll miss that stuck in there.
	But I have hardbacks.
	I bought enough hardbacks so that when I felt like I wanted to offer it, I could offer it at a good place and that I could touch people who never heard of me and a lot of stuff we don't cover.
	Uh, so you've got the two big books, uh, Saved by the Light.
	$20 plus $3 shipping, $23.
	For two books?
	Two hardback, and if they'll tell me what to sign it, and they write Art Bell is Wonderful on it, just like we did the last time, Art.
	It's those times when I get a chance to give to the people in the night, hey everybody, I'm like you, this really happened to me, and here's all the details of it, and Art will have me back sometime.
	And you know, here's the, read it.
	Daniel, that's like half price, I think.
	Yeah, it's a little less than that.
	Yeah, I was going to say, probably less than that.
	Yeah.
	You really want to do that?
	Sure I do.
	Absolutely, because no one's going to know about it but us.
	I mean, and it's the people who listen at night.
	These are my friends, Art.
	They're worried about the same things.
	They're worried about how to take care of the children and how to handle their moms-in-law and how to handle their parents.
	I don't know.
	how to handle their life as they face their mortality and they learn a lot from listening
	to Art Bell.
	And I'm really thankful that they do because I'm one of us.
	I just happen to have had my experience.
	People ask me why I travel so much and I work so tirelessly in hospice programs because
	I think about this.
	I'm 47 years old.
	I see where my dad is and my family are and there are a lot of people thinking about the
	same things I'm thinking about.
	And if I've been through two of these and I've gone through it and I've been with a
	hundred of people who are losing their moms and dads and I've watched all the inner reaction
	And I wasn't out here trying to help my peers deal with theirs.
	Then what good is it?
	It's just some crappy story of a fool that talked on the telephone, and had his heart cut out, collapsing, and having to have an open-heart surgery, you know?
	I didn't come across this by contemplating my naval heart.
	I understand.
	I got struck by lightning.
	And then 14 years later, because of being struck by lignin, I collapsed from heart failure and had to have emergency open heart surgery.
	And I'm still making those statements.
	Really?
	I'll tell you what, um, I'm going to advise the audience, I'll hold tight, Danny, and we're at the top of the hour.
	I'm going to advise the audience, like get a piece of paper or something.
	This is going to be a really good deal.
	Um, so we'll get you the details on this.
	Both books.
	These are two monstrous books saved by light.
	Millions and millions at peace in the light.
	And he's talking about both books.
	So, we'll get to the details on that.
	Go get a pencil and a piece of paper.
	Daniel Brinkley is my guest.
	There's more to come.
	You're listening to ArcBell Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from July 18, 1997.
	Welcome to the Coast to Coast AM.
	You can dance, you can die, having the time of your life.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
	The night featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from July 18, 1997.
	My guest from Charleston, South Carolina is Danion Brinkley.
	There's no doubt about it.
	The medical records are clear and precise.
	Danion was struck by lightning.
	His shoes, the nails in his shoes, welded to the floor.
	His body tossed into the air on fire on the bed.
	He was dead.
	Rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.
	He was months and months and months in recovery after that.
	All of that is very clearly documented.
	What is not documented, and we are documenting now, is what occurred.
	He died.
	And what he experienced is nothing short of absolutely remarkable, and that's what we have been discussing for the last couple of hours.
	And we'll pick up on that point, and I guess A gift that he was given in a moment.
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	I argue with people about disclosure time and time again.
	I've told them governments are not going to come out willingly to tell us it's going to happen by a mistake, it's going to happen by a whistleblower, but it's not going to be an organized thing.
	Governments won't do that.
	And the reason why they won't do it is because they do not want us to know.
	They think that they'll lose control of us.
	Yes, if we know.
	If you actually truly believe that we were being visited by extraterrestrials and you had categorical proof that it was happening, do you think you would listen to some of the bull that government throws out all the time?
	Absolutely not!
	You'd look toward the heavens, you'd say there's gotta be a better way, and you would start doing your own thing.
	thing and you would forget all about government control and everything else.
	So the bottom line is government will never ever disclose the true facts of UFOs.
	Now we take you back to the night of July 18th, 1997 on Art Bell's Somewhere in Time.
	Alright, again my guest is Daniel Brinkley.
	For the last two hours, we have been going through a detailed description of what it is like to die.
	What happened to Danion when he did die, and he did.
	Not once, but twice.
	Now, he's authored two books.
	They've sold millions and millions.
	Saved by the Light, and At Peace in the Light.
	I do want to try and impress you a little bit.
	After all you went through, Daniel, in that first experience, and you went to this crystal city, and you were shown things.
	Of those things that you were shown that involved our future, or involved at that time our future, what percentage of those things, Daniel, have come true already?
	About 92 or 93.
	I wonder what that might mean in terms of how much longer you have to spend here.
	Have you ever thought about that?
	Sure.
	In other words, when what was shown to you has completely manifested itself, it may be time for something else.
	Well, I believe that.
	I mean, after going through this and watching it for 21 years, tonight we're reliving something that happened 21 years ago.
	And I have grown in this experience until 1989 and having a second one.
	But I can pretty much, you know, about 2004, somewhere around April or May, I'll be out of here.
	Because as I watch what turned out to be future events, Art, you know, a lot of people give me that title of prophet and stuff like that, but I don't buy into it.
	I believe I was shown these events, and so I would have nowhere to go.
	That I would have to accept what was going on and know that I'm a part of some really wondrous experience.
	That is occurring, that everyone who is here at this time either chose to come here or were chosen to come here, and they came to execute the transition from what is one era to another era.
	And as I saw these future events, you know, I read all this stuff in 1975, and I mean, I wrote about them in Saved by the Light, and then I followed up in that piece, and then there's been something that's come true since then.
	But I didn't see me involved in anything in a conscious way after 204.
	There was just no place I was there.
	But I saw events to around 214.
	Huh.
	And so as I watched these, you know, I said Chernobyl would happen in 1975 and it happened in 86.
	I described the second nuclear accident.
	I said there would be a war with America, go to war in the Middle East in 1990 in the summer and it'd be called Storm something.
	This recent one, I said that there would be an army of women that would be dressed as though they appeared to me as Muslims.
	And everybody laughed about that for 15 years, that we're an army of Muslim women marching into a European city, or a city that appeared European to me.
	And someone just sent me a fax the other day, that on the cover of Time Magazine was an army of Muslim women preparing to attack Iran.
	And that's why a moderate president was put in because the women were about to go and defend women who had their hands cut off or acid poured on them or beaten because they didn't ascribe to the fully fundamentalist position in Muslim tradition.
	And then you watch Afghanistan and you see that they're cutting people's heads off and beating women and killing children.
	And then there was this band of from 30,000 to 50,000 organized, trained, disciplined troops that are women.
	I don't know.
	All of a sudden, when people see the predictions and they come back and they teach me about
	it, they show me.
	It's so obvious that what I'm seeing and the symbology in it.
	So a lot of the things that made the books and it makes people look at my particular
	story of those things, but I don't know all that.
	All I know is what happened and what I saw.
	And as these things come to pass, we are moving toward a deeper spiritual revelation about
	ourselves and it's like we're ending a period of time and a new period is starting.
	And this is the transition period.
	It's pretty remarkable when I sit here at the same place where I...
	I had recovered from open heart surgery and I spent nine months lying in a bed in this room with IVs in my arms.
