When 20-year-old Beverly Brodsky climbed onto a motorcycle in 1970, she had no idea her life was about to take a turn so dramatic it would shatter her beliefs, transform her faith, and leave her with a story people around the world still talk about today.

What she says she encountered during her near-death experience wasn’t a tunnel cliché or a dreamlike haze — it was something she describes as God Himself, but in a form she never imagined.

Raised in a conservative Jewish home in Philadelphia, Beverly’s faith collapsed at just eight years old after learning about the horrors of the Holocaust.

By 1958, she considered herself an atheist. But all of that changed years later on a sunlit road near Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles.