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Summary: A great story of a great man
Review: A great story of his near death experience by a great man. I've met Dannion he has an amazing effect on you. He has such an inner energy and radiates that.
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Summary: Dini Petty
Review: A producer for the Dini Petty Show, a popular canadian talk show, was skeptical about Dannion Brinkley. She didn't believe his story or the supposed psychic powers he recieved after the experience. You see, Dannion after having the NDE realized that he had the power to see all the events of someone's life just by simply touching their hand. Well, Dini's producer wasn't having any of it. Dini's producer expressed to Dini, and I quote, "No way man, this is B.S, no way".Before that day's show Dini spotted her producer from a distance backstage. Her producer spotted Danion Brinkley. Dini watched as her curious and very skeptical producer introduced herself to Mr. Brinkley. The producer held out her hand to shake Dannion's. Within seconds she ripped her hand away and looked at Dini with her jaw dropped. Frightened, she ran down the hall. Dini told this story on air. I was conviced. After having my own little spiritual experience and hearing the countless stories of people not only having their own near death experiences but of the people who have seen angels and spirits while wide awake and conscious, I wasn't quick to doubt Dannion Brinkley. If your still searching, pick up this book.
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Summary: Find the audio versions for Dannion's excellent humor.
Review: After reading this book and At "Peace in the Light" I was lucky enough to buy a copy of both books on audio. Dannion reads both with an experience enhancing insight for the "reader", his awe at his "adventures" and frequent ironic sarcasms aimed at the extraordinary situations he was placed in come through to make the story VERY real for us. Keep off of the phone Dannion, we need you around for a while...
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Summary: More Doubtful Than Ever
Review: After reading this book I was more skeptical and doubtful than ever about so called Near Death Experiences. I saw the movie and the documentary. The dramatized version of Dannion Brinkley's experience did not agree with the book as did the documentary. Even though the doucmentary did agree with the book, it never answered the question of religion. Not once did Dannion Brinkley receive spiritual instruction in the etiquette of self sacrifice, prayer, ritual and rite. Rather, the best instruction he received from his so called spiriutal beings was to build stress relief machines, and not hospitals, orphanages, or homes for the homeless and indigent. I find this too much to believe as a real near death experience. I'm more inclined to believe Dannion Brinkley was not dead at all but rather lost somewhere in his own intellect of brain which was still very much alive. There are some documented horror stories of people being buried alive. Call me old fashioned, but I really believe "that old time religion" and not someone's alleged experience to be the best guide to spirituality and sanctity.
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Summary: I guess I was expecting more
Review: After the Light is a wonderful book, but so many people just focus on their own lessons they learned, which makes for an interesting story, but I am always looking for more - how does this apply to me? Do I have to have an NDE myself? I liked Tiffany Snow's book better, just one chapter about her great NDE, but the rest of it shows how anyone can open up, if they learn how. I'm not saying After the Light is a bad book, really, but I guess I was just expecting more.
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Summary: Something to think about before you die
Review: Before I take a trip to a foreign country (or even a different part of the United States), I always
read one or two current travel books to find out what conditions are like where I plan to visit. Unfortunately there is one trip that has no guidebooks, at least none written in the last two
thousand years. What is it like after death? Are there pearly gates? A great big library with the
most modern of computers to play with? And will I recognize my students? I recently came across a fascinating book that describes a near-death experience by a man who
lives in South Carolina. In Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkley tells of an experience he had
back in 1975. Talking on the telephone, he was struck by a powerful bolt of lightening and
found himself floating above his body watching his family try to perform CPR and then
watching himself being loaded into an ambulance. While the ambulance was on the way to the
hospital, Brinkley saw a dark tunnel with a bright light at the other end. Quickly he entered the tunnel and came out at the other end to be greeted by a great being of
light. The one emotion he felt was love, that "no one could love me better, no one could have
more empathy, sympathy, encouragement, and nonjudgmental compassion for me than this
Being." As the light engulfed him, Brinkley began to experience his entire life, but this time,
he saw his actions not just through his eyes but through the feelings of the people he influence, both direct and indirect. He could feel the pain of those he hurt, including in many cases the
pain that their families felt as a result of what he did, and he could feel the pleasure of those he
had helped. Unfortunately, his life had not been particularly loving up until that point, so the
pain far outweighed the pleasure. When the review was over, he felt cleansed; his guilt was
removed, even though he still realized the kind of life he had lived. So far, this experience is similar to many others that Raymond Moody has described in his
own book Life After Life. But now things get really strange. Brinkley encountered 13 different
beings of light who poured knowledge into him. Suddenly he knew many of the future events
that would later shape our world - the Gulf War, the breakup of the Soviet Union, the
Chernobyl disaster among those. He even knew the years when these events would take place.
