Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness, that human experience continues beyond… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“Death: It is the greatest adventure. It is stunning that in western civilization we deny it to the degree that we do. Perhaps that… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“Dogmatic religion is not open to people having direct access to those higher realms.” — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
“The brain itself does not produce consciousness. That it is, instead, a kind of reducing valve or filter, shifting the larger, nonphysical consciousness that… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old… — Eben Alexander Copy Share Image
