Beverly Brodsky had spent twelve years rejecting any notion of a higher power. Growing up in a conservative Jewish family in Philadelphia, she had believed in God as a young child. But at age eight, learning about Holocaust atrocities shattered that belief entirely. How could any divine being permit such suffering? By 1958, Beverly had embraced atheism with fierce conviction.

In July 1970, everything she thought she knew would collapse in an instant on a Los Angeles street.

A motorcycle accident near Sunset Boulevard left Beverly with injuries so severe that doctors at UCLA Hospital compared them to wounds they had only seen on battlefields. Her skull was fractured. Surgeons had torn away the right side of her face. For two weeks, medical staff wrapped salt-soaked bandages around her wounds during intensive treatment.

When hospital staff finally sent her home, they provided no pain medication. Beverly felt utterly defeated, broken in body and spirit. In desperation, she called out to a God she did not believe existed. What happened next would transform her understanding of existence itself.

Pain Vanished, and She Left Her Body

Immediately after her plea, every trace of physical agony disappeared. Beverly found herself floating near the ceiling, looking down at her own unconscious form on the bed below. She was still herself, still aware, still thinking, yet no longer confined to her damaged physical frame.

Before she could fully process the strangeness of her situation, she realized she was not alone. A radiant being bathed in shimmering white light had joined her near the ceiling. Beverly felt reverent awe wash over her as she turned toward him. Love and gentleness radiated from his presence in waves she could almost touch.

He took her hand gently, and together they flew straight through the window. No fear arose in Beverly. No frantic questions demanded answers. In his presence, everything felt exactly as it should be.

A Dark Passageway Led to Brilliant Light

Below them stretched the Pacific Ocean in all its beauty. But Beverly’s attention turned upward, where an opening led to a circular path angled toward distant radiance. White light poured through from the far end, more brilliant than anything she had ever witnessed.

Still holding the angel’s hand, Beverly entered a small, dark passageway. She traveled upward at tremendous speed, though time itself seemed to have no meaning in that space. When she finally emerged at her destination, she discovered her angelic companion had gone. But she was far from alone.

Standing before her was the living presence of light itself. Beverly sensed intelligence, wisdom, compassion, love, and truth radiating from within it. No form defined it. No gender constrained it. Everything existed within it, just as white light contains every color of the rainbow when passing through a prism.

Recognition struck her instantly and completely. She, Beverly Brodsky, the woman who had rejected God for twelve years, was standing face to face with the divine. And God was nothing like biblical descriptions had led her to expect.

Her Mind Became Naked Before a Universal Intelligence

Beverly immediately lashed out with every question that had tormented her since childhood. Every injustice she had witnessed in the physical world demanded explanation. She discovered something startling in that moment. God knew all her thoughts instantly and responded telepathically.

Her ethereal body seemed to dissolve. Only her personal intelligence remained, confronting a Universal Mind clothed in living light too brilliant for any eye to absorb fully.

Beverly does not recall the exact content of their exchange. Insights that came with perfect clarity in that place did not return with her to Earth. But she remembers receiving answers to questions about her people’s suffering, answers that made her own awakening mind respond with sudden recognition.

“I was given more than just the answers to my questions; all knowledge unfolded to me, like the instant blossoming of an infinite number of flowers all at once. 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.” Beverley said.

Every terrible event had a reason. Every purpose was already known to our eternal selves. Beverly understood this completely in that moment, though the specific knowledge would fade upon her return.

A Voyage Through Stars and Creation

God took Beverly on an extraordinary voyage through the cosmos. Together, they traveled to the centers of stars being born. Supernovas exploded around them in celestial glory. Events she has no names for unfolded before her awareness.

Space and time revealed themselves as illusions binding us to physical existence. Out there, everything existed simultaneously. Beverly rode as a passenger while the Creator showed her the fullness and beauty of all creation.

