Heaven Is Real, Says Neurosurgeon Who Claims To Have Visited Afterlife

October 10, 2012

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[url="http://www.lifebeyonddeath.net/"]Dr. Eben Alexander[/url][color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,] has taught at Harvard Medical School and has earned a strong reputation as a neurosurgeon. And while Alexander says he's long called himself a Christian, he never held deeply religious beliefs or a pronounced faith in the afterlife.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]But after a week in a coma during the fall of 2008, during which his neocortex ceased to function, Alexander claims he experienced a life-changing visit to the afterlife, specifically heaven.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]So what exactly does heaven look like?[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]Alexander says he first found himself floating above clouds before witnessing, "transparent, shimmering beings arced across the sky, leaving long, streamer like lines behind them."[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]He claims to have been escorted by an unknown female companion and says he communicated with these beings through a method of correspondence that transcended language. Alexander says the messages he received from those beings loosely translated as:[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever."[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]"You have nothing to fear."[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]"There is nothing you can do wrong."[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]From there, Alexander claims to have traveled to "an immense void, completely dark, infinite in size, yet also infinitely comforting." He believes this void was the home of God.[/font][/color]
[color=#000000][font=Georgia, Times,]"I'm still a doctor, and still a man of science every bit as much as I was before I had my experience," Alexander writes. "But on a deep level I'm very different from the person I was before, because I've caught a glimpse of this emerging picture of reality. And you can believe me when I tell you that it will be worth every bit of the work it will take us, and those who come after us, to get it right."[/font][/color]