Clinically Dead for 105 Minutes: Dean Braxton’s Journey to God’s Feet and Back with a Divine Message

Life, as we understand it, is merely a shadow play of something far greater. It flickers, it dances, and yet, there is an underlying reality so vast that to touch it is to be transformed. On today’s episode, we welcome Dean Braxton, a man who walked beyond the veil, leaving behind the limitations of flesh and time, only to return with a revelation so profound that it challenges everything we think we know.

According to medical records, Dean Braxton was dead. Not just for a moment, but for a long time. His body had succumbed to sepsis after a medical procedure, his lungs failing as his spirit departed. And yet, in that moment, he felt no fear—only peace, only joy. He describes his departure not as a loss, but as a homecoming. “The second thing that really hit me was it wasn’t that my body died and my spirit left—it was my spirit left and then my body died.”

In an instant, he was moving, faster than light itself, drawn into a realm bathed in luminous, living radiance. Unlike the cold and impersonal glow of a distant sun, this light embraced him, permeating every fiber of his being. And in that light, everything was right. Not right in the moralistic sense, but in the truest, most natural way—an alignment with the very fabric of existence. We were never made for chaos, he realized. That gnawing sense that things are not as they should be? It is because we were designed for something else, something far more beautiful.

The moment he arrived, one desire overwhelmed all others: to see Jesus. And as he moved through a path that seemed to open just for him, nature itself rejoiced. The trees whispered his purpose, the flowers sang his arrival. “He’s going to see the King,” they declared. And there He was. Not just an image, not just a story, but a presence so real that to look upon Him was to be undone by love itself.

At first, he could do nothing but kneel. And in that posture of surrender, gratitude spilled forth in waves. “You did this for me,” he said, over and over. He saw that his deeds, whether good or bad, had not been the determining factor in his arrival—it was only the unfathomable grace of the One before him. Love flowed from every part of Jesus, even His feet, as if every atom of His being existed to embrace and restore.

And yet, in this ecstasy, he was given a command. “No, it’s not your time. Go back.” A simple sentence, yet weighty with purpose. There was still more to do, still more to share. And as he traveled back, he beheld the vastness of Heaven, the way everything, even the water, was alive and rejoicing. The very ground hummed with the presence of the Divine. Yet, despite its majesty, he was sent home—to tell the world what he had seen.

Back in his hospital bed, his body was broken, but his spirit was ablaze. Against all odds, he recovered. And the first words from his lips, once he could speak again, were not of pain or confusion, but of certainty: “You know there’s a Jesus. You don’t have to hope. You don’t have to wish. There is a Jesus.”

SPIRITUAL TAKEAWAYS

  1. Fear of death is an illusion. When the moment comes, it is not a tragedy, but a return. We are eternal beings, merely wearing the garments of flesh for a short while.
  2. Heaven is not just a place—it is a presence. Without God, there is no Heaven, for Heaven is the very essence of divine connection.
  3. Love is the foundation of all existence. Every moment, God’s love grows, deepens, expands. It is not static; it is a living, breathing force that calls us home.

Life, as we know it, is but a fleeting mirage on the surface of something far greater. If there is one truth to carry from this conversation, it is that we are not alone, nor are we abandoned. We are seen, we are known, and we are loved beyond measure.

Please enjoy my conversation with Dean Braxton.

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Follow Along with the Transcript – Episode DE051

Alex Ferrari 0:00
Tell me what your life was like before you died.

