Kit Roberts
A woman who says that she 'saw God' during a near-death experience has opened up about how it wasn't what she expected.
There are plenty of theories about what exactly happens when we have a near-death experience.
One suggests that our brain starts to call up times in our life when we felt safe or happy as a way to comfort us as our body begins to shut down, before the brain itself finally fizzles out.
If we see religious imagery, this might be because that is what we expect to see when we die, so that's what our brain shows us.
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For Beverley Brodsky, however, there was no question that there was an element of the divine in her own brush with death.
Beverley grew up in Philadelphia in a conservative Jewish family and became an atheist in 1958 due to the horror she felt at seeing the atrocities of the Holocaust.
In 1970, when she was 20-years-old, Beverley's life would change dramatically.
While travelling near Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Beverley was involved in a motorcycle crash, which left her with a fractured skull and the right side of her face ripped away.
She would spend two weeks being treated in hospital, recalling how one day she found herself floating above her own body and was met by an angel who led her on through a passage.
Beverley told author Kenneth Ring: "Hand in hand with the angel, I was led into the opening of the small, dark passageway.”
She added: “There, before me, was the living presence of the light. Within it, I sensed an all-pervading intelligence, wisdom, compassion, love, and truth."
Sharing an unexpected aspect of the being that she was encountering, Beverley said: "There was neither form nor sex to this perfect being."
She added: "It, which I shall in the future call he, in keeping with our commonly accepted syntax, contained everything, as white light contains all the colors of a rainbow when penetrating a prism.
"And deep within me came an instant and wondrous recognition: I, even I, was facing God."
Beverley shared that she had a lot of questions for the being, saying: "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."
After coming back from her near-death experience, Beverley has become a devout Christian and now freely shares the story of her near-death experience.