这是一个死而复生者在另外空间所看见景象的真实故事，故事的主人公叫丹尼尔布雷克林(Dannion Brinkley)，他讲述在他濒临死亡时看到的人类未来，他写成了一本书，名字叫《在光明中得救》，这本书在1994年出版后连续5个月被《纽约时报》列为最畅销书籍。
闪电击中后灵魂离体
丹尼尔从小放荡不羁，恃强凌弱，以打架和羞辱他人为乐。长大后在政府中工作，并拥有几套住房和几个小产业，收入颇丰，春风得意。在他25岁那一年，即1975年9月17日，一场暴风雨袭击了南卡罗来纳州的艾肯市，当时他正在那里的家中给一个朋友打电话，一道闪电通过电话线击中了他，将他重重地抛向空中。
在灼人的无边痛苦中，他忽然感到正沐浴着巨大的和平和安宁，他的灵魂离体，飘浮于空中。他漠然注视着他丢在床上的躯体，手中还攥着被闪电熔化的电话听筒，鞋子上冒着烟，亲友和医生在忙碌着抢救他，而这一切似乎与他毫不相干。接着一切都消失了，一个仙乐缭绕的隧道快速向他接近过来。
如所有死而复生的人描述的一样，他也重新经历了他走过的人生历程，最微小的细节都一览无余。但是当他回顾人生时，不同之处在于他也是他自己行为的接受者。比如，他小的时候是学校的一霸，经常折磨其他的孩子，偷走他们的自行车，或令他们十分难堪。而现在当他回顾这段历史时，他发现他自己生活在对方的身体中，他可以了知自己当时的态度，感觉和动机，而同时对方所感到的一切屈辱与痛苦，他都感同身受。他也知觉了他的放荡不羁给他父母带来的深刻伤害。丹尼尔还看到了在越战期间，他的角色给他人带来的难以描述和平复的悲哀与创伤。当历史重播完时，他陷入悔恨和羞愧之中，无地自容。
另外空间的生命体
给他重播历史的是一个闪烁着银蓝色光芒的生命，丹尼尔看不清他的面容，但可以感受到他难以言传的宽容和慈善。当历史重播完成时，这个生命带着丹尼尔飞向一个由水晶构成的城市。这个城市的大教堂是一个由水晶妆成的杰作，放射出令人敬畏的耀眼光芒，在这座为赞美主而建的教堂前丹尼尔感到自己那么微末与渺小。
在这里，丹尼尔看到了13个生命体，每个生命体都代表了人们所拥有的一种感情和心理特征。有的生命体是〝宽容〞，有的生命体是〝忠诚〞等等。这些生命体向丹尼尔展示了人类的未来，每个生命都给丹尼尔演化一个盒子，盒子里是将在未来发生的震撼世界的大事。每一个盒子都有一个萤光屏，像电视机一样，所不同的是，在展示未来时，丹尼尔感到他就是其中的一员，正在亲身经历着将要发生的一件件石破天惊的历史变迁。
目击将要发生的大事
在丹尼尔看到的13个盒子中，他一共目击了117幕历史，其中95件在他的书出版时已经应验，包括美国精神走向颓废，罗奈尔得雷根当选总统，车诺比核电站泄漏，苏联解体和海湾战争等。如果有人说这只不过是他杜撰故事，把后来发生的事编进他的书中而已，但是在他的书中记述的其他大事也已部分应验，比如他在这本1994年出版的书中描述了其后发生的金融危机和萨拉热窝(Sarajevo)战争等。
最后一个盒子中演化出的景象尤为耐人寻味。在演化这个盒子中的未来时，丹尼尔同时分身到世界的100个地方，从沙漠到森林。他看到世界上到处都充斥着战争与混乱，战争的原因是出于恐惧。他还看到了战争以外的一些景象，许多都是天灾，原本肥沃的土地变成沙漠，原来长着小麦和谷物的地方，干旱龟裂，化为焦土。而在世界的另一些地方，暴雨如注，大地的表层土壤被冲走，河水变成又厚又黑的泥浆。哀鸿遍野，人们拿着杯子和碗，甚至是赤手沿街乞讨，有的人已经连乞讨的力气也没有了，他们蜷缩在地上，只求速死。
演化未来的人以心灵感应的方式告诉丹尼尔，未来并非不可改变。一个生命对丹尼尔说的话意味深长，他说：〝我们把每一个到地球上的人视为一个伟大的冒险者，你们勇于去地球并拓展你们的生命，在主创造世界的这个伟大冒险中完成你们的使命〞。
那个生命还对丹尼尔说了这样的话：〝你们人类是真正的英雄，那些到地球的是勇士，因为你们以其他生命没有的勇气在做事，你们与主一起到地球上共创未来〞。
Dannion Brinkley
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Dannion Brinkley(born July20,1950) is an American author who described two near death experiences(NDEs) in his1994 book Saved by the Light.[1] He is also a hospice volunteer, speaker, and prominent figure in the New Age and New Thought Movement.[2]
Contents
1 First near death experience
2 Other near death experiences
3 Skepticism and Controversy
3.1 First Near Death Experience
3.2 Visions of the Future
3.3 Special Powers
3.4 Military Service
4 Hospice and veterans advocacy work
5 Television
6 Books
7 References
8 External links
First near death experience
In Saved by the Light Brinkley explained that he was struck by lightning on September17,1975, while using a telephone at his home in Aiken, South Carolina. He said he was clinically dead for28 minutes. During these28 minutes Brinkley said he experienced many characteristic details of a near death experience as well as certain unique ones. His account includes an out-of-body experience with extensive observations of physical surroundings, passing through a tunnel, a high-speed and detailed life review and an encounter with beings who showed him visions of the future and discussed with him his life mission. Brinkley said he had a strong reluctance to return to his physical body, but he was sent back to fulfill a mission.[1]
Brinkley said when he re-entered his body in the hospital he blew on the sheet that was covering his head. His friend noticed the moving sheet and said,"he's still alive!" By the end of September1975 he was released from the hospital.[1]
Shortly after the event occurred Brinkley told his story to near-death researcher Raymond Moody.[3] In the Introduction to Saved by the Light, Moody wrote Brinkley's near death experience stands as one of the most incredible he has ever heard.[1]
Other near death experiences
In May1989 Brinkley had heart failure and went to the East Cooper Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina where he had a second near death experience. Brinkley said he had another life review and was taken by a being to a place with pleasant sounds and smells. Brinkley was released from the hospital in a few weeks.[1]