Dean Braxton 0:08
According to the medical records, the actual doctor that was in the room, Dr Rigay, said, I was really, really dead for a long time. During that time of not being in this body, because that's what what happened. I left this body on the planet, and I left this left and went to to be with the Father and Jesus in heaven. I want to tell you some of the things that I experienced by leaving this body and going to be with the father of Jesus in heaven. Number one, I want to let you know that when that moment came upon me and I knew I was dying, I had no fear. I really believe I didn't have any fear, because I believe that Jesus in Jesus Christ, and he took the fear away from me, but I always thought I would fear I suffocated. That's what really happened, because I had a kidney stone. They called the kidney infection, and they had given me antibiotics for it, but it didn't work on me, and when they blasted this stone, they pushed the poison into my bloodstream, and I became what's called septic and the first thing to go was my lungs. My lungs stopped operating and I suffocated. But I thought I would have fear during that process, and I didn't have any fear, none at all. Matter of fact, the thing I said that really even surprises me still to this day is I'm going home, and joy, peace, comfort came all over me. The second thing that really hit me was it wasn't that my body died and my spirit laughed, it was my spirit laugh and then my body died. And I didn't know that would happen. I always thought it was the other way around. But then I came to understand that really, the spirit can live without the body, but the body can't live without the Spirit. So that that was really something to experience. I'm starting off with that just to let you know the point of how we got to where we're going, in the sense of going to be with the Father and Jesus in heaven. I always say the Father and Jesus in heaven, because I always had a desire to be with God Almighty, which I call Father and Jesus His Son. And that desire has always been inside me and I and I could say, I always look forward to going to heaven, but I came to understand later on that Heaven's not heaven. Without the father of Jesus, you have to have those beings there to be able to have that realm there. So that's why I say the father of Jesus. I'm not saying it's not heaven, but if you take them out, you don't have a heaven, or at all. I can remember leaving this body and going into that direction, and I left it in such a fast pace. It was faster than the speed of sound. You hear my voice, faster than the speed of light. I'm really, really fast. I remember coming into that realm. And when I came into that realm, I it was so much light. There was more light than you could ever imagine, and and it wasn't blinding like, like you're looking at the sun on a hot day and you can't look at it, or you have to have sunglasses. It seemed like I could look in that light and see everything I needed to see, but it's much brighter than anything here. There was no deterioration in the light. So when I entered into that light, the next thing that hit me was everything was right. There was nothing wrong. And I fit two things I want to be point out about that fitness. Number one is I really believe that we're created to be in rightness, not what we call rightness, but what he calls rightness. That's our natural environment. That's why we don't like things that go wrong on the planet. Because we were never created to be in things that go wrong. We were really wired for things that were right. And so when I got there, I literally plugged in to what I was always created to be in, which was the rightness. I feel like we're fish out of a water, you know, in a sense, since we're not in that realm, we could experience it here on the planet every once in a while. So there was an anticipation for me being there all along. Now, when I first got there, and I felt that rightness and felt that acceptance for who I am, I next thing I wanted to do was see Jesus. I wanted to see him so bad. And I remember, literally, there was a force before me, and as I was going toward that force, it opened up for me, and a pathway came, like a path that goes through the