On today’s episode, we welcome Dean Brinson, a man who journeyed beyond death and returned with memories that stretch beyond time itself. A spiritual teacher and near-death experiencer, Dean offers a rare glimpse into the vast architecture of existence — from the moment his spirit left the body to the divine regions where light, love, and awareness merge into one. His story unfolds like an ancient scripture spoken through modern breath — a tale of death, revelation, and the eternal play of consciousness.
Dean’s journey began in an ordinary hospital room in Chicago in 2019, where an argument with his wife preceded a sudden and painless departure from the body. “I nauseously and painlessly left the body,” he said, “and my teacher was right there, as he had promised.” He describes watching doctors cut off his jacket while his hands passed through theirs like smoke. From there, his soul — unbound by gravity or light — traveled faster than time itself, guided by his teacher. His first request was simple: “I wanted to see the sun.” In less than a fraction of a second, they stood before it — a blazing ocean of nuclear fire that shimmered without heat or harm. Then came the journey upward, through dimensions unseen, into the subtle layers of existence where souls are free of deceit, filled with love, and radiant with wisdom.
As Dean ascended through these realms, he encountered souls who recognized him from other lives. He spoke of reincarnation not as a theory but as a lived truth, explaining that every soul cycles through bodies to balance both “good and bad karma,” the dual forces that bind us to the wheel of rebirth. He described Earth as a school for divine beings suffering from “spiritual Alzheimer’s,” forgetting their eternal nature until love awakens the memory again. “You have lived before,” he said. “You have been in this world before, millions of times.”
In his vision, Dean discovered that every plane of being — physical, astral, and causal — is both a reflection and a limitation of consciousness. Each body, he said, is “a trap,” a necessary but confining shell for the soul’s unfolding awareness. He witnessed the Akashic Records, the vast cosmic library that holds every experience of every soul across creation. There, knowledge wasn’t studied but absorbed, as if thought itself became light. “They don’t go to school,” Dean explained. “They just look at something and get infused with the knowledge of that activity.”
As he moved through higher worlds, Dean described seeing radiant beings of love — masters who exist in realms of music, color, and divine harmony. Even the trees sang, and the animals hummed the vibration of peace. It was there he felt the ultimate presence of unconditional love, flowing endlessly from the Creator to creation. He asked his teacher if he could stay forever. The teacher smiled and said no — not yet. “You must return,” he was told, “to share what you have seen.” His task: to remind humanity of its divine origin and the love that binds all living things.
Returning to his body was not easy. “It’s like leaving Hollywood with a billion dollars to live in a tent,” he joked. Yet, through this descent, he came to understand the sacred purpose of human life. We are, as he described, “miniaturized forms of God” — each soul carrying the spark of the divine. Our illusion of free will, he said, is God’s way of allowing creation to play, to discover itself through experience. The Creator’s loneliness gave birth to multiplicity, and through us, He learns to love Himself again.
SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS
Life is a classroom of remembrance. Every challenge, joy, and loss exists to awaken the soul’s memory of its divine origin.
Love dissolves illusion. In higher realms, where no deception exists, only love can survive — it is the purest vibration of truth.
Death is not an end but a return. The body perishes, but consciousness continues, ever seeking reunion with the Source.
In the end, Dean Brinson reminds us that we are not separate travelers lost in the dark — we are light, playing hide and seek with eternity. His story is not merely one of death, but of awakening — a testament to the love that created the stars and beats still within every human heart.
Please enjoy my conversation with Dean Brinson.
Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE089
Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.
Dean Brinson 0:08
When I had the experience of clinically dying in Chicago in 2019 I was about 75, 76 something like that. And when I died, it was painless, because when I was in the hospital, I got into an argument with my wife. She got a temper as we were in the hospital, my wife put me in a wheelchair, and she took me up to the fourth floor to meet and have colonoscopist do this thing. But before we got up to the fourth floor, we got into an argument, and I said, Oh, you know, I told you I didn't need colonoscopist operation. I've been eating plant based food for nearly 50 years, my veins, my arteries. Oh, it's pure Esther snow. She raised her hand like she was going to slap me. Keep your mouth closed. You go through this. I don't care what you say. So as I go through that door to see the colonoscopy, I became very quiet, and I didn't say anything. I nauseously and painlessly left the body, and my teacher was right there, as he had promised. Nobody could see us. I immediately tried to stop them from cutting off my expensive jacket, and my hands went through their body, just like in the movie Ghost Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, I tried to talk. He said, they can't hear you. You in a ghost body. They can't hear you. Let's get out of this place. So before we start flying through the roof, I said, I wanted to see the sun. He said, Why do you want to see it? You see it every day. I said, No, I like to see it up close. So he said, Okay, we flew to the sun in less than a fraction of an nanosecond. You can fly faster than the speed of light. We were there in less than a second. And so when we got there, I looked at the sun, and it was nothing but huge ball of fire, nuclear explosion, atomic implosion, gasses. But I couldn't hear too much. He toned down explosion. Obviously them experiencing the heat. And he said, Why you so fascinated? Let's leave this glory in place, and let's go to the heavens. So as we travel upward through a tunnel, I ended up knowing people, seeing some of them that I had known for centuries, and many of them didn't know me, but some of them knew me. And then they asked me a question. He said, Oh, we recognize you. Are you from America? I said, Yes. What state you live in? I said, Chicago. What's your phone number? I gave it to him, knowing that they will go through this valley or this river of forgetfulness and take birth. Knew they would do that.
