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Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« on: October 10, 2012, 09:12:36 AM »
In Newsweek Magazine

Heaven Is Real: A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife


Dr. Eben Alexander
Oct 8, 2012

When a neurosurgeon found himself in a coma, he experienced things he never thought possible—a journey to the afterlife.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.  I followed my father’s path and became an academic neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities.  I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2012, 09:13:50 AM »


The brain is an astonishingly sophisticated but extremely delicate mechanism.  Reduce the amount of oxygen it receives by the smallest amount and it will react.  It was no big surprise that people who had undergone severe trauma would return from their experiences with strange stories.  But that didn’t mean they had journeyed anywhere real.

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2012, 09:15:51 AM »
Although I considered myself a faithful Christian, I was so more in name than in actual belief.  I didn’t begrudge those who wanted to believe that Jesus was more than simply a good man who had suffered at the hands of the world.  I sympathized deeply with those who wanted to believe that there was a God somewhere out there who loved us unconditionally.  In fact, I envied such people the security that those beliefs no doubt provided.  But as a scientist, I simply knew better than to believe them myself.

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2012, 09:16:38 AM »
In the fall of 2008, however, after seven days in a coma during which the human part of my brain, the neocortex, was inactivated, I experienced something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after death.

I know how pronouncements like mine sound to skeptics, so I will tell my story with the logic and language of the scientist I am.

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2012, 09:19:10 AM »
Very early one morning four years ago, I awoke with an extremely intense headache.  Within hours, my entire cortex—the part of the brain that controls thought and emotion and that in essence makes us human—had shut down.  Doctors at Lynchburg General Hospital in Virginia, a hospital where I myself worked as a neurosurgeon, determined that I had somehow contracted a very rare bacterial meningitis that mostly attacks newborns. E. coli bacteria had penetrated my cerebrospinal fluid and were eating my brain.

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2012, 09:20:23 AM »
When I entered the emergency room that morning, my chances of survival in anything beyond a vegetative state were already low.  They soon sank to near nonexistent.  For seven days I lay in a deep coma, my body unresponsive, my higher-order brain functions totally offline.

Then, on the morning of my seventh day in the hospital, as my doctors weighed whether to discontinue treatment, my eyes popped open.

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2012, 09:23:54 AM »
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind—my conscious, inner self—was alive and well.  While the neurons of my cortex were stunned to complete inactivity by the bacteria that had attacked them, my brain-free consciousness journeyed to another, larger dimension of the universe: a dimension I’d never dreamed existed and which the old, pre-coma me would have been more than happy to explain was a simple impossibility.


‘You have nothing to fear.’ ‘There is nothing you can do wrong.’
The message flooded me with a vast and crazy sensation of relief.
(Photo illustration by Newsweek; Source: Buena Vista Images-Getty Images)

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2012, 09:37:32 AM »
But that dimension—in rough outline, the same one described by countless subjects of near-death experiences and other mystical states—is there.  It exists, and what I saw and learned there has placed me quite literally in a new world: a world where we are much more than our brains and bodies, and where death is not the end of consciousness but rather a chapter in a vast, and incalculably positive, journey.



for the whole article of this very inspiring and wholly interesting article by a neurosurgeon based on his personal experience, here's the link:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/07/proof-of-heaven-a-doctor-s-experience-with-the-afterlife.html

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2012, 09:12:14 AM »
I have read the whole article today and I find it heartwarming that the existence of heaven is confirmed by a doctor that knows how the brain behaves theoritically on this eventualities

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Re: Heaven is Real--from a neurosurgeon
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2012, 11:01:44 PM »
The opinion of Dr. Alexander is quite poignant and profound.

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