Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

Written by Eben Alexander

Narrated by Eben Alexander

The #1 New York Times bestselling account of a neurosurgeon's own near-death experience—for readers of 7 Lessons from Heaven.

Thousands of people have had near-death experiences, but scientists have argued that they are impossible. Dr. Eben Alexander was one of those scientists. A highly trained neurosurgeon, Alexander knew that NDEs feel real, but are simply fantasies produced by brains under extreme stress.

Then, Dr. Alexander’s own brain was attacked by a rare illness. The part of the brain that controls thought and emotion—and in essence makes us human—shut down completely. For seven days he lay in a coma. Then, as his doctors considered stopping treatment, Alexander’s eyes popped open. He had come back.

Alexander’s recovery is a medical miracle. But the real miracle of his story lies elsewhere. While his body lay in coma, Alexander journeyed beyond this world and encountered an angelic being who guided him into the deepest realms of super-physical existence. There he met, and spoke with, the Divine source of the universe itself.

Alexander’s story is not a fantasy. Before he underwent his journey, he could not reconcile his knowledge of neuroscience with any belief in heaven, God, or the soul. Today Alexander is a doctor who believes that true health can be achieved only when we realize that God and the soul are real and that death is not the end of personal existence but only a transition.

This story would be remarkable no matter who it happened to. That it happened to Dr. Alexander makes it revolutionary. No scientist or person of faith will be able to ignore it. Reading it will change your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Release date: Oct 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781442359338

Eben Alexander

Eben Alexander, MD, has been an academic neurosurgeon for the last twenty-five years, including fifteen years at the Brigham & Women’s and the Children’s Hospitals and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He is the author of Proof of Heaven and The Map of Heaven. Visit him at EbenAlexander.com.

Reviews for Proof of Heaven

[Amanda · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

There are many reasons for my one star rating. First off Ebens other audio books are amazing. They get five stars all day. The meditation one is surreal. But this I could hardly get through. One because I lost my father to a coma, the relatable pain I felt from hearing about his children's reaction was too much for me to bare. Being able to communicate with spirit I know it was my fathers time. What I didn't like what the part where he expressed the importance of an anchor. He says he was.told while on the other side he would be coming back more then once he said he was told that he would see be going back. So for those of us who lost hearing u say its important to have an anchor leaves slot of room for guilt. Esp when there are those whos time it is to go. Even I started to question it. Should I have never left the hospital. Would it have made a difference. No. So anyone else who listens to this please don't get guilt because when its ur time. It is ur time. The really rubbed me wrong. I feel that was said more of a thank you to his family then truth. He was told he would be coming back. He didn't need an "anchor". Also the title choice was not a good one. We can't really prove things about the other side but this was not even really a story of the other side experiences. It was mostly a biography and story of the event. Although it was interesting, most listeners want to hear about the other side. It what is expected mostly because of the title. Needless to say the lack of topic and reference to what he experienced in the coma and the constant detail of what his family saw with his state in the coma made me lose interest and think to much of my own personal tragedy and I stopped 3/4 way through the book. Its not a horrible listen. But for me it was too disturbing and not enough about the other side.

[Janis Foley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

My mom always talked about this book! I believe she sent it to me when she was already on the other side. I was at a thrift store looking through the books. Before she had gone, I made her promise to send me butterflies to show me she was around. I specifically asked for yellow butterflies, blue ones and white ones. She agreed to send them. Of course the blue butterfly on the cover of this book caught my eye. I picked if up and I noticed the title, which stunned me a bit. Then I realized my mom always talked about this book. I just KNEW this was a sign from her to read the book. So I purchased it. So now I have the paperback and I've also listened to the book on Scribd. This book gives me hope that I will see my mom again someday... #RememberingJoena ❤

[jotto_19 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Proof of Heaven is an engaging book describing the author's near-death-experience. One aspect of this book which it apart from other such books is the fact that the author, Eben Alexander is a neurosurgeon. Like many medically trained people, Dr. Alexander was dismissive of NDEs reported by his patients as these experiences did not fit in to his materialistic worldview. Having had a NDE himself, he no longer is able to appeal to the various rationales used by physicians to dismiss such experiences as the brains response to physical crisis. The fact that his very rare case of meningitis knocked out his frontal lobes, in his opinion, renders irrelevant all the reasons appealed to regards such experiences as illusionary. Dr. Alexander now affirms the emerging understanding of consciousness as a field phenomenon which the human brain enable us to participate in rather then something that the brain itself produces.

