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Dec. 10, 1997 - Art Bell
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Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Dannion Brinkley - NDEs
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art bell
Before putting Danien on.
As you know, uh as a talk show host, I try to remain objective in my interviews and in my relationships and in my belief system.
I try to remain objective.
That is to say, I try not to be an advocate.
However, the case of Daniel Brinkley is a little different because I have personal knowledge about Daniel, a lot of personal knowledge, maybe more than he would wish me to have, but I have seen him do things that there is totally and completely no explanation for, physical and mental.
Danien Brinkley is a gifted.
I'm not even sure psychic is the right word.
He is a person gifted with, although you don't want the kind of gift, I guess, the way he got the gift.
Burdened with knowledge about other people.
And I would think it would be as much of a burden as a blessing.
He has used it certainly in a blessed way and has done work with people who are dying because Daniel has died.
Daniel most recently, once again, believe me when I tell you, he was as close to death as you can get without being dead and not coming back.
But what I guess I want to say about Daniel is that I extend myself beyond the normal, hopefully objective manner of interview by telling you that Daniel Brinkley is the real McCoy.
I repeat, Daniel Brinkley is the real McCoy.
And I guess I better also tell you that Daniel Brinkley is now not on the line.
Something happened to him.
Anyway, I really want you to understand that, that Daniel is a very special person in every way that you can imagine.
And if there is an authentic Daniel, an authentic person capable of the kinds of things that we have been talking about, precognition, knowledge of things that are about to come, then that, of course, is Daniel Brinkley.
So what I'm going to do is reach out and I'm going to run one more commercial so that I might get him back on the line again.
So Daniel, if you would please hang tight.
We're about to call you back.
I don't know what happened to the phone connection, but I'm used to this sort of thing occurring.
We'll get him back on the line and in a moment, hopefully, if everything's okay, Daniel.
Are you lived by the light, and I understand it has sold a million copies now, and of course, his newest, at Peace in the Light, here is Daniel Brinkley.
Daniel, Art.
It's so good to hear your voice sounding human.
dannion brinkley
Oh, and it's so great to be able to do it.
I mean, you know, this last round has been a lesson teacher.
art bell
Daniel, there are, I guess you have an announcement you would like to make, too.
dannion brinkley
Absolutely.
The first thing I'd like to do, Art, is for everybody out there who knows me and who helped me so much through this last four or five months, I wanted to say thank you.
I mean, from the bottom of my heart.
Because if it hadn't been for what you were doing and thinking and the prayers and the things that really spiritually mean what happens to us, all of it came for me to look at it and see, and it once again saved my life.
So for those out there, the people of the night and those who know me through art, thanks from the bottom of my heart.
The other thing I'd like to tell people that if you didn't get your books because of what happened to me during this last experience and then what happened in the house, send me a postcard.
Post Office Box 1919, Aiken, you have the address.
Send me a postcard and let me know.
art bell
That's P.O. Box.
dannion brinkley
1919, Aiken, A-I-K-E-N, South Carolina, 29802.
There's about 75 or 80 people out there who don't have their books.
art bell
Okay.
dannion brinkley
And I can't find because of when they turned all the files over and everything that happened.
Someone came into my house while I was in the hospital and they turned every file over and my desk, they cracked them.
So I have no record of about, I know there's 75 people out there who don't have their books.
art bell
All right.
Well, I would imagine they would be listening, the majority of them, this morning.
So you'll get your postcards and you'll be able to finish that up.
dannion brinkley
And I'll be so happy I won't know what to do because it's driving me crazy, Art.
You know, it just drives me crazy.
I wanted to get them out, and it's like closing, it's where I can close the door on that part of the saga.
Please send me a postcard, and thanks from the bottom of my heart, everybody.
art bell
All right.
And indeed, the audience is going to hear about this latest saga, but we are now on the air in those intervening months in many more places, and there are many people who have never heard of you, so we're going to try and do the Danion 101 early years as quick as we can.
And I can help you with that.
You were not such a nice guy when you were young, eh?
dannion brinkley
Oh, born a complete jerk, raised in South Carolina.
I'm 47 years old.
I was born in 1950.
I grew up in South Carolina.
My whole early life had nothing to do with trying to understand the light or anything to do with spirituality.
I was a fighter and mostly a jerk, jackass, and I thought intimidation was how you handled everything.
art bell
At one time you told me you were a killer.
dannion brinkley
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, it's that this country went through certain events that because of what we now call the secret governments or the covert world that we lived in that came out of the 50s, that a lot of us, there's a lot of Daniel Brinkleys out there who, in what we thought defending this country, yes, sure.
I mean, I grew up in the 60s and the 70s, and I was in the Marine Corps, and then after that, I worked all these projects.
So I'm the furthest thing from a person who looks at spirituality from any perspective.
art bell
Sure, you are an assassin.
Daniel, do you think, before we move on, that there are still people doing Daniel Brinkley early kind of work for our ongoing.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, absolutely.
It's under, I mean, there's a directive that I think George Bush, President Bush pushed through in the NSA that created and gave legitimacy to the fact that we have a covert army.
Most people don't know how to look for that or to see it, but it was legalized in probably 85.
I mean, it's there.
And there's absolutely that they're there and absolutely that this goes on.
And then virtually every major government that there is, no matter what the executive action is.
art bell
That's realistic.
That's the way the real world is.
dannion brinkley
Absolutely.
And yes, it's out there.
art bell
All right.
So that was you early on, pretty rough guy.
dannion brinkley
Just a, you know, jerk.
art bell
Yeah.
All right.
You got out of the military.
Said, I guess, what kind of mental state were you in when you got out of the military?
Was it like, I've had enough, I'm not ever doing this again?
dannion brinkley
Well, no, I loved it.
I mean, the military was just a short part of my life.
It just was a basic part of the training of what comes contracts, where you come to a person and you have a certain compartmentalized job, and what they do is they tell you that this is what you do.
They pay you this much money, and you don't know all the rest of the stuff.
Some of the things were years before I knew what it was, but you just did your part.
I mean, I've seen, because I'm 47 years old and I was in that 20 years ago, almost 25 years ago, I can look now and see what it was I was doing that then I didn't know.
And that's the way they do it.
Look at Eugene Hosenfus is a typical example.
I mean, the guy that shot down in Nicaragua.
art bell
Right.
dannion brinkley
His life, I have no problems with being able to identify with him what happens to him, what went on with him, and where he got left in the whole...
Oh, they sold him out.
What are you talking about?
We're like handy wipes.
You use once and throw away, and if you survive, you use you again.
But I loved it, Art.
I mean, my life was how fast that I could move and how quick and how I would think each thing through and what my particular job was, whether it was the setup or I did the reconnaissance or I did some part in the chain by which to create the single action.
And it was a jazz.
They had me.
I was addicted to adrenaline.
And I was going through my life having a double life like a lot of us.
I'm not James Bond or anybody.
I'm just some jerk out there that grew up at this time and believed that power and might was represented in how tough you could be or how much you could destroy something and the whole mindset that we're taught like in a military point of view or war.
And you're taught this and you get so caught up in it, you never realize how really wrong so much of it is.
But that's where I was.
I would have stayed there and probably been there today.
I mean I had a company and a business and I worked in this and it gave me access to things.
And this is the world I lived in, not any of this other stuff.
I thought this stuff was all crap.
Then one day I came home.
I was doing my reconnaissance job looking at infrastructure in a country and looking at how if you blow the infrastructure, which is the first thing that you do, you destroy the transportation, electrical, water, and power.
So you create civil unrest, which creates diversion and chaos so that whatever plan you intend to execute, it's executing within the framework of what appears to be as though those people indigenous to the place are causing the problem.
And either you go in to help fix it or you use that as your cover.
Well, that typical plan causes children to die and people to be shot and all kinds of stuff like that.
But you never think about that.
So I was coming back.
For the first time in my life, I saw people.
Only two times in my whole life have I applied what I do to people that time and what happened in this third experience that I just had.
But I was looking at these people and realized that they were human beings and they were people that were farmers and they had, you know, the grandchildren watched out for the kids.
He worked the cow or the horse and cut the ruts to put the flowers, I mean to plant the corn and the wife came behind him planting it, two kids, a grandparent, and this was supposed to be my enemy.
And I was coming back thinking about it.
I get home.
I worked in a grocery business.
There's no big deal about who Damian Brinkley is.
I worked in a grocery business with my family and I had these two lives and I was comfortable in it.
art bell
So in other words, at times you plan the destruction of infrastructure, which of course destroys people and that ultimately destroys governments.
Sure.
dannion brinkley
We do it all the time.
Big deal.
I mean, that's how I looked at it there.
We do it all the time.
I mean, we, and during the 60s, 50s, 60s, and 70s, because of the Cold War, I mean, there was a whole world of us created and then given exist legitimacy around 75 or 76, then came Iran-Contra.
But before that, the NSA directive was put into place so that it gave legitimacy to it.
How do you think the Iran-Contra affair occurred?
art bell
So they were actually operating with just a free hand.
dannion brinkley
They still do.
art bell
Yeah, they still do.
I'm sure that's right.
unidentified
All right.
art bell
Well, anyway, so that's the kind of guy you were.
Then one day.
dannion brinkley
No, not one day.
Three days after I got home.
When you come home from being gone, in the grocery business, the most frightening word that exists is called perishable.
So when that word is the most terrifying word in existence, and I come home and my part in the family business has to do with produce and compressors and all that kind of stuff, and it was going out.
No one cares where I've been and what I've been doing.
I had to have that compressor fixed.
I had an absolutely wondrous wife who this lady had been calling on the phone that I bought an antique car.
It was how I kept my mind comfortable.
I would fix a car and repair it and sell it, one old car at a time.
And I had bought a car from a lady that I had to tear down the garage, tear the garage open to get it and to take the car out.
And I told her I would fix the door.
And the guy I paid to fix the door didn't do it.
And I come home, and I'm not saying that women are tough or bad or anything like that, but I can promise you they have a stair that can melt plaster off of a wall.
No question in my mind.
So I walk in the house to that glare of this lady calling him because the door wasn't fixed.
I had a compressor down and I had to get my reports written and submitted.
These are my days after I come back from this living the life.
She was so upset, so just before dinner, so that I could at least take some of the heat off, I was going to call him so that she could hear me talking to him and ask him why it hadn't been done and to get it done.
art bell
I'd never heard all this before.
Okay.
So now I understand why you were on the phone.
dannion brinkley
You got it, brother.
art bell
Okay.
dannion brinkley
So I take my, because she's watching the news and fixing dinner, I take myself down the hall and in the bedroom, I pick the phone up and I call TM.
And I mean, this is my life.
And it had nothing to do with being a guy who lived in both worlds, who watched it.
And maybe that was part of why me.
You know, you're always trying to figure out why me or in those kinds of situations.
I picked the phone up and I'm talking to Tommy.
And everybody who knows me knows what happened then.
I got hit in the neck by a bolt of lightning.
art bell
This was all during a lightning storm, a severe lightning storm.
dannion brinkley
No, it wasn't there yet.
I only heard the raindrops.
When I heard the raindrops, I heard thunder way off in the distance.
And I told Tommy, I said, Tommy, let's get off this phone.
I'm not going to, you know, your mother always told you, don't talk on the phone when it's thundering and lightning.
art bell
That's right.
dannion brinkley
And what happened was he made fun of that.
He said, hey, he said, what are you, big tough guy, secret guy, and you're afraid of thunder?
You know, and I'm poking my chest out like a game rooster.
art bell
Actually, let me tell you something.
I know a little bit about thunderstorms, Daniel.
And when the rain first begins, you are then under, directly under the area of electrical activity.
Now, you may have heard a thunderclap in the distance, but believe me, once the rain began to fall, you were directly in the part of the storm where you could get a strike.
dannion brinkley
Great time to tell me, Art.
art bell
Well, that's true.
That is true.
unidentified
And listen, no crap, Sherlock.
art bell
All right.
dannion brinkley
Because at that moment, when that lightning struck me, I never knew any of this.
I didn't know it.
art bell
Where did the bolt actually hit you?
Do you know?
dannion brinkley
It hit me on the right, left side of my neck, just behind my ear.
art bell
Just behind your ear.
dannion brinkley
And it went in my ear and down my spine, welding the nails of the heels of the shoes to the floor, throwing me in the air and suspended me in the air.
And from that moment on...
art bell
Your shoe went off slow.
Your shoes were welded to the floor and then you were actually apparently then blown out of your shoes.
Mm-hmm.
It's been a lot of times and what happened was You were tossed up into the air, came down on the bed, and you were on fire.
dannion brinkley
No doubt in my mind.
art bell
All right.
We'll leave it right there at the bottom of the hour.
That's a good place to leave it.
We'll pick it up at that point.
My guest is Daniel Brinkley, and what comes next, you're not going to want to miss.
A number of times, every time I hear it, I hear a new detail that I somehow missed before or that you thought of.
dannion brinkley
Well, I think art because we've done it and we're so close.
Yeah.
And I'm so close to the Art Bell family that my personal life and the things that I feel as I go through it, what I am is just as a person, I feel more comfortable with talking about it.
I mean, most of the time, I tell a dramatic point as much as I can.
But this is who I am.
I'm like everybody else.
unidentified
There's no difference between me and anybody who's listening.
dannion brinkley
I'm a person of the night.
I love the Art Bell show.
I'm trying to find the answers to things at being 47 years old.
And I'm where everybody who's listening to you are.
Except that these things, there are certain things that happened to me that just gave me my perspective on it.
I'm no different.
And so I tell about what I'm going through as a person because it's just us.
art bell
All right.
You were, here you are hit by lightning in the neck.
dannion brinkley
Here's where my saga began, Art.
The real story about me, and what I believe is the point that brings a certain awareness to people is I never heard of the near-death experience.
I knew nothing about the kinds of things that are talked about on your show.
Nothing about it.
And how I learned about it was when that bolt of lightning came down the phone line and hit me in the neck.
If my shoes had not been, and I had nails in the bottoms of my shoes, Ouijans, bass, Ouijans with the nails, the heels nailed on, not glued, and they were over the flooring, there was the carpet, and then there was flooring that was nailed down.
My shoes were sitting over those nails.