	Let me stop you, Daniel.
	I want to put closure to the first thing.
	How did you get back?
	Well, when I came back after seeing things in the Crystal City, I came out of the Crystal City and returned to a place where these twelve beings were.
	And they were still there, but I was cognizant of the place.
	The difference in the visions was that I really was living them.
	I was a part of them.
	I could smell the smells and see the things, although it was almost physical, like the heat of the explosion.
	Whereas in that spiritual realm, none of that happened like that.
	It was more like I was communicating, and I was a part of them, and they were a part of me, and I could communicate with them.
	So then they told me I had to go back.
	And I had to stay and follow up on looking at these things and putting into place a center, a place where people could experience stuff.
	But that really did never sink in until about a year after the experience.
	But when I came back, I found myself in the hallway floating and I was looking for my body and I couldn't figure out if I found it, how was I going to get back in it?
	These are the things I think about.
	At this point you were in the hospital?
	Yeah, back in the hallway.
	I left as the ambulance was going to the hospital and then I'm in the hallway looking for myself.
	I write about it in the book.
	I find myself covered with a sheet and I'm trying to figure out how to get back in this body.
	It wasn't so much worrying me but it was a curiosity to me.
	You know, it's amazing how dumb I am when I look back over the experience, you know, what a fool I am.
	And I couldn't figure out how to get back in the body.
	And when Tommy, who had come over there, my best pal, had come over and then the orderlies were coming to take me downstairs because I was just pushed into a side room in the emergency room with the lights cut off and tagged and taken me someplace.
	I think the morgue or wherever those things are.
	And all of a sudden I moved back in my body.
	And I had to, I couldn't breathe.
	And I was trying to figure out why we breathed, you know.
	Really?
	Yeah, you'd be amazed at how powerful and mighty we are.
	We're not poor pitiful stupid little humans trying to have mystical experiences.
	Let me tell you something, Daniel.
	There was a UPI story yesterday, I don't know whether anybody got to you with it or not, about a man in Egypt who died.
	Tagged, put in a coffin in a refrigerated unit, and woke up in the coffin.
	Pushed the coffin aside, found himself with many other dead people and began to scream.
	True story, Daniel.
	I can believe it.
	The technicians that came to get his body finally heard him screaming.
	They pulled him out.
	One of the technicians had a heart attack on the spot and died.
	And this man lives now.
	This was just the other day.
	These things do happen.
	Oh, there's no question about it.
	It happens every day.
	When I began hospice, when I came back, I ended up in my body.
	They had to rush me in and stabilize me and put oxygen and pump on my chest a little and then they put me in intensive care and then I started my recovery and as I started coming back after six days of paralysis and then months and months of having to think about it every day, I met Raymond.
	Then I started to do hospice work and I think Art it was because I missed the place so much that I wanted to be close to people who were going back there so that I could talk to them and I could see what they experienced and people being resuscitated and now I'm in my 18th year as a hospice volunteer and I love to be around people who are getting ready to make their transition because there I make a difference.
	Remember the panoramic life is you.
	You're not only going to see your whole life pass before you You're going to become every, you're going to see yourself from a second person point of view.
	Then you're going to become every person that you've ever encountered.
	Then you will judge yourself.
	And you get a chance to realize that if I'm going to be every person I'm going to encounter, then my whole way I treat people and the whole way I focus on helping and having gone through two near-death experiences and I've gone through that one, I found that people in crisis and trying to make the right decisions about hospice programs and What to do with Medicaid and Medicare and alternative therapies.
	I was like a stabilizing factor because I'm not afraid of dying.
	I've had this experience.
	Not after twice.
	Well, there was one.
	So then how long between experience one and experience two?
	Fourteen years.
	Fourteen years.
	And your first experience was so rare, so few people have it.
	And here you've had two.
	It was a heart problem?
	You know, it destroyed my whole life.
	I mean, it completely destroyed my whole life.
	A lot of people who go through near-death experiences, it changes them.
	Well, what happened?
	I mean, what happened the second time?
	Well, the second time, I thought I had a cold.
	I'd been pushing myself, working really, really hard, because it wasn't until 1980 that the first of the predictions started to appear.
	I thought that stuff was gone, Art, and I started helping people deal with death and dying.
	Working in nursing homes and getting myself involved in helping people, and I thought maybe it would just go away because I still hadn't had a place to put it in the context.
	I worry about you because you still push yourself the same way.
	I don't see any change at all.
	Well, I do, I do, but you know, I have a chance to make a difference.
	And one thing about the second near-death experience, I got a chance to see the difference that I had made as a person.
	Right now I know that there are a lot of people making some really serious decisions about their moms and dads and how they're going to deal with loss.
	Right.
	And I have a chance like just getting to be on your show and talk to people who can listen to me and know I'm not some scientist or anything.
	I'm just a person.
	Yeah, but Danion, I'm close enough to you as you are to me.
	I've watched you and you will push yourself to exhaustion and past it.
	You still do that, you know.
	Yeah.
	I realize that more and more at 47.
	I'm getting to appreciate the fact that I can't.
	You know, this opportunity came and it was a chance to tell people that death is not a real thing.
	That you do not die.
	You have a job to do.
	You come here to do it and you leave.
	Alright, alright.
	What did you have?
	I collapsed from heart failure.
	I had worked so hard and pushed myself so hard and I like to restore old cars.
	I keep my mind off of all those heady things that you have to study.
	I got staph infection and it landed on the weakest part of my body and it ate my aortic valve and I was drowning in my own blood and I got to the hospital and I went in and I told the guy, you know, I thought I had the flu or you know I had those symptoms of the flu, achiness.
	He told me, he said, well, I went to see the doctor in the emergency room and I said, you know, give me some medicine and let me go home.
	Some antibiotics.
	And he checked me and he said, you know, you want me to tell you the truth?
	And I said, sure.
	I paid $270.
	I certainly could find somebody to lie to me cheaper than that.
	And he said, he said, you got a touch of the flu in your left lung.
	He said, but you're in heart failure.
	You'll be dead in 45 minutes.
	And then I just collapsed.
	He said that to you?
	I woke up, I had IVs, I had an IV in my neck, going into my heart, one in my leg, going into my heart.
	I had IVs in both arms, and they were prepping me for open heart surgery.
	My God!
	Well, I mean... How did he... Well, I guess, what, x-rays?
	How did they determine... That's a hell of a pronouncement!
	You're going to be dead in 45 minutes.
	Well, just taking my blood pressure at the rate at which I was declining, he figured I would make it another 45 minutes.
	That's blunt.
	Well, that's Southern.
	That's the way we talk down here.
	You get to the point.
	I wanted to know.
	What was amazing to him is I started laughing because when I was thinking through it, here I had my golden opportunity.
	I was pretty excited about it.
	Here I get to go again, but this time maybe I would stay.
	Alright, so you went into open heart surgery.
	Well, I refused it.
	It took them three days or four days because I told them that I was not going to do it.
	Really?
	I wouldn't sign the papers.
	I mean, this is the legendary story, but it's only because I was there.
	What were they telling you?
	Were they telling you either sign this and go for the surgery or you'll die?
	And you said no?
	Absolutely not.
	I wouldn't sign anything.
	My family came down, everybody I knew came down to talk to me.
	I've had enough of this life.
	If I had the opportunity to go back, and it was by natural means, I hadn't done anything except maybe push myself a little too hard, but it wasn't that I was on some kind of suicidal binge.
	It was that I saw the opportunity to make a true difference in the quality of the lives of people who had not gone through what I'd gone through, but who are having to make decisions about children, about family members, And because I had been through it.
	You know, I know what it's like to be afraid.
	I know what it's like to face death.
	I know what it's like to see the other side.
	And I know what it's like to come back and get up from paralysis and to come back.
	And then here I was facing it again.
	And I thought, you know, I had done enough.
	The rest of it I didn't care about.
	I was ready to go home.
	And Raymond came to see me.
	And they called Raymond because they thought he was the only one who could talk sense into it or talk some sense into me.
	Raymond Moody.
	Yes.
	And Raymond said, stay and help me.
	I need your help and he was going through a crisis at that time and I thought about all the stuff he had ever done for me and you know he's been a good friend to me for a long lot of years and he's helped me through a lot of tough times and understanding what was happening to me but then I and and even in recent times you know a lot of advice that he gives me helps me make me a better person.
	So what'd you do then finally sign the papers?
	I signed and I had the second near-death experience.
	I not only We'll get to that, and I promise, he's got this really special book deal that he's going to offer you, so as I keep suggesting, we will get to it, I promise.
	He's got this really special book deal that he's going to offer you.
	So, as I keep suggesting, we will get to it, I promise.
	Get a piece of paper and a pencil and have them handy.
	be.
	This, uh, actually these are both books that are must-read.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time, on Premier Radio Networks.
	Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from July 18th, 1997.
	This is a presentation of Coast to Coast AM from July 18th, 1997.
	I don't need a mask, I'm a woman of the road.
	I don't need a mask, it'll do the trick.
	Don't say that you love me.
	Premier Radio Networks presents Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight's program originally aired July 18th, 1997.
	Good morning!
	Ha ha!
	Welcome back, everybody.
	My guest is an incredible, incredible person.
	His name is Danion Brinkley.
	He twice died, and twice came back.
	And he really did.
	The medical records are, uh, impeccably accurate.
	We are in the midst of describing the second occurrence, and then I've got something I'm going to say to him.
	He's probably not expecting it.
	I'm batching it tonight, by the way.
	My wife is down with my in-laws in Southern California, and presently at the Santa Ana PNDC part of the post office, which is where my mother-in-law, Julie, works.
	So, hello down there at the post office, uh, to everybody.
	It's a big group down there that, uh, that listens.
	Hi.
	We'll be getting back to Dan and Brinkley in a moment.
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	I would say if we saw what has happened in the Arab Spring, that kind of protest, and they think that they need some kind of a law like this in order to round up Americans, that the NDAA would be used without a doubt.
	If there are huge protests and there are millions of people complaining about the government, then maybe the government should listen instead of passing new legislation to crack down on these protesters.
	Now we take you back to the night of July 18th, 1997, on Art Bell's Somewhere in Time.
	All right, back now to Danion Brinkley in Charleston, South Carolina.
	All right, here you are then, Danion.
	Off you go, convinced to sign the form into open-heart surgery.
	What happened?
	Well, when they gave me the two shots that they normally give you in the hip that tells you you're going to be relaxed, all of a sudden I just went black.
	And the next thing I know I was floating in this blue-gray place again.
	Back in the same place.
	Same place, same system.
	I mean, it was identical.
	What was so marvelous about it, Art, was here I was watching it again.
	I roll over and I see them preparing me for open heart surgery, and I describe in detail everything.
	I could hear the conversations.
	I was watching them, painting my chest.
	I watch them cut me open to my neck, to my navel.
	Oh, listen to this one.
	The cutting open wasn't near as wondrous as when they put the buzz saw.
	I saw my chest open, spread my heart, my chest open with this device, reach in, take my heart out, cut on the machines.
	What was wondrous about the machines when they cut on the machines is that your heart stops beating and they switch it over to this automatic system that's pumping your blood.
	That's right.
	I felt an exhilaration when they did that.
	I mean, I didn't move from where I was, but I felt a freedom.
	Wow!
	When they cut my heart open, I thought to myself how amazing this was, because I was so confident that I wouldn't live through it, because I'd never seen anything that anybody survived, when they cut your heart open and cut the center of it out.
	And as I watched that and thought to myself, while I will not survive it, and what a pleasant thought it was, I started back down the tunnel.
	I came into the place of bright, brilliant light.
	I was met by this same being.
	I had a panoramic life with you.
	I mean, I went through the same thing.
	I saw my life pass before me.
	I watched it from an empathetic point of view.
	I take it it went better this time?
	Well, the first 25 years was just as rotten as the first time I had seen it.
	Oh.
	It didn't change at all.
	Oh.
	I had to relive the same stuff over and over again.
	Oh.
	It's as horrible as it was, but what made the difference was the next 14 years.
	I got a chance to be the people I had helped leave this world.
	I've got to be, if the spirit couldn't come today, the true spiritual value that we are couldn't come today and I was there, then what difference had it made?
	And as I helped people who were leaving this world and as I learned to be a lot nicer to people and caring about them, I got to relive all those acts of kindness.
	When you find a person like my hospice patient whose children dropped her off at the emergency room and no one had come to see her in ten years and she had uterine cancer and three weeks to live.
	And I came to see her because I cared.
	That being that person is the most important change in my life.
	And when I try to get across to people, everybody's going to go through what I went through.
	There's nothing unique about me.
	This is how we leave this world.
	What occurred clinically in this second experience?
	In other words, during this surgery, did you again physically die?
	Do you know?
	Do you know what happened?
	I'm sure they told you.
	Well no, they didn't tell me, I just heard about it.
	They don't tell you that stuff because they worry about malpractice and it doesn't look good being dead.
	One of the nurses said for about between 8 and 12 minutes that I was gone.
	You're gone?
	Yeah.
	But you know, that was okay with me, Art.
	After going through this twice and watching how it works, I realized that we choose to come here and we're chosen to come here.
	And for the sheer pleasure of living in the infinite possibilities of the reality of the other side, we all come and do our duty.
	We come to help make a better world.
	We come to co-create.
	We come to find a place where we can co-create.
	You know, I teach a course.
	Now, after so many years, I teach a course about it and I try to do tours about it and I try to find a way to create conscious awareness.
	For everybody and the things that I've come encountered with in my life.
	I'm not just a person who has near-death experiences.
	I'm somebody who's lived 47 years also.
	Can you answer this?
	Do you have any idea why you were chosen twice not to die?
	Yes.
	They were desperate.
	The only way I can figure it is why they picked me is they had to be completely desperate.
	And they'd completely run out of messiahs and they figured if they Put all this on a fool, let's just see how he can handle it.
	Well, that's the only way I can look at it.
	Well, that's one way to look at it, I guess.
	Yeah, they had to be desperate if they picked me.
	I mean, give me a break.
	But I've held up.
	I've worked continuously, and at all costs, I've stayed true to what I said from the first day, and I've held up reasonably, and I'm doing it right now.
	Yeah, you are doing it right now, and that's where I want to... I'm going to stop you for a minute, Daniel, and I'm going to read something.
	And then I'm gonna say something.
	This is from Rich, who just sent me, uh, uh, facts.
	Hi, Art.
	I'm really glad you've got Daniel on again.
	I met him about four years ago in Marietta, Georgia.
	He was on a local TV show called Talk at Night with Brian Wilson.
