Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Afterlife Journey | Coast to Coast AM Alt

Dr. Eben Alexander, a renowned academic neurosurgeon, spent 54 years honing his scientific worldview. He thought he knew how the brain and mind worked. A transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE), in which he was driven to the brink of death and spent a week deep in coma from an inexplicable brain infection, changed all of that. He was shocked to find the hyper-reality of that spiritual realm, which many had reported in NDEs. He has spent the last two and a half years reconciling his rich spiritual experience with contemporary physics and cosmology. His spiritual experience is consistent with the leading edges of scientific understanding today. The Phenomenon of a Near Death Experience has been regulated to being nothing more than the simultaneous firing off neurons of the brain. However, what happens when a scientific mind encounters his own Near Death Experience — and with no possible way for his brain to have created the even? Dr. Eben Alexander is an American neurosurgeon. If anybody understands what is and is not possible with cerebral hallucinations—you would expect it to be an esteemed neurologist such as Dr. Alexander. “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. It took me months to come to terms with what happened to me. Not just the medical impossibility that I had been conscious during my coma, but—more importantly—the things that happened during that time. Toward the beginning of my adventure, I was in a place of clouds. Big, puffy, pink-white ones that showed up sharply against the deep blue-black sky.” Dr. Eben Alexander has told his amazing story: Proof of Heaven, to millions of people and more to come. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Coast to Coast AM, Tedx talks and many others. Other topics include: • Terminal Lucidity and Proof of a Higher Consciousness • Is Reincarnation Real • What are Shared Near Death Experiences • Is Transgenderism and Homosexuality caused by the soul remembering a past life when they were an opposite sex Plus much more! "Proof of Heaven" "Map of Heaven" "Proof that Heaven is real" "Coast to Coast AM" "Coast to Coast AM 2016" "Dr. Eben Alexander" "Oprah" "NDE" "Shared NDE" "Soul Identity" "Coast to Coast AM May 2016" "Heaven is for Real" "Midnight in the Desert" "Art Bell" "Alternative to Coast to Coast AM" Dr. Eben Alexander Said: In an effort to explain the “ultra-reality” of the experience, I examined this hypothesis: Was it possible that networks of inhibitory neurons might have been predominantly affected, allowing for unusually high levels of activity among the excitatory neuronal networks to generate the apparent “ultra-reality” of my experience? One would expect meningitis to preferentially disturb the superficial cortex, possibly leaving deeper layers partially functional. The computing unit of the neocortex is the six-layered “functional column,” each with a lateral diameter of 0.2–0.3 mm. There is significant interwiring laterally to immediately adjacent columns in response to modulatory control signals that originate largely from subcortical regions (the thalamus, basal ganglia, and brainstem). Each functional column has a component at the surface (layers 1–3), so that meningitis effectively disrupts the function of each column just by damaging the surface layers of the cortex. The anatomical distribution of inhibitory and excitatory cells, which have a fairly balanced distribution within the six layers, does not support this hypothesis. Diffuse meningitis over the brain’s surface effectively disables the entire neocortex due to this columnar architecture. Full-thickness destruction is unnecessary for total functional disruption. Given the prolonged course of my poor neurological function (seven days) and the severity of my infection, it is unlikely that even deeper layers of the cortex were still functioning in more than isolated pockets of small networks. The thalamus, basal ganglia, and brainstem are deeper brain structures (“subcortical regions”) that some colleagues postulated might have contributed to the processing of such hyperreal experiences. In fact, all agreed that none of those structures could play any such role without having at least some regions of the neocortex still functional. All agreed in the end that such subcortical structures alone could not have handled the intense neural calculations required for such a richly interactive experiential tapestry. There are 9 hypotheses discussed in an appendix of my book that I derived based on conversations with colleagues. None of them explained the hyper-reality in any brain-based fashion.