When that lightning went down my spine and through my body and came out the bottoms of my seat, it welded Those nails to that floor.
And that's what grounded me out and kept me from exploding.
They figure about 180,000 volts.
All of a sudden, I'm blown like lightning, like someone stabs me in the back like an ice pick.
It throws me in the air.
It suspends me in the air, and it slams me back down on the bed.
It didn't drop me, it slammed me, and it bent the bed frame.
And I'm on fire, and I'm burning, and it's like battery acid, and I have no consciousness except this pain.
And all of a sudden, I'm in a blue-gray place.
And this begins a tradition.
Everybody who's heard it before and who hasn't heard it, this is a tradition now.
All of a sudden, I'm in this blue-gray place, and I'm comfortable.
And I'm not burning, and I'm safe.
And I all of a sudden become aware that I'm rolling over, and I see myself lying across this bed.
And I had what we now call a near-death experience.
And I was safe, and I was comfortable, and I was at peace.
Like 15 million other people who's had one and been resuscitated.
And I watched what went on.
I watched my wife come down the hall and work on me.
I watched Tommy come over and him help her.
And I noticed these are common characteristics to me now since I've been through three of these in 22 years.
art bell
Somebody picked up the phone, called 911, or the equivalent of?
dannion brinkley
That was Tommy.
He sent Sandy to go next door to call the paramedics and everything.
art bell
They're probably rolling you to put out the fire.
dannion brinkley
Well, what happened was I didn't catch on fire.
It was as though I was drinking battery acid.
I was burning from the inside out.
And when that is occurring, in the early part of it, and in the early stages, I didn't know what to think about it.
I didn't know what had happened to me.
I couldn't stop it.
I couldn't move.
I was paralyzed.
I was dead for 28 minutes.
I was completely paralyzed for six days and partially paralyzed for six days.
art bell
Dead for 28 minutes now.
dannion brinkley
17 and 11.
art bell
That means no heartbeat, no brain waves.
dannion brinkley
Nothing.
art bell
No breathing.
None of that.
Gone.
Gone.
Flat, gone.
When I finally met you in person, how long ago was that when we first met, when you came to the house?
unidentified
That was probably six or eight months.
art bell
Maybe even longer.
dannion brinkley
A year.
art bell
Yeah, maybe a year.
There is no hair on your body.
dannion brinkley
Well, I have little to no hair because when that lightning got me, it burnt most of that away.
art bell
It burned it away.
dannion brinkley
And it's amazing that it burned it.
art bell
It must have killed the roots, I guess.
dannion brinkley
Well, it killed a lot of stuff.
unidentified
It did its share of killing.
art bell
So without going drastically into your near-death experience, what you actually experienced, because we will get to that.
Danien, you ended up with a heart valve.
dannion brinkley
Oh, damn, Ark, you're really moving along.
art bell
I'm moving along because I want everybody to understand why when we get to the current event, the event that just occurred, they need to understand what you were facing.
So as a result of this lightning, something happened to your heart.
What physically occurred that caused you to have to get a heart valve?
dannion brinkley
Well, from being struck by lightning twice in 1975 and in 1978, it did damage to my heart.
You know, lightning goes through your system and it damages a lot of stuff and it damaged my heart and my system.
You know, every part of me got damaged, but it centered on my heart and my vascular system and my nerves.
And so what happened was I had a first near-death experience.
And in the course of that near-death experience, I came through a tunnel, came into a place of light.
unidentified
I experienced beings of light.
dannion brinkley
I watched my life task before me, which is the single most important point of the whole near-death experience.
I watched me not only see everything I'd ever done, I literally watched it from a second person, and then I became every person and felt the direct results of my interaction between me and those persons, which I believe is the most significant and most important part for people to look at from the near-death experience.
art bell
In other words, you are going to live your life as you affected others.
You're going to feel what they felt.
dannion brinkley
No doubt about it.
And how do I know this?
I've had three of these things.
I'm the veteran of three near-death experiences.
And the last one was just three months ago.
And this is the first show I'm doing since I got up because I wanted to tell Art Bell's people, hey guys, you don't die.
Now, there's some really hard parts in it, but the key is how to avoid those and how to get the most out of the knowledge that comes back from the near-death experience.
And that's why I wanted to come on tonight, and that's why I want to tell people that the conclusions that we'll do later on in the show and the stuff that we'll talk about, guys, where I got it from was given my life from being struck by lightning and paralyzed and learning to walk and feed myself.
Second.
art bell
How long, Daniel, after the first strike, were you in rehab?
dannion brinkley
God, two years.
art bell
Two years?
dannion brinkley
Yeah, I had to learn to walk and feed myself and think again.
All I had was this vision.
All I had was these things that had happened to me when I was supposed to be dead, that no one ever told me about, that I lived with for almost 10 months with no one to talk to about it.
And I met Raymond Moody, and all of a sudden I was suspicious of him.
But he began to give me a confidence about the near-death experience because he had interviewed a couple of hundred people then, and I was just another case study, and we became friends, and I got to explore the near-death experience from every aspect.
But I went eight years from 1975 to 1989.
I went 14 years before I had a second near-death experience, which is the heart valve that you're talking about.
art bell
Before we get to that, and I did jump ahead of that, Danian, when you were gone, when you were dead, when you were out of your body, where were you?
dannion brinkley
Well, in the early parts of being out of my body, I was in the room.
I traveled and watched my body.
I watched them work on it.
I watched the pyramids come.
I knew all the conversation that had gone on.
And I was particularly amazed by it.
I was floating above it or I was behind it or beside my body most of the time on the way to the hospital.
And then I became aware of the fact when he said he's gone, I began to move through a tunnel.
And I believe that we are multidimensional beings, and I've learned so much about it.
But in those early days, I didn't know where it was.
But we live in this dimension.
And at the time when our particular job and task is done, we enter a state or a transitional nature that we call death, where the body shuts down and frees the spiritual and ethereal body.
And then you return to where you came from, and you move on to go to be to cities and crystal cities and cities of lights or levels of consciousness where you go and look back through the information, see your relatives.
art bell
Can you remember, Daniel, can you remember during that period of time whether you had, as you and I now have it, you sound good and awake and conscious right now.
You're conscious and thinking and aware of things that are around you and what's happening to you.
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Were you in that state or a different state?
dannion brinkley
Well, multiply what you're describing right now by 100 billion.
And that's the state you're in.
art bell
Kind of super consciousness.
dannion brinkley
More than super consciousness.
You can merge with a thought.
You don't have to think it.
You can merge with it and re-experience it in any level, in any way you want to do it.
Part of what this third near-death experience was, and what happened, what we'll talk about, is how I was able, because people from this show caring about me sent their prayers to me that gave me a level of energy that while I was going through this near-death experience, I entered whole new different levels, whole new places I never knew existed and never thought that could exist.
And although I went through a lot of pain and bored holes in my head and the stuff that we'll talk about, I learned that the power of collective consciousness or prayer for true reason and purpose, we can change anything.
Because the levels that I could go to, whereas I've never been to them before, through two other near-death experiences, I've never been through them until I got to this one.
So tonight it's about, hey guys, the near-death experience is the way to start stabilizing your life.
It's a way that you don't have to die or be afraid to go find out what happens, how it works, and if you can start from being dead and move back to where you are right now, you can not only change your life in the course of your life, you can take control of that life and be able to be in a place to help other people who are not as confident or who didn't take the opportunity to go seek this information.
I mean, I'm a guy, and I'm no Swami or guru or anything, but I've been through three near-death experiences, and each one of them has a uniqueness to it, but it has a commonality to it.
art bell
Well, Danian, I've talked to a number of people, interviewed a number of people in recent weeks who have talked to me about precognition, telekinesis, the various powers that appear to be in all of us, but only turned or in effect switched on in some very few of us.
Some people believe you can develop these powers if you know how to do it.
But in your case, there are some naturals out there who appear to be born with psychic abilities.
There's no question about what you can do.
I've seen it demonstrated.
I'm a believer.
And I don't frequently make a statement like that.
But apparently something happened to your brain when you were hit by lightning.
unidentified
Absolutely.
dannion brinkley
I never, Art.
I'm like you.
Remember, I'm like you.
I study things and I'm trying to understand whether people have disability within them.
I have no doubt because when I got struck by lightning, I never heard of it, never thought of it, and I had pretty good instincts about survival and things like that, but not like what I have now and what I've gained and grown and learned about being perceptive about things.
art bell
Well, we're told we only use about 10% of our brain.
dannion brinkley
Well, I don't even know how you measure that.
art bell
Well, they do.
They do.
They measure it.
We use about 10% of our brain, and a lot of people theorize, Danian, that an event like you had opens a pathway that was not opened before.
We are electrical beings.
dannion brinkley
Absolutely, electrical chemical.
I believe without any question that that not only is possible and that we all possess this mechanism to use because it's inherent in us.
I didn't gain something supernatural.
This opened up by either an overload of my electrical chemical system, which did destroy my heart, so that had to have happened.
And the fact that I'm not afraid of dying because I've had a near-death experience at that point, gave me a certain confidence that we continue on, which really allows people to open up.
When you're not afraid of dying, art, and all of us are terrified of it, and we're taught to be controlled by this, when you're not afraid of dying and you have a way to really look at it and observe it from, which what the near-death experience gives you if you don't have one.
And then if you have one, two, or three, you get in life-threatening situations.
I didn't stump my toe.
I got struck by lightning.
Number one, number two, I had emergency open-heart surgery to take my heart out of my chest and put a St. Jude's aortic valve.
And number three.
art bell
Let's stop there for a second.
You had open heart surgery to have a St. Jude's valve put in.
What had happened?
One of your valves had failed?
What mental health?
dannion brinkley
No, because of the lightning.
It had weakened it.
art bell
It had weakened it.
dannion brinkley
And then I became, what happened after that, the weakness of the body, my immune system, staph infection, and I got staph infection and it settled on the weakest part in my cardiovascular system, which was my heart, and it ate the St. Jude's valve.
It ate the aortic valve.
So I was drowning in my own blood.
I collapsed.
I mean, I write about it in Saved by the Light and in Peace and the Light.
I collapsed in the emergency room.
And then the next thing was open heart surgery.
And that's how I had the second near-death experience and come to the conclusions that you don't die.
And there is a certain very stable situation and lie, not, you know, like predestiny, but a part that we each have greater control of our lives than we've ever been given credit by any mechanism, religions, institutions, or government.
And I went through open heart surgery and I struggled with that for a year.
And then I had to learn to live with Coumidin, rat poison, and to change my whole life.
art bell
Coumidin rat poison.
Now this had to do with the heart valve.
In other words, once the heart valve was in you, your blood then had to be maintained at a certain anticoagulated rate.
Thinness, right?
unidentified
Right.
art bell
Thinness.
They had to thin your blood.
dannion brinkley
Well, they have to put it to where it won't clot.
See, your blood has clotting capabilities, and that's a lot to do with what heart disease is and heart problems.
And like where a lot of Americans are, I had to experience that so that I knew how to talk about love in the heart and the body.
I get really philosophical now, Art, because after this third one, there are things that I can just forget and really put into my life a focus and a place of where I don't have to wonder about it.
I know after the third time, that's how it works.
Now, how can I best put this information out so that people can use it and grow from it in their everyday lives and not have to die two or three times like the fool I am keeps having to do?
art bell
When you returned the first time, you had psychic ability thrust upon you.
dannion brinkley
Absolutely.
art bell
And it was, I recall you're saying this, and again, it reinforces what a lot of my guests have said.
You said at the beginning, this psychic ability was so strong, such a burden, you could hear voices, you could hear people thinking, you knew what was going on with everybody around you to the degree that you actually had to separate yourself from people.
Is that correct?
dannion brinkley
Well, absolutely.
It drove me crazy.
I mean, from a person that never believed any of it, never even had a framework to put it in what was going on, all of a sudden, one day I didn't believe it, the next day I was dead, and the day after it, I became everything I never believed in.
I not only had to relearn who I was and where I was, I had to learn about this kind of stuff and find a way to believe in it because it was happening to me, but with not all this fakery, the stuff that exists out in the world, that people have an awareness that there is spirituality and psychic ability, but it's shrouded in so much garbage.
I had to learn all that stuff.
So all of us are capable of being able to do this.
art bell
So it was like a cacophony of noise.
I mean, overwhelming for you then.
dannion brinkley
Well, yeah, the first was people's emotions.
The first thing you feel is the emotion.
And from that emotion, I now, I would see movies.
Okay, now it's like a movie.
I will see a picture, and then I just interpret what I see.
It's like going to the movies and seeing a preview of a movie, those five or six things they show before the feature.
I will see those.
In those early days, I would literally be the person.
I remember when these nurses were pushing me down in this tub of this whirlpool when I was paralyzed to try to find a way to get my motor senses in there where I could feel this hot water moving around me trying to find a way that I could move during the therapy.
And I could hear everything all the nurses at once were doing and thinking.
And these are four ladies, completely different, and I could hear it.
I could touch people when they would touch me and thank God that's reduced.
You know, people say, I'm happy that as I got better and re-acclimated myself back into this structure of reality, it reduced.
It didn't, you know, it's gotten less instead of I couldn't have stood that it was anymore.
art bell
Sure.
So whatever it was that opened that pathway slowly as you healed, it began to close up.
And even though you still have obvious verifiable abilities today, they're not what they were then, not that overwhelming.
Thank God.
Noel.
Thank you the right person.
dannion brinkley
But hey, there's a lot more to this story.
art bell
I know.
Boy, is there ever.
All right, hold tight, Daniel.
unidentified
We're at the hour.
art bell
And this night, I am telling you things that I don't tell you other nights about other guests.
Very, very rarely do I do this.
Danien Brinkley is here, and he's the real McCoy.
That comes not from hearsay.
That comes from personal experience.
He's the real McCoy.
Daniel was struck by lightning.
We've told that story and tried to move through it as quickly as we could.
And then again struck by lightning in 1978 and had a heart attack, had a heart valve put in his heart.
While he was gone, many things were, and when I say gone, I mean gone, dead for 28 minutes.
Heart, brainwave, breathing, all gone.
And he was gone.