Then he was told that his life was not over, that he was going to return to this life to show love
where previously he had shown hate. He awakened on a stretcher that was being rolled toward
the morgue! The doctors had pronounced him dead. After his physical recovery, most folks moved quickly away from a man who seemed on the
brink of a mental breakdown. It was only Raymond Moody who would listen to him, since he
had heard similar stories. In an initial series of interviews in the late 1970's, he told Moody of
the visions over 15 years before the events in question. (And in a prelude to the book, Moody
supports that claim.) Did Brinkley actually experience life after death? I wish I could say for sure, but he certainly
tells a fascinating story that held my interest!
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Summary: Highly recommended. An astounding transformation!
Review: Before Mr. Brinkley was struck by lightning and died for 28 minutes; he was a miserable excuse for a human being. Now he is a kind compassionate human being and spends a lot of time with terminal hospice patients. I have listened to several interviews between Mr. Brinkley and the late night talkshow host Art Bell. Here are the dates of the interviews according to the Art Bell web site. 1/03/97, 7/18/97, 8/17/97, 9/11/97, 3/24/98, 5/17/98, 12/13/98, 2/10/99. I believe most if not all of these interviews are available in the Real audio archives... Listen to the Real Audio archives at and determine for yourself if the transformation is genuine or not. I believe Mr. Brinkley actualy walks the walk instead of merely talking the talk.
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Summary: This is a truly enlightning book!
Review: Both my husband and I read Saved by the Light by Danion Brinkley, and we want to share with everyone who ever reads our review that this book is a milestone in the spiritual growth of humankind! It reaveals the purpose of everyone's life's mission, - to Love and help everyone on Earth. Whaterver anyone's previous life experiences were, they are probably a combination of mistakes and victories, happiness and grief, joys and tears - we all gain only from loving and caring for each other. It was great to learn that everyone who is born on our Mother Earth is a Mighty Spiritual Being who by one's own willpower can make a positive change not only in one's own life, but also in the lives of people on Earth. We are here on Earth with a great Mission of Love, and our every action, every word, every thought resonate their meaning and put it to practice. After having read Saved by the Light both of us found the strength to cope with the challenges of our lives, and we came to the realisation of what our missions on Earth are. Thank you very much Danion for the fantastic experience that we had when reading your book!
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Summary: Disturbing false prophecies
Review: Brinkley's book is very similar to all the other NDE books. He dies suddenly, leaves his body, travels through the tunnel, meets the being of love and light and experiences a life review.
This scenario has become the standard description of the NDE. The book gets a bit more interesting when he travels to a city of lights where people in between live's study for their next life. It is in this 'city' that he meets 'beings' who wish to educate him about earth's future. They show Brinkley boxes that contain images of future events that will befall earth before the year 2000. The images progress in grizzly horrific details about the fate that awaits planet earth. These predictions are absolutely ridiculous. Here is an example of his predicitons; the government will place computer chips in our bodies which control life itself, the government kills people as they see fit. There are also nuclear accidents and wars, starving masses at US borders and so on. Ofcourse the year 2000 came and went and Brinkley goes down as just another false prophet. I was sincerely interested in the NDE until I read this book, it really turned me off to the subject. I definitely felt exploited. Not to mention all the negativity this book gives off, who needs it. Don't we have enough to worry about in this world without some flim flam man trying to scare the living day lights out of us just so he can make a buck. If I could go back in time I would not read this book because it ruined the subjuect matter for me. Previously I found books on NDEs as entertaining and life affirming, since Brinkley's book I find the subject suspect and negative.
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Summary: Major let-down
Review: Brinkley's predictions, including his dated prophecy of a nuclear meltdown in 1998, have all proven false. As for the transcendental realm, there is little that's new here.
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