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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife
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The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon’s own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven.
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.
Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.
Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.
Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.
This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.
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Terri 1952 –
I found this book gripping from the beginning, including his work, his family life and his NDE experience. Strangely – I also really enjoyed the in depth scientific explanations which I actually understood. (Passing the 11+ exam was the zenith of my educational acclaim), but it all made sense. I’m not new to this subject, being at the later end of life, it’s something I’ve been researching for some time. This was for me – the cherry on top of my cake of belief.
GJ –
I liked that it was a first hand account of someone who experienced an NDE. Esp as he was a neuro surgeon so he could know whether it was an experience made up by the brain or not. A true pot boiler and very well written with great conviction. Only issue was the book was warped, I think it got wet in the rain or in the Amazon storage area. If it doesn’t straighten out, I will get it replaced. I like a new book to look like new, not all warped.
Patric Miller –
As someone who has experienced an NDE, and struggled with many of the same things that Eben discusses here, I am not surprised at the response that many are having to this book. To say “people who have NDE experiences often find the telling of their story, while trying to impart the information they receive during their experience, a difficult task,” would be an understatement as vast as the universe.
The clinical aspects of Dr. Alexander’s experience are what make this story unique, along with his outright conversion from a “Scientific Reductionist” to someone who sees clearly that consciousness and the vast majority of “what is,” are found outside of our space/time universe and current medical or science books.
To get the most out of any book on NDEs, and especially one that intertwines a very personal journey to find family and self, you must start with an open mind and heart. Unfortunately, those who have already hardened their views on both sides of the spectrums of Science and Religion, will dismiss much of what anyone writes on this topic, because it doesn’t fit their narrow, dogmatic view of the world.
Even worse, it forces them to look outside of their safe little boxes, and take the effort to learn, while being open to the possibility that current models of both science and faith are a good starting point, but not the ENTIRE answer.
Einstein’s quote at the beginning of the chapter “A Final Dilemma” says it best…
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”
Whether you begin as a Christian, a Buddhist, Quantum Physicist or a simple seeker of knowledge beyond current understanding, moving outside of the constructs of your current ways of thinking is imperative to discovery.
Fundamentalism, whether it be religious or scientific, is really no different than intellectual bigotry, closed to expanded thoughts, or encompassing new ways of looking for expanded information. Eben’s book embraces both worlds, and does so gracefully, without discounting any specific ideology.
Eben’s experience was certainly deeper, and far more expansive than most I have read (including my own NDE). I do agree that the lack of detail about his time in “heaven” (a term that I find limiting) is frustrating to a point. And yet, the need to spend much of this book on the technical side of his coma, his quest and victory regarding his family (past and present), as well as touching on the scientific aspects of the current science regarding external consciousness, make this short book an excellent jumping-off point for deeper study and discussion.
And there’s the rub…
After experiencing my own NDE (in 1996), I spent almost two obsessive years trying in vain to “connect the dots of knowledge imparted to me,” before putting it all back “in a box” so that I could get on with living my life. Through a series of events over the past two years, I find myself very much back into “telling the story.” I now realize that no book, video, or movie is able to even scratch the surface of answering the great questions of life after death, consciousness, and how they all relate to quantum theory. Expecting “the answers” from a book of this size and configuration is naïve and lazy at best.
There is a reason that the section in this book called “Reading List” is expansive. Much has been written on this topic from both the spiritual and scientific approach. If you are a true seeker of the truth, you will not start or end your journey for knowledge with Eben’s book. Instead, you will appreciate the facts of his experience, the unique medical reality of his coma, and the amazing revelations about family, love and the eternal nature of consciousness, as the BEGINNING of the journey to true understanding.
While this book in not an expansive, all-inclusive answer to the melding of Science and Religion, I give it 5 stars for being an important, unique story, bringing focus to the need for a global change in the perception and understanding of reality, consciousness and the interconnectedness of everything in creation.