He'll talk about a bit about what he saw and more, and we'll bring you up to date with Daniel in a moment.
Bell?
Yes, sir.
All right.
dannion brinkley
Understanding.
art bell
Daniel, so you had a heart valve put in.
Then you had to start taking this horrid little stuff called Coumadin, which is basically rat poison.
dannion brinkley
Well, it does two things, are.
It keeps me alive, and it'll probably be what kills me.
So, you know, that's part of things that you really look at in your life.
Here is the thing that keeps me alive and yet because of it's its corpse as a drug in your system that you must take for the rest of your life.
art bell
Once that heart valve's in, you take it or you die.
dannion brinkley
That's it.
I mean there's or lie in a bed with an IV in my arm and stay like that.
I'll push around one of those stroller things with an IV of heparin or sodium heparin or some other type of antiquaglet or thinner.
art bell
You have to do that fairly frequently anyway, don't you?
You have one of those little things you wheel around with an IV on it.
unidentified
Yeah.
dannion brinkley
I go through that.
art bell
Some of the people close to me have told me some of the most bizarre stories about you and that IV.
dannion brinkley
You're so funny.
art bell
Anyway, anyway, so that is basically your condition since 1978.
dannion brinkley
Did they tell you the one about the one in the airport and Delta Airlines in Chicago?
art bell
No.
What happens?
dannion brinkley
I had to carry these, I don't know how you got off on that art, but I had to use IVs and have to put in things like vancomycin that are antibiotics that are so powerful.
And I would have to travel.
And because I kept pushing myself, which was what got me when I just got, I kept pushing myself.
I would carry these bags, these one-liter bags of vancomycin, and I had to go in the bathroom because I had to put an IV in, and I had to take this by measurement.
You're supposed to do it by a machine, but I'd use a stopwatch and work it off until I got the drip right, and then I would count the drips with the stopwatches, and I would hang those bags everywhere.
Well, I knew I needed to get it in, so I put an IV in both arms and hung the bags up in the bathroom, and we had to come to land, and the little flight attendant was knocking on the door, and I opened it with an IV in each arm with these bags hanging off of the engine.
And she just closed the door.
It went down.
And I had to finish it, and I kicked him off.
And then I went out and explained it to her, but that face, and then she just quietly and politely closed the door.
So, yeah.
art bell
And I've heard stories of you carrying around the house, very driven, trying to get things done with this thing trailing behind you.
dannion brinkley
Oh, it used to be so aggravating.
I would pull it down the street, and because, you know, I have to do my stuff.
When you have a near-death experience, the first one, the first one is to this day the most amazing one to me because I brought back from it stuff that has now become the future.
Not only the perceptive nature, which is where you think you see the future, I see mostly the present of where that person is or what caused that person or that particular event to occur are the two things I normally see.
Because I focus on hospice work and I try to train these techniques.
And the CIA, in the foundation that I have called Compassion in Action, which you know everything about the hospice work, we will train people to be able to be perceptive.
art bell
Basically, once you've died, you can explain to somebody what they are about to go through.
dannion brinkley
To go through and share the joy about what it's about.
Having three near-death experiences under really horrendous conditions and a lot of physical and mental anguish and pain, I guess is the only way I've chosen to grow.
I mean, you have to hit me that hard.
But everything I know about the spiritual nature of us and that we don't die, just like you were there this last time, I pay dearly to know what I tell people.
And I'm not trying to make myself any more important than anybody.
art bell
Daniel, do you remember just before we went?
Actually, I have one other question first.
Do you have a website address?
dannion brinkley
No.
art bell
You don't?
dannion brinkley
I'm going to move into the high-tech age after this last episode.
But you know, Art, I have lived here for 22 years looking at something that happened that started 22 years ago that went through two near-death experiences.
It went through another surgery where nothing happened.
It went through all the way to September the 17th at 7.05 a.m. and the surgery was at 12 o'clock to the damn same day, the same minute, the same place.
art bell
Now you're talking about this last September 17th.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, or a Wednesday in a thunderstorm.
art bell
All right.
We're going to get way ahead of ourselves.
dannion brinkley
There's some really good stuff through, everybody.
art bell
Yeah, I know it's coming.
Good stuff to tell about.
I read you a little something before we went on the air tonight, Daniel.
And you said that's from At Peace and the Light.
And I want to read that.
So just relax for a second, all right?
And we'll find out if this is accurate.
This was sent to me on the internet.
It's entitled The Final Visions of Daniel Brinkley.
At the very end came a 13th vision.
I don't know where it came from.
I didn't see a being of light bring it forward in a box, nor did I see one take it away.
The vision was in many ways the most important of all because it summed up everything I had seen in the 12 boxes.
Through telepathy, I could hear a being say, if you follow what you have been taught and keep living the same way you have lived over the last 30 years, all of this will surely be upon you.
If you change, you can avoid the coming war.
Scenes from a horrible world war accompanied this message.
Scenes from World War III came to life before me.
I was in a hundred places at once, from deserts to forests, and saw a world filled with fighting and chaos.
Somehow, it was clear that this was the final war, an Armageddon, if you will.
It was caused by fear.
In one of the most puzzling visions of all, I saw an army of women in black robes and veils marching through a European city.
Quote, The fear these people are feeling is an unnecessary one, said the being of light, but it is a fear so great that humans will give up all freedoms in the name of safety.
I also saw scenes that were not of war, including many visions of natural disasters in parts of the world that had once been fertile, with wheat.
I saw parched deserts with furrowed fields that farmers had given up on.
In other parts of the world, torrential rainstorms had gouged out the earth, eating away topsoil and creating rivers of thick, dark mud.
People were starving in this vision.
They were begging for food on the streets, holding out bowls and cups and even their hands in hopes that somebody or something would offer them a scrap to eat.
In some of the pictures, people had given up or were too weak to beg and were curled on the ground waiting for the gift of death.
I saw civil wars breaking out in Central and South America and the rise of socialist governments in all of these countries before the year 2000.
As these wars intensified, millions of refugees streamed across the U.S. border looking for a new life in North America.
Nothing we did could stop the immigrants.
They were driven by fear of death and loss of confidence in God.
I saw millions of people streaming north out of El Salvador and Nicaragua and more millions crossing the Rio Grande into Texas.
There were so many of them that we had to line the border with troops and force them back across the river.
The Mexican economy was broken by these refugees and collapsed under the strain.
Is that accurate, Daniel?
dannion brinkley
And 21 years old.
You're reading something, Art, and someone who's just done this, I mean, they've written it better than I wrote it in the book, whoever said this to you, but you are reading a statement that is literally 22 years old.
Oh, and I can, as you go through each, this third one was for me to grow.
I had separated from my heart and my mind.
It was for me to grow.
And what I never anticipated, because I'm always trying to figure this stuff out because it's happening to me.
I never anticipated so many people to come to my aid, so much love to come to my aid.
I never could even think that.
art bell
Let's talk about how this began, this latest thing.
What happened, Daniel, and where?
dannion brinkley
Can we finish what you were reading for?
art bell
Oh, well, of course, that's the end of what I have here.
But yes, absolutely go right ahead.
dannion brinkley
Well, it goes on to give us each of those statements at what you're reading now, the women's army.
This is something that's 22 years old.
art bell
I understand.
dannion brinkley
On the front cover of Time magazine about three months ago, it had a woman's army of Iranian women training in Iraq to attack Iran.
And these women were dressed in black, Islamic, and they were going to go fight the Iranian government for their rights because of what Afghanistans are going through right now and what's happening to women there.
art bell
I saw an army of women in black robes and veils marching through a European city.
dannion brinkley
They were on the cover.
Who they are was on the cover of Time magazine, and now they will walk toward the Balkans.
This is what I, as I watch it, this next place that will happen is what's happening in the Balkans, and what's happening there right now in Sarajevo and all of that.
That's gone nowhere.
It's festering.
It's a battle of religions.
And as each discovers more and more about what's going on in these trials, then there's the next troubled spot.
art bell
Oh, of course, the moment we leave, Daniel, they're going to be back killing each other.
dannion brinkley
And what they've been doing in a thousand years, but now those ladies are Muslim, and they will go fight for their sisters.
And that's a European city.
22 years ago, when this vision came in the first near-death experience art, I didn't have any idea what most of this stuff was, but I could remember it because it would go over and over in my mind it drive me crazy.
So I started putting them down, and I would write what I would see as the vision.
This is while I was in the near-death experience, and after it was over, because I'd lie there, I could float back to it and keep remembering.
Well, I make people a layout of where we go to about 2004, because as long as I figured I would be here, because I don't exist in it, everything else, I have a way to not only see it, but discover how I fit into it or where I am in it.
art bell
So you think you know when you're going to die?
unidentified
Oh, sure.
dannion brinkley
I mean, they give me pretty much, I mean, I pretty much go through a lot of stuff knowing what it's all about.
And, you know, sometimes I push myself too far and other times because I want to achieve what I want to achieve based on knowing I don't die and knowing I've had my panoramic life reviews and that I am without any question you do not die.
It does not happen and anybody who tells you that it does is a liar.
It just doesn't happen.
And so then to get that in the minds of everybody in my age group and a little older Than me, and maybe a little younger, but I just talked to my age group because they're looking the same as I'm looking.
And as I watched all this stuff happen, I have used it as a guideline for something that I saw when I was dead.
Nothing you were reading is newer than 22 years old, but it's come true all the way down to the chip.
When I said this in 1975 and 76 and 77 and 78, like everybody around me, I listened to my dad, he makes faces at me because I'm like a broken record.
He's been hearing it for so many years.
And this chip technology and how the brain would grow on a chip and the chip would be implanted and encode your information in it and they could control your moods and not they, but the system put it in place.
art bell
It's all coming true.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, I have copies of the reports on it.
I mean, but this is 22 years ago.
art bell
I know.
And so it was written by you then, so nobody can contest that.
dannion brinkley
Oh, it couldn't, you know, there's no chance.
art bell
No, that's what I'm saying.
dannion brinkley
You know, there's a thousand people and more scraps of paper and the dates and what I, you know, I put all that stuff in all those boxes.
art bell
Danien, that was so severe, what I read.
Is there anything that has occurred between then and now that has caused you to change your mind about the ultimate prophecies?
unidentified
Yes.
dannion brinkley
Okay.
And I knew it would come.
I mean, when I went through this last experience, and I don't want to get there quite yet, but when I went through this last experience, I discovered something.
I discovered something about myself, and I discovered something about the whole framework of what I'm trying to do and what we're all trying to do, but also a way to achieve it faster.
I mean, there's some really good stuff.
And I'm still growing in it, Art.
You know, I study it and think about it every day because we talk so much and we're close friends.
Well, I'm close friends with everybody who's listening.
I'm just 47 years old and out here and growing in it.
But when you know you don't die, you've got to find something to do with your time.
unidentified
Sure.
dannion brinkley
And I think people who listen to Art well are doing bad.
And that's what I think.
And so when you hit this place where you're growing, and it's because you're in immense pain and they're drilling holes in your head and, you know, having seizures, but the seizure had its place too.
I mean, it taught me and what I learned from it and how to look at myself is the most important aspects of what it is about.
But how I kept myself sane when I wanted it to go away through these 22 years, what the visions were, what I was told to do, the centers, hospice work, all these things I said for those years, I have done them.
unidentified
And it's witnessed, you know, you know, you talk to the people.
dannion brinkley
But this last time, I'm growing.
Give me back a freedom that I didn't think I had.
And they drilled that hole in the exact same time and date.
And what does that tell me?
I mean, what would it tell me if it wasn't happening to me?
art bell
All right.
Well, in a sense, you're jumping ahead now.
So let us tell them the beginning of what happened to you.
In other words, this most recent event.
Don't go right to the 17th and the day of surgery because I was there then.
When did it begin?
What happened?
dannion brinkley
Well, it began probably in 1989.
art bell
Well, I mean the specific medical downturn that resulted in the surgery.
What day did that begin?
Do you recall?
dannion brinkley
It probably began in June.
art bell
In June.
How do you figure it began?
dannion brinkley
Well, I could tell that something was changing.
Something was happening to me.
And we still don't know what it is yet.
What causes the Coumidin levels to shift and change.
And Coumidin reacts to everything that you take.
And no matter what it is, from an aspirin to the food that you eat, it's a good drug for what it does.
But it's very finicky.
art bell
It comes with a price.
dannion brinkley
Oh, absolutely.
art bell
Good price.
dannion brinkley
It kills you.
art bell
All right, Daniel, it kills you ultimately.
That's right.
All right.
Hold on, Daniel.
dannion brinkley
In South Carolina.
art bell
I'm sorry about that.
I'm just trying to put you in Georgia.
dannion brinkley
I know.
art bell
Daniel, I want to get the chronology of this right.
You think it began about in June, huh?
unidentified
Yeah.
dannion brinkley
I could tell that something was happening, but, you know, I regulated it.
It's just that it is a peculiar.
And the fact that I don't just sit down every day, you know, and stay in one place and just become worthless.
I have to move and I have to take care of things like I think.
So I'm partly responsible for what it does.
But there are things that happen because of Coombson and whatever it is unique about me, which I'm learning is about being struck by lightning, which they have a new...
Oh, every couple of days.
art bell
Every couple of days, all right.
dannion brinkley
Every couple of days because it's gone up.
It's gone up back and forth, back and forth.
And I've looked at everything in their study, and I have good doctors looking at it.
But here I am.
I'm in California, had a lecture to do, and to talk about the CIA, which is Compassionate Action, the Foundation, I set up, and with a lot of help from a lot of people, and to lay it out, because I know that where we're about to go in the future, what the next six or eight years are about, based on that, so far the stuff that I saw in the vision has been true.
So I'm going to accept the fact that the rest of it is and how to affect and change that.
art bell
All right, so you were in California.
dannion brinkley
And I felt weak, really, really weak, like I was going to pass out.
But after being, after heart attack and strokes and being struck by lightning, you just kind of overlooked that kind of stuff.
Like my cardiologist asked me, he said, how in the world did you stand the pain when I think I had a stroke or something like that and it was so painful?
I told him that when I fell and hit my head against the wall, it took my mind off of it.
So I go through that kind of stuff all the time.
