“For all the successes of Western civilization, the world paid a dear price in terms of the most crucial component of existence - the human spirit. The shadow side of high technology - modern warfare and thoughtless homicide and suicide,… — 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
