A woman who claims to have ‘seen God’ during a near-death experience has shared how it differed from her expectations.
There are many theories about what occurs during a near-death experience. One theory suggests that our brain recalls moments in life when we felt safe or happy to comfort us as our body starts to shut down, eventually leading to the brain ceasing to function. Seeing religious imagery might be due to our expectations of what death brings, and thus the brain presents what it believes we anticipate.
However, for Beverley Brodsky, her experience left no room for doubt about the divine aspect in her near-death encounter.
Beverley was raised in a conservative Jewish family in Philadelphia and turned atheist in 1958, appalled by the horrors of the Holocaust. Her life took a dramatic turn in 1970 at the age of 20.
During a trip near Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Beverley was involved in a motorcycle accident, resulting in a fractured skull and severe facial injuries. She spent two weeks hospitalized and recalls an out-of-body experience where an angel guided her through a passage.
She recounted to author Kenneth Ring: “Hand in hand with the angel, I was led into the opening of the small, dark passageway.”
Beverley continued: “There, before me, was the living presence of the light. Within it, I sensed an all-pervading intelligence, wisdom, compassion, love, and truth.”
Beverley described an unexpected aspect of the being she encountered, noting: “There was neither form nor sex to this perfect being.” She added, “It, which I shall in the future call he, in keeping with our commonly accepted syntax, contained everything, as white light contains all the colors of a rainbow when penetrating a prism. And deep within me came an instant and wondrous recognition: I, even I, was facing God.”
She had many questions for this being, saying: “I was filled with God’s knowledge, and in that precious aspect of his Beingness, I was one with him. But my journey of discovery was just beginning.”
Following her near-death experience, Beverley embraced Christianity and now openly shares her story.