And So I was at the Veterans Hospital, which is where I want to establish programs for veterans because there's somebody I feel that I don't want anybody dying alone in this country.
And, you know, the people who know me know that's my whole, that's what I care about.
That's what I focus on.
And I use every talent and every thought and everything I have to focus on that because I can grow the fastest from it based on that you have a panoramic life of you and what I've learned through three near-death experiences.
And you can grow the fastest.
Sometimes I push it.
art bell
You push it a lot.
dannion brinkley
Hey, hey.
art bell
I know you do.
dannion brinkley
Hey.
art bell
All right, anyway, listen.
Let's stick with the chronology here.
dannion brinkley
I got on an airplane.
And I got on that airplane to fly home, and I had two days at home, and I was making sure I was trying to get Art Bell Brooks out and keeping in my mind all the responsibilities that, you know, you try to piece together.
And I'm trying to create a mind shift in people born between 1940 and 1964 as they face losing their moms and dads.
That mind perspective, that paradigm shift is to search for your spirituality so that you can deal with something that is now in your life.
The loss of your mom and dad and brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and how to take that and let it be a spiritual growth place, understanding the near-death experience.
And I try to do that through CIA and practical application.
art bell
I know you do.
Stick with the story.
dannion brinkley
All right, don't hurt me.
art bell
Stick with the story.
dannion brinkley
Don't hurt me.
And so I fly home and I had a cerebral subdual hematoma.
That means a blood vessel blew in my brain.
And then when that blood vessel blew in my brain, I thought somebody had driven an ice pick into my head.
art bell
Where were you when that happened?
dannion brinkley
I was at 35,000 feet.
art bell
Oh, God.
No, I didn't know that occurred in the airplane.
dannion brinkley
35,000 feet.
And I thought, Art, if I could get off that airplane, the pain at 35 in a pressurized cabin, you cannot.
I did not know that there was pain like that that could exist on the face of this earth.
And I've been through a lot of pain, Art.
You know, I know about pain.
Nothing is like it.
And you can't see and your head hurts so bad you want to shoot yourself.
art bell
Did you remain conscious?
dannion brinkley
Well, I think I did.
You know, I just held on.
And I didn't know what it was, and I got down and it released a little bit when I landed in Atlanta.
And I didn't want to get on that plane to save my life to fly to Augusta, but I had to do it because if I didn't do something about whatever this was, I couldn't stand it.
I couldn't stand it.
So I get home and I can stand up.
By the time I get to my house, I could stand up, you know, four minutes, and then I'd just drop and black out.
And the pain would be so severe.
And so I was trying to figure out either I knew something, I either had an aneurysm or a hematoma or a tumor just locked in.
And I knew it was one of those three things.
And then I knew it was something, I'd blown a blood vessel.
So I go to the, I call the doctor, and he says, go get your PTs.
And I go up and get my PTs.
art bell
No, no, no, no.
Wait a minute.
PTs, everybody doesn't know what you're talking about.
Your PTs are, that's the count you do, right?
dannion brinkley
Yeah, the PT is a blood test.
art bell
Right.
dannion brinkley
And it determines how fast per second your blood will clot.
And then it has a, called the IRN, which I don't really know what it stands for, but it's the line measure that you use based on the content of the blood.
art bell
All right, so you got that test.
You went and got the test?
dannion brinkley
And it was, when I got home, I couldn't stand up, and I was talking to my dad, because I was supposed to go to San Francisco for another program, and I was talking to my dad, and I couldn't stand up when I got back, and I couldn't focus, and I began to have chest pains, and my head was hurting.
When the doctor called me straight back, and he said, you're as good as dead.
art bell
Yeah, I know.
I talked to the doctor, actually.
I was involved for several days.
I mean, they admitted you to the hospital with a diagnosis of an aneurysm at that point, didn't they?
They said it was, in other words, you had burst a blood vessel in your brain.
You were bleeding.
There was pressure building.
I recall talking to your doctor.
In other words, the blood, you were just bleeding in the brain, and the blood was beginning to put pressure on your brain.
dannion brinkley
Well, on my way to the hospital, I blew a second one, remember?
Remember, I'd blown that first one coming in from San Francisco, and I couldn't take it.
And then on the way to Charlton, I put myself in those trances that I've learned to find with that much pain.
And I blew another one by the time I got to the hospital, so I had blood filling up the whole right side of my head and just crushing my brain.
And no one, there is no pain like the brain.
I never realized that it floats in that liquid, and between each layer of it, there is a liquid, and it stays stabilized and it's equilibrium.
And I'm just never, because my head's so hard in a lot of psychological and a lot of physiological ways that I never thought about it.
But I was in so much pain when they got me to the emergency room.
I had a prothymic count of like 45, which is, you know, there is no coagulation and it's so thin.
art bell
It's like water.
dannion brinkley
Yeah.
It's like water.
It's not creating enough pressure to pump through it.
And since I had had open heart surgery, the biggest problem that they were worried about is when you have this, your brain clots.
And when your brain clots, those clots move through the bloodstream.
And if they get into my valve, it kills me right off the bat.
I'm dead.
So how many clots are forming in my brain from these hematomas and how much pressure?
art bell
The real rock in the heart place.
In other words, here you are bleeding to death in your own brain and they're having to clot it.
They're having to stop that bleeding.
And the very stopping of the bleeding is causing clots.
dannion brinkley
The fact is that the way you stop bleeding is clotting the blood, which is what you can't do to mine because I have a mechanical heart valve.
So I'm in the emergency room, and they're having a really, you know, what do you do?
Do you crack his skull open?
And, you know, these are the choices, crack his skull open and peel it back at the same time, crack his chest open and to massage his heart or to block clots or put a laser in to block the clots.
art bell
Azure, your doctor at that point was telling me that he was going to open your chest and open it to your heart and then open your head, drain your head, watch for the clots to pass, and when they did and they stopped your heart, he would have your heart there immediately available to try and move these clots through it manually.
unidentified
Yep.
art bell
That was what you were facing.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, that's, you know, and what would happen if we did that?
I would die.
I mean, you're not going to crack a guy's chest open and massage his heart and cut his skull away and drain off blood, putting the pressure on it, and then try to cauterize those other things.
And who knows what that was because at 45, and I was in deep trouble.
I mean, you know, they didn't know what to do.
art bell
You couldn't call it.
I remember I was calling you like every day and trying to talk to you when you were conscious.
And I kept asking, do you want me to come?
And you kept saying, no, no.
Nowadays, no.
And then you said, well, maybe.
dannion brinkley
I knew where I was, Art.
I mean, I was lying there in more pain than I thought that was possible.
They're telling me that my brain is blowing blood vessels, not that it had.
It's blowing them.
Because I blew those two, and my brain was just pouring blood.
They couldn't stop the bleeding because it would cause coagulation, which would cause clotting, which would kill me in my heart.
And they were dumping heparin in me and all kinds of thinners in me, and that was holding me on.
But the pain of the brain and what was going on, I couldn't handle it.
art bell
Well, I'll tell you now, because I can tell you now, and I really haven't.
I was talking to people, of course, all around you.
I won't name them.
You know who they are.
And those people told me that you weren't going to make it, Daniel.
I don't think it was, Ark.
That was a critical day.
You know the people I'm talking about.
dannion brinkley
They were my dad, you know, I mean, all my relatives, my brothers, my sisters, my closest friends.
art bell
I really wasn't going to.
dannion brinkley
Well, I don't mind telling them we were all that.
art bell
I was talking to all those people, including the doctor and the nurses, and everybody was of the same opinion.
Your chances were pretty near zero.
And that was the day you called me and said, well, Art, you better come on over.
dannion brinkley
You know, Art, let's don't be sad about it.
I say, well, Art, you and Ramona better come on over because, you know, I don't think I'm going to make it through this one.
art bell
Yeah, time to go.
dannion brinkley
I thought I was happy about it because I couldn't stand it another day.
I had to have the surgery, which would all of a sudden start this chain of action of events.
And if something went wrong during the surgery, having to crack my chest open.
So I called my dad, and I got my closest friends, the people that have been with me and helped me for years and struggled with me as I've gone through these near-death experiences, and I've tried to do what I believe was right in the course of what I saw.
And here I was, again, being the people I'm trying most to help.
I was on a ward of cardio neural problems.
And this is where you're either in emergency and intensive care, which I spent about 16 days in there.
And then in this place where people were so, the despair was so enormous.
And I didn't have despair.
I just dealt with the pain.
And as you were there, you know, it was more pain than I could handle.
But I can handle it because I'm not afraid of dying.
We don't die.
And I knew we didn't.
And I was thinking in my mind, here I go again.
But this time, the odds are stacked too much for me to survive it.
unidentified
You and I talked about opening up your chest.
art bell
Yeah, and we did it very quickly.
We weren't going to do it.
I said, Daniel, I don't think you're going to make it through that.
Too much trauma.
I mean, the risk is obviously the clots let go and they can't get to your heart in time and you're gone.
And it's a tough choice to make, but I advised you, you thought the same thing.
unidentified
Yeah.
art bell
Don't do it.
Don't let him open your chest.
dannion brinkley
I would be dead now.
art bell
So the critical moment came.
The doctor said, all right, we'll try it.
We're going to drill some holes in his head.
We're going to relieve the pressure.
We're going to try to relieve the pressure and hope the clots don't let go.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, we'll put shunts in there.
Remember, they put those shunts in there so it would drain.
art bell
Yeah, we've got the pictures.
That's what I said on the website.
If people want to go up there right now, just it's the first item, Danion's photographs in the gallery.
Click on that and scroll down and then click on the photographs and you'll see actually the bags with the blood that was coming from these shunts that were put in his head.
dannion brinkley
These are true stories, everybody.
art bell
Oh, yeah.
These are true stories.
dannion brinkley
These are three stories that we're telling, right about and saved by the light and at peace in the light and what I'm trying to do with the CIA and what I care about, the people on Art Bell.
These are true stories.
Happens to a guy, not from India.
Happens to a guy from South Carolina who you're talking to this morning.
What we're talking about is who we all are, Art.
What's happening to me doesn't make me unique.
Somehow, I'm stupid enough to put myself in a place where I have to learn it the hard way.
And second, I have ability to remember what happened to me.
art bell
When I remember telling you and talking to you the night we said, virtually said goodbye, it was the night before the operation, I remember telling you, Daniel, you know, Cosmically, we're all here for just a little blink anyway.
And if I'm here for another 20 or 30 years and you go tomorrow morning, we're going to be seeing each other real quick anyhow.
dannion brinkley
Absolutely, Art.
And, you know, I think that's what we're talking about to everybody tonight.
Hey, everybody, it doesn't happen.
And here comes the holidays, and here comes your New Year's resolutions, and here comes thinking back through your life as you do the Yuletide and Olang Sign.
Well, Olang Sign this.
Let this radio show and let this part that we're doing now be a part where your New Year's resolution is to explore the fact that you do not die and stabilize the fact that you're a mighty and powerful spiritual being and that you have the ability to move in multi-levels of consciousness over on the other side.
But also discover that you live and function in multi-consciousnesses right now.
And resolve yourself that that be your New Year's resolution.
And then I'll give the number to the CIA and call them to give you some information and start really working on the use of what Art and I are talking about.
That's what I wish for everybody in this and the new year.
And thanks for letting me get that.
art bell
I remember that you were in so much pain that you told me one of two things has to happen now.
Either I have to die or this pressure has to be relieved.
There was no middle ground.
dannion brinkley
I was making the decision on the surgery.
You and I was glad that you were there.
My dad, because I'd given him all the powers of attorney and everything.
I mean, this was a real...
art bell
Sure.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, I had to do it all and what to do with my life and my little stuff I have and what I'd hope for from the centers and fulfilling my visions and my work and all that stuff.
You were there.
It's like, you know, it was really happening.
It's not a dime novel.
And it was good to have you there because you drew from the experience of everybody you have and you drew from a good friend, Art Bell, just like Ramona.
Ramona and being there helped me a lot.
art bell
All I could think of was to have people pray for you.
And Daniel, you know, you and I, we may be a little different because I haven't been where you've been.
I haven't died.
I haven't seen all of this.
And I must tell you, Daniel, I have this hard-headed, idiotic thing that things that I haven't experienced, I haven't touched, I can't prove, I can't know for 100% surety.
I don't know these things that you know, but I think I believe, no, I know I believe, that there is power in prayer.
There is actually power in prayer.
Scientists are now proving it.
unidentified
They're doing it.
dannion brinkley
No, absolutely no doubt.
What I discovered, more than, I mean, anything that came from the near-death experience, yes, as we sat there that night, Art, and we talked it through as friends because we've become good friends.
And you saw what I was going through.
I could not handle it.
I could not take it anymore.
It was too much.
And I had to face that surgery and face my heart and face those levels and what any of them.
15 factors could kill me and it could get worse.
And then the next morning, you know, when we hugged and I had my family and my people I care about and have helped me around me.
And, you know, I usually stay by myself when I'm that sick.
I don't let people come around me.
art bell
Oh, that is for sure.
In fact, we'll tell them more about it.
Daniel, hold on for a second.
We're coming toward the top of the hour.
unidentified
Rest a little bit.
art bell
This is something that I played during those times because I didn't think Danion was going to make it.
I really didn't.
But there was prayer.
There was hope that things would get better.
unidentified
It's been a too long time with no peace of mind.
And I'm ready for the task to get better.
This is Crystal Gale and it seemed appropriate.
I've got to tell you, I've been rocking my brain.
Open the find away out.
I've had enough of this continuation.
Changes are coming, no doubt.
It's been all too long.
art bell
Strange year this year.
And what we're talking about now is one of the highlights, lowlights of the year.
However you want to look at it.
Daniel knows a great deal more that has occurred to me during this year.
At any rate, there he was in intensive care, unnot conscious, and then you began to go through convulsions.
And there's a big story to be told here, Daniel, that you haven't even really told me about the time, this time when you were in the netherworld again.
dannion brinkley
And I'm still processing it too, Art.
Remember that.
We're only talking about September the 17th.
art bell
That was an interesting date.
The date of the operation when the doctors finally decided they were going to do their thing, September 17th.
