Eben Alexander
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Language
English
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"A SCIENTIST'S CASE FOR THE AFTERLIFE Near-death experiences, or NDEs, are controversial. Thousands of people have had them, but many in the scientific community have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those people. A highly trained neurosurgeon who had operated on thousands of brains in the course of his career, Alexander knew that what people of faith call the "soul" is really a product of brain chemistry. NDEs, he would...
Author
Language
English
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After writing Proof of Heaven, Dr. Eben Alexander heard from the thousands affected by his story. He studied what the world's religious traditions and philosophers have said about the soul's survival of death, often surprised that those voices were in synch. Part metaphysical detective story, part manual for living, The Map of Heaven explores our spiritual history and the birth of modern science, showing how we forgot, and are now at last remembering,...
Author
Publisher
Sextante
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists argue that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander, a highly trained neurosurgeon, was one of them. Then his own brain was attacked by a rare illness. Dr. Alexander's recovery is a medical miracle -- but not the real miracle. While his body lay in a coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world with an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence,...
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Aims to show that the brain is not responsible for consciousness, and uses this assertion to explore profound love and human connection.
"Dr. Eben Alexander, author of international phenomenon Proof of Heaven, shares the next phase of his journey to understand the true nature of consciousness and how to cultivate a state of harmony with the universe and our higher purpose. In 2008, Dr. Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged by a devastating...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The author describes the eleven common stages in the "death" experiences of 150 individuals who underwent a period of clinical death, came close to death, or related their experiences to others while dying; discusses parallels to these accounts in the Bible, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and the writings of Plato and Emanuel Swedenborg; and examines possible explanations."--