So as they got into the body, became human. Every human being, when they take birth, not all of it, but a few. But most human beings develop what I call spiritual Alzheimer's. They don't recall anything. They do recall Alzheimer to most people. Mean, I've seen this before. I've done that before. I can't recall and that comes occasionally in some people lives. The Lord has put that in the consciousness of people for them to figure it out. But if you go deep into trying to understand it, you have lived before. You have been in this world before, millions of times, ever since this creation started. We know that this universe, the physical universe, is, they estimated to be 13 billion years, but it's much older than that. So as we travel through these different species, because we have an opportunity to learn by being in a different species. So as we travel in the through this tunnel and got into the middle part of the astral region, I saw so many people that I knew everybody is very loving. Everybody has a strange, almost unconditional love. They embrace you. They got great knowledge. You don't have to go to school and study like we do in this world. They just look at something, and they get infused with the knowledge of that activity or that something we call that. They also got telepathy. You need to use words to speak. They can words add to the beauty of the conversation. But most of the time, they just read your mind, reading your mind. They can actually listen to your thoughts. They can actually see your thoughts. So there's no possibility of being deceived when you're in that world. Deception can only take place in the physical world. So we all have good and bad comma. In order to be human, you have to be born with good and bad karma. It's impossible to be a human being without good and bad good and bad takes place. Now good karma, we think, is good, but good karma keeps you coming back and again and again. Bad comma keeps you back coming again. The system has been set up by me use a principle, time and space, if you want to call it a being, time and space doesn't want you to escape from itself. And so as you go back in time and space, you keep going back. You have to have a body in order to be in the physical universe or astral universe or the causal universe. You have to have a body, and these bodies are traps. You have three bodies, the physical body, the astral body and the causal body. These three bodies are actually inhibiting factors, blocking you from going higher up. The mind is the biggest inhibiting factor. Modern Day psychologists who've done research, they said, The mind thinks over 60,000 thoughts to a day, running through it today. And when people meditate, if you ever sat in meditation and you're quiet, this mind is running all over the place. It can go back to child swimming, need high school. It does not stop. You cannot control it, no matter what you do. Let me go to sleep. We fall asleep, and then we create another body. Which we tend to think is us. We fall from the sixth floor, which is the sixth floor of this body, and we fall to the fifth floor, which is in this area. And we always get into that floor. And three things happen to us. We become hazier and hazier, finer and finer, and we fall to the fifth floor. When we fall, we immediately create a world which looks just like this world, or the holographic universe. By Michael tablot. He talks about the hologram. He said, As we fall into this room, we immediately created a world that looks like this world. It looks as real as this world. And we see airplanes in the sky, helicopters. We see people in the street. We see a lady wheeling a newborn grandbaby down this road. You see an old man at the top of a new building asking for bricks from the younger man. And below that, process is actually creating time. It tastes exactly like the food in this world, except that the texture and the quality is slightly different. So anyway, so as we go into the astral part, the astral part got partial astral records, a casting record, if you go there. You can examine them, depending on your ability to concentrate attention. You don't have to go to a library. You just go and concentrate attention. And you can examine some of the astral casting records. You can examine your own. You can see how you live way back, even during the time of Jesus, you may have been a creat or tree, or you may have been a human being. After I went into the astral world, it got all kinds of planetary systems, huge world. If you were to compare that world with this world, in this universe, this universe would appear like a quarter, and that astral plane would be the Pacific Ocean. That's how huge that is. As we cross that world and went into the red world, everybody is full of light, full of sound, music. Even the trees are making music. The animals are making news. Everything is wonderful, beautiful with joy and happiness, even the animals don't fight each other. That is true in the Bible. But as we cross that world and go into the causal plane, the total Akashic records exist there, the totality of all species you can become, if you go far enough in the astral plane, you start having the false feeling that I am a God. That's how dangerous it is without a teacher, because you can do almost everything that God does. You can create, you can control the destiny of everybody. You can project time and space. You can do everything that God does. Once you get out of time and space, you immortal. You in the area of salvation, which the Christian call you don't have to reincarnate. That space in the causal plane is much huger than the astral world. It's like silver dollar and the causal in the astral world. I mean the causal astral world, the causal world would be as twice as big as the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean put together. That world is huge, gigantic. All of the comma exists in that world, and that President of that world controlled everything. So as we cross that world in a flash of a second, we end up in going, he took me to the vashu and God that's in the interim. That's the plane of salvation. And in that salvation, tremendous love, enormous love, unconditional love, is flowing from the master to you, and you get infected with this. You become unconditionally and fanatically loving him as a friend. The master befriended you on earth, and that friendship lasts all the way up. As I was experiencing a great love and happiness in that vision, I asked my teacher, could I stay here forever? He said, No, but if you do what I tell you to do, and after you come back to Earth and perform all your duties and meet all of the people and share all of this knowledge with them, you will immediately go through all of these worlds quickly and go back to your original home. And I asked him a question. I said, Can I go back on my own? He said, you can try, because the light of your body is that of 16 suns, physical suns and bangwagufa, which is the next stage before your total home is huge, dark, extremely dark, and it has whirling tones caves. So as you try to go, you end up moving this way in the cave, turning you end up where you started. You will have souls there for, I don't know how much time, because time doesn't exist, and they're there having a good time enjoying themselves. They can create islands of themselves and populate these islands with their own consciousness. So they're extremely happy, there'd be consciousness that's there, worship them and love them like in a dream. If you were in a physical world, if you had the ability to create children and women and countries and different kinds of society, and everybody worship you. And sometimes, when I take different souls through this world, I have to hide duck them, because they'll come to me and ask me if they can come back to Earth. So many of them that I see, I tell them, Yes, you can go back, but you have to come all the way back down to earth. Many of them said, No, it's like leaving Hollywood and you got a billion dollars, and you being told you're going to be in a tent, homeless in the street. So it's hard to make that decision, but there were some who made that decision. There was so much suffering from happiness that they wanted to get more, and so they asked the masters. Sometimes they would say, yes, they're willing to pay that price. The baby that only wants to live back. So if you want to know how we came back and why we came back to this world, there were uncountable amount of souls. You can't even count them, because on a pen, there are millions of souls on a pen of an E they can shrink and they can grow as big as an elephant, big as the universe. Many of them said they wanted to come back to the spiritual fun towns and Disney World, which are these regions? Because they had wonderful experiences here and they wanted to come back. But only a few. It was estimated by these Perfect Living Masters, only 10% of the souls asked God at that time before they left, if we get frustrated and we don't like this, be rigid, how do we get out? The Lord laughed and said, I myself will come and get you. You don't have to. I won't send an Angel. I won't send any preachers. I won't send anybody. I myself, will come and get you as a human being like Christ said, I'm the father one. Nobody can go back to the Father except for me. We human beings are all miniaturized forms of God. We are God's children. We made up the same spiritual stuff that he's made of, but we have to meet a spiritual teacher in order for him to fertilize us, to cultivate us, to associate with us, to teach us how to meditate, and then we can become God. So I don't think I left out anything else, but those souls that said they wanted to come back, the teacher, the PLM, said he will personally come back, and they'll become his friend. They'll fall in love with him as a human being, and he will take them back as quickly as possible. I came back. My teacher pulled me back. I used to get mad at him. He said, you have to do your duties, otherwise, I'm gonna bring you back. So I want to come back. So now I'm here dressed in white, black, like you are, and the Lord knows you don't have any free will. He created the illusion of free will. It's extremely important if you knew everything you couldn't see. So the illusion of free will is necessary, but God see it as a blessing, because the angels can't seek. They got knowledge. So in the sense the Bible said, you higher than angels. Even though you on earth, they in heaven. You hire in a sense that you can see, and if you seek intensely, perfect, even teacher will come to earth and take you back. That's the beauty of the human, and the Lord loves the human more than anything else, because only the human beings can go back to God. They just want to go back. They have to become human, any being. That's how to the causal plane. Have to come back and become a human. And they're learning lessons, living a fulfilled life, living in the shadow of the Lord, practicing meditation deeply with devotion and love and love everybody, including your enemies. Because you don't really have any enemy once you go inside and doing your worldly duties, God is omniscient everywhere present and has total power. He's the only thing that exists. He has a problem too. He does not know how to create another being. He only create illusions of himself. And he does it for a reason. I normally don't say this, but the Lord is lonely yourself, any all, your whole audience. If they were to examine their consciousness, they would be lonely if there were no people or animals on earth and they were living here by themselves.
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