What is the interesting aspect of that date?
dannion brinkley
September the 17th, on a Wednesday afternoon at 7.05 p.m., I was struck by lightning.
On September the 17th, on Wednesday afternoon, 22 years later, I had brain surgery, and at the exact spot on the left-hand side of my head where the lightning went in and went through my body, they drilled a hole in my skull and hooked a drain to it.
And in my front temple, they drilled another hole.
I don't honestly understand all of what it means, Art.
I had everybody do charts and stuff, and it's some pretty remarkable stuff.
I mean, you know, you got a copy of that transparent of that astrological that verse.
I think that what it really means to me is that there was a real orderly fashion and the completion of a period or an era, and that that symbolized it.
And on the right-hand side, it was released.
Because it made me change, if it's true, what shall we do, the book that I'm writing?
It changed everything about it.
Like literally threw the book out of the window and put a whole new place in.
Because just before I went into this surgery, for those early days, when we first started talking and people started praying for me, at night, during these shows, during these shows, at night the pressure would release.
It wouldn't be as intense.
And I was noticing it.
I didn't know everybody was praying for me, Art.
I was lying in that bed where you knew I was and had been there for 25 days and 16 days in intensive care and then and then and then enough needles and hadn't slept and the pain was so horrendous in my brain and I couldn't see and I would listen to Stephen Halpern music for 10 hours a day and I would wear those earplugs and stay inside and fight it because I was drifting in levels of consciousness.
art bell
You're the only person I know who can heal himself.
Well, you really are the only person I know who can heal himself.
And he does that for hours and hours and hours on end.
He has somehow, can you explain it?
You go inside yourself.
You've got hemorrhaging in your brain and you leave yourself.
And how is there a way you can put to words the process you do to go to work on yourself?
dannion brinkley
Well, I'm working on, see, I've never ever thought about teaching it art until now.
I mean, so I always just, I move inward.
I pace my breath and I shut off so that I'm only hearing my breath move in and out of my body, like my body's a hollow vessel.
When you listen to your breath with your fingers and your ears or you put a way that you can listen to breathing like shielding, I use eye pillows and things.
When you start to breathe in and out in the hollowness, like breathing all the way to your toes and breathing all the way out, you hear the hollowness of the body in the breath.
At least it sounds like that.
And then I begin a system where I set a value.
I can't deal with the pain.
And the thing I learned it in the first near-death experience because being electrocuted is more painful.
I thought it was the most painful thing I'd ever experienced until this last one.
So they call it lying in state and stuff like that.
And I take music therapy, aromatherapy, and color therapy.
And I activate my spiritual senses, the auric senses that we have.
And I never knew anybody had one of these until I was floating above myself, watching Tommy and Sandy 22 years before work on me.
And they had these beautiful, colorful rays around them.
They had energy bodies.
And I was always wondering why I didn't have one as they were working on me.
But that's the me that's here now.
that's the part, the spiritual part.
art bell
Is there a way you can...
You were bleeding in your brain.
Do you actually visualize what's occurring in your brain and go to work on that mentally?
dannion brinkley
Yeah, once I'm out of the body.
See, once I get out of the body, then it can heal itself because I'm not in there thinking so much.
I don't have that mind-brain system work into, like, you know, stress is caused by how you think, what you're eating.
And once you move outside of the body, it begins an automatic system of drawing from the spiritual realm, from the nutrition in your body, and from the thoughts.
And what I do is focus on the whole self.
art bell
Because I know there were long periods of time that you wouldn't let anybody near, and you just did that.
You were just inside yourself.
The nurses said it, your family said it, the doctors said it a day.
Ten hours a day, yeah.
dannion brinkley
And then six hours worth of earplugs, and that's how I went for 28 days.
We are spiritual beings are.
And there are ways in which to move totally outside of it that are not marvels or miracles to me.
It's preservation that caused me to develop the intuitive natures, the natures to move outside of the body, the natures to perceive and feel where other people are.
These things are possible for everybody to learn how to do it.
And I wouldn't say it if that wasn't true.
And if I can do it, anybody can do it.
Trust me on it.
And they don't have to die to do it.
They just have to follow the system.
And it's the value.
The real reason, and I learned this from the panoramic life review and the near-death experience, the real reason is the why you do what you do, not what you do, but why you do it that begins a measure of you and your focal point in this world.
And being able to clarify those allows you to open up and access those other levels.
art bell
What can you tell us of the spiritual time that did occur during this last experience?
dannion brinkley
Oh, wait to watch in this surgery.
I was experiencing these levels and I was writing them down.
When I got out of through all of this, I could match when Europe prayer groups and the Unity Church and the people's organizations all over the world that were praying to keep me alive.
And I never realized that I had worked so hard for so many years, Art, to bring these visions and this work that I write about in Saved Inn Peace to fruition.
And I had worked so hard and I had lost where my mind connected to my heart and I began to think too much about how I had to get it done because we are now in that time that they talk about.
A whole new revolution of thought will come this year.
I mean it will come.
art bell
Something's pending.
dannion brinkley
Yeah well you and I are part of trying to help bring it out in the cruise with visions.
There lies a secret and a part of so much connected with everything from China to the Yucatan to Egypt to the mounds in America, everything about the pyramids.
unidentified
And, you know, that's important.
dannion brinkley
This will happen this year.
These things we will begin to change no matter what, with what we will learn in the next year and a half about ourselves, about where we came from, what our true origins are.
But it doesn't change our spiritual self and how to stabilize that.
And this is coming.
And so when I had this, when he put me under, when they took me in the room and I was talking to Mike, my surgeon, who is really, is a friend.
And, you know, you were there and he put me in, and everybody was worried about it.
The cardiologists were there.
You know, everybody was worried about it because how do you come through it if something happens and you break my skull open and you split my chest open?
And I had told them not to do it, but, you know, they weren't going to listen to that too much.
And then they drills these holes in, they put me this anesthesia, and they drill these holes in my head.
And at the moment when they roll my head over, I'm out of my body.
I'm there.
I'm watching it again.
I'm listening to them talk, and they were really good and really efficient.
And I was watching this guy who was helping Mike do the surgery, how efficient he was at moving my head and rolling my shoulder, and how organized they were, how really well they were doing it, and the two other assistants.
And I'm watching it.
But I'm in a level of consciousness that I am not like I'm far away like the first two.
I'm here and I'm not traveling far.
Okay?
Then as he drills this second hole, I began to move into places where I moved through the tunnel, but I became the light when the tunnel came to the end.
Instead of going through a light, it was like I was lighting it up.
I was comfortable with the place, but it had a warmness and a gentleness to it, but it wasn't like I was going to be there.
It wasn't like the first two times when I was going to be there.
And I didn't move deep into it.
It wasn't a deep experience.
unidentified
I saw the beings in a distance.
dannion brinkley
And then I'm back.
And I'm in the recovery room.
art bell
Yeah, I remember, Daniel, some things.
I remember when you were not really conscious.
And I was next to your bed with some others, one or two others, I think, with Ramona and one other person.
And you were talking about masters.
And you were talking about people in white robes.
Yeah.
They were everywhere.
dannion brinkley
They didn't come back again.
See, there they were, like whole legions.
And I'm watching it, and it was as though there was a certain amount of accomplishment or a certain amount of pride, and there was a certain distance traveled, you know.
And as I'm glimpsing a panorama of the things that some of them I recognized, but a lot of them I didn't, that had occurred.
And it was as though it was a brief moment of a celebration kind of, you know, I hate to say, I don't know how to describe it yet, or I don't know how to describe it because I did never, I don't remember seeing you on any level.
art bell
I'm sure you don't.
Oh, you weren't conscious.
dannion brinkley
Okay, well, no, that doesn't mean I wasn't conscious.
in near-death experiences, you are conscious.
art bell
Not in the sense.
No, not, but believe me.
Look, folks, trust me, go up to my website and look at those photographs.
During that period of time, he was not conscious.
unidentified
period, but you You were.
art bell
You were.
dannion brinkley
That's great.
See, I didn't know that art.
unidentified
Thanks.
dannion brinkley
I mean, these things, because I'm aware of what was happening with me, not what people were seeing.
And that was going on the whole time.
And it wasn't like a normal near-death experience.
It was like a gathering of some kind.
And like it was, we had assembled and we had taken a look at the distance traveled and where we stood and what had to get done and what would be the next parts.
And I'm trying to write that down.
I mean, I'll bring that out.
I'll be able to tell it in a couple of, you have to find words to piece that together because it's taken me years to find a language.
And I know a lot of what it is.
Does that make sense?
art bell
It does.
I think you'll break it down when you get to.
dannion brinkley
It's not a million years ago.
It's two months ago.
But here's what was the neatest thing.
When I came back into recovery and after recovery and I looked at all this, you know, I was thinking about, okay, is this hallucination?
And I'm like everybody else.
I'm like you aren't, regardless.
There are things that happen in the brain and chemistry and things that happen.
But I've been through so much, I know how to set a standard so I can watch it.
As I'm watching this, I know it's not a hallucination.
And as I come back and I recover and I'm in the room, I could see a blue and silver light in the room, and then it would turn golden.
And it wasn't some great dark color, but I could see it in the room.
And I would think about it and look at it from different perspectives because the pain would reduce.
And as I would relax and bathe in it each night, as I would bathe in it, I would become aware that there was more than one of me, multidimensional, that there is more than one of me functioning on different levels of consciousness as actively as I'm functioning here.
And I kept trying to figure out how could this happen.
The people's prayers are, while I was recovering and going through near-death experiences and always, you know, having a near-death experience and then going through what you saw me going through, you get yourself in a world of, you know, it's not a very, it's a wondrous place, but it gets complicated when you're trying to understand your spiritual, emotional self and what you see with these massive beings of masters and great teachers and where a host had gathered.
And I was there gathering too.
It was though from the 22nd, I mean from September the 17th at 7.05 p.m. and struck by the lightning to September the 17th and 1977 having brain surgery exactly where that lightning end had entered my head or just on the opposite side.
I had come to the gathering.
I had come to where we were looking at it and I don't feel like I'm anything special in it, but I know that's what it was.
And this, the time now is set, and as we look at the 30 years and the things that we were talking about earlier in the prediction, they're setting themselves rapidly.
art bell
All right.
Here's here, you know, they're setting themselves rapidly.
Your predictions were very dire.
I read them earlier.
dannion brinkley
Some of them were pretty good now, aren't they?
art bell
Not only have they come true, the majority of them have come true.
We're in the end stages, Daniel.
Look, you know the book I wrote.
Oh, yeah, The Clicking End down.
Terrific.
dannion brinkley
It covers what I'm describing.
art bell
All right.
There's a lot of news going on right now.
We've got, I could run, I could tick it off.
You know, we've got right now in Hong Kong a species jump of a new deadly flu from birds to human beings and now transmissible apparently from humans to humans.
We've got, they had a big argument about frogs.
dannion brinkley
I'll probably get that for sure.
art bell
Yeah, we had frogs, Daniel, with legs more than they have, eyes in their throats, horrible things, deformities.
People said, oh, it's not UV radiation.
Well, wrong.
Yes, it is.
New studies show it is.
We've got dolphins now coming down with deadly cancers.
We've got simple cell organisms in the Antarctic beginning to show actual DNA change, which is really scary.
We've got the breakup of ice caps down there, ice flows that are in entire ice flows that are breaking off.
We have a lot of environmental things going on.
We are moving toward an event.
We are moving towards the event.
dannion brinkley
Oh, isn't it exciting?
art bell
I don't know, Daniel.
dannion brinkley
Oh, Art, it's exciting.
I wouldn't have why I thought to come back, why I just thought to come back.
When you live 22 years and no matter what it is, and you believe in something, and I believed in this, and a lot of times the only thing that I had to hang on was that stuff kept coming true.
It would keep coming true.
And remember, I went four years before the first thing that I saw in that first night division ever come true.
I went four years.
It almost had gone away.
You know, I said, well, it was just something that happened.
In four years, it started coming true.
Well, these things are going to occur.
The earth changes.
We are affecting it somewhat, but she's growing the same way that we're growing.
What we have to look at in our place is we chose to be here.
I know this art.
We choose to come here and we're chosen to come here.
And we come per breath.
We breathe in and we breathe out.
And there's so many techniques I've learned about breathing because I have observed what you are and who you are when you're not doing that.
And being a hospice volunteer for 19 years, I've been around people dealing with the nature of the last breath.
You know, it's part of the training in the CIA, and it's written about in both the books, and I'll carry it even further in this next book because I learned about myself.
We are capable in our collective consciousness of this is the most important thing I learned, and we call it prayer, contemplation, meditation, concentration, and prayer.
Prayer adds a divine spark to it.
But we are capable of collectively thinking for the love of someone or what they brought into our lives and changing it.
art bell
You believe we can stop it?
dannion brinkley
I believe so now because we kept me alive.
The love of those people out there who prayed, who put their power, who put their times as they stand where they're working.
art bell
If they apply that.
dannion brinkley
They did it, Art.
art bell
All right, Daniel, hold on.
Right here.
Bottom of the hour.
Daniel Brinkley is my guest.
I'm Art Bell.
This is Coast to Coast Air.
unidentified
You may still have time, you might still get by.
Every time I think about it, I won't cry.
art bell
Uh, Sort of an interesting side note, and I want to ask Daniel about it.
A few days ago on the program, Daniel, I had somebody who called who said that he did progressive hypnotherapy, and that means simply taking people either forward or reverse in time.
And he had found that people were able to sign their name.
He would ask them to sign their name.
And in every case, they could, under hypnosis, progressed forward, sign their name, until they got to the year 2004.
And then all they could do was make the sign of a cross, and they could no longer sign their name because, according to them, they weren't there anymore.
dannion brinkley
Makes sense to me, son.
art bell
It does.
dannion brinkley
Sure.
Between right now, or between last year and to 2004, everything's going to happen.
I mean, the whole change is going to happen.
You look at Asia.
You look at where, I mean, the Mexicans, remember you were saying about people from Central and South America flooding across the borders?
art bell
Yes, sir.
dannion brinkley
And I said that 22 years ago.
Now they have armies shooting them.
I mean, as they herd sheep and as they line the border with the military and they reinforce the patrol because millions of people are now coming across that border.
