Dr. Eben Alexander, who taught for a long time at Harvard and managed to earn a reputation as an excellent neurosurgeon, as long as he could remember, considered himself a Christian, but he never believed in the existence of an afterlife and even sympathized with those who believed that somewhere there was a God who Loves us unconditionally.
“As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the 'out-of-body experience' phenomenon. I grew up in a scientific environment, I am the son of a neurosurgeon. Following my father's path, I became an academic and neurosurgeon, teaching at Harvard Medical School and other universities. I understand what happens to the brain when people are on the verge of death, so I have always believed that there is a reasonable scientific explanation for travel outside the body, which describes people who miraculously escaped death."
However, everything changed after the man in the fall of 2008 fell into a coma himself. It was when Alexander was on the verge of life and death for a week, and his cerebral cortex, which is responsible for thoughts and emotions, ceased to function, that, in his own words, he himself made a journey to the afterlife and, in particular, to paradise.
“In accordance with the present medical understanding of the brain and mind, it is simply impossible to imagine that during a coma I was at least in a limited consciousness, and not that I was making a very vivid and integral journey, it is simply impossible,” the neurosurgeon noted. - There is no scientific explanation that despite the fact that the body was in a coma, and my cerebral cortex was disabled, the brain itself continued to work and, moreover, went to another, much larger Universe - a dimension that I never knew existed. …
The doctor emphasized that in general, the mystical dimension that he visited resembled numerous descriptions of people who experienced clinical death or other borderline conditions. According to him, it represents literally a new world in which we are much more than just our body and our brain, and where death is not the end of conscious existence, but only part of an endless journey.
I was able to describe the doctor and what this wonderful world looks like. He said that his journey began with the fact that he soared somewhere high in the clouds, and soon saw "transparent, shimmering creatures flying through the sky and leaving long, line-like trails." In addition, these creatures made amazing sounds, similar to a beautiful song, and, as it seemed to the man, in this way they expressed the joy and grace that overwhelmed them. However, Alexander does not dare to compare them either with birds or angels - they were too unlike anything that exists on our planet. They were some kind of higher creatures, he is sure.
One of these creatures - an unfamiliar young woman - joined him and became his guide through the mystical universe. At the same time, Alexander remembered the appearance of his beautiful companion in detail - she had dark blue eyes, golden-brown hair, braided in braids, and high cheekbones. The woman's clothes were simple, but beautiful and bright - pale blue, blue and peach.
With her, as with other creatures like her, the neurosurgeon spoke without words - the messages passed through him and were like the wind. He even cited one of the speeches given to him by a mystical woman. “You are loved and cherished forever. You have nothing to fear. There is nothing you can do wrong,”she said. - We will show you many things here. But in the end you will come back."
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Gradually, the woman led the doctor into "a huge void, where it was completely dark, but infinite was felt, and at the same time it was very pleasant." Alexander now believes that this emptiness was the home of God.
Soon the man woke up. However, now, having experienced a journey in the afterlife, he is in no hurry to share his experience with colleagues, but finds comfort in the church. The man also wrote the book "The Neurosurgeon's Journey to the Underworld", which is to be released at the end of October.
“I am still a doctor, and I still remain a man of science,” sums up Alexander. “But at a deep level, I am very different from the person I was before, because I saw this new picture of reality.”