	I arrived late and got, uh, to meet and talk with him in the green room.
	That's a room, I guess, you know, that you're in before you go out into a TV show until the commercials came on.
	When you meet him, He has this incredible aura that comes over you in his presence.
	It's a great feeling of love, compassion, acceptance, kindness.
	I was really moved by meeting him.
	What really struck me, though, was that during the show we had gone to see, Danion took questions from the audience.
	And a friend of mine asked him about his house, my friend's house.
	Danion described his house to an accuracy that blew my mind away.
	They had never met, yet Danion could see the house in his mind.
	It was amazing.
	I don't know if he remembers this or me, but it convinced me that he had some sort of gift.
	Well, that's it.
	Just thought I'd relate the story and maybe refresh Danion's mind and see if he could recall the incident.
	That's from somebody named Rich.
	Do you remember that, Danion?
	I don't remember that, but thanks, Rich, because It happened a lot of times.
	Remember Art, one of the other things that happened to me is I became intuitive and I use it a lot of times solving murders and I help people deal with closure with their family members and I've been able to do this.
	How I sold it, Peace and the Light, was by calling each of the people who were bidding on the book and describing things in their office.
	I know you were given a gift, Danny, and I'm turning you off again because I have something I want to say.
	I'm going to just approach this straight on.
	As my audience is well aware, there is something very drastic that has occurred in my life.
	I went through a period of time on the air, and I'm not done with it, when I began to talk about revenge.
	I had a great anger, and I still have it.
	I should tell you I still have it.
	The most serious incident of all my life occurred to me recently, and if I could tell you about it, I would.
	And one day I will tell my audience this incredible thing, this horrible thing that has happened.
	But I can't.
	I just can't.
	There are lots of reasons, which you will understand later when I can tell you about Before I ever began to, you know, you can't do a five-hour damn talk show on the air without letting out some of your emotions, and I was going through the most traumatic time of my life here recently, and really still am.
	What I would call a life-threatening situation, okay?
	And I'm not going to define it and I can't more than that on the air.
	The only reason I'm relating this to you right now is because before I ever began to sort of have to say something about it on the air because of this incredible anger and need for revenge That's the only way to put it.
	Before I ever articulated or said one word about that on the air, Daniel Brinkley began to call the house.
	Generally at times when I wasn't awake and he was talking to my wife, Ramona, and he was telling her that something was wrong with me.
	Again, this is before I said anything on the air, and Ramona Finally told him, yes, Daniel, there is something really seriously wrong.
	But I can't tell you.
	And I won't tell you.
	It's up to Art to tell you.
	And it was getting to the point where Daniel was calling the house and saying, if you don't tell me what it is, or if Art doesn't tell me, or if I don't come to resolution, I'm going to come out there, physically come out there, and see Art, because I know something is terribly wrong.
	And I'm telling you, this man has a gift.
	He knew that something was incredibly, incredibly wrong.
	And he wasn't about to let go of me until I told him.
	And I have now told him what it's all about.
	He knows what has happened.
	I sort of laid it all out here just a few days ago, finally.
	But Daniel Brinkley knew, and I think I mentioned this on the air at some point, that Daniel Brinkley knew, not what had happened, but he just somehow intuitively, somehow knew something horrible was wrong.
	Daniel, what did, and so I'm pretty curious, Daniel, how did you know?
	I can just feel it.
	There are people who are close or I think that are really important to world events
	and I can scan them.
	When I get to a certain place, when I stop in the evening or after long days on the road
	and I get in, then I stop and I use the system that I learned from the other side about sending
	out love.
	I could pick up it had to do with family because I was teller Ramona.
	I could pick up it had to do with family and it was like a family that you had but didn't
	have now and hitting and missing but I could feel the deep sorrow, anger and frustration
	and I was not going to stop until I knew what it was because I think an awful lot of you
	and Ramona because you are good people but also the work that you are doing.
	And you know, like I told Ramona, I may sound like I'm crazy, but I'm not going to stop until he tells me if I have to come out and jerk it out of me.
	Yeah, that's the truth, folks.
	That's exactly.
	And then, finally, of course, I began to make some noises on the air, and I still can't talk about it.
	It's still going on.
	It's not over, and it's not even resolved, and it may resolve in a not very nice way.
	Let's hope not.
	What is going to have to happen is going to have to happen, Daniel.
	I can't change destiny, and I can understand a lot of that.
	I can understand it, but when you think about the panoramic life review, then the focus changes.
	I mean, I'm with you in any way you go on that, but since we can't talk about it... Yeah, but you knew it, though.
	That's the whole point.
	I mean, you knew it, and I am blown away by that fact.
	You have that gift, and that's still with you, isn't it?
	Oh, absolutely.
	I use it.
	Everybody around me, on all my lectures, I demonstrate not only that I can do it, but how you can learn to do it.
	I believe that we all have these inner natures that we don't activate for a lot of reasons, but when you find the right reason, mine was just activated.
	I've spent 20 years studying it, either from too much electricity, or since we're electrical chemical, or that we can expand out.
	Once we know the expansive nature of our spirituality, then these are byproducts of it.
	But I believe that everybody's capable of doing it, because if I can do it, anybody can do it.
	Where does this power come from, David?
	It comes from realizing the deep spiritual nature of yourself, but it's innately built into your systems.
	I mean, as a physical, mental being.
	I don't think that what I do is able to perceive things like I could describe things, and I used to have people write words on pieces of paper, and it's not a gimmick.
	I could read, if they could see it, I could read it.
	When they were going to do the movie Saved by the Light, we were met in Las Vegas because I was at a convention there, and we just walked down the tables, and 8 times out of 10 times I could name the card that the blackjack dealer had, but only 5 times out of 10 times could I pick the color of the card, and throw me back the other way, and I had to figure out how I was able to do that.
	But what I realize is the blackjack dealer doesn't care what color it is, he only cares about the numbers to get to 21.
	Yeah, that's right.
	So it's me studying how it works more so than, you know, than worrying about if I have it.
	But I think we all have this.
	And I write about them in the books.
	All right, listen, let me stop you because everybody by now probably has ten pieces of paper and ten pens.
	I hope you do.
	Your two books, Saved by the Light, the first, About what occurred to you when you were struck by lightning, and at peace and alight.
	I take it that was a book written after the second.
	It was, because I realized, Art, when I wrote the first book, you know, you're telling people what a miserable bastard you are, and you kind of hold some things back, and then after I wrote the first book, and so many people wrote me hundreds of thousands, well not hundreds of thousands, like a hundred and six thousand letters to the day, and they would write to me and tell me how much it helped them I think so.
	and dealing with losing children and losing their parents and how the techniques and the
	things that I described really helped them and that I was honest and open about who I
	am.
	Now, Danyan, people must come to you now, anybody with a gift like yours, people must
	come to you and they want to know things about themselves and their future and their health
	and their life and people come to you and what do you do?
	Well, I usually deal with, I've taken this skill or gift and I deal with people who are
	losing loved ones and those people who are in transition.
	You know, I'm in hospice and I started the foundation called CIA, which is Compassion in Action, and I teach people the techniques so that when someone's getting ready to leave this world and they're family members and they can't quite come together to have closure, then to pick up what's worrying the family members as well as the person leaving is what I do with it.
	You know, a lot of people come to me a lot of times for stuff that you're describing, but I don't think that that's where I best serve.
