A prominent scientist who had previously dismissed the possibility of the afterlife says he has reconsidered his belief after experiencing an out of body experience which has convinced him that heaven exists.
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| While in a coma the neurosurgeon says he was met by a beautiful woman in a 'place of clouds, big fluffy pink-white ones' |
Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven
days in 2008 after contracting meningitis.
During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls
human thought and emotion "shut down" and that he then experienced "something
so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness
after death." In an essay for American
magazine Newsweek, which he wrote to promote his book Proof of
Heaven, Dr Alexander says he was met by a beautiful blue-eyed woman in a "place
of clouds, big fluffy pink-white ones" and "shimmering beings".
‘You have nothing to fear.’ ‘There is nothing you can do wrong.’ The message flooded me with a vast and crazy sensation of relief.
‘You have nothing to fear.’ ‘There is nothing you can do wrong.’ The message flooded me with a vast and crazy sensation of relief.
He continues: "Birds? Angels? These words registered later, when I was
writing down my recollections. But neither of these words do justice to the
beings themselves, which were quite simply different from anything I have
known on this planet. They were more advanced. Higher forms." The
doctor adds that a "huge and booming like a glorious chant, came down
from above, and I wondered if the winged beings were producing it. the sound
was palpable and almost material, like a rain that you can feel on your skin
but doesn't get you wet."
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.
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.
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