Proof of Heaven Deluxe Edition With DVD: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife

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Simon and Schuster, Sep 3, 2013 - Biography & Autobiography - 240 pages
The 2 million–copy bestseller—now with lessons that will help you lead a more meaningful life and an exclusive DVD featuring commentary from Eben Alexander, M.D.

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, Dr. 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, Dr. Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.

Dr. Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Dr. 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.

Dr. 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 Dr. 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. This is even truer of this new edition, in which Dr. Alexander expands upon the lessons he learned from his experience, adding new insights and guidance for a world more in need of them than ever. Reading this book will change your life.
 

Contents

The Pain I I
11
The Hospital
15
Out ofNowhere
23
Eben IV
24
Underworld
29
An Anchor to Life 3 3
33
The Spinning Melody and the Gateway 3 8
38
Israel
42
The Rainbow I05 22 Six Faces
108
Final Night First Morning I I I
111
The Return I
115
Not There Yet I 20
120
Spreading the News I 24
124
Homecoming I 26
126
The UltraReal
129
A Common Experience I3 I
131

The Core
45
What Counts
50
An End to the Downward Spiral
59
The Core
68
Wednesday
74
A Special Kind ofNDE
76
The Gift of Forgetting
83
The Well
87
N of 1
89
To Forget and to Remember 9 5
95
Nowhere to Hide
97
The Closing
102
Back from the Dead
136
Three Carnps I40 32 A Visit to Church
147
The Enigma of Consciousness
155
A Final Dilemma
162
The Photograph I6 5
165
New Afterward
174
flcknowledgments
203
Reading List
207
Statement oy Scott Wade MD 2 I 3
215
Index
219
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About the author (2013)

Eben Alexander, MD, has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last twenty-five years, including fifteen years at the Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is the author of Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven. Visit him at EbenAlexander.com.

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