Quotes for All
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 out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death. Eben Alexander
I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon. Eben Alexander
I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess. Eben Alexander
How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I … Read more
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences. Eben Alexander
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, … Read more
Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite. Eben Alexander
A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can. Eben Alexander
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 isn’t. Eben Alexander
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 the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then … Read more