Do we have a soul? Is there life after death?
Afterlife is something experienced by people who came back to life. One such amazing experience is of the 25 year old Harvard brain neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander. Firstly, Dr. Alexander did not believe in the afterlife of a non-physical spirit. Being a skeptic, he was convinced that afterlife stories of people were product of hallucination and imagination. However, he fell in a coma for 7 days due to severe bacterial meningitis and during this period he experienced a journey that changed his stand about afterlife forever. After waking up from coma, Dr. Alexander wrote the bestseller “Proof of Heaven” where he confirms that life on earth is merely a test which helps our souls expand and evolve and the way to do this is through love and compassion.
-His afterlife experience was extremely real and the life on Earth is solely an artificial dream in comparison.
-Love was the fabric of the afterlife and dominated everything, whereas the presence of evil was scarce. Therefore, in order to understand the Universe, you need to know love.
-Communication was telepathic without the need of words.
-When he was asked about what is something that we all need to know about the spiritual realm, he explained that we are more loved and more precious than we can imagine. Moreover, we are never alone since the perfect and unconditional love of God affects each and every one of us.
Furthermore, according to him, love is the basis for everything. Not some kind of abstract type of love, but our every day type of love for our spouse, children, animals… This love is not selfish or jealous, but unconditional and in its purest form. Moreover, this is the sole reality of realities, the glorious truth of truths which lives at the core of all that exists or will ever exist.
If we take into consideration credibility, we need to mention that his neocortex was non-functional during the coma, and there is no scientific prove why he experienced this. In fact, in his book he gives refutations for 9 scientific explanations of what happened to him.
-A primitive brainstem program to ease the terminal pain and suffering. However, this did not explain the richness of his recollections.
-The distorted memory recall from deeper areas of the system such as the amygdala that has enough overlying brain for protection from the bacterial inflammation which happens on the brain’s surface. This did not give explanations for the rich nature of his recollections.
-DMT is a natural serotonin that causes visions. He knows the serotonin related drug experience with LSD from his teen year, but he has not had a DMT experience, however he has seen patients under the influence. The ultra reality needs a functioning audio and visual neocortex as regions in which rich experiences like his could be generated. Moreover, the coma has destroyed his neocortex, and all the serotonin from the raphe nuclei in the brainstem would have affected the audiovisual experiences. But, his cortex was off, so DMT had no place for reaction in the brain.
-The reboot phenomenon- dump of fragmented memories because of old memories in the affected neocortex which could happen on cortex’s restart into consciousness after a failure such as meningitis. This is most unlikely if we take into consideration the richness of his recollections.
-Memory generation through archaic visual path is used in birds, not in humans since humans can only experience this in cases of cortical blindness. Therefore, this offered no proves for the ultra-reality he experienced and the auditory-visual incorporation.
Dr. Alexander’s experience is one of the most credible ones since it is scientifically backed up.
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Source: Higher Perspectives
Video by: Thesophical Society