Eben Alexander Quotes

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• A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.
• 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 present…
• Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
• Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of…
• My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm…
• 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…
• Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.
• We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through.
• Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousness,…
• I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in…
• Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it…
• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
• I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
• There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive…
• I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly…
• 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 as…

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