	That is not where you generally use the gift, then?
	No, I use it with people.
	You've been working in hospices for how long?
	18 years.
	Working with people who are dying for 18 years?
	About 155 people.
	I have my 155th now.
	I will see her tomorrow.
	I know that you're doing this all the time.
	All over the country.
	How can you do this without there being a price?
	Is there a price to you when you do it, or is it a joy for you?
	I love it.
	It's where I make the most amount of difference.
	That I can come into a situation when I know you don't die, and I don't push any issue on anybody, but I'm able to watch that family member.
	I know what they're going through.
	I studied the dynamics.
	That's what I write in my book.
	How do you make decisions and how do you deal with it?
	All right, Daniel, we're at the top of the hour.
	Hang tight.
	We'll be right back.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time.
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast Anne from July 18, 1997.
	This is a recording of the show.
	We gotta get right back where we started from.
	Love is good, love can be strong.
	Love is good, love can be strong, we gotta get right back to where we started from
	Do you remember that day, and show me when you first came my way
	I said no one can take your place And if you get hurt, if you get hurt
	Listen to Arkbells somewhere in time.
	Tonight featuring a replay of Coast to Coast AM from July 18, 1997.
	You ever wonder why I like this song so much?
	It's because we all are going right back where we started from.
	That's what we're talking about this morning.
	Has that dawned on you yet?
	That's where we're all going.
	And the other part of it, It's all about love, isn't it?
	Anyway, that's why.
	You're listening to Art Bell, Somewhere in Time, on Premier Radio Networks.
	radio networks.
	Tonight, an encore presentation of Coast to Coast AM from July 18, 1997.
	All right, my guest is Dan Brinkley.
	The The hours we've been through are, I think, very self-explanatory, and we're about to go to the phones.
	So if you have a question for Daniel, it's a good time.
	You can begin calling now.
	Daniel is in Charleston, South Carolina, and I've got something that I want to read for him.
	And then he can comment, then we'll go to the phones.
	This says, Dear Art, Please ask Mr. Brinkley if he can comment on the following dream.
	I walked outside and discovered that my cats have captured a bird.
	I think, oh God, I can't deal with this, and so I go back inside.
	After a minute, I decide to go and check the situation out and hope the bird is dead.
	But I discover it's still alive, so I pick it up And notice it's a dove, and although its wing is broken, its eyes are clear, and I know its soul is intact.
	I bring the bird in the house and sit with it on the floor.
	The bird is traveling across my chest and up by my neck, caressing me, and after a while drops down to my lap.
	The bird then starts to jump off my lap.
	At which time my cats reappear and begin to lunge at the bird.
	I keep pushing the cats back, but finally have to let the bird know that it will be safe only inside the perimeter of my reach.
	I wake up and know that the bird was also myself.
	Interesting, huh?
	That makes a lot of sense.
	This is a person looking at how to protect their spiritual self and watching all the things out there that's hurt it.
	It's like a person who's gone through an experience of being hurt and yet refinding how to protect themselves like a bad relationship or something like that.
	But this person is reestablishing her protection and control of herself again.
	She's bringing back control of herself.
	You know, a lot of times The dream state is when we put together a lot of our stuff that we go through.
	When you realize how spiritual that you are, Art, truly spiritual, we are spiritual beings.
	We function in this environment for a certain period of time and then we return where we came from.
	That dream, as I listen to it, I'm not a psychoanalyst, but as I feel the dream and I listen to it, it's her after being hurt, re-protecting herself and giving herself the mission to guard herself and to bring herself safely back
	into her own personal self.
	I'm really glad she had this dream.
	I'm happy and I hope that where it takes her is her always understanding that that dove
	is her spiritual self and I hope the broken wing must represent mending your spiritual
	self so you can better maintain where you are.
	Yeah, I thought it was well said, well written and I just thought you should hear it.
	Let's go to the phones, Daniel.
	This is why people want to talk to you.
	First time caller on the line.
	You're on the air with Daniel Brinkley.
	Hi.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	All right.
	I wanted to ask you a question, and then I want to talk to Daniel Brinkley very quickly.
	Did you hear about Shoemaker's accident today?
	Oh, yes.
	I reported on that a couple of hours ago.
	I'm sorry.
	I didn't tune in until 12 o'clock.
	Automobile accident.
	Right.
	I'm terribly sorry.
	I wanted to tell you, too, that we love you and we have lots of prayers going out for you.
	Whatever your problems are, they're our problems.
	Well, thank you.
	And, Danion, in 1971, July 31st, I had a really strange incident happen to me, a boating accident.
	I was thrown out of the raft at the Kern River, pinned against a cement abutment, and my life jacket was also held down by a tree.
	And water was pouring in my mouth.
	I knew I was dead.
	And the next thing I know, I turned into a fish.
	This is the weirdest thing that has happened.
	And the hole underneath of the river lit up.
	And somehow I wiggled out of my jacket and they picked me up three miles down the river.
	Green and dead.
	And I was revived.
	I've had some incredible experiences since then.
	Being extremely sensitive.
	Making me very aware of my surroundings, my people, my family.
	And I seem now to want to help people and reach out and see if I can't relieve some of their stress and pain in situations like you were talking about.
	I think that's wonderful.
	I don't know about you turning into a fish.
	Well, it was the weirdest thing.
	There's no way I could have gotten out of the jacket as it was.
	But you see, I can imagine when I hear you talking, When you lift into that blue-gray place or that place where I was floating or where a lot of people describe it as though they're in water or they're buoyant or they're floating, I can see how that would be the first place that you would think of as this floating period started.
	As you watch the place, the bottom of the lake or the river turn to bright light, a lot of people just all of a sudden see the bright light.
	They move down a tunnel or they're not aware that that's what they're doing.
	I don't know.
	I think that's the most important thing.
	That's our real point.
	The more that we can care and give love and give support to the world around us, we're really caring and giving support to ourselves for we are part of this world.
	That's where that togetherness comes in, that wholeness comes in.
	If you start by helping someone who is facing the final days, And who does not have the confidence that you have in that you're not dying, you find a new value of yourself.
	You become the difference in spirit that you can make in the lives of people.
	And it really becomes a delight.
	People ask me what religious faith I am.
	I am a hospice volunteer.
	Where two or more gather in thy name, so shall thy be among us.
	Absolutely.
	And that's as close as it can get.
	Oh, I love it.
	I had a chance to talk to Dr. Alex I can't pronounce your name.
	What a wonderful lady today.
	I was very fortunate to get through and speak with her.
	There's so many people in the movement of helping and caring.
	I see such a change in the world, no matter what.
	We realize who we are.
	Yeah, that's it.
	Thank you.
	We're going to have to run, but thank you very much.
	Here's a facts question, and I'd like you to tackle this myself.
	You probably can't tackle it.
	But it's worth asking.
	Art, if appropriate, and in the context of this program, I don't know if we'd ever get to it, please ask Daniel what comments he might have about animals, pets in particular, spiritually, how they relate to humans in this life and maybe the next.
	Have you ever thought about that?
	I've never... I didn't see animals when I was over on the other side, but living around this for 21 years, I've heard a lot of people recount that their animals and loved ones were there.
	But when they describe it, it's a little different from, you know, your pet chihuahua.
	It's that love transcends all things.
	And that love and that bond cannot be broken by what we call death.
	You cannot break the bond.
