Photograph of Eben Alexander Eben Alexander (March 9, 1851 in Knoxville, Tennessee – March 11, 1910 in Knoxville, Tennessee) was an American scholar, educator, dean, and ambassador. Read full biography of Eben Alexander →
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth of hard evidence that it isn't.
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly... →
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as... →
I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
Photograph of Eben Alexander Eben Alexander (March 9, 1851 in Knoxville, Tennessee – March 11, 1910 in Knoxville, Tennessee) was an American scholar, educator, dean, and ambassador.