Very few people can speak with as much certainty about what happens after death as Dannion Brinkley. In 1975, while talking on the phone during a storm, lightning struck through the receiver, blasting through his head and spine. He was clinically dead for 28 minutes—nails “welded” to the floor, body taken to the morgue—only to revive with memories of floating beside the ambulance, watching doctors declare him gone, and being drawn through a tunnel of light into a radiant “Crystal City.”

There, Brinkley says, he underwent a full 360-degree life review, experiencing every moment from every person’s perspective and confronting the question: “What difference did you and God make?” That singular vision of love, accountability, and interconnectedness upended everything he thought he knew about consciousness and mortality.

He didn’t stop there. Two more brush-and-go resurrections—in 1989 during open-heart surgery and again during brain surgery—reinforced for him the reality of spiritual guides, psychic gifts, and a deathless essence. Each return carried the same message: we are eternal spiritual beings, and fear of “hell” is unfounded.

Brinkley’s vivid testimony continues to challenge skeptics and comfort seekers alike: if consciousness survives clinical death—if there is indeed an afterlife of light, love, and lessons—how would that change the way we live today?