And it'll get even worse than that.
They're going to keep coming and it'll destabilize in Mexico and the Central American countries will begin to destabilize.
It's just like what whoever wrote that piece was.
This is all happening.
But this is also the greatest time of enlightenment.
I don't focus on all that stuff.
Yes, it's coming because I was going to go to Egypt.
You know how much I care about Egypt?
unidentified
And they're over there shooting us.
art bell
I know you have an orphanage, I believe.
unidentified
Yeah, I support an orphanage there and in Peru.
dannion brinkley
Vita, a very fine organization, if anyone's interested.
Vita is a very fine organization.
But I support because I want to learn and grow.
And too many of the predictions come true.
And through this power of prayer, see, this is the time.
Everybody that's listening, what I learned from this last experience is we really are where we think we are.
We're great and powerful spiritual beings.
We're on a mission.
We're the best there is.
We have the potential.
As this world changes, and it's changing because this is what it's supposed to do.
It's not anything focused on us.
It's growing.
And the banking establishment, and we just took and created $68 billion to bail out the Pacific Rim countries and another $60 billion to bail out Korea.
unidentified
And they're going to war with North Korea.
art bell
South Korea.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, South Korea and South Korea and North Korea.
And that money was just created.
They just invented that money from nowhere to stabilize these countries.
And look where Tokyo is with 90% devaluation in real estate.
And I write about it.
This is 22 years ago.
Yeah, here it is.
Just like as you see in the quickening.
Well, here it is.
What do we do?
Do we run to the highlands?
No.
art bell
If it's true, what shall we do?
dannion brinkley
You got it.
I mean, when I came back after that and I entered those levels, I knew I was even greater than I even think that I could possibly be.
And it's learning about that now.
But it's really learning about applying all this stuff to everyday life out here among people going and looking for the same things that I'm looking for, that I found them.
And at least a way that I can measure to see how it works and to watch the future and to be able to make a plan in these changing and wondrous times.
But by the time 2004 gets here, and I say that the round-off product would be 2012 to 13.
I mean, that's what I wrote all this down, you know.
And I never knew about the Mayans, knew anything about them in 1975, and I wouldn't have cared.
There were some Indians somewhere in Central America.
And that's how I thought about that.
And all of a sudden, it's the same timetable, except mine's maybe a little further than that.
art bell
Well, they're all similar.
Daniel, tomorrow night I'm going to interview Robert Ghostwolf, Native American.
dannion brinkley
Wonderful person.
art bell
Wonderful person.
Yes.
I interviewed recently Father Malachi Martin.
All right.
I've interviewed remote viewers.
I've interviewed Daniel Brinkley and people like him.
I've interviewed people from every discipline you can imagine, Daniel.
And, you know, they all come at it from sort of a different perspective.
But the story, in the end, is just about the same.
We're about to go through a big change.
dannion brinkley
It's going to be fun.
art bell
There are some people, Daniel, who paint a very bleak, dark picture about what's going to occur with regard to earth changes and more.
And there are others who take a more spiritual perspective on what's going to occur, and that's you.
But through this change, Daniel, there are going to be a lot of people who are going to pass.
unidentified
Oh, absolutely.
dannion brinkley
Absolutely.
And knowing that, because it's this time, then the more you know about death, the less you will fear it.
art bell
Precisely.
dannion brinkley
And I mean, that's my whole, you know, it's what I'm trying to do.
art bell
So whether it's somebody laying in bed listening to this tonight with a fatal tumor or cancer, or it's somebody looking ahead toward these changes, the net effect is the same.
We're all going to die.
dannion brinkley
Oh, but we can do so much about it in between that time.
The power of prayer.
The first thing I'd like to say is to everyone you just described, I love you very, very much, and I know what you're going through.
I don't need to feel your pain, but I know where you're going through.
And we have an opportunity, whether we have tumors or whether we're going to be washed away by a stream or a thunderstorm or a volcano or somebody setting off a nuclear weapon or something, somebody brought the food system from some country that kills us by the millions.
We have the power of collectively joining together certain times at certain places and putting our energy through what I call prayer because it gives it that whole quality.
And we can focus on any issue and we can change it.
And I know that for sure because it saved my life.
art bell
I believe it, Daniel.
I don't care.
You know what, though?
Daniel, I don't understand it.
I believe in the power of prayer because it's real, because you can literally document it.
I mean, you actually can document it.
dannion brinkley
Like Larry Dossi has written two books, 435 Research Paradigms, but that never meant much to me until I'm lying in that bed.
I come through that surgery.
I'm experiencing this love.
I'm experiencing it, and it's keeping me alive.
And not only is it keeping me alive, it is allowing me to enter more refined levels of consciousness and energies that I could see multi-dimensional natures of myself, which wasn't past and future.
It was right then, happening then.
I still don't understand it, Art.
art bell
One of the most brilliant men that I know, Daniel, along with you, is a man named Dr. Michio Kaku.
He's a physicist at New York City University.
And I interview him frequently.
unidentified
He is probably the next Carl Sagan.
art bell
He's a man capable of explaining a very, very difficult scientific theory in words that all of us can understand.
And he believes firmly, without a doubt, in a multi-dimensional universe.
Many dimensions, 10 or more dimensions in our universe, simultaneous timelines going on.
dannion brinkley
I can swear there's four.
I can't say there's 10, Art, but I can swear there's four of them.
Because the combination of what I was going through in my mental-physical self in the near-death experience and drilling holes in my head, which are the two extremes, which really makes sense for a fool like me, and then what's keeping me alive is rat poison, okay?
And then all of a sudden, by people who are giving me something that they believe I gave to them, a certain kind of love, whatever how greatness that is, what goes around, comes around, to save my life.
But it expanded my consciousness by letting me see at least these four other worlds.
I know they exist.
It begins to help explain so much stuff that creates stress.
art bell
It does.
Do you think, Daniel, that you understand the nature of them?
In other words, here we are racing toward this event in this present timeline that we're all living in.
dannion brinkley
A series of events, not, I don't know.
art bell
All right, even a series of events, racing toward whatever in the hell is going to happen.
dannion brinkley
Realization.
art bell
In this timeline.
But is there some other dimension where something else is going on?
Is the timeline and event coming in this timeline inevitable, locked in?
And at the same time, is there a peaceful dimension elsewhere where all of this will not occur?
dannion brinkley
Absolutely.
And it all works through us.
It all works through us.
And don't pin me down to this, Art, because I'm studying it.
art bell
You're still trying to work it out yourself.
dannion brinkley
Oh, God, listen.
After I became aware of this place, and I haven't words yet, but there's four dimensions, and it understands how it focuses in each level of consciousness that we're all working in.
I mean, it's psycho-babble in these early days.
Then think of this.
art bell
Let me interrupt.
There's a lot of people out there right now that will sit there and say, man, what a bunch of psycho-babble.
And they're not listening all the way.
Or, you know, I can even understand how they feel.
Me too.
That it's psycho-babble.
But it's not.
dannion brinkley
I swear it's not art.
And not only that, I've been them.
I mean, hey, guys, I've been that.
I am you.
But I have to look at it because it happened to me.
I didn't read any of these three things in a comic book.
I didn't watch it at the movies.
These things happened to me.
It cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And it has to benefit everybody that cared about me and that I care about them.
And through Art Bell shows how I get to do that.
Tell people that I love them and care about them because they saved my life and gave me a dimension, a way to look that not only I can see it as I try to understand it, but I can figure out a way to do something about it, to intermingle those energies and change through love, through prayer, and us working and focusing on it and becoming aware of death.
Because if it's going to happen around us in a lot of different ways and a lot of surprising ways to destabilize our spiritual understanding of ourselves, then that must be put into place first and foremost.
And the only way that you can do it and not be attached to some kind of dogma is through the death experience, the near-death experience.
It's not the only way, but it's one of the ways.
And to be able to change the whole paradigm and move spirituality to mainstream, to where people in 1940 to 1964 and those a little older than that were losing people.
art bell
How do we do that in a world so consumed with itself?
With so much danger, with so much going on around it, people are so busy just trying to survive every day, getting to work done and making a living, trying to take care of their kids.
They barely have time to consider any sort of spiritual anything.
To them, it's, you know, a million miles away.
dannion brinkley
Think about this, Art.
Let them get struck by lightning, let them have open heart surgery, and let them have a brain surgery.
unidentified
And they better figure out how to find this time, Bubba.
art bell
There's got to be an easier way, Danny.
dannion brinkley
It is to look at understanding death.
Art, when in the Course, let's finish this story so I can back through it.
We are only at the place where I'm out of surgery.
Where I come out of surgery.
I'm struggling through these levels.
I'm talking what you're hearing me say.
And I don't know where I am to you, but I'm watching this gathering.
Then I come back after surgery.
They put me in intensive care.
And as I sit there for two days, I blow another one.
I had a third subdual hematoma.
art bell
Right.
dannion brinkley
And it burst in my eye, just above my eye, in my frontal lobe.
And about 13 hours after that, I had a cerebral seizure.
You know, you remember that one?
art bell
Of course.
dannion brinkley
Hitting the walls and jerking tubes out of my head and watching all that stuff going on and not knowing where I was as I went from the most spiritual realm I had ever seen and a multi-dimensional psychology watching it.
And then I had a seizure, which you don't live through.
You don't live to them.
And each of those events, what I learned from the seizure, which is always I've heard doctors describe what they thought the near-death experience was.
Funneloseizure, temporal seizure, oxygen brain deprivation, endorphin releases, peptide bonds breaking down, so much stuff.
I got to see in the first part of the seizure exactly what they were talking about.
That stuff that they're describing, they're doing a pretty good job when they are looking at their understanding of chemistry and what happens because I saw in a seizure where you see the tunnel and you have a life review where your life passes before you because that stuff happens in a seizure.
It has nothing to do with what happens in a near-death experience.
And then I went to 1969 and I wouldn't leave 1969 because it was the place that my brain and myself took refuge and it overpowered my spiritual place.
And I watched this.
I was privy because so much love was coming to me from people's prayers.
The level at which I was surviving and observing the near-death experience was so superior to anything I'd ever experienced that I tell people, thank you from the bottom of my heart.
art bell
I know.
I remember you calling day after day and saying, I can feel it.
dannion brinkley
I couldn't believe it, Art.
I was living it.
You know, there was all of a sudden so much other stuff from when I, and what it was doing was it was us, the people listening to this show and people that knew about me and that cared, that I never even, I couldn't deal with the fact that they cared that much.
That was so amazing to me, my God.
But the fact that as I was feeling it, nothing could tell me that that wasn't what it was.
And I could experience it and it had a depth to me and it had a dimension to it.
And it was a lot of people.
I know that.
But my God, look at the potential.
Look what happens when I can say that's who kept me alive.
That is what allowed me to explore levels.
I'm still trying to understand from the great gathering.
What in the world was all of that?
But I know it's in me.
art bell
All right, Danion, what is your current condition?
dannion brinkley
Well, I'm taking it a day at a time.
And as I take it a day at a time, I'm getting better.
I'm having still problems with my blood, these severe headaches, and trying to match the drugs and taking it really easy.
art bell
In other words, they're trying to find the right level of drug for you to stabilize you.
dannion brinkley
And natural processes.
art bell
But even now, you're not really stable.
These blood counts of yours are jumping all over the place, and they can't even begin to figure out why, can they?
unidentified
No.
dannion brinkley
We're trying to.
I mean, and it's a lot of things going on, and it creates headaches and really terrible swings.
I mean, swings that can kill you in how my blood clots from one level to the other level.
But, you know, it's something transforming.
And maybe what's happening to me is a small-scale part of what we're talking about that these events are to occur.
You know, as I lay in that hospital art and I looked at that ceiling, I started thinking that here I am again looking up instead of looking down, and maybe it was time for me to learn that perspective.
You see, and I work on the CIA.
I want people to find this place that I hope I'm discovering and to find this place to deal with this.
Because if we deal with this, death and how it happens around us and sometimes the situations of which it will now occur because of these transitions, we must bring spirituality to center focus and being a veteran of three of these things, then having the seizure, and then watching the levels of what we're capable of doing.
I wouldn't miss this.
I wouldn't, you know, I fought hard to get back here.
You were there.
I fought hard to get back here, and it wasn't because I'm afraid of what's on the other side.
art bell
I was there.
That's a fact.
Daniel, that kind of catches up to the present.
When we come back, I want to take some phone calls.
unidentified
Absolutely.
Sounds like you're doing well this evening.
art bell
After you've gone through something like this, you have good and bad days.
And I think we've caught them on a good one.
That's lucky.
I'm Mark Bell, and there it is, folks.
The story of Daniel Brinkway.
Again, Daniel, a lot of people want to talk to you, and I think we have Yeah, while we're at it, and before we begin, there are, you calculate, now there were thousands of books that fell through.
dannion brinkley
Oh, yeah, thousands.
art bell
Thousands.
But you're calculating there are about 75 books.
dannion brinkley
I know there is out there, and I don't know who you are.
art bell
That fell through the...
dannion brinkley
No, it got turned out and knocked over and thrown out in the yard when they turned over all the file cabinets.
Whatever they were looking for and plundering through, they went through every box and every file cabinet and dumped the stuff out and broke the...
art bell
All right, so if you're one of the people who ordered the books and didn't get it.
dannion brinkley
Send me a postcard, please.
art bell
Send a postcard to Danien Brinkley, P.O. Box 1919 in Aiken.
That's A-I-K-E-N, Aiken, South Carolina.
Not Georgia.
unidentified
South Carolina.
art bell
Zip code 29802.
dannion brinkley
And I can match it and make sure they get out because I've gotten a few returns.
I mean, you're talking thousands and thousands and thousands of books, but it still drives me crazy because it's my word.
And all the things and the nice things that people have said as I've gone through this art, so many of your listeners, and the nice things that they say and the opportunities they give me, I appreciate it.
And I want everybody to have their books because I think they're good.
I mean, and I think they've set up a way that I can really, in this next book, is, and just the stuff I'm learning about what's happening, that I can just help people more and more.
I stay in health care because I know that medicine is better living through chemistry.
And that's where health care is going and the control of vitamins, you know, all my issues, the Access to Medical Treatment Act.