Richard Bonomo –
Nota Bene: I am ASSUMING for the sake of this comment that the account rendered in the book is real, i.e. it is a sincere effort by a real human being with a real MD degree to relate, in good faith, an experience he believes in good faith that he had. I am ASSUMING that this book and story are not a cynical fabrication by someone who is looking to fool the gullible, nor an attempt to make a quick buck writing about something that will sell books. I have not made a *substantial* attempt to verify the existence of Eben Alexander nor to verify his degree and positions.
I have not had a NDE myself. Whatever knowledge I have of them is strictly based on those of other people, often obtained quite indirectly. The first NDE I had heard about while I was on a retreat in 1968. It was a “negative” — meaning frightening — NDE. Eben Alexander’s account of a NDE is of particular interest because it occurred in a hospital setting while the subject was under intense scrutiny and because the subject is a neurosurgeon. That he entered the experience more-or-less as an unbeliever makes it even more interesting. The book is also interesting about what it says about Eben himself and his family. He comes across as a very good man who is surrounded by a very loving family.
Having said that, I will say that I found his account of his vision (I say “vision” as his story is an attempt to relate the audio-visual aspects of a memory of an event that was presumably not “audio-visual” in the usual sense of the word, as his sense organs were not functioning, and the experience no doubt transcended “audio-visual-olfactory-tactile” experience.) to be a bit amusing. I say “amusing” not in a disrespectful way, but to convey the, well, amusement, I guess, of seeing a grown, educated, American man find out, via a truly extraordinary experience which certainly appears to be a gift from God, that which the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches have been trying to tell people for the past 2000 years, and Protestant churches for the past 500: God is Love. God LOVES us. Eye has not seen nor has ear heard what God the Father has in store for us. God’s love is universal. God transcends what we call time and space. (Actually, philosophers have been telling us THAT for a VERY long time.) There are non-corporeal beings who know, love, and serve God. Evil in the World is a consequence of free will. Etc. etc. These are things we all SHOULD have learned in Catechism and had reinforced through our own lives of prayer and particular relationship with God through the person — at least for Christians — of Christ Jesus. That the good Lord saw fit to arrange this particular experience for Dr. Alexander both speaks to the love of God, and to the difficulty Man has discerning His purpose in particular instances.
While his experience and vision are extremely interesting, there are no surprises for a Christian, and probably none for a Jew either. (I am not sure how most Muslims would think of this, so I won’t try to guess.) Also, Eben’s NDE was tailored for his particular needs, apparently, as appears to generally be the case for the more credible NDEs. He saw and heard (and felt and was made aware of and was infused with) the things to which he, in particular, needed to be so exposed.
Regarding the book itself: it is an easy read, but very moving. Toward the end I found myself blubbering like a baby, as I related to an experience one of his sons had. There is something like a surprise ending that, of course, I will not reveal.
The book makes some recommendations in terms of websites (including one started by Dr. Eben Alexander and an associate) for those who wish to learn more about NDEs and other spiritually transforming experiences. He also includes a book list that is quite broad in its scope. It includes books by the Dali Lama, Douglas Hofstadter (a strict materialist), Francis Collins (a life scientist and a believer) and many others in a variety of fields. Oddly, his list does NOT include Christian mystics like St. Theresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, nor anything about Heaven by someone like Peter Kreeft. I suspect that Dr. Eben Alexander is not familiar with these authors.
Buy it. Read it. Spend some time on your knees.
Zubin –
I have read and re-read this book with great enthusiasm. It describes what I feel to be true, and I have no proof. Dr. Alexander’s experience encourages us to ‘think out of the box ‘, to believe there is more than the explainable and logical… and above all… THAT IT’S ALL ABOUT LOVE. Fully recommended, very readable.
Giuseppe –
Il mondo continua lungo la strada del dubbio buio e senza fine, mentre continua ad avere sottomano esperienze, fatti reali incontrovertibili a cui non crede. “Beati coloro che credono senza aver visto” già detto 2000 anni fa. La verità fa sempre fatica a farsi accettare specialmente se mette in dubbio i nostri falsi dogmi.
P –
Simplesmente incrível. Científico, espiritual, humano… Além do estilo brilhante do Dr Eben de escrever e passar uma mensagem tão importante.