The next book on my journey was Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander. This was the book I was originally recommended but did not read first because I got my Neurosurgeons mixed up. I found Proof of Heaven interesting because this was a neurosurgeon that was originally quite agnostic or even borderline atheist. You would expect people of science backgrounds to be as such, so to have an experience change that, you know it has to be powerful.
This book dives into the near-death experience of Dr. Alexander and what he remembers of it. In the book, Dr. Alexander points out that his illness, meningitis in the brain, was a very rare form and very deadly. It attacks the brain and quite literally shuts it down. He was given very low chances that he was going to survive, yet he made a complete recovery with no side effects. Doctors found this recovery miraculous and could not explain it.
Usually, the skeptic’s response to a near-death experience is that the brain is dying and therefore hallucinates an experience. The reason that Dr. Alexander was able to devoutly believe in his experience is that his brain was shut down. He even had scans done on his brain while in a coma which came back showing that there was no activity.
Without getting into spoilers, his whole experience on the other side eventually came full circle and taught him lessons that helped him to heal his corporeal life. It is definitely a powerful story.
Similar to Mind of God by Dr. Jay Lombard, I believe this Dr. Alexander’s story can help science-minded people to see someone who came from a rational background connect to the other side and have a very profound transformation. I am very grateful for Dr. Alexander’s story, because he was able to guide me to push my boundaries of what I believed and understood about the other side. His story is by no means a ‘typical’ representation of Heaven, and I think this caused my curiosity to run wild. It pushed me to want to learn more.