You know, maybe I'll get another chance when I know more about this to tell people.
But Access to Medical Treatment Act and how I deal with those, because I know if we can look at the near-death experience and use practical application of the things that you learned from it and use caring about each other in prayer, we can change it.
art bell
All right, Daniel, here they come.
dannion brinkley
Hello.
art bell
First time caller line, you're on the air with Daniel Brinkley.
unidentified
Good morning.
dannion brinkley
Hello.
unidentified
Hello there.
art bell
I don't know where that caller is.
Now, let me see.
Am I doing something?
No, I don't see what I'm doing.
dannion brinkley
I can hear him, Art.
art bell
Yeah, I know, but for some reason, he's not going on the air.
Hold on here.
Let me try this again.
Are you there, caller?
Yeah, for some reason, I guess you're on with Danion.
Danion can hear you, but for some reason you're not...
Something is drastically.
dannion brinkley
He's probably that E.T. that you were talking about in that tape that was interrogated.
art bell
Yeah, he's there, but dog on it.
I can't hear him.
I don't understand this.
Let me try one of their lines.
dannion brinkley
What is your name?
art bell
No, hold on.
unidentified
Wildcard line, are you there?
Hello there.
art bell
Yeah, you're there too, but you're not going on the air.
Let me see.
Immediate diagnosis of what could be wrong.
Let's try it again.
Let's go back to this first caller.
Caller, are you there?
Hello?
All right.
Got it.
Am I on?
You're on.
unidentified
Yes.
Well, thanks for taking my call, Mr. Smith.
art bell
Sorry for that difficulty.
Switch in the wrong position here.
unidentified
Never trust electronics.
Nothing more complicated than a knife and fork.
art bell
It wasn't them.
It was me.
unidentified
Oh.
Okay.
art bell
Go ahead.
unidentified
Okay.
Well, as far as Earth changes are concerned, you might want to check with the fellow up here, Jim Berkel.
He's got some amazing news about the Mammoth Lakes area.
art bell
I'm very well aware of that.
I will get Jim Berkel on the air maybe as early as Friday, no later than next week.
There are some very disturbing things going on at Mammoth.
unidentified
Yeah, a lot of Beijing radios might be needed in that area.
I understand.
dannion brinkley
I like this guy.
unidentified
Mr. Brinkley, I really, I have to tell you, I read your book and I was astonished.
It was as if I came out of a 20-year dream.
20 years ago, I had my throat cut in a parking lot on the East Coast.
And I had a very, very strange experience.
dannion brinkley
It was me that did it, was it?
unidentified
Let me make sure that there was a personality change very similar.
I was a 25-year-old ignorant thug at the time.
But I had a really astonishing experience.
And so much of what I, I didn't have anything that was quite as dramatic as you, but I did have that life review where I got to feel what everybody I harmed felt.
And that was really horrifying.
I reached that moment of real despair over that one.
dannion brinkley
Been there, done that, brother, three times in a row.
unidentified
Wow, I know.
art bell
I'm getting better, though.
unidentified
Right.
The fear of death after that was gone, and it was, you know, freak accident that I not, well, as we know, there are no accidents, really.
dannion brinkley
It was a lesson you chose to learn.
Right, right.
unidentified
There was quite a number of things which I tried to talk about one time shortly afterwards with a professor of psychology who went on to tell me about how the chemicals are released in the brain.
You just mentioned this on the air.
And I didn't talk about it again for many years.
dannion brinkley
I know those.
There's a lot of people I know the same way.
unidentified
And then I read your book and I said, this is not, this is just like an old, old dream that I remembered.
But a thing did happen, and that's the reason I wanted to talk to you.
I went through some of the stuff, like be able to pick the next number to come up on the wheel.
That was kind of fun.
It kind of scared me.
dannion brinkley
I did that myself.
But mostly I had to have things that were alive.
It had to be horses or dogs or animals.
unidentified
Yeah, I read that.
My thing was wheels.
dannion brinkley
I never could pick numbers like that.
unidentified
Yeah, they lived for a summer.
I could pick wheels, and I scared a few people with that.
I just remembered this when I read your book.
What happened was I kind of just dusted that whole thing off.
I had a major life change.
I got a degree and a license to practice physical therapy, of all things.
dannion brinkley
Congratulations.
unidentified
And I went on to, but I kind of just dropped that whole thing and went after the buck.
And a lot of the intuitive stuff that had happened just seemed to just fade away.
Yep.
Sounds exactly accurate so far.
I just wondered, you know, how you, I've experimented in ways to try to regain that contact.
I went to one time and I got you.
Listen to me.
dannion brinkley
Listen to me.
Find something that you get up for each day worth equal to that dollar.
I work hard.
I mean, like everybody listening.
But I also care about people dying alone.
I'm a hospice volunteer.
And I wake up every morning that no one will die alone as I put everything I do in living and taking care of my health and trying to put my heart back together.
I know it works because I'm still alive.
I know it works because I find a whole new reason and a whole new system of perceptions when it's I'm as I'm getting rid of I'm doing the same thing in my spiritual self as I'm doing in my physical self and I'm using my mind and my heart to make the proper decisions and plan for each day.
So what you do is you start there.
unidentified
A new discipline.
dannion brinkley
No, not at all.
unidentified
I've always tried to help people ever since.
Well, here's the thing that I got when I got my life review was the instruction to always be kind.
Well, it seems so important.
dannion brinkley
It's a good thing they didn't show that to me.
I'd be depressed all of the time.
So what you learn from the near-death experience.
art bell
And constantly in violation.
dannion brinkley
Yep.
But what the near-death experience teaches is just what you're talking about.
The near-death experience, when you have a panoramic life review or you just study people's panoramic life reviews, I was watching where James Redfield put a section in his new book, Celestine Vision, about the panoramic life review is the most significant part of the near-death experience.
Well, it is that.
Because when you hear people listen to how that works, that you not only see your life pass before you, you watch it like you're a friend of yours going through stuff that you can do nothing about, you become every person.
Then by doing for what appears to be being a good, nice person, like I'll say me doing hospice, I know I'm going to be those people that I help.
I know I'm going to feel the joy of when I go in that room.
It's like when you go to find something to care about.
I choose hospice and I support hospice, but you can be a big brother.
You can be a friend to people.
You can deliver meals on wheels.
I mean, and these are not something you're doing because you're a nice guy.
It's something that you can do that automatically sets in focus a system that you learn from the near-death experience that is true that you can start using, and it will work.
art bell
All right.
Well, I appreciate it, Cora.
Thank you.
And Danion, to me, having a panoramic life review that includes feeling what others have felt from you is the most terrifying thing I could even imagine.
dannion brinkley
Well, I've run through it three times, Art.
art bell
Because I've hurt people.
I know I have, Dan.
dannion brinkley
Oh, God.
Me too, man.
In the first one, it was horrendous.
But you know something, Art?
Remember, it's only a part of a system.
There is a whole system.
It doesn't stop on one simple part.
You will review your life.
You will see the difference that you made.
I mean, and I keep telling people, you don't measure yourself by what you think about it.
If God couldn't come today, if the spiritual world or the greatness and the goodness and the gentleness and the kindness and the love like a mother gives a child, you know, how sharks take care of children.
I mean, how the whole nature of motherhood and that kind of love.
If that can come into play and you have that, then what happens is you really start to change it.
You're not afraid of having a panoramic life with you.
It's a part of the system.
art bell
Yeah, but you've had an experience that others haven't had in this life.
dannion brinkley
Well, I don't recommend they have it.
I recommend living doing it.
art bell
I understand, but even listening to you, this is going to occur when we pass.
Absolutely.
And I can't think of any greater judgment than that which you would pass upon yourself feeling what you did to others.
You would be the one to pass judgment upon yourself.
dannion brinkley
Absolutely.
art bell
No question.
dannion brinkley
And you are horrendous to yourself.
art bell
I bet.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Daniel Brinkley.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
art bell
Hi, turn your radio off, please.
unidentified
Okay.
Is that better?
art bell
That's better.
unidentified
Hello.
Hi, this is Stephanie from Brooklyn.
dannion brinkley
Hi, Stephanie.
Welcome.
unidentified
Welcome, yourself.
dannion brinkley
Are you listening to WABC?
unidentified
Yep.
All right.
I just wanted to know how you're doing, and hopefully you're doing better.
Better.
dannion brinkley
I mean, I have problems, you know, but considering where we started, Steph, I've come a long way, and I've taken it easy, which has been driving me crazy, and going to the doctor, and I have a good day, so like five decent, you know, from horrendous to decent, and then I have two good days.
But, you know, you just do it a step at a time, but I'm going to be here.
unidentified
Good, because we need you.
dannion brinkley
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you, Steph.
I want to ask one question.
Will you be there next month on the cruise?
art bell
Well, all right.
It's not actually next month.
unidentified
I think it's, uh, the crews let me, uh, Yes, I'll be on that cruise.
On the 25th.
dannion brinkley
Yes.
unidentified
February 25th.
dannion brinkley
I won't be on it.
art bell
That's one I didn't even know about.
dannion brinkley
I snuck it in on Art because he chastises me so for working.
He and Ramona beat me really, really bad.
unidentified
Stephanie, you're blown up.
You're definitely going to be there, and I'm taking the cruise just because you're there.
dannion brinkley
Well, I'm definitely going to be there, and by then I will have even figured out more stuff.
art bell
Where are you going?
dannion brinkley
I am not telling you, Arch.
I'll never hear the end stuff.
art bell
Stephanie, where is he going?
dannion brinkley
Ramona.
Oh, God, how could you do this to me to death?
unidentified
Oh, God.
dannion brinkley
And they really come after.
art bell
While we're on the subject of cruises, we've got one we're going to do together.
dannion brinkley
Oh, God.
art bell
May 10th through the 17th.
This is going to be a whiz-banger because the wild man himself, Dr. Zaye Wass, the director of antiquities at Giza, he's going to be there.
You'll be there.
Hancock, Ram Hancock, Robert Bilal, Dr. Ed Krupp, and I'm going to try and moderate this whole thing.
And I'm ordering my bulletproof vest.
dannion brinkley
You better.
But you know something, Art?
For once, for once, the ground rules will be laid out and verified and told to your audience.
The ground rules for the coming and bringing this to a focus and to bring it to a perspective and to look at ways to move from it in a constructive fashion will be laid down because of this cruise and what each comes to talk about.
And you as the, you know, you don't really, you hold a really level place and you explore it.
And, you know, here comes finally a chance.
I was proud how it came together and how we got a part of it.
I'm really proud of it.
And it's done in a way like in Alaska and it's done in a way where we can look at the vastness and the beauty of the world.
art bell
Yeah, maybe that'll quiet everybody down a little bit.
I can only go for it.
Yeah, maybe.
Zahia Was, Dr. Wass, called me from Cairo several times and browbeat me until I said, all right, I'm serious.
He really did.
He said, I'm not going.
If you don't do it, I'm not going to go.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, well, I'm glad you're doing it.
art bell
Anyway, we are going on that.
And anybody who wants to come along, it's 1-800-888-5509.
I forget to give that out.
It's 1-800-888-5509.
Or if you're in California, area code 310-568-0138.
dannion brinkley
It's just one of those rare time.
I look forward to it.
It's a family on this boat, I mean, on the ship, and I can spend that time.
And I like cruises, they're quality, and it's people yearning for it.
And we get a chance to, if all that Casey stuff is true, we get to help to define an era that determines consciousness changing.
art bell
Yeah, you know what Zahi says, though?
He says not a bit of it's true.
He said, there has never been one artifact, one grain of sand to indicate that Atlantis was ever here.
dannion brinkley
Oh, is this going to be fun?
art bell
That's Zahi.
dannion brinkley
But you know what?
I believe what Bazahi believes, he believes is true.
I believe it, but I've seen too much and listened to too much for it not to come to a place where it can be explored and studied with giving equal ground to all those places.
The truth is still going to be the truth, Art.
art bell
I hear you.
All right, stay right where you are.
We've got one last segment to do, and we're going to lay heavily into the phones.
From the high desert, person, somebody in Beaverton, Oregon.
And of course, I'm getting a Godzillion faxes, and I'm just not going to have an opportunity to read them all on the air, but this one hit the mark.
Listen to this, Daniel.
Art, I've heard you and Daniel ever since the first time he was on your show.
One, I've never heard you talk to anyone like you are tonight with Daniel.
Even earlier times, with Daniel himself.
Two, I've never heard Daniel laugh like he has tonight.
What am I hearing?
And I can answer that.
You're hearing Daniel Brinkley and Art Bell after something has happened that changed both of them.
And, you know, I went and I sat by Daniel's bed and said goodbye to him.
And we talked about many things that we need not repeat here.
But you're talking, you're listening to two people who know each other now in a way they did not know each other before.
And that's why it sounds different.
I know Daniel's secrets.
He knows mine.
I guess we know each other's deepest fears.
And so you're hearing a different, a deeper relationship, or you're hearing the edges of it.
Is that a fair comment, Daniel?
unidentified
Absolutely.
dannion brinkley
It's about loving each other.
Look, Art, here comes a whole new world.
We're hearing me laugh because I'm happy to be alive.
But I'm happy to be alive because I'm living in the greatest times and moments.
And I get a chance to make a difference from what I went through again.
They always change.
Those things change your whole life.
And you going through it with me and watching the ins and outs and the days because it was going to be an end.
I think that it can be possible for everybody who listens and pays attention.
unidentified
And I mean, they can be the same place.
dannion brinkley
And whoever this person is, I thank you very much for what you see and what you say.
art bell
Just very observant of them.
I mean, they're absolutely correct.
East of the Rockies, you're on the air with Daniel Brinkley.
unidentified
Good morning.
Good morning, Art.
Good morning, Daniel.
Lucas?
Marcia in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
dannion brinkley
Good morning, Marcia.
unidentified
Good morning.
I just wanted to comment, Daniel, that, number one, It is the greatest honor for me to speak to you.
I'm in the process of reading your book, At Peace and the Light.
Thank you very, very much.
I ran across it in the bookstore.
I recognized your name from Art Show.
I grabbed it.
And my husband looked at me.
