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, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.
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… - Eben Alexander
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…
- Eben Alexander
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… - Eben Alexander
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…
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… - Eben Alexander
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…
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… - Eben Alexander
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…
A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can. - Eben Alexander
A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.
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 … - Eben Alexander
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 …
Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything. - Eben Alexander
Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.
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… - Eben Alexander
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…
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… - Eben Alexander
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…
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