TYT: Harvard Educated Neurosurgeon Says He Experienced The Afterlife

[trailmonkee]

Published on Oct 13, 2012 by TheYoungTurks

"Dr Eben Alexander, a Harvard-educated neurosurgeon, fell into a coma for seven days in 2008 after contracting meningitis.

During his illness Dr Alexander says that the part of his brain which controls human thought and emotion "shut down" and that he then experienced "something so profound that it gave me a scientific reason to believe in consciousness after death." In an essay for American magazine Newsweek, which he wrote to promote his book Proof of Heaven, Dr Alexander says he was met by a beautiful blue-eyed woman in a "place of clouds, big fluffy pink-white ones" and "shimmering beings".* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Dave Koller, and Steve Oh discuss the idea of the afterlife and what the doctor may have experienced.

[rsweets]

1. dudes out to make a buck .....

near death here 2 weeks ago,
heart attack defib ...from the looks of it
I was nearer to death than this dude ...

his whole thing just rubs me wrong ..

by the way ...
my doctor said i could write a book now ..

having been there it would just be wrong ...

[bjobotts]

11. You are consciousness. Can never lose it...

Jesus said "The kingdom of God will not appear with signs saying Lo it is there or here. For the kingdom of God is in the midst of you".

For those who expect the 'after life' to be a place I disagree. You are consciousness and using this body or brain to express consciousness. The body and brain may give out but consciousness never dies. It returns to the source from which it came..the formless being...the Presence of Being...not in some "form" place like a heaven. It is all in your consciousness which is not separate from the Source which both contains and sustains it.

TYT kept referring to it as a place...an object...a thing but words cannot express Isness. We can only get a sense of it at this level of Being.
You don't have a life...you are life. Having a life is context but saying you are life is Being and cannot be defined. TYT should get outside the box on this one.

[CTyankee]

2. As someone who has experienced ICU psychosis (a benign form) brought on by sleep deprivation,

I have new respect for the power of the brain to be altered and to induce hallucinations, which is what I had and I remember them vividly, altho I did not hallucinate going to heaven.

I personally think that there is a deep seated desire in humans to experience all enveloping love. something about being human has this core longing...hard to explain what I mean but you get my drift...

[roguevalley]

12. this man's story is familiar to me and he had a disease happen to him that has a survival

rate of about 4%. His brain was soaked in pus and no one expected him to live let alone get his full consciousness back. He was on life support at the point of being unplugged. I had a near death experience and if you never had one then you can't know. There are people who have had them and everyone else. This man has one of the most baffling medical conditions on the books for NDE and I believe him. I had one. I know its easier to mock and make fun. One of the things that NDE people feel afterwards beyond incredible love for everyone and a lack of fear of death is the simple truth that we don't care if you don't believe. All of us will face death at some point, others sooner than some. Some of us already have this way which I consider an incredible blessing for me. I won't fear when it comes and I could not say that before. Take care out there. Truly.

CTyankee, you are right about the core longing. The biggest problem humans have is loneliness and a great sadness about being unloved. That longing comes from perfection which we all came from IMHO. It is there and we forgot it in this mortal body. We will get it back someday. I felt it. My mother was there. It sustains me through anything.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. I met a talking rock.

Of course i was as high as a kite on shrooms at the time, but it seemed quite real. I wonder how the doctor knows if his experience didnt happen on the way into his shut down, or the way out? How exactly could this entirely internal experience be correlated with external events? How does he know that this experience wasn't simply assembled form the jumble made by his illness?

There have been actual controlled experiments studying near death out of body experiences, and they have all failed to establish any valid evidence for these events.

[Archae]

4. Must have been one heckuva dream...

Because that's ALL it was.

[tblue37]

5. The blue eyes alone make the vision seem to be a

hallucination. His brain conjured up his ideal.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Nonesense

[DryHump]

7. Folks-

- the doctor describes the Yogic experience of the Self - the experience of your own being as eternal, infinite consciousness. Don't dismiss this as unreal. Meditate and find out for yourself.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. +1!

[Shanti Mama]

14. +2

[Skittles]

15. eloquently spoken by.....DryHump

[Cali_Democrat]

16. LOL

[sulphurdunn]

9. Whether or not it's real,

it would sure be a nice way to checkout.

[Honeycombe8]

10. I'm open to this. A similar experience has been reported by many people....

and there is no proof it did not happen. So, I remain open to this. And wouldn't it be great if it were true?

I'm a facts kinda person. There's testimony of something ephemeral, and no facts to indicate otherwise...therefore, it MAY be true. There is, after all, eyewitness evidence of it.

Maybe it's not true. But I'm open to it. I hope it's true. And I hope all my former pets are there. And Mom.

[1620rock]

13. If my cats are not in heaven, I want to go where they went.