UPDATE: Having read some of the reviews of his book posted on Amazon (see below) I suspect just reading this article will suffice.
A few weeks ago I posted this article Neurosurgeon reconsiders his beliefs after his own out of body experience on a subject almost everyone is interested in – what happens after we die.
The surgeon, Dr. Eben Alexander, has a follow-up article in which he restates and defends his position – which in my view is really quite the reasonable position.
This is certainly the assessment I
would have made myself—before my experience. When the higher-order
thought processes overseen by the cortex are interrupted, there is
inevitably a period, as the cortex gets slowly back online, when a
patient can feel deeply disoriented, even outright insane. As I write in
Proof of Heaven, I’d seen many of my own patients in this period of their recovery. It’s a harrowing sight from the outside.
I
also experienced that transitional period, when my mind began to regain
consciousness: I remember a vivid paranoid nightmare in which my wife
and doctors were trying to kill me, and I was only saved from certain
death by a ninja couple after being pushed from a 60-story cancer
hospital in south Florida. But that period of disorientation and
delusion had absolutely nothing to do with what happened to me before my
cortex began to recover: the period, that is, when it was shut down and
incapable of supporting consciousness at all. During that period, I
experienced something very similar to what countless other people who
have undergone near-death experiences have witnessed: the transition to a
realm beyond the physical, and a vast broadening of my consciousness.
The only real difference between my experience and those others is that
my brain was, essentially, deader than theirs.
It's really quite a fascinating article, and not too long, sooo hit the link forthe whole thing.
His book, which I have not read, can be found here Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife. It already has 735 (and counting) reviews up on Amazon, in just five weeks. So people are interested.
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