All these though have contributed at a sudden change of climate that prevailed until today in the medical and scientific circles, which tackles the subject of death as "taboo" and placed each idea on the continuation of life after death in the space of imagination or superstition or at best, personal beliefs, which cannot be considered as objective evidence.
The external cause of this sudden change of thinking is simple: In recent years they widely use new techniques to stimulate the stopped heart to restore "clinically dead" patients back alive. So a large number of people "by default" dead on medical science (no pulse or heartbeat) have come back to life and many of them already speak openly about the 'postmortem' experiences, as long as extinct relative illiberality and fear of being characterized as lunatics.
Before his experience, he did not believe existence of a non-physical spirit. Trained in western medical school and surrounded by medical colleagues who are deeply invested in the materialism view of the universe, he thought that the idea of a soul was outlandish. Like most “skeptics”, he believed stories of the afterlife to be hallucinations or products of the human imagination.
Dr. Alexander changed his mind after he was in a coma for seven days caused by severe bacterial meningitis. During his coma he experienced a vivid journey into what he knew to be the afterlife, visiting both heavenly and not so heavenly realms.
After returning to his body and experiencing a miraculous healing against all odds, and went on to write the NY Times #1 best selling book “Proof of Heaven.” What Dr. Alexander confirms is that our life here is just a test help our souls evolve and grow, and that the way we succeed in doing so is to proceed with love and compassion. Here are just a few other notable points he made:
– The fabric of the afterlife was pure LOVE. Love dominated the afterlife to such a huge degree that the overall presence of evil was infinitesimally small. If you wish to know the Universe, know Love.
– In the afterlife, all communication was telepathic. There was no need for spoken words, nor even any separation between the self and everything else happening around you. All the questions you asked in your mind were immediately answered to you telepathically as well.
When asked what he wants everyone to know about the spiritual realm, he always answers saying that you are precious and infinitely loved more than you can possibly imagine. You are always safe. You are never alone. The unconditional and perfect Love of God neglects not one soul.
“Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything. Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows-the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and our children, or even our animals. In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional.
This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or will ever exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions.”
Now let’s talk credibility for a minute. What makes this experience so much more significant than another NDE account? Eben’s neocortex was completely nonfunctional during the time of his coma do to his severe bacterial meningitis, so there is no scientific account for why he experienced this. In fact, he gives refutations to 9 different possible scientific explanations for his experience in his book.
Exploring Naturalistic Explanations
Let’s take a look at 5 potential explanations he outlines in Appendix B of “Proof of Heaven”. Some are of his explanations would make no sense to us as laymen untrained in neuroscientific terminology, so here are the most common explanations he refutes, all of which are taken verbatim from his book:
1. A primitive brainstem program to ease terminal pain and suffering (“evolutionary argument” – possibly as a remnant of feigned-death strategies from lower mammals?). This did not explain the robust, richly interactive nature of the recollections.
2. The distorted recall of memories from deeper parts of the limbic system (for example, the lateral amygdala) that have enough overlying brain to be relatively protected from the meningitic inflammation, which occurs mainly at the brain’s surface. This did not explain the robust, richly interactive nature of the recollections.
3. DMT dump. DMT, a naturally occurring serotonin agonist causes vivid hallucinations and a dream-like state. I am personally familiar with drug experiences related to serotonin agonist/antagonists (LSD) from my teen years in the early 70s. I have had no personal experience with DMT but have seen patients under its influence. The rich ultra-reality would still require fairly intact auditory and visual neocortex as target regions in which to generate such a rich audiovisual experience as I had in a coma. Prolonged coma due to bacterial meningitis had badly damaged my neocortex, which is where all of the serotonin from the raphe nuclei in my brainstem (or DMT, a serotonin agonist) would have had effects on visual/auditory experiences. But my cortex was off, and the DMT would have no place in the brain to act.
5. Unusual memory generation through an archaic visual pathway through the midbrain, prominently used in birds but only rarely identifiable in humans. It can be demonstrated in humans who are cortically blind, due to occipital cortex. It provided no clue as to the ultra-reality I witnessed and failed to explain the auditory-visual interleaving.
His NDE account stands as the most credible account of all time, and coming from his materialistic scientific background, we have good reason to believe that he really did have a vivid encounter with something beyond this world.
The research found that there is really something, even something very specific, but what is it? Because, as the two doctors, so too many colleagues across the length and breadth of the world failed to recognize through testimonies the different stages of the coming of death for those people who "come back", but for those who "fled" for good, mystery, at least from a scientific standpoint, remains. And, what a coincidence, thousands of these descriptions seem to stick very well with the famous painting of Jerome Bosch "rise to the celestial paradise" (oil on wood), as well as the text of Plato indicating the posthumous experience soldier Hp ( Plato Politeia), or even the Book of the Dead ...
Skeptics do not hesitate to assure us that these statements come from a chemical magma (endorphins etc ..) secreted by the brain when death occurs. (Endorphins are secreted spontaneously by the brain to extreme fear or pain states and play the role of fierce hallucinogen). One explanation that there would be no reason to reject it if it were not witnesses to leave the body, testimonials so incredible and true, but mostly accurate. How a farmer who had never seen in his life and surgery can describe details or medical student will give, the buttons were pressed surgeons, the bottles that gave assistants, stage of recovery with greater detail, the mole on the face of the nurse who was behind him only during surgery, all watching from the ceiling of the theater? How is it possible to imagine that a patient stretched out on the operating table, his body opened by scalpels, under the influence of anesthetic or many times in a coma, returns and begins to tell stories to doctors hardly believable, if these stories themselves not something deeply impressive and unprecedented? Their first reaction is also to observe the doctors brought back to life: "Why are restored, I was so beautiful there." Is a phrase that many anesthesiologists have heard.
Sources: Spirit Science and Metaphysics, Proof of Heaven, New York Times, Renjith R S
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