Anonymous Coward User ID: 25292202 Russia 10/10/2012 04:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Heaven Is Real? A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife Dr. Eben Alexander: 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. 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. 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. full article [ link to www.thedailybeast.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25262585 Spain 10/10/2012 05:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Heaven Is Real? A Doctor’s Experience With the Afterlife posted yesterday, and with a video! |