'It was a place of butterflies, joy and big puffy pink clouds': The leading brain surgeon who is CONVINCED of heaven after 7-day out-of-body odyssey
Harvard-educated Eben Alexander did not believe patients tales of out-of body experiences
But now says he experienced a place filled with butterflies while in a coma
Describes 'a sound like a glorious chant came down from above'
Says he was accompanied by a young woman
By Leslie Larson
• A skeptical scientist who had spent his career studying the mechanics of the brain and dismissing patient tales of journeys to heavenly realms has revealed his extraordinary conversion after his own encounter with the afterlife during a near-death experience.
• Dr Eben Alexander spent 15 years as an academic neurosurgeon at Harvard but he was struck with a nearly fatal bout of bacterial meningitis in 2008 and had no brain activity when he lay comatose for seven days at a Virginia hospital.
• Though he was unconscious and unresponsive during that period, he is now describing a 'hyper-vivid and completely coherent odyssey' to a place beyond, filled with butterflies and resounding music that has shaken his scientific viewpoint on human consciousness.
• He says he entered a place filled with clouds and the sound of chanting, and was (Continued on page 3)
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