	And so I've heard a lot of people, I mean, a lot of cases of people describing that their animals were there.
	I'm talking about bankers and And people who have a very less brain psychology who come back and are amazed at that.
	So, love passes all things, and I don't have any doubt that if you love something here, when you make that transition in the form that it truly is, that love will be there again.
	All right.
	Let's go here.
	First time caller on the line, you're on the air with Danion Brinkley.
	Hi.
	Hello.
	Hello.
	Danion?
	Yes, sir.
	I'm calling to acknowledge you for what you're doing.
	Thank you very much.
	I understand fully that we come here to serve and that's the priority.
	Period.
	Service is paramount.
	It gives you back your whole self.
	It gives you a value.
	When you go help someone who has nothing to give but their love, you find a value of your love and once you have that You begin to have a basis to take control of your life and to deal with people, to put people in your life or take people out of your life because of the value you've received from helping someone who couldn't really give you anything back except thanks and their love.
	That changed me and to see the look in a lady's eyes who's lying in a bed who's hurt so bad and she's frightened and when she sees me she smiles and for those brief moments That she has that moment where she's cared about and loved and that I'm there.
	That makes all the difference in the world.
	How can that be bought?
	There's no power.
	There's no way.
	And remember, when you look at the panoramic life of you, one day I'm going to be her looking up at me.
	She is you.
	That's what I figured.
	When you know the panoramic life of you, it becomes... There's no separateness.
	They are us.
	Well, thanks a lot for, you know, really thinking to call me and to tell me that, because I'm trying.
	That's all any of us can do, but I'm trying as hard as I can.
	All right.
	East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Danny and Brinkley.
	Hi.
	Uh, good morning, gentlemen.
	Good morning, sir.
	Um, Art.
	Yes?
	Uh, my local AM, uh, AM channel here was on the blink earlier and stuff.
	Um, what happened with you?
	Um, there's really nothing I can discuss.
	Uh, More like a personal tragedy or something?
	Personal something, yeah.
	Where are you?
	My heart goes out to you.
	Thank you.
	Where are you?
	The love you are.
	Utica, New York.
	Utica, New York.
	Yeah, my heart goes out to you and your wife, if anything, you know.
	I wanted to ask your guest, what is the... I got two questions, actually.
	What does he think about reincarnation and what does he think about in Revelations when it talks about the dead coming back to life and having a second chance and all that?
	Well, reincarnation, I'm not really sure about, but we were talking earlier from Brian Weiss and Winifred Lucas and reading a lot of the research that's being done in regression therapy by prominent physicians, and knowing people who recall past lives at the same time, who happen to be friends of mine that I meet along the way, I have to begin to look at it, but I'm not really sure.
	I know about the death process when it concerns one, but it would seem to me like it would be a waste if we didn't have more options and more chances at growth.
	I don't think we keep coming back to correct all the bad things we've done.
	I think we keep coming back if we do that to create more opportunity.
	And second, in the book of Revelations, it talks about when the Christ would come back to raise up their own.
	That was the whole nature of creating coffins and the whole system that we call burial.
	But when they talk about that the dead will rise up and ascend and they will take you in your heavenly host body or something close to that.
	I don't really... I think that that's supposed to be translated for us to think that at a certain point when this Christ consciousness comes like what Edgar Cayce says in 1978 in Egypt and what People are saying that the Aquarian Age, from the Piscean Age to the Aquarian Age, and all these talk and all these concepts about it.
	The quickening.
	And the quickening.
	And once that happens, that we would all become aware that there's not a death so much to say, but that it represented a symbolic way that we shut ourselves off from all our true spiritual knowledge of ourselves, because that was what was required for the job at hand to be done.
	I mean, that's how I interpret that.
	I'm not afraid.
	I've listened and looked at religions in every concept from, you know, afterlife to where, you know, the coffin was invented to keep the spirit locked in.
	When you look at the development of coffins and burials, now we lock them in a hemostatic refilled box, then we put them in concrete, then we bury them in the ground, waiting for someone to take us back up That sounds like the craziest stuff I've ever heard in my life.
	What about the pyramids in Egypt?
	What about, uh, it's interesting that you should ask about the pyramids in Egypt.
	I don't want to, uh, lay this out just yet, after the bottom of the hour, but, Dan, in all my life, I have been drawn, drawn, drawn to the pyramids in Egypt.
	Easy to understand.
	And I'm going, uh, leaving October 1st, um, on a very important trip for me.
	No doubt.
	And is there some chance, any chance you'll be over there then?
	I'm working exactly toward that.
	I wouldn't miss this for the world.
	I know.
	You have been there many, many times.
	Absolutely.
	I haven't.
	What is it about the pyramids?
	The pyramids are a breathtaking spiritual dynamic.
	And it also is a monument to man's abilities to try to interpret and to create these monuments or
	whatever created these monuments to truly appreciate the magnitude of them.
	Wild Card Line, you're on the air with Daniel Brinkley.
	Hello.
	Yes, good evening gentlemen.
	Pleasure to be with you.
	Where are you?
	My name is John.
	I'm calling from Scottsdale, Arizona.
	Yes, John.
	Hi, John.
	Hi, which of course where we have maybe 24 hours to have life as we know it.
	Anyway, we shall see.
	My co-author Paul Perry lives there, a very wonderful guy.
	Ah, well it's a nice place to live.
	I just wanted to ask you, either of you actually, either both of you, whether you are familiar with the books of George Meek, After We Die, What Then?
	Followed books by John G. Fuller, Goes to 29 Megacycles, wherein they attempt to use, or I guess a combination of Uh, channeling and actual technical equipment to communicate with the dead with some actual measurable results.
	What did you say about 29 megahertz?
	The Ghost of 29 Megacycles is a book by John G. Fuller.
	Ooh, I've got to read that.
	Oh, yeah.
	At a fish bar in Germany.
	I've heard of these people and I've been to a conference.
	I went to a conference in Brazil a few years ago where people were using computers, televisions
	and hookups to communicate with the world.
	It's absolutely fascinating.
	It seems that much like remote viewing there is some very solid scientific ground that
	they are actually using.
	There is a worldwide organization that has done this and recorded this.
	I was watching one of the fish bars most famous cases of some guy talking to them from a house.
	He was living in the 13th century and yet this house was in the 80s.
	Wow!
	But mostly European studies, I understand, produced only short bursts of intelligible messages, whereas this gentleman, George Meek, who was actually an engineer, was able to produce some lengthy, detailed conversations.
	With people on the other side, he describes quite a layer cake of existences that we can look forward to in that book.
	I think it would be of great interest, and certainly, as far as I know, nothing's happened with these people for quite a long time.
	I don't know what became of the push to get this to happen.
	Well, the organization still exists, and since they're, you know, the Fischbauer Germans, and a lot of German technology has been going into it, You know, I've had a chance.
	I've heard of this and I even went to the conference and I watched it.
	I don't understand it, but I've watched it and seen it from pretty credible perspectives of science.
	What I enjoy most about having this life that I have, that I get a chance to be around so many people to ask and watch so many possibilities, Do either one or both of you actually believe that one day, through spiritualism or science or a combination thereof, we actually might break down the barrier between that side and this side, or is that a forever barrier?
	Oh, absolutely.
	Absolutely what?
	We shall break down that barrier.
	I believe we shall.
	I believe we have already begun to do that.
	I agree with John 100%.
	I have no question.
