Feb 17, 2020
AS SEEN ON OPRAH's SUPER SOUL SUNDAY AND DR. OZ SHOW!!!
Dr. Eben Alexander spent over 25 years as an academic
neurosurgeon, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women's
Hospital, the Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in
Boston. Over those years he personally dealt with hundreds of
patients suffering from severe alterations in their level of
consciousness. Many of those patients were rendered comatose by
trauma, brain tumors, ruptured aneurysms, infections, or stroke. He
thought he had a very good idea of how the brain generates
consciousness, mind and spirit.
In the predawn hours of November 10, 2008, he was driven into coma
by a rare and mysterious bacterial meningo-encephalitis of unknown
cause. He spent a week in coma on a ventilator, his prospects for
survival diminishing rapidly. On the seventh day, to the surprise
of everyone, he started to awaken. Memories of his life had been
completely deleted inside of the coma, yet he awoke with memories
of a fantastic odyssey deep into another realm – more real than
this earthly one! His older son advised him to write down
everything he could remember about his journey, before he read
anything about near-death experiences, physics or cosmology. Six
weeks later, he completed his initial recording of his remarkable
journey, totaling over 20,000 words in length. Then he started
reading, and was astonished by the commonalities between his
journey and so many others reported throughout all cultures,
continents and millennia. His journey brought key insights to the
mind-body discussion and to our human understanding of the
fundamental nature of reality. His experience clearly revealed that
we are conscious in spite of our brain – that, in fact,
consciousness is at the root of all existence.
His story offers a crucial key to the understanding of reality and
human consciousness. It will have a major effect on how we view
spirituality, soul and the non-material realm. In analyzing his
experience, including the scientific possibilities and grand
implications, he envisions a more complete reconciliation of modern
science and spirituality as a natural product.
He has been blessed with a complete recovery and shares his most
powerful, life-changing story in his book, Proof of Heaven: A
Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (2012), which debuted at
#1 on the New York Times Bestseller list and remained in the top
ten for over a year. His second book, The Map of Heaven: How
Science, Religion and Ordinary People are Proving the Afterlife
(2014), explores humankind's spiritual history and the progression
of modern science from its birth in the seventeenth century,
showing how we forgot, and are now at last remembering, who we
really are and what our destiny truly is. His third book,
co-authored with Karen Newell, is Living in a Mindful Universe: A
Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Heart of Consciousness (2017). It
explains his journey and insights since his NDE, with suggested
practices for individuals to use in order to reap the benefits of
an awakening in their own personal lives. His story was featured in
a series of peerreviewed medical articles about near-death
experiences (NDEs) in Missouri Medicine (2015), now published as
the book The Science of Near-Death Experiences (edited by John C.
Hagan III, 2017). It concludes with his chapter, “Near-Death
Experiences, The Mind-Body Debate, and The Nature of Reality.”
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr.
Alexander received his medical degree from Duke University School
of Medicine in 1980. He taught neurosurgery at Harvard Medical
School in Boston for fifteen years, and has performed over 4,000
neurosurgical operations. During his academic career he authored or
co-authored over 150 chapters and papers in peer reviewed journals,
authored or edited five books on radiosurgery and neurosurgery, and
made over 230 presentations at conferences and medical centers
around the world.
Since Proof of Heaven was released in 2012, he has been a guest on
The Dr. Oz Show, Super Soul Sunday with Oprah Winfrey, ABC-TV’s
20-20 and Good Morning America, FOX-TV’s FOX & Friends, Larry
King NOW, and his story has been featured on the Discovery Channel
and the Biography Channel. He has been interviewed for over 400
national and international radio and internet programs and
podcasts. His books are available in over 40 countries worldwide,
and have been translated into over 30 languages.
Since his NDE, Dr. Alexander has dedicated himself to sharing
information about near-death experiences and other
spiritually-transformative experiences, and what they teach us
about consciousness and the nature of reality. He continues to
promote further research on the unifying elements of science and
spirituality, and encourages people to be inspired by the power of
unconditional love in their daily lives and in their work in their
communities.
For more information: www.ebenalexander.com
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