[gingermama-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A thought-provoking read. Personally, I appreciated that the author kept fairly strictly to the "here's what happened" method of storytelling, and kept religious discussion to a minimum. It's a short book that will give you plenty to think about.

[ellenekstrom · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dr. Alexander's book was wonderful and frightening and gave me hope. I was a chaplain in a local hospital ER for several years and his story was what I heard from patients who had the courage to share their experiences after critical, life-threatening illness. The prose is straightforward and heartfelt and kept me reading, even when descriptions were a bit too graphic and made me squeamish.This book will reenforce a person of faith's belief in the afterlife and show to skeptics that one can meld science and faith in compatibility, that it isn't all about 'us.' A quick, enjoyable read that leaves you with hope.

[noellegreene · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Compelling and inspiring. The fact that there is so much data (he was getting treated in the hospital where he works so he had plenty of tests) and witnesses to some of his assertions/conclusions makes his story credible and comforting, frankly. I never thought I'd say this but I think there might just be a better place waiting. If you want to call it Heaven, fine.

[tarkie-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A scientist tells of his out of body experiences. He does it very thoroughly in a scientific way. While also explaining what his loved ones and friends were going through in their lives. Read by author, very smoothly and calmly told.

[mrsdowney-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Gobbled this book right down because the author's near-death experience isn't the most amazing part---it was his perfect credentials for influencing everyone's opinion about that experience!

I've visited places such as this neurosurgeon visited during his 7-day coma, and my nearly forty years of studying the *interdimensional* science of Consciousness made it all seem normal and to be expected of someone in his dying situation. What impressed and astonished and delighted me was how PERFECTLY his situation was designed to gain the attention of everyone who has NOT yet come to the awareness that consciousness does not begin or end with the physical brain!

I highly, highly recommend this book. It's quick to read, because the story is so compelling, and the doctor/author has gone to great lengths to explain why this was NOT hallucination (that part of his brain was classified as completely nonfunctional at the time), or any other among a long list of conventional science's debunking explanations for NDEs. His unique experience refutes all of these arguments.

The only flaw in the book isn't really a flaw: he can't yet explain how or why these things happened to him. Not to worry, Dr. Alexander! Others have and will. For instance, "The Infinite Concept of Cosmic Creation" by Ernest L. Norman offers complete, diagrammed, scientific explanations for the aspects of consciousness that bridge dimensions. This science fully explains how and why he experienced the visions and connections of his NDE, where he went, and perhaps even why he did so.

As for why his deceased father didn't come to greet him during his other-side visit--that, too, can be explained. It's in my books, it's in E.L. Norman's books, and one day I'm sure the author will understand, as well.

Because of my already-established beliefs, I'd stopped reading about near-death experiences, but I will be recommending this book to everyone who'll listen!

[Lucy Chatman-Scott · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What an awesome God we serve! Wonder account of your experience .???

[alicia2575 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Reaffirms my belief in the afterlife, spirits and the undeniable importance of love…

[Antoinette Maceri · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent, enlightening. Beautifully written. An obvious gift for descriptive expression. I totally believe it as I have studied this topic for decades and have witnessed aspects of it in the dying. We’re dealing with the eternal realm, not measurable by the so called rigid narrow scientific method. Compelling…I loved it.

[John Dreyzehner · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Extremely well written and well reasoned. I too am a physician. I have never had a n NDE. I am grateful that you have shaed this story of eternal importance. I appreciate the intellectual honesty that you have worked to display in doing so. None of us is given to know with certainty, but faith, hope and love is made more possible and strengthened by such work, as God I believe, intended. Thank you.

[constancegorman · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I really expected this book to have a lot more detail about the afterlife, but it was more centered on the biological component of his brain injury and inability to have cognition due to the affects of bacterial meningitis. I could have lived without the drama of his week in the hospital because we see this stuff on TV everyday. The book just lacked the substance I was looking for regarding his experiences in the afterlife. They were very brief and it seemed the author was looking for ways to fill out the book. I was disappointed.