On September17,1997 Brinkley had brain surgery to remove a subdural hematoma and had a third near death experience. In The Secrets of the Light he explained that he traveled to a"blue-gray place" that was like purgatory. In this place he said he saw soldiers, martyrs and those unable to reach a level of forgiveness. Following surgery Brinkley had a tonic–clonic seizure and after nearly thirty days in the hospital he was released.[4]
Skepticism and Controversy
First Near Death Experience
A local newspaper article published right after the first near death experience quoted Brinkley saying he was"out for a few minutes" until his wife revived him by pounding on his chest.[5] Additionally, Gilmore Eaves(dec.) told a British documentary crew that Brinkley's story about being dead was"not true.".[6] Brinkley has responded to these claims.[7]
Visions of the Future
Brinkley said he received visions of future events during his near death experience. At least one was reported to Raymond Moody within seven months, that there would be a breakdown of the Soviet Union in1990 and subsequent food riots. Moody later said Brinkley's forecast struck him as"silly and absurd" at the time but later proved accurate.[3] Brinkley's visions also reportedly included the1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the1990–1991 Persian Gulf War, but there was no written account of these visions prior to his1994 book. Brinkley forecasted a1995 nuclear accident in Norway and a pre-2000 economic collapse in the United States that never happened.[8] And, according to Moody, other prophetic visions Brinkley made after his first near death experience never materialized the way Brinkley said they would.[3] Brinkley responded to these claims on The West Coast Truth with Russell Scott in May2012. Brinkley still to this day claims he has psychic visions.[9]
Special Powers
Brinkley claims the events surrounding his first near death experience left him with"special powers," namely, psychic and paranormal abilities.[1]
Military Service
Brinkley is a U.S. Marine veteran. In Saved by the Light, Brinkley said his actions as a CIA sniper in Laos during the Vietnam War were part of his NDE life review. Brinkley's account of serving as a CIA sniper in Laos was challenged by the Los Angeles Times[8] and by the book Stolen Valor by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley.[10] Both accounts said military records show that Brinkley never went overseas during the war, but was stationed in Georgia as a truck driver.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Brinkley said the government was covering up his CIA mission because it was classified. But the newspaper cited several sources, including former Marines involved in similar covert operations, who said Brinkley's story was"full of holes" and that the supposedly classified files were all public.[8]
Brinkley says that certain dates and places had to be camouflaged in order to protect the rights of those who chose to remain unknown, as well as to preserve the integrity of the United States of America.[4]
Hospice and veterans advocacy work
Brinkley is co-founder and Board Chairman of the Twilight Brigade(formerly called Compassion in Action), a non-profit international organization that supports bedside volunteers who provide companionship to those who are dying, especially veterans, during the last months of life.[11][12] Brinkley's work with dying veterans and AIDS patients began in1984 and he has logged many thousands of volunteer hospice hours. The Twilight Brigade now has offices in16 states and over5,000 volunteers, including a number of active duty military personnel and veterans.[11]:18
Veterans wonder if anyone will appreciate what they did. They were there for us when we needed them. We need to be there for them.
