Saved by the Light by Dannion Brinkley

This is an interesting book by a man who was struck by lightning in 1975 and, according to him, had a long near death experience. Although they tried hard to save him in the hospital emergency room, they eventually gave up. He woke up half an hour just in time to avoid an autopsy.It's hard to evaluate. I have to presume he really did barely survive that lightning strike. That'd be easy enough to check, even though this book was written before the Internet. But it'd probably have been difficult nearly twenty years later (when he wrote this book) to verify the medical facts.And the NDE itself is, of course, totally unverifiable. He says that after he recovered a little bit, he babbled a lot about going to Heaven. His ex-wife and friends could verify this.His "life review" was especially interesting. Brinkley doesn't try to put a good spin on his early life. He spent his entire childhood fighting other boys. He went into the military, was sent to Vietnam and the Special Forces.
According to him, he carried out assassinations, and sometimes killed the innocent. He continued to carry out undercover operations for the government. A few months before the lightning strike, he delivered arms to some group in Central America.During his life review he felt the pain experienced by everybody he had a part in killing, including the grief of survivors. He also experienced the pain of those killed by the guns he'd delivered to Central America.Of course, such details are also unverifiable by their nature. I can well believe that during the Vietnam War Special Forces carried out death strikes on the opposition. And that after the way they did other undercover things.But why guns to Central America in 1975? That makes no sense to me. That was several years before the Sandinistas overthrew Somoza. Every country in Central America was ruled by a pro-American government. No doubt we did ship guns and weapons to them, but it wouldn't have been undercover -- just a nor
mal part of foreign aid.His NDE was much different than others, though, because he was shown many pictures of the future, including the downfall of the Soviet Union (difficult to imagine -- until it happened). However, most of these did not come true in the schedule he gave in the book.He gives the fall of American prestige and influence following the defeat in Indochina as a prediction. But it began with the fall of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam in April 1975 -- months before the lightning struck him.One of the "predictions" was the increasing American government debt, but in 1975 that was nothing new.He also claims that he continued to receive instruction in a healing project he was assigned during his NDE in his dreams.I don't recall any other NDE person saying they returned to Heaven in their dreams. Although there's an emotional logic to it, it's not supported by the fact or having NDEs when the physical heart and brain are clinically dead -- which is not the case for drea
ming, which is an entirely natural and normal state.

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