"We can only see what our brain’s filter…" — Eben Alexander
"We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through."
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16 Quotes by Eben Alexander
Eben Alexander has 16 quotes on this site.
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A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.
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Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of…
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Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.
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Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection…
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My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator,…
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Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward…
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Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite.
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Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are…
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I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access…
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Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth…
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As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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