External vision ended with the sight of a glorious fire burning at the core of a marvelous star. Perhaps it served as a symbol for what was to come.

In a richly full void, Beverly experienced communion with the light being in ways language cannot capture. Love poured into her and through her. She became the object of divine adoration, drawing life and joy beyond anything imagination could produce.

Her delusions dissolved. Her sins and guilt were forgiven and purged without her even asking. She became love itself, primal being, pure bliss. A union formed that cannot be broken, one that always was, is, and shall be.

Back in Her Body, Ecstasy Remained

Without warning or explanation, Beverly found herself returned to her broken body. But something miraculous had occurred. All pain had vanished, replaced by ecstasy beyond her wildest dreams. Boundless delight filled every part of her being.

For two months following her experience, Beverly remained in that state, oblivious to any physical suffering. Everything around her seemed alive, full of energy and intelligence she had never perceived before.

Why Her Story Still Matters Decades Later

More than two decades after her heavenly voyage, Beverly has never forgotten what happened. Nor has she ever doubted its reality, despite facing ridicule and disbelief from others. Nothing so intense and life-changing could have been a dream or hallucination.

Beverly went on to coordinate San Diego’s chapter of the International Association for Near-Death Studies. She appeared in McCall’s magazine, a BBC documentary called “The Human Body,” and gave the first near-death experience interview on Israeli public radio. Her account appears in Evelyn Elsaesser Valarino and Kenneth Ring’s book “Lessons From The Light.”

Ring himself described Beverly Brodsky’s experience as “possibly the most moving in my entire collection.”

What Her Experience Suggests About Human Consciousness and Purpose

Beverly’s encounter raises profound questions about the nature of awareness itself. Her description of becoming “pure mind” while separate from her physical body challenges common assumptions that consciousness depends entirely on brain function. If awareness can exist outside the body, even temporarily, what does that suggest about who we truly are?

Her sense of oneness with a Universal Mind hints at a shared origin connecting all conscious beings. Perhaps the separation we feel from one another and from something greater represents an illusion as temporary as space and time themselves.

Beverly’s story also invites reflection on whether physical existence serves purposes we cannot fully grasp while alive. She returned with certainty that everything happens for a reason already known to our eternal selves. Such a belief, whether one accepts it or not, influences how we perceive suffering, loss, and the struggles that define human life.

Pushing past fear of death may open unexpected doors. Beverly spent twelve years running from a God she refused to believe existed. A moment of complete surrender, born from desperation and pain, led her somewhere she never expected to go.

Perhaps the boundaries we assume are fixed, between body and mind, between life and death, between ourselves and something far greater, are not as solid as they appear. Beverly Brodsky’s story suggests that some questions can only be answered when we stop asking them with our minds and start asking them with everything we are.

What Her Experience Suggests About Human Consciousness and Purpose

Beverly’s encounter raises profound questions about the nature of awareness itself. Her description of becoming “pure mind” while separate from her physical body challenges common assumptions that consciousness depends entirely on brain function. If awareness can exist outside the body, even temporarily, what does that suggest about who we truly are?

Her sense of oneness with a Universal Mind hints at a shared origin connecting all conscious beings. Perhaps the separation we feel from one another and from something greater represents an illusion as temporary as space and time themselves.

Beverly’s story also invites reflection on whether physical existence serves purposes we cannot fully grasp while alive. She returned with certainty that everything happens for a reason already known to our eternal selves. Such a belief, whether one accepts it or not, influences how we perceive suffering, loss, and the struggles that define human life.

Pushing past fear of death may open unexpected doors. Beverly spent twelve years running from a God she refused to believe existed. A moment of complete surrender, born from desperation and pain, led her somewhere she never expected to go.

Perhaps the boundaries we assume are fixed, between body and mind, between life and death, between ourselves and something far greater, are not as solid as they appear. Beverly Brodsky’s story suggests that some questions can only be answered when we stop asking them with our minds and start asking them with everything we are.

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