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..

Those implications are tremendous beyond description. My experience showed me that the death of the body and the brain are not the end of consciousne….

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….

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 ….

To experience thinking outside the brain is to enter a world of instantaneous connections that make ordinary thinking (i.e those aspects limited by t….

We can only see what our brain’s filter allows through..

Physical life is characterized by defensiveness, whereas spiritual life is just the opposite..

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences..

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 the Cre….

My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably….

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….

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….

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….

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well..

We-each of us-are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that m….

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 ….

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe..

Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in ….

I finally chalked it up to the fact that the brain is truly an extraordinary device: more extraordinary than we can even guess..

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon..

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it..