force. And I remember getting on that path and moving like, you know, I like to have those people movers in the airport, and they move you really quick, and you can make from one end to the other, and you can walk still, but you're you're walking much faster because of the movement of the path. That's what it felt like. I'm not saying that's what it is that's the closest I could come to describe and I remember the trees, the flowers, the grass and everything around me literally saying he's going to see the King. He's going to see the King. I saw the trees on the right side, the left side, because I was going through a forest, and the tree colors. Let me tell you what they were. They weren't just green. They were every color you could think of, plus, almost like a fall day in New England, like Vermont are are New Hampshire, those areas, you know, even Pennsylvania, I think beautiful fall days in Pennsylvania, i. Remember going through those through that area, and seeing the different colors of the trees. And I remember coming out into this metal. And when I came out to the metal, there was Jesus Christ to the literally, the left of me, about 10 or 11 o'clock, and I had to head over to that direction. I remember going down on my hands and knees. That's because sometimes people want me to describe him right off the bat. And I I knew it was him. I wanted to be where he was. And I went down on my hands and knees, and I really spent time looking at his feet for a long time. And the next words I said to him, and I said him out loud, I said, You did this for me. And what I meant is the only reason I'm there is because of what he had done. And I said, and I say that in a sense, because I knew my good works didn't get hit me in and my bad works didn't keep me out. So then I remember the next words that came out of my mouth were, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I tell people I could have said it for the next 3000 years. The reason I say that is there's no years, there's there's no time there, but I just wanted to thank him for what he had done. And I remember just just saying those words. They were just coming rolling one after the other, off my, off my off my mouth or off my tongue. Remember your physical body. I didn't go. It was my soul and my spirit. And your Spirit literally fills up your entire being. So from that moment on, I remember the next words I said, were that you did this for me. After I said that, I said, Thank you, thank you. Thank you. And I'm looking at his feet, and oh, man, his feet love me. And that's one of the hardest areas for me to pass by, because the fullness of the love of God was coming through the feet of Jesus. I saw his toes, his ankles, you know, his arches, and they all loved me. You know, everything about his feet loved me. Later on, I came to understand that God loves us so much that when we're created, he goes out and creates love for us that no one else could receive but us. And what I was receiving at that time was my own personal love that he had created for me when I looked into his eyes and I saw that love, it seemed like it grew every moment. It seemed like it would outlast me. I knew at that moment I was eternal being, and what I was really looking at is every moment, it was growing stronger and stronger for me. I didn't know that. I did not know that the love of God grows every moment stronger and stronger for us, He created for them, like they were the only one he loved. And that just said, you really do want everyone here the next day. When I said, even child molesters, some of you may say, Why did you bring that up? I had worked in the juvenile justice field, and a lot of the kids I worked with have been molested. And I thought about the, you know, he probably, they would probably get in, but they would be the last people to get in. That's what I thought, if they made it at all, you know, that he would forgive them if they asked for forgiveness, but they would be the last people to get on because of the damage I saw working in that field. And I just remember him telling me how much he died on that cross for everybody. And if anyone asks for forgiveness, he's going to forgive them. He's the one that paid the price for them.