[lissabeth21 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was everything I hoped it would be and then some. I have had, and am writing about, very clear pictures of heaven. Dr. Alexander's descriptions have matched my limited ability to describe my own visions - giving further weight to my own "proof."

[hmskip · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Although this book may not qualify as proof in the strict sense, yet it is a valuable piece of evidence. What I appreciate about it is the author's plea for the readmission of the human spirit as a real and important entity separate and apart from the physical, materialistic processes of the human body. We are more than a conglomeration of chemical processes and our spirits have existence beyond our physical body.

[thewanderingjew_1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I wanted to like this book. I wanted to believe it. The author seems so sincere. Who would not like to think that there is something beautiful beyond death, that there is nothing to fear, that we can do no wrong and we will be unconditionally loved? Yet, my determination was severely tested by the author?s presentation. When Eben Alexander describes his (NDE) Near Death Experience, in 2008, brought on when he descended into a coma from a rare form of an e-Coli Virus,from which there was little hope of his recovery, he fills his tale with a rather large view of himself. He often apologizes for this, but kind of arrogance is, nevertheless, ever present. I felt as if he believed someone had elected him to the top post, to sit at the right hand of G-d. His explanations were often too technical or needed to be accepted based on his word or blind faith. Because he is a man of science, he came with good credentials, but the book left me wanting more. I needed some substance and the book felt thin in that department. If people coming out of comas go into psychotic states, hallucinating, why is it not possible for them to go into a psychotic state and also hallucinate entering into it? If scientifically it is impossible when the Neo Cortex is compromised completely, perhaps the science is wrong. Surely we know little enough about the brain and how it works to simply believe that what he experienced was real and not a dream state of some kind. He had been unhappy in prior years. His family life and professional life had suffered. He was adopted and was unsuccessfully searching for his roots, until a recent contact with a sister proved somewhat fruitful, and he learned of other siblings. He learned that his parents had married and he had a sister who had died. Perhaps his NDE was merely wish fulfillment, on his end.When describing his NDE , he speaks of the Realm of The Earthworm?s-Eye View, a place of misery, The Gateway, a place of celestial beauty, where he met the beautiful girl on the butterfly?s wing, and The Core, where he felt communion with a greater being, where he felt close to the Creator, to Om, to G-d, to Jesus. Although he justifies the validity of his experience with claims that these are concepts that are new to him, it seemed doubtful to me, a non-Christian, so how could it not be so to him, even if he was not a religious Christian at that time? Are those concepts not universally reminiscent of Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and/or Limbo?Eben realized, as an adoptee, that he had always somehow felt abandoned, unloved and when he thought about his NDE, he wondered why he was the only documented case of a person who had an NDE that had not been aware of who he was, during the experience, and the only one who had not met anyone who had died during his life who would lead him through and comfort him, as others had. Why had his father not come to comfort him, to tell him everything was all right; he had not been able to please him and he wanted his forgiveness. These thoughts reinforced his feelings of abandonment. He began to question the legitimacy of his own experience.When he was still a doubter, in 2008, shortly after his recovery, he went to church and was asked to light an advent candle. Walking up, the music and scenes and sights before him seemed more beautiful than they had in the past, and he was overwhelmed. Since his illness, it would seem that this environment had more meaning for him, and he was brought to tears. The experience evoked memories of his NDE. Eben began to realize that we are so much more than our physical bodies. Still unsure of himself, there was one final act that convinced him he should spread the word about his experience in order to enlighten the world. As a scientist, he believed his word would be more credible than the word of others who had had similar experiences. So when he received a picture of a deceased sister, sent to him by his biological sister he realized she looked oddly familiar. Soon he realized, the last piece of the puzzle had fallen into place. He had met someone he knew. The girl on the butterfly wing in her angelic form was, he believed, his dead sister. He had been reading a book by Elizabeth Kubler Ross in which a young girl relates a NDE to her dad and explains that she met her brother, but she had no brother?her father confessed that a few months before she was born, her brother had died. This revelation about his own dead sibling, gave him renewed hope and faith in his own NDE.Eben believes that consciousness resides some place other than the brain. Paraphrasing, he says, ?we live in the dimension of the familiar, but the grander universe is here, now, with us, in a different frequency.? He believes you don?t have to die to access this frequency, ?to access the truths behind the veil?, you just have to learn how, but don?t try to hard, for that will defeat you. Meditation is a useful tool. To understand the grander universe, you have to be part of it, become one with it.?Eben himself admits that his experiences are very hard to describe and it is evident in his writing which is unclear, at times. I found that there was too much information, too technical at times, but there were not enough facts to make it credible. He says his experience in the Core was greater than his ability to understand it, to put into words, that he was able to absorb knowledge at a faster rate, immediately understand things that would take months, even years in ordinary time. In this place, time didn?t matter. So, although he couldn?t explain it, are we to accept his explanation and beliefs on blind faith? Why was he chosen to pass on this message? I thought the connections he made could be coincidence rather than providential. He had been scientific in his thinking, but now he was more spiritual.Eben wrote that the Creator allows evil to exist because we have free will, but who is the Creator? He says we are all part of the divine, part of G-d, who is all loving and forgiving. He says the divine is always with us, and our job is to grow toward the divine. If we are all part of this G-d, this OM, then who is it or what is it? I have trouble with blind faith. The book feels too Christian in its concepts to be universally accepted. I believe Eben is being a bit presumptuous when he assumes we can all achieve this divine state. Can Jews or Muslims, or Budhists or Hindus achieve this state without disavowing their own faiths?After his experience, he founded ETERNA, a non-profit organization to serve the greater good, to advance research into spiritually transformative experiences. The organization offers comfort and spiritual guidance to those going through difficult times with illness, etc. (Eben believes that you have to earn your entry into the higher planes of the realm he visited. Perhaps, he wants to earn his own by being G-dlike, good and compassionate.)There simply was no PROOF OF HEAVEN, for me. The pieces fell into place, all too conveniently. However, I encourage other readers to draw their own conclusions. Your own background may alter your view and you may find greater inner peace than I did, when you read about what happened to him from the onset of his illness to the time of his recovery and then also learn a bit about his past. As a physician, he also has checkered history which warrants investigation. Perhaps this is all about Alexander?s need for love, compassion and forgiveness. He believes, from his NDE, he learned that everyone is loved, they have nothing to fear, and they can do no wrong. That is the strongest message he received. That is also his strongest need, so perhaps it was his own wish fulfillment during his coma, rather than an ?other worldly? experience. At the end of the day, though, do we all have to be Christians to have this experience, to attain this afterlife?I have told little about his experiences, so the reader may draw their own conclusions as they read the book.

[nancynova · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

rabck from WarriorScholar; intriguing but I don't really think the author provided "proof" per se. Yes, he had a disease that he should have died of. And yes, during that time he was definitely in an altered state. A NDE? Maybe - but unlike his assertion, I don't think his experience was more valid than anyone else's that has had that experience.

[lauriebrown54 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Eben Alexander is a neurosurgeon. In 2008 he contracted a rare illness that struck with unusual rapidity and put him into a coma hours after it struck. He remained in that coma, unable to even breathe for himself, for seven days. His doctors considered him brain dead and unable to wake up; or, if by some miracle he did wake up, he would be severely brain damaged. But he did wake up, and within a short time regained all his abilities. How did this happen? While the pathogen causing Dr. Alexander?s illness was discovered- it was the common E. coli- they never did figure out how it managed to get into his brain and spinal cord fluid. Nor did they figure out how he survived it when his neocortex was shut down for days- or how he felt himself to be conscious through out the seven days and had memories of being in heaven during that time. He is convinced that his survival and his memories of heaven are proof that God exists, that the soul exists after death, and that his survival was a miracle. There is also the fact that he knew a couple of things that went on while he was in a coma that he shouldn?t have been able to know. He states that God loves us all, and his illness was for a reason. I?m not automatically against the possible reality of near death experiences ? NDEs- but I don?t automatically believe them, either. Alexander?s recovery from his illness was unlikely but there are other cases of people recovering from illness that should have killed them. And we certainly don?t know everything about the brain; neuroscience learns surprising things every day. What happened to the author was remarkable and some aspects are unexplainable at this time, but there is a chance his interpretation is colored by his religious training. Then there is the problem that some of the things in his book just aren?t true; he took some liberties with the truth here and there. Alexander did not lapse into a coma on his own; because he was delirious and thrashing around to the point he couldn?t be treated, the emergency room doctor put him into a medically induced coma which necessitated putting him on a ventilator. He was kept in that coma, and the doctors periodically tried to bring him out of it, only to find him still delirious; he was never ?brain dead?. He states that as he was about to be transferred from the emergency room to the ICU, the rallied for a moment and shouted ?God help me!?, but the emergency room doctor, a friend and co-worker of the author, says that is impossible because he was already intubated, and with that hose down your throat, you can?t speak. There are a few other examples of dramatic license here and there, but most of them aren?t serious. Do these lapses of verity invalidate the author?s message? I don?t know. Was the author?s recovery near miraculous? Pretty much. Does his NDE prove life after death? No. Does the fact that he apparently had mental contact with other people, learning things he couldn?t have known prove that *something* science can?t explain yet happened? Possibly; but because I now cannot trust his version of events, I don?t know. I wish he?d put forth the true version of events rather than try and make them more dramatic; his story would have been a lot more convincing then.

