Tuesday, August 26, 2025 -A former US Marine who claims to have died three times says he now knows what really happens after death.
Dannion Brinkley, 75, from Nevada, described surviving three
separate near-death experiences (NDEs) and insists, “nobody truly dies.” Once a
skeptic, he says his first brush with death came in 1975, when he was
electrocuted after lightning struck a telephone pole.
“It went into the side of my head above my ear, it went down
my spine. It welded the nails of the heels of my shoes to the floor. It threw
me up in the air, I see the ceiling, it slams me back down, a ball of fire
comes through the room and blinds me. I am burning. I am on fire. I am
paralyzed,” Brinkley told KLAS.
He said paramedics later declared him dead, but 28 minutes
later he woke up in a morgue. During that time, he recalled traveling through a
tunnel, reviewing his life, and encountering 13 “silver-blue spirit beings” in
a “crystal city” who showed him visions of Earth’s future.
Brinkley said his second NDE came in 1989 during open-heart
surgery when his heart gave out while battling pneumonia. He described floating
out of his body and being reunited with his “angelic instructors,” who, he
claims, helped him discover “psychic and spiritual gifts to aid the dying and
the desperate.”
His third experience occurred in 1997 during brain surgery.
“So, when you learn you don’t die, when you learn you’re a spiritual being,
you’re not going to go to hell, that’s enough to inspire you to change,” he
said.
Following his experiences, Brinkley co-founded the Twilight
Brigade, a program with the Veterans Administration that ensures no veteran
dies alone. He also launched the Brinkley Center Foundation, which offers grief
and caregiving support, and authored several books including Saved by the
Light, At Peace in the Light, and The Secrets of the Light.
Scientific studies suggest that common elements of NDEs,
such as tunnels of light, out-of-body sensations, or life reviews, may be
linked to brain activity at the point of death. Research has shown spikes in
neural activity seconds after cardiac arrest, indicating the brain could still
process information after clinical death.
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