This is a particularly excellent
example of lucid dreaming. If you have
never experienced this, you will find it difficult to credit the effect. It is seriously different from simple
dreaming. I have personally experienced
the effect once during a rare afternoon nap.
My experience was brief and
different from this. Meditation attempts
to guide you into this state with the master acting as your guide. However, reports from those unguided by a
known master such as this doctor show the appearance of a guide anyway. In my own case a guide stepped up who I did
not properly see or recognize.
What is common is the appearance of a guide
and the sense of complete trust. I am
strongly reminded of Dante’s Guide.
Not surprisingly, the doctor is
rightly awed by his experience as this experience is surely more real in sensory
values than the living world in which we live.
And yes, you come out of such an
experience convinced of the reality of the afterlife itself. In my case I searched for data and received data
that I could not have imagined and recognized this fact as well.
Heaven is real, says neurosurgeon who claims to have visited the
afterlife
Dr. Eben Alexander claims to have visited the afterlife (Twitter)Dr. Eben Alexander has taught
at Harvard Medical School and has earned a strong reputation as a neurosurgeon.
And while Alexander says he's long called himself a Christian, he never held
deeply religious beliefs or a pronounced faith in the afterlife.
But after a week in a coma during the fall of 2008, during which his
neocortex ceased to function, Alexander claims he experienced a life-changing
visit to the afterlife, specifically heaven.
"According to current medical understanding of the brain and mind,
there is absolutely no way that I could have experienced even a dim and limited
consciousness during my time in the coma, much less the hyper-vivid and
completely coherent odyssey I underwent," Alexander writes in the
cover story of this week's edition of Newsweek.
So what exactly does heaven look like?
Alexander says he first found himself floating above clouds before
witnessing, "transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving
long, streamer like lines behind them."
He claims to have been escorted by an unknown female companion and says
he communicated with these beings through a method of correspondence that
transcended language. Alexander says the messages he received from those beings
loosely translated as:
"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever."
"You have nothing to fear."
"There is nothing you can do wrong."
From there, Alexander claims to have traveled to "an immense void,
completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting." He
believes this void was the home of God.
After recovering from his meningitis-induced coma, Alexander says he
was reluctant to share his experience with his colleagues but found comfort
inside the walls of his church.
He's chronicled his experience in a new book, "Proof of
Heaven: A neurosurgeon's journey into the afterlife," which will be
published in late October.
"I'm still a doctor, and still a man of science every bit as much
as I was before I had my experience," Alexander writes. "But on a
deep level I'm very different from the person I was before, because I've caught
a glimpse of this emerging picture of reality. And you can believe me when I
tell you that it will be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and those
who come after us, to get it right."
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