[sikane-1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Lots of medical jargon that does not help move the story forward. Expected better dialogue and more feeling of his experience rather than explanation to justify the whys of this and that. I enjoyed reading but cannot give it the rating that I would have expected, do I recommend it? I do if the reader doesn't expect the "miracle" story.

[Samantha Tsz Ling Chan · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

If you are looking for scientific backup from a perspective of a neurosurgeon about the after life tales and objectives analyses of such experiences you would be completely disappointed. This book is more of his autobiography instead of discussion about after life or consciousness

[elekstrom-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Dr. Alexander's book is brief, but his message is powerful. A neurosurgeon, who, in the midst of a life-threatening illness experienced what so many individuals have - a near death or life-after-death experience.

As a chaplain who attended patients in comas and had the fortune/blessing to hear their stories after they woke, I was heartened to learn that Dr. Alexander's journey was similar to theirs, for I have heard this story many times.

The writing is clear, concise and without empurpled prose to make it more dramatic or more than it should be. Dr. Alexander tells his story, and the stories he was told by those who witnessed his illness and sat by his side, in a straightforward manner. This is a testimony of belief. Honestly, I would feel secure if I was receiving treatment from someone with his faith, rather than a practitioner who viewed life from only a scientific, analytical mindset - that once you draw your last breath the lights go out, end of story, game over. That's it. Like Francis Collins' work, "The Language of God," "Proof of Heaven" shows that science and faith are compatible. They need each other. People who hold religious beliefs will be encouraged to embrace both science and faith after reading this account. I must say, however, that Dr. Alexander's description of his illness and what he went through made me squeamish at times, and I actually had a nightmare about it. It did not diminish my own Christian beliefs.

My recommendation - read this book.

[skylerashcraft · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Fascinating. It's so interesting to have scientifically minded folks (Jill Bolte Taylor and Eben for example) experience things so that it can't be so easily blown off.
I wish the book had gone more into what he learned while "there" but I'm well aware that that is a far bigger topic and not easily captured. Perhaps a future book.
Great read to go along with studies that are documented in such books as Lynne McTaggart's The Intention Experiment.

[razinha-1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Oh My Flying Spaghetti Monster! Can anyone please explain how a Lifetime Original Movie script got pawned off as "non-fiction"? Or how a neurosurgeon knows seemingly nothing at all about neurobiology? Or even something fuzzy like neuropsychology? I alternated between laughter and head-shaking.

In the 1985 (largely forgettable) film Ladyhawke, Matthew Broderick as Phillipe's response to Rutger Hauer as Navarre's statement that Phillipe was a "sign from God"
Phillipe: Sir, the truth is, I talk to God all the time, and, no offense, but He never mentioned you.

Well, Mr. Alexander, I suppose I should be less than surprised that your anecdotal claptrap climbed so high on the bestseller list. You would have gotten two stars for your soft writing style, but you got dinged one for not calling it fiction.

