Eben Alexander: Science pf the Afterlife and Near Death Experiences

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Dr. Eben Alexander, a renowned academic neurosurgeon, spent 54 years honing his scientific worldview. He thought he knew how the brain and mind worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE), in which he was driven to the brink of death and spent a week deep in coma from an inexplicable brain infection, changed all of that.

He was shocked to find the hyper-reality of that spiritual realm, which many had reported in NDEs. He has spent the last two and a half years reconciling his rich spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. His spiritual experience is consistent with the leading edges of scientific understanding today.

The Phenomenon of a Near Death Experience has been regulated to being nothing more than the simultaneous firing off neurons of the brain. However, what happens when a scientific mind encounters his own Near Death Experience — and with no possible way for his brain to have created the even?

Dr. Eben Alexander is an American neurosurgeon. If anybody understands what is and is not possible with cerebral hallucinations—you would expect it to be an esteemed neurologist such as Dr. Alexander.

“According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind, there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey I underwent. It took me months to come to terms with what happened to me. Not just the medical impossibility that I had been conscious during my coma, but—more importantly—the things that happened during that time. Toward the beginning of my adventure, I was in a place of clouds. Big, puffy, pink-white ones that showed up sharply against the deep blue-black sky.”