	It goes right along with your quickening and with your whole thing coming together.
	Period.
	We are destined to accomplish this.
	We came here to do that and in the course of everything that pulls us in every direction, we will succeed at that.
	We will succeed with lifting that veil and becoming more aware of our spiritual sides and dimensions.
	I think the near death experience affords one of the greatest opportunities for that to happen just by looking at it and realizing that People down the street will be the ones who will convince you.
	Isn't that something?
	Talk about something wonderful.
	What could be more wonderful than that?
	I couldn't think of anything.
	I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
	That's why when the second near-death experience, I chose to come back.
	I saw the difference that one person could make in a period of time that was literally one of the most remarkable periods of time in spiritual, emotional, and physical
	history of the earth plane and of our levels of consciousness.
	All right, Culler, I've got to say thank you, and I've got to ask Danion to hold on.
	Culler, thank you very much.
	That was a really, really good call.
	Can you imagine if everything between here and there broke down, they'd both think it'll
	Can you imagine?
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	And I wish the people down along Louisiana, Alabama, Florida Panhandle area well.
	There is a Force One hurricane bearing down on them, and it's kind of hard to know what it's going to do.
	It's got a lot of warm water.
	It could build.
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	This is going to be a rough hurricane season.
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	I argue with people about disclosure time and time again.
	I've told them governments are not going to come out willingly to tell us it's going to happen by mistake, it's going to happen by a whistleblower, but it's not going to be an organized thing.
	Governments won't do that.
	And the reason why they won't do it is because they do not want us to know.
	They think that they'll lose control of us.
	If you actually truly believe that we were being visited by extraterrestrials and you had categorical proof that it was happening, do you think you would listen to some of the bull that government throws out all the time?
	Absolutely not!
	You'd look toward the heavens, you'd say there's got to be a better way, and you would start doing your own thing.
	And you would forget all about government control and everything else.
	So, the bottom line is, government will never, ever disclose the true facts of UFOs.
	Now we take you back to the night of July 18th, 1997, on Art Bell's Somewhere in Time.
	We're going back now to Daniel Brinkley, but just as we do, I want to recap what other
	guests have said on this program with respect to what they believe is going on in Egypt.
	We're going to be back in a minute.
	We have photographs on the website which, uh, document, and on the, uh, Enterprise Mission website, Mr. Hoaglands, which show or appear to show a tunnel, very serious tunnel, being dug in the Great Pyramid.
	The consensus was that this tunnel was being dug from the King's Chamber to the Queen's Chamber.
	There are several very damning photographs, one which appears to show a security camera, normally pointed outward to see what might be going on, turned to the wall.
	There are photographs of large electric lines running up inside the Great Pyramid, which people have reported are warm, indicating a great deal of current is being drawn, indicating there is digging going on.
	We have pictures of this tunnel.
	We have testimony from people Indicating this is, this digging is going on.
	We have photographs of bags of limestone being taken out of the Great Pyramid.
	Indicating also that there is a dig that nobody knows about going on.
	All of this has been on the air and is reverberating loudly in Egypt right now.
	My name, that of Mr. Boval and Hancock and hoagland and others are being bandied about uh...
	uh... quite quite heavily in egypt at the moment and
	i passed all this on to daniel
	who said okay again and has a good relationship with them zahi hawass
	and he called on the awas who returned his call earlier today
	and i guess then you knew laid all this out for zahi is that correct
	yes i i i you know i i i've met zahi hawass for a long time going
	there and i know everybody else but
	i don't think i have as much invested in uh... what people are saying and
	i just called him on the phone but also this too are i have other friends of
	that zahi hawass people who are live there and who live and work around the
	pyramids every day They'll know what's going on, and I called them, and I asked them, because I didn't know if I would talk to Zahi, Dr. Awass,
	But the word, when I asked him, I said, what's going on?
	And I asked two other people what they had heard was going on.
	And they said that everything that they're hearing, everything that I asked them was true, except that the tunnel that they think is being dug between the king and the king, the king and the queen's chamber is not being dug.
	They've discovered what they think to be two or three rooms above the king's chamber.
	Wow.
	And this is what is the most remarkable.
	For years, they never thought anything about it, but they're discovering this.
	The power cables that I asked about, they said, look, normally you go twice a day.
	There are people who prepare in advance to buy a program that you can go inside the Great Pyramid.
	Right.
	Whoever took these pictures was the person inside on a tourist visit.
	Sure.
	With walking over these cables where the excavation was going on and people could see it.
	Yep.
	And they're excited about it over there.
	When I was listening to all that kind of stuff, I think back to the mindset that from watching for years, Dr. Zahi Awad loves the Giza Plateau.
	And he loves it.
	And he's very protected of it.
	And with what he does, he's trying to fix it and preserve it and to go step by step.
	And he told me, I asked him, I said, Zahi, And why are everybody acting this way?
	And he says, well, it's just that same stuff that goes on.
	He said, but you can come right now and I will show it to you.
	We're trying to get enough light up in there because of how the script and the hieroglyphics on the wall to find out what period it was.
	Wait a minute.
	There's hieroglyphics on the wall?
	Yeah, there are writings on the wall and they're trying to get enough light in there.
	So that they can read this.
	And you're saying there's five chambers or rooms?
	No, they know there's one, but they think there's at least three.
	Above the King's Chamber?
	Yeah.
	Can you see, Art?
	That's a total mind blower.
	It's even wilder.
	Listen, it's getting wilder.
	The whole part of watching this going toward 1998 is why it's so interesting to me.
	And watching how fast things are unfolding, what sometimes took 20 years before they discovered anything.
	They're discovering it, and I can hear the sense of excitement.
	I can hear it because I know Zahi, and I know these people who are around there, and I can listen to the excitement, which they keep contained, a lot of dealing with what Graham and Robert and John and just the things that, um, I mean, I hear stories, you know, I hear all the bad guy stories, this Larry Hunter guy.
	I heard two or three stories that two people told me about.
	Do you think, let me ask you this, do you think that Zahi Is telling you the truth.
	Oh, yeah.
	I mean, I mean, this is it's such big news that you would think that if they discovered chambers, I mean, that's extremely exciting.
	Either way, it's extremely exciting, whether they're digging up or down.
	But well, they're clearing out a lot of debris.
	I mean, they've just, you know, a lot of debris.
	But that ought to be in the papers.
	I mean, but not yet.
	First things, when you look at an archaeological dig, you see what you have.
	You don't just run out and tell the world you discovered something without, like, an archaeologist.
	And when you look at the mindset of Egyptology archaeologists, they're pretty painstaking about this.
	I mean, I've watched the way they do it and seen when they uncovered the laborers' camps and the amazement of it.
	First, you see what you have.
	You don't create wide speculation.
	These people who know about this were one of two groups a day that all can go there and it can't be more
	than like thirty five or forty people
	and they were just one of these tourist groups and they took photographs and
	they're blowing it out of proportion alright uh...
	i believe this you know art
	after going there for years and years and years and having a rapport with
	these people because i i'm not i go back and i give back and i work in these
	orphanages and i really try to support the stuff
	and i don't know if you have an orphanage in cairo don't you? yeah
	i support these issues and i try to give back to these people because
	they're there guarding treasures of the whole world the best they can know how
	with the money that they have and Every time I hear this stuff, it's not the person that I know or the things that I go and see.
	I have seen things that are more wilder, that are wilder, that's unfolding over there.
	I know that you're close to Zahi, so you may not want to answer this, or you may want to answer it, or respond to it, or not.
	It doesn't matter, but I'll say it anyway.
	There are charges made by people that organizations, institutions People with money are invited to Giza to do experimental work, to do x-ray photography, all that sort of thing, looking inward toward an exploration of this or that.
	And a lot of money is spent.
	People go over there and do that preliminary work and then get tossed out of Giza With the follow-up work then being done by Zahi and company, would you respond to that?
	Well, I can look at it from all the experience.
	I can't say that maybe that has not happened.
	I can't say that because there's a lot of things that goes on in digs and sites and universities and people with grants and I'm not saying that if there was a major discovery that Someone in the hierarchy of Egyptology, like in any other one, tries to take more credit than the other.
	I mean, there's a lot of competition and pride in those kinds of professions.
	A lot of politics.
	A lot of politics.
	In those kinds of professions.
	But I've never had any dealings with Zahi or the whole antiquities department that wasn't within the mindset that I thought was reasonable and respectable.
	Now, with all the people with the lack of funds to do the job, A lot of times they have to work on things with groups and organizations of people that they may not particularly want to work with and then it may get a little sticky in between the two and then they throw them off because just sitting and having a meal with Zayi and just listening and talking to him about 30 times a year from all over the world someone comes knowing all the answers to the pyramids and that
	Dolphins built them.
	You wouldn't believe some of the stuff that I hear that the staff would tell me.
	Alright, there are two ways of looking at what is at Giza.
	One is that it is Egypt.
	Egypt is a sovereign nation.
	Egypt has a right to do the exploration.
	It is their country.
	As we regard our country sovereign, they regard theirs sovereign.
	And we have no business demanding, in effect, that all of this be immediately made available in public to everybody.
	The other view is that the pyramids eclipse anybody's sovereignty, and what is there belongs to the world.
	I agree with both of those.
	I agree with both of them because, for me, I go to Egypt because I'm drawn there, too.
	And I go there because half its history is the afterlife and how you prepare for it, even to the descriptions of the pyramids.
	And I listen to Egyptologists talk, and what appears to me, Art, is that everybody on the outside are trying to take away the sovereignty of this nation as it struggles to restore, understand, and put into perspective these magnificent monuments.
	These magnificent monuments that are so true, and when you look at them, there had to be such precision that built them.
	And then when you look at everybody's description of the chamber, there's like a hundred different descriptions of the King's Chamber, as well as the Queen's Chamber, and then there are writings in the pyramids that talk about Khufu, and then there's another intrigue, like the schools, and the mystical schools, The things that are around and are yet to be discovered are being, and the things that are being discovered, it's a multitude of things.
	But we have to take a look at the fact that a lot of the things that I hear, and some are pretty remarkable.
	I've read their books, and they're pretty good, well-researched books.
	But they don't take into consideration that these are people who have this, and it may be symbolized as what their entire country is, and they are Scientific archaeologists, and they're also defending the sovereignty of their country.
	Yes.
	I get a chance, Art, to talk to a lot of people.
	One time I just like to do a show of the things that I've come across in 21 years of exploring this, just like talking to Dr. Hawass, and that he will call me back.
	And I don't buy into anybody's issues.
	I'm watching.
	And looking at it, because I see miracles and stuff in that desert unfold every day, and because a lot of what the Cayce readings are, this chamber... What is it that you think eventually may be found there?
	Oh, it will be found.
	The chamber that they describe, it's there.
	What do you think, though, will be there?
	It'll be a whole complete different history of the world.
	All that we've heard from science and that kind of business.
	And every way we're taught that we where we came from and how all this evolved
	I mean the older age old atlantean stories There is something like that there and it will be
	discovered and it will be discovered in the next two years and
	Are you comfortable that when it is?
	It'll be made public or will it be such sacred secret information?
	That they will consider the world is not ready for or that they don't want to share with the world that it will not be
	Shared that's a possibility Because you know, there's a lot of
	There's a lot of influence That that affect the egyptian economy in the world. Yes
	from an outside pressure from other arab countries in the arab league the united states
	and the need You know, you have to remember that there are a lot more things at work than the Egyptians trying to hide one of the greatest treasures.
	It will leak out.
	There is too much that goes on.
	There are too many people who know.
	This is not the 20s or the 30s.
	I can call and ask.
	I mean, I trust Zaheer Wass because I know this man, and I watch him, and I see how hard he works, and I've been in his office, and I've been with him at dinner, and I've talked to him over the years.
	This is a good man.
	There's no question.
	So you know Zaheer Wass well enough that if he were laying down a story for you, you'd know it?
	Oh, in a minute.
	I wouldn't even have to know him well enough, Art.
	I'm really famous for being able to tell the difference.
	I can hear it in a person's voice.
	But remember this, I can also talk to fifteen other people that work around that time.
	And I can piece the story together, no matter what.
	And Zahi's story is always, he's a little abrupt.
	You know, he doesn't carry on long, lingering conversations.
	He's a little sharp-witted.
	Yes.
	He gets to the point very fast.
	Yes.
	And he's an Egyptian, you know?
	And when you take all that cultural nature and perspective and put it into place, you find a really great man.
	I like being around him.
	I like talking to him.
	And I like being able to go, if I need to know something, I'm really wondering about it.
	I'm not a researcher.
	It's just that I want to keep a very level head about what's going on.
	I've had a guy take me there and him give me a little path and let me go and look.
	Well, either way, um, whether it is, uh, as has been described by others, and they're digging down, or as you're telling me now, that they found new chambers above, it's a gigantic story either way.
	I'm telling you.
	Man, oh man, big story.
	Wait till it comes, Art.
	What happened?
	Think of this.
	They're not only clearing away all that rubble, that's what the guy is saying, that they're moving, because they want to get up and see what the writings are, because they never knew about it before.
	You know, I may not have it 100% accurate, but I'm far more accurate than the story that I heard that you were putting out, because I don't have to listen to it second- and third-handed.
	Well, we have photographs of certain things.
	Now, what that means is where the difference is.
	They conclude they're digging down.
	You're saying, I did.
	the exact opposite of going above the king's chamber here in the government
	from the mobile but but but either way it's a big story and it was a yes it is all right look we're at the end of
	the program i want to repeat
	uh... for you your offer
	saved by the light and at peace in the light hardbacks the originals that you
	somehow i guess you got copies and saved them or something i did i bought a lot
	of them because i knew that time would come in
	when i would come to people that i wanted to have the murder off of them
	uh... as it always is daniel it has been a great pleasure and honor for
	and safely you and uh...
	i hope that we can
	meet uh... at gisa
	or maybe before Or maybe both.
	Yeah, maybe both.
	I recommend that anyone who gets the opportunity to make that pilgrimage, to make it.
	I mean, I go myself and I just recommend anybody.
	I'm going to talk to everybody I know over there, Arthur, to help facilitate it and, you know, I go probably right after that.
	So if they can't catch you, they can go with me.
	All right.
	Excellent.
	Daniel, bless your heart.
	Thanks for being here.
	Thank you, man.
	And listen, my heart goes out to you.
	I will be calling you and following up.
	Keep loving your mind.
	Keep blowing in your heart, Arthur.
	Take care, my friend.
	You too, brother.
	All right, that's it for now, folks.
	From the high desert, cactus country, I'm Art Bell.

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