I said, There's no way I'm walking out of here without that.
dannion brinkley
Thanks.
unidentified
But you have really brought a lot of light to some of the things I've been going through for the last year and a half.
dannion brinkley
And we're all entering that stage.
unidentified
And it's scary.
And it's also wondrous to explore.
dannion brinkley
Look, you're not going to die.
unidentified
Tell us that.
dannion brinkley
And I can back it up with enough photos that art has and enough stuff that at least I've been to the place where I have an option to look at it.
unidentified
Then how do we centralize spirituality?
dannion brinkley
I say good hospice work.
I mean, anybody can write me and put Compassion in Action or CIA and at the same address in Aiken, and I'll make sure the information gets out to them.
But you have an opportunity to change this world and to change yourself.
unidentified
That's what I've been working on for the last year and a half.
And hearing you on Art Show and reading your books is a tremendous guidebook for me.
dannion brinkley
God, and I tried to write them that way.
And, you know, Art Bell, Art Bell has a unique way of getting people at a comfortable place to where they can explore it.
And I try to just tell the truth about what I've been through and try to help people with it because I don't think they ought to go through it.
And yes, this is some pretty wild stuff, but what does it really mean if you don't die?
The freedoms that come with it and the learning about the panoramic life review and being able to deal with losing our loved ones, but heaven's gaining them.
And what happens to us as a spiritual being gives us back our strength, gives us back control of our lives and in our health care and where the government's going and financial collapse like that gold commercial I just heard.
I'd recommend everybody ought to call and get that information.
Whether they make a move or not, they should get it.
unidentified
Right.
dannion brinkley
And start looking that it is our spiritual self and that we designed a world that's going to change very rapidly just to see how good we are and how fast we can hold to our spiritual selves.
So keep that in mind.
And thanks for reading.
And make sure you get the next one.
Oh, I will.
unidentified
Could I ask one question of you?
dannion brinkley
Oh, I'm sorry, yes.
unidentified
If you had one quick piece of advice to give someone who is just being awakened or quickened, pardon me, Art, to all of the changes and all of the different dimensions around us, what would that one piece of advice be as far as listening to yourself.
dannion brinkley
Listening to yourself as you lead it and what you feel about it and as you reinforce it by listening to a lot of different perspectives from arts to mine to other people.
Stay true to you.
People try to tell me I hadn't have a near-death experience.
Well, let them drill holes in their head.
People trying to tell you that, you know, like I tell you, if you make a payment, you've got an opinion.
And other than that, it's just an opinion.
When you feel it and you read it, you find organizations and groups like the ARTS website, and I hope to soon have one.
I'm learning about that stuff where you can come find me and I can talk back and forth.
And what you do is stay true to you.
art bell
Yep, that really is.
Thank you, ma'am.
That's really good advice.
Now, almost everybody, no, maybe everybody, they have a voice.
They speak to themselves.
A lot of times they don't listen.
They don't take their own advice.
But if you stop that, well, yeah, you are.
And if you stop and listen to your own advice, you're hardly ever going to go wrong.
You're just not going to go wrong.
dannion brinkley
Connect to the spiritual side of you.
You know, your advice in when you're thinking is one thing, but there's a spiritual side to you, and everybody has it.
And just figuring out how we keep that and bring that into focus.
Because once you match those two sides, you're not only listening to yourself from what you've gathered as data, you're supporting yourself by the spiritual perspective on it.
I mean, that's how you do it.
I know that because I have found through three near-death experiences.
That's how it works.
art bell
First-time caller line, you're on the air with Daniel, Brinkley, and Art Bell.
unidentified
Hello.
Hello.
art bell
Hi there.
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm in Pueblo, Colorado.
art bell
All right.
dannion brinkley
And who are you?
unidentified
My name's Kathy.
Daniel, I've been following your story since the first time I heard of the first experience you had when you were struck by lightning.
dannion brinkley
So you liked studying idiots?
unidentified
I know.
I've done my own spiritual quest since 84, and I haven't had to have a near-death experience to know that the soul never dies.
dannion brinkley
Thank God.
unidentified
I know.
I love you so much.
Thanks, Kathy.
bless you for what you do with terminal patients and God I just Have you interviewed with him and working with him?
Will he have meant so much to me as yours?
dannion brinkley
Well, I talk to Raymond on a regular basis, and, you know, we explore some things together, and we have differences of opinions of other things.
unidentified
Well, of course.
dannion brinkley
He's like a brother to me, and yes, I talked to him just, I think, yesterday or the day before.
unidentified
Oh, I love his books, too.
He's just a great guy.
dannion brinkley
I think that hospice work, like what you're talking about, I mean, for people who don't know that, I've been a hospice volunteer for 19 years, and I just am 158th person.
When they talk about near-death experience and stuff, like, you know, Kathy, I do this every day.
I don't live in some tower.
I'm in nursing homes, and I'm dealing with hospice programs, and this last lady was breast cancer, and it was, you know, pretty terrible, but helping her there, because I'm going to be that person again.
And I find the value of myself when I'm the difference that spirituality makes.
When someone's scared of facing that other side.
unidentified
I bless you for that because, you know, I'll tell you, my parents have both passed, and my dad, bizarrely enough, he was a very pragmatic and linear logical person, but he got some very deep spiritual beliefs before he died.
And he said, I swear to you, if there's any way I can tell you what happens, I will.
And he did.
It was a year and a half after he died, but I had a communication with him, and I know it was him.
dannion brinkley
66% of all widowers in surveys have some kind of contact.
I don't have any doubt that you can get back.
I know people like James Von Prague and a guy, John, I can't think of John's last name, and George Anderson with a side.
art bell
You know, I had James Von Prague on the night.
Oh, he's terrific.
And I just got a fax from somebody who said Von Prague was on Larry King last night.
dannion brinkley
Well, that's where he's supposed to be.
Which he did to Larry King.
art bell
Hi.
dannion brinkley
That'd be so much fun.
I can't wait to talk to him.
art bell
All right.
Wildcard Line, you're on the air with Daniel Brinkley.
Hello.
unidentified
Hello?
art bell
Hi.
unidentified
Am I home?
dannion brinkley
Hello?
art bell
Yes, you are.
Where are you?
unidentified
I'm in North Carolina.
art bell
Okay.
unidentified
Daniel, your name?
My name is Archer.
dannion brinkley
Hi, Archer.
unidentified
Hi, Daniel.
I met you two years ago in Wilmington.
At the Metaphysics Show?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I wanted to say, still like me?
Man, I still love you.
What are you talking about?
Thanks, Archer.
I prayed that you would live because we need you.
dannion brinkley
You're one of those people who did that to me, huh?
unidentified
Yes, sir.
dannion brinkley
Thank you.
I mean, Archer, I came to a realization about the collective power of prayer.
You know, I thought of it as non-local energy and listening to what Larry says and how people make it so clinical.
I never realized the collective power of people who love each other and what they can direct that power toward.
And I mean, thanks for doing that.
I mean, thanks.
unidentified
Oh, there's no question about it.
I know also that the soul never dies and we live in other dimensions and multi-dimensionality.
dannion brinkley
Why didn't you tell me?
unidentified
Well, I didn't realize it fully like I do now.
Okay, well, thanks a lot, Archer.
dannion brinkley
You know, if somebody would have told me, I wouldn't have believed it, but, you know, I have to learn the way I learn.
I'm glad you learned it a lot easier.
unidentified
Right.
I'm working with a mutual friend of ours right now to learn more every day.
That's Reverend Kimberly Henry.
All right.
And she is enlightening me every day.
And I have learned a lot from you and your books, but I just wanted to say that.
dannion brinkley
Thanks, Roger, because let me tell you something.
What I just went through has a lot of spiritual, mystical stuff to it.
Has a lot of pain and a lot of insecurities that I'd never have.
But when something like this happens, you have to really face your life and look at whether I can walk up the stairs or sit down and the pain that I go through.
And maybe hearing from people that contributed to it and put a lot of prayer in there gives me a place to rebuild and refine myself.
It's why I like art shows.
Art shows are the shows where I can just be me and open my heart up and look at myself and share with it and know that I got brothers and sisters out there that are the people of the night doing the same thing.
And I feel free and open to talk about what I'm going through and hoping that it helps them.
And it's nice to hear from you.
art bell
Danien, here we go.
Welcome to the Rockies.
You're on the air.
I'm Art Bell.
He's Danian Brinkley.
Who are you?
unidentified
I'm Kathy from Phoenix.
Hi, Kathy.
Hi.
This is weird.
I'm incoherent.
I knew I had to get home tonight.
I knew that if I called, I would get to speak to you.
dannion brinkley
Don't you love these coincidences?
unidentified
And I want to thank you.
You've had a profound, what do you call it, on my life.
dannion brinkley
An effect?
unidentified
Effect, yes.
dannion brinkley
It wasn't bad, was it?
unidentified
Oh, no.
It was when I first heard you, I had, I guess, an empathic reaction.
And like this, previous callers have said, I love you.
dannion brinkley
I love you.
unidentified
And I prayed for you.
dannion brinkley
And I thank you for that.
unidentified
And the hospice work, you are very important.
You have to take care of yourself and keep it up.
My father passed.
dannion brinkley
Yes, mom.
But I can tell you this, Kat, listen, after the pain that I just went through, I can promise you I'm doing a lot better.
unidentified
Okay.
dannion brinkley
And thanks for calling because it's nice to hear from us.
It's nice to hear from us.
And new things are coming, new things, new changes.
I'm just putting it in order.
unidentified
So many new things have happened to me since 1965.
My father had cancer of the brain and he died, but we had hospice.
dannion brinkley
It's the greatest thing in the world.
unidentified
I cannot say to anyone listening how much that got us through.
They let us know what to look for.
They gave us a list of the kinds of symptoms.
And without it, I don't think we could have made it.
The sisters and I will forever be grateful to Hospice for.
dannion brinkley
It's time for you to become a volunteer now.
unidentified
Emily.
dannion brinkley
You can find the time.
I have it.
Then go for it.
I mean, write me at Compassion in Action here at 1919 in ACED, and I'll send you out a bunch of propaganda of what I'm trying to do and how I'm trying to put a mystical side and a spiritual side to the death experience to create closure in families.
Because once that's in place, that is what we now think is the most fearful thing becomes the place that is the most stable, most loving, most supportive place for you to face what's coming in the future.
And I'm excited.
I'm excited to be back and to be alive and to have this opportunity.
And I thank everybody who, just like you, helped me.
unidentified
Well, a couple of years ago, I don't know if I could have bought into all of this.
dannion brinkley
Well, when they cut your heart out, if they'd have cut your heart out a couple of years ago, you would have.
unidentified
Well, I kind of lost my heart a couple years ago, but my father went through some experiences.
He saw a light.
All right.
Asked me if I could see the light.
He saw people that he had known.
He saw his father and his mother.
art bell
You can only listen to so many millions of testimonies like this before you've got to start believing.
dannion brinkley
You've got to start like osmosis, if nothing else.
art bell
Yeah.
Let me give your address again so I don't have to send it to a million people.
It's Danion Brinkley.
dannion brinkley
You're so wild.
art bell
Post Office Box 1919 in Aiken, A-I-K-E-N, South Carolina, 29802, right?
dannion brinkley
Yes, and just write CIA on the card.
art bell
Yeah, that's a.
You want to tell everybody how you picked CIA?
I mean, Compassion in Action, you probably came up with the initials first, some of your old buds.
dannion brinkley
Yeah, friends of mine from a long time ago, just what we were talking about in the beginning of the show.
It was a way to kind of gig them back.
Now the part that that's what everybody refers to as the CIA, but it was a lot of agencies, that I just took that and did it in such a way that Compassion and Action, the Twilight Brigade and how it's set up is much formatted the way that that operation was in those days.
And it's done overtly instead of covertly, but it's the same way.
And I figured that when you did something that honored protect a country as great as this and in soldiers and in people in nursing homes, that if you did it the same way and you put love and a true honesty about what you say instead of what our intelligence apparatus in the covert world that we now live in became in existence, that maybe I could transform it.
And I go to soldiers and my regular people.
So people, if they want to know more about it, write me.
And I'll pass that on and see to it gets out.
And if you want to know what I'm doing and get the newsletter, okay, write me.
I will get it out and I will have it right.
Unless I die again and then I'll get behind.
But I'm sorry for those that I'm late.
art bell
Unless I die again, then I'll get behind.
I've got to remember that sentence.
dannion brinkley
Unless I die again, I won't get behind.
art bell
Oh, okay.
I thought he said, if I die again, then I'll get behind.
dannion brinkley
Oh, no, Art.
I'm not letting you or anybody else off that easy.
I'm staying.
I'm staying.
There is too much.
I believe more in people and what we're here for and what we're capable of doing collectively to find something we all pray about and change it and show the power of who we are because we have love and understanding and this thing of fear of death so that we can make a decision.
See, Art, I look at managed care and you know how fanatical I am about all of that.
unidentified
I do.
dannion brinkley
You know, I drive people crazy with it, but I look at we must pay attention to in this next congressional 105th or 6th Congress, whatever it is, they're going to take away our rights to vitamin supplements.
They're going to change everything that we got in the vitamin supplement.
art bell
Over my dead body.
dannion brinkley
Well, over mine, too.
But that's what people must watch for, and they must listen to you, and they must research this out because for the freedoms that we have, they must be taken away.
And I think the health care, because it exists from cradle to the grave, must be watched carefully and paid a lot of attention to.
And I do a lot of that, and I put us in places like the CIA so people can be observant and also be of service.
art bell
All right, my friend.
You've done it.
Obviously, you are better.
You made it through four hours, just like that.
It's gone.
Show's over and all that stuff.
So you need to go back and rest.
But you sure gave us your best, Daniel.
dannion brinkley
Thanks, Hart.
And I love everybody, and I thank them.
And God bless Art Bell and Ramona and everybody that listens to this.
And I'll be back and I'll figure it all out.
art bell
Good night, my friend.
dannion brinkley
Good night.
art bell
Thanks, Hart.
Take care.
That's Daniel Brinkley.
I'm Art Bell, and that's it from the windy high desert this night.
Tomorrow night, Robert Ghost Wolf.
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