—Dannion Brinkley[11]:20
In2001, the Twilight Brigade was nominated for the National Hospice and Palliative Care Association's Heart of Hospice Award.[13]
Brinkley is also the co-founder of Veterans Care Plus, a health care advocacy program for U.S. veterans and their families that provides access to low-cost prescription medications.[14] This program has been selected by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for its members.[15]
Television
Saved By the Light was adapted for a1995 Fox Broadcasting Company TV movie of the same name starring Eric Roberts, and debuted as one of the highest rated television movies in that network's history. Since originally airing, it has been in regular circulation on the Lifetime Movie Network.[13]
He was also featured in an episode of NBC's Unsolved Mysteries in1994.
Books
Saved by the Light and The Secrets of the Light were'New York Times and international bestsellers.[13]
Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry, Saved by the Light: The true story of a man who died twice and the profound revelations he received. New York: Villard Books,1994. ISBN0-679-43176-4.
Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry, At Peace in the Light: A man who died twice reveals amazing insights into life, death and its mysteries. Piatkus,1995. ISBN0-7499-1581-1.
Dannion Brinkley and Kathryn Peters-Brinkley, The Secrets of the Light: Spiritual strategies to empower your life... here and in the hereafter. Heart Light Productions,2004. ISBN
References
Dannion Brinkley and Paul Perry, Saved by the Light, New York: Villard Books,1994. ISBN0-679-43176-4.
Noory, George."Lifetime Achievement Award Presented to Dannion Brinkley". George Noory Lifetime Achievement Award. Conscious Life Expo.
Raymond Moody, The Last Laugh: A new philosophy of near-death experiences, apparitions, and the paranormal, pp.171–172. Hampton Roads Publishing Company,1999. ISBN1-57174-106-2.
Dannion Brinkley and Kathryn Peters-Brinkley(2004). The Secrets of the Light: Spiritual strategies to empower your life. Heart Light Productions. ISBN0-9638490-2-6.
Carl Langley,"Phone Call Almost Cost Him His Life", Augusta Herald, September19,1975.(Copy of full story is on discussion page)
Excerpt from"Reverend Death" on YouTube, June25,2008, produced by www.WorldofWonder.net and aired on Britain's Channel4
Brinkley, Dannion."Dannion Brinkley Exposed?!? Dannion's Official Response". Retrieved November3,2011.
Roy Rivenburg,"Blinded by the Light? Tales of near-death experiences– from visions of God to meeting Elvis– fascinate millions of us. But as the stories increase, so does the criticism." Los Angeles Times, March24,1995.. Accessed2009-05-23.
"Dannion Brinkley on The West Coast Truth".
B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley, Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam generation was robbed of its heroes and its history, pp.385–387. Verity Press,1998. ISBN0-9667036-0-X.
Pamela Wills,"No one wants to die alone": The Twilight Brigade brings comfort and companionship to dying veterans. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, VAnguard: VA's Employee Magazine, pp.18–20, November/December2007. Accessed2009-04-25.
Twilight Brigade. Accessed2009-04-25.
Harper Collins' Dannion Brinkley bio. Accessed2009-04-25.
Veterans Care Plus– About. Accessed2009-04-25.
VFW Personalized Health-Savings Program. Accessed2009-04-25.
External links
Dannion Brinkley official web site
"Official" NDE account
Dannion Brinkley's NDE story published on the NDE website
Brief account of Brinkley's NDE and prophecies at the Wayback Machine(archived January14,2008)(WebCite archive)
The Twilight Brigade web site
Veterans Care Plus web site