[yeldabmoers · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Dr. Eben Alexander?s Proof of Heaven is by far the most convincing account of heaven that I've ever read, and I've read at least five accounts, including the bestselling Heaven is For Real, Flight to Heaven, and 90 Minutes in Heaven. As of date, Proof of Heaven still remains #1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List. I am fascinated by the fact that many of these accounts are strikingly similar. However, I became somewhat of a skeptic myself when I noticed that most of the books I had read on the afterlife were written by ministers, missionaries, or someone affiliated with a church. To hear an account from someone who didn?t believe in God, didn?t go to church, and who had no interest in religious matters, made that account far more believable. In fact Dr. Alexander is a neurosurgeon who relied on scientific proof to explain the workings of the world.Unexpectedly infected with bacterial meningitis, Dr. Alexander remained in a coma for seven days. By the end of the week, doctors were convinced that he had no chance of waking, and even if he woke, he would never recover. But one day he wakes up and eventually completely recovers to the astonishment of the medical community. During the time he is unconscious, he gives a heartfelt account of what happens to him. Though Dr. Alexander?s voice is thoroughly engaging, his time in heaven is described quite generally. There are no incredible details of heaven. The most descriptive he gets is when he talks about puffy, pink-white clouds, flocks of transparent orbs, shimmering beings racing across the sky, and people singing and dancing among trees, fields and waterfalls. God is referred to as Om, and the most vivid character is a girl on a butterfly wing who accompanies him. However, his descriptions of hell are compelling and disturbing. Here, Dr. Alexander is almost graphic in his details and his report stays with you for some time. As a reader, you are so sold on his story that you begin to think that hell really does exist, and that maybe it's a good idea to review the Ten Commandments. He also spends many pages informing the reader on near-death experiences and where his experience fits in that research. His insights on spirituality and God are alone well worth the read.

[mldavis2 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

I was given this book by a good friend and retired preacher who thought I might enjoy it. I did, in a detached way. The author suffered a bacterial meningitis infection and was in a coma for several weeks, during which time he claims to have had a supernatural out of body spiritual experience. The book relies on his impressive background as a neurosurgeon to attempt to "prove" the existence of "heaven" citing various medical reasons as justification. The author is reliant on his perception during and memory following a brain disease as the basis for the leap to the use of medical knowledge as proof of a spiritual universe and an awareness of a Creator.He no longer practices medicine, did not write any articles in peer reviewed journals and spends his time on the lecture circuit. Whether the reader accepts the arguments as "truth" for the existence of an alternate spiritual reality, or simply enjoys the book as a faith testimonial, the latter is how I view it.

[meeniereads · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The story of Eben's illness and the details of his family,friends and pastor keeping him in theirloving embrace and prayers was very engaging. Eben says that what many NDE survivorssay is that it is very hard to put into words what happened to them. Many parts of this bookwere a bit above me in just one go round of reading. However,I truly felt what he was trying todescribe rather than understanding his vocabulary in his deep analysis of the entire experience.This account of an NDE was by far a thousand times more credible than the book by the child who in part had beenso obviously fed the literal,bible as divine dictation story and the other part influenced like most little boys bytales of super heroes.

[chuewyc_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

good book. Very descriptive. I do tend to believe him, although i am worried about his religious beliefs before incident

[Anna Teresa Tuazon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A great inspiration indeed.. proved my experience is also real.

[jmcdbooks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Rated: A-Amazing God-given insights into what life filled with God's love is truly all about. By God's grace, this neurosurgeon came to know the truth about much more the heaven, but of his very existence now and beyond.

[judithrs · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Proof of Heaven: a Neurosurgeon?s Journey into the Afterlife. Eben Alexander. 2012. I don?t remember where I heard of this book, but when my friend Kim offered to lend it to me, I decided to read it. This is a book I thought I?d ever want to read. The drawing point was the fact that the author is a neurosurgeon. Alexander was in a deep stopping treatment when he roused from the coma. While he was in the coma, Alexander is firmly convinced he was lead to a ?realm of super-physical existence? in which he met and talked to what he terms is the ?Divine Source of the universe.? Alexander was an atheist before this experience and credits this vision with changing his life as a surgeon and a man. It is fascinating to read about his conversion, his research into near-death experiences, and the possible scientific reasons for what happened to him.