I did looked at his head, and what I see on his head, I saw this light coming off his head. It looked like a crown. Not, not it wasn't, I say, like a crown. It wasn't really a crown, like we would think a crown. And the beans were going way, way, way up into the atmosphere of heaven. They were just coming off of him. And I remember, I remember those beams going up, and I knew they had something to do with with healing, emotional healing, physical healing. Then the next thing that really got me is I looked at his face. And when I looked at his face, it seemed like it changed every moment. It seemed like there was something different about him every moment. And then these lights that were coming off of him, where I always could say, Like a diamond that has light come through it, and you get all the different rainbow colors they were coming off one person Avenue. So here I am looking at him, and then he's and he's looking at and he's looking away from me all that time. Finally he looks at me, and when he looks at me, he makes this statement, no, it's not your time go back. And at that moment, I felt like, Okay, I could do that. And I remember leaving that realm. I didn't go through the floors. I flew over the floors to get back to where I started at. And when I got to that point, I remember if I took one more step, I would be out of that realm and out of heaven. But what really got me was this, my body was not ready, and I knew it wasn't ready, and the joy that I experienced at that moment was more than I could ever express, because I was thinking, I get to stay here, all right? I went to the right side of the force that I started traveling through, through heaven. Guy was moving really, really fast. And when I was traveling, and I traveled a lot of areas in heaven, and it's not, we're not on Earth time. There's no eternity. There's no time there. You're in eternity. And I just remember going to to the right and traveling. Among the, really, the you could say, the hill country, the mountains, I had communication with a number of beings I call them. And the reason I call them beings because they're being everything God created them to be. And when we would communicate, the first thing that we say, would say, how could I serve you? That really got me, because everybody had something to be able to serve somebody else with and I don't think we think about that, but in God's kingdom, servanthood is the highest form of exaltation. And whatever gift they had, they were ready to serve me, and whatever gift I had, I was ready to serve them. And that was really it's almost like saying hi, instead of saying, I would say, How can I serve you? So as I'm moving through this side of heaven, and I'm experiencing the colors, oh, more beautiful colors that you could ever imagine, then I could still see the throne of God. The mountains were high, but I could still see the throne of God the first time and what he was doing. So I can tell you, there was a like a half circle of all these being creations of God. Some had been redeemed, some had been created there. And he was communicating with them, and literally he was sending them out to answer prayer. They were they were going into the spiritual realm, but they were literally being sent out to answer prayer of people that were praying on the planet. I remember leaving again and kind of flying over the forest, and as I got on the other side to the point where I came in, I knew my body wasn't ready, and I was so happy. And when I went to the right side the forest, that's that was more of the water area, you know? And I remember literally seeing the water. It's living water. It was alive. I remember it it. There were times when it danced there. There was times it was playing. It was doing a lot of playing. Seemed like it had the best personality of heaven. I remember looking at something, and I thought about and the next moment, I'm right in front of it. I was looking at there were buildings there. I remember going through the buildings, the different buildings, everything's alive now. And every time I went through into a building, there was a different realm. There was just a different realm. So I was really enjoying it. And then I felt like, Oh, I got to go back to Jesus. So this time, when I got back there with that on my hands and knees, and I got to be there when all of Heaven was being called around the throne of God and to worship the Father. And so Jesus went and literally left me. He melted inside the Father. He went inside the Father. And I remember looking as he went in and and the other spirits that were around the throne, they all melted into the father. Then all of us that were outside, we came around the throne of God. And it was hundreds and 1000s and billions of us all around and all of a sudden there was this one angel that kind of stood up above all the others, and seemed like it was tall in itself. And then it was raised up on a mountain. And then it started sending out these notes all over the place. And I came to later on is the note A, and literally, each and every one of us had our own special a that was created for us in heaven, the note A, the musical note A, and it was a call for us to come around that throne and tell our father how much we loved him. So I got to go through this experience of of everything being called around the throne of God and literally telling the Father, how much we love him, and that was so wonderful. I remember him standing there again about 10 or 11 o'clock, and then on the other side of him was my family. My grandmother Mary was out front, and behind her were other relatives. And it was generation after generation after generation. There I'm looking at my grandmother Mary, and I said she was shiny. She had pure joy and a big smile. The reason that she was shining is because God Almighty was shining out of her for the first time. There was so much joy, you couldn't describe it. The third thing is they had a big smile. Everybody in my family was smiling, you know, and and I tell people the main reason they were smiling because there was no worries in heaven, your entire family smiling at the same time. So that was really something. It also taught me that how important family is to God. You know, in the Bible, literally, God creates family in the first chapter, and we were really meant to be with each other forever. And all of a sudden Jesus says these words to me, no, it's not your time go back and how I knew they were my words is because everything in front of me moved out of the way, and it was just a pathway between me and him. And then I remember hovering over my my body. It was laid on a bed like Gurney thing, and I saw the doctors and the nurses cleaning up, and then I entered back into my body, and I remember the monitors starting up, and they got back working on me, and they intubated me, put the tube down my throat. And for the next three days, they didn't really expect me to make it. And things turned around around the third day. One of the things that took place, and my wife said that I started peeing, and because I was on dialysis, because I, you know, no peeing, so I was peeing, and then the next day is when they took the tube out of my mouth, and, you know, from intubation. And when they took the tube out of my mouth, I knew the person that that that was taking it out. Me and him. I met three, three months earlier, just develop a friendship. And here he is taking the tube out of my mouth, because that was his job at the hospital. Those are those machines. And as he's taking the tube out of my mouth, once he got it out, I looked at him, and I said, you know, you know, you know there's a Jesus. You don't have to hope there's a Jesus. You have to wish there's a Jesus, there's a Jesus, and I told him to go tell everybody.

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