Brinkley details what he experienced during clinical death: floating above his body, traveling through a tunnel of light, encountering a radiant being, and undergoing a panoramic life review in which he felt every emotion he had ever inflicted on others. He describes visiting crystal cities and receiving 117 visions of future events from twelve beings, ninety-six of which he says have since come to pass. Brinkley explains how a second near-death experience during open-heart surgery fourteen years later reinforced everything he had witnessed the first time.
The discussion turns to Brinkley's seventeen years of hospice volunteer work, his views on the spiritual nature of death, and his message about confronting mortality. Art Bell and Brinkley also explore predictions of coming earth changes, economic instability, and geopolitical upheaval.
Key Moments
Plausible deniability - Brinkley's clandestine Cold War work: Brinkley discloses his post-Marine Corps career doing contract intelligence work in Central and South America during the Cold War - describing his role as 'plausible deniability,' destroying infrastructure and assassinating to create anarchy before reinstalling preferred regimes.
Lightning strike - nailed to the floor, thrown across the room: On the phone with childhood friend Tommy about a 1932 LaSalle restoration, lightning ran down the line, struck Brinkley in the neck, welded the nails in his shoe heels to the nails in the floor, suspended him in the air, and slammed him back down hard enough to bend the bed frame.
The tunnel and the being of light: After 28 minutes without pulse or respiration, Brinkley describes a tunnel forming, the radiant light he felt he came from, and a being whose silhouette filled the space like a door opening onto a sunny day, emanating pastel hues from its inner being.
Panoramic life review - becoming everyone he had hurt: Brinkley describes the 360-degree panoramic life review in which he literally became every person he had ever encountered and felt the direct results of his interactions - the anger, frustration, humiliation, and pain he had inflicted on thousands.