When 20-year-old Beverly Brodsky hopped onto a motorcycle in 1970, she had no clue that her life was about to take a dramatic turn that would challenge her beliefs, reshape her faith, and leave her with a story that people all over the world still discuss today.
What she claims to have experienced during her near-death encounter wasn’t a typical tunnel or a dreamy haze — it was something she describes as God Himself, but in a way she never expected.
Growing up in a conservative Jewish household in Philadelphia, Beverly’s faith crumbled at the tender age of eight after she learned about the atrocities of the Holocaust.
By 1958, she identified as an atheist. However, everything changed years later on a sunny road close to Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.
A crash that altered everything
Beverly was a passenger on a motorcycle when an accident resulted in a fractured skull and severe facial injuries — so grave that doctors remarked they only encountered injuries like hers “on the battlefield.”
She spent two weeks at UCLA Hospital, her wounds wrapped in salt-soaked bandages, and was discharged without any pain relief.
Physically and emotionally shattered, Beverly finally reached out to a God she had never believed in:
“God, if you exist, you can take me now because I’m done.”
What followed is a story she has dedicated her life to sharing.
“I was myself, yet not in my physical form”
